The start ceremony  of Nanjing Branch of Asia Pacific Designers Federation (APDF) and the launch  ceremony of the tenth IAI Grand Prix were formally held in Youth  International Conference Center Hotel (Twin Tower) at 14:00 on March 7.

We are familiar with  the famous Twin Tower in Nanjing, which was specially built for Nanjing Youth  Olympic Games in 2014 by the renowned designer Zaha Hadid, who is one of the  APDF members. Zaha is known as “She-Devil” by  the architecture circles. She is famous for bold design model and is known as  “deconstruction master” by the architecture circles. Her seemingly ordinary  works always make bold use of space structure and geometric structure to  reflect the complicated characteristics of urban architecture.

Zaha always takes “breaking the architectural tradition” as the  objective and adheres to the idea of “making the building have better sense of  design” so that Zaha can develop novel works that transcend realistic  thinking mode and make a bold breakthrough. The event of this APDF is  organized in the space designed by Zaha which makes use of the simplest  material to rebuild the space, so that it is actually a homage to the  masters.

On the day of the  event, APDF urban and space innovation design forum and 4+4 dialogue were  also organized and nearly 1000 domestic and foreign outstanding designers  from Netherlands, UK, USA, Taiwan and Nanjing, China gathered in Nanjing, an  ancient capital for six dynasties. The collision of ideas about the domestic and foreign  design concepts can promote the cooperation and exchange between the upstream  and downstream industries in the design field and push the development of  design creativity industry in Nanjing to a new peak. This is exactly the  theme of Nanjing Branch of APDF-NEXT.

anghai. All  distinguished guests arrived at the site to gave their congratulations to the  foundation of Nanjing Branch of APDF. Meanwhile, Mrs. PIvetti, acting as the  President of Italian Only Italy Group, entered into the all-round strategic  cooperation agreement with He Changcheng, Founding President of APDF.  Moreover, Mrs. Zhang Xiaojing, President of Huaxia Tianxi Capital, the  Program City, China from CCTV, Ding  Shiqiang, Deputy Director of Shanghai Industrial Cooperation Promotion Center  and Hu Qinrong, Deputy Secretary General of APDF, Greater China entered into  the strategic cooperation agreement respectively, which can greatly promote  the wide and in-depth cooperation between APDF and domestic and foreign  cultural creativity, education and ecological environmental protection  fields.

On the day of the  event, APDF urban and space innovation design forum and 4+4 dialogue were  also organized and nearly 1000 domestic and foreign outstanding designers  from Netherlands, UK, USA, Taiwan and Nanjing, China gathered in Nanjing, an  ancient capital for six dynasties. The collision of ideas about the domestic and foreign  design concepts can promote the cooperation and exchange between the upstream  and downstream industries in the design field and push the development of  design creativity industry in Nanjing to a new peak. This is exactly the  theme of Nanjing Branch of APDF-NEXT.

Nanjing Branch is the first academic branch  of APDF Greater China at the provincial level. At the same time, the tenth  IAI Grand Prix that has the reputation of “Design  the Academy Award for” was formally launched, which is an international  design award having the high recognition degree and high value in the world.  It is believed that it will become a bridge for lots of excellent designers  in Nanjing to go to the world.

Special interviews with local designers in  Nanjing were also arranged. In the interviews, we can realize that “designers”, a bright and promising career for the  masses, will face numerous situations of helplessness. They “pursue dream due  to their love for the design and wait for love”.

Last but not least, we wish Nanjing designers can burst into the  global stage. As Cong Ning, President of Nanjing Branch of APDF, mentioned, “I  hope that Nanjing designers can have a foothold in China. Hope Nanjing  designers can go onto the world stage hand in hand.”