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Design You Trust featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Yunxi Mansion

Yunxi Mansion is a landscape design for a residential community in Nantong, China. The design draws on the Shuihui Garden, known for water flowing around the whole site, and brings a calm literati atmosphere to the property. Song Dynasty cloud patterns appear in the paving, the lamps and the column bases. A wind and rain corridor of 60 meters marks the entrance and offers a sheltered walk in the garden. Ecological permeable bricks and underground storage modules collect and reuse rainwater. Local plants help improve the microclimate.

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Feng Qi Wu Tong

Feng Qi Wu Tong is a landscape design for a residential quarter in Jiangsu, China, covering 3200 square meters. The layout follows the form of one axis and three courtyards, symmetrical along a central line, giving a formal order outside and a calm artistic mood inside. Suzhou and Tang Dynasty architectural styles are combined with modern design methods and construction techniques. Curved paths, a winding corridor, small courtyards and a rock garden support daily recreation. A rainwater garden formed by plant clusters filters pollutants from surface water.

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Flowing Paperscapes

The Paperscapes Memorial preserves the importance of Chunghsing Paper Mill, and to commemorate the victims of the air-raid during the World War II that occurred on site. This landscape was designed under the concept of papers; the delicate and flexible characteristic, transformed into waves of landscapes that continuously flow, directing the axis of the landscape, also depicting the uniqueness of papers, creating the Paperscapes. The memorial park was designed in a geometric array to echo the scars inflicted to humanity, gradually healing through the embracing waves of the Paperscapes.

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Guiyang New Community Park

Guiyang New Community Park is a public park in Guiyang, China. The park covers 130000 square meters beside the Laoma River. Interventions on the site were kept to a minimum, and most existing trees and ground covers were retained. Farming terraces were reintroduced using traditional construction methods. Low dry walls, stairs, paths and a large amphitheatre were built with local limestone. The design offers leisure areas for people of all ages while preserving the karst landform and the seasonal changes of the river.

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Poly Tan Gim

Poly Tan Gim is a residential exhibition area and community park in Liwan District, Guangzhou, on the bank of the Pearl River. The landscape covers about 12,000 square meters and combines riverside neighborhood life with Lingnan culture, the culture of Guangdong and nearby provinces in southeast China. A shared entrance and clear circulation routes connect public and private spaces. Terrain divides the open areas and water features guide visitors. Original trees are kept. Gray stone, quartz brick, champagne colored metal and custom sprayed glass form the main surfaces.

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Ryad

The challenge consisted in modernizing an old country house and turns it into a realm of peace and quiet, comprehensively working both on the architectural and landscape areas. The facade was renewed, civil work was did on the pavings and the swimmimg pool and retaining walls were built, creating new forge ironworks for the archways, walls and fences. Gardening, irrigation and the reservoir, as well as lightning, furniture and accessories were also comprehensively delt with.

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