Shantou Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design by Paul Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
GoldInterior· 2025
Shantou Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design
by Paul Liu
Client: PLD/Paul Liu Design Consultants Co., Ltd
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #163964The Design
About Shantou Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design
The Shantou Marriott Hotel perfectly blends modern luxury with thoughtfully curated design elements honoring the region's cultural heritage. With 300 often fully booked rooms, the hotel offers guests a harmonious and tranquil escape, immersing them in relaxation. Its open layout cleverly integrates indoor and outdoor spaces, providing a delightful living experience. Additionally, the designers' ingenuity in using soft, natural tones creates a serene and comfortable ambiance, enhancing guests' overall stay.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Shantou Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Shantou Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Shantou Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Where to Get It
Luxury Hospitality Interior Design Services
We transform hotels into extraordinary experiences through culturally-inspired interior design. With over 30 years serving international hospitality brands, our award-winning team crafts spaces that honor local heritage while delivering modern luxury. From concept to completion, we create memorable environments that captivate guests.
Request QuoteBehind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Nestled between mountains and overlooking the sea, the hotel showcases a perfect blend of modern luxury and meticulously curated design elements that honor the region's rich cultural heritage. With over 300 rooms often fully booked since its opening, the hotel guarantees guests a harmonious and tranquil escape during their travels, immersing them in a pleasant state of relaxation. Firstly, the hotel's overall layout exudes a sense of openness, cleverly integrating indoor and outdoor spaces through streamlined designs to provide guests with a delightful living experience. Secondly, the designers have demonstrated great ingenuity in their use of colors, primarily opting for soft, natural tones to create a serene and comfortable ambiance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The design of Shantou Marriott Hotel strikingly exemplifies the exquisite fusion of modernity and tradition, impressing visitors with its unique spatial experience. Upon entering the hotel, guests are immediately captivated by a colossal mural panel, measuring an impressive height 8150mm X width 4800 mm X 25 mm depth, which presents a reinterpretation of the "Four Gold Points" concept, a cherished aspect of Chaoshan's non-material cultural heritage.
- Tags
- modern luxury, the exquisite fusion of modernity and tradition, local landscapes, cultural motifs, Shantou Marriott Hotel
- Production Technology
- The quintessential representation of Lingnan's traditional folk housing, usually built with a timber framework and brick infill, employing materials such as green bricks, stone columns, and stone slabs. Its exterior walls are embellished with patterns of flowers and birds. This deconstructed and reimagined design not only showcases the rich cultural tapestry of the region but also underscores the hotel's commitment to preserving and celebrating local heritage through contemporary interior design practices.
- Design Challenge
- The design challenge of this hotel revolves around seamlessly integrating the local area's abundant geographical features. To achieve this, a meticulous approach to material selection is crucial, prioritizing durable and corrosion-resistant materials that can withstand the environmental conditions while enhancing the overall aesthetic. Additionally, the design process involves distilling the essence of the myriad traditional cultures within Chaoshan, incorporating elements that resonate with the region's heritage while creating a contemporary and inviting atmosphere.
- Research
- Walking into the hotel, you're greeted by a spacious and airy lobby adorned with sleek, contemporary decor. A remarkable artistic installation greets you, ingeniously deconstructed from the Chaoshan region.
This feature reinterpreting the local traditional culture and artistic ambience through modern design techniques. - Inspiration
- The Shantou Marriott Hotel, nestled in the vibrant coastal city, is situated at the confluence of three rivers and boasts captivating scenery of Shantou's inner harbor, surrounded by mountains. It is a prime example of modern luxury combined with thoughtful design elements that pay homage to the region's rich cultural heritage. The hotel aims to offer guests a sophisticated retreat where comfort meets elegance everywhere, impressing visitors with its unique spatial experience.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March of 2018 and finished in May of 2021, and was opened in 2023 in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China.
- Operation Flow
- The Shantou Marriott Hotel boasts 315 meticulously crafted modern guest rooms and suites, each inspired by the rich intangible cultural heritage of Chaozhou and Shantou. Since its opening, the hotel has consistently maintained high occupancy rates, with over 300 rooms frequently operating at full capacity. It ensures that guests find a harmonious and tranquil oasis amidst their travels, enveloping them in a state of delightful relaxation and rejuvenation.
- Team Members
- Creative Director: Bo Liu
- Image Credits
- Paul Liu Design Consultants Co., Ltd
Sponsored
Explore Beyond Designers.org
Discover products, services and opportunities from our advertising partners.
More to Explore
Related Designs
Explore more award-winning designs from the same category, selected by merit.
