Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Rencent Office Center Corporate Headquarters by Tengyuan Design
Tengyuan Design recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Rencent Office Center Corporate Headquarters by Tengyuan Design, designed for Shandong Yinshengtai Group. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
About Rencent Office Center Corporate Headquarters
Rencent Office Center is an office building on the coast of Qingdao. The building slabs are extended in line with the surrounding shoreline, echoing the terrain and the nearby buildings. Sea view windows are set between the slabs like floating boxes. Facing the city, the facade is treated as a scene frame with a diagonal cut. Only three materials are used: glass, stone and dark metal. A sunken plaza resolves the two story height difference across the site and improves the circulation of the building spaces.
About Tengyuan Design
TYDI, founded in 1996, is a diversified and comprehensive engineering practice consulting agency.For many years focused on architectural engineering design, urban planning and design, landscape design, interior design, municipal design and engineering consulting and other fields of professional services, to provide customers with systems and innovative solutions.TYDI has more than 2,300 professionals in various fields, and has set up urban offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Yantai, Jinan and other regions.
Award Record
This recognition makes Tengyuan Design a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/127926
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/127926
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!127926
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/309077
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Rencent Office Center Corporate Headquarters
- Function
- Corporate Headquarters
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Teal, Dim Gray and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Shandong Yinshengtai Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tengyuan Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #127926
Credits
- Team
- Yiming Huang, Chen Liang, Hongliang Yao, Jianfu Zhao, Xiaoning Zhu, Wenji Wang, Weiliang Jiang, Zhen Si, Tao Zhang, Saisai Geng, Rufei Ji and Fang Zheng and others
- Image Credits
- Photographer Tengyuan Design,2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The floor area, the building height and the protruding part at the top are all very tightly constrained. The specificity of the location makes the project the focal point of the visual center, both from the sea and from the city. It is also a perfect place to view the scenery. In this way, the idea becomes clear in the process of rounds of design deduction, which extending the building slabs in line with the surrounding shoreline, with the sea view windows set between slabs like floating boxes.
- Inspiration
- On the west side of the base was the noisy city, on the east side was the endless sea. The building was located between them, in the spatial wrestling field between the "city" and the "sea", feeling the tension of the two spatial boundaries testing each other, which brought a unique spatial experience to the base. The building is set above the shoreline, like a mountain rock hidden between the trees, not wrapped up in either of the two atmospheres.
- Research
- Spatially, there is a two-story height difference from the northeast to the south side of the base where the building is located. In order to dissolve the disparity of building volume in different directions, a sunken plaza is added along the urban area. The setting of the sunken square increases the circulation of the building space, so that the two auras of the city's "noise" and the sea's "floating sense" are no longer colliding in the building, but intertwining and flowing.
- Challenge
- Two years ago, on an early spring morning, standing on the project base, people were drawn to the distant sea level by the Wheat Island connected to the land by a bridge. The cascading waves soothingly and lazily surged towards the shore, and there was great beauty in heaven and earth without saying a word. How to echo the texture of the natural environment in the urban area and create an orderly facade in dialogue with it became the most important issue to be solved in this project.
- Realization and Technology
- The selection of materials follows a simple and atmospheric style. Glass, stone, dark metal, the overall building materials are controlled within three choices. The dark reflective glass is as large as possible from the bottom to the top; to increase the stability of the building, stone should reflect the heaviness of the form, clean and weighty, taking into account the erosion of the facade by wind and rain, the stability of the material itself and its self-cleaning ability are also important.
- Operation and Interaction
- The entire building is embedded in the coastline, extending the building to conform to the surrounding shoreline, echoing the terrain and surrounding buildings. The facade lines increase the overall agility, and the independent frame effect makes the building clear and transparent, forming a good visual landscape effect.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Qingdao in 2018 and was completed and put into use in March 2020.
- Specifications
- The project scale is 10286 square meters. Facing the city, the facade is expressed in the form of a scene frame, with a diagonal cut. While showing the city, the square view windows bring a staggered physical relationship to the building. The rigorous selection of materials increases the permeability and stability of the building. The facade and metal, the color combination of one depth and one lightness adds to the architectural level and strengthens the architectural structure.
- Keywords
- Seaside, Office building, Table-flap, Transverse line, Glass
