Arch-ExistThe A Design Awards & Competition for 2024-2025 is now open for entries! With a philanthropic mission to drive societal progress, this prestigious contest encourages innovation in science, design, creativity, and technology by offering recognition and incentives for groundbreaking ideas. As the worlds largest annual juried design competition, it celebrates the achievements of top designers, architects, and design-focused companies from across the globe. Each year, the competition honors projects that excel in innovation, technology, and creativity, helping to propel them toward greater recognition and success. Winners of this cycle will be announced in May 2025, and you can look forward to our curated selection of standout projects featured on ArchEyes.The competition spans a diverse range of categories, including industry-specific awards such as the Good Industrial Design Award and Good Product Design Award, as well as specialized accolades like the Good Communication Design Award, Good Service Design Award, Good Fashion Design Award, and the Disposable and Single-Use Product Design Competition.For inspiration, todays post highlights some of our favorite projects from past competitions in the Architecture, Building & Structure category. Get creative and start submitting your innovative designs today!Zhejiang Pinghu Sports Center byFrederic Rolland, Jia Jiong, and Wang Hanlu SANQIAN VISUAL IMAGE ARTDesigners: Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang HanluWinner Category: 2023 2024, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The renovation design adopts the overhead bridge, fitness footpath and landscape pavement, and realizes the functional connection with the concept of three-dimensional ribbon. The architectural scale is reshaped, the landscape scale is more suitable for viewing, and the natural ecology is organically combined and brings new vitality. This open, diverse and adaptable project brings an all-weather civic sports park that provides a multi-functional and immersive experience.Anji Creative Design Center Urban and Rural Area byAtelier Deshaus Arch-ExistDesigners: ArchermitWinner Category: 2023 2024, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Pengzhou has advantaged mountain water resources. Under the development framework of Chengdus park City, the development concept of three-dimensioOne Line Studio Architectural Office byTim Politis Jess Blackwell, 2023Designers: Tim PolitisWinner Category: 2023 2024, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Aspiring towards the mountain peaks, a soaring elevation frames its natural setting composed of wetland vegetation, natural grasses, and woodlands. An interior atmosphere is delineated between a timber wall and a curtain of suspended glass, thinly veiling the threshold between inside and outside.Anji Creative Design Center Urban and Rural Area byAtelier Deshaus AnjihoodDesigners: Atelier Deshaus and AnjihoodWinner Category: 2023 2024, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The architectural form adapts to the undulating tea fields. Its horizontally orthogonal spatial system seems to be an extension of the city, but vertically it adds undulation to the already undulating terrain. This both guarantees the function of the space and indicates the characteristics of the original terrain. People can roam around freely. The public space connects to the local agricultural production, serving as an extension of the countryside and contributing to its sustainability.Dalian 37 Xiang Cultural and Creative Park byUnited Units Architects Weiqi Jin, Night, 2022Designers: United Units ArchitectsWinner Category: 2022 2023, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The emergence of the architectural image comes from the exploration of Dalians city spirit. Combining the unique geographical resources of mountains, hills, peninsulas, oceans, together with the urban fabric have created the impression of Dalian as a city of mountains and seas. The first inspiration for the architectural design comes from the geographical features of the city. The design language is abstracted from the form of waves and sails, establishing a spiritual connection between the building and people by endowing the building with a new visual imagination.Tension Instrument Concert Hall by Lihan Jin Lihan JinDesigners: Lihan JinWinner Category: 2022 2023, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Tension is a material property that creates both music and architecture. Inspired by Dvoraks New World Symphony, the prototype originates from a piece of wood bent by a string in tension. The concert hall is an orchestration of walls, balconies, and acoustic panels, which are developed from the prototype by different scales and tectonics.Coexisting With Nature Clinic by Yoshiaki Tanaka Hiroshi TanigawaDesigner: Yoshiaki TanakaWinner Category: 2022 2023, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The client wanted a clinic where patients could relax and look forward to their visits. He also liked the bamboo groves and loquat trees on the property. With a frontage of 17.5 meters and a depth of 49 meters, and a height difference of 3 meters, the site was overgrown with various plants, and the fields were abandoned. TSC wanted to design a clinic where patients can experience nature, taking advantage of the existing lands characteristics, rather than creating a flat land that is easy to use.The Kaleidoscope Office and Residence by Inrestudio Hiroyuki Oki, 2022Designer: Inrestudio, Nguyen Quynh Han, and Vo Hanh NhanWinner Category: 2022 2023, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The characteristic roof of the building inherits the idea of Non-La, a Vietnamese traditional farmers hat made of palm leaf, that a large conical surface shuts out sunlight and rain while allowing for the wind underneath. In order to enhance natural ventilation, solid walls are arranged perpendicularly to the roof periphery. These form a series of V-shapes to cut out triangular private rooms while defining a large in-between space that is used for public functions.Qinglong Ting Landscape Pavilion byXiaomao CaoHuazhong University of Science and Technology and FOG Architecture StudioDesigner: Cao XiaomaoWinner Category: 2022 2023, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Upon conducting an on-site investigation, we discerned a pervasive communal activity that unites the villagers lingering. Architectural elements in the local edifices of this hamlet exhibit a prominent enlargement of the porch vicinity adjacent to the entrance. These elongated overhangs seamlessly connect, providing an inviting space where inhabitants partake in solitary reflection, engage in convivial group discussions, or participate in spirited rounds of card games beneath the unbroken shelter of the continuous eaves.Collina del Faro Residential Building by Alberto Torres Vista CGDesigner: Alberto Torres, Architecture Interior: Sabrina Barros, Constructor: Construtora MontebelloWinner Category: 2022 2023, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The project was inspired by the natural landscape of the intervention lot, which is located at the foot of Farol Hill and in front of the beach in the coastal city of Torres-RS, in Brazil.Ideareve Ikegami Music Hall byRyuichi Sasaki and Takayuki Yagi Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture, 2021, Copyright of Architecture DesignDesigner: Takayuki Yagi, Yagi KomutenWinner Category: 2022 2023, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: What inspired this design most is the unique location at the foot of Ikegami Honmonji temple and the surrounding hilly landscape. This inspired us to incorporate a mountainous topography effect into the geometrical volume of the building.Timeless Residence by Satoshi Kurosaki Masao NishikawaDesigner: Satoshi KurosakiWinner Category: 2022 2023, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: This house in a quiet residential neighborhood of central Tokyo was built for a couple who had long lived on the property but wanted to rebuild as they entered a new phase of life. The simple exterior design comprised of two massive volumes piled on top of each other takes advantage of the corner lot, with a faade of exposed concrete imprinted with cedar formwork. Outward-facing windows are limited to horizontal slits to preserve privacy and increase security.Haus Am See Residential House byCarlos Zwick Architekten BDA Jos CamposDesigners: Carlos Zwick and Visualizer: Mejo C. JoyWinner Category: 2021 2022, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The architectural concept of the house pays tribute to the historical roots of the place. Without compromise, it subordinates itself to them without touching their essence. The structure floats above the terraces, respecting their space and form.Huanghesong Theatre Cultural Venues byXuelin Wu Gold Mantis, Huanghesong Theatre, 2021Designers: Xuelin Wu, Hai Lin and Gao LiWinner Category: 2021 2022, Platinum A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: 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 Li Yao | The view across the river, 2021Designers: Wei Zhang and Kesuo Wu gadWinner Category: 2021 2022, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: 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 Manuel Lap Yan LamDesigners: Manuel Lap Yan Lam and Design Team: Scarlett LiWinner Category: 2021 2022, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Faade 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 faade 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 byMasato Sekiya Akira KitaDesigners: Masato Sekiya and Shizuko Kuroda, Structural Designer: Shigeyuki NakataWinner Category: 2021 2022, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: 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.Double Skin House byNobuhito Mori Masayoshi IshiiDesigners: Nobuhito MoriWinner Category: 2021 2022, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: There is a traditional Japanese partition, the shoji, which is a way of ensuring light and privacy. The shoji consists of a thin wooden frame covered with translucent paper, which softens the incoming light and blurs the interior. Inspired by the shoji, the designer has created a modern light filter that is resistant to wind and rain and can also be used outside.Kujdane Holiday House byYaser Rashid Shomali and Yasin Rashid Shomali Yasin Rashid Shomali, 2021Designer: Yaser Rashid Shomali and Yasin Rashid ShomaliWinner Category: 2021 2022, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The design team expresses influence from its natural context to curate the contemporary cabin dwelling, a reinterpretation of the traditional A-frame typology. the wooden material palette is expressed with cool-toned interior elements, paired with a facade of full-height glazing to fit the dwellings curving profile.Guangming Public Service Platform byZhubo Design Xia ZhiDesigners: Feng Guochuan, Zhong Qiao, Liu Xiaoying, Executive managers: Qu Yu, Zhang Biqin, Xiong Guilin and Designers: Xu Longjie, Gong Xiaowen, Deng Hua, Zhang Meisong, Hou Lianjian, Bao Shaobin, Qu Zhenhua, Liang Fuji, Xie Bo, Lv FangWinner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 2021.Inspiration: Taishi Chair-like layout (three sides enclosed, south side open) is very common among Chinese government buildings and was also requested in the projects design brief. The designer intended to break the conservative Taishi Chair-like spatial pattern to bring a new image and inject vitality into the government architecture.House in Repino Residential byShamsudin Kerimov Kerimov ArchitectsDesigners: Shamsudin Kerimov and Ekaterina KudinovaWinner Category: Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2020 2021.Inspiration: The main source of inspiration was the unique natural environment of the region. For the project, the natural materials were chosen: stone characteristic to the local environment, wood, and metal. All of them will change in time for architecture to fuse with the natural environment.Muh Shoou Xixi Hotel byShawn Cheung GOA SHIROMIO Studio, Three Wind, ZHOU YijinDesigners: Zhang Xiaoxiao, Landscape Design: Z+T StudioWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Muh Shoou Xixi originally means the last fruit left by farmers on the tree with the special intention of sharing it with animals in nature to pray for the harvest of the coming year. Thats just where the name of Muh Shoou Xixi comes from. The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of Xixi Wetland coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness, and seclusion to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture.House for Parents Residence byMasakatsu Matsuyama Toshihisa IshiiDesigner: Masakatsu MatsuyamaWinner Category: 2019 2020, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: As a traditional daily custom in this island, people gather and stay under the shadow of large trees. We aimed to create architecture that celebrates the culture of the region and leads to re-emerge the spirit of traditional life on the island. The space under the large roof, which is supported by thin steel columns, provides a shady and cool, comfortable interior that suite the severe climate on the southern island.Dream House Island Rural Renewal byTianqi Guan Tianqi Guan, 2018 | Courtesy of A Design Awards & CompetitionDesigner: Tianqi GuanWinner Category: 2018 2019, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: This is a project for the TV program to convey a notion that makes people more aware of the relationship between environment and structures, encouraging them to care about the living environment and maximize spatial delight and spirit. People often concern grand narrative-themed buildings and usually turn a blind eye to many houses that are humble but still relevant to daily life. Moreover, we pay too much attention to how good a building looks on the outside while ignoring what lies inside. Tianqi GuanThe Black House Housing byBuero Wagner Fabian A. Wagner, BUERO WAGNER | Courtesy of A Design Awards & CompetitionDesigners: Fabian A. Wagner, Sophia Eun Joo Pfeiffer, Maxi WagnerWinner Category: 2018 2019, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The Black House is located next to a forest not far from Ammersee, one of Germanys largest lakes one hour southwest of Munich, Bavaria. Encompassing an 80 square meter plot, The Black House directly adjoins to a larger family home next door, yet is distinguished as an independent building. The residence is characterized by its carbonized wood facade, with rooms of different heights stacked together to create a variety of spatial situations.White Mountain by Kris Lin KLID 2020Designers: Kris Lin and Anda YangWinner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 2021.Inspiration: The designer was inspired by the shape of the rolling hills and created the surficial landscape that extends down to the visual surface of the building. It connects the surficial and underground space. The project base is surrounded by mountains, with natural landscape resources such as Zijin Mountain and Hongshan Forest Zoo.ShuiFa-White Marble in the Wilderness Property Exhibition Centre byQun Wen Vincent WuDesigner: Qun Wen, Gen Li, Shixin Gao, Jiarui Li, Suqing Yan, Liuqing Liu, Ye Wang, Dan Zhu, Jing DuWinner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 2021.Inspiration: Inspired by Wang Weis verse from Mountain Dwelling in Autumn: Rain passes in the pristine mountain, refreshing autumn evening. Moon shines among the pine; clear spring flows on stones.The Peach Garden Hostel Homestay byChao ZhouThe Peach Garden, Facade Renovation2019Designers: Zhou Chao, Deng Kechao, Zhang Hang, and Qin SiyuanWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: In sharp contrast between the old and the new, the heavy and the light, the historical building is reborn.Courtyard NO.1 Sales Office byQun Wen Huang LigangDesigners: Qun Wen, Mingwang Huo, Gen Li, Jing Du, Chen Liu, Kaiqi Yang, Xiaodan Chang, Zhuojun NiuWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: In the digital age, many actions are performed in the virtual world nowadays. Therefore, the building objects are designed to float in an unstable state, welcoming the surrounding audiences with an open, dynamic posture.House On Pipes Weekend Getaway Praveen MohandasDesigner: Nagendra R and Raghunandan GWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The linearity, sleek supports, and wide canopies of the trees within the site inspired us to begin with the concepts of having similar linear supports elevating the built space and minimal contact to the land. A lightly structured design paved its way, purely based on previously proposed landscape space. In doing so, both the built and unbuilt are celebrated together as a whole.Mountain House in Mist by Lin Chen Lin Chen, 2020.Designer: Chen Lin and Liu DongyingWinner Category: Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Category, 2020 2021.Inspiration: The book house is located in an ancient village in Wuyi and was developed by a local tourism real estate company as a part of the development and construction. Before the development, only a few elderly residents live in this empty village. It was hoped that this book house could change the situation by bringing more visitors to it.Yongning Station Urban Mini Complex byYijia Hu Hu Yijie, Zhang YiDesigners: Hu Yijia and Design Team: Zhang Juxin, Chen YiningZhou Yuechen, Ye TongWinner Category: 2019 2020, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: In memory, the Yongning park before the repair is a forbidden land, the river is dangerous, and it is full of mudflat. When I was a child, I would catch crabs by the river with my little friends after school. However, I was always wary of the danger of sunset ebb tide. Suddenly there was a parental reprimand, the moment when the afterglow disappears into the earth planeThe uncertainty of these moments is fixed into an impression word in the deep memory fleeting scenery.House in Shiraiwa Residence byTsukasa Okada 2id Architects Toshiyuki YanoDesigner: Tsukasa Okada 2id ArchitectsWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The house is located in Shiraiwa, the north of Hamamatsu city in Japan. It is surrounded by a mandarin plantation halfway up the mountain. With an extraordinary view and rich nature, its environment allows the design of a building by the concept of distance between inhabitation and nature. Two contradictory senses have formed the house. One is a sense of openness led by its location looking down the valley from the mountains slope. The other is a sense of security led by the other fact of its location surrounded by mountains as if it protects the house.Garden House byChristos Pavlou Charis SolomouDesigner: Christos PavlouWinner Category: 2019 2020, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: When the landscape becomes an inspiration, there are no boundaries between inside and outside. In contrast with many urban houses built to isolate themselves from the rest of the neighborhood erecting fences, this proposal aimed to form a physical continuation of the public green area that exists on its longer boundary. The design seeks to establish a unified relationship between the neighborhood, the private garden, and the public area. This idea helps to upgrade the quality of the urban fabric.Cloud of Luster Wedding Chapel Stirling Elmendorf | Courtesy of A Design Awards & CompetitionDesigner: Tetsuya MatsumotoWinner Category: 2019 2020, Platinum A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The modern wedding ceremonies in Japan inspired the design for the Cloud of Luster. These are all about the lightness, the brightness, and the smooth transition towards a happy future family life. The lines needed to be naturally curvy, and the space required to be open to receive as much light as possible. The columns needed to feel official as the ceremony is taking place and yet be as smooth and glamorous to spread the moments happiness.Phoenix Tree Garden Tea Space byQingfan Zhang Qingfan Zhang, 2019.Designer: Qingfan Zhang and Bo ZhangWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Some elements come from the reference to Suzhou classical gardens, such as the small arch bridge, borrowed from the static bridge in the net master garden, the stone paving on the ground borrowed from the linear stone paving of the bathing gull small garden. Designers designed and directed the stack of the red rock mountains. Several tea rooms with different views and feelings were made in less than 200 square meters.Hill Wind Hotel and Resort byHuafang Wang Huafang Wang, 2019Designer: Huafang Wang, Weizhong Yue, and Shuai HuangWinner Category: 2019 2020, Platinum A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: According to the regional characteristics, the designer combines the local culture and historical context in conception. Under the dominant atmosphere of modernism, the designer uses the language of design to create a dialogue with space, and then interprets the visual, tactile, and spiritual resonance, reproducing the Anji area humanistic landscape pattern of The cicada noise highlights the silence of the forest, and birdsong sets off the depth of the mountain.Faculty Architecture Education School byPatrick Schweitzer S&AA Edwin Seda, Emmanuel Cattier, Jules TouletDesigner: SetAA, Associate architect: EAACON, Construction: EGIS, Enterprise: CATIC and Landscape architect: Acte 2 PaysageWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The building uses two simple materials commonly found in the region: stone for the exterior envelope; and self-colored concrete for the interior. The building has small outward-facing windows and large inward-facing windows protected from the sun by roof overhangs. The upper section of the pyramids is truncated to bring in natural light and optimize ventilation.Samaranch Memorial Museum byArchiland Yan ChenDesigner: Archiland, HAO DesignNew York, COWI, Kragh & Berglund and TADIWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The original intention is to build a green building that commemorates Mr. Samaranch and inherits the Olympic spirit. It was transformed through the five Olympic rings: the main building presents two intersecting circles, and the other three circles transform into a sunken courtyard. The 8 shape commemorates the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The S shape stands for Samaranch; the third is that the shape symbolizes Infinity and eternity.Interpretation Centre of Romanesque Exhibition Centre byspaceworkers Fernando Guerra FG+SGDesigners: Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis, Rui Rodrigues, Rui Miguel, Srgio RochaWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Based on Romanesque architecture concepts in Portugal, the building aims to be a transitional element between the present and the distant past. In a simple way, the volumetric proposed contains the principles of unity within diversity, appearing under the form of several volumes with different heights and dimensions, demonstrating the diversity that Romanesque buildings have left us. Therefore, each volume of ceilings reinterprets one of the roof types used in Romanesque architecture.BaseCamp Lyngby Student Housing byLars Gitz Architects Illustrator Lars Gitz Architects, Common building, 2017Designers: Lars Gitz Architects, Jon Clausen, Nevena Milosevic, and Kim ClausenWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The context inspired the concept and the organic form. This part of the city has a very natural and green character that the building is in harmony with. The idea was to bring students closer to nature and motivate them to interact with it. The project had to satisfy the low-cost sustainability demand. A trapezoid repeatable shaped module that rotates differently within the same radius was invented, creating the round organic shaped structure. The structure is uninterruptedly running through the site, creating a walking path in nature on top of the building.Studio Atelier11 Office byHyunmo Park Ban ChiokDesigner: Park Hyunmo, Park Geunhyo, and Kim DohyungWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Studio Atelier11 has the system with the line and grids that urban development has accomplished recently to the north and the organic system. The natural patterns are preserved to the south and located in the contact point that different city plans have.Santos House byFernando Abelleyro Fernando AbelleyroDesigner: Fernando Abelleyro and P.ColesWinner Category: 2019 2020, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The need to promote a typological construction that enhances versatility and the constructive possibility that wood offers; in our country, it was never widely accepted as a reliable and noble construction material. It was necessary to generate a project which expresses the potential of this wonderful material. The inspiration was given by the context itself, given the search to articulate a fluid relationship between the interior and the exterior.Chinese Quadrangle Hotel byZhang ZhaoYong Zhang ZhaoYongDesigner: Zhang Zhaoyong and Zhan ShuaihongWinner Category: 2019 2020, Silver A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: Although the folk custom and classical rules are antiquated, the classic can still go on in todays landscape. This is a line in the Chinese Quadrangle Courtyard by Qi Qin. This design is a Chinese quadrangle courtyard. Although this quadrangle courtyard looks inconspicuous from the outside, you will find a world all its own as you walk in, with every brick and tile emitting a strong and unsophisticated atmosphere of life. With a deep grasp of Chinese traditional culture, space scale, and human settlement concept, the designer integrates modernity and tradition into a beautiful picture.Warm Transparency Clinic byYoshiaki Tanaka Hiroshi TanigawaDesigner: Yoshiaki TanakaWinner Category: 2019 2020, Gold A Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award WinnerInspiration: The client requested a clinic where we can feel the warmth of wood. TSC architects tried to achieve a clinic with Warm transparency by using plenty of wood material for interior and exterior material. TSC architects set the large wood eaves extended from inside of the building to a tangent between the town that has a traffic-laden street. The large wood receives the patients and generates a space where the patients can feel security even outside the building, being a symbol of the town.Registration to A Design Award & Competition 2024-2025is open now.Results will be announced to the public in May 2025.A Design Awards & CompetitionSponsored Content Leave a comment