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      Shanghai studio Arizon's interiors facilitate “surprising spatial experiences”

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      VDF studio profiles: Shanghai design studio Arizon specialises in the planning and interior design of retail spaces, from boutique department stores to shopping malls.The studio was founded in 2008 by Junwei Shen. Over the course of his career, the designer witnessed the rapid evolution of Chinese commerce from standalone shops to giant malls, which is why he prides himself in creating interiors that are able to adapt to the evolving needs of different businesses.
      “We exploit the aesthetic and business potential of architecture to the full,” he explained.
      “Through avant-garde artistic approaches and an awareness of ecology, we hope to create ineffably inspiring and surprising spatial experiences that help our clients to grow their businesses.”

      The Fortune Bridge features arched recesses to create functional spaces within a walkway
      The studio often makes use of natural lighting and geometric lines in its projects, and uses blank spaces strategically.

      This can be seen in its design for the Fortune Bridge – a pedestrian walkway leading to the Vita Rive Gauche shopping boulevard in the town of Zhengzhou.
      By adding arched recesses to either side of a central footpath, Arizon was able to turn this simple thoroughfare into a multi-functional space that can play host to cultural and culinary events, and house further retail units.

      Stain glass windows feature in the Vita Green community mall
      Elsewhere in Zhengzhou, the studio was also responsible for Block B of the Vita Green community mall, which Shen describes as a “feast of light and shade”.
      “The facade is clad in wire mesh and sunlight enters the interior from different directions through stained glass windows,” he added. “This creates an amazing play of shadows that breathes life into the whole mall.”
      Another of Arizon’s retail projects is situated in Dezhou and celebrates the city’s rich history as a trading port – a virtue of its proximity to the Wei River.
      This legacy is visualised in the Inzone mall through a system of ceiling baffles, which jut out to create the impression of being underwater and looking up at the hull of a boat as it cuts through the surface.

      The ceiling fins of Inzone mall are shaped like the hull of a boat
      Similarly, the studio clad the entryway of the Kids World in Shanghai’s Joy City mall with a gradient of rainbow-coloured tubes, designed to resemble the stems of fantastical flowers breaking through soil.
      Faced with the challenge of consolidating three different, staggered ceiling heights, Arizon introduced a system of undulating shapes throughout the space, replicating the silhouette of gently rolling hills.
      The project earned Arizon a German iF Design Award for interior architecture this year.

      Multicoloured tubes cover the walls and ceiling of Joy City’s Kids World
      Studio: ArizonWebsite: arizon.com.cnContact address: info@arizon.com.cn
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      London's Transit Studio refuses house style to “bring something different to every project”

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      VDF studio profiles: Transit Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice that has avoided developing a house style in order to build a portfolio of varied and engaging spaces. The London-based studio was founded in 2017 by Ben Masterton-Smith – the winner of the inaugural RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship – and specialises in both architecture […] More

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      Yellow Cloud Studio punctuates Glyn House extension with arched window

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      A half-arch window in this east London home extension by Yellow Cloud Studio offers glimpses of the older parts of the property. Glyn House is situated in the neighbourhood of Clapton and is occupied by a young couple who are hoping to grow their family. Previously, the poky proportions of the house – which dates […] More

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      Five houses where the courtyard is the heart of the home

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      Charmaine Chan has highlighted 25 recently completed courtyard houses for her book Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific. Here she picks five of the most interesting. As the book’s title suggests, Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific is a compilation of houses completed in the past 10 years across Asia and Oceania that are focused […] More

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      Underground House Plan B is a hideout concept for the next global crisis

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      Sergey Makhno Architects has envisioned a subterranean concrete home built for enduring the “unpleasant surprises” that may await in the post-pandemic world. Kyiv-based studio Sergey Makhno Architects told Dezeen that the global coronavirus crisis was the “trigger” for visualising Underground House Plan B, a piece of conceptual architecture. “We realised that the world has many […] More

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      Grove Park house by O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has wooden lining and verdant views

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      O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has created ash-lined living spaces with expansive windows inside a gardener’s home in Lewisham, southeast London. Grove Park is an end-of-terrace house that was originally built back in the 1980s. The wood-lined rooms that O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has created are on the home’s ground floor, which was extended by incorporating a small […] More

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      Outdoor dining “last chance” for many restaurants says Ben Masterton-Smith

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      As a result of social distancing rules many restaurants will have to reduce their indoor capacities when they reopen. Architect Ben Masterton-Smith believes that creating enjoyable alfresco dining areas may be key to restaurants’ survival. Masterton-Smith, who is the founder of Transit Studio, has created Social Soho – a proposal to temporarily pedestrianise pockets of London’s […] More