Kris Lin

China | Total Awards: 111 | Total Score: 489

2001 came to Shanghai and built “KLID Design Office” to work on the interior design for architecture.

Kris Lin Specializations and Capabilities

Category	Ranking	Awards	Score
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	1	75	322
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	2	17	88
Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design	3	6	25
Spatial Design	1	6	24
Lighting Products and Fixtures Design	25	2	10
Excellence in Design	3	1	6
Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design	14	1	4
Construction and Real Estate Projects Design	8	1	4
Trade Show Architecture, Interiors, and Exhibit Design	7	1	4
Furniture Design	899	1	2

Statistical Data on Kris Lin

Awards Distribution

Award Categories

Overall Statistics

Total Awards: 111
Total Score: 489
Average Score: 4.41
Top Categories:
- 75 awards in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Worldwide.
- 17 awards in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Worldwide.
- 6 awards in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Worldwide.
- 6 awards in Spatial Design Worldwide.
- 2 awards in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Worldwide.

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Royal One

Royal One

Primary Function

Private Club House

Description

This private club is crafted for wine enthusiasts and hosts of social gatherings, aiming to balance personal indulgence with social interaction. Circular design elements symbolize harmony, embodying the Unity of Heaven and Human principle and connecting design with emotions. A water droplet art piece adds an artistic touch, symbolizing life's vitality and merging natural elements with modern design. This initiative redefines the role of private clubs and explores spatial aesthetics and humanistic philosophy.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Platinum	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Jenga

Jenga

Primary Function

Community Public Building

Description

The project is a public building at the entrance of a residential community, occupying 1200 square meters and housing four main functions: commercial space, community lobby, property management office, and equipment room. However, space constraints arise due to setbacks from adjacent buildings and redline restrictions. Drawing inspiration from the childhood game Jenga, the design integrates each functional area like interconnected blocks, resulting in a cohesive and unified exterior façade, enhancing overall unity.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Gold	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Unbounded

Unbounded

Primary Function

Office

Description

The project, targeting corporate spirit and real-world work requirements, amalgamates diverse functionalities such as office work, reception, meetings, tea tasting, collecting, resting, and fishkeeping. Adopting a Unbounded design concept and utilizing modern materials like mirrors and stainless steel, it aims to achieve an infinite extension and maximal continuity of space. This approach seeks to break away from the constraints of traditional closed offices, creating an open, multi functional working environment.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Gold	2024	Kris Lin International Design

The Crystal Clubhouse

The Crystal Clubhouse

Primary Function

Community Shared Space

Description

The project aims to establish a community-shared clubhouse to foster social interaction. Featuring amenities such as a tea room, shared library, sunlit swimming pool, gym, and yoga studio, it seeks to deepen family communication and create a healthy community. Inspired by crystal and employing integrated design, the project creates a lightweight and transparent glass building, enhancing space transparency and openness to cultivate a vibrant community atmosphere.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Gold	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Ruyi

Ruyi

Primary Function

Exhibition Center

Description

The designer carries out the second creation by extracting, analyzing, and abstracting the shape of Ruyi to express the contemporary design with new materials and construction methods. In this construction, a steel structure is used to make a curved shape. The entire facade is covered by white aluminum plates with each plate processed into curves with different arcs through precise calculations. They are perfectly spliced to form a streamlined shape, forming a sense of modern technology and creating the charm of Ruyi. Every design detail is so fully displayed.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Platinum	2021	Zhengzhou Finance Island Construction Group Development Co. Ltd

White Mountain

White Mountain

Primary Function

Club House

Description

This is a community clubhouse that shows the future life of the community. The designer, inspired by the shape of the rolling hills, creates the surficial landscape which extends down to the visual surface of the building. In this way, the building's perception of solidity will be weakened to fully integrate into the urban space. It also reduces the interference of the building to the urban environment and maintains the continuity of the urban landscape space.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Platinum	2021	Galaxy Holding Group

Mirror

Mirror

Primary Function

Sales Center

Description

This sales office project, facing low ceilings and poor lighting, innovatively overcomes these challenges with design and material solutions. Mirror technology visually raises the ceiling above 5 meters, enhancing spatial perception. LED-lit translucent jade glass walls, made from recycled materials, and high-gloss finishes like reflective stone and lacquer, significantly improve lighting and visually expand the space, creating a bright and open area for display, sales, and reception.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Sky Spa

Sky Spa

Primary Function

Wellness Spaces

Description

The project, located on the top floor with expansive views, aims to create a rejuvenating Spa sanctuary where one can briefly escape the hustle and bustle of city life. Utilizing large floor to ceiling glass windows, it brings the sky indoors, facilitating a holistic experience of mind and body unity. Embracing the concept of Blue Sky, the design transforms the facade windows into floor to ceiling ones, recreating the sky's scenery. Additionally, through an open layout and large windows, it enhances air circulation, elevating the overall health benefits.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Dekton Cosentino Pavilion

Dekton Cosentino Pavilion

Primary Function

Exhibition

Description

Design Shanghai is Asia's most prestigious design event, bringing together over 600 domestic and international design brands from more than 40 countries. The event attracted nearly 200,000 visitors. The Spanish brand Dekton and Cosentino showcased their designs in a 150-square-meter booth, captivating the audience. The booth featured an open layout, offering product displays, client interactions, and coffee bar services, showcasing the characteristics of Dekton Slim stone panels, including their large size, thin profile, integration, and recyclability.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Trade Show Architecture, Interiors, and Exhibit Design	Silver	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Spiritual Bay Villa

Spiritual Bay Villa

Primary Function

Residential

Description

Located in Qingdao West Coast, China's ninth largest new district, this project presents exclusive first-line sea view villas. The villas boast open-plan layouts, ocean-view bedrooms, home theaters, tea rooms, and more, emphasizing "frame scene" design to transform sea views into living art through floor-to-ceiling windows. This modern minimalist approach enhances the focus on outside ocean vistas, allowing residents to immerse in nature's beauty without leaving home.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Bronze	2024	Kris Lin International Design

My Dream Home

My Dream Home

Primary Function

Public Welfare Renovation

Description

Oriental TV's Extreme Makeover Home Edition is one of China's highest rated public welfare TV programs, attracting over 500 million viewers. The show aims to improve the cramped living spaces of low income families through space renovation, providing better living conditions for vulnerable groups in society and giving back to the community through design. Integrating architectural, landscape, interior, and soft furnishing design, the program addresses issues such as limited space and poor ventilation.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Bronze	2024	Kris Lin International Design

Leaves

Leaves

Primary Function

Club House

Description

This is a community club, which is located halfway up a mountain. The scene of wind blowing leaves in autumn is the most beautiful here. The designer was inspired by the wind blowing through the leaves. Fully respecting Changsha's native landforms and what the city has to offer culturally, the design seeks to integrate local massifs and structures, which are a source of inspiration for this project, into indoor spaces. Beyond that, the rolling ceiling of the former building is retained as a means to mirror what a wavy mountain is like.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design	Gold	2021	Dowell

Skylight

Skylight

Primary Function

Sales Center

Description

This is a sales center in a community in Yiwu, China. The biggest problem the project designer faced is that the interior space is relatively deep. Also, there is no large glass curtain wall on the exterior of the building, which blocks the natural light and leads to poor indoor lighting. The design strategy is to employ skylights and introduces natural light in through the fifth facade of the building, thereby solving the problem of insufficient lighting in the interior space.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Gold	2021	YANGO

Central Park

Central Park

Primary Function

Sales Office

Description

The project is located at Xi'an, next to Xi'an's largest urban ecological park, about 113.4 hectares, and has become a natural landscape resource for the project. Every inch of land and every plant has got a very poetic expression. The designers hope to use the "Central Park" as the theme, combined with the guest line and use the "Introduction, elucidation, transition, and summary" design method to create a reception center with park experience.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Gold	2020	Gemdale Group

City Of Light

City Of Light

Primary Function

Community Center

Description

A river is in front of this project. The design concept from the rhythm of the water itself with the usage of the liquid-like blob architecture. The designer blends the curve with the geometric shape and forms a streamlined building with a sense of technology and future. It breaks the traditional concept of Founder architecture and integrates streamlined fashion design into architectural design so that the whole building looks like a streamlined ocean wave. The public space increase the interaction of the neighborhood. Everyone has more communities communication and people-to-people contact.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Gold	2020	EXCELLENCE GROUP

Flying

Flying

Primary Function

Exhibition Center

Description

The project is located at Jiangyin city on the edge of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is China's largest river, and it has nurtured the advanced Yangtze River Economic Belt. Designers use the advantages of geographical location to create an urban art experience center.This project is an integrated design that combines architecture, interior, landscape, and soft design.The whole design concept revolves around the flying over the water surface. Looking at the whole building, the design of the structure is like a pair of flying wings.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Gold	2020	Galaxy Holding Group

Snail Bay

Snail Bay

Primary Function

City Exhibition Hall

Description

The project is located in Kunming, it is also known as Flower City and Spring City. It is one of the most habitable cities in China. This case is the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings in Snail Bay. The Snail Bay Center is a government-led urban renewal project that was upgraded on the original site of Old Snail Bay. The designers’ strategy is to remove the external wall, dig its internal spatial memory and value, and endow it with proper temperament while preserving its structure and spatial pattern.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Architecture, Building and Structure Design	Gold	2020	Junfa Group

Shine City

Shine City

Primary Function

Sales Center

Description

The project is a sales center. Inspiration comes from traditional Chinese aesthetics. The design technique applied in inherits the artistic conception of Song Dynasty aesthetics.The earliest minimalists appeared in Song Dynasty. It is the minimalism expression of the oriental realm. It is the minimalism expression of the oriental realm. The design chooses silk used in paintings in Song Dynasty as a design element, and utilizes the artistic creation techniques of purity and leaving blank space to create a poetic atmosphere from sophistication to simple.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2021	GRANDJOY Holdings Group

Flow

Flow

Primary Function

Sale Center

Description

This is a sales and exhibition space for the community. Cube art installation before entering the interior, the purpose is to attract people's attention, people come here to take photos and enter the interior to visit. When people enter the interior, the curved wall resembles the ripples produced by the flow of curved water, which has the energy to form a dynamic vision, creating a fluid spatial form. Shaping the image of the future city.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2021	GRANDJOY

Sequence

Sequence

Primary Function

Showroom

Description

A community development display and sales space in Chongqing, China. The designer were inspired by the modern expression of traditional elements such as screens. It conveys the historical and cultural details with Chinese traditional introverted silence. The design interpret the classical element in a modern way, moreover, to inherit the culture in a humanistic way. In the small space, the elegant artistic conception of court gallery is displayed.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2021	Zhenro Group

Glass Core

Glass Core

Primary Function

Lobby

Description

The project located in Jiaxing, China. It has three floors connected by an elevator space in the atrium. The first floor is the office area, the second floor is the reception area, and the third floor is the brand display area, conversation area, VIP room, etc. Entering from the first floor and taking the elevator directly to the lobby on the third floor. In the elevator, the translucent glass is inlaid with metal material, and the texture is like white jade with gold rim, and it is like a white rainbow neon falling from the sky.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2021	Excellence Group

Rhythm

Rhythm

Primary Function

Sales Center

Description

In the wave of the development of the times, the designer tried to use the modern design language to interpret the spirit of the city and create a sense of the urban neighborhood and make it become the first display of the community spirit. The facade of the building uses textured reflective glass material. The surface of the glass reflects the natural landscape of the surrounding city. The structure inside the space and the skin are intertwined like a ribbon.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2020	Zhongnan Group

Frame

Frame

Primary Function

Sales Office

Description

The project is located in Tianjin. The high-speed South Railway Station Science and Technology Business District in this area will become a Beijing-Tianjin comprehensive transportation hub. The surrounding transportation is convenient. Designers hope that the shape of the art gallery in the box makes the project a visual focus and attracts people's attention, and it is hoped that the outlook of the future living status of the area will be conveyed through design.The frame structure has two functions: one is the definition of function, and the other is the aesthetics of design.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2020	Zhenro Group

Textile

Textile

Primary Function

Art Center

Description

This case is an urban renewal and renovation project. Under the background of urban renewal, the designer has carried out a comprehensive study on the history and geographical features of the textile industry in Deqing County. Inspired by the Textile. The main body of the space follows the architectural structure of the old factory building and uses the architectural symbols of the broken lines to integrate the building into the interior to form an organic unity. It is like an art gallery that exists in a box.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design	Silver	2020	CFLD

Seeking Deer

Seeking Deer

Primary Function

Sales Office

Description

The project is divided into two floors, the one floor is the hall display area and the conversation area, and the second floor is the reception and office area. The designers break the second floor with a large-scale floor-to-ceiling window. And through the contrast between the fuzzy and the clear produced by the glass material, become a visual connection. A 6 meter long installation, "Deer of Life", is set up in the second-floor window area. Guests can see this "deer" through the window on the first floor.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Silver	2020	China Overseas Property

Fantasia Luwan 68

Fantasia Luwan 68

Primary Function

Apartment

Description

The apartment is located in a residential building at Shanghai. It is located in Shanghai Luwan District, here is the birthplace of Shanghai's indigenous people; There are Shanghai Shikumen architecture, there are western Baroque architecture. In the social area the intervention involved the removal of the existing dividing wall between the living room and the kitchen, thus providing a single wider space. It was not only a connecting and attractive link of the entire space but also a functional solution.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Bronze	2021	Fantasia

Banboo Windows

Banboo Windows

Primary Function

Sales Office

Description

Yuanye is the first monograph in China to comprehensively explain the principles of gardening, which is inseparable from China's long tradition of gardening, and reflects the highest state of human nature relations.The designers extracts the important landscape elements bamboo, combined with the traditional Chinese court etiquette and lyrical scenery and created a modern mansion with literary elegance and oriental courtyard order. This project has set up a variety of functional spaces such as the reception area, display area, conversation area, reading area, children's area, etc.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design	Bronze	2020	YANGO

Courtyard

Courtyard

Primary Function

Public Space

Description

This project is a space in the lobby and foyer located in a residential area in Shenyang. It is one way for the residents of this community to go home. The designers hope to use the Chinese courtyard as the design concept to create a homeward journey. The inspiration comes from the courtyard style design method of three-entry homes in traditional Chinese architecture to create a space with a three-entry model of the outer court—inner courtyard-inner house.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Interior Space and Exhibition Design	Bronze	2020	Gemdale Group

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