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Mengtai Group Hardtech Pavilion by Yibin Yang Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Yibin Yang honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Mengtai Group Hardtech Pavilion by Yibin Yang, designed for Juji Culture (Beijing) Co., Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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.
About Mengtai Group Hardtech Pavilion
Mengtai Group Hard Technology Pavilion is a corporate exhibition interior located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The pavilion covers about 4,500 square meters and includes a showroom, public artworks and outdoor sculptural installations. Display boards and scaled models are replaced by a spatial language drawn from industrial production lines. Walls are assembled from aluminum panels, and the floor uses anodized, custom shaped aluminum elements with seams controlled within 0.2 millimeters. A naked eye 3D system and a 22 meter long CAVE theater guide visitors through a cyclical narrative.
About Yibin Yang
YIBIN YANG, Chief Designer of the Beijing Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, pioneer of conceptual design, advocate of techno-humanism, intellectual designer, expert in museum complex design, and lecturer at the International College of the Central Academy of Fine Arts; Signing artist with the “Association of French Artists and Designers”; signing artist with Phoenix Digital; also a new media artist, experimental artist, conceptual artist, and light and shadow artist.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yibin Yang 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. 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/173885
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/173885
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!173885
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/370220
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mengtai Group Hardtech Pavilion
- Function
- Hardtech Pavilion
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Gray, Dim Gray, Silver and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Juji Culture (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yibin Yang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #173885
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Situated in the expansive landscapes of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the Mengtai Group Hard Technology Pavilion presents a fresh spatial narrative that includes a new corporate showroom, upgraded public artworks, and a series of outdoor sculptural installations. The design seeks to inspire a comprehensive and profound exploration of the origins of science, its spirit, belief system, dreams, ways of understanding, methodologies, perspectives, wisdom, philosophy, and its enduring mission
- Inspiration
- Departing from the standard formula of corporate pavilions, poster boards + models + screens, the Mengtai Group Hard Technology Pavilion reimagines exhibition storytelling with a bold deconstruction of form. All content is distilled into the main lobby of the Technology Building, where a new narrative unfolds: from the present to the past, into the future, and ultimately back to the now offering a cyclical, immersive journey through time and innovation.
- Research
- The design translates the philosophy, while science fiction writers build worldviews with words, designers should trigger cognitive revolutions through space, and If writers strike with dimensional reduction, then designers must elevate thought through spatial dimensions into concrete practice. Applying topological thinking to reconstruct the company’s history, the project embeds the concept of the Klein bottle’s cyclicality within the CAVE theater. The solution maximally embodies the core philosophy,of Mengtai Group,to make finite resources infinite, and to make infinite undertakings green.
- Challenge
- The interior of the exhibition space avoids the conventional use of display boards and scaled models, instead translating the precision of industrial production lines into a spatial language. The walls are assembled entirely from aluminum panels; the floor is laid with anodized, custom shaped aluminum elements, with each seam controlled to within 0.2 millimeters.
- Realization and Technology
- The Mengtai Group Hard Technology Pavilion places strong emphasis on the relationship between structure and form, embracing a mechanical and industrial aesthetic. Through precise structural design and meticulous detailing, combined with a variety of machining techniques, the pavilion showcases the authentic appeal of hard tech.
- Operation and Interaction
- When it comes to materials, the Mengtai Group Hard Technology Pavilion takes a daring approach, pushing the limits of materials, craftsmanship, and procedures by integrating multiple advanced metal materials and processes that break from traditional construction methods. The naked eye 3D system delivers realistic, floating images in mid air with a strong sense of depth, presenting clear and vivid visuals that remain unaffected by bright light sources, truly achieving the magical effect of seeing without touching. Meanwhile, the 22 meter long CAVE theater takes immersion to the extreme.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project is located in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the entire project design was completed on April 1, 2025.
- Specifications
- The project covers an area of approximately 4,500 square meters
- Keywords
- Exhibition, Hard Technology, Science Fiction, Mechanical Style
