Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to OneSmart International Education Headquarters by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Benny Ren and LongYang Liu for interior space and exhibition design
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ OneSmart International Education Headquarters by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu, designed for Kimber Hawson Design Consulting (Shanghai) 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 2020 - 2021 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.
Regarding OneSmart International Education Headquarters
OneSmart International Education is the headquarters interior of a Chinese education brand in Putuo District, Shanghai. The interior occupies an eleven floor building from the last century and covers 12000 square meters. The space supports daily office work, meetings and public education activities. Curved installations made of spliced planks run through the building and reduce the visual weight of the structural columns in the narrow entrance area. Blue and white tones are combined with warm wood colors. A spiral staircase links the first and second floor reception areas.
About Benny Ren and LongYang Liu
The designer is an art major with more than 10 years of artistic precipitation, and has unique and solid design experience in architectural and interior projects. The designer has a solid foundation in design and a more dynamic control of the overall presentation of space. With the combination of Chinese and Western culture, he has an international design perspective to design space works that are more in line with contemporary visual aesthetics.
Award Record
With this recognition, Benny Ren and LongYang Liu 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://designers.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://designers.org/109883
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/109883
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!109883
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/285288
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- OneSmart International Education Headquarters
- Function
- Headquarters
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Light Gray, Black, Sienna, Saddle Brown and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Kimber Hawson Design Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Benny Ren and LongYang Liu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #109883
Credits
- Team
- Benny Ren, LongYang Liu and Shadow Shi
- Image Credits
- Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- OneSmart International Education, one of the leading Chinese education brands listed on the NYSE, has many branch product lines and brand divisions. The new headquarters, located in an 11-floor old building of the last century in Putuo District, Shanghai, has a total floor area of 12000 square meters. It is able to meet the needs of daily office work, meetings and all kinds of public benefit education activities.
- Inspiration
- The design is based on the traditional Chinese cultural elements, and the reproduction of the design language from the formal language to highlight the national style of the theme. In this design, we take "yearly higher", "auspicious clouds and dragon", "high mountains and flowing water" and "neatly stacked" as the design theme, extracting the elements, combining with the space and complementing each other.
- Research
- In order to avoid the sense of visual intimidation upon entering the building, and to be more in line with the spatial design of the new headquarters, the design uses a large spatial installation with a sense of continuity and visual extension to make the columns look smaller and to maximize the sense of space.
- Challenge
- The new headquarters is located in a century-old building in Putuo District, Shanghai. Due to the original building structure and site conditions, the entrance area of the new headquarters only has less than 400 square meters of space, and the interior is scattered with 9 structural columns, cut into smaller, more trivial and irregular spaces.
- Realization and Technology
- The building entrance area is narrow and separated by the original structural columns into trivial and irregular small spaces. In the light of these defects, the designers splice planks into arc-shaped large space art devices throughout the building, which give the building space a sense of continuity and visual extension, weakening the volume of the original structural columns and maximizing the visual expansion of the sense of space.
- Operation and Interaction
- The overall architectural space adopts the dynamic blue and white tone, supplemented by the warm wood color to create an open, bright and comfortable office and educational environment. The staircase connecting the first floor and the second floor reception area takes the spiral shape, which reduces the visual tightness of the whole space and creates a comfortable and warm welcoming atmosphere.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2019 in Shanghai and finished in May 2020 in Shanghai.
- Specifications
- The area is 12000 sqm.
- Keywords
- Education, Technology, Office, Bright, Comfortable
