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Best Designs featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

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Stargazing Landscape
Thursday, 5 September 2024

The Serpentine

The design is inspired by nature and for admiring nature. The curved ergonomics stargazing profile not just resembles the dynamics of the scenic shoreline of Sai Kung, but becomes a harmonic overtone of nearby landscape. A tranquil and comfortable spot for the busy Hong Konger to lie down and feel the beauty of the night sky. The light wood color with a touch of timber grain blend the design into Mother Nature. As a counterpart to the vivid city, the design is a window to unveil the natural side of Hong Kong to local and tourist hikers, provoking a rethink of the image of Hong Kong.

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Yun Du
Urban Design
Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Cultural Soul

The project uses water as the interface to generate multiple sections, echoing the village mode of Sleeping on Water in Taiping Book Town, and providing complete functions of Working, Living, Touring. The design quotes the concept of Taking Root in the Earth. The Library above the atrium visually leads the architecture group of the Literary Courtyard. Its vertical traffic becomes an extended corridor inside the building, which connects the entrance, exit and vertical flows, and weaves various scattered interior spaces.

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Shunmyo Masuno
Hofu City Crematorium
Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Yukyu En

“Yukyu En”, Garden of Eternity, consists of six gardens. Each plays a unique role in the process of saying goodbye to a loved one. The main garden is a modern kare-sansui viewing garden named “Tabidachi no iwa”, Garden for Setting Off on a Journey. The front part represents the present life, while the rare part, which features a single tree among the rocks and gravels, is the afterlife. The white sand that connects two parts represents the mythical river, where the dead move to the afterlife. Another garden, which reflects the changing sky in the pool, reminds the transience of life.

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Shunmyo Masuno
Premium Condominium Landscape
Monday, 2 September 2024

The Pavilia Hill

People live with hardly any nature in urban environment, and face various pressures every day, so it is necessary for them to have a healing space at home to release mental and physical stress. There is a Zen word “San Sui Ni Sei On Ari”, which means in nature of mountain and river people can hear clear and pure sound. Under this design concept the design combines the urban elements and the nature elements into one space. Water falling down from celling and expending waves, making it possible to enjoy this space not only visually but also acoustically by hearing the sound.

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Yuannan Xu
Landscape
Sunday, 1 September 2024

La Chapelle HQ

Shanghai la chapelle clothing co., LTD. is a multi-brand private clothing chain retail enterprises, mainly engaged in independent clothing design, outsourcing production, brand promotion and direct sales; La Chapelle headquarter is located in the south Lianhua road in Shanghai , covers an area of 41860 square meters. The project was inspired by 'sakura' element. The whole project took the landscape design team three months time to finish the overall design. The design is elegant and beautiful. It achieved the balance between building and Landscape

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Paul Bo Peng
Garden
Saturday, 31 August 2024

Poly Tianhuan

Inspired by traditional Chinese garden typology the project tries to re-generate the characteristics of the Chinese garden into a contemporary design. It aims to create the artificial green hills in the city emphasizing multidimensionality of a generative landscaping system where undulating topographic changes and curvilinearity of the surfaces engenders similar qualities with a purely natural environment. The landscape is designed in a way to be a mediation between inside and outside while expanding itself into the interior maximizing the connectivity between interior and exterior space.

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