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Paul Liu and Hank Xia Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Xiamen Marriott Hotel Hotel in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design
Paul Liu and Hank Xia acknowledged for hospitality, recreation, travel and tourism design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Xiamen Marriott Hotel Hotel by Paul Liu and Hank Xia, designed for PLD/ Paul Liu Design Consultants (HK) Co., Ltd, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design category. The award was conferred within the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Xiamen Marriott Hotel Hotel
Elements of tea culture and the hotel's coastal surroundings beauty combined to inspire the project's modern bespoke furnishings and light color palette. Xiamen Marriott Hotel covers an area of more than 60,000 square meters and features 366 contemporary rooms and suites. With only a few steps away to the seaside, this fantastic location hotel is designed to cater for the guests who are looking for an escape from their corporate retreats in CBD and offer a more relaxing and unique meeting destination.
About Paul Liu and Hank Xia
Since the establishment of 1996, PLD has been recognized as a trusted name in the delivery of unparalleled quality service to the interior design industry. The company’s professional services categories range from commercial, high-end international hotel to customized residential dwellings. With more than 30 years’ of design experiences, PLD has great award-winning experiences, such as “London Design Awards” “American International Design Awards” “Top 10 China Hotel Design Institute” “Idea-Tops International Space Design Award” “Top 10 Plantinum Brand Design Company” “World Hotel Continental Diamond Awards”…
Award Record
With this recognition, Paul Liu and Hank Xia is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Award
The A' Hospitality Design Award is an international hospitality design competition recognizing good hospitality designs by best hospitality designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to hospitality designers, architects, hospitality brands and hotel chains from all countries. Entries typically include hotels, restaurants, resorts, cafes, bars and cruise ships. Awarded hospitality designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/hospitality
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/83972
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/83972
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!83972
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/246426
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/xmnxi-xiamen-marriott
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Xiamen Marriott Hotel Hotel
- Function
- Hotel
- Category
- Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Food & Hospitality and Sports
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Cadet Blue and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- PLD/ Paul Liu Design Consultants (HK) Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Paul Liu and Hank Xia
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #83972
Credits
- Team
- Paul Liu-Founder & Design Director, Hank Xia- Partner & Design Director, Celine Shi-Design Decoration Director and Danny Hu-Construction Drawing Director
- Image Credits
- Paul Liu Design Consultants (HK) Co., Ltd
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Xiamen Marriott Hotel covers an area of more than 60,000 square meters and features 366 contemporary rooms and suites, three-meal restaurant, Chinese restaurant and specialty restaurant, 8 meeting rooms & 2 ball rooms, fitness centre, pool & spa and a sweet shop. With only a few steps away to the seaside, this fantastic location hotel is designed to cater for the guests who are looking for an escape from their corporate retreats in CBD and offer a more relaxing and unique meeting destination.
- Inspiration
- Drawing inspiration from the local elements of tea culture and the coastal surroundings, the designer use modern bespoke furnishing and light color palette to define the interior design style so as to better coincide with the exterior heavy structure shape in a more balance and harmony way. Inspired by the universal story of migration and reunion, the All Day Dining reflects a contemporary reclaimed farmhouse aesthetic where urban sensibilities and rural roots coexist in harmony.
- Challenge
- One of the challenge facing is how to define the interior contemporary design style to match with the architectural structure shape in a more harmony vision at the same time with a balanced consideration of site, environment and program requirements. Further challenges are how to make the most efficient and economical floor plan configurations to maximize the percentage of floor area devoted to guest rooms and keep to a minimum the amount of circulation and service space, how to reduce as much as possible the walking distances for both the guest and housekeeping and management staff, how to locate public and service elevators and how to do the most appropriate configuration for the guest...
- Operation and Interaction
- The most efficient and economical floor plan configurations are maximized to devote to the guest rooms and keep a minimum amount of circulation and service space to reduce as much as possible the walking distances for both the guest and housekeeping and management staff, to relocate public and service elevators and assign the most appropriate configuration for the guest room to give the guests a greater connection to the site.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2014 and finished construction in 2017. Hotel start operating in March 2017 in Xiamen.
- Specifications
- The hotel covers 60,000sqm (645,840sqt).
- Keywords
- Xiamen Conference Centre, Marriott Hotel, Tongan District
