International Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.
The combination of service-oriented business with new business forms is a trend. The designer experimentally integrates the subsidiary functions of the project with main business, re-optimizes the main functions of parent-child sports training, and builds the project into a comprehensive space for swimming and sports education, integrating entertainment and leisure.
Continue readingSissis Wonderland is a reading space for children, covering 108 square meters in Shanghai. The layout is inspired by the game of blowing bubbles, as rooms of different scales are joined together so that open and private areas overlap. Wood is the main material, combined with white paint and a soft grey floor finish. Stairs of varied heights, bookshelves that also serve as seats, zigzagging ramps and small arches are built to a child scale. Green plants grow where the spaces meet. The design turns the space itself into a large toy for exploration and play.
Continue readingLe Ble D'or is a restaurant and bar interior in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, completed in May 2016. The design follows a nostalgic industrial theme. Recycled iron pieces are joined with wood veneer, and the joining angles and colors were adjusted repeatedly to create varied visual effects from the same materials. Mottled beer bottle walls and a large false window bring an image of continuous oxidation into the interior. Dark materials and careful color use capture subtle changes of light and shadow. The layout aims to create a strong sense of time and a close link between the space and its visitors.
Continue readingYongqing Fang Grand Theater Renovation is an interior design for an exhibition and investment promotion center in Guangzhou. The theater is a landmark of Yongqing Fang on Enning Road, a renovated old street known for time-honored brands and tourism. The design contrasts old and new elements. Box-like volumes organize the irregular space of 334 square meters. The ground floor holds project exhibitions, while the upper floor is used for negotiation. Materials include wood veneer, white paint, black aluminium panels and grey tile. Frosted steel and glass doors link interior and street.
Continue readingYuanfang Fine Club is a real estate sales office in Beijing that also serves as a club for urban life. The interior covers 745 square meters. Design elements are taken from the theme of a seaside vacation and arranged in a regular form that links the spaces. Areas for vacation experience, food culture, art, children and a bar with afternoon tea are combined. A large fish tank forms the reception desk. Wave patterned wood, wave patterned floor paint, arc shaped lines and soft tones replace sharp edges. The intent is to offer many life scenes in one place.
Continue readingCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a resort interior located in Suichang, a county with a long cultural history. The design covers 483 square meters and places artwork and time-honored objects within the interior decoration, keeping a simple character alongside modern comfort. Local bamboo and green plants decorate the guest rooms and echo the scenery outside the windows. Old elm, celadon and old brick are used, and the furniture is made of locally recycled aged wood that is re-cut and polished by hand. The resort offers city residents a calm and natural place to stay.
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