Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
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?
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.