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Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant by Above Space Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Above Space acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant by Above Space has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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.
More About Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant
Nanxiang Bailian is a restaurant interior design covering 690 square meters in Fuzhou, China. The interior combines references to traditional Cantonese design with a modern architectural style. Terrazzo is used as the main surface material for its luster and texture. Painted wooden screens add a sense of warmth and enrich the color scheme of the whole space. The indoor lighting uses several groups of point light sources, so that every table is well lit. The number and position of the partitions were adjusted to keep the space open while protecting the privacy of diners.
About Above Space
Founded in 2015, Above Space is a professional design company. The design scope mainly includes catering, commercial, new retail, real estate and municipal projects. Since the founding of the company, the founder of the company has always insisted that design has temperature and can create value for customers. He has always had his own unique design ideas. Through continuous innovation and efforts to win the unanimous recognition of customers. At the same time, also won a number of well-known awards at home and abroad.
Award Record
This recognition makes Above Space a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/117363
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/117363
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!117363
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/298700
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant
- Function
- Restaurant
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray, Gray, Saddle Brown and Black
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Above Space
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #117363
Credits
- Team
- Kaiwang Zhang, Wen Lin and Guihua Lian
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yongchang Wu, Nanxiang Bailian, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design of this case not only completes the expression of the restaurant's functional and artistic attributes, but also fully considers the practicality in various details, so that the comfort of customers dining is much more invisible. Silence is more powerful than words. As the saying goes, swords don't need edgy blade for decoration, as absolute strength hidden inside. An efficient operation of the restaurant is fully guaranteed from the design basis.
- Inspiration
- In this case, the designer took high priority of the reproduction and reflection of the historical traditional Cantonese with modern architectural style when designed the restaurant. After careful consideration, designer first came up with terrazzo, a kind of completely modern building material with super luster and texture as those traditional stones.
- Research
- The vertical part of the art roof is made into squares, which can not only be used for artistic display, but also use a fork to lift the glass to form the style of ancient window support.There's no distinct differences between Chinese and Western, as is between tradition and modern. Every detail can be seen here and there, completing the circulation and change of history in time and space.
- Challenge
- After multiple changes of the number and location of partitions, the permeability of space was ensured, and privacy of dining was guaranteed as the same time. Even when all the seats are occupied, the dining people still could have a good meal. Good liquidity, clear movement lines, responsible duties are all make good to the restaurant. It is not crowded and messy. From the design point of view, the restaurant's high-end positioning and actual use requirements are once again pinched.
- Realization and Technology
- The painted wooden screen, with magnificent artistic beauty, not only breaks the blemishes of cold terrazzo color temperature, creates a sense of warmth at home, but also enriches the color ratio of the entire color scheme, thus achieving a visual effect with rich layers and rhythm.
- Operation and Interaction
- The indoor lighting adopts the form of matching multiple groups of point light sources, which not only gives the space an excellent light and shadow texture, and makes the facade richer and more dimensional, but also guarantees the needs of each table.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2020 in Fuzhou and finished in November 2020 in Fuzhou.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 690 square meters.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Artistic, Warm, Terrazzo
