Zhi Lan
Zhi Lan Sustainable Hotel by Jinxiang Zhao is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design.
Zhi Lan is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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The Zhi Lan Sustainable Hotel design transforms a former industrial facility into an eco-friendly destination where innovation meets nature. Retaining the steel frame's industrial charm, the project integrates lush greenery, scenic walkways, and a sewage purification system to create a self-sustaining ecosystem. Intelligent systems and water recycling optimize energy efficiency while reducing costs and environmental impact. This visionary project honors the factory’s legacy and redefines sustainable architecture by harmonizing human activity with nature.
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Zhi Lan by Jinxiang Zhao
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Sustainable Hotel
Accolades
Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Award Winner in 2025.
Bronze Winner
Zhi Lan Sustainable Hotel
Zhi Lan is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Zhi Lan is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Zhi Lan splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Jinxiang Zhao
LAFA innovation is a group of young designers from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, dedicated to sustainable development and technological innovation. With backgrounds in environmental design, user experience, and product design, they explore creative solutions to social and ecological challenges. Their work integrates industrial heritage, green ecology, and intelligent systems to promote environmentally conscious design. Actively engaged in social initiatives, they strive to enhance public well-being and explore the relationship between humanity and nature through design.
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Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA) in Liaoning, China, is one of China's top eight fine art academies and a leading public art university. Founded in 1938 in Yan’an, it is known as the cradle of New China’s art. LAFA boasts experienced faculty, diverse programs, and influential campuses in Shenyang and Dalian.
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