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Wanda Mall Landscape by Fujian F.A.M. Architecture Design and Engineering Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Fujian F.A.M. Architecture Design and Engineering 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 confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Wanda Mall Landscape by Fujian F.A.M. Architecture Design and Engineering, designed for Fujian F.A.M. Landscape Architecture Design and Engineering Co., Ltd.. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored 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.
Regarding Wanda Mall Landscape
Wanda Mall is a commercial landscape project in Lanzhou, China. The design covers about 227600 square meters, including 27800 square meters of roof landscape. Forest is the main theme, and local heritage such as the Silk Road, the Yellow River and the Loess Plateau informs the layout. Native trees and drought-tolerant plants are combined with introduced species to suit the dry and windy climate and to limit maintenance. Artificial stone is used as a decorative material. The aim is to make daily contact with nature part of a commercial setting.
About Fujian F.A.M. Architecture Design and Engineering
Fujian F.A.M. Landscape Architecture Design and Engineering Co., Ltd.，which is a legally authorized company authorized by the government.This is an enterprises with independent legal status has the environmental landscape design and construction qualification.The company specializes in landscape planning and design. Its landscape business includes: large-scale comprehensive development planning, garden design for residential communities and commercial development projects, urban planning and design, planning for scenic areas and theme parks.
Award Record
This recognition makes Fujian F.A.M. Architecture Design and Engineering 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Entries typically include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. Awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design
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/119356
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/119356
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!119356
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/280814
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wanda Mall Landscape
- Function
- Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Light Steel Blue, Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray and Light Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Fujian F.A.M. Landscape Architecture Design and Engineering Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fujian F.A.M. Architecture Design and Engineering
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #119356
Credits
- Team
- Xianglong Hu, Yunxiang Huang and Faxin Lin
- Image Credits
- Photographer FAM, Wanda Mall, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The hot spot will attract college students, young and middle-aged people with "Modem Forest". It inherits local history and culture, and introduces innovative design thoughts. It presents marvelous fusion, collision and coexistence of tradition and modernity. Wanda Mall Project launches a new era of the commercial property landscape design in Lanzhou, and it changes the appearance of New Town of Lanzhou as a benchmark in landscape designing.
- Inspiration
- Lanzhou is a forestry city, with profound history and extensive culture. The design aims at combining theoretical architectural design methods with local heritage such as Silk Road, Yellow River, Loess Plateau, etc. It starts with Silk Road, and merges the city history, Yellow River, urban forest into the landscape designing. "Forest" is the keyword of the designing.
- Research
- In this era of rapid development but lack of human care, contact with nature is essential for human well-being. The natural environment gives us inner peace and a moment of respite, at the same time, it also prompts us to think about how to protect its health and beauty. Designers deliberately introduced landscapes into commercial operations and theme parks to make contact with nature a part of people's daily experience.
- Challenge
- Lanzhou is located in the northwestern part of China which has hot and dry climate. The planting strategy of the project is to extensively plant native trees and understory vegetation that can adapt to the climatic conditions of Lanzhou. In order to create an immersive, diversified landscape that requires only moderate maintenance, while meeting the sustainability of water resources.
- Realization and Technology
- Compared with natural stone, artificial stone has more outstanding advantages like bright colors, high smoothness, uniform color, compressive wear resistance, good toughness, dense structure, strong and durable, light specific gravity, no water absorption, corrosion resistance and weathering, small color difference, no fading, radioactivity Low, no pan-alkali . All of these characteristics makes it become the most important type of decoration material in today's landscape decoration.
- Operation and Interaction
- In order to successfully build a resilient landscape in a windy and sandy site,the project refers to a large number of case studies. Designers want to introduce drought-tolerant plant species that have been adapted to poor soil, poor drainage, and strong wind resistance on the high slopes of the loess into the site, mixed planting of native plants and introduced plant species.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2019 in Lanzhou and finished in October 2022 in Lanzhou.
- Specifications
- The project is located at the intersection of West Nan Binhe Xi Road and Yin'an Road, Anning District, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. The total area is about 227600 square meters, including 186300 square meters as earthscape area, within 98,000 square meters inside property line, 88300 square meters outside property line area, and 27800 square meters as roof landscape area.
- Keywords
- Landscape Design, Commercial Real Estate, Theme park, Natural, Modern, Oriental Elements, Silk Road, Yellow River, Forest
