Press Release
Chen Yun Office by Jacky Zhang Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Jacky Zhang acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Chen Yun Office by Jacky Zhang, designed for Warp Weft Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 evaluated 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.
About Chen Yun Office
Chen Yun is an office interior located on the top floor of Tianmuli in Hangzhou. The design occupies about 100 square meters and serves a creative studio. Fair-faced concrete gives the rooms a raw texture, while planting and colored furniture add a natural mood. A glass curtain wall links the interior with daylight and the view outside. A movable wall rotates to open or close the entrance, so the layout can change through the day. The plan blends work, discussion and rest areas within a small floor space.
About Jacky Zhang
Founder and Operating Manager of WARP WEFT DESIGN (WWD), Brand Founder of Boiler Cafe, Brand Founder of ALiTLE, Founder Zhang Wei is committed to the fusion of spatial design and diverse aesthetics. He excels at perfectly integrating the characteristics of spatial structures with functionality, continually exploring the perceptual boundaries between spaces and their users with a discerning appreciation for beauty. His works have received unanimous praise from all clients and have won numerous international professional awards.
Award Record
This recognition makes Jacky Zhang 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/162283
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162283
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162283
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/356423
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Chen Yun Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Silver and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Warp Weft Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jacky Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162283
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Lin Shikai, Chen Yun, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is located in Hangzhou's Tianmuli, a well-known art incubator created by Renzo Piano, integrating an art center, showroom, lifestyle, and other multidimensional exploratory experiences, Hangzhou's fashionable prominence and precise avant-garde attitude, WARP WEFT DESIGN chose this as their second base beyond Xiamen, this embrace across thousands of miles and cultural contexts is happening right now.
- Inspiration
- Business owners' needs for the flexibility and legibility of office environments, Are transitioning from large and comprehensive to small and exquisite. And designers, as creators of aesthetic value and experiential settings, based on their personal expectations for their own office living environment, and the flexible nature of creative work, explore complex living spaces that match their habits and patterns, beyond functional aesthetics.
- Research
- Through the rich connotations of CHEN YUN, the designer condenses past design reflections and nuanced observations of the spiritual world into the warm yet avant-garde top floor of Tianmuli, within a hundred square meters of space, with creative products and various ways of life capture, providing creative teams with an alternative solution for interpreting work, life, and ways of thinking.
- Challenge
- Each designer's personal domain conceals the codes of their aesthetic preferences and spiritual world, and behind this "serendipity" should be an introspective, self-growing field, the scene, with subtle changes in use, affects the perception of every space experiencer.
- Realization and Technology
- The open and serene space opts for the raw texture of fair-faced concrete in response to the lively facade crafted by Renzo Piano for Tianmuli, capturing fleeting pleasure, while in interior landscaping and furniture color, attempting to inject natural delight with relaxed strokes, resonating with the emotions of the space users, bringing a sense of breath to the entire room.
- Operation and Interaction
- Through the rotation of the movable wall, the design ingeniously combines the firm's scrolling identity with the opening of the spatial portal, the different densities on each side, between the functional closing and opening, the rotation of the doors opens up a tranquil narrative of space.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2022 in Hangzhou and finished in September 2023 in Hangzhou.
- Specifications
- The classic glass curtain wall blends space with nature, recording and focusing on the natural occurrence of people and socializing, events, and activities, all condensed within a 100 square meter space, endowed with the most authentic inner expressions of light, shadow, life, and rhythm.
- Keywords
- Interior, Office, Modern, Natural, Elegant, Cultural
