Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Casa Teppanyaki Restaurant by Minyi Zhang
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Minyi Zhang for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Casa Teppanyaki Restaurant by Minyi Zhang, designed for Qianzhiyu teppanyaki restauarnt, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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.
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 Casa Teppanyaki Restaurant
Casa Teppanyaki is a Japanese teppanyaki restaurant located in Suzhou, China. The commercial area covers 220 square meters and is divided into five teppanyaki tables and one private dining room. The ceiling reaches five meters in height, and a skylight brings daylight deep into the interior. The iron cooking plate is shaped as a semicircle to reduce the visual weight of the equipment. Materials include white marble effect floor tiles, a steel frame structure and gray marble. Sprayed wall finishes and wood lines add warmth to the space.
About Minyi Zhang
Minyi Zhang is an interior designer. She studied interior design at the polytechnic university of Milan in Italy. When she returned to her country, She has set up her own studio for five years. She is mainly engaged in entertainment category of commercial space design. And her design style is minimalist. Two of her projects have won A'design award & competition silver award for two consecutive years.
Award Record
Minyi Zhang is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2019 - 2020 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. 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/95737
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/95737
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!95737
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/220224
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Casa Teppanyaki Restaurant
- Function
- Restaurant
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Sienna and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Qianzhiyu teppanyaki restauarnt
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Minyi Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #95737
Credits
- Team
- Wing Sun
- Image Credits
- Photographer Minyi Zhang, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The ceiling of this case is 5 meters high, so in the original concept, the designer figured out how to highlight the height advantage. In addition, the equipment of teppanyaki restaurant is more structured, so she made the iron plate into a semicircle, which weakens the sense of huge volume.
- Inspiration
- Home - is the design of the case. The restaurant's business philosophy is to create a personal personal chef, the core of the service is the freshness of the ingredients, the purpose of service is to provide each customer with healthy and fresh dishes. Therefore, the concept came into being. Home is bright, quiet, private, warm; With high ceilings, pitched roofs and bright skylights, the designer recalls the days when she lived with her grandmother as a child and cooked delicious meals with her.
- Research
- The design environment of high-end catering projects should be pure and simple. However, at present most restaurants are complex and ordinary. In the face of this situation, the designer adhere to the restraint, mature, simple, practical design principles. This project design fully embodies the enterprise's spiritual strength, aesthetic value and business philosophy.
- Challenge
- Floral and ceiling patios were key design elements. "Courtyard"; is the special element of traditional Chinese style old house. It makes the space form the first highlighted space, light and shadow create dreamlike visual effects. In the light of the sky, the space appears infinite magnification, as if the customer place oneself in the old old house, cause the kind of love that her external mother-in-law.
- Realization and Technology
- The teppanyaki table of iron plate eat is relative more than other dining-room, the designer chooses materials is clean as far as possible convenient material: imitate white marble floor tile of fish belly, steel frame structure, ancient castle gray marble. The designer avoid the feeling of the space is too cold, metope used spray, log line.
- Operation and Interaction
- The restaurant has good views and light. Concrete walls and wooden tables set the tone for the rural setting. The light above the table is adjusted to soften any harsh shadows. All Spaces are carefully considered for vegetation and outdoor landscape. The warm color dominates the space, and the comfortable feeling is fixed by the fireplace in the middle.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2018 in Suzhou of China and finished in December 2018 in Suzhou, and open.
- Specifications
- The project is a Japanese teppanyaki restaurant with a commercial area of 220 square meters. The whole space is divided into 5 teppanyaki tables and a VIP dining room.
- Keywords
- Authentic experience, Japanese, teppanyaki , leisure, party, restaurant
