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Shinjiro Heshiki and Akiko Higashi Receives the A' Design Award for Hohobare Amahare Restaurant and Champagne Bar in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design
Shinjiro Heshiki and Akiko Higashi recognized for hospitality, recreation, travel and tourism design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Hohobare Amahare Restaurant and Champagne Bar by Shinjiro Heshiki and Akiko Higashi has been granted the A' Design Award in the Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Hohobare Amahare Restaurant and Champagne Bar
To express the energy of the sun and the full moon, the starting point of the design concept, Conception used plastering art to express the waves of sunlight and the spawning of coral on a moonlit night with lighting effects, successfully creating a highly sensitive design space that does not feel like a small space.
About Shinjiro Heshiki and Akiko Higashi
He was born in Okinawa Prefecture. After graduating from high school, he moved to Tokyo and entered a design school. After graduation, he worked at a shop design office, where he designed restaurants, retail stores, apparel stores, and houses. He moved to Los Angeles LA USA in 1991. While living in the U.S., he worked as a bartender and club manager, while working in design for a living. This background in restaurants seems to have enhanced his design communication. And returned to Japan in 2001, Then he started his own company, emergene, inc.
Award Record
This recognition makes Shinjiro Heshiki and Akiko Higashi a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Award
The A' Hospitality Design Award is an international hospitality design competition recognizing good hospitality designs by best hospitality designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to hospitality designers, architects, hospitality brands and hotel chains from all countries. Entries typically include hotels, restaurants, resorts, cafes, bars and cruise ships. Awarded hospitality designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/hospitality
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/114542
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/114542
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!114542
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/292694
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://conception.zone/249.html
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hohobare Amahare Restaurant and Champagne Bar
- Function
- Restaurant and Champagne Bar
- Category
- Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Food & Hospitality and Sports
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, Black and Sienna
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shinjiro Heshiki and Akiko Higashi
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #114542
Credits
- Team
- Akiko Higashi, Yutaka Takushi and Saya Fuji.
- Image Credits
- #1~#5: Photographer Masahiro Ishibashi
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Team of Conception created a wall with objet d'art to represent the spawning of coral by the energy of the sun and the energy of the full moon in the two kinds of business concepts and expressed completely different spawning of coral in the sun and moonlit night with lighting effects, successfully creating a restaurant space with high added value that satisfies customers with high sensitivity.
- Inspiration
- Lunch time restaurant name "Hohobare" -Restaurant Concept- We want you to stuff your mouth full of happiness that will make your cheeks swell and your smile radiant. Night time restaurant name "AMAHARE" -Bar Concept- We welcome you rain or shine. When the client, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Azabu, Tokyo, asked me to open a different concept for day and night, I wanted to express the energy of the sun and the moon by day and night.
- Challenge
- Although it is a very small space, the client wanted us to propose a value-added design since the minimum spend per customer is over $100. They wanted to add a sense of luxury and a special Okinawan touch, and we struggled to express the different business concepts of daytime and nighttime in a small space in a classy way by effectively employing the traditional Okinawan red of lacquer and gold leaf of the traditional Japanese paper.
- Realization and Technology
- Of the two business concepts, we created a wall surface with objects of coral spawning by the energy of the sun and the energy of the full moon. The wall surface material used was plaster and coral glass chips to represent the waves of solar energy and the spawning of coral on a moonlit night. The lighting effect of the coral spawning, which is completely different between the sun and moon, was successfully used to create a highly sensitive, value-added restaurant space that satisfies customers.
- Operation and Interaction
- The two signs at the entrance are separated by the type of business: daytime and nighttime. The day and night lighting switches are interlocked with each other, especially at night, when the bar is a members-only establishment, so it is equipped with a finger advisory security system that works in conjunction with the switches.
- Project Duration and Location
- The year 2020 was a dark time for the world, because of the Corona. Believing that 2021 will bring a brighter future, we received a design request in January 2021 from Ishigaki Yoshida, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Azabu, Tokyo, for a project that began construction in March 2021 in Naha, Okinawa, and was completed and opened in May 2021. Unfortunately, however, the negative impact on Corona's restaurants continues.
- Specifications
- Plaster wall art was drafted with chalk in the field work. Coral glass chips were also embedded on site while checking their balance. Gold leaf Japanese paper was used as accents on the ceiling and various wall surfaces to complement the prestigious and sophisticated cuisine. The lighting plan employs carefully coordinated scene dimming to accentuate the difference between the daytime and nighttime restaurant and bar concepts.
- Keywords
- Sun, moon, coral, tradition, light and shadow
