Golden A' Design Award Winner 2024
SHENZHEN LUSHANG DESIGN CO,.LTD.'s Tianxia Chuanjiang Exhibition Center represents a masterful synthesis of contemporary architectural expression and cultural heritage interpretation, wherein the designers have created a spatial experience that honors regional riverine traditions while embracing the luminous possibilities of modern construction technology. The installation demonstrates exceptional sensitivity to the dialogue between material warmth and architectural coolness, positioning a dramatically suspended sculptural element—suggesting the curved hull forms of traditional wooden vessels—within a soaring atrium defined by geometric precision and refined material restraint. The suspended form functions as both visual anchor and cultural touchstone, its honey-toned timber construction and delicate linear composition evoking the craft traditions and waterway heritage that have shaped regional identity for centuries. The compositional achievement lies in the careful orchestration of scale relationships, wherein the grand vertical proportions of the architectural envelope provide appropriate context for the sculptural gesture while the intimate scale of the architectural models below invites close examination and contemplation. The latticed screen wall demonstrates sophisticated understanding of traditional construction principles translated into contemporary material expression, creating rhythmic visual cadence while establishing functional spatial separation. Light emerges as a primary design medium throughout, with the generous skylight system washing surfaces in a quality of illumination that shifts throughout the day, animating the reflective stone flooring and creating ever-changing atmospheric conditions. The curatorial presentation of architectural models within the elegantly curved white display island suggests an invitation to envision future built environments, positioning visitors as active participants in imagining community development. This exhibition center achieves that rare quality of institutional space that feels simultaneously grand and welcoming, technically sophisticated and warmly humane—might viewers consider how such environments shape their understanding of cultural continuity and contemporary aspiration?
The overall design of Tianxia Chuanjiang Exhibition Center unites architecture, interior and landscape in a balanced manner, allowing for a permeable integration between them. Using a combination of contemporaneity and artistry, it emphasizes the relationship between people, nature, fields, and materials, using a deeper, more comprehensive perspective to think about and define the connection between people and space, aiming to make people feel the coexistence of beauty and spirit.