2019 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, 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.

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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.

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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:

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

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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: 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’.

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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 lamps and table lights. Locally produced and reused soil and stone allowed the retreat village to disappear into the landscape and blur the line between interior and exterior.

Architecture | Mixed-Use BEST OF CATEGORY Architecture | Landscape BEST OF CATEGORY COMPANY: Shanghai PTArchitects PROJECT: Tan Courtyard LOCATION: Shaoxing COMPANY: Shanghai Lacime Design PROJECT: China Resources City Next This project references ancient Yue culture in its Landscape public activity hall for family gatherings, workshops, LOCATION: Ningbo education, art and other leisure activities. Design elements relate to local streets, lanes, shops, The design of the demonstration area of a courtyards and gardens. Houses of different sizes high-rise building constructed above a subway with traditional high sloping roofs are combined focuses on moving people through a series with glass curtain walls, doors and vestibules to of spaces and using the path to extend the form a series of courtyards. The buildings are sense of outdoor space. The design focuses in stone with wooden grates and the traditional on creating a flowing space and light-shadow architecture of Shaoxing is characterised by white effects throughout the entrance as evidenced in walls and black tiles, which are used throughout. the waterscape layout, the transitional space and the connection between the indoor and outdoor. Visitors pass through a corridor before entering the front yard. An entrance corridor and large stepping stones direct visitors through courtyards with pools.

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COMPANY: Kris Lin International Design COMPANY: NIL Studio PROJECT: Light Waterfall PROJECT: Infinite Treehouse Communal LOCATION: Wuhan Classroom LOCATION: Lantau Island, Hong Kong Interiors, architecture and landscape are integrated using water as a theme of this sales exhibition Infinite Treehouse Communal Classroom is a hybrid building. A large pool at the front seems to make of architecture and landscape design that aims to the sales centre float and a 50-metre walkway liberate the learning environment from the standard makes a 90-degree turn and slowly leads visitors clinical enclosed space and take it back to the through a slim 16-metre-high stone entrance tower natural world. It is a sustainable bamboo structure and then ushers them into the expanded open in an infinity symbol shape that wraps around three and transparent indoor space. On the facade, a existing trees without harming them. The design ‘water curtain’ composed of LED lights reinforces is both an architectural pavilion and a landscaped the theme. The building will be later handed to the platform that has evolved from its space in the government for an art space. The designers were forest. The architecture fully blends with nature to responsible for the architecture, interior design, soft create a new encounter in the forest. outfit engineering and landscape design.

Architecture | Public Space EXCELLENCE Architecture | Remodelled Heritage EXCELLENCE

COMPANY: Lacime Architects PROJECT: U-CUBE Office Reconstruction LOCATION: Shanghai

The reconstruction of an old building on a complex site has given it a new appearance and life, providing five floors of high-quality space and environment for the office and commercial building. The north facade has a COMPANY: Lacime Architects COMPANY: ZXD Architects sculptural modular grid that creates light and shadows. PROJECT: Liva Riverside Book Bar PROJECT: Dunhuang Tourism Distributing Centre LOCATION: Shanghai LOCATION: Dunhuang

A riverside warehouse and the Chong’er Pavilion This gateway to the Mogao Caves is inspired by the were combined and expanded with a glass building Gobi Desert and the rooflines have the shape of added at the entrance to create areas for new leisure dunes. The cluster of four joined polygonal shapes are functions. A partial mezzanine created under the roof in heavy stone the colour of the desert. The interiors, creates a private contemplative space. Sculptural lit from above, provide a cave-like spatial experience steel beams following the roofline create a new space similar to that of the Mogao Caves. at the entrance.

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COMPANY: Nan Fung Design COMPANY: Purcell Architecture PROJECT: The Mills PROJECT: Centre for Heritage and Arts LOCATION: Tseun Wan, Hong Kong LOCATION: Central, Hong Kong

Situated in a former textile manufacturing hub, The Tai Kwun is a remarkable example of remodelled Mills were rezoned from industrial to commercial use heritage, building conservation and adaptive reuse and this enabled three separate cotton mill factories to that involved collaboration between Purcell, Herzog & be repurposed for use by the public, young start-ups, de Meuron and Rocco Design Architects. A minimal artists and institutions. The project aims to preserve yet modern intervention was adopted across the 2.5ha a lost heritage and establish new possibilities for site that includes new buildings, plus 16 remodelled innovation, culture and learning. heritage buildings. COMPANY: RAZ Interiors PROJECT: Mount Pavilia LOCATION: Sai Kung, Hong Kong

The brief was that the design for this 170sqm (1,829sqf) COMPANY: Zhejiang University Architectural Design apartment should be contemporary, elegant and light and Research Institute as well as reflecting the complex’s green surroundings PROJECT: Renewal of Fengqiao Ancient Town to give a sense of place. The clients wished to replicate LOCATION: Zhuji the experience of being in a five-star boutique hotel. The original four-bedroom, three-bathroom layout was This project of renovating the old town was not clearly redesigned to improve spatial and aesthetic flow. A defined – the government asked for revival – and had timeless white/grey palette and materials such as high- no budget. The final design and timetable balanced quality marble, glass and stainless steel throughout the the complicated needs of government, residents, flat give a cohesive flow. False ceilings with light troughs businesses, cultural associations and tourism, and lend an extra dimension to every room and subtly coordinated multiple design areas while balancing old- patterned wallpaper on feature walls and headboards time charm with new techniques. in the bedrooms offer variations on a theme. An internal courtyard with a tree becomes a focal point of the open- planned living/dining room and provides light for the windowless second bedroom.

See page 27 for other Residential category winners

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COMPANY: In Cube Design PROJECT: MeokBang Premium BBQ LOCATION: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong

The Korean grill restaurant makes good use of high and low ceilings with conical range hoods and exhausts installed above each roaster to provide an authentic Korean barbecue. Adjustable double- headed lamps are installed on each range hood to ensure adequate lighting for the cooks; the lighting helps make the food look attractive. The service area is placed in the centre of the dining area and the outside kitchen has four wide corridors to facilitate smooth operation. As the front of the shop is huge, the entrance is narrowed to funnel the flow of customers. COMPANY: In Cube Design COMPANY: Kris Lin International Design PROJECT: Fisher & Farmer PROJECT: BIRDS NEST LOCATION: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong LOCATION: Xi’an

Fisher and Farmer is a restaurant specialising in The curved pods in the VIP room of this tea club were hot and spicy Beijing, Sichuan and based on a bird’s nest and 3D techniques modelled cuisines, and so the designers started with the the nest before stainless steel was curved into various concept of red peppers. Two giant wooden red shapes to form stable structures. Overall, the concept portals are placed at angles on the facade and red of an oriental garden integrated natural landscape is used throughout. Dining booths are divided by elements in the interior design. wooden frames like pavilions. Interior Design | Bar & Restaurant EXCELLENCE COMPANY: OPENUU COMPANY: Hirsch Bedner Associates Hong Kong PROJECT: Mean Noodles PROJECT: Le Bistrot LOCATION: Sheung Wan, Hong Kong LOCATION: Zhongshan The design team are also the chef-owners of this Traditional steel-framed French market halls, modern casual noodle bar, which has green stainless- bistros and tea rooms inspired this all-day dining venue. steel window frames and logo, and a vintage Space audits provided the optimum layout and more metal concrete finish. The main colour choices are sustainable use of floor areas. More than 90 percent of green, white and mustard yellow, with white marble lighting is LED. Materials passed local codes for toxicity tabletops and marble mosaic tiles, subtle green and pollutants, while locally sourced products reduced grout, green floral tiles and mustard-yellow chairs. the carbon footprint.

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COMPANY: Karv One Design PROJECT: Blossom School LOCATION: Chengdu

Pastel colours are used throughout the children’s play and education area of this sales centre that will later become an education and shared community space. The 3,520sqm (38,000sqf) space is based on the idea of a children’s storybook with curved walls and rounded forms. In addition to eight classrooms, a staff office, music room, cafe area COMPANY: Bluemoon Design COMPANY: HCD Impress Shenzhen Baihe and a hall, the complex has a giant slide and ball pit. PROJECT: METAUTHOR · Aesthetic Life Construction The studio says it set out to create an interior that Experience Center PROJECT: Yango Poly Kuliang Hill Sales Center allowed visitors to explore the space in a relaxed LOCATION: Wuhan LOCATION: Fuzhou manner while providing elements that combine play with education. Contemporary art is used throughout the project to This 1,500sqm (16,000sqf) sales centre blends create a sense of harmony with the materials and a elements of Zen landscaping and tea culture using traditional Chinese aesthetic. At the entrance hall, natural materials that blend into the surroundings. Oil- an undulating horizontal sculpture is suspended over paper umbrellas inspired the lighting, which contrasts the reception desk and provides a mix of textures with the rough stone walls. French windows blur the alongside the vertical wooden stripes of the walls. The interiors and outside, and low wooden furniture, metal crystal chandelier spirals down from the atrium. lamps and grilles introduce contemporary elements.

COMPANY: One Plus Partnership PROJECT: Wuhan Panlong Plaza Yinxing Cinema LOCATION: Wuhan

The designers imagined this space as a cubic volume and applied a concept of subtraction, and a limited palette of materials and colour to emphasise the form of the architecture. Grey cement is the sole material used for the cinema COMPANY: Enjoy Design COMPANY: HCD Impress Shenzhen Baihe walls, ceiling, pillars and floor, and the colour PROJECT: Vanke Forest Park Sales Center Construction extends to the chairs, wall and carpet in the LOCATION: Chongqing PROJECT: Xi’an Legend Chanba the Willow Shores auditoriums. The walls are made with acoustic Sales Center panels in the pattern of the outline of lobby’s Located nearby Chongqing Central Park, the sales LOCATION: Xi’an space structure. Lights are installed between the centre is intended to be used as a kindergarten in acoustic panels, creating a 3D effect, while the the future. The building is sheltered by a 5,000sqm This modern 600sqm (6,500sqf) sales centre utilises pattern on the wall is also applied to the carpet. (54,000sqf) fir forest; the design integrates the folk element of north-eastern China – classical interior space with natural environment by largely landscaping and ancient wooden interior structures – using wood and soft furnishings with shades of green transformed by modern skills. The interiors have wooden and leather furniture in grey. shelves, and raw-wood tea tables, rattan furniture, natural stone and red brick. The glass art lighting with a rain-drop shape is inspired by the Ba River.

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COMPANY: Lead8 COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: One Plus Partnership Limited PROJECT: MixC Shenzhen Bay PROJECT: CR Land Foshan Yueli Mansion Sales PROJECT: Kunming Dowell Real Estate Puyue PROJECT: Nanjing Omnijoi International Cinema LOCATION: Sales Centre LOCATION: Nanjing LOCATION: Foshan LOCATION: Kunming The 8ha MixC Shenzhen Bay combines experiential The ‘rain flower pebble’ pattern of layering earthy retail spaces, entertainment, F&B, pedestrian- The design of this sales office is based on simple The designers combine linear elements with modern colours is characteristic of Nanjing. The designers orientated spaces, sustainable design elements, green modernism dominated by straight lines, occasionally styles, using wood veneer and metal interspersed turned the traditional pattern into abstract cubic pixels parks and new transport links. The coastal mangrove interspersed with curves. Extensive stone on interiors with modern art. A spiral stair winds through the sales on the walls, while in the lobby they created four sets forests and ‘floating islands’ were the inspiration for ensures simplicity. The glass curtain wall presents a centre encased by stone and wood bookshelves. Art- of sculptures in different shapes and heights for the the organically shaped forms. The mall’s interiors transparent three-dimensional sense, and the indoor lighting is employed extensively, especially the gridded audience to sit on. follow the existing streets around the development, glass wall closure unifies the interior, the building and system of globes in the negotiation area. dividing the mall into three blocks. the surrounding environment.

COMPANY: Lestyle Design COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: Nature Times Art Design COMPANY: Pulse On Partnership PROJECT: Vanke Emerald Art Gallery PROJECT: Hangzhou Lvcheng Helu Life House PROJECT: Yoland-City Sales Center PROJECT: Shanghai Palace Cinema LOCATION: Wenzhou LOCATION: Hangzhou LOCATION: Shaoxing LOCATION: Shanghai

Minimal design, a restricted colour palette and The repeated use of grey throughout unifies the An ancient tree and an ink-slab stone stage in the Square frames of film inspired the design of the modern art are the defining elements of this space: design creating a modern simplicity with natural wood middle of the atrium recall the traditions of the literati cinema, with grilled frames of different dimensions the reception area has a stone counter against a and accents of light orange and blue. Most of the in ancient China, the inspiration for the centre. forming patterns and overlapping. In the entrance bare concrete wall and is flooded with light. Using furniture is wood, with cotton and linen, leather, metal Audio-visual, model displays and negotiating rooms lobby, gigantic brass-toned iron frames hang from the austere woods, elegant contemporary furniture, simple and marble. Sculptural pieces are by British artist are placed around the atrium. Warm grey is the ceiling, intersecting at various heights. The design colours and concrete, the design conveys a sense of Antony Gormley. predominant colour. concept and colour scheme continue in the auditorium tranquillity. with horizontal and vertical lines on the walls.

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COMPANY: Ricky Wong Designers COMPANY: Shanghai Heshen Architectural Design COMPANY: Lia Design COMPANY: Yebin Interior Design Studio PROJECT: Central Park Sales Center PROJECT: Gemdale • Hangzhou China Chic Sales PROJECT: CMSK Yongjingwan Marketing Centre PROJECT: Choclab LOCATION: Yancheng Centre Ganzhou – The Landscape of Song City LOCATION: Hangzhou Simple minimalist structures with clean angular lines LOCATION: Hangzhou LOCATION: Ganzhou use high-quality materials including wood, steel, CHOCLAB is a fashion store and restaurant that marble and glass. In the reception, wooden grilles The sales centre’s materials include various grey The design is an interpretation of some ancient hides behind a door that seems to be permanently cover part of the walls and two passageways add marbles, bronze-coloured grained stainless steel, monuments in Songzhou City and incorporates closed. The uncluttered white and gold interiors are formality. Stainless-steel frames used as gridded wine and metal curtains. The modern facade transitions to calligraphy in the interiors. Materials include artificial divided into zones by criss-crossing rods. On the racks echo the extensive large-scale bookshelves and interiors awash with oriental references. The ceiling wood fossil, glass brick, wood veneer and crêpe art second floor, iron black walls, polished metal and partition the spaces. of the lobby rises gradually; the model display area, glass. The glass bricks provide a modern light and warm-toned leather change the mood. book bar, and negotiation area are arranged along a transparent treatment but refer to the glass bricks on central axis. the wall of the ancient city.

COMPANY: Shanghai Heshen Architectural Design COMPANY: Shanghai Heshen Architectural Design COMPANY: Spacemen COMPANY: Zest Art PROJECT: CMSK • Rsun Hangzhou Sino Town PROJECT: Rsun • Huzhou Renhuan Mountain PROJECT: By Experimental Store PROJECT: Carp Joy Club Sales Center Sales Center LOCATION: Shanghai LOCATION: Xiamen LOCATION: Hangzhou LOCATION: Huzhou Part retail store and part art gallery, this flexible The Carp Joy Club is a kids’ club that has colourful The light-filled sales centre references Hangzhou Surrounded by mountains and greenery, the neo- multifunction 815sqm (8,800sqf) space can be and stimulating spaces for learning – a book bar, architecture with brushed metal, wired glass, Chinese Chinese-style sales centre incorporates references changed out rapidly. Tiered seating that doubles as robot room, piano room and theatre. Fish-shaped ink-and-wash painting, walnut wood veneers and grey to historical elements, reflecting the area’s history. display is made from more than 600 recycled plastic decorations hang from ceilings and bubble lamps and white marble. In the model display area, drop- Elements of the local mountains and rivers are shipping pallets that can be reconfigured. The store is and wave-shaped shelves continue the imagery. The shaped pendent lamps at staggered heights appear incorporated in the design, with pendent light fixtures divided into a series of separate spaces differentiated designers say natural scenes and sensory experiences to flow. The negotiation area has Chinese ink-wash like curved like waves. The bar area is inspired by tea by floor treatments. encourage children to discover the beauty of nature. paintings that match the interior. culture, with cabinets housing teapots.

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COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: LW PROJECT: Wuhan Jindi Beichen Yuefenghua PROJECT: Raffles, One Shenzhen Bay Sales Center LOCATION: Shenzhen LOCATION: Wuhan The design team was tasked with creating a Located in the culturally and historically important contemporary interior that pays respect to Chinese East and West Lake region, a traditional courtyard culture. The client wanted to integrate the location layout is used throughout the whole project. Visitors of the hotel in One Shenzhen Bay into the design arrive at the core region of the sales centre by a and to take full advantage of the spectacular views winding path and reach the first yard through two of the Pearl River Delta and the mountains. Visitors retro solid wood gates. The lobby has a glass outer are transported from the double volume ground framework, a water feature and an ancient screen. floor entrance straight to the Sky Lobby on the After moving through a winding, outdoor corridor, 34th floor and its views. Materials used include visitors come to the video room, a sand table area timber, marble and metal details, paired with softer and the discussion area, all represented in modern accents. The 168 rooms and suites are accessed techniques and traditional materials such as by corridors that showcase interesting artefacts. antique-style metal, water-textured glass and rattan plaited materials.

Interior Design | Institution BEST OF CATEGORY Interior Design | Green & Sustainable Design EXCELLENCE COMPANY: Ronald Lu & Partners PROJECT: Learning Resource Centre of Beijing COMPANY: Matrix Design Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist PROJECT: Greenland · Foshan Gaoming Jingulang University United International College Resort Town LOCATION: Zhuhai LOCATION: Foshan The 700-seat Learning Resource Centre sits beside This project integrates ancient architecture, Lingnan an artificial lake and houses a library; it also hosts scenery, culture, pottery, Cantonese opera and other events. With a limited budget, bookshelves from the cultural and historical elements. In the reception lobby, old library were re-used, radiating from the central the designer takes the themes of gravel, mountains and sculptural staircase to the glass curtain walls. The wood and applies them to the space. Artistic central atrium has a black circular staircase rising furnishings sit alongside a tea table made of old- four storeys. Tailor-made floor covering printed in growth-ring wood. a grass pattern creates a comfortable indoor lawn. Extending from the atrium, an inner box houses the computer hub, study stations and reading area. Individual study areas are arranged along the curtain wall, allowing light and views of greenery.

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COMPANY: Matrix Design PROJECT: Jinke Oriental Aesthetics Chine Sales Center LOCATION: Guiyang

Taking its cue from the architectural design, the interior utilises oval shapes in different sizes, creating a sense of rhythm and fun, with the curved lines echoing the terrain. A doorway on the facade is oval-shaped as are interior arches and bookshelves, while curved lines wind through the COMPANY: LW COMPANY: Ronald Lu & Partners ceilings. Local street culture, especially tea drinking PROJECT: Raffles, One Shenzhen Bay PROJECT: Hyatt Place & Hyatt House Shanghai also inspired the design. White is used throughout LOCATION: Shenzhen Hongqiao CBD with high-quality materials – wood, cotton, linen, LOCATION: Shanghai leather – in natural colours and occasional accents Warm timber, marble and metal details in the 34th- in orange and blue. Traditional Asian arts such floor Sky Lobby do not distract from the views. The Design differentiates the two adjacent hotels that are as pottery, tea sets, ikebana, incense lore and lobby leads into a 500sqm (5,400sqf) all-day dining aimed at different markets – Hyatt Place for business calligraphy are also deployed. restaurant with a black lacquered door and a duck- travellers and Hyatt House for casual family stays. egg blue shagreen inset. Floors are of white marble, Hyatt Place has colourful contemporary furniture, light timber and hand-made rugs while bronze pendent lamps and display shelves to give a corporate screens divide spaces. feel. Hyatt House is more homely and informal.

Interior Design | Office BEST OF CATEGORY

COMPANY: LSDCASA PROJECT: OCT&VANKE The Riviera Art Gallery Interior Design | Lobby LOCATION: Nanchang EXCELLENCE Located on the west bank of Xianghu Lake, the project takes the form of a floating square box COMPANY: logon.design connected by a sculpture to the park entrance. PROJECT: Central Plaza Clear and restrained design and simple materials LOCATION: Shanghai combine with black, white and grey as the main interior colours. The reception hall on the first floor The brief was to review, upgrade and rebrand this is an extension of the relationship between the 20-year-old building, enhance user comfort and match water court and the building. The hall on the second contemporary market trends and needs. The newly floor connects the exterior annular ramp of the video designed Central Plaza is LEED Gold certified and has and audio room and the interior. A sand tray along modern offices and retail, food, and beverage spaces. the central axis looks like a small lake and the lights The entrance welcomes visitors with a modernised urban on the ceiling are like rain that drops on the lake. space, new signage and new lighting.

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COMPANY: Nature Times Art Design PROJECT: Bodi Center LOCATION: Hangzhou

Located on the 32nd floor of the Bodi Center, the highest building in Hangzhou, the project has been called ‘a hermit shelter above clouds’, responding to demands of ‘modern hermits’ for a spiritual life and ideal working place. The project is on one side of the rounded triangular building that is one COMPANY: Kris Lin International Design COMPANY: M Moser Associates of three towers in the centre. The space interprets PROJECT: Glass Stage PROJECT: Accenture Greater China Digital Hub the idea of oriental philosophy that chaos and LOCATION: Shanghai LOCATION: Shanghai tranquil coexist, aiming to balance two seemingly contradictory elements and enable people to gain This leasing and investment centre on the top floor The two-floor facility weaves longtang (a typical inner peace. of an office building incorporates reception, offices, Shanghai residence) concepts with a modern, a bar and rest area with a transparent glass meeting industrial twist. The lower floor is an interactive digital room in the centre. The design was created on 3D centre while the upper floor adopts an open-space interior design software that solved problems of air- plan with mobile working and collaboration areas. Key conditioning, fire control and other equipment. elements of the design are connectivity, digital and technology, and flexibility; key materials are bricks, tiles, steel and glass.

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CATEGORY: Best Public Space COMPANY: Matrix Design PROJECT: Times Group Foshan Lion Mountain Club LOCATION: Foshan

The design promotes a sense of calm with light, colour, form and texture, and combines elements of the local environment through simple modernism. Pale coloured stone and polished marble create a warm texture and rich sense of quality. The reception COMPANY: F Space Design COMPANY: Kris Lin International Design desk is pale grey marble and the cantilevered stairs PROJECT: Supreme Fitness PROJECT: Treasured Mansion rise around a vertical column, which like the rest of LOCATION: Kunming LOCATION: Qingdao the foyer, is made of pale gold stone laid in horizontal rungs that provide a unifying and discreet texture. Stainless steel and white are used throughout the The project is two floors of a clubhouse of a residence Soaring double-height windows flood the sparsely decor, highlighted by professional lighting design. community with a cafeteria, tea house, reading room, furnished foyer with light. White stone in the elevator hall contrasts with library, yoga, gym, swimming pool and children’s dark wood and leather furniture, creating a mix of learning area. Because ceilings were low, 3D minimalism and luxury. The large-scale futuristic ceiling modelling was used to explore the size, dimension and lamp has textured punched-aluminium sheeting. height of light lines as well as ergonomics.

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COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: Couture Homes Properties COMPANY: Studio 1618 PROJECT: Chengdu Green Town Feng Qi Chao PROJECT: Vanke JunYi Sales Centre and PROJECT: DUKES PLACE PROJECT: Regent on the Park Ming Sales Centre Clubhouse Chengdu LOCATION: Jardine’s Lookout & Wong Nai Chung LOCATION: Mid-Levels, Hong Kong LOCATION: Chengdu LOCATION: Chengdu Gap, Hong Kong This 200sqm (2,100sqf) apartment was reconfigured The project uses local environmental characteristics Decorations all express the theme ‘a hermitage in the The facade of DUKES PLACE combines premium as a showcase for the client’s art and vintage – the warm light of this city and beautiful reflections in city’. The negotiation area is square with a chandelier, Italian stone and a glass curtain wall adorned with furniture collection. The design goal was to recreate the lake. The negotiation zone is a square layout with and stone matches artistic glass and wooden screens. champagne gold metallic curves. The interior of the the energy of the belle époque by merging different large areas of stone that match an artistic glass and Green plants are used throughout in contrast to the duplex apartment was led by British designer Tara styles, often within the same room. The rich materiality wood screen. Materials and colours contribute to an hard decoration and the quality leather furniture to Bernerd, who integrated the external curves into the is further echoed in the kitchen with coloured tiles by atmosphere of a warm and cosy home. create a warm and cosy domestic feel. interior architecture to create a soft and seamless flow Fired Earth. between spaces.

COMPANY: Matrix Design COMPANY: The Oval Partnership COMPANY: LSDCASA COMPANY: Win-Win Design PROJECT: Shanghai Jindi Zhuqiao AD2040 Sales PROJECT: Qujiang Creative Cultural Centre PROJECT: Gemdale Villa PROJECT: Splendid Mansion Center LOCATION: Xi’an LOCATION: Guangzhou LOCATION: Hangzhou LOCATION: Shanghai This state-of-the-art multi-functional theatre The building is a six-storey villa with three floors The villa’s living room is grey-blue with Chinese wash The main materials employed are marble with metal, introduces elements and materials that evoke a above ground and one underground. The designers and ink paintings, bowls, dishes and cups. All the contemporary artistic glass and wood veneers. The modern re-interpretation of the architectural traditions used the original plot-level difference to raise the materials, textures, lamps, plants and artworks are negotiation area integrates traditional and modern of Xi’an. The Chinese lian lian, a connecting structure garden to provide privacy. The family’s living and selected to enhance the oriental atmosphere. The Chinese elements such as the metal screens that or corridor, is created using 8,000 finely crafted social spaces are between the ground and the master suite is mainly in jade green and decorated make the space quieter. The diffused light source bronze metal flutes suspended from the ceiling and ‘negative’ third floor while bedrooms and other living with stone hills, water ripples, pine trees and flowers. around the pool provides a play of light and shadow. a 13-metre-long metallic draping chain veil provides spaces are from the ground up to the third floor. Modern art is interspersed throughout. contrasting softness.

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COMPANY: LIXIL WATER TECHNOLOGY ASIA COMPANY: LIXIL WATER TECHNOLOGY ASIA PROJECT: American Standard | EasyFLO PROJECT: INAX | Aqua POWER Pressure Boosting Collection and Water Saving Hand Shower LOCATION: Singapore LOCATION: Singapore EasyFLO’s mono faucets with newly developed INAX’s innovative hand shower has unique pressure- push-valve technology feature a modern, minimal yet boosting and water-saving technology that addresses intuitive design – just a single button to turn the water water pressure, scarcity and quality issues for on and off. The two-piece design of the basin faucet’s people in parts of Asia. Without complex internal body and the use of plastic for the shower products mechanisms, the inside cavity and micro perforated offers several colours and finishes. spray face boost the water flow while keeping the spray stable under different pressure levels.

Product Design | Smart Device BEST OF CATEGORY COMPANY: LIXIL WATER TECHNOLOGY ASIA PROJECT: American Standard | EasySET Shower System COMPANY: Public Design Lab, The Polytechnic University Hong Kong LOCATION: Singapore PROJECT: Smartrack The EasySET push-button shower options were LOCATION: Hong Kong developed for smaller Asian bathrooms in locations Smartrack is a revolutionary system for guiding visually impaired persons where space is a luxury. It combines a sizeable (VIPs) to walk on pavements safely and confidently. VIPs receive information showerhead, a multi-spray hand shower, an easily about the path through a vibration pulse from a specially designed cane adjustable hand-shower holder with a control unit and also the tactile sensations under foot. Smartrack uses radio-frequency featuring a large storage tray, two knobs to activate identification (RFID) technology with a thin RFID tag attached inside the water outlets and adjust the flow, as well as one individual tactile-path tiles. The sensor at the tip of the cane can recognise knob for temperature adjustment. The control unit was the tactile path within a 20cm range. designed to be like a shelf, where users can store toiletries and accessories. The rectangular format showerhead offers a soothing shower experience while the EasyGLIDE holder allows users to adjust quickly and precisely the position and inclination of the hand shower. Compared to many existing shower systems, EasySET offers a more direct control of the outlets and a more precise adjustment of the water flow thanks to the unique push-and-turn valve technology developed by the parent company in Japan, LIXIL.

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