Silver Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2025
Tiger Club
by Guoliang Du
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Decent Design
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About Tiger Club
Tiger is a club interior located in the Laoshan District of Qingdao. The design draws on the city, where European buildings stand within an Eastern order. The romantic character of Italian town architecture is combined with the calm rhythm of Oriental courtyards. Round arches, a spiral staircase and shaped ceilings form the main features. Materials include concrete, steel, glass, light brick, gypsum board, stone panels, marble, stainless steel and wood veneer. Light guides movement from the outer areas to the inner rooms, so that the space is experienced as open and free.
Within the lineage of hospitality and ceremonial interior design, Tiger Club by Guoliang Du emerges as a distinguished meditation on the interplay between organic architectural form and classical spatial ordering, demonstrating exceptional sophistication in its reconciliation of seemingly opposing design philosophies. The space appears to engage with the legacy of expressionist architecture, where biomorphic ceiling elements rise with almost vegetal vitality from the perimeter walls, their sculptural presence suggesting affinities with the organic structural vocabulary pioneered in early twentieth-century European design while remaining thoroughly contemporary in execution and material refinement. The designer seems to have orchestrated a masterful dialogue between the processional grandeur of traditional banqueting halls and the ethereal lightness introduced through transparent contemporary seating, creating a layered temporal experience where historical reference and modern materiality coexist in productive tension. Chromatic decisions reveal considerable deliberation, with the warm neutral palette establishing an envelope of enveloping intimacy despite the monumental scale, while strategic accent lighting transforms architectural surfaces into luminous sculptural events. The bilateral arrangement of twin banquet tables creates a ceremonial axis that channels attention toward the mezzanine terminus, employing perspectival depth as both spatial strategy and symbolic gesture suggesting procession, gathering, and culmination. Tactile contrasts between the smooth plaster vaults, lustrous table surfaces, crystalline chair forms, and sumptuous textile elements demonstrate an assured command of material orchestration that rewards sustained observation. The work invites contemplation of how contemporary hospitality environments might honor traditions of communal gathering while embracing the formal possibilities of organic architectural expression, perhaps prompting viewers to consider what rituals of connection and celebration such spaces enable and how architectural atmosphere shapes the character of human assembly.
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- Unique Properties
- A city where classical and modern cities meet, the European buildings are dotted in the Oriental ritual order, forming the urban cognition of the blending of Eurasian cultures. "The art of architecture is the external spirit into a creative performance spirit", Italian town architecture romantic kernel and Oriental courtyard architecture poetic rhyme, has in the bustling beautiful details of casual along with the gender free and easy, fascinating, become the inner spirit of space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Taishan double layer gypsum board, boom, light steel keel type 50 base, auxiliary keel, light hole.
800 x 2600 rock slab, Solid wood composite parquet flooring,
Sofa: fabric: imported leather, filler: high density rebound sponge, inner frame: Russia imported pine inner frame, L2450 x W1000 x H800, sitting height: 450
Side several: stone: natural marble, metal: 304 stainless steel (surface anti-order fingerprint treatment), L400 x W400 x H480, Some product specifications, etc - Tags
- Canon and modern, East and west, European style, castle, Italian romantic town, Italian style
- Production Technology
- In the city where classical and modern meet, European buildings are dotted in the Oriental order. We take this as inspiration to continue the characteristics of the city in this project, and concentrate it and bring it into the freedom and spirit of humanity through design.
Design materials and techniques: Concrete, steel, glass, light brick, gypsum board, stone rock plate, luxury stone cave stone jade, wood veneer, hard package, etc. energy-saving technology - Design Challenge
- In the city where classical and modern meet, European buildings are dotted in the Oriental order, and we take this as inspiration. In the design, the round arch, spiral staircase, the shaped roof and the top are constantly changing, which not only needs to overcome the difficulty of modeling, but also needs to ensure the quality and reduction degree. Focus on composition, accurate structure, integrating the essence of eastern and western science and technology culture innovation.
- Project Duration
- Starting time: August 1st, 2023
Location: Laoshan District, Qingdao City
End time: April 30, 2024
Location: Laoshan District, Qingdao City - Operation Flow
- Usually, the steps of the decoration engineering should start from the change of the structure. Such as the demolition and construction of partitions. Then there is the installation of electrical sockets, buried in the electrical hidden line. Then comes the treatment of walls, ceiling and bottom floor. Surface decoration starts from the ceiling paint brush, paint doors and Windows, kick the line again, and then install lamps and lanterns, workshop, stone, etc
- Research
- Hegel once said: "the art of architecture lies in the human external this without spirit transformed into a creative spirit", Italian town building romantic kernel and Oriental courtyard architecture, has in the bustling beautiful details of casual along with the gender free and easy, fascinating, become the inner spirit of space.
- Inspiration
- Qingdao, a city where classical and modern meet. European buildings are dotted in the ritual order of the east, forming the city cognition of Eurasian culture integration. We take this as inspiration, continue the characteristics of the city in this project, and bring it into the freedom and flexibility of humanity through design.
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Yi Qian Du, Tiger Club, 2024
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