Design You Trust

Design You Trust

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

 

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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Majestic Land

Majestic Land is a landscape design created for an exhibition center in Gongyi, China. The project covers 39,000 square meters. Natural mountain rocks from the site are reused, polished and arranged as paving and stone walls, echoing the textures of the surrounding hills. A four-layer platform enlarges the area of still water, which mirrors the sky and the landscape. A transparent glass platform offers a wide view over the trees. A winding lane planted with dense forest and ornamental grasses leads visitors through the site.

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Hill Mansion

Hill Mansion is a landscape design completed in 2021 in Nanjing, China. The site lies close to the waterfront of the Yangtze River, so the surrounding scenery is borrowed as part of the composition. Planting forms an undulating skyline that blends with the natural environment. Red maple trees, well known in the Qixia District, shape the main theme. At the entrance, a curved concrete wall represents wind moving between valleys, forests and water. A central pool at the lowest point of the site collects and purifies rainwater.

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