For Design Magazine

For Design Magazine

For Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Donde Cloud Valley

Donde Cloud Valley is a demonstration area landscape completed in 2018 in Wuhan, China. The project follows an integrated approach to landscape and architecture, in which the building form and volume are maximized. The building works as a place for social interaction and as a landscape in itself. Clear geometric volumes give the project a modernist character and form a gate of art together with the surrounding buildings. Deer themed installations welcome visitors and are made with irregular cut surfaces and reflective mirror material.

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CIFI Donut

CIFI Donut Kindergarten is attachedto a residential community. In order to create a preschool education activity place integrating practicability and beauty, it tries to combine the sales space with the education space. Through the ring structure linking the three-dimensional spaces, the building and landscape are harmoniously integrated, forming an activity place full of fun and educational significance.

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Poly Moonlight Bay

Poly Moonlight Bay is a landscape design for the edge of a residential block in Foshan, Guangdong. The project covers 23138 square meters and includes a bamboo forest, a flower forest, a foggy forest, a dry creek and rippled surfaces. Wood, perforated metal sheet, stone and concrete are used. Paths and undulating surfaces guide visitors through spaces of different depth and open changing views. The garden reinterprets the traditional Chinese garden in a contemporary design language. The intent is to connect daily urban life with nature.

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Shimao Loong Palace

Using natural and fluent language reasonable organization of landscape, courtyard are connected to each other in multiple dimensions, permeated with each other and converted smoothly. Using the vertical strategy skillfully, the 4-meter height difference will be reversed into the highlight and feature of the project, creating a multi-level, artistic, living, natural courtyard landscape.

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Farmers Den

Farmers Den is an office landscape design located in Gandhinagar, India. The layout follows a simple grid plan, and the building is raised slightly on a platform that flows into the surrounding landscape and water channels. Local yellow sandstone is used for its color and texture under changing sunlight. Native tree species and insect repellent plants are combined with water, fish and turtles to form a small ecosystem. Raised mounds and tall trees shade the southwest side from strong heat. Openings in the breakout wall guide the breeze over the water to cool the cabins.

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Prison History

Historical Park is a public park and memorial in Berlin, set on the site of a Prussian prison built between 1842 and 1849. Political prisoners were held and tortured there at the end of the Second World War, and the buildings were demolished in 1958, leaving only the outer wall. The star shaped prison plan is recalled through raised and sunken lawns and hedges. A concrete cube marks the former central observation point. Sandblasted beige concrete matches the joints of the restored brick wall. The design joins recreation and remembrance in one landscape.

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