International Design

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Fantasy Factory Retail Store

SIG Design Retail Store Interior Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Fantasy Factory

The fantasy factory with on-site baking as the core selling point, integrates tea, retail, IP gifts, and bar sectors to create a multi-functional factory store. The design concept FTY was extracted from Factory. F stands for Fair. For large flow of people and rich product categories, the space was planed in the way of a market. T stands for Time. The color of the shop is extracted from the color changes of the sky, implying time changes of a day. Y refers to You (customers). The different You in the mirror is extended to the multi-dimensional interactive device.

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Sunac Guangshen Longshan Commercial Town

lu wen Commercial Town Interior Tuesday, 10 February 2026

Sunac Guangshen Longshan

Sunac Guangshen Longshan is a commercial town interior completed in May 2020 in Qingyuan, China. The project combines a sales center with community services, including a vegetable pavilion and canteens. Local materials such as soil, green plants and wood are joined in new combinations. A wooden ceiling runs through the whole project as a unifying design language. Circular arch elements break the long space at its end and give a sense of extension. Walkways set around the display shelves guide movement and support interaction.

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Obori Soma Ware Matsunaga Kiln Shop and Atelier

Naoya TOCHIO Shop and Atelier Interior Monday, 9 February 2026

Obori Soma Ware Matsunaga Kiln

Matsunaga Kiln was located in Fukushima, Japan, producing the designated traditional crafts with more than 300 years of history. One proprietary feature of Obori Soma Ware is its double-layered structure, which enables this daily-use ceramics to hold boiling water and prevents it from cooling down. Designers wanted to incorporate and express this feature in our architecture. Designers believe that the different scales of architecture and ceramics, in the same composition, influence each other.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Office Space

Teodora Panayotova and Max Baklayan Office Space Interior Sunday, 8 February 2026

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an office interior located in Sofia, Bulgaria. The space covers 490 square meters on two levels and holds twelve rooms, including one conference room, three meeting rooms and eight offices, plus a training zone and a large common area. A six-meter island bar and kitchen, polished concrete, OSB panels, metal rails and Persian rugs create an industrial minimalist style. Custom rail lights divide the work areas without closing them. In the evening, neon and low-hanging lights turn the office into an event venue.

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Silk Clubhouse Hospitality

Yufeng Luo Hospitality Interior Saturday, 7 February 2026

Silk Clubhouse

Silk Clubhouse is a hospitality interior located in the Xizha Scenic Area of Wuzhen, China. The design combines traditional Chinese residential styles with the character of mansions of the 1920s and 1930s, arranged as a South China courtyard cluster across 12100 square meters. Stone, wood, hard wrapped fabric and metal are the main materials. In the lobby, the original wood structure is kept and covered with delicate surface finishes. Red door panels mark corridors, entrances and turning points, while Chinese red and emerald green form the interior color scheme.

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National Gallery Athens Museum

Parmenidis-Longuepee-Mari Museum Interior Friday, 6 February 2026

National Gallery Athens

In the 1960's modern building of the National Gallery in Athens, the exhibition rooms are designed like a promenade in open space. The interior is designed as a sequence of wooden lined transitional areas for information, and of white exhibition rooms with specially designed suspended ceilings for each exhibition function. Controlling the directions of gaze, the depth of view in the rooms and towards the city, the general lighting in relevance with the exterior light, and subduing the materials and the technical details to highlight the works of art, the space gives an affect of free choice.

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