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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Platinum A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Meland Club Indoor Playground by Li Xiang

The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Li Xiang for interior space and exhibition design

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Platinum A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Meland Club Indoor Playground by Li Xiang, designed for X+Living. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Platinum A' Design Award

The Platinum A' Design Award is recognized for honoring designs that stand at the forefront of creativity and innovation. It is the highest accolade bestowed by the A' Design Awards, acknowledging works that blend remarkable innovation with impactful societal contributions. These designs not only showcase exceptional artistic and technical proficiency but also highlight their creators' commitment to advancing the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recipients of this award are celebrated for their role in shaping the aesthetics and trends of our time, contributing significantly to the enhancement of quality of life and promoting sustainable development.

About Meland Club Indoor Playground

Meland Club combines five major themes of Insects, Oceans, Land, Sky, and Jungle, to create a Wondrous Museum of Nature, full of futuristic mechanical aesthetics. Architectural logic, art installations, mechanical technological aesthetics, philosophy, and popular science education are unprecedentedly integrated into an exquisite, complex creative scheme, constructing a comprehensive indoor parent-child theme park encompassing family amusement, art appreciation, aesthetic education, popular science, and creative enlightenment, a fantasy universe transcending yet tangible to reality.

About Li Xiang

Li Xiang, who founded X+Living Architecture and Interior Design in 2011, has created representative and outstanding design works across diverse business formats such as commercial real estate, culture, retail, family entertainment and hospitality. She leverages her distinctive insights into art and culture to construct commercial spaces teeming with emotional tension, crafting sensory escape points for the general public and infusing the brands she serves with design creativity that confers a competitive edge.

Award Record

With this recognition, Li Xiang is a winner of 18 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2023 - 2024 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. 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
Meland Club Indoor Playground
Function
Indoor Playground
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Silver, Dark Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray, Dark Gray and Gainsboro
Images
5
Client
X+Living

The Recognition

Laureate
Li Xiang
Country
China
Recognition
Platinum A' Design Award
Edition
2023 - 2024
Design ID
#161560

Credits

Image Credits
Image #1: X+LIVING Image #2:X+LIVING Image #3:X+LIVING Image #4:X+LIVING Image #5:X+LIVING

Design Details

Unique Properties
On the foundation of architectural logical aesthetics, Li Xiang innovatively integrated mechanical aesthetics into interior construction and artistic decoration, attempting to deconstruct the rigid structures of mechanical motion and recreate dynamic rhythmic beauty through condensed static beauty.
Inspiration
The inspirational narrative of designer Li Xiang is about protecting endangered wildlife, utilizing abstract mechanical styles to recreate supernatural landscapes and vibrant colors and animal imagery to conjure a revival of all living things, an animated and dynamic amusement journey.
Research
The design team also incorporated imagery of 60 extinct animals into the spatial scenes, enriching thematic details so that the entertainment activities also have humanistic educational significance.
Project Duration and Location
The project completed in September 2023 in Beijing, China.
Keywords
Parent-child Amusement Park, Amusement Park, Meland Club, X-LIVING, Li Xiang

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