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Hexi Corridor Grand Hotel by Chimin Cheng Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Chimin Cheng recognized for interior space and exhibition 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 confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Hexi Corridor Grand Hotel by Chimin Cheng, designed for DHIA Cheng Chimin International Space Design Firm. The award was conferred within 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 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 Hexi Corridor Grand Hotel
Hexi Corridor is a hotel interior design located in Dunhuang. The project covers 10000 square meters. The door header combines a ribbon form taken from the flying Apsaras frescoes with dome elements common in local architecture. A shallow pool in front of the entrance reflects the building. A narrow passage shaped like a cave and finished with local pebbles leads to a lobby 10 meters high, where the ceiling is treated as a blue sky. The walls combine grey cement bricks with wooden grilles. Local culture and history guided the design.
About Chimin Cheng
Cheng Chimin graduated from the Department of architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He has many years of experience in interior and exterior design. Participated in the design and engineering of a number of advanced projects in Guilin, Guangxi. Specializing in the planning and design of high-end hotels, business centers and private mansions. During 2007-2019, he won more than 40 international awards, including gold awards in international design competitions such as France, Dubai, the United States, Italy, Germany, Asia Pacific, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Beijing, etc.
Award Record
This recognition makes Chimin Cheng 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/98025
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/98025
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!98025
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/251554
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://c7.gg/fUjG6
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hexi Corridor Grand Hotel
- Function
- Grand Hotel
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Olive Green and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- DHIA Cheng Chimin International Space Design Firm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chimin Cheng
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #98025
Credits
- Team
- Min Huang, Zhenli Wei and Xingchen Li
- Image Credits
- Photographer Guomin Li, Hotel Lobby, 2018.; Photographer Guomin Li, Activity Hall, 2018.; Photographer Guomin Li, Zen Tea Space, 2018.; Photographer Guomin Li, Service Desk, 2018.; Photographer Guomin Li, Banquet Hall, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- According to the regional characteristics, the designer combines the local culture, national culture and historical context in the process of conception. Under the dominant atmosphere of modernism, the designer uses the language of design to create dialogue with space, and then interprets the visual, tactile and spiritual resonance, reproducing the Dunhuang area humanistic landscape pattern of "The head swallows the sea and the tail joins the desert".
- Inspiration
- The door header adopts the thinking mode of modern architecture. The designer extracts the image of ribbon from the flying Apsaras frescoes and extends the regular form. With the common dome elements in local architecture, the two are integrated through structural changes, which bring out the best in each other. The sparkling water in front of the door is like a natural polished mirror, reflecting the appearance of the hotel, which is both virtual and real, rigid and soft.
- Research
- Zhuang Zhou said, "If there is no shelter in the house, the sunshine can illuminate the whole space, and auspicious well-being will come." Such a pure and undemanding state is exactly the portrayal of the ideal mood of the guests. From a modern perspective, combining soft tones and natural texture, the design transforms the room furniture into a carrier of functionality and artistry, and endows the space with different personalities, while leaving a lasting aftertaste.
- Challenge
- Moving forward slowly, the background of the service desk is the flying Apsaras woodcarving work of the sculpture master, which conveys the historical and cultural deposits through the fine lines, lifelike forms and exquisite texture. The steel wire mesh barrier arranged vertically in front of the woodcarving makes the static flying Apsaras show the dynamic aesthetic feeling along with the guests' movement.
- Realization and Technology
- Seen from the entrance, the narrow and long passage mysteriously carries a deep sense of space aesthetics. Combining the shape of the cave with the pebbles peculiar to the local area, it creates a rough and steady visual effect. The quiet interior and the noisy exterior form a pulling feeling in space, which attracts the past guests.
- Operation and Interaction
- The wall is the visual impact brought by the contrast of grey cement brick blocks and wooden grille elements, which embellishes the light of Crescent Lake's form, creating different ways of light entry, filling the simple space with rich rhythm, leaving infinite reverie without unnecessary decoration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June, 2017 in Dunhuang and finished in October 2018 in Dunhuang.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 10000 square meters. Entering the hotel lobby through the passage, the scene immediately becomes bright and open. In this 10-meter-high large space, in order to avoid emptiness brought by the depth, the designer designed the ceiling into a blue sky, where a drop of water from falls into a bowl made of Qilian Mountains dark jade on the ground, showing the spirit of Zen penetration.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Hotel, Dunhuang, Hexi Corridor, Grand, Modern, Elegant, Simple, Oriental Aesthetics
