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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Seasky Feast Restaurant by Guo Lishen

The international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Guo Lishen for interior space and exhibition design

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COMO, Italy, April 26, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ Seasky Feast Restaurant by Guo Lishen, designed for Fujian Masterpiece Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Silver A' Design Award Means

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.

Regarding Seasky Feast Restaurant

Seasky Feast is a restaurant interior in China with a total area of 2,700 square meters. The layout includes multi-zone dining areas, an open kitchen, and interactive light installations. Micro cement forms a seamless base, light water concrete boards add textural depth, and stainless steel gives a futuristic character. Integrated LED lighting and custom neon installations provide layered illumination, while greenery adds a natural contrast. A modular grid allows flexible reconfiguration and efficient maintenance.

About Guo Lishen

Guo Lishen, Graduated from Fuzhou University, Guo Lishen has accumulated over 14 years of professional experience in the design industry. His expertise spans across commercial spaces, public environments, and real estate projects, where he integrates artistic sensibility with architectural functionality to create spaces full of vitality, human warmth, and cultural resonance. Guo believes that design is not merely the creation of form, but the exploration of spiritual connection between people, nature, and space.

Award Record

Guo Lishen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Seasky Feast Restaurant
Function
Restaurant
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Sienna and Gray
Images
5
Client
Fujian Masterpiece Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.

The Recognition

Laureate
Guo Lishen
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2025 - 2026
Design ID
#177797

Credits

Image Credits
Photographer Juzi Guo, Seasky Feast, 2025.

Design Details

Unique Properties
Seasky Feast redefines the dining experience through a cyberpunk-inspired aesthetic that merges industrial rawness with natural vitality. The design juxtaposes micro cement, light water concrete, and stainless steel with neon illumination and greenery to create a futuristic yet humanized atmosphere. It captures the spirit of "high tech, low consumption," transforming a dining venue into an immersive dialogue between technology and emotion.
Inspiration
The project draws inspiration from the cyberpunk vision of coexistence between technology and humanity. In a world saturated with information and material desire, the design seeks to evoke introspection through sensory balance. Influenced by the concept of "high technology, low life," it reinterprets the dining space as a poetic reflection of modern urban life, where rough industrial materials and soft lights narrate the tension between the digital and the real.
Research
This project follows qualitative design research exploring emotional engagement within high-tech spatial environments. The study analyzed user perception of light, texture, and spatial rhythm through observation and material experimentation. Results revealed that sensory balance between industrial roughness and organic warmth enhances user comfort and brand memory. Insights contribute to future models of immersive, tech-driven hospitality design.
Challenge
The greatest challenge lay in balancing the aesthetic tension between technological coldness and human warmth. Integrating neon and reflective surfaces without overwhelming comfort required iterative lighting tests and material sampling. Limited precedents for low-consumption cyberpunk dining demanded extensive cross-disciplinary research in lighting engineering, environmental psychology, and sustainable spatial composition.
Realization and Technology
The project utilizes micro cement for a seamless, sculptural base, light water concrete boards for refined textural depth, and stainless steel for a futuristic edge. Integrated LED lighting and custom neon installations emphasize layered illumination. Advanced fabrication and modular installation techniques ensure precision, durability, and efficient maintenance, aligning with the project's sustainable "low consumption" ethos.
Operation and Interaction
The dining experience unfolds through visual and sensory transitions - from dim, immersive entry zones to vibrant central dining areas. Guests interact with dynamic light sequences and reflective stainless surfaces that respond to movement, evoking a feeling of stepping into a digital world. The open spatial circulation allows fluid human flow, making dining both an emotional and experiential journey.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in February 2025 and finished in July 2025 in China.
Specifications
Total area is 2,700 square meters. The layout includes multi-zone dining, interactive light installations, and an open kitchen. Ceiling-integrated lighting and concealed mechanical systems maintain spatial purity. Structural geometry follows a dynamic modular grid, allowing flexible future reconfiguration while preserving material integrity and immersive light performance.
Keywords
Seasky Feast, Cyberpunk Dining, Immersive Restaurant Design, Micro Cement Interior, Stainless Steel Structure, LED Lighting, Sensory Experience, Industrial Aesthetic, Low-Consumption Lifestyle, Futuristic Design

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