Press Release
Hkhs Exhibition Centre Design by Dennis Wong Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Dennis Wong of Oval Design acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Hkhs Exhibition Centre Design by Dennis Wong of Oval Design, designed for Hong Kong Housing Society, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
Regarding Hkhs Exhibition Centre Design
The refurbished Exhibition Centre instils public confidence by underscoring Hong Kong Housing Society’s 70 year legacy serving Hong Kong. Innovative exhibits such as immersive VR and digital twin engage visitors. Visitors irrigate the centerpiece tree, symbolizing bridging citizens and housing policy and representing its people focus commitment and efforts. The old video with VR goggles is turned into a LED dome with VR. The challenge is how to configure the dome into an acute angled space. All in all, the Centre inspires trust and longing for better homes, vital for Hkhs’s progress.
About Dennis Wong
Oval Design is a communication focused creative agency specializing in spatial design and production of high-end exhibitions, events, commercial interior design and multi-media installations. Built up over 25 years of continued growth, the team comprises highly creative designers, project executives with exceptional interpersonal skills, professional consultants and contractors to provide quality one-stop solutions. Dennis Wong has led the team to successfully integrate multi-disciplinary design elements with top-notch project implementation to achieve client’s objectives and even over their expectations.
About Oval Design
Founded by Dennis Wong and Dominic Kam, Oval Design is a collaboration-focused company renowned for its ability to integrate multi-disciplinary design elements and top-notch project implementation.
Award Record
This recognition makes Dennis Wong of Oval Design a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 and the 2024 - 2025 editions 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/162882
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162882
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162882
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/217563
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://hsec.hkhs.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hkhs Exhibition Centre Design
- Function
- Design
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Goldenrod, Dark Khaki, Dim Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hong Kong Housing Society
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Dennis Wong
- Country
- Hong Kong (China)
- Brand
- Oval Design
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162882
Credits
- Team
- Vic Chan, Kong Hui, Kaitlyn Leung, Karina Li, Adrianne Chong, Eva Leung
- Image Credits
- OVAL Design Limited
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Re-opened in March 2024, the refurbished Exhibition Centre of the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) is a small place tasked to achieve a big goal. It is a key HKHS avenue to instil public confidence through underpinning a laudable message: HKHS has been a reliable and dedicated housing provider for Hong Kong in the past 70 years. They are committed to play the same role going forward and will continue to be an unwavering housing partner of Hong Kong families in the long run.
- Inspiration
- In Hong Kong, there are families who wait for 5 years for a shelter in a public rental estate. The message disseminated by the Centre carries weight among them. OVAL’s effort is to enable visitors to take home a special experience that makes them feel connected with the message and cast their trust with HKHS. Content-wise, there is a lot to say. As for tone and manner, the visitor should be warmed by the ambience and the features that he touches and maneuvers during the visit.
- Research
- Research was done in three different directions. User research revealed that less text and more humanised features were preferred. Communication strategy research whereby HKHS management repositioned the new Centre as an avenue for instilling public trust. Technical research calibrating the combination of 270-degree VR projection on a dome-shaped screen with content rotation triggered by motion sensing technology for accommodating visitors of different body sizes and heights.
- Challenge
- Challenges have pushed OVAL to escalate to a higher level of design acumen and craftsmanship. 20% of the total floor area is laid out in acute-angled configuration whilst low ceiling clearance at 2.5m aggravated the spacing issue. The solution of putting the 270-degree VR projection on dome-shaped screen in the triangle was a no-turning-back option due to post-Covid reluctance to use goggles. Lastly, OVAL must surf through voluminous content simultaneously for proposing on touch point anchors.
- Realization and Technology
- Interactive kiosk controlled by old telephone, LED dome with 360 VR, 3D naked-eye animation, digital twin, instant polling with real time visualisation
- Operation and Interaction
- Curated contents are displayed in three zones for sight by visitors who mostly come in as guided-tour participants. Each zone is filled up by exhibition items attired in multiple formats: physical boards, digital screens with physical levers for access to information and interactive games on computers and physical platforms. They lined up in a circular flow to echo with three themes: ‘Creating Homes for the Community’; ‘The Housing Ladder’ and ‘Creating Homes for Sustainable Living’.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in September 2023 and finished in March 2024 in Hong Kong.
- Specifications
- Area 200 sqm, ceiling height 3m, ceiling clearance 2.5m
- Keywords
- exhibition, interactive, multimedia, community, sustainability, people-oriented
