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Huaxing Zhongrui Nordic Park Sales Office by Zao Li

Huaxing Zhongrui Nordic Park Sales Office

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021

Warm taupe and cool silver-gray tones establish the chromatic foundation of Zao Li's Huaxing Zhongrui Nordic Park Sales Office, where a monumental double-height lobby unfolds with architectural gravitas and refined material restraint. The composition organizes itself along a bilateral structure softened by asymmetrical sculptural interventions: to the left, a luminous vertical recess frames a pristine white marble reception desk behind which a solitary attendant stands, her figure providing essential human scale against the soaring panels of brushed metallic cladding that dominate the central wall. These wall panels, rendered in graduated tones of pewter and soft bronze, ascend with quiet verticality, their seams articulating a subtle rhythmic cadence. The spatial hierarchy pivots rightward where an extraordinary suspended installation cascades from the ceiling—dozens of hand-blown glass or crystal elements resembling organic water droplets frozen mid-descent, their translucent surfaces catching and fragmenting ambient light into cool blue-gray refractions. Below this kinetic sculptural intervention rest grounding counterpoints: an enormous shallow bronze vessel with a gently curved profile reminiscent of ceremonial offering bowls, flanked by two spherical stone sculptures whose concentric carved striations suggest geological time and meditative craft. The floor plane, polished to mirror-like reflectivity in tones of charcoal and slate, doubles every vertical element, creating an illusionistic depth that amplifies spatial grandeur. Lighting operates through concealed linear channels—a warm amber strip defines the reception alcove's perimeter while ambient illumination remains soft, diffused, and shadowless, evoking northern light quality. Textural dialogue emerges between the industrial sleekness of metal cladding, the organic irregularity of the suspended glass cluster, the tactile warmth of carved stone spheres, and the cool precision of polished marble surfaces.

From the exterior circular building structure to the internal spatial layout, the circle is the core. With the structural characteristics of the circular building, it diverges outward to form a spatial pattern relationship of opening and closing, virtual and solid. "Earth Park" as the theme, the space is based on the ethereal artistic conception of regional beauty, combined with modern materials, techniques, light and shadow and the opening and closing of space, and the changes of virtuality and reality create the "Mirror, Flower, Water and Moon Poem, understatement of the painting". This kind of poetic and picturesque space beauty.