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Hangzhou Gescape Design Co., Ltd Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Willow Shores Demonstration Area in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Hangzhou Gescape Design Co., Ltd recognized for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Willow Shores Demonstration Area by Hangzhou Gescape Design Co., Ltd, designed for Hangzhou Gescape Design Co.,Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Willow Shores Demonstration Area
Willow Shores is a landscape design for a demonstration area in Suzhou, China, covering 5000 square meters. The main entrance uses a minimalist approach, with a large canopy and windows in the landscape wall that open the view, while the hall entrance stays hidden behind the wall. Inside, a winding corridor combines traditional half columns with simple decorative grids, hollowed metal curtains and green bamboo. A pool is set within a pond form of southern China. The whole space is divided into five levels to support a sense of returning home.
About Hangzhou Gescape Design Co., Ltd
Hangzhou Gescape Design Co.,Ltd. aims to explore the original works, artistic quality and sustainability of landscape, and to combine the design in the life, which is a professional design company engaged in landscape design and research work. The company was officially established in early 2018.The core members of our team are in the service of first-line real estate developers for many years, and committed to high-end landscape design, adhering to the "use design to build brand, to grinding fine service" building concept, whole-hearted service customers, strive toward domestic first-class landscape design institutions.
Award Record
This recognition makes Hangzhou Gescape Design Co., Ltd a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award
The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Typical entries include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. The awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/113800
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/113800
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!113800
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/291301
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Willow Shores Demonstration Area
- Function
- Demonstration Area
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Light Slate Gray, Silver and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hangzhou Gescape Design Co.,Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hangzhou Gescape Design Co., Ltd
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #113800
Credits
- Team
- Fan Ge, Yingyi Lou, Kaifang Zhang, Ji Yu, Xin Zhao, Chenmeng Jin and Yixiang Pei
- Image Credits
- Photographer Holi Landscape Photograph, The Willow Shores Suzhou, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In order to avoid using too much design language to express, the main entrance of the park adopts a minimalist design approach. The large-scale canopy and the windows on the landscape wall make the whole interface open and stretch, while the entrance to the hall is hidden behind the wall, which appropriately reflects the elegant and restrained temperament.
- Inspiration
- The architecture and landscape depend on each other. When we first saw the architectural scheme renderings, its strong modern oriental aesthetics appeared on the paper, and the overall design of the building was light, simple and flexible. Therefore, designers have a further positioning of the landscape in our mind. In order to combine the site features with the ritual feeling of going home, the entire spatial structure is divided into five levels.
- Research
- Located in Taihu New Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou, the project of The Willow Shores has good natural conditions and complete cultural and educational supporting facilities. It is the central area in the urban strategy of "one core around four new towns". Here, designers intend to extend the temperament and spirit of Suzhou to the limited venues to create a residence with humanistic feelings and comfortable environment.
- Challenge
- In this case, designers need to think about several issues, such as how to find the traces of Gusu in the site space, and how to talk with light and shadow in architecture and nature.
- Realization and Technology
- Entering the hall is a corridor with twists and turns. The small space that abound changes, the half columns full of traditional forms, and the modern simple decorative grid pieces make this ordinary passing space enjoyable and accessible. Hollowed out metal curtains, swaying green bamboo, narrow corridor space, all of these combine to form the emotional change of the front and back space.
- Operation and Interaction
- The exterior of the whole aesthetics museum refers to the Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake. The boundless swimming pool is skillfully placed in the traditional pond in the south of the Yangtze River, making the whole picture full of changes and rich levels, which not only reflects the beauty but also ensures the practicality.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2019 in Suzhou and finished in December 2019 in Suzhou.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 5000 square meters.
- Keywords
- Architecture, Landscape, Demonstration Area, Chinese Culture, Exhibition, Oriental Elements, Natural, Elegant
