Press Release
United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo Cinemacomplex by Kunihisa Akiyama Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Kunihisa Akiyama for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo Cinemacomplex by Kunihisa Akiyama, designed for United Cinemas Co.,Ltd.. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
About United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo Cinemacomplex
This movie theater has 3 types of special movie format theaters, Imax, 4DX, and ScreenX, and 8 ordinary movie theaters. The Imax is one of the largest screen size in Japan. There have two interior idea that contrasts. One is installed many symbolistic blue liner LED lights that is hanged from ceiling along with the escalator. The other is mono-toned movie dialogue graphics. These two makes contrast of 2D or 3D, and colored or mono- tone. Also this method is Old but materials are new that any range of the age can accept them. Guests can also take photos by such a photogenic place.
About Kunihisa Akiyama
I would like to know that how our design concept will be evaluated in the world, so that is reason why I am interested in A’ Design Award. Our design concept is not only for spatial or material issue but also for relationship or environment of neighborhoods, or region. We strongly thought that this cinema should be there generating brand-new involvement of people, tenants and cinema. If we won a prize whatever, that would be the proof our concept global, not only accepted in Japan.
Award Record
Kunihisa Akiyama is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/127944
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/127944
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!127944
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/168432
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo Cinemacomplex
- Function
- Cinemacomplex
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray, Black and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- United Cinemas Co.,Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kunihisa Akiyama
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #127944
Credits
- Team
- Shuwa Tei, Kei Sagara and Naoyuki Suzuki
- Image Credits
- Main Image,#1,#2,#3,#4:Photographer / Toshiyuki Yano
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This movie theater has 3 types of special movie format theaters, Imax, 4DX, and ScreenX, and 8 ordinary movie theaters. The Imax is one of the largest screen size in Japan.
- Inspiration
- The United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo is in the shopping mall Terrace Mall in Matsudo city, Chiba prefecture in Japan. There used to a fruit and vegetable market and many people visited here. The mall is concepted as the mall along the people lives here with fulfilling and brighter days. We interpreted that this shopping mall become the central institution and various people comes here as young people, family and aged people. Then what the cinema complex being such place should be is offer the various kind of entertainment that accepted by every kind of person.
- Research
- The building has shopping tenants from basement floor to 3th floor, the Cinema is 3rd floor. The cinema is one of the anchor and symbol of this huge commercial complex. Because of the SNS, especially Instagram is in a trend among young people, this cinema takes some photo spot for it.
- Challenge
- Because of Tokyo Olympic, construction cost had got very high and we had to make cinema complex unique with very much lower cost. There have two idea. One is at the escalator. We installed many symbolistic blue liner LED lights hanged from ceiling along with the escalator that guests have to use and that makes guests feel futuristic and exited. Blue is also used in lobby as characteristic color. The other is graphics. The LED lights make 3D and symbolistic color. On the theatre floor, at the contrast, has impressive 2D graphics around and they are made by dialogue of movies with mono-tone.
- Realization and Technology
- Imax laser system, 4DX system, ScreenX system, Full Automation projection system, Digital signage system, BEMS Gem2, Theater management system
- Operation and Interaction
- It has been six years the Matsudo city does not have movie theatres so that we have proposed the large, most advanced, and best facilities. We installed three latest movie formats so that many customers can enjoy movies with various way.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started in 2016 and opening in 2019, located in Matsudo-city Chiba Japan, locates next to Tokyo. This movie theater opened with one of the largest shopping mall in the city which area used to a market.
- Specifications
- 12screens, 6,293sqm, total capacity 1975 seats. One Imax theater, one 4dx theater, one ScreenX theater and 8 regular theater. Two back stage dressing room, projection room and back room for staffs. Imax technology from Canada.4dx and ScreenX technology from Korea, Construction company is SHIMIZU Corporation, a major general contractor in Japan.
- Keywords
- Cinema, Cinema complex, Movie theater, Photo spot, Graphic art, Word art, LED line lighting, Imax, 4dx, ScreenX
