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Lanzhou Wanda City Exhibition Center by Liliang Shan Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Liliang Shan for interior space and exhibition design

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Lanzhou Wanda City Exhibition Center by Liliang Shan, designed for Greed Lotus Design. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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 Silver A' Design Award Means

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 Lanzhou Wanda City Exhibition Center

Lanzhou Wanda City is an exhibition center in Lanzhou, China. The interior covers 3000 square meters and includes a reception hall and a sales area. The design draws on the local Danxia landform and on the silk and brocade traditions of the city. Smooth curves, layered geometric forms and refined materials create a calm and elegant atmosphere. A champagne gold railing on the second floor is set against a large white background. Stepped walls extend into the canopy above the sand table, and lighting lines run along both sides of the escalator.

About Liliang Shan

Liliang Shan, young interior designer, designdirector of Greed Lotus Design. He has been engaged in the design industry for nearly 20 years. He has completed many high complexity design projects, and won unanimous praise in the industry with professional ability and rigorous attitude. At the same time, he has made great achievements in many domestic and foreign design competitions.

Award Record

This recognition makes Liliang Shan 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Lanzhou Wanda City Exhibition Center
Function
Exhibition Center
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Gray, Silver and Dark Slate Gray
Images
5
Client
Greed Lotus Design

The Recognition

Laureate
Liliang Shan
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#98206

Credits

Team
Li Dai, Liang Shi, Ningning Zhao and Lei Zhang
Image Credits
Photographer Lingyu Li, Reception Hall, 2019.; Photographer Lingyu Li, Negotiation Area, 2019.; Photographer Lingyu Li, Stand Table Area, 2019.; Photographer Lingyu Li, Water Bar, 2019.; Photographer Lingyu Li, Ceiling, 2019.

Design Details

Unique Properties
In this case, the design integrates local cultural and geomorphologic characteristics, introduces and transforms the western modernism aesthetic views into the emotion expression acceptable to the east with geometric aesthetics full of modelling sense, precise and unique materials, profound and ingenious design concept and presents the elegant layout and clam feeling tone required by modern CBD with profound professional foundation and precise art recognition.
Inspiration
This case is located in Lanzhou. Taking the concept of Jade belt in the sunshine and red massifs, seeing from the angle of typical Danxia landform, the geographic business card of Gansu and keeping to the point in virtue of elegant silks and brocades, the cultural business card of Lanzhou. The designer expresses quiet and lasting space moods full of rhythms with peaceful and smooth curves, graceful structure and exquisite materials.
Research
In ancient time, Lanzhou was known as Gold City, which was derived from "Gold City Wall and Boiling Moat". Lanzhou has been an important node of the Silk Road since antiquity, and enjoys good reputations of "Pearl of the Yellow River" and "Summer Palace of the West" as one of five major key cities of China section of the New Eurasian Land Bridge at this late hour and important intersection of Yellow River Culture, Silk Road Culture, Central Plan Culture and Culture of China's Western Regions.
Challenge
The stepped modelling of the wall extends to the canopy, presents the posture of strong interattraction with the sand table right below along the greatly slant wall of the ridge, brings the vertical direction obvious rising feeling with visually modelling change, reflects the project's determination and efforts to boost local economy as the new blood rising abruptly out of the ground.
Realization and Technology
After taking a panoramic view of the situation, it is not hard to find that the designer presents the modern aesthetic feeling among geometric prototypes simply by using the change of lines skillfully, hides space moods in abstract architectural language, creates an elegant and magnificent visual effect in virtue of space with no need for redundant decoration, uses indistinct and high aesthetic taste to make people have clear feelings.
Operation and Interaction
The elevator hall of de-stylized design highlights the space implication of field domains with artistic installation full of modelling beauty and endows the quiet space with vivid artistry. The designer transforms the functional attributes of different areas in virtue of elevator hall and aims to metaphor that clients can encounter new modern urban life here.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in April 2019 in Lanzhou and finished in October 2019 in Lanzhou.
Specifications
The project covers a total of 3000 square meters. Once visitors step in the reception hall, they can feel the classic and noble match colors, which greatly improves the style and level of the whole atmosphere. Set off by a large area of white background, the layered distribution of champagne golden fence on the second floor metaphors the typical Danxia landform again and uses the classic method of extending the appearance curves of the building to the interior spatial curves.
Keywords
Interior, Commercial, Sales Center, Exhibition Center, Modern, Elegant, Simple, Lanzhou

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