International Design

International Design

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

 

Audemars Piguet

Musee Atelier Audemars Piguet is a museum interior created for a Swiss watch manufacturer. The exhibition covers 1,100 square meters and is located in Le Brassus, Switzerland, the village where the company was established. Visitors follow a flowing spiral route with a composed narration, and each chapter has its own design language. Sculptures, automata and kinetic installations give rhythm to the exhibition, which is visually linked to the surrounding landscape. Reflections and shadows change with the time of day and the season.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an office interior located in Sofia, Bulgaria. The space covers 490 square meters on two levels and holds twelve rooms, including one conference room, three meeting rooms and eight offices, plus a training zone and a large common area. A six-meter island bar and kitchen, polished concrete, OSB panels, metal rails and Persian rugs create an industrial minimalist style. Custom rail lights divide the work areas without closing them. In the evening, neon and low-hanging lights turn the office into an event venue.

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Poly Conghua

Poly Conghua is a sales center located in a suburban district of Guangzhou. The interior covers 1013 square meters. The design is based on the litchi, a local fruit of Conghua, and on the triangular elements of the site and its buildings. A large litchi art installation marks the entrance and leads visitors into the space. Further installations, structures and furnishings continue the same theme. Materials include plated metal, resin, leather, marble and acrylic fibers. The aim is to join local culture with modern interior design.

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Hilton Shenzhen World Exhibition Center

Hilton Shenzhen World Exhibition Center is a business hotel interior of 36,600 square meters in Shenzhen Airport New Town. The hotel is connected to the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center. The design draws on local cultures of shipping, exhibition and the ocean. Container and sail motifs appear as alternating blocks, original artworks and curved lines. The lobby is kept minimal to hold large crowds in peak season, while the lounge offers sofa sets and long tables for meetings. The restaurant on the third floor lets guests reach the center from the sky loggia.

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National Gallery Athens

In the 1960's modern building of the National Gallery in Athens, the exhibition rooms are designed like a promenade in open space. The interior is designed as a sequence of wooden lined transitional areas for information, and of white exhibition rooms with specially designed suspended ceilings for each exhibition function. Controlling the directions of gaze, the depth of view in the rooms and towards the city, the general lighting in relevance with the exterior light, and subduing the materials and the technical details to highlight the works of art, the space gives an affect of free choice.

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Perception

This small warm wooden feel cafe located on the corner of crossroad within a quiet neighborhood. The centralized open-preparation zone makes a clean and extensive experience of barista's performance to visitors everywhere that bar seat or table seat in a cafe. The ceiling object called "Shading tree" starts from the backside of the preparation zone, and it covers the customer zone to makes the entire atmosphere of this cafe. It gives an unusual spatial effect to visitors and also become a medium for people who want to be lost in thought with flavorous coffee.

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