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Uno Chan Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Heytea Nantong Mixc Store in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Uno Chan for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Heytea Nantong Mixc Store by Uno Chan, designed for TOMO Interior Design Firm. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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.
Regarding Heytea Nantong Mixc Store
Heytea Nantong Mixc is a tea store interior design located in a shopping mall near the street. The 200 square meter space avoids partitions and instead uses daylight and the existing structure to create an open and transparent layout. The design takes inspiration from the bucket arches of traditional Chinese architecture, arranged in linear order and expressed in stainless steel. White strip bricks decorate the single wall, keeping the interior bright and visually pure. The seating area and the bar area are joined together, which increases openness and creates a lively atmosphere.
About Uno Chan
Uno Chan, well-known interior designer, founder of TOMO Interior Design Firm. In recent years, he has won many awards for interior design at home and abroad. He is good at using modern concise aesthetic spirit to develop multi-dimensional description of space, and expresses rich and pure design essence by means of restraint and balance, representation and internal contradiction and unity. He likes to use design vocabulary to deconstruct the spatial connotation, and persists in deducing the design to the extreme, creating wonderful design works repeatedly.
Award Record
Uno Chan is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2019 - 2020 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/96003
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/96003
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!96003
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/228167
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.tomodesign.cn
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Heytea Nantong Mixc Store
- Function
- Store
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Silver, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- TOMO Interior Design Firm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Uno Chan
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #96003
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer ingallery, Seat Area and Bar Area, 2019.; Photographer ingallery, Bar Area, 2019.; Photographer ingallery, Ceiling, 2019.; Photographer ingallery, Bar Area 2, 2019.; Photographer ingallery, Fast Dining Area, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The 200-square-meter store is located in a shopping mall near the street. Instead of setting up partitions to divide the area, the interior makes the most of the lighting and spatial structure to create a fashionable, diversified and transparent new tea store. It adheres to the natural and low-key minimalism concept, and creates a zen space with rich texture levels, bringing multi-dimensional sensory experience for customers.
- Inspiration
- The designer draws inspiration from the unique "Bucket Arches" structure of traditional Chinese architecture and presents a harmonious picture of cultural blending in the form of linear arrangement, expressed by the contemporary material of stainless steel. The appearance of the facade integrates the characteristics of the original architectural structure of the site, making the whole project more compatible with the surrounding environment.
- Research
- Shouldering the mission of inheriting Chinese traditional tea culture, Heytea meets Nantong, a famous historical and cultural city. With a common cultural temperament, tea and architecture blend in space. The designer draws inspiration from the unique "Bucket Arches" structure of traditional Chinese architecture and presents a harmonious picture of cultural blending in the form of linear arrangement.
- Challenge
- The integrated seat area and bar area break the traditional definition of the bar. The designer connected the two functional areas with different attributes, which not only increased the openness and interesting of the space, but also created a lively consumption atmosphere, and implied the link characteristics of the construction of the bucket arch structure.
- Realization and Technology
- On the processing way of the only metope in whole space, the designer uses clean and neat white strip bricks to decorate, which not only ensures the transparency and brightness of the space, but also increases the simple and pure visual effect.
- Operation and Interaction
- The bucket arch structure of the roof extend upward along the pillars of the space. The block relations overlap, interlace, correspond and connect freely in the space. The pure color and rich block sense add a lively rhythm to the space form. While decorating the atmosphere, they also shoulder the responsibility of architectural culture inheritance, greatly enhancing the brand identification.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2019 in Nantong and finished in June 2019 in Nantong.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 200 square meters. The door head modelling of two entrances all followed the color tone that has futuristic feeling extremely. The metal texture and soft halo can easily attract the eyes of pedestrians.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, New Tea, Chain Store, Bucket Arches, Fashionable, Cool, Pure
