Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Yunhai Zhao honored 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 21, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 Golden A' Design Award

The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.

About Zhenbaoguan Museum

Zhenbaoguan is a private museum interior covering 750 square meters. The space displays a collection of artworks and wine inside a residence that also serves as an office and a place to receive guests. Cabinets, ceilings and floors are finished in black wood and stone, so attention stays on the exhibits. The cabinet lighting illuminates each artwork rather than the cabinet surfaces. Wine walls are arranged symmetrically along both sides of the main corridor, following Oriental symmetry aesthetics. Turns and level changes create a varied route through the rooms.

About Yunhai Zhao

Cloud Ocean Design Co., Ltd (China,Singapore) was established in nanjing, China in 2016. The company's address is selected in nanjing, as an ancient capital of six dynasties and a city with a strong culture. The company reconstructs the culture as the precipitation and takes it as the breakthrough point to make more design works beyond the traditional meaning in the city of nanjing. The design field involves the dining space design, the commercial space design, the office space design as well as the real estate project and so on.

Award Record

This recognition makes Yunhai Zhao a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2024 - 2025 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

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/168114
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/168114
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!168114
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/236598
Further Information from the Laureate: https://shorturl.at/hM6Fk

Media Contact

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Zhenbaoguan Museum
Function: Museum
Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors: Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Peru
Images: 5

The Recognition

Laureate: Yunhai Zhao
Country: China
Recognition: Golden A' Design Award
Edition: 2024 - 2025
Design ID: #168114

Credits

Image Credits: Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.

Design Details

Unique Properties: Use the museum's ideas in this case, in order to highlight the beauty of art to a greater extent, whether it is the cabinet or the top, the ground are using black wood finishes and stone, weakened off the guest visual area, so that the visual center to stay in the cabinet, the system of the cabinet lamps designed to only light the artwork does not light the surface of the cabinet, each and every detail is designed to show the artwork of the splendor.
Inspiration: When first met the owner of the Treasure House, there were many treasured works of art, each of which was a favorite.In order to party A better display of these works of art, in terms of display thought of the museum model,in the museum along the design of the flow of easy to see all the exhibits, and no matter the lighting display are maximized to amplify the beauty of the collection.
Research: When setting up the spatial movement, set up a lot of turns and transitions. it hope that the rhythm of the space, the flow of people, and the line of sight can be used to change the scenery. As people move forward and pause in the space, or up and down the trajectory to create different physical feelings and experiences, so as to respond to the space, Time and Emotion, and to perceive the diversity and richness of the space. The space is perceived as diverse and rich.
Challenge: After all, it is still a private place, in addition to the space to receive guests should also meet the needs of the office residence, the whole should have a certain spirituality and sense of relaxation. The overall color scheme is light and elegant, the wall design symbols as simple as possible, the complex elements used in the top, the ground, the visual center is always a quiet sense of calm, with the paintings and calligraphy is still Zen, and everywhere in line with the meaning of to take the vegetarian decorations, casual value of its heart.
Realization and Technology: The left and right sides of each wine wall is a repetition of the sequence, extending to the visual center point at the end of a specially furnished wine, the sense of perspective of each channel reaches the Confucian emphasis on neutral and calm. Similarly the Taoist concept of balance between yin and yang is also reflected with in the symmetrical aesthetics. The two sides of the symmetry can be seen as the mutual reflection of yin and yang, opposing and interdependent, together forming a complete whole.
Operation and Interaction: When intervening in the project, because the client loved to collect wine, he wanted to have a large wine wall to display, and to talk about Chinese wine culture when showing guests around, each bottle of wine has its own representative of Chinese culture. When we designed the wine wall, we thought of the Oriental Symmetry Aesthetics as an art philosophy, and the wine wall was displayed in a balanced way on both sides of the main corridor, and this symmetrical form has a solemn sense of order.
Project Duration and Location: Project Area:750 square meters Completion date:December 2024
Specifications: Project Area:750 square meters
Keywords: Treasure, gallery, oriental aesthetics, symmetry, private collection