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Nic Lee Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Park Lane Complex Sales Center in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Nic Lee for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Park Lane Complex Sales Center by Nic Lee, designed for China Resources Land Co.Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
More About Park Lane Complex Sales Center
Park Lane Complex is a sales center in Dongguan, China, covering 2400 square meters. The interior takes cues from eleventh-century Chinese gardens, where spatial depth expressed wealth. Instead of copying traditional elements such as curved bridges and pavilions, the design divides the interior into stacked and overlapping volumes that create a sense of progression. Stone surfaces in green, teal and blue recall mountain textures, while gray and white tones echo the outdoor greenery. Several pathways allow the space to be viewed from different positions and heights.
About Nic Lee
The design director of Waterfrom Design, Nic Lee, has been in designs for over a decade, and his work mixes extreme simplicity with humor. He graduated from the Pratt Institute, New York with a Master of Science in interior design, as well as having participated in Denmark's International Study Program. Throughout his education and career, Nic has melded thinking from the arts, humanities, and philosophy, possessing the logical thinking of architecture and design, as well as the rebellious nature of artists. He likes to be the exception outside the norm, to redefine the current order, and to find the unexpected within the unpredictable inaccuracies.
Award Record
With this recognition, Nic Lee is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2015 - 2016 and the 2023 - 2024 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/158576
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158576
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158576
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/150588
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://waterfrom.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Park Lane Complex Sales Center
- Function
- Sales Center
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray, Black and Steel Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- China Resources Land Co.Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nic Lee
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #158576
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Vincent Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This large-scale project strategically positioned near a subway exit and central park aims to meet future commercial needs while blending into the urban landscape. Ground-level floors are indented to create pedestrian space, while indoor volumes are stacked flexibly. Departing from linear pathways, the design emphasizes experiential flow over efficiency.
- Inspiration
- Taking cues from 11th-century Chinese gardens, where spatial essence represented wealth's depth, our design recreates their meandering visual atmosphere. Space is divided into multiple volumes, overlapped and stacked to create a sense of progression. Even void areas showcasing scale are angled to avoid complete vertical penetration. This approach establishes a refined cultural hub, blending tradition with contemporary adaptability.
- Research
- The project is intended to operate for a decade and then be handed over for sustainable community use. The developer also plans to incorporate green belts to connect the streets, balancing the ratio of nature to civilization. Rather than focusing solely on contemporary aesthetic symbolism, we believe in delving into the underlying taste of "luxury" and exploring the mechanisms of preserving and enriching culture from the past, integrating them into modern spaces through design.
- Challenge
- Before catering to the demands of luxurious living at the top, we believe that in contemporary values, "balance" holds more significance than "luxury". Rather than superficially adorned symbolism, we should delve into the underlying taste of "luxury", nurturing cultural mechanisms from the past to enrich modern spaces through design.
- Realization and Technology
- In terms of materials, the texture of the stone symbolizes rugged mountains, emitting shades of green, teal, and blue in an orderly yet casual arrangement. The complementary hues of gray, white, and various greens echo the overall tones of outdoor greenery winding through the architectural gaps. In detailing, stone joints are carefully treated, with facades blending concave and convex techniques at corners to embed custom wall lights, all reflecting a restrained elegance down to the last detail.
- Operation and Interaction
- Even stationary architecture can accommodate user behavior flexibly. Paths are not limited to one; the same space can be appreciated from various positions and heights, offering the joy of exploration and discovery, akin to the pleasures found in gardens.
- Project Duration and Location
- Located in Dongguan, China, this project is started in January 2022 and completed in May 2023.
- Specifications
- Project Area: 2400 square meters
- Keywords
- sales center, large-scale development, garden, indoor architecture, marble
