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60m Bar by Junhong Huang Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Junhong Huang for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ 60m Bar by Junhong Huang, designed for Arkitag Studio, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About 60m Bar
60M is a bar interior located in Xiamen, China, covering a total of 258 square meters. A curved circular bar forms the centre of the plan and supports a new way of drinking and socializing. The theme is based on the water element and is interpreted through different materials. The wave-like wall is built in three layers, with irregular curved wood above and below and a custom made GRG wood interlayer. Hidden linear lights deepen the lines of the wall and can be adjusted for light and shadow shows. The bar surface is made of polished water millstone.
About Junhong Huang
Junhong Huang, co-founder of Arkitag Studio, graduated from the Department of Design of Xiamen University. She is committed to exploring the possibilities of traditional culture, inheriting and combining innovative design thinking, and she is willing to try and study the combination of new materials and traditional materials to create. Following "one space, one product, one attitude", she hopes to create more beautiful Art Tags in our lives. In design, she is good at using different design languages, giving each design a distinct personality and atmosphere, while paying attention to social issues and the environment.
Award Record
With this recognition, Junhong Huang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/113769
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/113769
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!113769
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/291232
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- 60m Bar
- Function
- Bar
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Cornflower Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Steel Blue and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Arkitag Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Junhong Huang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #113769
Credits
- Team
- Keyi Huang and Pengcheng Zhang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Xiaodong Xu, 60M, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "All things come into being and go away." In the intangible sense, according to the analysis of the site and the layout of functions, the curvilinear circular bar is designed to make the space not restricted to the inherent functions and forms, with the purpose of establishing a new way of drinking and socializing, creating a new experience of tipple trip, and subverting the existing impression of the new mode of the third space.
- Inspiration
- The original intention of the brand design was to locate the drinking culture of new wave of Chinese style. As the first Sixty Minutes bar in the series was located near the water curtain square in the shopping mall, we decided to take "water element" as the abstract concept of the theme, design with post-modern narrative, and interpret the theme with different materials.
- Research
- The classic water drop chair was designed by Fritz Hansens in 1958 for the bar of the sas royal hotel. The use in the Sixty Minutes bar is also transformed into a high bar chair. Considering the comfort of dining, the design of the chair part is retained, the legs are extended and the angle of the legs is adjusted.
- Challenge
- The bar's different heights and radians was the first construction difficulty of the whole project. The results are presented wonderfully after many processes including the repeated inference of the pre-design model, the segmentation of the site positioning; the steel structure covers the foundation; uses wood as a frame, and finally the mold plus rebar is poured five centimeters thick hydration grinding stone, and dozens of times polishing, waterproof reinforcement and other processes.
- Realization and Technology
- The curved modelling wall like waves consists of three layers. Irregular curved wood above and below is taken as the base. The interlayer is made of GRG custom-made wood. Light emitted through the hidden linear lights deepens the lines of the wall. The adjustable lights could cooperate with the light and shadow show.
- Operation and Interaction
- The design of bar of curved surface of water millstone now, have four kinds of different discretion form, break partition, mutual photograph is in harmony, build different dine to drink a state.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2019 in Xiamen and finished in September 2019 in Xiamen.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 258 square meters.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Bar, Chinese Style, Water Element, Arc-shaped, Modern, 60M, Xiamen
