The A’ Design Awards & Competition is one of the world’s most comprehensive and internationally recognized design accolades, celebrating excellence across architecture, product design, communication, fashion, and beyond. Each year, it brings together visionary architects, designers, engineers, and brands who are committed to advancing design quality worldwide.
More than a competition, A’ Design Award operates with a mission to promote global awareness and appreciation for good design. For laureates, winning represents not only prestige but also an opportunity for visibility, credibility, and long-term professional growth.
The A’ Design Prize: Global Recognition and Visibility
Winning an A’ Design Award means receiving the prestigious A’ Design Prize, a comprehensive package designed to amplify professional visibility and long-term impact. Laureates participate in international exhibitions and are published in the official yearbook, while benefiting from an extensive global PR campaign that increases media exposure. Winning projects are included in the World Design Rankings and celebrated during the Gala Night & Award Ceremony, a high-profile event that connects designers with academics, press members, and industry leaders.
Awardees receive the iconic trophy and certificate of excellence, gain lifetime usage rights to the winner’s logo, and benefit from professional press kit preparation and distribution. Additional advantages include digital and physical winner badges, translation services to support international visibility, museum inclusion, and access to valuable networking opportunities that expand professional reach across continents.
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Award Categories Relevant to Architects and Designers
For the ArchEyes community, several award clusters are especially compelling. The Good Architecture Design Award recognizes visionary architectural works shaping cities and environments. The Good Industrial Design Award and Good Product Design Award celebrate innovation in manufacturing, materials, and functional aesthetics. The Good Communication Design Award honors excellence in branding, graphic systems, and visual storytelling, while the Good Service Design Award highlights projects that enhance user experiences and operational systems. The Good Fashion Design Award acknowledges creativity in apparel, textiles, and wearable innovation.
Further design award categories are available at:
Judging Process and Scientific Evaluation
Entries are evaluated by an international jury panel composed of academics, design professionals, and members of the press, using a rigorous, transparent methodology. The scientific evaluation process considers innovation, functionality, formal quality, sustainability, and overall societal impact, ensuring fairness, credibility, and professional integrity in selecting winners.
Celebrating Previous Award-Winning Designs
Xichang Joyhub Air Hotel by Liam Zhuang and Edward Li
The design of the Xichang Joyhub Air Hotel balances the preservation of the city’s cultural heritage, the inheritance of the Bashu architectural style, the protection of the local ecosystem, and the creation of a modern hotel. By incorporating a deep respect for local culture, the hotel offers guests a seamless experience of nature and leisure, emphasizing environmental sustainability and a commitment to high-quality living.
No Footprint Wood House Residential Architecture by Oliver Schutte
The No Footprint Wood House draws on the history of prefabricated housing schemes in remote locations, such as the Maison Tropicale by Jean Prouvé or the Dymaxion House by Buckminster Fuller. The project is also based on a roadmap to reduce carbon emissions in Costa Rica. In this context, modular building design options offer individual homeowners a range of opportunities to contribute to the collective goal of balancing carbon emissions.
Huai’an Zhongshuge Bookstore by Li Xiang
The design of Huai’an Zhongshuge draws inspiration from the local urban culture, the theme of human exploration of the universe, and the symbolic significance of books. The vastness of the universe echoes the infinite knowledge and ideas contained in books, while creating a new cultural landmark for the city. Technically, the design is inspired by celestial patterns and orbital movements. The designer simulated planetary trajectories, integrating functionality and aesthetics.
Golden Key Venue Industrial and Office Building by MADA s.p.a.m. LLC
Urban structures possess an inherent logic that requires rationality and knowledge to shape, forming a driving force for urban behavior – an Urban Catalyst. Its purpose is to influence other elements, attracting talent to collectively create a vibrant, cohesive city, driven by empowered industries, urban construction, productivity integration, vitality creation, and regeneration.
Cosmic Creek Commercial Architecture by Jing Xu and Gang Liu
The Cosmic Creek was inspired by the concept of creating a seamless connection between nature and urban life, with a focus on interaction and community. Drawing from Chengdu’s cultural ties to water, the design integrates research on topography and ecological systems to craft spaces that resonate with human behavior. The goal was to foster a sustainable environment where daily activities blend with natural elements, redefining how commercial spaces interact with their surroundings and users.
Deer Chaser Yuchi Resort by Chi Wei Shih
The project goal is to establish an innovative hotel concept in response to the growing appeal of Glamping. It emphasizes living in harmony with nature and nurturing human connections. The design integrates elements from traditional communal spaces in Taiwan, drawing inspiration from the inner court of a traditional farmhouse and the imagery of people congregating beneath a tree to delineate its communal areas.
One Line Studio Architectural Office by Tim Politis
Forming a figurative ‘line’ between the ground and the sky, a canted, naturally rusted steel wall anchors one end of the structure while a thin roof edge ascends toward the sky beyond, framing an outward-looking glazed expanse. The vitrified façade is interrupted by a series of vertical cedar fins that soften glare and appear to climb toward the sky from the native grasses below.
Moon Chair Self-Assembled Seating by Le Xu
The Moon Chair is made of solid wood, simple and stylish, and utilizes mortise-and-tenon joinery for a strong visual impact. It is a high degree of integration of aesthetics and structure, with the clever use of mortise-and-tenon joints and dovetail locks. The product itself has no connectors and can be disassembled and assembled with bare hands. The flat design can greatly reduce transportation costs, making it very suitable for selling online.
Wooden Axis Large Roof Clinic and Pharmacy by Yoshiaki Tanaka
The site is located along an arterial road connecting the city center, with an urban planning road to the south that is scheduled for widening, and future development is expected. In planning a new regional medical center, we were conscious of creating a space that is distinctly different from commercial road service architecture, with the warmth of wood and a gentle welcome for patients. The three buildings are connected by a wooden “sunoko” design code.
Black Monolithic Wall Residential House by Nobuaki Miyashita
This is a custom house plan for a parent and their child. Although the site is located relatively close to central Tokyo, its neighbor is a quiet residential area. It is an extremely narrow flag lot, with no more than two meters of the front portion fronting the road. Our aim was to create a dynamic space that could only be realized on a site with unique characteristics like this, while also meeting the strict building regulations in Japan.
Infinite Bloom Public Art by Kuo-Hsiang Kuo
The 10-meter-tall stainless steel sculpture stands proudly at the highest point of the company’s square green space. It is like a thriving, vibrant tree, symbolizing the company’s thriving development and pursuit of professional excellence. The sculpture is composed of four seamlessly flowing stainless steel arc-shaped units, with a structure that spirals upwards, symbolizing the company’s spirit of pragmatism and continuous drive for progress.
See The Unseen Immersive Ephemeral Art Exhibition by Inception Cultural and Creative Co. Ltd
All around the world, Chinese communities are creating visible dragons, but the uniqueness of ‘See the Unseen’ lies in concealing the dragon. It is presented on the L3 floor of the mall in transparent glass boxes. Crafted in collaboration with artists using semi-transparent recyclable materials, these red boxes not only capture the imagination but also prompt viewers to contemplate the unseen wonders of the world. Additionally, the red inflatable space is to be seen as the main visual that brings blessings for this dragon’s new year.
Infinite Convertible Bag by Maryam Hosseini
In a world where diversity and rapid change have increased consumerism, this bag is a sustainable solution for consumption because it uses durable leather and responds to users’ changing moods through its changeable shape. It is like a puzzle with many answers, and it turns into at least 40 different shapes, symmetrical and asymmetrical, that the users can change to their desired shape through the manual, and can even create new faces for the bag themselves.
Formation 01 Bathroom Faucet by Samuel Ross
The product’s striking angles and industrial, bold Haptic Orange color defy traditional expectations for a bathroom faucet. The Kohler x SR_A collaboration embraces Samuel’s avant-garde artistic approach while honoring Kohler’s 150-year legacy of innovation and craftsmanship in developing a new design language for water solutions. This new limited-edition faucet challenges how we engage daily with the form and function of an everyday object by pushing the boundaries of materials, forms, and colors.
Wheat Field Moonlight Sonata Mooncake Packaging by Gao Gongxuan and Liu Qidong
The moon, since ancient times, has been the inspiration for poets, a sanctuary for emotions. Music is the expression of the soul, a flow of emotions. This Wheat Field Moonlight Sonata Mooncake Gift Box, featuring the core elements of “moon” and “music,” ingeniously combines the fluidity of music with the serenity of the moon. Simultaneously, it incorporates the vitality and hope of the wheat field, allowing taste, vision, and hearing to share in the feast.
Benjakitti Forest Park by Arsomsilp and Turenscape
Benjakitti Park is a Bangkok urban park located in the former Tobacco factory area after the factory was relocated to the outskirts. The design concepts are, firstly, to improve public understanding and knowledge about sustainability, hydrology, and forest ecology in the urban setting. Secondly, to become an initiative of the ecological park development model. Lastly, to serve urban communities and preserve the city’s ecosystem by creating a biodiverse sanctuary that brings life back.
River Mall Embankment Renovation by Iurii Baigot
This project involves the renovation of an embankment section, open to the public as part of the River Mall shopping mall, located on the Left bank of Kyiv. The waters are part of the Dnipro River, called Berkovshchyna Bay. The length of the renovated embankment is three hundred meters. However, the circular layout of the space allows for long walks and diverse behavioral scenarios.
Deadline & Final Call for Entries
The final submission deadline is February 28, and winners will be publicly announced on May 1. Selected award-winning projects and results will be featured on ArchEyes on May 1, continuing our commitment to promoting exemplary architecture and design worldwide.
Make an entry to the A’ Design Award now and upload your designs before February 28!
For further details about the competition, visit What is A’ Design Award? or Design Award Info.
