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This Art Installation Was Designed To Create Discussion On What Is Love In Modern Life

July 1, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by CreatAR Images   Design firm Wutopia Lab in collaboration with digital construction team RoboticPlus.AI, has recently completed a modern public art installation that’s made from a woven carbon-fiber structure.   Photography by CreatAR Images Located in a rural area of Zhejiang, China, the ‘Shrine of Whatslove’, is a red triangle that’s designed to […]

Studio QI cuts zigzagging entrance into sloped tiled roof of Annso Hill Hotel

June 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The all-white rooms of the Annso Hill Hotel in Tengchong City, western China, are covered with a traditional tiled roof, which is broken by a zigzagging entrance. Studio QI designed the hotel, which is located on a street lined with bed and breakfasts and small shops, to respond to a sloped site that leads up

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Crossboundaries designs “mini village” for kindergarten in rural China

June 19, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Jiangsu Beisha Kindergarten by Crossboundaries

The Jiangsu Beisha Kindergarten in China has been conceived as a miniature village, with a cluster of house-like structures clustered around a square, connected via winding paths and raised walkways. Beijing and Frankfurt-based practice Crossboundaries has designed the kindergarten, in the village of Beisha in China’s Funing County, as part of a local government initiative to alleviate a

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Operable Interactive Village Hut opens and closes depending on the temperature

June 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Operable Interactive Village Hut by Weiguo Xu

A system of hydraulics opens and closes three panels of this visitor centre in Xiahuayuan Village, China, depending on the temperature outside. Designed by a team from the Tsinghua University School of Architecture led by professor Weiguo Xu, the Operable Interactive Village Hut has walls that will close when the temperature drops below 16 degrees

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Clap creates “new planet” inside Hong Kong fashion cafe Her

June 9, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Her cafe and shop in Hong Kong, designed by Clap

Stacked terracotta display plinths and celestial aluminium partitions help create an other-worldly atmosphere within this fashion store-cum-cafe in Hong Kong. Located at the heart of major shopping district Causeway Bay, Her has been designed by Clap to “transport guests to a new planet”. The store – which also serves coffee, cookies and unusual iced coffees

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Challenge Design’s metal-clad kindergarten folds around a courtyard

June 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Metal shingles cover the folding forms of the Park Legend Kindergarten in Chengdu, China, built by Challenge Design to mimic the peaks of nearby mountains. The kindergarten is surrounded by a small green area in the busy urban landscape of Chengdu’s Tianfu New Area. Challenge Design wanted to avoid creating too much enclosure, so designed

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Six interlocking concrete blocks form Living Art Pavilion in Shenzhen

June 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Living Art Pavilion by Mozhao Architects

Mozhao Architects has added a furniture shop and tea house to a technology park in Shenzhen, in a series of six concrete blocks. Living Art Pavilion was commissioned as part of an effort to increase the cultural offering and public outdoor spaces in the Quanzhi Technology innovation park in Shajing. The pavilion sits between a

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Archi-Union references calligraphy in curving tiled roof of Inkstone House cultural centre

June 5, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Inkstone House OCT Linpan Cultural Center by Archi-Union Architects

Shanghai studio Archi-Union Architects mimics traditional Chinese calligraphy in its latest project, a rural cultural centre in Sichuan province, featuring a sweeping tiled roof that flows into a central courtyard. Inkstone House OCT Linpan Cultural Center is located in Anren, an ancient town in Dayi County. Archi-Union Architects designed the building to celebrate the heritage and customs

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Retractable desks turn tiny office into presentation space in seconds

May 31, 2019 Semi Han 0
9.639 Inserted Variable Micro Office by LUO Studio

LUO Studio has designed a tiny 9.6-square-metre office in Beijing, with seven movable desks so that it can be transformed from an office into an amphitheatre-style presentation room. Named 9.639 after its compact square area, the small office offers an adaptable space for a graphics printing company. The moveable surfaces can be extended to be used as

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