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Sleek Angles, Soothing Textures: A Geometric Approach to Urban Home Design

January 31, 2024 HD Staff 0

Step into a realm where clean lines meet plush comforts, defining the essence of modern urban living. This abode exemplifies how geometric precision can coexist with tactile warmth, creating an atmosphere that’s both cutting-edge and inviting. Each element is deliberately placed, forming a cohesive visual narrative that speaks to the lover of contemporary aesthetics. It’s […]

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Aedas lines twin skyscrapers with bronze fins in Hangzhou

January 26, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Aedas has designed a pair of round-edged, 150-metres-high skyscrapers, named One Future, in Hangzhou, China. Informed by lotus plants in the nearby West Lake, One Future features facades of aluminium and glass panels lined with bronze fins that taper at the building’s base. “The formal concept of these twin towers is from lotus roots

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Five architecture and design events from China in January

January 18, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Heatherwick Studio’s Building Soulfulness exhibition and the inaugural edition of the Guangzhou Design Triennial are among the Chinese architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Also in the guide are the Seventy Years Leading Italian Design Trends exhibition by Compasso d’Oro, Pradasphere II and Beauty Changes: 100 Years of Italian Fashion

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Wutopia Lab wraps Shanghai Book City in perforated aluminium

January 16, 2024 Alice Laycock 0

Perforated metal sheets form the facade of this renovated bookshop in Shanghai, China, which local studio Wutopia Lab has filled with 10,000 metres of shelving. Named Shanghai Book City, the 12,000-square-metre building has been overhauled to transform it from a traditional bookstore into a cultural hub and public landmark. According to Wutopia Lab, it is

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Red Box exhibition centre appears as if “carved from a complete stone”

January 16, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Angular cut-outs and courtyards break up the red-concrete structure of this monolithic exhibition centre in Nanjing, designed by Chinese studio Mix Architecture. Named Red Box, the building is located at the foot of Red Mountain and references the colour of both local brick buildings and the area’s iron oxide-rich soil. An angled cut-out at the front

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Dezeen Debate features skyscraper that “represents a new era in architectural innovation”

January 11, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features photographs of The Henderson office building by Zaha Hadid Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. New photographs show Zaha Hadid Architects’ The Henderson office building as it nears completion in Hong Kong’s Central Business District. Readers analysed the structure, with one saying it is “more than just

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Kooo Architects designs rural hotel to blend with village in China

January 10, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Japanese studio Kooo Architects has completed a collection of hotel cottages in China that draw on the local vernacular to integrate into the surrounding village. Named Ningshan LuZhai Cottages, the hotel was designed to appear like a series of cottages alongside terraced farmland at the foot of a small mountain in Yuwancun, Ankang City. Spanning

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MAD designs Nanhai Art Center to emulate “continuous wave of water”

January 4, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for an arts centre on a waterfront site in Guangdong, China, which will have an undulating form modelled on moving water. Encompassing 121,275 square metres, the mixed-use Nanhai Art Center will be divided into three buildings containing a theatre, museum and sports centre. It has been designed by

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Plat Asia explores “boundarylessness” with Cloud Tea Room in China

December 20, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

Beijing studio Plat Asia has created a contemporary teahouse for a resort in Huzhou, China, which draws on the transience of clouds and is surrounded by an undulating steel-pole installation. Located on a secluded hillside within Xisaishan resort’s tea fields, the Cloud Tea Room sits within the 910-square-metre network of poles that periodically releases water vapour

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