Nanjing City Wall Museum Exhibition Hall by Yuan Zhuan and Quan Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
GoldInterior· 2026
Nanjing City Wall Museum Exhibition Hall
Client: Jiangsu Bozhan Cultural Creative Industry Co., Ltd.
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Nanjing City Wall Museum Exhibition Hall
Nanjing City Wall Museum exhibition hall is an interior space that presents the history of the Nanjing City Wall. The hall covers 2500 square meters on the basement floor, with ceiling heights of six and four meters. Five zones explain the wall's construction, preservation and cultural value. An array space built from nearly a thousand inscribed city bricks is supported by steel structures. Fair-faced concrete and custom aluminum panels form the display walls. More than twenty interactive modules, including 3D sandboxes and tactile artifacts, serve visitors of all ages.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Nanjing City Wall Museum Exhibition Hall 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. Nanjing City Wall Museum Exhibition Hall 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. Nanjing City Wall Museum Exhibition Hall creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- With the concept of "Presenting the Wall", the exhibition hall shows the grandeur of the Nanjing City Wall by emphasizing its role as a world cultural heritage site. With five zones, it interprets the Nanjing City Wall's cultural value from thousand-year-old history to the modern protection of cultural heritage. It applies various interactive installations like the pioneering array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks and 3D sandboxes, offering a cultural feast for all-age audiences.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The exhibition hall is located in the basement floor of the museum building, covering an area of 2500 square meters. The ceiling height of the space is 6 meters, with some areas having a ceiling height of 4 meters.
- Tags
- Nanjing City Wall exhibition, World Cultural Heritage site, "Presenting the Wall", an array space made from nearly a thousand city bricks, 3D sandbox, interactive installations, all-age audiences, cultural feast, immersive experience, sustainabile designs.
- Production Technology
- The exhibition hall is China's first to integrate an ancient city sandbox with a colored terrazzo inlaid map on the floor, highlighting key areas while enhancing the spatial depth. Fair-faced concrete and custom aluminum panels are used for display walls, balancing aesthetic texture and durability. Over 20 modules (3D sandboxes, tactile artifacts, interactive installations, etc.) offer an immersive touring experience that closes the distance between audiences and the Nanjing City Wall.
- Design Challenge
- The exhibition hall pioneers an array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks, which are directly sourced from the Nanjing City Wall and bear unique inscriptions, imbuing the exhibition hall with high cultural value. It uses steel structures to ensure the safe display of historical artifacts and maximize the audiences' immersive visual experience, delivering visual and cultural impact.
- Research
- The exhibition hall presents the Nanjing City Wall's cultural value as a testament to urban civilization, a model of ancient engineering, and a paradigm of human-environment relationship. It pioneers an array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks, with digital interactive installations to balance grand narratives with engaging activities, fusing cultural heritage and public education.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the Nanjing City Wall's masonry techniques and spatial enclosure features, the exhibition hall adopts a unique architectural design. It is dominated by city wall gray and accentuated by thematic colors such as Forbidden City red and moat blue, enriching visual layering and embodying cultural depth. It pioneers an array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks, aided by multi-sensory digital interactive installations, creating a museum that is friendly to all-age audiences.
- Project Duration
- The project finished in May 2023 in Nanjing.
- Operation Flow
- The exhibition hall interweaves large-scale artifact displays with small-volume interactive areas through a well-planned visitor route. From layout to form design, it establishes a coherent and sophisticated display system, enhancing the connection between the museum and the city wall ruins. Besides, it offers multiple interaction activities like brick inscription surname queries, wall memory recordings, and immersive animation, satisfying the needs of all-age audiences.
- Team Members
- Yuan Zhuang, Quan Liu
- Image Credits
- Jiangsu Bozhan Cultural Creative Industry Co., Ltd.
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