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Beijing Winter Olympics Flagship Store Commercial Space Design by Xiaolu Zhang Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Xiaolu Zhang 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 Beijing Winter Olympics Flagship Store Commercial Space Design by Xiaolu Zhang has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
More About Beijing Winter Olympics Flagship Store Commercial Space Design
Beijing Winter Olympics Flagship Store is a commercial interior design created for the first global flagship store of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. The 800 square meter space in Beijing joins retail with a media release area used for product launches and public information. Installation art at the entrance raises visual recognition. The lectern and related forms are made of white frosted acrylic cut into slices three centimeters thick with polished corners. Color changing lights set behind the acrylic create an immersive ice and snow atmosphere.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiaolu Zhang 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/124172
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/124172
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!124172
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/305533
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Beijing Winter Olympics Flagship Store Commercial Space Design
- Function
- Commercial Space Design
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Light Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Gray, Light Steel Blue and Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaolu Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #124172
Credits
- Team
- Zhangxiaolu and Huangzhihong
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This project is designed for the first global flagship store of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. As an important promotional channel, the flagship store is both a merchandise retailer and place for spreading knowledge of the Winter Olympics, media releases and interactive communication. Dynamic and rhythmic installation art is implanted at the entrance of the store to increase visual recognition and enhance the sense of identification with the Olympic spirit.
- Inspiration
- The design is inspired by the theme of the Games: joyful rendezvous upon pure ice & snow uniting the passion of hundreds of millions for winter sports; inspire the youth with the Olympic spirit. And the installation art is encouraged by the poem of Mao Zedong Snow to the tune of Qin Yuan Chun, a hundred leagues locked in ice, a thousand leagues of whirling snow. The designer highlights the magnificence of the ice and snow with layers of concave and convex texture creating a strong visual impact.
- Research
- As the flagship store of the Winter Olympics, its differences with other stores were taken into consideration at the beginning of the design. As a commercial space, it is the most powerful link between the Winter Olympics and the general public, so the primary focus of the design is to create the affect valuation of the Winter Olympics. In the first anniversary before the start of the Winter Olympics, people generated a strong sense of mission and honor through the immersive experience of the scene of miles of ice and the light effect here. It also serves as an important promotional window for more and more people to participate in the Winter Olympics.
- Challenge
- The project is a commercial space located in famous Wangfujing Street, a prosperous tourist area with extremely high cost of land. The design must not only ensure the maximum commercial benefits, but also create the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics and deepen understanding of it through the spatial division and the setting of installation art. Therefore, the difficult point of this project is how to achieve the integration of the installation art and the functional media launch area within a limited space.
- Realization and Technology
- The project has two major functional areas, one of which is the media release area for activities such as the release of new products of the Winter Olympics. The designer makes an art installation combining with the function of the lectern which is mainly made of white frosted acrylic material. The material is cut into 3cm thick slices whose corners are polished. In line with the pure white, blue and white, red and gold and turquoise tone of the Winter Olympics, the back of the acrylic material is embedded with four color changing lights with exterior lights doing horizontal ice scattering, so as to achieve an immersive experience.
- Operation and Interaction
- In the flagship store, people can feel the strong atmosphere of the Winter Olympics while shopping. On the one hand, the implantation of the art installations creates a visual impact full of ice and snow. Through the setting of the lighting effect, part of the light falls on visitors and the light and shadow changes with walking, realizing an immersive experience. On the other hand, the slope in the middle of the staggered staircase is designed as a miniature of the competition areas covered with ice and snow, and the passage up and down deepens the elements of the Winter Olympics. The launch booth, as a non-negligible part, is organically integrated with the overall shape line.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Beijing in October 2020 and was completed on February 4, 2021 at Wangfujing Street, Beijing as a way to welcome the first anniversary of the countdown to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
- Keywords
- Beijing Winter Olympics, flagship store design, commercial space, ice and snow design, art installation
