Design Amaze

Design Amaze

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

 

Chengdu Holdings Glory In History

Glory In History is a sales center located in Chengdu, China. The interior connects traditional and modern design through color, and it takes inspiration from a green landscape painting of the Northern Song Dynasty. A traditional courtyard layout is used, and each space is linked to the next to form a rich spatial sequence through turning axes. A porcelain screen is arranged in a horizontal and vertical array, molded on the glaze and finely cut to create an effect of separation and breaking. A large bronze pendant shaped like a sailboat marks the meditation area.

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Burton Chengdu

The stimulating and creating moments are happening every now and then the illustration artist from the team has drawn a set of comic like illustration to translate the user guide of snow gears and the brand history development, researching the brand history and social networks in China to make the store a landmark and photographable is another challenge, the design team works hard on combining the traditional Chinese wood construction structure with modern architectural structure and bring back the memory of the brand history in this conflicting space is the final goal.

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Lang

Lang is a restaurant and lounge in Shenzhen, China, serving Sichuan cuisine during the day and drinks at night. The interior is arranged as a black box divided into themed areas named after tequila sunrise, black cherry, blue margarita and sunset martini, each with its own colours and character. Chinese references such as Sichuan opera and the panda are combined with western materials. In the entrance corridor, layered red curtains of pure copper, electroplated red, descend from the ceiling. A red water bar is made of pure copper and corrugated acrylic.

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K11 Art Mall

K11 Art Mall is a retail interior design in Wuhan, China. The project converts a twenty-year-old department store into an art mall of four podium levels and a total area of 34,000 square meters. Verticality guides the retail planning, and vertical landmarks together with floor-specific landmarks encourage visitors to move upward and explore. An external bridge links the mall to an adjacent mall. A steel structure adds new layers inside the existing concrete building, while fiberglass reinforced gypsum and laminated glass shape the colorful spaces.

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Woodland

Wandering in the Woods is a kindergarten interior designed for children aged two to six. The original building had limited space and relied heavily on artificial light. For reasons of structural stability and cost, the design keeps the entire structure and inserts an atrium that runs vertically through three stories, so all classrooms receive natural light from both sides. Columns become trees and beams become bridges. Continuous stairs and slides spiral around the columns and connect the spaces. Tree houses offer quiet areas for reading and handwork.

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Puer Community

Puer Community is a real estate sales center located in Pu'er, Yunnan, China, an area known for tea culture. The interior covers 2,700 square meters beneath a roof 10 meters high. The building has a curled tea leaf shape and glass exterior walls. Inside, a suspended wooden installation shaped like a tea leaf runs through the space, acting as the visual focus and guiding the functional layout. Sunlight passing through the glass roof meets the wooden structure and creates changing patterns of light and shadow.

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