The First Domestic Large Cruise Ship Adora Magic City Sets Sail. AADTHU Curates and Creates Decorative Art Works for the Trail Voyage.

At 12:00 on December 24, the first domestically produced large-scale cruise ship “Adora Magic City” under the China shipbuilding industry corporation Adora Cruises embarked on its maiden voyage and slowly left Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal.

▲“Adora Magic City” has a full length of 323.6 meters, a total tonnage of 136,200 tons, 2,125 guest rooms, and 27 dining and entertainment public spaces with different functions. In it, more than 300 pieces (groups) of decorative artworks were curated and created by the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University (AADTHU). These works and over 2,000 passengers witnessed the trial voyage together.

 

▲Adora Plaza

Title: Porcelain Wares Travel Far Along the Silk Road (Part)

Author: ZHANG Baohua, ZHONG Jinye

Silk Road-themed murals and extended decorative paintings in the lobby

Location: Adora Plaza

China’s first domestically produced large-scale cruise ship was delivered under the name “Magic City” on November 4, 2023, marking a new milestone in China’s shipbuilding industry.

Title: Animation of Mountains and Seas

Author: HUANG Weihua

Location: Sports Ground

▲Palace Restaurant

Modern cruise ships are hailed as the “jewels” in the crown of the shipbuilding industry, indicating that cruise shipbuilding features highly comprehensive technical requirements and extremely complex systems. The artistic furnishings design of Adora Magic City is based on the theme “Maritime Silk Road” and is an open-ended creation under the theme “Magic City”. It blazes a new trail to combine art, marine culture, and cruise tourism to popularize aesthetic concepts and lifestyles through popular culture and art that are easy for the public to understand.

▲Theatre Corridor

Title: As If (part)

Author: XIANG Fan, HUANG Huiyan

Theater entrance/exit corridor - Dunhuang music and dance-themed murals

Location: Theater

The plan of the AADTHU demonstrates a full insight into the creativity of the cruise interior designers. Based on the overall positioning of the “Maritime Silk Road”, these works strive to explore the functional attributes and atmosphere of each independent space to convey the most appropriate cultural connotation. The combination of artworks with contemporary characteristics with the cruise interior design style forms an overall atmosphere that is both coordinated and contrasting. The innovative, and differentiated artworks and furnishing products selected in the cruise lobby, Palace Restaurant, or water park all adopt traditional Chinese culture and aesthetics as clues to interpret the colorful traditional Chinese cultural inheritance. At the same time, they complement the consumer culture on the cruise ship, forming a balance between culture and operations. These artistic furnishings enhance the emotional value of functional spaces and play a finishing touch to different space themes.