Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Goes to Zhao Zhou Community Park by Xie Weiqiang
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Xie Weiqiang for landscape planning and garden design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Zhao Zhou Community Park by Xie Weiqiang has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Zhao Zhou Community Park
Zhao Zhou is a community park located in Haimen District, Nantong City, China. The park serves two roles: everyday community service and a commemorative green space honoring the Chinese musician Shen Zhaozhou. Music is the theme, and ten scenes guide visitors through the site. The core area follows a Fibonacci spiral composition, with the Art Center at the center enclosed by a series of inner courtyards. Roads run north to south and are lined with orderly rows of plants. Existing ditches were transformed into an ecological dry stream that collects rainwater.
About Xie Weiqiang
Xie Weiqiang, senior landscape architect, born in 1976, graduated from Central South University of Forestry and Technology majoring in landscape Architecture. Being engaged in the design and renovation of urban parks for over 20 year, he has constantly tried to integrate traditional Chinese gardens into contemporary landscape design. Xie Weiqiang has won the 2021 Muse Design Awards Gold Award and the 2021 London Design Awards Silver Award.
Award Record
With this recognition, Xie Weiqiang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award
The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Entries typically include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. Awarded landscape designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/landscape-design
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/127430
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/127430
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!127430
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/312172
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zhao Zhou Community Park
- Function
- Community Park
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Gray, Silver, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xie Weiqiang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #127430
Credits
- Team
- Xie Weiqiang, Li Xuesong, Wang Guiping, Pan Wei, Li Jiafeng, Zhou Qinghe, Chen Li, He Zhongqi, Liu Zimeng, Yuan Bo, Duan Haiyan and Shanghai Pudong Architecture Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Image Credits
- Lu Bing
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Following the urban texture of Haimen District, the roads in this park are in north-south direction, complemented with orderly arrays of plants. The project applies Fibonacci spiral in the composition of its core area, and takes music as the theme to create ten sceneries. In the center of the park, the Art Center is linked and enclosed by a series of inner courtyards, creating a simple and lively spatial order.
- Inspiration
- The project is a public green space located in Haimen District, Nantong City. As an a public green space serving the community, it also contributes to shaping the urban culture image. The key issues and challenges of this project are:how to integrate the dual functions of the park"community service"and"commemorative green space", how to incorporate music elements into the park, and how to deal with the relationship between ecology and the garden.
- Research
- Equal attention has placed on the ecological preservation and landscape design. A variety of plants are flexibly used for landscaping. The project also gives full play to the multiple functions of the "sponge city" and leverages landscaping approaches to achieve seepage, stagnation, storage, purification, use and drainage of rainwater. Besides, the application of new materials and technologies enable us to achieve an economical and environmental-friendly solutions.
- Challenge
- How to integrate the dual functions of the park:"community service"and"commemorative green space" is a challenge of the project. Following to the urban texture of Haimen District, the design has created a public theme park in honor of Chinese musician and Pipa player Shen Zhaozhou (1858-1929).
- Realization and Technology
- The project has transformed the existing ditches into an ecological dry stream, and adopted the Fibonacci spiral composition to change the flat terrain into a site that is apt to collect rainwater, giving full play to the multiple functions of"sponge city".
- Operation and Interaction
- The project is a commemorative landscape space promoting the Jianghai culture of Haimen and showcasing the city's cultural identity, which makes it a modern community park with dual attributes. Following to the urban texture, the design has created a public theme park in honor of Chinese musician Shen Zhaozhou (1858-1929). It applies Fibonacci spiral in the composition of the core area, and takes music as the theme to create ten scenes, together with which offering the visitors a music journey.
- Project Duration and Location
- Location: Haimen District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China Start: 2019 Completed: 2020
- Specifications
- Tpye: Park Site area: 4.6 ha.
- Keywords
- Landmark, Theme park, Public landscape, Shen Zhaozhou, Garden City
