Design You Trust

Design You Trust

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

 

City Fields

The project site is known as the Waterfront Rural Gallery, Leisure Vacation Paradise, and National Unity and Progress Demonstration Zone, and the city's unique characteristics are the inspiration for the design. The designer integrates natural spaces such as farmland, mountains, and water into the urban design of the high-speed rail station area, combining the needs of industrial development and the requirements of the comprehensive transportation hub construction. This concept of natural and urban integration has formed a distinct and easily recognizable image feature for the city.

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Shangri-la Shougang Park

Shangri-la Shougang Park is a lighting design for a hotel in Beijing. The hotel stands at the core of Shougang Park, on the site of a former power generation plant that once supplied energy for steel production. The complex covers 63,600 square meters and holds 283 guest rooms. LED light sources are used across all indoor and outdoor spaces, and the lighting scenes change with the time of day. Warm color temperature light creates a comfortable environment and relates the hotel to the surrounding buildings of the park at night.

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Scenic Path

Scenic Path Along Guixeres is a pedestrian and cycle path built on former gypsum mines in Igualada, Spain. The path forms part of a green ring planned around the city. The completed section is 800 metres long and covers 5,600 square metres. Three parallel strips shape the route. The central track of granitic sand, three metres wide, ensures continuity. The outer concrete track, 1.2 metres wide, uses luminescent aggregate for evening visibility and forms a lookout with rest areas. The inner plant ditch channels runoff and retains minor landslips.

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Play Garden for Yuecheng Kindergarten

Play Garden for Yuecheng Kindergarten is a rooftop play landscape in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. The play area sits on the roof of a new kindergarten building that wraps around a preserved historic courtyard and its ancient trees. Raising the play space allowed open room to run and climb on a very tight site. The roof is finished with a soft plastic surface in color bands that change from rich red at the base to soft cream at the peaks, showing changes in elevation. Hills, circular light wells and a looping tricycle track support active play and discovery.

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Chosen One

Chosen One is a landscape design for a residential project in Wuxiang New District in Nanning. The site covers 9896 square meters. The entrance is framed by a dewdrop sculpture that links the inner and outer areas, and lighting marks the entrance at night. A light and shadow corridor forms a clear walking path, where continuous apertures create an immersive space. Black and white marble walls extend horizontally to add a sense of quality. A sunken seating area is enclosed by wooden platforms and plants for quiet meeting and meditation.

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Logan Lcc

Logan LCC is a landscape design for a mixed-use site in Shenzhen, China. The project covers 87044 square meters and uses the altitude differences of the site to form a three-dimensional landscape space. Platforms are placed among the buildings, and the grounds include outdoor activity areas, a large swimming pool and a children's playground. A waterfall combines glass with hollow steel plates, so water flows along one side of the glass and light and movement appear through the openings. Planting in flowing shapes frames the space, and landscape installations are set in different corners.

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