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

 

House for Parents

This house for parents located on Amami-Oshima Island where is severe subtropical climate and often hit by typhoon. To accommodate this condition, a rectangular roof which is supported by 4 meter-span steel framework structure was installed. This roof create environment as if it is comfortable habitat under trees. Concrete walls stand independent from roof structure to achieve floor plan without any restriction by steel columns for the roof. The continuously projecting concrete wall create impression that Living Room is expanding toward the rich external landscape of this island.

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Firm Hall

Understanding the need for elegant, functional banquet halls in Chennai, Firm Hall was designed and constructed at the heart of the city. Catering to all types of business events, functions and parties , the banquet halls provide the best-in-class service and experience to guests. Firm Hall has become a successful community centre engaging with the residents of the neighbourhood. It has become a case-study on developing sustainable and commercially successful community facilities. With the intention of bringing joy to people, Firm Hall has all what it requires to indulge its guests.

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Garden

The proposal highlights nature's beauty in our urban lives, as a result, it creates a new standard of lifestyle in the city as well as introducing a breath of tranquillity into the neighborhood. The internal courtyard becomes an intermediate space functioning both as an important temperature regulator but also as a means of communicating and unifying the interior spaces. Inspired by the environmental effects that cities have on CO2 emissions and global warming, the designers tried to emphasize that the implementation of urban gardens into the home design is welcoming and achievable.

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Journey of Nature

The design project is for a reception center; cultural presence is adopted in the main space, while the three model houses are built in the styles of contemporary humanities and cultures, a modern flat, and contemporary neoclassical architecture. The integrated space of contemporary and humanities has layouts including a 5-table meeting area, a model engineering building, a coffee table area, 2 VIP rooms, 3 model houses, a parent-child playground area, a demonstration of a shallow water well; it reveals a luxurious atmosphere of leisure in the rural area.

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SV Villa

The SV Villa premise is to live in a city with the privileges of the countryside as well as contemporary design. The site, with incomparable views of the city of Barcelona, Montjuic Mountain and the Mediterranean Sea in the background, creates unusual lighting conditions. The house focuses on local materials and traditional production methods while maintaining a very high level of aesthetics. It is a house that has sensitivity and respect for its site

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Nippo Junction

Nippo Head Office is built over a multilayered intersection of urban infrastructure, a traffic artery, an expressway, and a park. Nippo is a leading company in road construction. They define "Michi", which means "street" in Japanese, as the basis of their design concept as "what connects a variety of components". Michi connects the building with the urban context and also connect individual workspaces with each other. Michi was enhanced to forge "creative connections" and to realize the "Junction Place", a unique workplace possible only here at Nippo.

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