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Nine Court Mansion

The Nine-Court Mansion, a high-end eco-residence project in Chongqing, is meant to create a new life style of Oriental implication by incorporating the stable spirit of Oriental tradition, exploiting the modern Oriental artistic expression and upgrading the function of residential areas. By reference to the spatial layout method from the Imperial Palace, nine spaces are constructed and grouped into three steps of the home-returning ceremony which are Entering the Gate to Behold the Mansion, Enjoying the Scenery in the Courtyard and Resting the Soul at Home respectively.

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Landscape Design for Shaoxing

Inspired by an ancient verse that portrays the picturesque scenery of Shaoxing, the project takes "green mountain and clear water" as design concept. Instead of simply combining or simulating traditional symbols in Shaoxing, it draws on traditional Chinese landscaping and literary techniques such as "borrowing", "metaphorizing" and "analogy", to respond to local historical context and environment through abstract expressions. By incorporating local features and scenery of nearby Fushan Mountain, the project presents a picturesque, poetic landscape scene that echoes local mountains and water.

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City Gather

Upholding the harmony of natural ecology and urban life, the designer takes urban forest as the theme with ecology, vitality and pleasure as the keywords in this forest-style community park. Vegetation, light and shadow, deer, winding paths, landscape installations give people sensory enjoyment. Parent-child interaction, fun play and daily social contact are integrated, and facilities such as the deer house slide, the colorful runway, the seesaw and fitness equipment become artistic media linking nature, the community and the outside. Here, beautiful experiences and emotions constantly erupt.

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Play Garden for Yuecheng Kindergarten

Utilization of the open rooftop space made it possible to enhance the kindergarten's edutainment needs without sacrificing the preservation of the historic courtyard buildings and trees. The rubberized playground surface material cloaks the entire roof in varying hues of earth tones and provides a safe and comfortable surface on which the children can run, jump, fall, laugh, crawl and climb. The rich colors were derived from the vibrant pallet of colors that wrap the eves of the ancient Chinese buildings, further referencing the connection between the old and new.

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Chosen One

The artistic front yard, the light and shadow corridor, the dewdrop sculpture, and the mirrored waterscape build an immersive and wonderful space experience. The back yard gradually start from the water ramp which connect the sky. After walking up the steps, people can stroll through in the floating swimming pool, enjoy the leisure vacation. The hotel-style meeting space in front of the building invites clients enjoy a lazy life, accompany them and families listen to the future story together.

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Logan Lcc

Taking the experiential theme blocks as the entering point, the overall landscape design language of the project constructs the framework of the space and integrates the mysterious elements of Pandora planet by extracting the science fiction elements in Avatar. From concepts to forms, a series of fancy scenes with magic colors are depicted. Through scattering the landscape installations in different shapes over different places, the dream journey of LCC Pandora starts.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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