A’ Design Award & Competition 2021 - 2022 / Early Bird Submissions

A’Design Award and Competitions

Since 2010, the A’ Design Award & Competition recognize, reward, and promote the very best of design. It was developed as a modern interpretation of the design competitions that were held before the digital age. During this time, it has become one of the most prestigious design competitions with a wide range of design categories (100+!), including Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award, Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award, Good Service Design Award, Good Fashion Design Award, among many others categories.

The ultimate purpose of the award is to highlight participating designs and provide designers with publicity and recognition. In addition, winning the award contributes to corporate reputation, brand image and provides valuable feedback and experience for the designers. Entries are judged every year by an international jury panel of scholars, professionals, and media members.

For the 2021-2022 edition, ArchEyes is set to announce the winners with a unique feature on May 1, 2022. The early submission registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2021-2022 is currently open until June 30, 2021.

Here are some of our favorite winners of previous editions:

Ruyi Exhibition Center by Kris Lin

Designer: Kris Lin and Anda Yang
Winner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The image of Ruyi inspires the project design. Ruyi, a ceremonial scepter, as the name implies, everything goes well, is the traditional auspicious object for Chinese people. When the emperor met with foreign envoys in ancient times, he also gave Ruyi as a sign of respect and friendship between the two countries.

Living The Noom by sanzpont [arquitectura]

Designers: Sanzpont Arquitectura and Pedrajo Mas Pedrajo Arquitectos
Winner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The concept was born trying to answer the question: Where would you like to live for the rest of your lives. And, if humans have different needs, why all the homes for sale seem to be cut from the same mold? The project aims to promote a whole life within the users and offer a new housing proposal to the real estate market. In addition, it seeks to create a community with the same values, to bring together people that value nature, art, and animals.

Guangming Public Service Platform by Zhubo Design

Guangming Public Service by Zhubo Design

Designers: Feng Guochuan, Zhong Qiao, Liu Xiaoying, Executive managers: Qu Yu, Zhang Biqin, Xiong Guilin and Designers: Xu Longjie, Gong Xiaowen, Deng Hua, Zhang Meisong, Hou Lianjian, Bao Shaobin, Qu Zhenhua, Liang Fuji, Xie Bo, Lv Fang
Winner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: Taishi Chair-like layout (three sides enclosed, south side open) is very common among Chinese government buildings and was also requested in the project’s design brief. The designer intended to break the conservative Taishi Chair-like spatial pattern to bring a new image and inject vitality into the government architecture.

White Mountain by Kris Lin

Designers: Kris Lin and Anda Yang
Winner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The designer was inspired by the shape of the rolling hills and created the surficial landscape that extends down to the visual surface of the building. It connects the surficial and underground space. The project base is surrounded by mountains, with natural landscape resources such as Zijin Mountain and Hongshan Forest Zoo.

ShuiFa-White Marble in the Wilderness Property Exhibition Centre by Qun Wen

Designer: Qun Wen, Gen Li, Shixin Gao, Jiarui Li, Suqing Yan, Liuqing Liu, Ye Wang, Dan Zhu, Jing Du
Winner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: Inspired by Wang Wei’s verse from Mountain Dwelling in Autumn: “Rain passes in the pristine mountain, refreshing autumn evening. Moon shines among the pine; clear spring flows on stones.”

Mountain House in Mist by Lin Chen

Designer: Chen Lin and Liu Dongying
Winner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The book house is located in an ancient village in Wuyi and was developed by a local tourism real estate company as a part of the development and construction. Before the development, only a few elderly residents live in this empty village. It was hoped that this book house could change the situation by bringing more visitors to it.

Nine Court Mansion – Residential Landscape

Designers: Jianan Zhou, Xin Li, Jigang Li, Tiancai Liang, Xianlun Tao, Guowei Zhang, Fangfang, Qiuhui An, Jing Wang, Wei Chen and Yekun Zhou
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Platinum A’ Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award Winner
Inspiration: Since China has developed from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, history never goes back. The Chinese peaceful and indifferent life aesthetics and faith for the integration of nature and humans are challenged and neglected. We do not deny development, but China needs to regain attention to its own culture at this stage.

Chongqing Zhongshuge – Bookstore

Designer: Li Xiang
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Platinum A’ Space and Exhibition Design Award Winner
Inspiration: As one of the largest inland cities of mountains and rivers globally, Chongqing is a city full of surprises and pleasant, charming corners. Since ancient times, its landscape and numerous historical sites have attracted many classical writers and calligraphers. Until today, Chongqing is still a city of attraction to everyone. The designer intended to present the splendid landscape of Chongqing in the bookstore so that the visitors may feel like in the charming town while reading.

Shelter by Joao Teixeira

Designer: Joao Teixeira
Winner Category: Furniture Design Category, 2020 – 2021
Inspiration: While designing the Shelter desk our main inspiration was to develop something focused on both function and aesthetics. We wanted to come up with a solution that could improve the users productivity by enhancing his organization layouts through useful features like clean cable management and easy storage access.

Lattice Chair by Chen Kuan-Cheng

Designer: Chen Kuan-cheng
Winner Category: Furniture Design Category, 2020 – 2021
Inspiration: Inspired by the waterfall, the back, and armrests of the chair flow downward in a beautiful lattice pattern, symbolizing the fusion of wood and bamboo, and the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures. Combining the flexibility of bamboo and the strength of wood to form the perfect chair.

Rotass Haute Joallerie – Store

Designer: Xiaobing Yao
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Platinum A’ Interior Space and Exhibition Design Award Winner
Inspiration: The main product of Rotass is a customized wedding ring, and it is the love between men and women that makes people produce this kind of consumption. Because the design relies on the brand’s long history charm of the original building, the designer always designs the space around the theme of “love” symbolized by the brand from the two aspects of structure and art.

Catzz – Cat Bed

Designer: Mirko Vujicic
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Platinum A’ Pet Supplies and Products for Animals Design Award Winner
Inspiration: “My cat inspired me in terms of both form and function. Distinct geometry in my cat facial features guided the form of design, whereas her movement and behavior inspired the interactive aspect. The material was chosen to fit the cat’s needs for a warm and snugly environment, which felt provides. Knowing that cats are always on the lookout for the perfect hiding and resting spot and that their preferences vary, it was important for me to provide the possibility for adaptation.” – Mirko Vujicic.

Registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2021-2022 is open now.
The deadline for early submissions is June 30, 2021. Results will be announced to the public on May 1, 2022.