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Yutaifeng Hotel by Ying Zhu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Ying Zhu 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 22, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Yutaifeng Hotel by Ying Zhu, designed for Beijing Kunze Design Consulting Co., Ltd. The recognition forms part of 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 evaluated 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.
More About Yutaifeng Hotel
Yutaifeng is a resort hotel interior located in Yingshan, China, with a total area of 6,300 square meters. The design is arranged around a central waterscape courtyard and draws on Chinese Jiangnan garden culture. A large dome marks the lobby, while bamboo corridors, corridor corners, tea rooms, restaurants and guest rooms are linked by a garden route along which artworks are placed. Natural materials such as wood and textured paint replace industrial synthetic materials. The lighting reveals light rather than fixtures and is adjusted for different times of day.
About Ying Zhu
Ying Zhu is the founder and chief designer of Kunze Design. During his 20 years of career, She has been deeply engaged in the field of residential and commercial space design. With spatial narrative as the core design concept, She is good at integrating architectural thinking with life aesthetics. She always believes that space is a resonance field of emotion and function, and is committed to building a life theater for customers that combines personal expression and practical value.
Award Record
With this recognition, Ying Zhu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/167490
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167490
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167490
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/363791
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yutaifeng Hotel
- Function
- Hotel
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Beijing Kunze Design Consulting Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ying Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167490
Credits
- Image Credits
- Beijing Kunze Design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Push open the door of the hotel and walk slowly into the lobby. The huge dome has an oriental aesthetic temperament, with a very contrasting scale, impacting people's visual experience. Passing through the hazy layers, you will find that the wonderful water landscape is hidden behind it. The oriental charm hits you in the face, and the noise of the city has disappeared.
- Inspiration
- The hotel is built around a central waterscape courtyard, integrating Chinese Jiangnan culture into contemporary exquisite life aesthetics, and integrating it with architecture, landscape, interior, and humanistic design. Traveling through various areas of the hotel, exploring the perceptual impressions of the garden and scale, and feeling the unique oriental charm and atmosphere, people can experience tranquility and peace in person.
- Research
- The designer is committed to studying the application and innovation of Chinese culture in architectural space, expressing the design concept with personalized and unique visual language, and interpreting Chinese cultural elements with new visual communication. Contemporaneity, culture, artistry, integration and symbiosis are used as design language for spatial expression. The inspiration for design is sought from the commonality and collision between tradition and the present, and the spiritual appeal of design culture is sought in the combination of historical memory fragments and current thoughts.
- Challenge
- As a resort hotel brand that advocates connection with nature, how to more closely connect culture and nature is a challenge for both designers and brands. From the moment you arrive at the hotel, the presentation of artworks, the design of the roof garden, the natural landscapes cleverly interspersed in the public areas, and the organic crop planting areas are all responses to nature.
- Realization and Technology
- In terms of material application, natural materials such as wood and textured paint are selected to avoid the use of industrial synthetic materials, responding to the relationship with nature with sustainable materials. In terms of lighting design, the principle of seeing light instead of lamps and liberating the ceiling is advocated, and the design is carried out according to the requirements of light in different time periods to achieve sustainable energy utilization.
- Operation and Interaction
- Various works of art are cleverly placed in the carefully planned Jiangnan garden tour route, echoing the designer's hope to present a spatial artistic conception of changing scenery with every step and different emotions in each scene: in the hazy and winding bamboo corridors, in the quiet and elegant corners of the corridors, in the tea room, in the restaurant, at the corners of the staircases, in other aesthetic spaces of life, and even in every guest room, you can feel the presence of art.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is located in Yingshan, China and was designed in March 2024.
- Specifications
- The space functions as a hotel with a total area of 6,300 square meters.
- Keywords
- hotel, oriental, zen, modern, art
