Press Release
Arthur Yang Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Whyte Woolf Fitness Club in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Arthur Yang honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Whyte Woolf Fitness Club by Arthur Yang, designed for Outerspace Design Firms. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Whyte Woolf Fitness Club
Whyte Woolf is a fitness club interior located in Dalian. The project covers 1700 square meters inside a building with church form architecture. The original ceiling was fully preserved and then painted with murals that use anatomy as their subject, replacing traditional mythological scenes with a modern visual language. Terrazzo, steel plate, aluminium alloy and hollow sheet are the main materials. The intent is to keep the spirit of the traditional form while creating a clearly different interior experience.
Award Record
With this recognition, Arthur Yang is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2019 - 2020 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/96452
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/96452
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!96452
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/254956
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.outerspcedesign.com.cn
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Whyte Woolf Fitness Club
- Function
- Fitness Club
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Silver and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Outerspace Design Firms
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Arthur Yang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #96452
Credits
- Team
- Ye Yang、Xinan Zhou
- Image Credits
- #1: Photographer Xinan Chou, Whyte Woolf Fitness Club, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Church form architecture is already rare in the East, giving the impression that most people are sacred, and the ceiling painted mythological stories, which seems to have formed a fixed mind. This work wants to express how to design a different type of space in a building with a sense of form. Breakthrough became the first theme. Breakthroughs don't mean giving up traditional things, but retaining important parts to change.
- Inspiration
- Most western churches have ceiling frescoes, and this work wants to break through tradition and use anatomy as the subject of murals. Both natural and artificial things can be dissected. break the traditional form while maintaining its spirit.
- Research
- After observing and studying the interior decoration of similar buildings at home and abroad, choose an easy modern way to solve it. Fully preserved the top of the original building, graffiti part of it.
- Challenge
- How to create completely different visual patterns in a traditional building is the challenge. Obstacles stem from how the public's acceptance is assessed.
- Realization and Technology
- Terrazzo , Steel plate, Aluminium alloy,Hollow sheet.
- Operation and Interaction
- Through reading to understand tradition and classics, let the past serve the present. The specific method is that traditional ceiling frescoes are expressed in modern language.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2019 and finish in August 2019 design for three month, and was construction in Dalian.
- Keywords
- Fitness, Break though, Church, Difference, Dissection.
