The lantern shape at the top of the central main building of Beijing Yintai Center is a combination of an exterior stone curtain wall frame and a built-in glass pyramid. Inside the lantern is the tallest hotel lobby in Beijing and the tallest restaurant in Beijing.
The design of the top of the central main building of Beijing Yintai Center is inspired by the traditional Chinese lantern, which appears several times throughout the project, and is ultimately designed to be an elegant, unique and distinctive icon, which is not only a symbol of China's indigenous history and culture, but also a beacon looking into Beijing's bright future.
During construction, the lanterns needed to be illuminated in their entirety to emphasize the "Chinese lantern" concept. However, too much light would affect the dining environment and the view of the guests inside the restaurant. After many discussions and experiments, it was finally decided that LED lamps would be pre-built in the lower structural beams of all the lanterns to light up the upper lantern structure, but the light would not enter the room.
After nightfall, from a distance, Beijing Yintai Center's "Chinese Lantern" floats in the air, quietly but not ostentatiously; from indoors, the East Third Ring Road of Chang'an Street is filled with traffic, a bustling scene, and the reddish hue of the LEDs resembles the frame of this bustling scene. Anyone who has been to the top floor lobby of the Beijing Yintai Center and the Beijing Bright Restaurant will marvel at the wonderful night view.
Beijing Yintai Center, through its modern interpretation of this classic icon, perfectly portrays the majesty of the Chinese lantern illuminating the CBD, and becomes "the window through which the world looks at China and China looks at the world". The Rooftop Garden Bar located in the south podium adopts the "Song Dynasty Construction Method", in which the main design elements such as architectural form, node structure, and choice of materials strictly follow the traditional architectural pattern design of the Song Dynasty, but the length of the eaves, the changes of the arches, and the accessories of the interior finishes do not stick to the ancient methods and are new and innovative.
The Rooftop Garden Bar consists of a centralized main bar, a vodka bar, a wine bar, a cigar bar, an executive lounge and an outdoor water screen garden. The overall layout implies two axes, which is the concept of traditional Chinese architecture. In order to consider the structural stability and durability of the building, the original Song Dynasty pure wood structure is changed to the form of solid wood outside the middle steel structure, which not only inherits the design characteristics of classical architecture, but also meets the requirements of modern design on all aspects of structural fire prevention, which is an ingenious analysis of modern craftsmanship on classicism. The small banquet hall Yuexuan is decorated with traditional Chinese lacquer ware. Lacquerware is a traditional Chinese craftwork with timelessness - a drop of lacquer into the earth will not decay for 10,000 years; inclusiveness - it can be compatible with any of the elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth; and creativity - from the imperial palace dragon chair, down to the The dragon chair in the palace, down to the people's toilet. The raw material "lacquer" is also known as the blood of the Oriental people. Therefore, although the designers of this project are all top foreign consultants, they also want to include this pure Chinese element in their modern and high-quality design.
The two 2.17-meter-diameter lacquer balls at the entrance of the ballroom are the largest lacquer balls known in the world, using the traditional technique of brocade lacquer cloud carving. From the selection and proportion of the patterns, to the thickness and width of all the cloud patterns, from the form of the overall structure, to the way it is fixed and rotated, it is a complete fusion of traditional craftsmanship and modern techniques. Each lacquer ball has a diameter of 2.17 meters, and is crafted in ticked red and shaved black respectively. Both lacquer balls are made of hollow metal tires with 108 layers of lacquer coating on the outside, while they are finished with traditional cloud carving. The metal tire hand polished, and strive to smooth and round, lacquer coating uniformity, moderate thickness of the cloud pattern, the ball is set inside the steel shaft, free and smooth rotation.
Small ballroom Yuexuan also uses cloisonné murals to decorate the walls of the entrance and the central exhaust hood of the show kitchen, whose total area is more than 101 square meters, one of the largest cloisonné wall decorations in China. The cloisonné mural adopts the lotus flower and lotus leaf patterns commonly seen in Chinese paintings, with overall vivid shapes and rich colors. The veins of its lotus leaves and the direction of its stem are inlaid with copper wires of different thicknesses, with moderate proportions and vigorous atmosphere.
Small ballroom Yue Xuan in a **** there are four lacquer paintings, the designer had hoped to make oil paintings, but when you see the complexity and delicacy of the lacquer craft, greatly impressed, decided to change all four images to lacquer craft. But because the size of the selected picture samples is very small, how to find the perfect proportion effect after enlargement, after a long time of discussion, finally determined that one of the main painting using the process of brocade lacquer inlay, with hundreds of pieces of eggshells and shell fragments, the other three paintings using the process of brocade lacquer paintings, with the traditional Chinese pattern of roses and auspicious clouds, beautiful and unforgettable.