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Cool Design News

Cool Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Yoyo City

Situated adjacent to natural wetland and right next to primary access expressway, Yoyo City stands as the new city gateway that stitch between urban and nature. Inspired by its surroundings, Yoyo City extends its energy into the green spaces of the shopping mall. The floating islands concept from the wetland becomes the key element that integrates the whole development linking the boutique apartment, shopping street and shopping mall. Yoyo City offers a garden mall experience to the people of Yinchuan.

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CapitaLand Ascendas Plaza Renovation

The framework was formulated and crafted by overlaying corporate workplace, co-working space and retail with a community inspired experience, resulting in a unified and distinct design language - a sequence of unique and characteristic spaces that encourages social interaction. Designers created a dialogue between the building and the urban environment, at the same time, the elaborate facade improves the aesthetics of the district.

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House in Okolitsa

The house with a total area of 1500 sq. m is located in the villa community "Okolitsa", Moscow region. The rhythmic architecture is defined by the complex topography of the site, which is practically a forest. In order to integrate the house into the environment, each volume is separated with atriums, which ensures the privacy of individual zones and forms interconnected relations between the exterior and the interior, landscape, and architecture.

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Zhuzhou Civic Center

The project uses the advantages of Central Park to provide an outdoor exchange place for the maker; Six pleasant floating islands surrounding central activity square the urban green axis cuts the building at the bottom, and the slow path and water system connect the north and South parks, and forms a comfortable bottom commercial space, creating an efficient municipal service place, providing healthy, comfortable and convenient and ecological space and environment for the public affairs and activities and civil servants' offices. The energy consumption is 1/6 to 1/10 of similar projects.

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Nature Canvas

The designer thinks about how to correspond to the concept of construction from the perspective of figuration and imagery, and bring about the humanistic implication and natural green of the space. Initiate from the inspiration of "embracing and enjoying the nature". Introduce the greenery into the living space. Every dwelling flat could enjoy under the green shade.

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Urban Oasis

Located near the rural village area in Shatin, the project Che Kung Temple Sports Centre is not only a sports centre, but also an urban oasis for inter-generation enjoyment. Besides sports facilities for the youth, extensive courtyards and gardens are created as a leisure retreat for nearby elderly population and help to bind the building with the surrounding natural setting. Dialogue and visual linkage are intentionally created between courtyards, gardens, function rooms, inside and outside, to bring different users together and encourage visitors to explore the building and the vicinity.

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