Results 2019
Specialist
Gold
Hanna boutique Hotel
Persian Garden Studio
Around 90-years ago, six buildings were constructed in the center of Tehran, creating its one and only symmetrical street. Hanna Project, which includes a hotel, restaurant, gallery, and multipurpose spaces, was designed in one of these buildings, with the intention of bringing life back to Lolagar Alley and Tehran&r...
Silver
Bapan Yard No.2
Studio A+
Revitalization of antique architecture in the countryside is critical in a fast-developing country like modern China. In the last ten years, fast-built universal concrete houses emerged rapidly, occupying the once picturesque countryside. While this type of architecture is economic, and easy, it lacks characters and intrudes the har...
Bronze
Millet Vinegar Museum
Zhang Hua Studio, Tianjin University Research Institute of Architectural Design & Urban Planning
The shape of the ancient history of vinegar and jars, cans and other containers gives designer the initial design inspiration. The overall shape of the building is a simple cube. The texture of the building facade is like a geological fault section, making the building grow out of the ground, while the grooves on the vertical surface ar...
Finalist
Smith Campus Center, Harvard University
Hopkins Architects
The new Smith Campus Center is a radical re-appraisal of the existing ten storey building, ‘the Holyoke Center’, designed by Josep Lluis Sert in the 1950’s. The project reconfigures the first, second and tenth floors, reinterpreting the history and logic of Sert’s architecture in a series of additions to and ...
Finalist
Tunnel Of Light
MAD Architects
The ‘Tunnel of Light’ by MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, is the restoration of the 750-meter-long Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture. The revitalization project sees the installation of several artistic spaces along the historic lookout tunnel, with the intention of bringing back the cultural energy ...
Finalist
Google, Spruce Goose
ZGF
ZGF partnered with Google to transform the landmark Spruce Goose Hangar. A 450,000+ SF, four-level “building-within-a-building” was developed inside the seven-story, 750-foot-long historic wooden structure. Built by Howard Hughes in 1943 for the construction of the Hercules IV airplane (the “Spruce Goose”), t...
Finalist
Centre Point Tower
Conran and Partners
Centre Point Tower was designed by George Marsh, Richard Seifert’s partner, in the 1960s, its modern materiality and imposing height represented a new generation of Londoners and the creative energy of the time. Despite its Grade II listed status, the 34-storey office tower sat largely vacant and neglected. Conran and Partners...
Gold
Indoor Playground (Doubling as lecture hall) of Yueyang County No.3 Middle School
SUP Atelier
The project is located in Yueyang county, Hunan, China. In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Yueyang County No.3 Middle School, the client decided to sponsor a new indoor playground doubling as a lecture hall with the purpose of creating better sports space and invigorating the regularly planned campus. The newly-built indoor playg...
Silver
Kakogawa Kindergarten
Takenaka Corporation
We aimed to reinterpret spatial quality of a forest in the kindergarten. Our client runs various types of schools from kindergarten to university and they are challenging to make a cultural focal point of the local community by opening their academic environment to the town. We answered them with a porous open air building connected to its surround...
Bronze
ONE PARK TAIPEI
YUAN LIH CONSTRUCTION CO.,LTD
Cutting a bold figure of orange, melon yellow and its exterior titanium-zinc plate, One Park Taipei stands tall in the center of Taipei, breathing new life into the cityscape of Taipei, and setting a new benchmark for Taiwan's high-rise residential projects, original ideas and design concepts, especially in their use of ...
Finalist
Urbanest
Allen Jack + Cottier
Urbanest Darling Square One+Two is a 1,300-bed student housing community made up of two towers, between the old warehouse district of Ultimo to the west and the new Darling Square precinct and Sydney Harbour to the east. The buildings form a transition between these adjacent precincts and drew inspiration from them. The eastern facades are ...
Finalist
Nabshi Gallery
ZAV Architects
Nowadays, city of Tehran is hosting a very interesting inner-city migration pattern, converting an old house to a gallery with its fluid circulation inquiry is such an examples of this. The old building structure is based on bearing-walls and the overall construction is very much informed by masonry techniques. As such, in functional co...
Gold
Unhistoric Townhouse
System Architects
A city’s life is in its streets. It’s where we move, connect, watch and listen, love and learn. While our homes are a refuge from the chaos of the streets, we still want to be part of the pulsing public life. The project is a five-story townhouse, built for a family. But the building is only one room deep, and th...
Silver
Fuzhou Strait Culture and Art Centre
PES-Architects
The building shapes remind of ships in a harbor, referring to the ancient maritime silk-road history of Fuzhou. Ceramic material is used in different innovative ways in several key areas throughout the building design, strongly linked to the overall concept of the project, based on the location by the Taiwan Strait and, historically...
Bronze
Center Street Parking Garage
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
The City of Berkeley's Downtown Arts District has blossomed into a popular destination for locals and visitors alike. People arrive by public transportation, bike or car to frequent bars, shops and restaurants, or attend events. The original 1950's garage was not only insufficient in parking-capacity, but was woefully below ...
Finalist
Cal Poly Pomona Student Services Building
CO Architects
Nestled into the landscape, the Student Services Building’s large, undulating canopy shelters three floors of student services and administrative departments, providing students, faculty, staff and visitors a memorable experience. The design draws its inspiration from the San Gabriel Mountains and foothills articulated in ...
Finalist
ARO – 242 West 53rd Street
CetraRuddy Architecture
Situated in the vibrant, yet dense theater district of Manhattan’s midtown west, ARO demonstrates a keen awareness of its surrounding urban context, utilizing distinctive approaches in massing, organization and exterior expression to create a thoughtful approach to contemporary urban living. At 62-stories tall, the buildin...
Gold
Danxia World Heritage Gateway
West-line Studio
The tourist rest spot welcomes to the core scenic spot of the Unesco World Natural Heritage site in Chishui region, northern Guizhou province, a popular tourist attraction characterized by stunning red cliffs, peaks and streams. The building design is sensitive to the characteristics of the landscape and the local Danxia red stone makes...
Silver
Swirling Cloud: Bulletin Pavilion for BJFU Garden Festival
SUP Atelier
“A gale has risen and is sweeping the clouds across the sky.” Inspired by this famous verse in an ancient Chinese poem, the design team has presented a “pavilion of swirling clouds” for the garden festival of BJFU. Covering an area of 120 square meters, the pavilion will serve as a hub for information during the fest...
Bronze
Living Art Pavilion
MOZHAO ARCHITECTS
The Living Art Pavilion is located in an industrial park of Shajing, Shenzhen. Combing functions of culture and amusement, it is the highlight of the industrial park’s upgrading strategy. The Pavilion faces the expressway in the north, with a row of Terminalia mantaly retained right outside the wall at the north. The walls in this...
Finalist
Morse Park Amphitheatre
ArchSD
The site is an existing amphitheatre in Morse Park which was completed in 1967 and has since grown along with the district. As an aging district in Hong Kong, what can we inject in this setting to benefit the community? We want to regenerate a focus in the midst of the landscape. While preserving the original essence of the park which has becom...
Finalist
MPavilion 2018
Estudio Carme Pinós
MPavilion is Australia’s leading architectural commission and design event conceived and created by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Every year one new temporary pavilion is designed by a leading international architect becoming a design and cultural laboratory, and home to a free four-month program of talks, workshops, performances ...
Gold
Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool
gh3 Architecture
The Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool is the first chemical-free public outdoor pool to be built in Canada. The project replaced an existing pool, and includes a seasonal pavilion and landscaped pool precinct for 400 swimmers.
The challenge was to create a large-scale pool with high-quality water control while also achieving an e...
The challenge was to create a large-scale pool with high-quality water control while also achieving an e...
Silver
University of Northern British Columbia Wood Innovation Research Laboratory
Stantec Architecture Ltd
The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) Wood Innovation Research Laboratory (WIRL) is designed to enhance the capabilities of the students, faculty, and researchers from UNBC’s Master of Engineering in Integrated Wood Design program. The building houses a specially constructed strong wall and floor designed for state-of-the...
Gold
Forma ITAIM tower
b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects
The apartments tower is located in Itaim Bibi in São Paulo, a neighbourhood in a deep transformation, which is moving from the traditional fabric of horizontal single-family homes to a skyline of buildings in height, mainly homes that meet a growing residential demand for a prosperous upper middle class in the economic capital of...
Silver
Salesforce Tower
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in San Francisco, joining the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Building as one of the skyline’s defining elements. Standing 326 meters tall, the tower has the simple, timeless form of the obelisk, giving the 61-story tower a slender, tapering silhouette. The walls are compose...
Gold
Scarborough Foreshore Redevelopment
TCL (Taylor Cullity Lethlean) with UDLA
Where Perth meets the sparkling waters of the Indian Ocean, the Scarborough Beach precinct has long been a treasured beachside destination for locals and tourists alike. From an early morning surf to watching a spectacular sunset that farewells the Australian day, Scarborough is an established icon and expression of WA urban beach culture. ...
Silver
Boat Rooms on the Fuchun River
The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art Co., Ltd.
Far from the madding crowds and blanketed in nature, the bedrooms of these recently built, secluded retreats are the stuff dreams are made of. Concept and shape of the “Boat Rooms” take root in a local social custom – a water tribe namely “nine fishing families”, had resided at the riverside and created a u...
Bronze
Fuzhou Strait Culture and Art Centre
PES-Architects
Located in Mawei New Town, facing the Minjiang River, the Strait Culture and Arts Centre is about connections. It connects cities and communities along and over the Taiwan Strait. It connects the Fuzhou Mawei New City Development and its waterways to the Minjiang River and the natural environment. And, finally, it connects people to...
Gold
3D Printed Pedestrian Bridge
XWG Arch-Studio
On January 12, 2019, the world’s largest concrete 3D printed pedestrian bridge was completed in the Wisdom Bay Industrial Park, Baoshan District, Shanghai. The project was designed and developed by the team of Professor Xu Weiguo from Tsinghua University (School of Architecture) – Zoina Land Joint Research Center for Dig...
Silver
3D Vista
Danny Forster & Architecture and 3D Vista Holdings
Our technology platform was developed by 3D Vista Holdings in collaboration with Danny Forster & Architecture. The patented technology platform currently leverages Sketchup CAD software to organize product data, visualize architectural designs at each phase, prioritize features through value engineering, document construction using ...
Future Projects
Gold
Geo Museum & Science Center
MZA Architecture
Situated in the Nanjing Fangshan Mountains, this new national park is known as “The Cradle of Chinese Geology”. Until recently, the site has been used for processing concrete, and due to significant amounts of quarrying, much of the precious geology has been damaged. The new Geo Museum & Science Center doesn’t ...
Silver
Sutherland Entertainment Centre
CHROFI + NBRSARCHITECTURE
The Sutherland Entertainment Centre holds an important place in the collective memory of the Sutherland community. Designed and built in the 1970s primarily as a musical venue, the then ‘Sutherland Civic Centre’ relied on an inward focus on its auditorium and a narrow public address to Eton Street. This was a time when buildings lik...
Bronze
Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall
Zaha Hadid Architects
Performing to full houses in the existing building that dates from 1936, Yekaterinburg’s acclaimed Ural Philharmonic Orchestra’s new home will provide an inspirational venue to meet the increasing popularity of the orchestra’s programme of concerts.
Echoing the physical aspects of sound waves, the design of ...
Echoing the physical aspects of sound waves, the design of ...
Finalist
Våga
White arkitekter
Swedish city Varberg is getting a new landmark. White Arkitekter has created a competition winning proposal that is unique in a water tower context – instead of a traditional tower, the facility has been sculpted in the shape of an elongated stylised wave.
Two narrow cisterns, placed one after the other horizontal...
Two narrow cisterns, placed one after the other horizontal...
Gold
1 Triton Square
Arup Architecture
Due for completion in 2020, 1 Triton Square will be one of the most sustainable Headquarters in the country. The building will become an exemplar piece of Total Architecture where the multi-disciplinary team has challenged the status quo of conventional refurbishments to deliver an environmentally responsible, socially active building for i...
Silver
Chablé Los Cabos
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
The project occupies a site enjoying sweeping views over the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur, among cacti, sinuous sand dunes and the sea. The organic architecture provides a sheltering function, and not as an accident, it is an echo of the topography, of the waves of the sea, and of the local flora and fauna. Each...
Bronze
400 Westlake
Perkins And Will
400 Westlake is a redevelopment of the two-story landmarked Firestone Tire building that is making a new kind of history as one of the most sustainable buildings of its size in the world. When redeveloped, the 1929 Art Deco building will generate more energy than it consumes, process water and waste on-site, use non-toxic materials and ...
Finalist
Sberbank Technopark
Zaha Hadid Architects
Established in 1841, Sberbank is the market leader of the Russian banking and economic circulatory system. At the forefront of process innovations and social responsibility, over 70% of Russia’s population rely on Sberbank’s services. The 262,000 square metre Technopark will become the bank's cradle of IT innovations,...
Finalist
AC Nomad Modular Hotel
Danny Forster & Architecture
The AC by Marriott at 842 6th Avenue, New York City, will be the tallest modular hotel in the world when it opens in early 2020. But it won’t just be a step up for modular design, it will be a step forward. Our design leverages the advantages of modular construction, using cutting-edge proprietary technology to address potenti...
Gold
‘The Arbour’ - George Brown College Tall Wood Building
Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects Inc.
‘The Arbour’ will be the home to the School of Technology and the Tall Wood Research Institute on George Brown College’s (GBC) expanding Waterfront Campus. The opportunity to combine a learning institution within a developing urban neighbourhood sets fertile ground for Change, inspiring young minds to shape the future of the C...
Silver
The Polish ‘Henry Arctowski’ Antarctic Station
Kuryłowicz & Associates
The project of the new main building of 'Henry Arctowski' antartic station is to be located on Admiralty Bay, on the southern part of the island of King George in the South Shetland Archipelago, about 120 km from the Antarctic coast. The design of the station is shaped by a detailed functional program, the extreme environmental ...
Gold
POST Rotterdam
ODA New York
Located in Rotterdam's city center, this historically important building stands as a testament to the inextinguishable spirit of Rotterdam. Built in 1916, it was one of the only original structures still standing after Rotterdam Blitz, the aerial bombardment that in 1940 leveled nearly all of the city’s historic core. The new ...
Silver
Valley
MVRDV
Over the past twenty years, the Zuidas area has developed into Amsterdam’s main international business centre, resulting in a reduced emphasis on residential development. The Valley is part of the city’s ambition to correct this by transforming the area into a more liveable and complete urban quarter, welcoming large amounts...
Bronze
Younghusband Wool Store Redevelopment
Woods Bagot
The Younghusband Wool Store Redevelopment sets a new benchmark for adaptive reuse projects by challenging the typical approach to property redevelopment. Guided by the principals of Community, sustainability and heritage, the mixed-use rejuvenation respects the rich character of the community and historical precinct. Located 4km north of Me...
Finalist
Hengqin Culture & Art Complex
SZAD/Atelier Apeiron/Yunchao Xu
Next to Hongkong and Macao, Hengqing is one of the fastest growing cities in China. We won the competition for the new mixed-use Civic Center, which is going to be built in the next four years. The site is limited between crowded housing area and an open park. Instead of putting nine programs into a solid building, we adopt a strategy t...
Finalist
X-Space | Urban Greenway
Verform
urban regeneration and greenway for Dubai. Dubbed X-Space, the project aims to stitch together the city across Sheikh Zayed Road, the main highway that runs through the United Arab Emirates. Inspired by desert dunes and the movement of sand sweeping across paved roads, the proposal includes one kilometer of new public spaces and green a...
Finalist
Southbank by Beulah
UNStudio and COX Architecture
UNStudio and COX Architecture's proposal for the Southbank area and Melbourne is integrally organised by a ‘Green Spine’ of vertically networked platforms, terraces and verandas. This multifaceted spine is created by the splitting open of the potential single mass at its core, thereby forming two separate highrise ...
Gold
Seoul Yeoui-Naru Ferry Terminal
Weston Williamson + Partners
Our design creates a unique Seoul landmark and a memorable meeting point on the edge of the Han River. A truly public ferry terminal, it fosters a new and exciting bond between the people of Seoul and the waterway which has enriched their lives for centuries. Sitting half on the water and half on the land, the building provides a seamless c...
Silver
Yangtze River Tourism Terminal of Zigui Port Close to the Three Gorges Dam
Atelier Lab.C. / Faculty of architecture and urban planning, Chongqing University
The Yangtze River is the most important cultural landscape belt of China, while the Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric project in the world. Since this project is less than 4 kilometers away from the dam, it is necessary to shape a space image that fits in with the river and the dam by way of a small-sized building. This project ...
Gold
Re-Live Downtown Pine Bluff
University of Arkansas Community Design Center
For every American downtown undergoing gentrification, ten are shrinking. 'Re-Live Downtown Pine Bluff' is a housing-first downtown revitalization plan for America’s second-fastest shrinking city. Once one of the Mississippi Delta’s legacy downtowns, Pine Bluff was a wealthy manufacturing, agricultural processing,...
Silver
NANSONG LAKE HIGH-TECH ECOLOGICAL PARK
Integrated Planning and Design Pty.Ltd.
The Nansong Lake High-tech Ecological Park Master Planning in Kunshan reflects a typical urban model of a city facing rapid expansion due to a burgeoning manufacture industry. The city faces challenges including the shrinking and fragmentation of green spaces and ecosystems; water and air pollution; and the physical and mental issues which arise du...
Bronze
Planning and Design for Promotion and Renaissance of the Confucius Temple-West Lake Cultural and Natural Heritage Zone in Fushun County
Urban Design
Background Fushun County boasts a history of thousands of years. Nowadays, precious historical sites dating from the Tang and Song dynasties can be found here. However, Fushun has been characterized by low spatial quality, complicated transportation problems, deficient infrastructure and neglected old buildings nowadays. As a result...
Finalist
The Unilever Precinct Plan and East Harbour Master Plan
City of Toronto / First Gulf
The City of Toronto’s Unilever Precinct Plan and First Gulf’s implementing East Harbour Master Plan work together to establish a regionally significant employment node, one that is supported by a planned generational investment in infrastructure. Designed as an office and commercial precinct, the master plan is not based on elab...
Finalist
Brooklyn Navy Yard Master Plan
WXY architecture + urban design
With urban manufacturing experiencing a national renaissance, there is an increasing challenge for cities to provide affordable industrial space. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Master Plan sets out a vision for creating new vertical manufacturing space which would allow 30,000 people to work in the Yard by 2030. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development C...
Materials
Gold
Short Lane
Woods Bagot Pty Ltd
Short Lane is a mixed-use development that retains the diversity of its local neighbourhood and creates places for more of it to happen. The mix of 22 compact 1 and 2-bedroom apartments appeals to the dramatic surrounding lifestyle of Surry Hills, Sydney. Beneath, a new, fine grain retail component activates the street frontage and a re...
Silver
Dangrove
Tzannes
Dangrove is a purpose built ‘state of the art’ storage facility which houses a private collection of contemporary Chinese art. The brief required art storage to be integrated with curatorial requirements, informal exhibition, performance spaces, research facilities, workshops and other related functions. The architecture...
Bronze
Qasr Al Hosn: Al Musallah
Cebra with / for DCT Abu Dhabi
The Al Hosn site is a major reference point to the history of Abu Dhabi, telling the story of the city, its people, their history and modernity. It comprises two major iconic structures: Qasr Al Hosn (the oldest structure in Abu Dhabi, historic home of the ruling family and seat of government) and The Cultural Foundation (the emirat...
Finalist
90a bellamont_umdloti | durban_south africa
Elphick Proome Architects Inc.
90a_bellamont is a unique four villa enclave set on the elevated crest of a subtropical forested dune overlooking the Indian Ocean. The enclave is an exclusive group of villas created to capitalize on the remarkable environmental quality and prospect of the site, and has become an exemplar of local residential architecture in the application of...
Finalist
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper Quad Project
BuroHappold Engineering
The Tepper Quad Project provides students and faculty with modern facilities including a 600-seat auditorium, a fitness center, and an abundance of study and social spaces. As well as accommodating 40% higher student enrollment for 2019, the School has been designed from the inside out with flexibility to adapt to the demands of an ever...
Gold
Powell Street House
Robert Simeoni Architects
The existing house had a quiet interior and muted light, and the design was developed in response to this, with a deliberate quietness, and the creation of long diagonal views through the existing shallow floor plan which delivers an intriguing quality of light to the newly created space. Views were limited and curated through the new s...
Silver
WESTERN PARIS UNIVERSITY Continuing Education Building
Ameller Dubois
With the significant growth of continuing education in personal paths, a tree concept of professional development has now superseded the principle of a linear and unidirectional career. In Western Paris University, adult education was scattered in various departments connected to the studied topic. It is in this context that the new Continu...
Gold
Longfu Life Experience Centre
LUO Studio
This real-estate sales centre in China's Henan province features a wooden structure designed by architecture firm LUO Studio to be easily adapted or dismantled. Located in Puyang County, the Longfu Life Experience Centre was commissioned by an eco-farm operator engaging in property development, who required a space to target consumers c...
Silver
International house Sydney
Tzannes
International House Sydney is designed as a distinctive element in the city, a gateway to the new financial precinct of Barangaroo, responding to and benefiting both the public domain and its intended commercial users. Off-site prefabrication of timber elements allowed the building to be constructed 2 months faster than a concrete equivalen...
Bronze
Bavnehøj Youth House
WE architecture
Using wood in an innovative and expressive way, Bavnehøj Allé seeks new and ambitious standards within affordable timber housing. Bavnehøj Allé consists of 40 one-room apartments on 38-45 m2, with an impressive ceiling height of 3 meters. All apartments are accompanied with either a generous balcony or terrace. T...
Sectors
Gold
ARPAE Headquarter for the Regional Agency for Prevention, Environment and Energy
Mario Cucinella Architects
ARPAE project is the result of an international design competition for a new building complex that hosts house offices and laboratories. It covers an area of 5,000 square meters. The customer required a property to be allocated to its offices that would meet the highest standards of architectural and environmental quality, and was character...
Silver
The planting terrace and the experience pavilion
MOZHAO ARCHITECTS
The geographical advantage of Shajing had seen it flourished into a lower end manufacturing base for Shenzhen in the past three decades. The mass construction of industrial parks not only destroyed the scenery wetland and farmland, but also brought chaos to the nearby suburb. In recent years, many residential quarters and schools were built...
Bronze
Rockhampton Riverside Precinct
Woods Bagot
The Rockhampton Riverside Precinct was redeveloped to provide the people of Rockhampton with a world-class civic and recreation space that celebrates the city’s unique character. The long and linear site consists of nearly 19 hectares of parkland spanning from Fitzroy Bridge to the north and the new playground to the south.
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Finalist
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port Passenger Clearance Building
Aedas and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Joint Venture Designer)
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port Passenger Clearance Building (PCB) houses the customs and immigration facilities for travellers leaving and entering Hong Kong by the bridge.
It is built on a new 150-hectare artificial island reclaimed from the open waters, and serves as a gateway for all those passing throu...
It is built on a new 150-hectare artificial island reclaimed from the open waters, and serves as a gateway for all those passing throu...
Finalist
James-Simon-Galerie
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin
The James-Simon-Galerie, the new entrance building between the Kupfergraben canal and the Neues Museum, marks the architectural conclusion of the Museum Island ensemble in Berlin after 180 years. It forms, together with the Archaeological Promenade, the centrepiece of the master plan developed in 1999, which has since served as ...
Gold
University of Toronto Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Montgomery Sisam Architects + Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
The Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship heralds a new era in engineering education, designed to break down barriers between disciplines, facilitate collaboration, encourage active learning, accelerate innovation, and develop entrepreneurial talent. The building includes a 468-seat lecture theatre, st...
Silver
Library Cluster Design for the New Campus of Yan’an University
Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co.,Ltd
In Yan'an, a famous historic city, it is indeed challenging to design the most important building complex for the new campus of a university with profound heritage. We have to ponder on how to include the past and turn to the future, incorporate regional features and reflect the spirit of the times. Our design fully taps the cultura...
Bronze
Raleigh Campsite in Guizhou
Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology Co., Ltd
Raleigh campsite is residing in a mountain village of the ethnic minority group of 'Buyi and ’Miao', a non-profit youth development campsite combining with rural community center. The design implements a symbiosis concept in its intervention with the site and employs lightweight assembly and local craft in construction. Mountain l...
Finalist
University of Washington, Life Sciences Building
Perkins and Will
The Department of Biology at the University of Washington sees over one third of all students enrolled at UW and is the largest STEM program in the state. In order to meet their growing demand the 207,000 SF science facility embodies Biology’s core values of scientific discovery, collaboration, active learning, and environment...
Finalist
Hangzhou Haishu School of Future Sci-Tech City
Hangzhou Haishu School of Future Sci-Tech City
The project of Hangzhou Haishu School with a kindergarten and a primary school, is located in Hangzhou.The architecture and interior design are both designed by LYCS Architecture.It is inspired by a random impromptu child drawing that depicts his ideal school which is like a small town full of small scale spaces and “happy” streets....
Finalist
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Architectus
Sydney University’s new Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) aims to express the transformation of Australia’s oldest university campus through a restrained and timeless expression of connection, collaboration, community, art and heritage. Comprising a new teaching facility and extensive refurbishment of the heritage R...
Finalist
Charterhouse Science and Mathematics Centre
Design Engine Architects
Design Engine originally won the commission to design new state-of-the-art science and mathematics facilities after an invited competition in 2009. The School’s aim was to revolutionise the way these subjects are taught at Charterhouse by fostering inter- and intra-departmental collaboration, providing a world-class learning environment f...
Gold
Royal Far West Centre for Country Kids
Architectus
The Royal Far West (RFW) Centre for Country Kids is a compact 6-storey building located in Manly, near Sydney Harbour. The Centre provides a fully integrated model of healthcare for over 8,000 children and families from rural and remote areas of New South Wales, Australia – a legacy that has been undertaken on this significant and...
Silver
St Joseph's Home
SAA Architects Pte Ltd
St Joseph’s Home is a 412-bed nursing home located at Jurong West Street 24. For almost 40 years, the Catholic Welfare Services has been caring for our elderly and staying true to their philosophy of regarding every resident as a person, not patient. The design embodies the philosophy of the Catholic Welfare Services in providing &lsq...
Bronze
Gardner Neuroscience Institute
Perkins And Will
With the need to consolidate and expand neuroscience services and improve the patient experience, UC Health embarked on providing a state-of-the-art outpatient facility that provides innovative care to neurological patients. The facility’s exterior is made of a specialized polyester fiber mesh that controls light and heat, and prevent...
Finalist
Carlanderska Hospital
White Arkitekter
Carlanderska Hospital is located in a wooded park in the center of Gothenburg. The original buildings are beautifully crafted, consisting of solid brick masonry and dominated by an impressively high tower building. In 1927, when Carlanderska was inaugurated, it consisted of 72 hospital beds and four operating rooms. The development of m...
Finalist
AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer
Behnisch Architekten
The AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer, located in Lausanne within sight of Lake Geneva, specifically provides working and research space for 400 scientists and practitioners under one roof. The major focus was on a comprehensive, holistic concept to design communication and working spaces for the cancer research center. Existi...
Gold
Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool
gh3 Architecture
The Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool is the first chemical-free public outdoor pool to be built in Canada. The project replaced an existing pool, and includes a seasonal pavilion and landscaped pool precinct for 400 swimmers. The challenge was to create a large-scale pool with high-quality water control while also achieving an environmentally ...
Silver
GAME Streetmekka Viborg
EFFEKT Architects
Streetmekka is a renovation project that transformed an abandoned windmill factory into a vibrant hub for street sports and street culture, offering various facilities for self-organized sports and social spaces for the local youth of Viborg, Denmark. Situated in the outskirt, the old industrial building was vacant and abandoned. Instea...
Bronze
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Populous
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium heralds a new era for stadium design, delivering an unrivalled fan experience and significant community benefits – creating a world-class sports and entertainment destination for all. With a fully retractable pitch, the 62,062-seat stadium becomes a custom-designed home for NFL in the UK complete with bes...
Finalist
Guardian Art Center
Buro Ole Scheeren
Built on the doorstep of Beijing’s historic Forbidden City, the Guardian Art Center is a new hybrid cultural institution that embodies the city’s traditional urban fabric and thriving metropolitan energy. The world’s first ever custom-built auction house, it represents a new typology of a hybrid arts institution in the hea...
Finalist
Northwestern University Ryan/Walter Athletics Center
Perkins And Will
With its adjacency to Lake Michigan and visible connections to both the University’s central campus and the Chicago skyline, the goal was to maximize transparency and views while invigorating the student-athlete experience. Building functions are organized, both vertically and horizontally, to provide lake exposure to every space ...
Finalist
The Club Stand
Bates Smart
Flemington Racecourse is home to Australia’s most renowned week of horse racing, the Melbourne Cup Carnival. Recently completed for the Victoria Racing Club (VRC), the new Club Stand, provides a unique raceday experience, premium hospitality offerings and greatly enhanced visibility for members. Drawing inspiration from the sh...
Gold
Lot O4 - Batignolles
Brisac Gonzalez
Situated in central Paris in the 17th district, the site is part of a new neighbourhood built over a former railyard and around a new park. The site itself stretches between the park and an artificial street, and comprises of 144 social housing units, a 15-classroom primary school and a regional level sports centre. We took on the chall...
Silver
Amorepacific Headquarters
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin
The new headquarters for Amorepacific, Korea’s largest beauty company, is located in the centre of Seoul at a site which has been occupied by the company since 1956. It is situated next to a former US military zone that is being transformed into the spacious Yongsan Park and a business district, which was part of a masterplan repr...
Bronze
Oasis Terraces
Serie + Multiply Architects
Oasis Terraces stands to reinvent what a community centre is in a high-density city. Providing the primary public amenities for residents in the Punggol neighbourhood of Singapore, the 27,000 sqm centre contains health, retail and communal facilities. An expansive sloping green space defines the scheme, allowing views, light and...
Finalist
Beaupassage
Franklin Azzi and B&B Architectes (Frédéric Bourstin)
In the heart of the 7th district of Paris, Beaupassage, an ambitious architectural and landscaping project, brings together in one place the greatest number of stars, enhancing the art of living and contemporary creation associated with a housing program. Faced with the architectural and heritage richness of the site, the projec...
Finalist
Hanna boutique Hotel
Persian Garden Studio
Tehran’s only symmetrical street was created in 1930 in downtown neighborhood. Three residential structures sit on either sides of Lolagar Alley, each a mirror of an identical one across the alley. Over the past 40-years, the buildings on the east side of the alley were gradually abandoned. Persian Garden Studio joined the recent tren...
Finalist
Arc
Koichi Takada Architects
Winner of the City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition in 2013, Arc represents an architectural statement that combines craftsmanship and texture to create a contemporary tower that respects the historical context of its surrounding urban fabric. A pair of 26-storey towers rise from a masonry podium inspired by the heritage buildings next d...
Finalist
MahaNakhon
Buro Ole Scheeren
MahaNakhon, which translates as “great metropolis”, has transformed Bangkok’s skyline and its striking silhouette stands as an emblem of the city’s rising status as a global city. The 77-storey complex embodies a radical manifestation of the potential of the skyscraper to invigorate its urban context. Characterized b...
Gold
Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology
WilkinsonEyre
While there have been decades of discussion in the housing industry about modern methods of construction, there are few actual examples of turning visions into reality. However, this pioneering project demonstrates the potential of a new approach to speed up housing delivery. Students at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology cam...
Silver
Denizen Bushwick Phase 1
ODA New York
Situated on the former site of Brooklyn’s Rheingold Brewery the project will generate 1,000,000 square feet of apartment units in Bushwick, 20% of which will be affordable. The project will host a multitude of communal spaces open to the neighborhood, while a 17,850 square foot public park will bisect the development creat...
Bronze
Grinding Factory 5Lmeet
DAGA Architects
The project is located in the Hutong of the Beijing West Grinding Factory, a small courtyard originally known as Ruihua Dyestuff.This project is designed to transform the historic traditional courtyard into an attractive long-term rental apartment in Beijing.The apartment is connected by three yards, with the entrance made of an arched wood...
Finalist
SUNAC LE WAN DEMONSTRATION AREA, GUIYANG
Allied Architects International
The project is located in Wudang District, Guiyang City. It has abundant tourism resources and convenient transportation. The site is on a hill in Lewan International Park, which is adjacent to the mountain landscape in the west and overlooks the golf course and the central water system in the north. The entrance is on the south side of the...
Finalist
537 Elizabeth Street
Woods Bagot Pty Ltd
537 Elizabeth Street is a prototype for a new typology that blurs residential with serviced apartment/hotel living. Situated on a micro inner-city site measuring 6.7m by 29m, the seven-storey building provides 12 highly appointed one-bedroom-plus-study apartments, arranged two per floor with a simple and logical internal arrangement. Apartm...
Finalist
Clarges Mayfair
Squire & Partners
Clarges Mayfair is a landmark development for British Land, comprising residential apartments within a sustainable mixed-use development that includes workspace, restaurant and retail. 34 private residences overlook Green Park from a ten-storey building on Piccadilly, with a further 11 affordable apartments located on Clarges Street. Ou...
Finalist
The Compton
Regal London
One of the first cast aluminium clad buildings of its scale in Europe, The Compton is a truly bespoke addition to the London skyline, with a characterful, curved façade never seen before in the city. Boutique developer Regal London, in partnership with Simon Bowden Architecture, is behind this 49-apartment, ten-storey...
Finalist
Harvard MA - Energy Plus House
Jenson/DeLeeuw NZE House
Completed in 2018, the house is carefully sited on a gentle rural landscape. The home’s siting optimizes generating energy from the sun, while providing framed views of the site’s scenic qualities. Clean Energy Generation The house’s energy network generates 21,000 KW / Hr. annually using 56 LG photovoltaic solar panel...
Finalist
Eddington, Lot 1: North West Cambridge
WilkinsonEyre with Mole
Raising the bar for affordable, key-worker housing in Cambridge, Eddington has the bold ambition of inspiring better quality new homes and communities nationwide. The client provided the opportunity to create an exemplary community that’s well designed and well served, an ideal that many people aspire to with generous landscaped p...
Gold
Hackney Wick Train Station
Landolt + Brown
Landolt + Brown were appointed by Network Rail and the LLDC to develop a new station and pedestrian connection beneath the railway at Hackney Wick.
The architects worked in collaboration with artist Wendy Hardie, developing a creative approach which explores overlapping themes drawn from the Lee River and Hackney Wick’s lost ...
The architects worked in collaboration with artist Wendy Hardie, developing a creative approach which explores overlapping themes drawn from the Lee River and Hackney Wick’s lost ...
Silver
Salesforce Transit Center
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Salesforce Transit Center is a state-of-the-art transit station in San Francisco, linking 11 transit systems and connecting the city to the region, state, and nation. The innovative, sustainable design includes a 2.2-hectare (5.4-acre) rooftop park that anchors a new mixed-use neighborhood. In the spirit of New York’s Grand Ce...
Bronze
Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport
Amir Mann, Moshe Zur, Ami Shinar, Orna Zur Architects
The Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport, servicing the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and the surrounding region, is Israel’s first "Greenfield”, built from scratch without existing infrastructures in the midst of the Desert. The Airport features a 45,000 sqm Passenger Terminal Building, a 3,600 m. long ...
Finalist
CF Eaton Centre Bridge
WilkinsonEyre with Zeidler
CF Eaton Centre Bridge revitalises a connection between two shopping malls in downtown Toronto. The dynamic sculptural form creates a civic landmark for the City of Toronto, designed to enhance the experience of the urban realm for both passers-by and for the bridge users within. The geometrical form of the bridge twists from a polygon into a f...
Finalist
Albert Cuyp Underwater parking garage Amsterdam
ZJA Zwarts & Jansma Architects
To increase the quality of life in De Pijp neighborhood in Amsterdam and improve the attractiveness of the public domain, the Albert Cuyp underwater parking garage was built, the first of its kind under an Amsterdam canal. The parking garage reveals almost nothing at street level as it is completely concealed under an existing canal to blen...
Finalist
Istanbul Airport
Grimshaw, Nordic-Office of Architecture, Haptic Architects, Scott Brownrigg, Fonksiyon / TAM / Kiklop
Istanbul Airport opened in April 2019. With a floor area of 1.4 million sq m and an initial capacity of 90 million passengers per year, it is the largest single terminal under one roof in the world and a heroic feat of design, engineering and construction. Inspired by the vibrant city of Istanbul, with a modern take on classic Turkish a...
Gold
Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park
SWA/BALSLEY and WEISS/MANFREDI
An international model of urban ecology and a laboratory for innovative sustainable thinking, Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park is an 11-acre public destination that initiated one of New York’s most ambitious, complex developments in decades, which also includes 5000 units of affordable housing, two schools, and a...
Silver
Vaughans Stream Corridor Wetlands + Bridge
LandLAB
The Vaughan’s Stream Reserve is a new 20ha infrastructural park that provides the signature landscape experiences for a 162 ha site that encompasses a new town centre, 2500 houses and 28 ha of parks . LandLAB were commissioned by Todd Properties Limited in 2014 to design a series of wetlands, associated open spaces and bridge structur...
Bronze
Swirling Cloud:Bulletin Pavilion for BJFU Garden Festiva
SUP Atelier
“A gale has risen and is sweeping the clouds across the sky.” Inspired by this famous verse in an ancient Chinese poem, the design team has presented a “pavilion of swirling clouds” for the garden festival of BJFU. Covering an area of 120 square meters, the pavilion will serve as a hub for information during the fest...
Finalist
Yan’an Baota Mountain Tourist Service Center
Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co.,Ltd
Yan'an is an important birthplace of Chinese culture, in which Baota Mountain is one of the most important tourist attractions. Built in the Tang Dynasty (A.C. 618-907), Baota Tower is a significant historical and cultural heritage in China. In July 2013, Yan'an suffered a continuous heavy rainfall, causing kiln buildings to...
Finalist
Apple Piazza Liberty
Foster + Partners
Apple Piazza Liberty is an ensemble of two fundamental elements, a stepped plaza and a fountain. Located just off the Corso Vittorio Emanuele – one of the most popular pedestrian streets in Milan – visitors are drawn towards the piazza by the sight of the dramatic new fountain. A celebration of the joys of city life and embodying it...
Finalist
Avon River Park Terraces + City Promenade
LandLAB
The project enhances access to the water and brings the spirit and ecology of the river (fluid) into a dialogue with the city (grid). The new promenade layers and thickens the edge of the city to catalyse new opportunities for access and occupation. LandLAB have led the design for the Terraces river edge precinct - located at the epicentre of Chris...
Commercial
Gold
Salesforce Tower
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in San Francisco, joining the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Building as one of the skyline’s defining elements. Standing 326 meters tall, the tower has the simple, timeless form of the obelisk, giving the 61-story tower a slender, tapering silhouette. The walls are compose...
Silver
The Nexen Univer-City : New Nexen R&D Center
HAEAHN Architecture, Inc. + H Architecture, P.C.
The building is a new R&D Center for Nexen, a leading tire company in South Korea, located at the western edge of Metropolitan Seoul that is currently under development as a hub of cutting-edge industries, hosting many research facilities for South Korea’s leading corporations. The building is equipped a series of multi-discip...
Bronze
DUO
Buro Ole Scheeren
The DUO towers are an act of urban reconciliation. Conceived to knit together a previously disparate part of the city, DUO integrates the surrounding context around a 24-hour accessible public plaza, forming a new civic nexus for Singapore. Singapore consistently ranks as one of Asia’s most livable cities. However, it’s incr...
Finalist
Morpheus Hotel
Leigh & Orange Limited
This development is located at the heart of the Cotai Strip in Macau, establishing itself as a premier leisure and entertainment complex integrated with hotel accommodations, diverse entertainment features, international dining, and high-end retail facilities. L&O is the Executive Architect for the multi-disciplinary project and...
Finalist
Citizens Bank Corporate Campus
Elkus Manfredi Architects
Citizens Bank needed more than a place to unite colleagues from disparate offices under one roof. They needed a complex that would deliver a superlative experience to those employees, one that fosters colleagues’ interactions within a balance of collaborative and quiet work spaces, supports healthy lifestyles, and provides access ...
Gold
Apple Scottsdale Fashion Square
Ennead Architects
Located in a bustling shopping square in Scottsdale, Arizona, this transparent, human-scaled massing of retail space provides a welcoming contrast to the surrounding two-story volumes. The form of the building reduces the existing overall scale along North Scottsdale Road while also introducing a unique threshold experience into the mal...
Silver
International house Sydney
Tzannes
‘International House’ forms a new public place for Sydney, and a pivotal connection between the newly formed precinct of Barangaroo and the historic heart of Sydney CBD. The building manifestly demonstrates leadership in environmentally sustainable design and fosters good health and wellbeing for the office users of the building thr...
Bronze
One Molesworth Street
Henry J Lyons
One Molesworth Street is a new mixed-use office and retail development located at the corner of Dawson Street and Molesworth Street in Dublin, Ireland. The building is six storeys high with a restaurant, café, retail unit and main office entrance located at ground floor level and office accommodation on the levels above. The form...
Finalist
Garden Hotpot Restaurant
MUDA-Architects
Situated in a superior ecological area of Chengdu, the design is to integrate local hotpot culture with natural environment. On the premise of paying the greatest respect to the site’s environment, MUDA-Architects decides to eliminate the architectural scale, leaving out walls, only using pillars and boards to lightly hide the...
Finalist
Makenna Resort
Drucker Architects and Associates
Situated in the south of Bahia, a place of great importance due to the local nature (registered by UNESCO), the project is an intervention with clear intention to be in full harmony with nature and adapt to it. The architectural idea is of a primary architecture, which refers to a dissected and naked modernism. The project consists of a...
Finalist
The Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland
Balsalt Architects
Built directly into a 751-year-old lava flow in the Reykjanes UNESCO Global Geopark, the Retreat encompasses a subterranean spa, geothermal lagoon, a restaurant and a 62-suite hotel encircled by the Blue Lagoon’s seawaters. Days were spent exploring the site, letting cracks and fissures reveal how to best lay out the program. ...
Finalist
Dangrove
Tzannes
Dangrove is a purpose built ‘state of the art’ storage facility which houses a private collection of contemporary Chinese art. The brief for DANGROVE required art storage to be integrated with curatorial requirements, informal exhibition and performance spaces, research facilities, workshops and other related functions. It a...
Best Of The Best
Gold
Tian Yun Affordable Office
PRAXiS d'ARCHITECTURE
Bauhaus brought about the idea of modern architecture to celebrate industrial mass production that considerably reduced construction cost, and to advocate a non-hierarchical formal and spatial structure that was to serve a better purpose in human dwelling in both physical and metaphysical sense. Now in the contemporary era, however, whe...
Silver
Casa Chantre
Ventura + Partners
Curiously located at the opposite end of a street that leads up to a baroque style house by Nicolau Nasoni, Chantre House embodies the revolutionary spirit of Bauhaus, representing the antithesis of baroque: a complete break with the past. With a concrete structure, Chantre has a strong geometric component. The entry point of the house ...
Gold
LR2 Residence
Montalba Architects
The LR2 House overlooks Pasadena and its adjacent mountains from its hillside perch. Located down-slope from the client’s primary residence, this new 4,200-square-foot guest house and office space is made up of several distinct living volumes and programs. In response to the client’s desire to retain a significant portion of the...
Silver
Villa Emma
Mario Mazzer Architects
Villa Emma melts the rigour of a "Stazzu", the local rural buildings, with the modern house principles of open floor plans and connection between outdoor and indoor spaces. It recalls the Sardinian rural house both in the simple rectangular shape with pitched roof and the interior distribution with bedrooms on the longest side. Th...
Bronze
Ice Shore House (Berge des glaces)
Indesign/Conrath Architecte
The project brief was unusual: “Ensure me freedom in my advanced years.”
In 2013, an elderly citizen sought out the services of Gary Conrath. Her living quarters, situated on the third storey of a small condominium building were no longer appropriate.
Following the advice of her architect,...
In 2013, an elderly citizen sought out the services of Gary Conrath. Her living quarters, situated on the third storey of a small condominium building were no longer appropriate.
Following the advice of her architect,...
Gold
Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture
Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture is a critically acclaimed, international firm of architects, designers, and researchers based in Paris. Innovative, Lina Ghotmeh’s works deploy themselves at multiple scales and geographies — from object design to museums architecture, in France and abroad. As an Archeology of the Fu...
Silver
Interval Architects/Oscar KO + Yunduan GU
Interval Architects was co-founded by Oscar KO and Yunduan GU. Oscar KO is a lecturer at University of Hong Kong and founder of Shanghai-based architectural design office - Interval Architects. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, New York and Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from University of Michi...
Bronze
Danny Forster & Architecture
At Danny Forster & Architecture, we are determined to express the compelling narrative at the heart of each project and equipped with every possible tool to do so. Architectural design, interior design, branding, writing, urban planning, and film production--our suite of services helps us tell the coherent stories of wor...
Finalist
TEAM_BLDG
At the beginning of the design, the owner put forward the design requirement of “a building that reflects local culture”. The Shanghai based architecture studio TEAM_BLDG works on both architecture and interior and gets inspired from the local architectural culture. A building deeply bonded with the territory which refers to the for...
Gold
West-line Studio
West-Line Studio is based in Guizhou Province and exclusively works in South-West China, where most of the country ethnic minorities live, and has always been researching and working on local vernacular architecture and subcultures’ diversity. The practice, founded more than 15 years ago by Haobo Wei and Jingsong Xie, focuses ...
Silver
ODA New York
ODA is an office of architecture based in New York. Since its inception in 2007, ODA has quickly emerged as one of the most recognized firms of its generation, promptly establishing a reputation for delivering imaginative and mold-breaking designs. Seeking to reorder architectural priorities by putting people first, ODA challenges conve...