Designs And Designers

Designs And Designers

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

 

Greenland Intercity Space Station

Greenland Intercity Space Station is an office interior located in Nanjing, China. The design covers an area of 5000 square meters and replaces the traditional standardized layout with an open and collaborative plan. The independent work areas are shaped as boxes stacked at different scales. Large light colored stone surfaces add a sense of depth. The lobby is high and spacious, and the floors have no clear boundaries. Staircases pass through the building structure and link the public areas, while stepped wooden stairs offer extra seating for meetings, lectures and events.

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Kanglaibo

Kanglaibo is the interior design of a resort hotel located in the Baianshan National Forest Park in Jiangxi Province, China. The hotel is a single building of 16,000 square meters with 19 floors. The first floor holds the lobby, bar and breakfast restaurant, floors two to four hold dining and meeting spaces, and floors five to nineteen hold guest rooms and suites. Hakka culture guides the interior, with local stone, ceramics and traditional woodcut artworks. A temperature controlled water system serves the hot spring baths and saves natural hot spring resources.

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Spring Breeze

Spring Breeze is an office space in Kunming, Yunnan, China. The project is the renovation of a single-family steel-structured building with an indoor area of 1000 square meters. A wooden hanging house was built inside the original structure with traditional techniques, using tenon and mortise joints without nails. Two rows of columns and beams support the suspended rooms and corridors. A double-wall design controls the sunlight entering the work area through the glass facade. The wooden house forms a visual contrast with the steel building.

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Smart City

Smart City is an exhibition design created for an international municipal innovation exhibition and conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel. The design covers 3000 square meters and includes a registration hall, a VIP lounge, business meeting rooms, conference stages and a gala venue. The concept is based on a vertical city rising above an increasingly urbanized world. Hanging and geometric elements are made of aluminum, plexiglass and mesh to keep the weight low. Printed carpets, light boxes and greenery installations complete the setting.

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Stanley 2701

Stanley 2701 has simple, clean lines, a monolithic architecture inspired by the mysterious black monolith in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It has been designed with particular attention to its unique geometry, which allows for direct downlighting and indirect side lighting. Environmentally friendly, the suspension is made from recyclable aluminum. When switched on, soft, gradated lines of light appear on the side surfaces. Off it offers a beautiful play of light and shadow throughout the day. The Stanley lamps can be used alone or in groups.

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Mama

Mama is a stackable chair designed for community spaces such as conference rooms, training rooms, waiting areas and outdoor settings. The chair is available with or without armrests and can be connected in rows. A monocoque structure in polyamide reinforced with 20 percent glass fiber forms the single-piece body, which is fully recyclable. The backrest surface carries rounded micro reliefs that reduce the contact area and support the natural transpiration of the body. The curved surfaces ensure ergonomic comfort. Up to ten chairs can be stacked vertically.

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