For Design Magazine

For Design Magazine

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

 

Benjakitti

Benjakitti Park is located on the site of a disused tobacco factory in central Bangkok. The park's design incorporates wetland and forest ecosystems that deliver services including urban flood management, purification of polluted canal waters, and habitat for native plants and wildlife. The boardwalks and skywalks that crisscross the park are designed to immerse visitors in nature and to encourage them to reflect upon how humans and nature might live in harmony. The designers’ ambition is for the park to demonstrate the potential for nature-based approaches to urban sustainability.

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Agile View World

Agile View World is a residential exhibition area located at the foot of Gaoligong Mountain in Tengchong, Yunnan, China. The site covers 16,860.7 square meters and is surrounded by water on three sides and by mountains. The existing forest belts are healthy and are used as landscape resources. The design applies local materials, plants and techniques to support a simple and quiet lifestyle. A low intervention strategy and a resilient approach protect the original site. The result expresses respect for the surrounding mountains and plains.

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Hong Kong Pavilion

Hong Kong Pavilion is an exposition garden created for an international horticultural exposition in Chengdu, China. The site covers about 1,500 square meters. The pavilion structure is made of engineered bamboo, a low-carbon material sourced in Sichuan, and is shaped with traditional Hong Kong bamboo scaffolding techniques. The form recalls the ridges of Lion Rock, while a shallow pool and boat sculptures refer to Victoria Harbour. Themed planting areas, including butterfly, edible and wetland gardens, line the meandering pathways and reflect local habitats.

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River Cloud

River Cloud is a large outdoor art installation created for a landscape setting in Yubei, Chongqing, China. The installation is 8 meters high and 30 meters wide, and it stands on a rooftop at the top of a cliff facing a river. More than 50,000 polygonal metal frames of different sizes are connected to form a curved cloud shape. Openings in the surface allow views of the mountain and the river below. A shallow pool and a smoke device are placed around the work. Numerically controlled light sources give the cloud form changing color and texture at night.

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Longking Pro Environmental Campus

Longking Pro Environmental Campus is a landscape design for an industrial site in Longyan, Fujian, China. The campus covers 54,000 square meters of former agricultural land in a mountain valley. Factories are arranged around a central quad structured by a six meter grid of camphor trees. A water channel runs through the quad and gathers spring water, roof runoff and treated sewage, which is cleaned further by a biofiltration wetland. Recreational and social spaces, including a basketball court, are placed among the filtration systems for staff use.

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Yichang

Yichang is a riverside park in Hubei, China, upgraded into a public recreational space along the Yangtze River. The design extends the riverfront road system and the view corridors, and adds seating areas that face the water. Vegetation was rearranged to open the river views and to form lawns and open spaces with public facilities. The park contains an ecological and humanistic area, a dock area and a family play area. Traces of the former dock, including a gantry crane, are kept and given new uses. Blue tones and sculptures refer to the river and to ecological protection.

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