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Minquan Wang Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Yunhai Shimen Industry Park in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
Minquan Wang acknowledged for construction and real estate projects design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Yunhai Shimen Industry Park by Minquan Wang, designed for Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Construction and Real Estate Projects Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
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 Yunhai Shimen Industry Park
Yunhai Shimen is a mixed-use industry park in Qujiang District, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China. The design draws on the mountainous landscape of the region, using clean geometric forms of staggered towers and cascading platforms to recall mountains and clouds. Instead of a closed retail podium, the complex unfolds into a series of connected outdoor platforms set at several levels. These platforms, the tower sky lobbies and a central gallery named Cloud Deck host public gatherings and events of different scales. The main structure is built of reinforced concrete.
About Minquan Wang
Minquan Wang, AIA, LEED GA, is an Associate Principal at KPF New York, where he played critical roles in major mixed-use developments such as Chongqing International Land-Sea Center, Baker Circle, and Thamrin Nine. He previously served at David Chipperfield Architects where he was the lead designer for high profile competitions, including the Jinqiao Art Center and Minsheng Wharf masterplan, and the project architect for the 2023 RAM Assembles. Beyond professional works, Minquan is the founder of Agora, an architectural and interior design studio in New York. His independent projects has received international recognition.
Award Record
Minquan Wang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Award
The A' Real Estate Design Award is an international architecture competition recognizing good real estate projects by architects and enterprises worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to real estate designers, architectural firms, interior designers and construction companies from all countries. Entries typically include residential complexes, commercial buildings, industrial properties, mixed-use developments, hospitality establishments and educational facilities. Awarded real estate designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/real-estate
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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/165851
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/165851
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!165851
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/358439
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yunhai Shimen Industry Park
- Function
- Industry Park
- Category
- Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Slate Gray, Black and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Minquan Wang
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #165851
Credits
- Image Credits
- Renderer DZI, 2023
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Yunhai Shimen, created for West Zhejiang Agro-Tech Industry Park aspires to be the new engine of industrial and economic growth to Qujiang District, Quzhou, a thriving city in Zhejiang, China. The project lends itself as a stage for urban events. It defies the opaque monolithic stereotype of conventional retail podiums by unfolding itself into a series of cascading, interconnected platforms providing for outdoor social activities to compliment the civic programs indoor. The podium platforms, tower sky lobbies, as well as a central gallery nick named "Cloud Deck" together accommodate to public interactions at varying scales.
- Inspiration
- Drawing inspiration from the mountainous natural landscape in Qujiang, Yunhai Shimen lends itself as an analogue to mountains and clouds with clean, geometric forms of staggering towers and cascading platforms.
- Research
- A survey of the project site was made to determine its urban gesture in relation to important contextual elements such as adjacent park/amenity spaces, urban programs, and masterplanning motifs. A research into the city's cultural and geographical contexts was also conducted which highlighted its celebrated natural landscape as an important inspiration of project design.
- Challenge
- The client aims at creating an unconventional mixed-use development where a large amount of community functions is infused into the retail complex. This not only creates problematic adjacencies but also contradicts with the limitation of space. To fully exploit the civic potential of the project, an important decision was made early on in the design process to maximize utilization of outdoor spaces as an extension of GFA accountable spaces so as to expand the reach of public events while remain complaint with planning/zoning requirements.
- Realization and Technology
- Reinforced concrete for main structure; steel moment frame for the central "Cloud Deck" structure; Insulated glass units of low-e laminated glass with hidden ventilator for tower curtain wall; Anodized aluminium, stainless steel, and granite for exterior cladding.
- Operation and Interaction
- The project encourages public interactions by creating occupiable outdoor platforms spanning across the site at multiple levels. These platforms echo the public programs of their corresponding interior spaces and become extensions thereof. The massing arrangements between the towers, the podium, the central Cloud Deck gallery, and the sunken plaza work synergistically to create an focal point where visitors could gather for concentrated events such as performances and talks. Sky lobbies are inserted at the crowns of each tower to highlight them with public activities.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project design started in August 2023 and was awarded in open competition in September 2023. The project is currently in the process of planning approval clearing.
- Specifications
- Site area: 27457.46㎡ Building footprint: 9594.35㎡ Building density: 34.94% Gross floor area: 132146.96㎡ Accountable floor area: 96043.42㎡ Floor area ratio: 3.50 Headquarters area: 25062.50㎡ Rental office area: 25062.50㎡ Apartment area: 16117.50㎡ Apartment unit count: 230 Retail podium areaa; 29800.92㎡ Building height: 75m Parking slots: 895
- Keywords
- Mixed-use, tall building, office, retail, public space
