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Xuzhou International Academic Center by Yi Shi Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yi Shi for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Xuzhou International Academic Center by Yi Shi, designed for Gold Mantis. 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
More About Xuzhou International Academic Center
Xuzhou International is an academic center interior covering 78000 square meters. The design draws on Han culture, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Maritime Silk Road, and applies local landscape elements, vessel elements and Han cultural elements in a modern form. The guest rooms use natural colors and warm materials. The all-day dining room is a flexible space that combines warm wood tones with natural stone. The banquet center is based on gathering, communication and sharing, and its irregular walls allow flexible layouts. The project was completed in December 2019.
About Yi Shi
Yi Shi, president of the 11th branch of Gold Mantis. He has been engaged in the design industry for nearly 20 years. He has completed many high complexity design projects, and won unanimous praise in the industry with professional ability and rigorous attitude. At the same time, he has made great achievements in many domestic and foreign design competitions. As a well-known enterprise in China, Gold Mantis undertakes very important design responsibility. Yi Shi is fully aware of his responsibilities, and has always adhered to good design. He believes that good design will be handed down from generation to generation.
Award Record
Yi Shi is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/100614
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100614
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100614
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/272844
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.goldmantis.com
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Xuzhou International Academic Center
- Function
- Academic Center
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Olive Green, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Gold Mantis
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yi Shi
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100614
Credits
- Team
- Maohua Wei, Wei Zhang, Lin Zou and Changlong Zeng
- Image Credits
- Creator Yi Shi, Lobby, 2019.; Creator Yi Shi, Negotiation Area, 2019.; Creator Yi Shi, Water Bar, 2019.; Creator Yi Shi, Restaurant, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Gather core values and create a new sense of community connection and belonging for leisure travelers, business people and local residents. Therefore, the guest room in this case adopts the design concept of natural color and warm home, to ensure that on the basis of the continuation of the classic concept, it is integrated with the local characteristics rather than mere formality, so that the public can linger here, feel the cultural background, taste the natural tranquility of Xuzhou.
- Inspiration
- This plan combines the Xuzhou Han culture, uses the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Maritime Silk Road as the design inspiration for space design, extracts local cultural landscape elements, vessel elements, and Han cultural elements, and applies them in various space designs through evolution and innovation. And realized the exchange of emotions and culture.
- Research
- Modern modeling and simple texture complement each other. Against the background of multi-level light source, space will perfectly integrate ancient, modern and foreign, showing the integration and development of culture. The functional requirements are diversified, so the design is more to realize its functional requirements, and at the same time, it integrates local characteristics rather than mere forms, so that the public and visitors can linger here, feel the cultural background.
- Challenge
- The interpenetration of the top structure and the design of the wall partition correspond to the architectural elements of this case, and produce a new aesthetic order. Extract elements from traditional culture and express them with modern cognition, so that space can carry new culture.
- Realization and Technology
- All-day-dining room is flexible and changeable combination space, warm wood color with natural texture of stone, fresh and bright, with flexible wave color soft clothing, warm atmosphere, to create a comfortable dining environment. It makes people feel the prosperous scene of Chinese and foreign exchanges and trade exchanges, and reflects the city's warm hospitality, warmth and pleasure.
- Operation and Interaction
- The banquet center regards "gathering, communication and sharing" as the design center idea. The irregular shape of the space walls is arranged in order to make the space not only be combined flexibly, but also reflect its majestic. Constantly build a common system of economic integration and cultural inclusion.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in February 2018 in Xuzhou and finished in December 2019 in Xuzhou.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 78000 square meters.
- Keywords
- Interior, Hotel, Cultural Space, Xuzhou, International Academic Center, Modern, Simple, Club, Bar
