Skip to content

Press Release

DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Floating Restaurant by Jiang Lu Chuan Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design

The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Jiang Lu Chuan for architecture, building and structure design

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Floating Restaurant by Jiang Lu Chuan, designed for Villafound, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The result belongs to 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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 Floating Restaurant

Floating is a restaurant located in farmland in Guangdong Province, China. The building is surrounded by water and rests on columns set at irregular spacings. The design takes inspiration from the traditional Hakka houses of rural China. An undulating roof form echoes the movement of water waves. Local materials are used throughout the structure. Inside, fish-shaped decorations are placed to complement the surrounding waterscape. The aim is a calm dining space that blends into the rural landscape.

Award Record

With this recognition, Jiang Lu Chuan is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award

The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture

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

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

###

Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Floating Restaurant
Function
Restaurant
Category
Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture
Colors
Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Cornflower Blue, Dark Olive Green and Black
Images
5
Client
Villafound

The Recognition

Laureate
Jiang Lu Chuan
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2020 - 2021
Design ID
#119119

Design Details

Unique Properties
The project is located in a farmland with a beautiful environment in Guangdong Province. Surrounded by the water, the design combines the irregular column spacing scales that have been constructed to carry out the conception and creativity. It extracts inspiration from the traditional Hakka houses in rural China, adopting the undulating roof form to echo the water wave.In the interior, the fish-shaped decorations are used to intersperse the waterscape and try to complement each other.
Inspiration
It extracts inspiration from the traditional Hakka houses in rural China, adopting the undulating roof form to echo the water wave.The architect made full use of local materials to return to nature and tried to provide a leisurely hydrophilic dining space blending into the surrounding environment, presenting a wild and quiet pastoral beauty.
Project Duration and Location
The project started to design in July 2017 and the restaurant opened in March 2020 in Huizhou City Guangdong Province China.

Good Design Deserves Great Recognition

Nominate Your Work for the A' Design Award.

Nominate