Design Ambient

Design Ambient

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

 

Xian Canopy

Located in Xian, China, this hotel integrates Tang Dynasty heritage with contemporary design. Through meticulous research and spatial planning, the renovation balances historical authenticity and modern sensibilities, providing guests with an immersive cultural experience and demonstrating the importance of context in design. Drawing inspiration from this vibrant historical context, the vision for the hotel's interior design aimed to create an immersive experience for guests, transporting them into the rich tapestry of local history.

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Vicutu Concept

The Concept Store for the Vicutu Fashion Brand, located in Beijing urban area, providing customers with a unique experience. A large-scale three-dimensional metal weaving system is adopted, which reflects the production process and fabric properties of men's clothing on the facade. Within the interior of the concept store, the whole space language simulates the phenomena in the nature, creating an immersive place for the visitors. Curved growth walls and dynamic skylight guide customers into different display areas.

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Chengdu Holdings Glory In History

Chengdu Merchants Shekou Holdings Glory In History Sales Center connects traditional and modern design with color. The design takes the green landscape painting, combines the ancient life interest with the modern brushwork. It refers to the traditional Chinese architecture of the house to reproduce the design, innovative design with a wide roof, eaves and ancient tone of the gate. The exterior of the project adopts the traditional Oriental courtyard layout, while the interior adopts the balanced and symmetrical layout. The material color and details show the elegant Oriental aesthetics.

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Burton Chengdu

The stimulating and creating moments are happening every now and then the illustration artist from the team has drawn a set of comic like illustration to translate the user guide of snow gears and the brand history development, researching the brand history and social networks in China to make the store a landmark and photographable is another challenge, the design team works hard on combining the traditional Chinese wood construction structure with modern architectural structure and bring back the memory of the brand history in this conflicting space is the final goal.

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Lang

Lang is a leisure social art museum where customers can eat during the day and drink wine at night. The restaurant looks like a black magic box. It uses the names and colors of tequila sunrise, black cherry, blue margarita, and sunset martini as the theme of each area, each space has a different character, and there is a collision between Eastern and Western cultures and aesthetics. It integrates Chinese Sichuan opera and panda characteristics into the design, colliding with western materials and oriental elements.

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K11 Art Mall

A huge success since opening, K11 Wuhan in China proves that brick-and-mortar retail can thrive with the right amenity-driven design, an inherent sense of fun, and an eye on the future. Verticality was one of the driving ideas behind the retail planning, encouraging visitors to go upward and explore. Designers achieved this by strategically placing vertical landmarks as well as floor-specific landmarks throughout the mall and also connecting to the adjacent mall via an external bridge.

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