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Project • By Tsutsumi and Associates • Restaurants
Cloud Echo
"In the darkness of the innermost rooms of these huge buildings, to which sunlight never penetrates, how the gold leaf of a sliding door or screen will pick up a distant glimmer from the garden, then suddenly send fort an ethereal glow, a faint golden light cast into the enveloping darkness. In no other setting is gold quite so painfully beautiful. "(From Junichiro Tanizaki's in praise of shadows)
Liu Wei
Liu Wei
A 45m high observation tower stands in a corner of the commercial development area in Foshan City, Guangdong Province. It was decided to renovate the former observation room into a sushi lounge. An amusement park spreads out and a colorfully shining Ferris wheel is spinning in front of Sushi counter. How to create a calm... More
Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Masterplans
Swanston Central
Melbourne has a thing with axes – how often have you glanced down one of the mains arteries of the city and realized it perfectly frames a civic monument? Taking inspiration from that axial idea, this tall residential tower, positioned above the intersection of the off-set Hoddle and Carlton grids, echoes this geometric tension in its facetted planes that stretch up into the sky.Intersecting vertical fingers of descending pink and rising green glass, separated by a dividing silver hue, create a shimmering dichroic effect through the height of the façade. Inspired by the ambiguity of Escher, this creates a dramatic vertical transition evocative of the transition of solid, through liquid to vapour.Facing Victoria Street, a three-... More