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Alex Xu Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design in Architectural Lighting
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Alex Xu of AlexXu&Partners for architectural lighting
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design by Alex Xu of AlexXu&Partners has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Architectural Lighting category. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design
Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel is an architectural lighting design for a resort hotel in Huzhou, China. The resort covers 24,000 square meters and includes 178 guest rooms and villas arranged around a central lobby. Light is used to emphasize the character of the interior design, to express spatial hierarchy and to create visual focus. Warm color temperatures, selected light sources, measured illumination levels and a lighting control system support a calm and restful atmosphere. The design refers to local tea culture and Zen tradition.
About Alex Xu
I am QingliuXu,I have over 13 years experience in lighting design, specializing in indoor and outdoor lighting design of international brand hotel buildings/large urban complex buildings. With overseas experience, I went to Singapore in 2007 to work as a project designer in Light Planners International Lighting Design studios. In 2009, Price Lighting Design Consultant Co., Ltd. was established and is currently the design director of Price Lighting Design Co. Over the years, I have created a legend of light for many hotels and urban projects. My idea: use the least light to achieve the best effect, to natural optics, to achieve the effect of invisible light.
About AlexXu&Partners
Alex Xu & Partners International Design Consultant Co.,Ltd (A&P) is an international architecture lighting design organization, which is committed to provide professional lighting consultancy and lighting proposal design. Besides, we offer
Award Record
This recognition makes Alex Xu of AlexXu&Partners a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Architectural Lighting Design Award
The A' Architectural Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by lighting designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural lighting designers, lighting consultants, industrial design studios and interior designers from all countries. Typical entries include architectural lighting, architectural illumination, architecture lighting projects, architectural light projections and landscape illumination. The awarded architectural lighting designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architectural-lighting
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/147099
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147099
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147099
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/229560
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.alex-partners.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design
- Function
- Lighting Design
- Category
- Architectural Lighting
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Royal Blue, Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Medium Purple and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alex Xu
- Country
- China
- Brand
- AlexXu&Partners
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147099
Credits
- Team
- Liu Xiang, Honyu Deng, Xiaojuan Dai, Tiaoxia Zhang and Liuyun Xu
- Image Credits
- AlexXu&Partners, Suzhou Jintanglang Construction Decoration Co., Ltd.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The resort is located in Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, on the West Tiaoxi River, back mountain surface water, a beautiful environment; Taihu Lake to the north, Moganshan to the south, has a unique natural scenery. Located at the golden intersection of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Anji, good traffic location. It's a resort away from the noise. Sunshine, ecology, and humanity are full of emotion here. Rooted in this, is a kind of plot of hometown.
- Inspiration
- China's first hong ju brand hotel, Huzhou is china's ancient tea region and tea culture. In addition, it also integrates the Buddhist culture. The hotel faces the lake and backs the mountain, adjacent to the thousand-year-old ancient temple and the Luyu ancient road, and integrates Zen, tea classics, and Xian Yin culture into the design of the hotel. With rolling wood carvings, tea-shaped glass, and bamboo wall panels, every part of the hotel is a microcosm of local culture.
- Research
- The hotel is equipped with a special tea kiosks, teahouse, for the literati to taste tea used. The origin of tea culture is china. China is the hometown of tea. Drinking tea in china began in the shennong era for more than 4,700 years. Tea culture is very important in the life of the han people.
- Challenge
- The hotel is far away from the hustle and bustle. It is a quiet place for health preservation. The whole design is warm and stylish, close to nature, reflecting the elegant and free and easy life, so that you can find a little peace and quiet,Use Light to emphasize the character of interior design,express the sense of spatial hierarchy and create visual focus.
- Realization and Technology
- Inherits the culture of the Mountain Forest Academy of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the lobby, the mirror pool, the infinity pool and the lake view constitute the central axis design of the Sanshui Hall, giving full play to the symmetrical aesthetics to the extreme through the mirror pool. With the lobby as the central axis, 178 guest rooms and villas are distributed around it. The "Twilight Drum" of Xisishan Hongji integrates the drum music prevailing in the Tang Dynasty with the temple culture around the hotel, reflecting the wine music culture of the Tang Dynasty.
- Operation and Interaction
- The hotel has banquet halls, meeting rooms, Lounge, spa , Featured restaurant, Fitness room and other multi-functional areas for customers to use. Finally meet the needs of the hotel operation and create customer comfort and sense of honor.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in Huzhou, China in January 2022 and ended on October 26, 2022
- Keywords
- Night lighting design
