Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Goes to Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence by Zup
Zup recognized for urban planning and urban design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence by Zup, designed for Hangzhou Xiaoshan Environment Group Co. LTD, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Urban Planning and Urban Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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.
Regarding Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence
Future Headquarters Community is an urban design for a mixed-use district in Hangzhou, China. The plan combines office and residential functions to serve companies and their staff. High-rise buildings surround a central park, recalling the mountains around the West Lake. Water features connect the main public spaces, referring to the Grand Canal. Vertical public spaces on several levels link the buildings and support contact between people. The design hosts both large companies and start-ups in one shared setting.
About Zup
Zhejiang University Urban and Rural Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd. relies on Zhejiang University, China's top five university, gives full play to the resource advantages of college design institute, and establishes strategic cooperation and academic exchanges with several colleges and disciplines of Zhejiang University, to build a first-class national planning and design research institution with the college characteristics.
Award Record
Zup is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' City Planning and Urban Design Award
The A' Urban Design Award is an international urban design competition recognizing good urban plans and designs by best urban planners and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to urban planning designers, urban architects, city planners and urban designers from all countries. Entries typically include masterplans, zoning proposals, infrastructure designs, landscape blueprints, public space concepts and urban renewal projects. Awarded urban plan designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/urban-planning
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/137523
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137523
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137523
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/327774
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence
- Function
- Office and Residence
- Category
- Urban Planning and Urban Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray and Cadet Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hangzhou Xiaoshan Environment Group Co. LTD
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zup
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #137523
Credits
- Team
- Sang Wanchen, Kang Lei, Shi Tuo, Wu Xiaochun and Yang Huiying, Liu Manyun, Fang Junhang, Wu Xiajing
- Image Credits
- Image#1：All images,ZUP,2022. Image#2：All images,ZUP,2022. Image#3：All images,ZUP,2022. Image#4：All images,ZUP,2022. Image#5：All images,ZUP,2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Hangzhou is a leading city in China's digital economy. After 20 years of development, CBD needs new space to attract enterprises and talents. This project is the first headquarters community in Zhejiang Province, with an open and inclusive industrial ecology to attract both leading enterprises and start-ups for common development and communication; Vertical multi-level public space with high-quality landscape links buildings and enhances the interaction between people, stimulates innovation vitality.
- Inspiration
- This work is inspired by the integration of modern city impression and local culture of World Heritage.The spatial frame of high-rise buildings surrounding the Central Park , is an analog of mountains surrounding the West Lake. The water flow connecting core public spaces，is a metaphor of wave of China Grand Canal. The city and landscape are integrated, as if working and living in the park or on the waterfront.
- Research
- This project is located in The CBD area of Hangzhou.Through intelligent big data analysis and research on the surrounding areas of the main city center,also the development rules of the global headquarters and the ratio of industrial residential functions,we clarified the development direction of the innovation headquarters community.Also,landscape interface and high-rise cohesion are added to ensure that the spatial form fits the land value and meets the needs of headquarters and talents.
- Challenge
- Talent people pursue high-quality space, headquarters enterprises want to develop industrial ecology, the government wants to improve the image of the city, and executors want to improve the value of land. This design project meets different needs of all parties, and ensures the overall implementation through urban design guidelines and whole-process consultation under the condition of huge initial investment.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2019, and turned into architecture design period. It is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province,China.
- Keywords
- CBD, Digital Economy, Headquarters Business System, Innovative Talents, Innovative Parks, Urban Design, Whole Process Consulting
