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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Jinke City Light Sales Office by James Liu Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

James Liu acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Jinke City Light Sales Office by James Liu, designed for Jinke Real Estate Group, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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.

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 Jinke City Light Sales Office

Jinke City Light is a sales office located in the center of Qionglai New Town, Sichuan Province, China. The 342 square meter interior combines landscape, a cafe, community areas and daily life functions within one co-life experience hall. Ornament installations are made of knotted bamboo, and warm beige and wood tones are merged with green tints. The design links life aesthetics, social communication and leisure, so residents can rest in a calm setting. The space continues to serve the community after the sales function ends.

About James Liu

James Liu is the founder of AOD Architecture & Interior LTD, established in 2006 in Beijing. It is born to be a comprehensive firm integrated architecture, landscape and interior design. Teamed by over 100 excellent designers, AOD thoughtfully works to provide high quality creative ideas and designs to high-end property developer and social elites, with its business covering from boutique hotel, creative office, industrial property, club, showroom, etc. Advantages: Creativity + Execution.

Award Record

James Liu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2022 - 2023 edition 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
Jinke City Light Sales Office
Function
Sales Office
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Rosy Brown, Sienna, Snow, Tan and Light Gray
Images
5
Client
Jinke Real Estate Group

The Recognition

Laureate
James Liu
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2022 - 2023
Design ID
#144248

Credits

Image Credits
Photographer Zhudi, SHADOO PLAY

Design Details

Unique Properties
Through the combination of landscape, cafe, community, and people’s daily life, it has been turned into a Co-Life Experience Hall. As a result, this will not only increase the usefulness and utilization rate of the space, but also will continue to meet the needs of the community's residents while producing long-term economic benefits after its sales function is completed.
Inspiration
As people who have lived in the city for a long time always have a yearning for nature, the designer aims to reconstruct the balance between nature and the city through design. By using a Co-Life model that embraces nature awareness, humanistic perception and physical and mental experience, the high frequency scene is integrated into people’s daily life.
Research
The project, which is in the center of Qionglai New Town, is committed to giving residents a high-quality life with diverse scene experiences and a vibrant community atmosphere under a well-equipped infrastructure.
Challenge
The main challenge for designer is how to make the sales office continue to serve the needs of the community's residents after the sales function is completed. Within this context, the designer has transformed it into a Co-Life Experience Hall in accordance with the "market, space, and product" interaction logic and the idea of space serving people’s lifestyle.
Realization and Technology
The ornament installation is composed of knotted bamboo, and the warm beige and woody tones merge with green tints. The landscape, cafe and community are integrated, enabling people to embrace the vitality of nature in a serene mood.
Operation and Interaction
In this project, the designer connects life aesthetic, community social communication, leisure and entertainment, enabling dwellers to embrace ideal lifestyle. The cafe experience hall serves as a bond between space and dwellers, where poetic light, greenery shadow, natural life and cafe culture fit well, and people can taste a cup of coffee, relaxing themselves away from the hustling outside world.
Project Duration and Location
The project is located in Qionglai, Sichuan Province, China and finished in 2021.
Specifications
Project Area: 342 square meters
Keywords
James Liu, Sales Office, Natural, Art

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