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Design Ambient

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

 

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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K11 Musea

K11 Musea is a shopping mall interior located on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront in Hong Kong. The ten-storey retail and art complex covers a total floor area of 1.1 million square feet. At its centre is a 35 metre high atrium named Opera Theatre, where 1,800 programmable spotlights are set into the ceiling to suggest a galaxy of stars. A sculpture above the escalator recalls the buttress roots of local banyan trees. Surfaces are clad in handcrafted bronze and rustic paintwork. Rainwater is harvested for irrigation, and a seawater cooled, oil free air conditioning system reduces energy use.

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Mirror Bridge

Studio with Mirror Bridge is an office interior created for a design studio in a ground-floor flat in a 1990s residential neighborhood. The original layout was linear and dark, with one small patio. A twisted vortex of mirror polished stainless steel connects the north and south sides and improves lighting, ventilation and scale. The reflective surface spreads daylight through the interior. The vortex narrows in the lounge area and ends as a curved bar. The form also blocks direct views from the entrance to the work area.

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