2025.08.12

VOL. 416

Event&Project
	¡ÉWorld Architecture Festival 2025¡É to Be Held in Miami for the First Time
	The World Architecture Festival (WAF) will be held in the United States for the first time in its 18-year history. Taking place from November 12 to 14, 2025, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Florida, the festival will welcome architects and designers from around the world for three days of live awards judging, talks, exhibitions, and networking. Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) is proud to serve as an official media partner for the 2025 edition.

ADF gallery
	ADF Art Gallery Project-Would you exhibit your works for free?
	Omotesando has a renowned reputation as a source of innovative art. The artworks are exhibited in our gallery in a great place where people with a deep understanding of art.

Trend Reports
	NYC News August 2025
	We have received a new report supported by GARDE! Hermès Mystery at the Grooms¡Ç, held at Pier 36 on the East River in Southeast Manhattan for 10 days starting June 19, was an immersive event created by Hermès. Participants were invited to become ¡Èdetectives¡É in a space designed to resemble a horse-drawn mansion, where they searched for clues about a missing horse and experienced the unfolding story of its disappearance. This imaginative event reinterprets Hermès¡Ç origins as a saddler¡Çs workshop, built around the themes of craftsmanship and playfulness. As a tribute to the brand¡Çs heritage in harness-making, the venue was designed as a ¡Èhorse care house.¡É The interior was not only visually striking but also rich in interactive features that encouraged visitors to ¡Ètouch,¡É ¡Èsearch,¡É and ¡Èmove.¡É As an experiential expression of the ¡Èessence of luxury¡É proposed by Hermès, the event has been widely praised as an innovative marketing strategy for a high-end brand

Trend Reports
	AD FUTURE: An Unbounded Social Space Beyond Time
	To Chaoshan contemporary artist Mr. Zheng Shaowen, whose ¡ÈYingge Dance¡É Series anchors the design in local cultural identity. To Lin Xu of Matrix Electronic Band, for composing ¡ÈClash with Fate¡É—an electrifying track that fuses the heroic shouts of Yingge with modern beats, capturing the tension and fusion of tradition and modernity. To Chaoyang Haixing Yingge Dance Troupe and YANA from Latvia, whose joint performance embodies our vision of cultural collision and convergence. And to video production team Flight Film and photographer Ouyang Yun, for their emotive lens that unfolds the cinematic interplay of time and space.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛPenthouse Greenstyle by Castello Lagravinese Studio
	In Milan, Castello Lagravinese Studio redefines contemporary urban living with Penthouse Greenstyle, a residence that seamlessly blends sustainability, smart technology, and deeply personalized interiors. Designed as the crown jewel of a new-generation residential complex, this penthouse is more than a stylish home—it¡Çs a manifesto for sustainable, emotionally intelligent design.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛEverest Group Clinches Dual Architizer A+Awards for Beacon House
	At the 13th Annual Architizer A+Awards—billed as the world¡Çs largest and most influential architectural honors—Chinese architect Xuefeng Li, the founder of Everest Group, has achieved a rare double triumph. Her project, "Beacon House", earned both the Jury Award and the Popular Choice Award in the Multi-Unit Housing (S

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛSun Tower by OPEN Architecture Connects People with Nature and the Cosmos in Yantai
	Designed by OPEN Architecture, the Sun Tower is a new cultural facility located in the Yeda Development Zone of Yantai, China. Situated along the coast of the Yellow Sea, the cone-shaped structure houses an outdoor theatre, exhibition spaces, a library, a café, a bar, and a special space called the Phenomena Space. Its design is guided by the trajectory of the sun, drawing visitors into an experience of natural and cosmic rhythms.

Service
	ADF Supports CSR Project
	Awards are an option that is still not widely available in Japan. Let's be among the first to discover and develop new and fresh talent. Incorporating "awards" as part of CSR activities into your corporate strategy can significantly increase your company's visibility in the public eye. The word "awards" is in common use worldwide, and your awards business will be recognized as a cultural and social contribution activity. ADF supports your awards program and accelerates your cultural and social contribution activities and branding. There are awards that can only be provided by ADF, which has many connections around the world.