Press Release
Ling Chen Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Yida Creation City Exhibition Center in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Ling Chen honored 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 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Yida Creation City Exhibition Center by Ling Chen, designed for Wsp Architects, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 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 Yida Creation City Exhibition Center
Yida Creation City is an urban exhibition center built as the first project of a science and technology new town base in Zhengzhou, China. The design concept is floating polysilicon, expressed as a simple polyhedron form that refers to the information technology industry. The floating volume is wrapped in a milky white U-shaped glass curtain wall. The first floor holds exhibition and reception space, the second floor a conference and roadshow hall, and the third floor shared offices. The floating volume also links the central park and the civic park into one park system.
About Ling Chen
Chen Ling is the co-founder and chief designer of WSP ARCHITECTS. He was elected as the top 10 new Chinese architect in 2005, one of the initiators of the international Chinese American architect club, a member of Chinese housing security expert group of the housing security and public housing policy committee, a member of the expert committee of Urban Planning, Land & Resources Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, and the 2015 Committee of the green housing design competition in Henan province; lecturer at the National Federation of industry and Commerce Design Alliance practice business school.
Award Record
With this recognition, Ling Chen is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2021 - 2022 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/140283
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/140283
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!140283
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/213144
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.wsparch.com/7554
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yida Creation City Exhibition Center
- Function
- Exhibition Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Slate Gray, Black and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Wsp Architects
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ling Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #140283
Credits
- Team
- Nelson Tam, Sun Zhe, Li Wuzhou.
- Image Credits
- Gaofeng
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- As the first project and urban exhibition hall of Yida science and technology new town base, the project is located in the northwest corner of the whole park. It is rooted in the site environment. Through the floating volume, it connects the inward Central Park with the civic urban park to form a large park system. The floating building volume reflects the future value of the area by giving it a white jade image.
- Inspiration
- The exhibition center takes "floating polysilicon" as the design concept, presents the image IP of the information technology industry in a concise and powerful polyhedron form, and realizes the dialogue between the exhibition function and the north and South landscape parks.
- Research
- The project is an integrated design of architecture and landscape. The outdoor ceiling on the first floor adopts matte stainless steel ceiling, which reflects each other with the landscape water system below, forming a dialogue between the building and the landscape.
- Challenge
- The first floor of the building is mainly for urban exhibition space and negotiation and reception functions, and a large area of floor glass curtain wall better connects the indoor and outdoor landscape vision. The second floor is the conference roadshow space, which serves the park and meets the needs of enterprise product release and large scale conference in the park. The third floor is the joint office space, which is set in combination with the third space to interpret the office mode of Yida new era.
- Realization and Technology
- The architectural form wrapped by milky white U shaped glass curtain wall conveys a hazy and mysterious sense of science and technology and future, well interprets the impression and temperament of the information technology industry, and establishes the image of the park
- Operation and Interaction
- The formal language rising at the corner of the building shapes a flexible and powerful facade image, while the interior of the rising part corresponds to the functional space of the roadshow hall and the lecture hall, and the facade shape is coordinated and unified with the internal space
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2018 in Zhengzhou, Henan and finished in 2019 ,and put into use in 2020.
- Specifications
- Project area: 4730.08 m2 Floor area: 71410 m2 Total construction area: 141602m2 Building area: 107798 m2 Landscape area: 13500 m2 Water area: 1395 m2
- Keywords
- Industrial exhibition, investment promotion service, office meeting, leisure negotiation, catering Roadshow
