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Aedas Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Office in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Aedas honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Office by Aedas, designed for Transsion Holdings, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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 Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Office
Shenzhen Transsion Holdings is an office and retail complex located in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China. The development covers 54,970 square meters and includes a 150 meter high tower and a retail podium. A cloud hub concept interrupts the vertical facade with inserted boxes that hold three shared areas, a public hub at podium level, a leisure hub in the middle and a business hub at the top. Viewing stairs, two entry plazas and terraces form a three-dimensional public space. Green terraces blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor areas.
About Aedas
Aedas is the world’s only local and global architecture and design practice driven by global sharing of research, local knowledge and international practice. Our 1,200 creative minds with design studios across the globe create world-class design solutions with deep social and cultural understanding of the communities we design for. We are diverse by design. Aedas brings together expertise from across the world. Each project includes designers that understand and respect the social and cultural needs of the local community they are designing for.
Award Record
Aedas is a winner of 18 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
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/120722
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120722
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120722
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/219305
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://shorturl.at/nAFJ1
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- White Smoke, Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Light Slate Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Transsion Holdings
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Aedas
- Country
- Hong Kong (China)
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120722
Credits
- Team
- Lead Architect - Leo Liu and Team Members - Mindy Ouyang, Jianji Wen, Kay Zhang, Chris Leung
- Image Credits
- Aedas
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design brief is a 54970sqm commercial complex comprising one 150m high rise tower and ancillary retail podium. It locates in Nanshan District in Shenzhen City, China. The program of the headquarters includes office, retail. The client envisions the project not only to be an iconic landmark but also a cultural multi-level communal space of this region which is in line with Client's Corporation, leading tech company advocating the concept of openness, cooperation and sharing.
- Inspiration
- In this project, concept of ‘cloud hub’ is introduced to break through the traditional approach of verticality on tower facade, to establish image of high-tech and futuristic to the public with its “openness” of building form. These intermediate open spaces create variety and interactions between the staff and offices, to demonstrate the corporate spirit of “co- operation and co-sharing” with this symbolic architecture.
- Research
- We take harmony, ecology, publicity, and interaction as our design concept, create green spaces three-dimensionally to blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor areas. By doing this enable to create a lot more common spaces and encourage interaction and communication throughout the tower.
- Challenge
- The concept of a “cloud hub” created a technological and futuristic building form that celebrates spirit of openness, cooperation and sharing. Three shared functional hubs include a public hub at podium level, a leisure hub in the middle and a business hub on top. Featured boxes are inserted into the building at different levels. Each box interlocks and juxtaposes to create sheer contrasts of varied scales and between the open and exclusive expressions.
- Realization and Technology
- The podium "Public Hub" integrated public serving function. A vertical circulation was formed by the viewing stairs at the inside of facade. Two entry plaza, the public transportation platform, and terraces on each floors were linked together as a 3-dimentional public space. In terms of urban space forming, this 3-D space not only linked the building function in different floors, but also promoted the infiltration between urban interface and the building.
- Operation and Interaction
- The podium "Public Hub" provides the users more opportunities to explore the functions of outdoor open space. They may easily communicate with surrounding users and flexibly integrate between office and retail. The tower creating 3-dimensional green spaces blurring the boundary of indoor and outdoor. Meanwhile, more horizontal communication and sharing spaces are generated in the "Cloud Hub" of this tower.
- Project Duration and Location
- The Project sits in a prime area on Nanshan District. The project started in September 2019 and expected to be completed in December 2021.
- Specifications
- Gross Floor Area* (sqm): 54,970 sqm Land Area* (sqm): 4,998 sqm
- Keywords
- New Model for Office Building, Cloud Hub, Open Space, Green Space, Renovation
