Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2021
Golden Eagle G Nanjing Business Hotel
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Yang Bangsheng & Associates Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 21,427
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About Golden Eagle G Nanjing Business Hotel
Golden Eagle G Nanjing is a hotel interior located in a three-tower building in Nanjing, China. The design theme is drawn from the Qinhuai River, a symbol of the history and culture of the city. Cultural references such as the ancient city gate, the city wall and Yuhua Stone are interpreted with modern materials, including metal, stone and glass. An artistic bar is placed in the atrium, where the three towers are connected, to guide movement and to enliven the darker central area. The project covers 37000 square meters.
This striking interior composition, which may be titled *Luminous Canopy*, represents an ambitious achievement within contemporary hospitality design that synthesizes material innovation with spatial poetry to create an environment of exceptional atmospheric richness. The work appears to engage with traditions of experiential luxury that seek to transport visitors beyond ordinary spatial encounters into realms of sensory wonder, drawing perhaps upon historical precedents of elaborately decorated ceremonial spaces while translating such aspirations through decidedly contemporary material vocabularies and fabrication technologies. The ceiling installation demonstrates remarkable technical accomplishment, with what appear to be thousands of individually formed metallic elements creating a continuous surface of extraordinary visual complexity, suggesting affinities with both natural phenomena such as wind-stirred water or autumn canopies and with contemporary digital fabrication capabilities that enable such elaborate customization. The designer seems to have carefully orchestrated relationships between scales of experience, from the intimate human scale of the seating arrangements through the intermediate register of the wrapped columns to the encompassing grandeur of the overhead installation. The chromatic strategy reveals sophisticated understanding of how warm metallics can create enveloping atmospheric warmth while the strategic deployment of crimson accents provides necessary visual anchoring and chromatic punctuation. One might observe how the reflective floor surface effectively doubles the spatial complexity by introducing a mirrored dimension that extends the ceiling's presence throughout the visual field. The work invites consideration of how contemporary hospitality environments might function as sites of aesthetic transformation, offering guests passage into carefully crafted worlds of sensory richness that elevate quotidian activities of gathering and conversation into memorable experiential encounters. How might such environments reshape our expectations of public interior spaces and their capacity to inspire wonder?
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- Unique Properties
- The Qinhuai River, an epitome of the history and culture of Nanjing, is extracted as the design theme. Ancient Chinese scholars’ stories that ever happened along the riverside are translated into decoration elements via modern design approaches so that the glamour of history collides yet mixes with today’s fashion and vitality in the space. In this way, a unique living experience with a taste of both elegance and vogue is delivered to guests to redefine top-class luxurious and trendy lifestyle.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Project Area: 37000 square meters
- Tags
- Nanjing regional culture, city memory, chao Hotel, Exploring new lifestyle
- Production Technology
- Cultural elements related to the river, such as ancient city gate, city wall and Yuhua Stone, are integrated into the space by modern materials like metal, stone and glass, which transform the profoundness of history into fashion and lightness and fill the space with a sense of future. Being a place where the past meets the future, the hotel utilizes space to remind guests of old times and provides them with a possibility of exploring new lifestyle.
- Design Challenge
- Traditional Chinese culture emphasizes stability, etiquette and moderation, whereas a fashion brand aims to break rules, set a style and draw attention. To create an ethnic yet stylish hotel, the top priority is to blend the cultures that seem contradictory.
The pain point of design was the floor where the three towers are connected. Its large area and long flow lines will lead to poor experience if space arrangement fails to distract guests. Moreover, the central area is darker due to lack of natural light. To solve these problems, we build an artistic bar at the atrium to attract guests’ attention and ease their feeling of boredom. The bar also serves as a transport hub to other spaces. - Project Duration
- The project started in 2017 in Nanjing and finished in September 2019 in Nanjing.
- Research
- From the perspectives of nature and people, we conducted thorough research into the regional culture of Nanjing by literature searching and field investigations. As the capital of six dynasties, Nanjing has long history and splendid cultures. Among them, we carefully selected Qinhuai, the river that has nurtured the city and witnessed its development, as the origin of design, making the hotel a carrier of culture that reproduces the extremely luxury lifestyle once staged along the riverside.
- Inspiration
- Golden Eagle G Hotel Nanjing is located in the world’s highest three-tower building. The owner expected a top-class luxury hotel in line with the level of the landmark to present the fashion and vitality of Nanjing. Based on the requirement, the designer defines “trend” as the establishment of common cultural cognition beyond sensory stimulation. From the city’s history, the Qinhuai Culture, which matches the brand’s spirit, is extracted for the creation of a new ethnic yet stylish hotel.
- Image Credits
- Yang Bangsheng & Associates Group
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