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Sheraton Kunming Deluxe Five Star Hotel by Luo Dan Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Luo Dan honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Sheraton Kunming Deluxe Five Star Hotel by Luo Dan, designed for Dda, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 assessed 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 Sheraton Kunming Deluxe Five Star Hotel

Sheraton Kunming is a five-star hotel interior located in the core business district of Kunming, China. The design draws on local elements of Yunnan, including the ancient Tea-Horse Road, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces and movable-type printing artworks. Local colors, materials and craft textures are combined to present regional customs and traditional forms in a new way. In the lobby, landscape patterns form a decorative background, while organic curves enrich the visual levels. Marble and metal surfaces add contrast within the space.

Award Record

Luo Dan is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award

The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Sheraton Kunming Deluxe Five Star Hotel
Function
Deluxe Five Star Hotel
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Dim Gray, Dark Gray, Gray, Rosy Brown and Silver
Images
5
Client
Dda

The Recognition

Laureate
Luo Dan
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2022 - 2023
Design ID
#147239

Credits

Image Credits
Photographer: Jiang GuoZeng

Design Details

Unique Properties
The designer refined the elements of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road into symbols. The spread of color, the dappled dye of light, marble, and metal sense of feeling collision increase the interest in the space and drama. It is as if time and space were intertwined, the distant experience in the image and the dreamlike fusion of real-time are produced. The inheritance of culture gives the building its soul and temperature.
Inspiration
The inspiration for the hotel space comes from the famous local natural landscape elements such as the ancient tea-horse road, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, movable-type printing artworks, Yi culture, and craftsmanship. The combination of local colors, materials, and nature is adopted, showing the profound historical heritage of Yunnan.
Research
The designer applies the unique craft of Yunnan, the texture of traditional ethnic architecture and unique details to the interior design. Deeply presenting local customs and local humanistic spirit, making a new interpretation of traditional elements, and expressing the art of life in details.
Challenge
Design is not immutable, and cultural innovation is the basis of design. The reasonable arrangement of space is also the primary task of design. The overall color should also be properly matched to meet the functional requirements and enhance the aesthetic effect of the hotel. Improve the design concept and feasibility, and connect them in a good way.
Realization and Technology
The design concept of dialogue with history is injected into this project. Through design aesthetics, the local famous natural landscape elements such as the ancient Tea-Horse Road, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, movable-type printing works of art, etc. are integrated with technology, history, and culture. Deeply presenting the local customs and local humanistic spirit, making a new interpretation of traditional elements, and expressing the art of life in detail.
Operation and Interaction
Entering the lobby, landscape patterns constitute the decorative background, silently writing oriental imagery into modern texture. The organic form enriches the visual level, and the flexible curves provide artistic tension for the surrounding environment, with the characteristics of vitality and upward growth, leaving the language of curves to the space, and allowing people gathered here to rediscover and discover the relationship between man and nature.
Project Duration and Location
The project is located in the core business district of Kunming, Yunnan Province. It started in June 2019 in Kunming, China, and finished in August 2020.
Specifications
The hotel has a construction area of 100,000 square meters, with more than 140,000 square meters of meeting and banquet venues; including 1,117 superior rooms, theme rooms, and various suites, equipped with swimming pools, bars, fitness centers, and Chinese and Western restaurants.
Keywords
Ancient Tea-Horse Road, Local craftsmanship, Regional culture, Hotel, Poetry.

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