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Call For Entry! Loop Design Awards 2021

The LOOP Design Awards will launch the second edition of its prize in March 2021, coming back with lots of new features and new trophies to celebrate the best in Architecture, Interior design, Landscape design, Product design and Architecture photography. LOOP is an open platform to creativity and talent, where all the participants may showcase their best works, giving them great visibility around the world.

Aoyama Design Forum has concluded a contract with LOOP Design Awards as its media partner, and proudly supports the LOOP Design Awards 2021. There will be an ADF member to participate in the award as a judge. The registration is now open.

ASA Experimental Design Competition 2020 Winners Announced

The ASA Experimental Design Competition 2021 "The Everyday Heritage", has announced its winners. This award is a proposal to shine a spotlight on the "everyday heritage" which are easily overlooked compared to already recognized architectural heritages, and to bring some new and creative ideas by offering appropriate design intervention for the right purpose to find some extension in its hidden value. Aoyama Design Forum has sponsored the award as a partner.

Dezeen Awards 2021 Open for Entries

Dezeen Awards 2021 is currently accepting entries. Dezeen Awards is organized by Dezeen, the world's most influential architecture, interiors and design magazine, and is judged by a panel of leading figures in the world of architecture and design. Aoyama Design Forum is proud to support this award this year again.

Architizer Announces Winners of 1st Annual A+Firm Awards

Architizer, the world’s largest online platform for architecture, announced this week the winners of the 1st Annual A+Firm Awards, a new architectural awards program created to spotlight the architects behind the world’s best buildings and spaces. Building on the success of its A+Awards program, the world’s largest architectural awards program, this new program is the first of its kind dedicated to celebrating AEC companies of all sizes, geographies, and specializations.

Winners Announcement - ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021

We are pleased to announce the winners of ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021, organized by Aoyama Design Forum.

Best Performance Award / Takuto Ohta (Japan)
Outstanding Performance Award winners / Boey Wang (Netherlands)
Outstanding Performance Award winners / Alexander Schul (Germany)

Great thanks to everyone who participated in the Award and also supported to make this Award a success.
Stay tuned for more information on the Award and the winning works. We will inform more details on our website and newsletters.

The Best Graduates Award Winners Announced

The Order of Architects, P.P.C. of the Province of Milan and its Foundation announce its recipients for the Best Graduates Award.

The Best Graduates Award, established by the Order, to filter out the best and most interesting architecture, design, landscape and restoration thesis of Milan Polytechnic’s graduates.
The award wants to put recent graduates in touch with professional and cultural realities and present them to a broad, interested public.
NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) proudly supports the organizations and the project.

World Architecture Community Awards 36th Cycle Winners Are Announced

World Architecture Community has announced the winners of WA Awards 10+5+X 36th Cycle in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories.

There are 49 different winning projects from 21 different countries with a fantastic mix of building types, spanning from China to South Korea, Australia to Vietnam.
ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) supports WA Awards as a media partner.

Architizer A+Awards 2021 Calls for Entries! Architect / Architecture

Architizer, the world’s largest online platform for architecture, announces the official opening of the 9th Annual Architizer A+Awards, emphasizing architecture’s role in a changing world.

The Architizer A+Awards is the world’s largest and most democratic architectural awards program and honors the year’s best buildings and spaces from around the globe. The A+Awards are judged by Architizer’s 250+ jury academy featuring prestigious members of the architecture and design community, as well as luminaries from the art, technology, fashion, media, business, and real estate industries.

In collaboration with its official partners, Phaidon, AIA New York, and Aesthetica Magazine, the 2020 A+Awards received over 400,000 public votes on 5,000+ entries from over 100 countries worldwide. ADF proudly supports the A+Awards as one of the media partners.

ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021

Thank you for applications for the ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021.
30 works have passed through the primary examination and nominated in the shortlists on December 11.
The winners will be announced on January 25, 2021.
The announcement will be posted on the top page of the Aoyama Deign Forum.

【Deadline Extended】The GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN Awards 14th Edition Calls for Entries!

The GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN Awards celebrates and rewards the work of designers and architects who improve our quality of life and the built environment, as well as private and public clients who entrust them with their design needs. Enhancing the appreciation and promotion of excellence in design, the awards provide international recognition and exposure to its winners. ADF(NPO Aoyama Design Forum) proudly supports the GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN Awards 2021 as a media partner.

Calendar
Early entry rate until October 15, 2020
Regular rate until November 15, 2020
Final rate until March 1, 2021(Extended)

DFA Awards 2020 Winners Announced

DFA Awards was pleased to announce its recipients for the 2020 edition. Design excellence helps to enhance people’s quality of life, market competitiveness and social sustainability, thus the DFA Awards has set up different programmes for commending the most influential designers and projects in Asia and for Asia. ADF has proudly supported DFA Awards 2020.

DFA Awards 2020 Winners Announced

Dezeen Awards 2020 Winners Revealed

The winners of Dezeen Awards 2020 have been announced in a series of three video shows, revealing the best architecture, interiors and design projects and studios in the world this year. NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) supports Dezeen Awards 2020 as a media partner.

Handkerchief Day: Design applications are accepted from November 3, 2020

CLASSICS the Small Luxury, the handkerchief specialty store, hosts the CLASSICS the Small Luxury Design Award for handkerchief design, inviting applications for the award from November 3, 2020 to January 31, 2021. CLASSICS the Small Luxury opened its first store in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills in 2003 with the concept of "luxury in the palm of your hand". Classics the Small Luxury is a handkerchief store that produces original seasonal designs, high quality materials, beautiful designs, and meticulous work. They have released handkerchiefs in collaboration with many domestic and international artists.

CLASSICS THE SMALL LUXURY DESIGN AWARD

Period Nov 3, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021（JST）
Award About US0 / Productization of the design
Theme SWITCH
Result Fen, 2021
URL https://bit.ly/3ndhyb9

Final Call! ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021

ADF will hold an exhibition at the International Furniture Fair “Milano Salone” held in Milan, Italy in 2021. Along with this, the ADF will hold the “ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021” this time as well and the award-winning works will be exhibited at the venue.

The theme of “ADF Milano Salone Design Award 2021” is “re_”. “re_” literally means “to make something again”.
re-BORN, re-CYCLE, re-USE, re-BUILD, re-NOVATION...

We will invite Eric Clough as a judge, the CEO of the architectural design company “212box”, which is based in NY and is active in interior design such as Christian Louboutin all over the world. In addition, we have newly been decided to welcome Mr. Kota Bando as a judge. He is the president of NY based interior design firm “Bando x Seidel Meersseman” now after founding and managing Monolayer and Bando Design.

Please express the theme “re_” as you think with ideas and designs. Application is until November 15th, 2020. We are looking forward to your application!

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