2025.12.16

VOL. 533

Award&Competition
	The Architizer¡Çs 14th A+Awards Calls for Entries
	Crafting The Next Era Of Architecture Architizer, the largest online platform for architecture, announces the official opening of the 14th Annual Architizer A+Awards, honoring the year¡Çs best buildings and spaces. NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) proudly supports the A+Awards as a media partner of Architizer. Imaqge: CENTRE FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH & COMPETITIVENESS FOR TAPMI by The Purple Ink Studio Photo credit: Suryan//Dang

Award&Competition
	52nd WA Awards 10+5+X Now Open for Entries
	An international architecture award organized by World Architecture Community The 52nd Cycle of the WA Awards 10+5+X, hosted by the World Architecture Community (WAC), is now open for submissions. The deadline is November 3, 2025 (23:59 GMT+0). This global awards program celebrates outstanding creativity and innovation in architecture and interior design, providing international recognition to projects often overlooked by conventional media. Aoyama Design Forum (ADF, NPO) supports the WA Awards as one of its official media partners. Larry Wen's Ghaf Woods Experience Centre in United Arab Emirateswon the WA Awards in the 51st Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Arch-Exist.

Trend Reports
	Berlin News November 2025
	We have received a new report supported by GARDE! Hotel Oderberger, originally a public pool built in 1898, has been transformed into a modern design hotel while preserving its historic decor. Its pool is equipped with a liftable floor that allows the space to be converted into a multipurpose hall, and the former changing rooms and showers have been repurposed as guest rooms and seminar rooms. The lounges and meeting spaces retain original architectural details, earning the hotel a cultural heritage preservation award. Bundesbüdchen in Berlin is a distinctive restaurant that recreates the legendary kiosk from Bonn almost true to scale. It serves refined traditional German cuisine in a warm, inviting space featuring a curved counter and natural wood and leather furnishings, attracting politicians and celebrities as a hidden gem.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛFOIL Gallery: A gallery reborn from industrial architecture by Atelier L¡ÇAbri
	In Montreal¡Çs Mile-Ex district, a century-old factory has been transformed into FOIL Gallery, a new cultural hub that merges contemporary art with the rhythms of everyday life. Founded by artists Fvckrender and Baeige, the hybrid gallery–café was designed by Atelier L¡ÇAbri, which revitalized two long-vacant units within a historic industrial building while preserving its architectural and material legacy.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛInternational Design Proposes a New Collecting Experience Across Digital and Physical Realms
	Coinciding with Design Miami and Art Basel, the international platform "International Design" will officially launch on December 3, 2025, at 6 PM CET. Established between Florence and Paris, the project begins as a hybrid digital and physical ecosystem that spans collectible design, contemporary art, and luxury culture. It aims to redefine the standards of discovery, acquisition, and experience in the world of high-end design.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛShunde Yunlu Wetland Museum in China by Studio Link-Arc
	The Yunlu Wetland Museum in Shunde by Studio Link-Arc sits within Yunlu Wetland Park, beside an ecological island that is home to 25,000 egrets. Designed as both a bird-watching tower and a museum, the building encourages awareness of wetland ecology while delivering close-range views of wildlife.

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.