Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Goes to Plot 140 Poly Guanggang Residential Landscape by L and A Design
L and A Design 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/ Plot 140 Poly Guanggang Residential Landscape by L and A Design has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Plot 140 Poly Guanggang Residential Landscape
Plot 140 Poly Guanggang is a residential landscape design in Guangzhou, China, covering a landscape area of 21000 square meters. The site is long and narrow, with a north-south distance of only 40 meters. A vertical garden was created to enlarge the green space within the compact urban setting. An elevated pedestrian corridor with a steel frame links the whole site and the surrounding landscape resources. Rust-colored steel plates recall the former steel works on the site. Play features support children and parent-child interaction.
About L and A Design
L&A Design (Stock Code: 300949) is one of the leading cultural and creative companies dedicated to land planning, urban design, landscape architecture and resort planning in China. L&A was established in the year of 2001. Mr. Bo Li was responsible as Chief Designer until now. Ms. Clara Li joined L&A in 2002. Under her leadership, L&A has established branch offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'an, Qingdao, Chengdu, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Jinan, Dongguan and Suzhou, also sub-brand “La V-onderland” ”Floral Fairyland”. Together they serve clients all over the great region of China.
Award Record
L and A Design is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Typical entries include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. The awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design
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/106608
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106608
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106608
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/278287
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/2XSuWYf
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Plot 140 Poly Guanggang Residential Landscape
- Function
- Residential Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Olive Drab and Olive
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- L and A Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106608
Credits
- Team
- L&A Design, Hu Guangqiang, Hu Naizhong, Li Bingfan, Yang Tianyou, Li Qing and Luo Min
- Image Credits
- Photographer Wei Liwei, Plot 140 POLY Guanggang, 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is a muti-functional public space with diverse landscape designed for high-density urban community with limited land resource. A “vertical garden” connected by an elevated pedestrian corridor system was born to provide unified visual experience and space for residents’ daily interactive recreations. Also, this project well redefines the value of industrial heritage, by which the contemporary residential landscape and historical landscape resources are well integrated.
- Inspiration
- The landscaping corridor constructed by rust-colored steel plates looks like a communication bridge between the existing site and Steel Plant Historical Park in mind, and between past and present within the reminiscence of local people. The up-and-down stepped entrances of the corridor are nestled in the gently undulating woods. It reproduces the experience of raised and lowered industrial heritage, also creates the unified visual experience vertically and horizontally on the site.
- Research
- Based on the study of the urban compact space, designers put forward the concept of vertical garden, which perfectly integrating diverse spaces with community, and combining the surrounding industrial landscape resources to create a rich level of garden landscape space and residential activity space. Considering the needs and interests of children of all ages, as well as encouraging parent-child interaction, a series of amusements was designed. It gives children opportunity to explore the structural spaces and to participate in interactive activities held by the community.
- Challenge
- Located in the historical city center, Guanggang New Town occupies limited land resources, all of which are planned to be built high-rise residential communities except for the Central Park Ecological Axis. Generally, landscaping areas are cramped in these communities. The project site is a piece of long and narrow land with a north-south distance of only 40 meters. And the design team is aim to redefine the value of industrial heritage, create a distinct native landscape experience in the finite space by a warm, agreeable and livable style.
- Realization and Technology
- In accordance with the site history - a part of the industrial relic of Steel Works, the designers were inspired to build a steel-framed pedestrian corridor elevated on the site. It is effective to visually connect the whole site and all the surrounding landscape resources, and to fully enlarge landscaping space for residents. The landscaping corridor constructed by rust-colored steel plates looks like a communication bridge between the existing site and Steel Plant Historical Park in mind.
- Operation and Interaction
- The project is a life-oriented landscaping project. Landscape architects take the daily life of ordinary residents into account, to create an agreeable communicative public green space. Vertical space is reasonably used in high-density urban community with limited land resource to enlarge the greening area so as to meet the residents’ need of enjoying daily life in the nature. The vertical garden is also a bridge connecting the past and the present of the site, showing its distinct history to residents.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is designed in August 2016 and finished in April 2019 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Specifications
- The landscape area of the site is 21000 square meters.
- Keywords
- landscape, residential, community, vertical space, garden, industrial relic
