Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine

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

 

Hua Qi

The design of Huaqi Financial Center adopts a fashionable, artistic and modern expression, integrating geometric thinking into the aesthetic design to stimulate the visual senses of visitors. The overall design is modern and minimalist, mainly using gray, white and textured materials. In addition, the interior design adopts Italian gray stone, wood grain aluminum plate finish, the building is mainly curtain wall, the landscape is mainly water features, sesame black stone material, greenery embellishment, to create a natural and warm atmosphere.

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Fillet House

The idea was to maximise the corner lot building plinth using rounded corners or rounded edges, the filleted streamlined form in response to the tropics, designated programmes and its neighbourhood. Viewing the building from the street level, a staggered filleted mass was elevated vigorously from its surrounding. The palettes of materials combined the white, black, and grey curved solid planes with touches of timber and transparency of glasses, streamlining a form which is manly standing out within its neighbourhood.

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Xerolithi

A house that blends in its natural environment. Steep rough slopes, scattered thorny bushes, along with short stone retaining walls, locally called xerolithies created a long time ago for land cultivation purposes. The main facades of the house are formed as xerolithies. These walls that have a lightness like ribbons in the air and seem to be moving gently closer and away of the slope and independently from one another, forming living spaces in between them. The roof covered with dirt and vegetation imitates the natural landscape, making the house almost invisible.

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House Elvesgarden

The project was an attempt to create something powerful without being loud. A sensitive place that gives tranquility and offers various perspectives to the surrounding nature. It is all about light and the countless approaches to its counterpart: the shadow. The house was build for a young widow as a retreat for her soul. The atmosphere is influenced by the Japanese culture of semi dark shadowed rooms where the colors seem damped and the glow comes from within. A world where darkness is full of warmth and profound colorfulness.

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Collage of Melodies

The project is the expansion of International School of Beijing, which is a proactive architectural approach to motivate a leading international school to further evolve to the cutting edge of learning environment, enclosing variety of learning communities inclusive of ages, times and cultures. The Collage of Melodies not only counterbalances the solemn appearance of the existing building, but also transforms the school to a new era of education with refreshing Collage of Art and Music Melodies.

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Shamim Polymer

The plant needs to maintain three programs including production facility and lab and office. The lack of defined functional programs in these types of projects is the reasons for their unpleasant spatial quality. This project seeks to solve this problem by utilizing circulation elements to divide unrelated programs. The design of the building revolves around two void spaces. These void spaces create the opportunity for separating functionally unrelated spaces. At the same time acts as a middle courtyard where every part of the building is connected with each other.

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