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Yi Jin Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Dananmen Hotel Hospitality in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Yi Jin recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Dananmen Hotel Hospitality by Yi Jin, designed for Gold Mantis, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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 evaluated 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.

More About Dananmen Hotel Hospitality

Dananmen Hotel is a business travel hotel interior located in Quzhou. The design draws on the local history of Longyou, an ancient city long known for its merchant groups and river scenery. The architectural style of the Republic of China period is continued throughout the spaces. The theme is a return to benevolence, expressed through wutong and seed motifs linked to Confucian culture. Marble, antique brick, wood finish and stainless steel are the main materials. The internal landscape surrounds the core functional area, which covers 15325.6 square meters in total.

About Yi Jin

With headquarter in Suzhou, China, Gold Mantis was founded in 1993. After over 20 years of development, it has grown into a modernized corporate group with " decoration industry as the main body with e-business and finance as its two wings". With over 100 branch companies both domestic and overseas and over 20,000 employees, the Group is a frontier in green, environmental and healthy public and home decoration industry. Gold Mantis Construction Decoration under the Group was the first listed company in China's decoration industry in 2006. The Company has been ranked as the first place among Top 100 Decoration Companies in China for 17 years in a row.

Award Record

With this recognition, Yi Jin is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 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
Dananmen Hotel Hospitality
Function
Hospitality
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Silver and Dark Gray
Images
5
Client
Gold Mantis

The Recognition

Laureate
Yi Jin
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#138723

Credits

Team
Jin Yi, Zhuang Yuan, Feng Kan, Wang Yang, Gu Xiaojun and Gao Pinglei
Image Credits
Photographer Gold Mantis, Dananmen Hotel, 2022.

Design Details

Unique Properties
Longyou has a profound accumulation of "ten thousand years of civilization, a thousand years of ancient city and a hundred years of business group". The interior of this case has undertaken this sense of location, combined with the local characteristic culture and river scenery, and built it into a business travel hotel characterized by regional culture. The whole project starts from the target customer group, through design deduction, quality shaping and atmosphere building.
Inspiration
Dananmen is the interpretation and witness of the revival of the ancient city and the prosperity of the business group. It is the core node of the provincial and municipal poetry and painting scenic belt and the "two rivers corridor" of Longyou County, and carries the warm and beautiful nostalgic memory in the hearts of generations of local people. Therefore, the plan takes the Confucian's return to the kernel as the theme line.
Research
The theme line of the plan is to return to benevolence. Benevolence is a model of morality and also has the meaning of seed. Wutong is the main body of the design. Adorable seeds represent Confucianism. Under the influence of it, Longyou merchants gradually sprout.
Challenge
With simple and lively lines, twists and straights combined with appropriate opening and closing of space, so as to create a high-end comprehensive guild hall with cultural characteristics focusing on meetings and reception from details.
Realization and Technology
The main materials in this project are marble, antique brick, wood finish, stainless steel.
Operation and Interaction
The overall design continues the architectural style of the Republic of China. The internal landscape surrounds the core functional area.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in December 2021 in Quzhou and finished in June 2022 in Quzhou.
Specifications
The project covers a total of 15325.6 square meters.
Keywords
Interior, Commercial, Modern, Elegant, Hotel, Location Sense, Art

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