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Inside Festival 2014: Virginia Lung of interior design firm One Plus Partnership explains why she used a palette of black and white for the interior of the Cine Times cinema in Hong Kong (+ movie).

Cine Times, which won the Civic, Culture and Transport category at Inside Festival this year, occupies the thirteenth floor of Hong Kong’s Times Square shopping centre.

It replaces an earlier cinema on the ground floor that had to close a few years earlier because of unaffordable rents.

“This cinema has been in Hong Kong for many years,” says One Plus Partnership co-founder Lung in the movie, which was filmed in Singapore at Inside Festival 2014.

“Hong Kong people we went there a lot. But it is a memory because it [closed] a couple of years ago.”

Because of local people’s nostalgia for the old cinema, Lung wanted to evoke a sense of old movies in the new cinema.

“Because of the memory [of the original cinema], I decided to use the old world of a movie,” she explains. “So that’s why we’re using black and white only.”

The lights in the ceiling are designed to look like they are from a movie set, while undulating panels along the walls represent rolls of film.

“You can see the abstract form of rolls of film everywhere in the cinema,” Lung says. “Especially the lobby.”

The cinema’s air-conditioning system is also hidden behind these wall panels, allowing for much more generous ceiling heights.

“The air-con company told us we couldn’t have a ceiling height higher than 2.4 metres,” explains Lung.

“But because it was such an important cinema for our client – it is their flagship – we thought a lot and finally decided to put all the ducts along the wall.”

Inside Festival took place at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from 1 to 3 October. Award entries for next year’s festival are open from February 2015.

We’ve been publishing interviews with all the category winners from this year’s event over the last few weeks. You can watch all the movies below.

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Basée à Austin, la jeune photographe Kristen Wrzesniewski réalise de très beaux portraits empreints d’une atmosphère aérienne et d’une délicatesse féminine. A travers des jeux de reflets, dédoublements et de surimpressions, le corps et le visage des femmes se dessinent avec sensualité et légèreté dans des lieux souvent naturels.

Open-source furniture designs and 3D-printed signage are found throughout the Small House Big Door boutique hotel in Seoul, by local studio Design Methods (+ slideshow).

Tucked away down a tight alley, Small House Big Door is one of 150 designated Seoul Design Spots around the city, which form a trail for residents and visitors attending this week’s Seoul Design Week to explore.

Design Methods converted a 1960s building in the South Korean capital into a 25-room boutique hotel, leaving space for a small gallery, a bistro and an events area on the ground floor.

After entering through the large entrance door alluded to in the hotel’s name, guests are greeted at a reception area lined with plywood panels.

These panels extend across the ceiling and over the metal-clad service counter for the cafe.

Towards the back of the open-plan area, the polished concrete floor steps down to create a sunken events space.

Bleachers along two edges of the square face extended corner walls, onto which images can be projected for presentations.

Cafe seating next to this area spills out through glass doors onto a small wooden terrace.

Beside the entrance, the building’s original staircase was left intact and links the four levels. The space beneath it on the ground floor is used to show artworks, which can be viewed through the window facing onto the street.

Ten guest rooms are located on each of the first and second storeys, where the hallways are painted dark grey.

An additional five rooms are found on the top floor, contrastingly decorated white apart from the concrete ceiling beams left exposed between roof lights.

Many elements around the hotel – including room and floor numbers, key fobs, “do not disturb” signs and lampshades – were made using a 3D printer.

The white three-dimensional numbers sit at an angle to the base plates, so they can be viewed from a certain direction better than from others.

“We thought about ways of presenting information with 3D printing,” studio co-founder Kihyun Kim told Dezeen. “These designs can’t be created using moulding or carving.”

Other furniture items have been built from Design Methods’ open-source designs that are available online.

Template files are used to cut sections of aluminium, medium-density fibreboard (MDF) or pine, which are then assembled into chairs, tables, storage racks and beds.

All the bedrooms are decorated white and are sparsely furnished to make maximum use of the tight spaces.

As another solution to the space restrictions, the designers built cuboid units that open up when needed to reveal storage for clothes, fridges, desk space and the TV.

Rooms on the top floor have access to a terrace, which can divided by a folding partition so adjacent rooms can enjoy a private outdoor space.

Design Methods also created the branding and graphics for the hotel, which opened earlier this year.

Cafe menus, stationery and guest feedback forms are all minimally designed using a consistent typeface.

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