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Alex Xu and Partners Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Wuhan Qingshanfang Lighting Design in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Alex Xu and Partners of AlexXu&Partners honored for lighting products and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Wuhan Qingshanfang Lighting Design by Alex Xu and Partners of AlexXu&Partners, designed for Alex Xu & Partners, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Wuhan Qingshanfang Lighting Design
Wuhan Qingshanfang is a lighting design for a building in the Qingshan District of Wuhan, China. The lighting covers an area of 4500 square metres. Warm light of 3500K illuminates red aluminium panels and forms a crown of red steel above a red brick building. The facade mainly uses internal transmitted light, which recalls the candlelight of the old red houses. Custom luminaires were made for the project. The lamps were selected for efficiency, energy saving and safety, and were placed to reduce glare.
About Alex Xu and Partners
I am QingliuXu,I have over 13 years experience in lighting design, specializing in indoor and outdoor lighting design of international brand hotel buildings/large urban complex buildings. With overseas experience, I went to Singapore in 2007 to work as a project designer in Light Planners International Lighting Design studios. In 2009, Price Lighting Design Consultant Co., Ltd. was established and is currently the design director of Price Lighting Design Co. Over the years, I have created a legend of light for many hotels and urban projects. My idea: use the least light to achieve the best effect, to natural optics, to achieve the effect of invisible light.
About AlexXu&Partners
Alex Xu & Partners International Design Consultant Co.,Ltd (A&P) is an international architecture lighting design organization, which is committed to provide professional lighting consultancy and lighting proposal design. Besides, we offer
Award Record
This recognition makes Alex Xu and Partners of AlexXu&Partners a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/lighting
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/128110
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/128110
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!128110
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/229560
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.alex-partners.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wuhan Qingshanfang Lighting Design
- Function
- Lighting Design
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Cornflower Blue, Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Alex Xu & Partners
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alex Xu and Partners
- Country
- China
- Brand
- AlexXu&Partners
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #128110
Credits
- Team
- Alex Xu,Liu Xiang,HongYu Deng ,Linda Dai
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is located in the qingshan district of Wuhan, the right bank of the main axis of the yangtze river, relying on the green hills and red houses and riverside environment.This case is the first demonstration area, north of the yangtze river Qingshan river beach park, south of Wuhan Iron and steel hongfang historical landscape conservation Area, the future is expected to become a livable cultural community of Qingshan Riverside business section.
- Inspiration
- The architecture takes the culture of spirit of red Wuhan Iron and steel as the theme. Through the red brick house with the red steel structure as the crown, it reflects the era style of Wuhan Iron and steel and creates a nostalgic feeling. There are also exhibitions about the renovation process of old buildings, bookstore called Zhongshuge which is popular on Internet , the retro cafe Youxin and the Future Imagination community.
- Research
- The selection of lamps is based on high efficiency, energy saving, environmental protection and safety.Adhere to green lighting, lamps in the lighting as far as possible to reduce or eliminate glare, in the selection of lamps , fully consider the projection Angle of lamps and lanterns, projection range, reasonable control of the installation height of lamps and lanterns, so that people both on the ground and in the building are comfortable.
- Challenge
- How to use modern lighting to simulate the candlelight atmosphere of the old house, so that the building can express the future of the past and the rebirth of history .The designers customized the luminaries to match the era of WISCO.
- Realization and Technology
- The lighting is 3500K warm light.It casts the red aluminum plate bright, creates the crown of red steel, transfers the red energy, carries forward the spirit of WISCO.The expression form of facade light is mainly iinternal transmitted light, which simulates the candlelight atmosphere of the old red room, and creates a red community in the red steel era.
- Operation and Interaction
- Customized lamps to illuminate the red aluminum plate, to create the crown of red steel, carry forward the spirit of WISCO
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2020 in Shenzhen and finished in march 2021 in Wuhan Hubei Province of China.
- Specifications
- The scope of lighting design is 4500sqm in this project.
- Keywords
- Lighting Design,sales department
