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Named of Mountain Lixia Building Office by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Zhongning Zhang Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Zhongning Zhang honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Named of Mountain Lixia Building Office by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Zhongning Zhang, designed for Guangzhou Vantree Architecture Decoration Design CO.LTD. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated 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.

More About Named of Mountain Lixia Building Office

Named of Mountain Lixia Building is an office interior design created in Jinan. The space serves about 400 people from a group headquarters and its subsidiaries. Nine floors contain open work areas, medium and large conference rooms, a reception and an exhibition hall. Three further floors contain a reading room, a meditation and leisure area and a multifunction area. Wood, plants, large areas of artificial stone and metal lines shape a calm interior inspired by ink paintings of mountains and rivers. Community spaces support a comfortable working environment.

Award Record

This recognition makes Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Zhongning Zhang a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior

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
Named of Mountain Lixia Building Office
Function
Office
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Gainsboro, Light Gray, Dark Gray, White Smoke and Silver
Images
5
Client
Guangzhou Vantree Architecture Decoration Design CO,.LTD

The Recognition

Laureate
Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Zhongning Zhang
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2020 - 2021
Design ID
#122168

Credits

Team
Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai, Zhongning Zhang, Junjie Li, Weicong Lei, Zhaowei Feng, Guanbao Ye, Lanting Li, Xiaofeng Li and Shuangying Liang
Image Credits
Copyrights belong to Vantree Design, 2021.

Design Details

Unique Properties
The purpose of the design of Olympic Finance Center Block B is to create a new landmark office space for the Group. It is based on the ink paintings without color of rivers and cities, mountains and water, and amounts of mountains and hills, to show the oriental art and aesthetics, and deeply experience the convergence of Oriental humanities in the mysterious and illusory space of concretization.
Inspiration
The project caters to the needs of workers in modern state-owned enterprises. By using of wood, plants and other ecological materials, it creates an open, warm, humanized and international indoor, and designs a large number of community spaces far beyond the traditional office, creating a delicate and comfortable working environment.
Research
In order to meet the current design trend and the owner's demand for quality, reading room, meditation and leisure area and multi-function area occupy three floors. The open office space, medium and large conference rooms, reception and enterprise exhibition hall, which accommodate about 400 people from the group headquarters and subsidiaries, occupy nine floors of the office area.
Challenge
In order to meet the current design trend and the owner's demand for quality. The project caters to the needs of workers in modern state-owned enterprises. By using of wood, plants and other ecological materials, it creates an open, warm, humanized and international indoor, and designs a large number of community spaces far beyond the traditional office, creating a delicate and comfortable working environment.
Realization and Technology
The interaction of large-area artificial stone, metal line and green in space design with artificial stone as the medium, it sets up an interesting environmental dialogue in the lobby, which makes expression and interaction between lines, materials and colors in serious space. The contrast between light and dark and between virtual and real enriches the artistic atmosphere of space and highlights the artistic phenomenon of ecology and future mission.
Operation and Interaction
It is based on the ink paintings without color of rivers and cities, mountains and water, and amounts of mountains and hills, to show the oriental art and aesthetics, and deeply experience the convergence of Oriental humanities in the mysterious and illusory space of concretization.The style is like a clear and white one inlaid in the Castle Peak, and the dialogue among space, color and material creates the level and artistic sense of three-dimensional space, and creates the office artistic atmosphere endowed with the mission of the future era.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in August 2019 and finished in October 2010 in Jinan, the purpose of the design of Olympic Finance Center Block B is to create a new landmark office space for the Group.
Specifications
A compatible with old and new city with mountains as its shape, rivers as muscles and bones, and springs as soul, blooms its color and life. It not only maintains the original flavor, but integrates into the modern wheel of the Era. Moreover, designers use the decomposition, reorganization and collision of texture and material to build a simple and lively volume.
Keywords
community, oriental art, mission of the future

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