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Five key projects by interior designer and Dezeen Awards China judge Alex Mok

July 26, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Shanghai-based interior designer Alex Mok has joined Dezeen Awards China 2023 as a judge. Here she selects five projects that best reflect her work. Mok and Briar Hickling are the co-founders of architecture and interior design practice Linehouse. The female duo’s work has been recognised internationally and won a number of international design awards, including

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Snøhetta creates Holzweiler store informed by Norwegian coastline

July 24, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a shop for fashion and lifestyle brand Holzweiler in Chengdu, China, informed by its Norwegian heritage. Located in Taikoo Li mall in central Chengdu, the 130-square-metre store is Norwegian brand Holzweiler’s first outpost outside of Scandinavia. “The store features recurring themes of currents, reflections and contrasts inspired by landscapes and coastal

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André Fu designs colourful Casetify shop in Japan informed by shoji lanterns

June 30, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Hong Kong-based architect and interior designer André Fu has completed the first global flagship store for electronic accessory brand Casetify in Osaka, combining traditional Japanese shoji paper lanterns with bright colours. The store, which marks the first retail project by Fu in Japan, was informed by the urban landscape of the Shinsaibashi neighbourhood in Osaka

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Wutopia Lab tops underground museum in China with sweeping concrete roof

June 20, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Shanghai-based studio Wutopia Lab has created Deep Time Palace, an underground museum in Changchun featuring a wavy concrete roof with eye-shaped openings. Located on the southeast corner of the Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime site, the new museum is the largest fair-faced concrete building in northeastern China, according to the studio. Named Deep Time

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Heatherwick Studio reveals design for Shanghai exhibition hall wrapped in “ribbons” in

June 9, 2023 Christina Yao 0

British architecture firm Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design of West Bund Orbit exhibition centre in Shanghai, China, which will be wrapped in a series of curved balconies. Currently being built on the West Bund waterfront in Xuhui District, the new exhibition hall will feature a series of interwoven “ribbons” that wrap around the main exhibition

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Wutopia Lab reveals “shimmering whale” Shanghai museum with arched copper shell

May 16, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has created Copper Blockhouse, a multi-functional cultural space located inside a copper arch in Shanghai, China. The 405-square-metre structure was designed as the centrepiece of a creative industry park located in the Pudong district and will be used to host exhibitions, performances, lectures, parties, and even skateboarding events. Wutopia Lab used

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Linehouse designs Hong Kong hotel to evoke the comfort of home

May 12, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Shanghai-based interior studio Linehouse used natural materials and a muted colour palette to give the Ying’nFlo hotel in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, the feel of an inviting home. The hotel occupies the podium of a 24-story tower on a hilly street in Hong Kong. Its ground floor holds a series of communal spaces that Linehouse

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Cliffside hotel in China features cave-like pool with sea views

May 11, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese interior studio GS Design has created the nature-informed Miyue Blue and White Island Pool Homestay near Shenzhen, China. Located in Nan’ao Subdistrict, the Miyue Blue and White Island Pool Homestay was designed to reference its surrounding environment. The exterior of the five-storey building is punctuated by a series of arched windows, inviting the surrounding natural landscape

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Daniel Boddam converts Sydney warehouse into calm and plant-filled office

May 11, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Local firm Daniel Boddam Studio has transformed a warehouse in Australia into a workplace for landscape design practice Wyer & Co, bringing nature into the space by using greenery and natural materials. “I saw the project as an extension of Wyer & Co’s desire to bring in nature,” said Daniel Boddam, founder of Daniel Boddam Studio.

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3D-printed walls added to abandoned wooden home to create Traditional House of the Future

May 10, 2023 Christina Yao 0

University of Hong Kong professors John Lin and Lidia Ratoi have combined an abandoned traditional wooden house in China with a 3D-printed structure. Named Traditional House of the Future, the prototype project is part of a government plan in Nanlong Village in southwest China to renovate hundreds of old wooden houses that have become dilapidated. The original house

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