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Lacime Landscaping Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Donde Cloud Valley Demonstration Area in Landscape Planning and Garden Design

Lacime Landscaping honored for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Donde Cloud Valley Demonstration Area by Lacime Landscaping has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Silver A' Design Award

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 Donde Cloud Valley Demonstration Area

Donde Cloud Valley is a demonstration area landscape completed in 2018 in Wuhan, China. The project follows an integrated approach to landscape and architecture, in which the building form and volume are maximized. The building works as a place for social interaction and as a landscape in itself. Clear geometric volumes give the project a modernist character and form a gate of art together with the surrounding buildings. Deer themed installations welcome visitors and are made with irregular cut surfaces and reflective mirror material.

About Lacime Landscaping

Shanghai based Lacime Landscaping is a design practice composed of designers with various professional backgrounds, specializing in urban planning and landscape design. It has rich experience and accumulated a large number of success cases in the fields as urban public green space, parks and scenic areas, urban square and open space landscape design, and other public art, fountains, landscape lighting. The team has built a lot of well known projects such as U-CUBE Landscape Renovation, China Resources City Next Landscape, Galaxy World Kindergarten Landscape and so on.

Award Record

This recognition makes Lacime Landscaping a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2019 - 2020 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Donde Cloud Valley Demonstration Area
Function
Demonstration Area
Category
Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Sustainability
Colors
Dark Slate Gray, Cadet Blue, Light Steel Blue, Cornflower Blue and Dark Olive Green
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Lacime Landscaping
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#87501

Credits

Team
Zhang Yi, Wang Jing, Zhao Ling, Li Yaxu, Wang Shunxin, Lu Yuping, Hong Benqiang, Zheng Yanjin, Wu Beili

Design Details

Unique Properties
Adhering to the integrated design of landscape and architecture, the building form and volume have been maximized. The building is both a place for social interaction and a landscape itself, completely abandoning the monotony of traditional landscape logic.
Inspiration
Inspired by the noble image of deer, who is an animal full of reiki in human impression; the deer themed installations are used to welcome visitors. These sculptures are the important part of space memory. The irregular cut surface combined with the reflective mirror material makes these elves the finishing touch of the whole space.
Research
The project is located in the High-tech Zone of East Lake District, Wuhan, China, which is among the first batch of state-level high-tech zones approved by the government. It has an extraordinary strategic significance.
Challenge
As the landscape elements in the project, even if the volume is quite small, it needs to have a high recognition and integrate into the whole site. This is the essence of the logic of designing a small landscape. What's more, the landscape has further increased the possibility of light and shadow changes in the building.
Realization and Technology
In order to achieve the classic modernist style, the designers built a clear geometric volume and together with the surrounding buildings to form a gate of art. The building also provided a solid urban image for the surrounding residential areas, thus defining a new public art space.
Operation and Interaction
The design theme is life in the future. It is a space that people can embrace nature, where there are fresh air, sunshine, green trees and blue skies, while at the same time with omnipresent feeling of architecture and landscape. It is world where all of these are interweaving together without any restrictions. This design concept comes from the design philosophy of architectural landscape integration, which can grow constantly, but can not be copied.
Project Duration and Location
The project is completed in 2018 in Wuhan, China.
Specifications
On the basis of architecture, the designers explored different layouts, which made the building's volume show differently at different angles: it is sometimes grand, sometimes exquisite, sometimes as if extended to beyond sight, thus being fascinating.
Keywords
landscape, building, design, residential, commercial, installation

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