Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
Scanning this architectural photograph from background to foreground, listeners encounter a twilight sky occupying the upper third of the composition, graduating from pale steel blue near the horizon through progressively deeper azure tones toward an almost navy ultramarine at the upper edge, suggesting the transitional moment between day and night when warmth yields to coolness. Silhouetted against this atmospheric gradation, distant trees form a dark organic border at left and right edges, their bare branches creating delicate tracery against the luminous sky. Dominating the middle ground, a long horizontal building stretches nearly the full width of the image, its form a precise rectangular volume clad entirely in vertical glass panels that create a rhythmic pattern of narrow metallic frames. Through these transparent walls, the interior glows with theatrical illumination. At left center, an enormous oval shape perhaps fifteen feet tall radiates thousands of small amber-gold lights arranged in concentric patterns, creating a warm portal effect reminiscent of sunset or candlelight. This warm ellipse appears to float within a cooler blue-green interior space. Moving rightward, a large abstract sculptural form in vivid red, suggesting organic or flowing shapes, occupies the central interior zone, its warm crimson providing striking contrast against cooler surroundings. The right portion of the building glows with soft violet and magenta illumination, creating a gradient of color temperature across the facade. The lower half of the image presents a perfectly still reflecting pool, its dark surface creating an exact mirror image of the building above, doubling every light, every color, every vertical line into symmetrical repetition. The water appears smooth as polished obsidian, cool and glassy to imagined touch, extending forward toward the viewer.
The architectural concept is based on the artistic supremacism that reflected the social and technological changes of the 1920s, with the intention of expressing the mutual influence and interdependence between physical and virtual space in the digital age. As a reflection of the real world, this project attempts to look beyond a single function of the sales office through improved design, so that it can enhance the quality of public life and lead people strive for a better future and make a positive contribution to the community.