Press Release
Golden A' Design Award in Event and Happening Design Goes to Canaan Beauty Wedding Hall Design by Chevis Zhou
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Chevis Zhou for event and happening design
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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Canaan Beauty Wedding Hall Design by Chevis Zhou has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Event and Happening Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
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 Canaan Beauty Wedding Hall Design
Canaan Beauty is a forest-themed wedding hall designed in an oil-painting garden style. Orange-yellow tones prevail across the venue, supported by warm-toned flowers and decorations such as butterflies, a moon installation and firefly-like lights that recall the calm of a forest. The entrance hall is framed by flowers that conceal the real door. A meandering catwalk echoes the ladder structure of the main stage and adds visual depth. The main stage combines a Western-style church form with traditional Chinese wooden structures, and light and shadow create a flickering effect.
About Chevis Zhou
Chevis, a veteran banquet space designer with over 12 years of experience, is the visionary founder of the acclaimed Dongsi Aesthetic brand. As the only one in the Chinese mainland to receive AWP™ accreditation from the Association of Bridal Consultants (ABC), he has won several awards, including the Asian Wedding Vogue Designer of the Year, One Truss Award, and Golden Sign Design Award. At the helm of Dongsi’s eclectic design team, he leads a group of talented professionals from diverse backgrounds. They continually strive for excellence, weaving together a stunning tapestry of original and captivating artistic creations that inspire awe.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chevis Zhou is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Event and Happening Design Award
The A' Event Design Award is an international event design competition recognizing good event designs by leading event designers and organizers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to event designers, corporate event planners, wedding planners and festival organizers from all countries. Typical entries include trade fairs, award ceremonies, festivals, conferences, exhibitions and concerts. The awarded event designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/event
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/163944
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163944
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163944
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/353009
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Canaan Beauty Wedding Hall Design
- Function
- Wedding Hall Design
- Category
- Event and Happening Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chevis Zhou
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #163944
Credits
- Image Credits
- Chevis Zhou
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The whole venue uses orange-yellow as the prominent color scheme, using lots of warm-tone flowers and natural and wild fairy tale elements decorations, such as butterflies, the moon, and firefly-like lights, to reproduce the quietness and beauty of the forest. The main stage mimics a Western-style church with traditional Chinese wooden structures, aided by the interplay of light and shadow to present a flickering visual effect, creating a unique space.
- Inspiration
- Canaan Beauty is a forest-themed oil-painting garden-styled wedding hall. It is inspired by the good meaning of Canaan in the Old Testament of the Bible, aiming to build an extremely fantastic, beautiful, and romantic wedding hall.
- Research
- Nowadays a wedding is not only a ceremony but reflects the new couple's attitude towards life and expectations for the future. Drawing inspiration from the Promised Land depicted in the Bible, Canaan Beauty is a romantic, warm, beautiful, and sweet venue, satisfying new couples' personalized needs and aspirations for a better life.
- Challenge
- How to deliver a unique visual and emotional experience by integrating the Western romance-oriented design concept into the venue with Oriental aesthetics is the design challenge. Chinese wooden structures are applied to construct a Western-style church arch, creating a solemn and sacred atmosphere full of oriental charm. Lots of warm-tone flowers add a sense of warmth.
- Realization and Technology
- 1. Lots of warm-tone flowers and fairy tale elements (butterflies, the moon, firefly-like lights, etc.) reproduce the quietness and beauty of the forest. 2. The main stage mimics a Western-style church with traditional Chinese wooden structures, aided by the interplay of light and shadow to present a flickering visual effect, thus creating a sense of uniqueness and mystery. 3. The meandering catwalk echoes the ladder structure on the main stage, deepening the visual depth and layering.
- Operation and Interaction
- The entrance hall is surrounded by flowers that shelter the real door gate, enabling the bride to appear like a fairy walking out of a picture. Walking along the meandering catwalk with exquisite decorations on both sides is just like walking on a path in a serene forest. The main stage mimics a Western-style church with traditional Chinese wooden structures, aided by the interplay of light and shadow to present a flickering visual effect, thus creating a warm and sacred atmosphere.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in May 2023 in Heilongjiang.
- Specifications
- Hall- length*width*height (cm): 27.8*15.1*6.5 Large moon installation- diameter (cm): 3 Main stage- depth*width (cm): 6*9
- Keywords
- Themed wedding hall design, oil painting garden style, dreamlike and warm, combination of Chinese and Western culture, harmonious color schemes, creative space layout
