2019 China Awards Winners
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2019 CHINA AWARDS WINNERS S1911095-A&D China Cover_final-15%.indd 1 25/11/2019 5:52 PM THANK YOU TO ALL OUR JUDGES CONTENTS ARCHITECTURE Clarissa Richardson Garett Hwang Creative drector & co-founder Director Richardson Sadeki, New York UNStudio, Hong Kong Richardson Sadeki, an internationally acclaimed design Educated in the US, Garett Hwang has worked on studio with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Hong numerous projects in Asia ranging in scale and 02 Kong, focuses on high-end residential and hospitality complexity from mixed-use to masterplans and projects, and encompasses architecture, interiors, pavilions. She oversees management of UNStudio’s Architecture furniture and branding. Hong Kong office. James Law Viviana Muscettola CEO Associate director 11 Cybertecture, Hong Kong Zaha Hadid Architects, London Architect, technologist and entrepreneur, James Law’s Registered as an architect in the UK and Italy, Interior Design philosophy of cybertecture uses technology to design Muscettola’s work with Zaha Hadid Architects a better world and to alleviate suffering. His company’s encompasses high-rise, residential, hospitality, cultural projects cover buildings, spaces, technologies, and transportation schemes. She has exhibited at the 28 education and social design. Venice Art Biennale. Product Design INTERIOR DESIGN André Fu Alix Lawson Founder Founder AFSO, Hong Kong Alix Lawson, London Hong Kong-born and UK-educated André Fu’s East- Having started her company at age 23, Lawson has meets-West aesthetic is seen in AFSO’s extensive worked for prominent families and developers in portfolio that spans Asia and Europe and has won London, Europe and the Middle East. She formed her numerous awards. His lifestyle brand André Fu Living eponymous brand to combine lifestyle and interiors. collaborates with major marques. Vincent McIlduff Founder & CEO ALT254, Hong Kong Before starting his architecture and design company in Hong Kong, McIlduff worked for OMA on projects in Europe and Asia. With specialist knowledge of Japanese property development, he manages projects in Niseko and beyond. PRODUCT DESIGN Mario Trimachi Michael Young Designer & founder Director & founder International Media Partners Fragile Studio, Milan Michael Young Studio, Hong Kong Milan-based Trimarchi founded Fragile as a corporate Young’s Hong Kong-based studio creates modern identity studio but continues to design, research and design employing Asian technological ingenuity. The teach. His objects hover between unstable geometries studio has produced award-winning products that and sculpture, often accompanied by drawings and last a lifetime for clients; it is represented in museums ph. Fabio Gambina stories. globally. Ben McCarthy Johan Persson Head of industrial design Founder Michael Young Studio, Hong Kong C’monde Studio, Hong Kong Originally from Sydney, McCarthy oversees many of the In 2009 Persson founded C’monde Studios in Hong studio’s factory-focused projects as they progress from Kong and has worked with top-tier multinational hand sketches to producible forms. He has coordinated clients, utilising his market understanding and ability several award-winning projects that originated in Hong to take advanced design concepts into production and Kong. onto the market. Presented by A&D CHINA AWARDS 2019 | 1 S1911095-China_Contents_final_IBC.indd 2 26/11/2019 12:34 PM S1911095-A&D China.indd 1 23/11/2019 9:56 AM BEST OF THE BEST BEST OF THE BEST Architecture | Commercial, Retail & Office Architecture | Remodelled Heritage BEST OF CATEGORY BEST OF CATEGORY COMPANY: Ben Yeung & Associates; CITICarch Design; EasternShine Construction & COMPANY: Ronald Lu & Partners Architecture Design PROJECT: Integral (Phase 1A) PROJECT: Shiwu Resort Hotel LOCATION: Guilin LOCATION: Guangzhou Set in Guilin’s famous karst landscape, this project The Shiwu Resort Hotel was originally a Hakka combines farming, manufacturing and tourism to walled village built in the Qing Dynasty – elements create a balance between nature and humanity. Phase including a blockhouse, ancestral temple and 1A – the spinning and garment manufacturing zone houses were classified as historical relics. The – is in its own zone next to one related tourism and design mixes modernity with traditional Hakka exhibitions. The transparent buildings are integrated architectural styles, such as multiple open courtyards into the landscape using local materials, with rooflines and patios, ponds and gentle landscaping. The reflecting vernacular architecture. Suspended interconnecting structure creates a layered effect reconstituted bamboo fins and traditional blue bricks and unveils new spaces and levels, while the living clad the external envelope. Integral is intended rooms and bedrooms are separated by modern as a prototype for a new type of functional and Chinese partitions. The project had a strong and sustainable architecture that pioneers a green industrial positive effect on the city with other developers and environment. government officials re-evaluating the potential and value of heritage buildings. See page 4 for other Commercial, Retail & Office category winners See page 9 for other Remodelled Heritage category winners 2 | A&D CHINA AWARDS 2019 A&D CHINA AWARDS 2019 | 3 S1911095-A&D China_out_rev-R2.indd 2 26/11/2019 12:27 PM S1911095-A&D China_out_rev-R2.indd 3 26/11/2019 12:27 PM Architecture | Commercial, Retail & Office Architecture | Commercial, Retail & Office EXCELLENCE EXCELLENCE COMPANY: A3 Vision COMPANY: KPF COMPANY: KPF COMPANY: Shanghai PTArchitects PROJECT: Vision Experiment Space PROJECT: SOHO Gubei PROJECT: CITIC Tower PROJECT: Gemdale Xihua Sales Center LOCATION: Beijing LOCATION: Shanghai LOCATION: Beijing LOCATION: Shanghai This space in a Beijing garden art park has four layers, This project has a 38-storey office tower in a Based on the ancient Chinese ceremonial vessel the The Gemdale Xihua Sales Center, surrounded by each housing different functions: visual and taste sculptural zigzag form and a 12-storey podium with zun, the waisted curved tower forms the focus of many red-brick houses, is a cluster of buildings experience, an independent bookstore, a studio and retail and basement parking. The tower comprises four the CBD. The ribs taper and widen along the tower connected by a corridor, forming the front space a creative incubator. Visual and spatial flow between stacked volumes, while grids create a surface that height while the structure ‘thrusts’ into the ground with of the art gallery. Red bricks were used throughout each area is through an opening in the floor, while a shades and reduces glare. The podium’s top level has massive corner supports; the exterior shell is lifted and due to the unusual shape; various stacking methods folded steel staircase cuts through the entire space. a sky garden with dining and outdoor spaces. stretched at four sides. created light and shadow effects and make use of the spaces between bricks. COMPANY: A3 Vision COMPANY: KPF COMPANY: Shanghai PTArchitects COMPANY: Shanghai PTArchitects PROJECT: Simple motivation and beliefs PROJECT: China Resources Tower PROJECT: Back Bay PROJECT: Glorious Bay LOCATION: Shanghai LOCATION: Shenzhen LOCATION: Nanjing LOCATION: Suzhou The research and design department for a fashion Inspired by the form of a bamboo shoot, the building’s This project encompasses a sales centre, education This sales centre is integrated into the landscape with company uses grey bricks, terrazzo, cement and oak 56 stainless-steel-clad exo-columns converge into 28 and scientific research areas, as well as public space. views of Taihu Lake, Suzhou, through the glass walls plywood. Three scattered square timber boxes grouped pillars at the top and bottom, while the unique diagrid Two large V-shaped columns of stainless steel reflect of the ground floor reception and the function spaces. at the front area form a natural courtyard, and wooden structure allows the interior floor plan to be free of the scenery and support the centre that is cantilevered The first floor has a feature pool and pendants of grilles and transparent glass reduce the solidity of the columns. Faceted, triangular glass panels form the base above with a full-length glass front wall and side walls glass and stainless steel hang above the lake facade, long narrow structure, which has no atrium. and the top of the building’s sculptural framework. of brick-red aluminium plates. creating a ‘rain curtain’. 4 | A&D CHINA AWARDS 2019 A&D CHINA AWARDS 2019 | 5 S1911095-A&D China.indd 4 22/11/2019 7:38 PM S1911095-A&D China_out_rev-R2.indd 5 26/11/2019 12:27 PM Architecture | Hotel & Resort Architecture | Landscape BEST OF CATEGORY EXCELLENCE COMPANY: eLandscript COMPANY: kooo architects PROJECT: Four Square Park PROJECT: Dashanchuli Origin Villa LOCATION: Shenzhen LOCATION: Tonglu ‘The Eye of Baoan’, a loop structure, is the major design Six buildings from a rural ‘empty nest’ village concept of this 4.3ha park split into four parcels by were rebuilt as a new retreat village. Each faces a major crossroad. The loop integrates the parcels, a different direction, providing both privacy and which are themed into four subjects: culture, innovation, mountain views. Local materials were employed: lifestyle and art. The park preserves the trees that bamboo, red brick, stone, and carbonised wood, survived a powerful typhoon in 2018. along with rammed-earth walls. Lighting in this rural location was restricted to downlights and all- directional soft umbrella-like free-standing