Features - Winners in Architecture Division

GOLD WINNING PROJECT

Varve Museum

Designed by Nomura Co. Ltd + Naito Architect ＆Associates

A symbolic landscape that unveils 70,000 years of terrestrial history Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum, situated near Lake Suigetsu, opened in 2018 as the world's first museum dedicated to varves. Varves are thin bands of sediment deposited annually at 0.7mm layer in glacial lakes and those from Lake Suigetsu which date back 70,000 years, have been verified against radiocarbon dating at the International Radiocarbon Conference in July 2012, and it is now exhibited at the Museum as a precious shining asset of the region..

SILVER WINNING PROJECT

Textile

Designed by Kris Lin International Design

TEXTILE 

The project is located at the junction of Hangzhou City and Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is located in Leidian Town, Deqing County. Deqing has thousands of years of textile history and is also an important silk weaving industry region in China.

Background interpretation

This case is an urban renewal and renovation project. As a city that started in the textile industry, Deqing County has a large number of textile factories. This case is the site of a long-established blanket factory. It has witnessed the development of the prosperous Jiangnan textile industry.

BRONZE WINNING PROJECT

PALETTE Workspace for Continuous Employment

Designed byA Nomad Sub + nanometer architecture

Architecture like an urban space where users can find a place to fit In a homogeneous space like an office, about twenty users were engaged in work; some were packing products in boxes at their desks, and some were processing parts for industrial products. One-half of them were working at an open desk, and the other half sat at individual desks with partitions so that no other people came into sight.