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Regarding the IES Lighting Award

The IES North American Society of Lighting Engineers has a history of 116 years, and since its establishment, the IES Lighting Award has been held annually. It is one of the most authoritative and oldest lighting design awards in the world. The IES Lighting Award aims to provide an opportunity for lighting design projects that demonstrate professionalism, intelligence, and creativity to gain public recognition.

This award, along with the Lighting Design Award presented by the British magazine "Lighting" and the IALD Lighting Award presented by the International Association of Lighting Designers, is known as one of the three most authoritative lighting design awards in the world today, representing the highest level of design in the global lighting field that year. Among them, the IES Lighting Award, which originated in 1973, has the longest history.

The lighting design project submitted for ELD in 2024 once again achieved excellent results and won two Excellence Awards at the 2024 IES Lighting Awards.

YOYO City outdoor architectural lighting won the IES Excellence Award

YOYO City is the sixth generation urban commercial complex in Yinchuan, with a total construction area of 200000 square meters. It plans to build a 130000 square meter shopping center, a 50000 square meter commercial outer street, and a 20000 square meter themed commercial street. Jianfa Youyue City is committed to making Yinchuan easier to explore, more fun to sleep in, and more ecological.

YOYO City adheres to the four new concepts of "new ideas, new formats, new brands, and new experiences", positioning itself as a "young, fashionable, trendy, natural, and diverse" consumer experience. It aims to create Yinchuan's first "customized beautiful life center", "urban beautiful life center", "diversified commercial scene experience center", "multi story" commercial complex, and "urban symbiosis" architectural ecological concept.

The wind chime curtain wall and the spiritual fortress form the core display surface and memory point of the project lighting. The wind chime curtain wall floats with the wind under the action of the wind, and the color of the exterior wall lighting intersects and reflects with the scales of the curtain wall, instantly transforming the monotonous light color into vitality and blending with nature, turning the light into a three-dimensional, sparkling and ever-changing visual feast.

The inspiration for the lighting design of YOYO City is to showcase diverse architectural styles, create a rich and luxurious shopping environment atmosphere, and reflect the colorful regional culture of the Loess Plateau and Ningxia Plain. The focus of the lighting design is to highlight the display of the main entrance and spiritual fortress. Through the facade and indoor lighting effects of the buildings along the street, a city level landmark night check-in point is created, and dynamic interactive lighting is used to light up the nightlife of YOYO City in the south.

YOYO City indoor commercial lighting won the IES Excellence Award

The indoor commercial area of YOYO City has five main themes in Ningxia: the first indoor waterfall ecological landscape, the first indoor rooftop garden, a floating bubble world, a vertical green experience ecological theater, and a pixel atrium. The indoor lighting of the mall is mainly designed and innovated around these theme scenes, reflecting the unique business model of "business+culture+tourism" through the combination of lighting and interior design elements. By constantly changing the lighting mode, the mall presents a modern, artistic, and technological atmosphere, allowing consumers to feel a "young, fashionable, trendy, natural, and diverse" consumption experience, and creating Yinchuan's first "customized beautiful life center".In the lighting design concept of this case, a detailed analysis and definition are carried out around the relationship between the building's functional use, commercial positioning, business distribution, and surrounding environment. Through appropriate brightness, color, color temperature, illuminance ratio, harmonious light and shadow contrast, and the combination of creative lighting elements at multiple levels and elements, it not only showcases the new generation of commercial complexes and the local customs of the northwest region, but also reflects the colorful culture of the Loess Plateau and Ningxia Plain, presenting a high-quality night light environment for the audience in the northwest region, enhancing the gathering ability of Youyue City's commercial atmosphere, and showcasing the diversified consumption style of the new generation shopping center.