© Yongheng, Yongheng, 2019
The deadline for submitting your designs to the A’ Design Awards and Competition 2023 is fast approaching, and this is your final chance to showcase your talent on a global stage: the last day to send your project is February 28th, 2023! ArchEyes magazine will announce the winners of this year’s competition on April 15th, featuring an exclusive feature on the top designs.
With over 100 different categories to choose from, including architecture, building and structure design, interior space and exhibition design, lighting products and projects design, decorative items and homeware design, and packaging design, the A’ Design Awards offer a platform for designers across a range of disciplines to showcase their work.
As a laureate of the A’ Design Awards & Competition, you’ll receive fame, prestige, recognition, credibility, and international awareness, as well as a comprehensive winners’ kit, the “A’ Design Prize”. This prize includes the coveted 3D Printed Metal A’ Design Award trophy in a black luxury box, the annual yearbook, and numerous other benefits.
Check out some of our favorite winners from past editions to get inspired, and don’t miss your chance to be a part of this prestigious design competition!
Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass by Xin Yuan
© Li Jin, Yongheng,2019
The structure cantilevers 36m over the 613m deep sinkhole. The top of the sinkhole is extremely narrow and can only accommodate a small passageway. Skyboat is proposed to span over the passageway and cantilever out to each side of the mountain ridge. Similar to the tumbler toys, it is proposed to lower the structure’s center of gravity and utilize the minimum area (10 meters by 30 meters), in which way, the self-balance of the structure is therefore achieved.
Xerolithi Residence by George Sinas
© Yiorgos Kordakis
- Designers: George Sinas (Sinas Architects), Team: Maria Mamoura and Interior Decoration: Olga Ktena
- Winner Category: 2020 – 2021, Gold A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
- Inspiration: “The main focus of the design was to create a house that blends in its natural environment. An environment comprised of steep dirt and gravel slopes, dressed with scattered wild thorny bushes and beautiful large rock formations. The most important existing elements were the short stone retaining walls, locally called xerolithies, created a long time ago for land cultivation purposes. These walls, usually not more than a meter in height, formed flat stripes of land parallel to the slope and extended along the entire surface of the hillside. The site with its xerolithies was the spark of inspiration.”
Fondazione Bertarelli by Edoardo Milesi
© Mauro Davoli, 2015
- Designers: Edoardo Milesi & Archos, Engineer: Marco Verdina (structures) and Engineer: Alessandro Nani (plants)
- Winner Category: 2020 – 2021, Gold A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
- Inspiration: “The architecture of the concert hall, shaped according to its rational and poetic function, the task of letting instruments play, and the desire to convey emotions, listens and participates without disturbing; it is part of the orchestra and plays its role as a new musical instrument which improves the acoustics of the place. Aesthetic values are not perceived as added; they are part of the building and radiate from it.”
Hill Wind by Huafang Wang
© Song Ye and Xinghao Liu
According to the regional characteristics, the designer combines the local culture and historical context in the process of conception. Under the dominant atmosphere of modernism, the designer uses the language of design to create a dialogue with space, and then interprets the visual, tactile, and spiritual resonance, reproducing the Anji area humanistic landscape pattern of “The cicada noise highlights the silence of the forest, and birdsong sets off the depth of the mountain.”
Tangxing No.5 Residential House by Saiwen Liu
© Ye Mao, © Shi Fang Studio
Concerning the environmental pollution and reduction of natural resources, we try to utilize low-cost raw materials in the design. Moso bamboo is generally 3 to 5 years old; its soil consolidation capacity is 1.5 times the Pinus massoniana. The ability to conserve water is 30%-45% higher than that of Chinese fir. The same biomass of bamboo releases 30% more oxygen than other vegetation. With the increasingly terrible haze, plenty of bamboo wares will stimulate the bamboo planting.
Cloud of Luster by Tetsuya Matsumoto
© Stirling Elmendorf
The modern wedding ceremonies inspired the design for Cloud of Luster in Japan. These are all about the lightness, the brightness, and the smooth transition towards happy future family life. The lines needed to be naturally curvy, and the space needed to be open to receive as much light as possible. The columns needed to feel official as the ceremony is taking place and yet be as smooth and glamorous as to spread the moment’s happiness.
Tinker Patches Residential Interior Design by Hsin-Ting Weng
© Hey! Cheese Photography
- Designer: Hsin-Ting Weng
- Winner Category: Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2020 – 2021
- Inspiration: “Unlike most residential projects, the white color scheme holistically extends throughout spaces instead of arranging visualization on specific walls or fixtures, accentuating agile movement and aesthetic lifestyle. Misplacing colored details and furniture pieces, contrasting with white backdrops, culminates with a lively and inspirational home place.”
Solar Skywalks Energetic Activation of Footbridges by Peter Kuczia
© Rendering: nomadd+
The world’s metropolises have a large number of pedestrian bridges traversing busy traffic arteries. They are often unattractive, downgrading the overall urban impression. Peter Kuczia idea of cladding the pedestrian bridges with aesthetic, power generating photovoltaic modules and transforming them into attractive city spots is sustainable and creates a sculptural diversity that becomes an eye-catcher in the cityscape.
EN Skincare Salon and Store by Yusuke Kinoshita
EN Skincare Salon and Store by Yusuke Kinoshita / © David Foessel
Adding a series of circular partitions across four rooms and two levels gently defines the space’s various functions. This leans into the Japanese hospitality principle of discovery; patrons must wind through the store to find each treatment area, rather than walking into an obvious open-plan. The unusual geometric forms serve to spark curiosity in the customer. The concept of ‘beauty’ by choosing golden polished brass for the circular partitions and accent pieces throughout the store.
Ging Chair by Alan Hung
© Alan Hung, 2020.
- Designer: Alan Hung
- Winner Category: Furniture Design Category, 2020 – 2021
- Inspiration: “When I was a child, I remember picking up wood sticks and made my own slingshot. The unique shape of the slingshot inspired the form of the chair. At the same time, it reminds me of the joy and memory of when I first made my own craft. The chairs’ form inspired by the slingshot is aesthetically intriguing and also structurally relating.”
K11 Musea Shopping Mall by K11 Musea
© Edmon Leong
K11 reinvigorate the mall together with 100 creative powers hailing from various disciplines and cultures to make K11 MUSEA the Silicon Valley of Culture and inject art, architecture, design, sustainability, and all forms of culture into the new consumer’s daily life. At the core is a 35m high atrium dubbed Opera Theatre, which features hundreds of 1,800 programmable spotlights to resemble a galaxy, evoking curiosity and creativity, taking the form of a galaxy and mysterious body of stars.
Jiangshan Fishing Village Renovation Renovation by Mix Architecture
© Hou Bowen, © Nanjing
Radial by Jaroslaw Markowicz / © Jaroslaw MarkowiczUnder the impact of modern urbanization, the decline of rural areas has become an unavoidable reality. Mix Architecture was commissioned by Jiangshan Fishing Village in Gaochun of Nanjing to meet indigenous peoples’ basic needs for modern functions and cultural life and formulated a rural renewal plan.
Bullet+Stone Concrete Collection Architectural Hardware by James Tsarouhas and Joseph Di Benedetto
© Designer Doorware
Contemporary interiors were the primary influence. We do our utmost to listen to and observe architects and interior designers’ behavior to bring exciting and novel products to market that present actual value to our clientele. We noticed that many architects were stripping back ornamental finishes in favor of raw and sustainable alternatives, specifically exposed concrete. This allows the use of concrete to then spread into other interior spaces, such as furniture, sinks, countertops, flooring, and now, door hardware, with the Bullet+Stone collection by Designer Doorware.
Project EGG Small Pavilion by Michiel van der Kley
© Ilco Kemmere
Michiel van der Kley has been muddling around and wondering about 3D printers and the fascinating possibilities of the latest software we have under our hands. It made him want to do something new, really fresh. Inspired by Nature and the intriguing possibilities of the software and people were encouraged to come up with this idea. We are now able to produce something like this in this unique way. After all, all of us together form some new kind of factory.
Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools by Enota
© Miran Kambič
Termalija Family Wellness is the latest in the series of projects we have built at Terme Olimia in the last fifteen years. It concludes the complete transformation of the spa complex. A lot of effort was invested into designing the buildings so that they don’t fill the space but connect it even more with the surrounding nature. The volume of necessary space required siting of a larger structure, which couldn´t simply be buried below the grade like in our previous projects on the site. No longer being able to reference only the surrounding natural landscape, the solution was found in scale and form of surrounding vernacular structures. The large roof above the water area was divided into smaller segments to prevent its scale from overwhelming the surroundings. Viewed from a distance, the shape, color, and scale of the new clustered structure of tetrahedral volumes is a continuation of the cluster of surrounding rural buildings, which visually extends into the heart of the complex.
Registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2022-2023, Last Call!
The deadline for submission is February 28th. Results will be announced to the public on Abril 2023.
