The A’ Design Awards & Competition is now accepting submissions. If you have a design that deserves recognition or wish to nominate one, don’t hesitate and submit it today. The registration link is available here. The submission deadline is February 28, with ArchEyes set to announce the 2023 winners with a unique feature on April 15th.
The A’ Design Award is a prestigious accolade for designers and invites entries in over 100 different categories, including the Good Architecture Design Award, the Good Product Design Award, the Good Communication Design Award, the Good Service Design Award, Good Fashion Design Award, and more. The extensive range of categories ensures your project can be submitted in the most fitting one.
It is definitely worth it to take the time to submit your design, as you will receive a free preliminary evaluation of your design. The submission will then be judged by an international jury panel of 211 members comprising design professionals, press members, academics, and more, following a peer-review process that involves anonymous voting and entry evaluations.
Since 2010, the A’ Design Awards & Competition have recognized, rewarded, and promoted the best of design. They believe art, design, and technology can shape a better future. Possession of the A’ Award attracts worldwide attention from design-focused audiences.
Here’s a list of some of our favorite winners from past editions:
Huanghesong Theatre Cultural Venues by Xuelin Wu
- Designers: Xuelin Wu, Hai Lin and Gao Li
- Winner Category: 2021 – 2022, Platinum A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
- Inspiration: “Architecture is the integration of ecology and culture, and its shape is like the vortex of the Yellow River. Continue its concept in interior design, excavate the ritual and music culture of Central Plains culture, and deduce ancient music in space through modern means.”
Rice Wine Cultural Center by Wei Zhang and Kesuo Wu – gad
- Designers: Wei Zhang and Kesuo Wu – gad
- Winner Category: 2021 – 2022, Silver A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
- Inspiration: “The design makes full use of the landscape advantages of the site; the three-story building volume is stacked and retreated back from south to north, forming a number of roof terraces overlooking the Dashu River, creating more possibilities for the later use of the restaurant. Drawing on the strong functional adaptability of traditional wooden frame architecture and Domino architecture system, the scheme decided to take 4.8mx4.8mx4.8m cubic square as the basic module of the building.”
Bamboo Pavilion Toilet Renovation by Manuel Lap Yan Lam – The Volks Design
- Designers: Manuel Lap Yan Lam and Design Team: Scarlett Li
- Winner Category: 2021 – 2022, Silver A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
- Inspiration: “Façade of the Bamboo Pavilion is a re-interpretation of bamboo scaffolding that the Macau industry has used over the years. Hundreds of white aluminum tubes are arranged in a staggered manner surrounding the structure forming a translucent shell that blends in with nature. The bathroom space is turned inside out. Light rays shine through the façade to the interior; daylight and ventilation are enhanced by preserving the skylights and by tailor-made slanted windows that integrated openings to enhance cross ventilation.”
Monopitched Roof Residence by Masato Sekiya
- Designers: Masato Sekiya and Shizuko Kuroda, Structural Designer: Shigeyuki Nakata
- Winner Category: 2021 – 2022, Silver A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
- Inspiration: “The main precept of traditional Japanese house design is creating continuity between the outside and interior spaces. Simultaneously, the emphasis is on harmony with nature, creating an all-season, energy-efficient house that blends with the environment. This house was designed for rural Nara Prefecture, Japan. This is a modern take on traditional design, materials, and methods, and the house is arranged around a central traditional Japanese garden, with a link and flow between each room.”
Architecture, Building, and Structure Design
This category is a specialized design competition open to both concept stage and realized architectural projects, urban design projects, and buildings designed by architects, architecture offices, real estate developers, and construction companies worldwide.
Urban Planning and Urban Design
The Urban Planning and Urban Design award considers your submission based on evaluation criteria such as Innovation, project uniqueness, social impacts, environment friendliness, energy utilization, and project-specific criteria.
Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award is an open design competition submission to concept stage, prototype, or finished landscape and garden designs by professional and young landscape designers, architects, architecture studios, urban planners, and the creative industry worldwide.
Interior Design
The Interior Design award considers your submission on multiple dimensions. Your project design is evaluated together with its value creation, visual appeal, space usage, and other aspects.
Furniture, Homeware, and Decor Items Design
The Furniture, Homeware, and Decor Items Design award considers your submission based on evaluation criteria such as Innovation, uniqueness of the project, social impacts, environmental friendliness, energy utilization, and project-specific criteria. The most important criteria are highlighted as Design, Engineering, Ergonomy, and Presentation.
Home Appliances Design
The best home appliance designs are selected according to the product’s form, functional and emotional aspects; the designs are considered for their degree of innovation, aesthetic qualities, functionality, usefulness, ease of realization and realization efficiency, ergonomics, and human interaction.
Street Furniture Design
When submitting to the Street Furniture Design competition, keep in mind that your submission will be evaluated on multiple dimensions; your product is judged together with its durability and aesthetics.
Lighting Products Design
The submissions for the Lighting Products Design Award will be evaluated based on the illumination properties, functionality, ease of use, aesthetic properties, ergonomics, and energy efficiency. Lighting Projects Design will be judged based on the Innovation, artistic content, and aesthetical properties.
BedBuilding Materials, Construction Components, Structures & Systems Design
The A’ Building Materials, Construction Components, Structures & Systems Design Competition is a specialized design competition open to both concept stage and realized building materials, architectural fixtures, exterior and interior surfaces, construction components, coatings, and finishings developed by professional designers and architects, product development companies, R&D centers, research-oriented companies, product manufacturers and other business in this industry worldwide.
Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware, and Cookware Design
Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware, and Cookware Design Award is a freestyle design competition open to all concept stage, prototype, or finished products by professional and young designers, design studios, and design-oriented table manufacturers worldwide.
Other design award categories are available.
Win the World’s largest and most influential design award
There are a lot of benefits of winning the award, such as international exhibitions, a yearbook publication, publicity, world design rankings inclusion, a gala night for networking, and space allocation in the winners’ exhibition (both online gallery inclusions as well as a physical exhibition in Italy).
Registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2022-2023 is open!
The deadline for submission is February 28. Results will be announced to the public on the 15th of Abril, 2023.
