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Galaxy World Creation City of Snow Mountain Reception Hall

Shenzhen Horizon Space Design

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Single-Brand Store
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Asif Din
Asif Din Sustainability Director at Perkins&Will
A project that really shows off its...
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Dirk Osinga
Dirk Osinga Founder at STUDIOSINGA
It is hard for me to understand the...
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Dennis Vlietinck
Dennis Vlietinck Head of Design at Wink
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Sontaya Bluangtook
Sontaya Bluangtook Associate Design Director at UNStudio
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5
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5
5.25
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Director of Interior Architecture at Snøhetta
5.5
6
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Deepak Jawahar
Deepak Jawahar Cofounder at The Architecture Story
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Cathy Figueiredo
Cathy Figueiredo Cofounder at Wanna
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Jocelyne Sacre
Jocelyne Sacre Design Strategist at Consultant
Clean cut space and building on-the...
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5.88
Lisa Adams
Lisa Adams Director of CitizenHKS & Sustainable Design Leader at HKS
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6.5
Gilbert Khalil
Gilbert Khalil Director of Design and Technical Services at Sunset Hospitality Group
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Lucy Bagshaw
Lucy Bagshaw Project Director at Tp Bennett
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5.63
Farid Ziani
Farid Ziani Partner Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB
The intentions behind the projects...
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Giovanni Zaccariello
Giovanni Zaccariello SVP Global Visual Experience  at Coach
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5.5
Nicolas Delefosse
Nicolas Delefosse Founder and Creative Director at NDDO
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5.5
Klein Dai
Klein Dai CEO at Algebraist Brand Management
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5
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5
6
Baoyu Tian
Baoyu Tian General Manager at Foshan Shengtianjia Lighting Equipment
5.5
6
6
5
5.63
Liqun Lin
Liqun Lin Executive Director at Xiamen Wenqu Decoration Design
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6.5
6
5.5
6.25
Bangsheng Yang
Bangsheng Yang Founder at Yang & Associates Group
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5.63
Woody Yao
Woody Yao Director at Zaha Hadid Design
6.5
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6.25
Client
Galaxy Holdings
Floor area
2500 ㎡
Completion
2022
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This design focuses on presenting a dual-marketing experience center engaged in industry, business, office, residence and hotel among other aspects. Besides, it will serve as municipal urban exhibition hall, community-oriented government service center, urban garden community art center and so on. For these reasons, there should be a subtle balance between grand vision, futuristic space and design individuality because it lies at the core of designing process.

The entire building looks like a sparkling diamond just discovered or a bright, ethereal wing. But when it comes to interior design, all our effort is to divide the space into different zones strictly and adapt those zones to various needs for the space.

One building pokes into the azure sky while another gets half-embedded into the earth. One building is folded and turned while another is rolled and lapped.

First, the exterior facades and the interior spaces blend into each other without showing any sign of unnatural design or fabrication. Second, various spaces interactive with light are used to the greatest extent possible for the sake of sharing, opening, and interaction with humans. In this way, we can see some spatial energy is rolling to and fro above the exhibition hall. This light keeps changing all the time and is as ephemeral as time.--Steven Holl) Oh, I believe we’ve made it!

When I saw Arnaldo Pomodoro's Sphere sculpture at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, I was shocked profoundly by his futuristic imagination 40 years ago. So, we place such a sculpture within a space of straight lines to create a surreal realm to interact with this great artist.

We build a large installation named “Aurora Polaris” as inspired by iconic sci-fi writer Liu Cixin’s short story “Sea of Dreams”. This cryogenic work of art is created on a cosmic scale using many pieces of acrylic. So, you can imagine how transparent and ethereal it is. Wow, it’s an epitome of sparkling beauty and ultimate mystery!

At the end of this essay, I want to quote Steven Holl’s words, “Architecture consists in building luminous spaces to inspire and the greatest function of it is to deeply move us.”