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Yanchih Wang Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for One Excellence Phase II Large Commercial Complex in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Yanchih Wang acknowledged for lighting products and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that One Excellence Phase II Large Commercial Complex by Yanchih Wang, designed for GD Lighting Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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 scored 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.
About One Excellence Phase II Large Commercial Complex
One Excellence Phase II is an architectural facade lighting design for a large commercial complex in Shenzhen, China. The building is about 300 meters high and is covered with glass curtain walls. Simple white light was chosen to emphasize the structure of the tower. Customized luminaires were hidden and embedded inside the curtain wall to control the direction of the light. The vertical and interlaced light recreates the pattern of light and shade that sunlight forms during the day. The result gives the building a calm and rhythmic night appearance.
About Yanchih Wang
Grand Sight United Lighting Design Limited (GD-lighting), founded in 2004 in Hong Kong by its chief designer Mr. Yanchih Wang, is a professional independent lighting design and consultant company which work scope covers interior and exterior lighting design. GD-lighting has accumulated rich experiences in design and practice of large scale commercial complex, high-end five star hotels, public and traffic spaces, and other related fields.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yanchih Wang a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. Awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
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/95076
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/95076
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!95076
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/219180
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.gd-lightingdesign.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- One Excellence Phase II Large Commercial Complex
- Function
- Large Commercial Complex
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Black and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- GD Lighting Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yanchih Wang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #95076
Credits
- Team
- Excellence Group, TFP Farrells, Shenzhen Grandland Fangte Tech-construction Group Co.,Ltd, GD Lighting Design and Hui Ren, Weiliang Kong
- Image Credits
- photographer LyisoStudio-Rex, Shenzhen, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The GD team believe that the concise and pure white light could better emphasize building structural characteristics. On facade, the light and shade parts were clear distinguished by the lighting which were hid and embedded into the curtain wall. Customized luminaires were designed to control the way light had cast, showing a picture of an lively, breathing urban building with great vitality.
- Inspiration
- Architectures are organic and alive when everyday people get inside the buildings. Interaction between architectures and people generate energy that will create a better life and future for people. This lighting design hope to awaken vital and energetic inner spirit hid inside building through restoring the rhythmic shift of light and shade on the facade.
- Research
- Night scene is a continuation of daytime life. Architecture lighting reappear the natural sunlight on building facade. One Excellence (Phase II) embedded white light that did not represent any meaning in curtain wall for it not only highlighted the unique architectural characteristics but also truly restored the beauty of light and shadow shaped under sun, endowing a natural and dynamic vitality to this building .
- Challenge
- A large area of glass curtain walls are vertically interlaced with each other, reflecting a rhythmic sense of movement. In lighting design style, embedded light was hidden in curtain wall with customized lamps controlling whole lighting system so to achieve a simplicity also a graceful, vertical linearity with movement just like breathing.
- Realization and Technology
- Because it is a office building, simple white light was preferred not only because it better showed building peculiar construction structure but also reproduced the light and shade that natural sunlight cast on facade in daytime. Through unique textures and features of light and shadow the sunlight had left, we customized a variety of luminaires, placing them inside the curtain wall in order to stress a sense of rhythmic breathing as well as vitality of One Excellence (Phase II).
- Operation and Interaction
- GD (GD Lighting Design) had used concise lighting design to show rational beauty of and stressed a special view of whole building. Vertical and interlaced light on facade, building materials glinted in dark sky which seemed to its inner vitality. During engineering process, the team directly put lamps on curtain wall to test lighting effect so to ensure purchasing brand of the lamps. Every parts of the project tested and checked by means of stage partition which could make sure that in case any serious problems and unrecoverable engineering defects.
- Project Duration and Location
- Completion time is October 2019 in Qianhai, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.
- Specifications
- The high of the building is about 300 meters while the area is about 450 million square meters.
- Keywords
- Lighting Design, Large Commercial Complex, Architecture Lighting, Light and Shade, Rhythm and Organic Vitality
