Kangding Garden Konsepsyon Enteryè Rezidansyèl by Jian Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award Ajan in Enteryè Competition Category.
AjanEnteryè· 2026
Kangding Garden Konsepsyon Enteryè Rezidansyèl
by Jian Zhang
A' Design Award Ajan Winner in Enteryè Category
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The Design
About Kangding Garden Konsepsyon Enteryè Rezidansyèl
Kangding Garden se yon pwojè konsepsyon enteryè rezidansyèl nan Shanghai ki gen ladan yon klib ak apatman modèl. Klib la okipe 1 800 mèt kare nan premye nivo sousòl la epi li sèvi plis pase 300 rezidan. Yon mi antye an mab Calacatta Italyen ankadre pa yon gwo ach nan antre a. Yon kad an mab antoure yon vi sou yon pyebwa suif Chinwa nan lakou ki fon an. Pòt an bwa twa mèt wotè mennen nan yon salon te ak yon sal manje prive. Wòch bèj, bwa fonse ak yon motif koube ki repete raple karaktè ansyen Shanghai a.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Ajan
Kangding Garden Konsepsyon Enteryè Rezidansyèl se yon ganyan A' Design Award Ajan, yon rekonesans ki gen yon prestij enmans yo bay design nivo siperyè, bèl anpil e enpresyonan. Ganyan Ajan yo se travay ki trè briyan e ki trè kreyatif ki montre ekspètiz, talan ak finès designer yo. Yo atann Kangding Garden Konsepsyon Enteryè Rezidansyèl pou se yon bèl travay modèl, remakab nan pwofesyonalis e ki gen gwo inovasyon. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Ajan se yon envansyon trè remakab, admire ki pote benefis e ki pouse limit atizay, syans, design ak teknoloji. Kangding Garden Konsepsyon Enteryè Rezidansyèl se yon kreyasyon anpil moun jalou ki reveye dezi, ki pote santiman pozitif e ki limen sipriz ak mèvèy.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The project is not simply residential innovation, but a contemporary renaissance of retro aesthetics by transforming living spaces into three-dimensional indexes of cultural memory and redefining elegance for a new era. Led by DIA's Shanghai and Shenzhen design directors, Jian Zhang shaped the club and public spaces, while Feng Xue designed the show flats. Their work decodes Jing’an’s historic DNA through spatial storytelling, material dialogue, and color philosophy.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Through three-metre-high timber doors lie a tea lounge and private dining suite available by reservation. These spaces are at once functional and emblematic of status. Here, the Shanghainese concept of fastidious refinement reaches its purest form: restrained luxury, quiet boldness, perfection distilled into the smallest detail.
- Tags
- interior design, show flat, residence, club, DIA
- Production Technology
- Descending to the 1,800-square-metre club on B1, guests encounter an entire wall of Italian Calacatta marble, framed by a soaring arch, which is solemn yet opulent. Beyond it, a marble picture frame captures the rare Chinese tallow tree in the sunken courtyard, turning nature into a living oil painting. It is an ever-changing focal point and the project’s most memorable anchor.
- Design Challenge
- Ceiling and floor are clad in a bold pairing of black and dark gray. The interwoven grids patterns strike a dramatic contrast with the pale walls and soft furnishings. This chiaroscuro evokes the syncopated rhythms of the Paramount Ballroom, as if stepping into the monochrome frames of a vintage Shanghai film.
- Research
- Kangding Garden’s living philosophy finds its fullest expression in the daily rituals of its show flats. Unlike a merely personal notion of being particular, it is a meticulous, research-driven process rooted in empathy, highlighting precision that translates into palpable quality and quiet confidence.
- Inspiration
- The essence of Jing'an District, Shanghai lies in its meticulous attention to detail. Named after the millennium-old temple, the district has long cultivated a philosophy of refinement. The club at Kangding Garden extends this tradition in this spiritual lounge for over 300 residents. Inspired by the Paramount Ballroom, the club resembles a series of cinematic stage sets, each space laced with metaphors for those who notice.
- Project Duration
- On Shanghai’s luxury real estate map of 2025, Kangding Garden emerges as a defining landmark. Positioned at the crossroads of Wuning Road South and Kangding Road, this heritage-inspired development sits less than one kilometer from Jing’an Temple, making it immersed in the global glamour of Nanjing West Road, yet embraced by the quiet poetry of century-old plane trees.
- Operation Flow
- The club entrance flows into the Writer’s Study, forming an extended ground-floor lounge. Two nearly five-meter-high square volumes are wrapped in beige stone and dark timber. A stone arch portal instantly evokes the memory of old Shanghai, yet its curves and junctions have been subtly deconstructed and reassembled through a modernist lens. This signature curve recurs in the reception desk and even the lamps, unifying the design language throughout.
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