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One Barbecue Restaurant by Bojun Liu Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Bojun Liu recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that One Barbecue Restaurant by Bojun Liu, designed for Ton Song Ch Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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 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.

More About One Barbecue Restaurant

One Barbecue is a barbecue restaurant located in Shenyang, China. The interior occupies the second and third floors of a market building and covers 1000 square meters. Part of the third floor slab was removed to bring daylight deeper inside and to link the two levels. Mottled exposed cement walls are combined with cast aluminium wall lamps that spread light across the uneven surfaces. A separate staircase entrance, a small kitchen and a street window support takeaway service. The design presents traditional north-east barbecue culture in a simple, open dining space.

About Bojun Liu

He is Bojun Liu, graduated from Xiamen University, studied at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, studied professional painting for 19 years, skilled in oil painting and Chinese painting painting techniques, in 2002 became a member of the Xiamen Artists Association, in 2006 established the Tongsheng and design, and in 2015 was hired by Shenyang Transportation Radio FM98.6 as a "decoration hotline" host. In 2015, he was hired as the host of "Decoration Hotline" by Shenyang Transportation Radio FM98.6, and in 2017, he was hired as a guest lecturer by Luxun Academy of Fine Arts.

Award Record

With this recognition, Bojun Liu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
One Barbecue Restaurant
Function
Restaurant
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray and Saddle Brown
Images
5
Client
Ton Song Ch Design

The Recognition

Laureate
Bojun Liu
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2023 - 2024
Design ID
#153823

Credits

Image Credits
Photographer Topia, July 2023.

Design Details

Unique Properties
Located in Shenyang, Shen Yang barbecue is an authentic Jinzhou barbecue in north-east areas. In the overall design, the Jinzhou barbecue is combined with the local pleased life, creating a richer, free and multi-level dining environment, with the view to bringing new life to the traditional north-east barbecue, the youth, vitality and trend to the our normal life to understand the tastes of the world.
Inspiration
In the north-east areas, there is no problem that cannot be solved by eating the meal of Chinese barbecue. Many documentaries about barbecue, a handful of chuaner, a glass of wine, The joys and delights of ordinary and abundant lifes are all lied in this small night-time meal. For most people living in Shenyang, going to the street to eat some barbecue is the best time of life after eating dinners. A bottle of wine, a handful of chuaner, makes the best time.
Research
The program, "The Story Of Chuaner", mentioned that without having the ordinary routines, life is a lonely journey. For designer, every design is the roaming with cloud of space. Creating a place to rest and eat in the ordinary city, making the abundant and delicious barbecue matches the SpaceScenes to create a complete and perceptible emotional experience for consumers.
Challenge
Based on the dilemma of low height of the second and third floors, the design sacrifices part of the third floor slab and does the pilotis design to introduce more lights into the interior, making the overall space more open and transparent, and enhancing the three-dimensional space and the linkage between the upper and lower floors. At the same time, in order to maximize the use of space, the design readjusts the layout of the kitchen circulation on the second floor.
Realization and Technology
The mottled and exposed industrial-style cement wall, is combined with the industrial-style cast aluminum rework wall lamp, forms a diffuse reflection of light on the uneven wall, enhances the spatial extensibility, and creates a natural and unintentional "boldness" feeling. The straightforward expression, the redundant flashy decoration, the material authenticity is vividly played, showing simplicity and ruggedness.
Operation and Interaction
The building was originally the second and third floors of the market. However, as a barbecue restaurant, the conditions are not as great as the first floor. In order to attract customers as much as possible, the design taking the local eating habits into account in the renovation, the entrance of the staircase was considered separately, and a small kitchen was added to open a street window and it also has a takeaway function.
Project Duration and Location
The project started on April 1, 2023 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China and ended on May 1, 2023 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
Specifications
The project area is 1000 square meters.
Keywords
Bold, Simple, Rough, Free, Comfortable Leisure

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