The leading awards for the architecture and design community in Asia Pacific – A&D Awards 2024 – will open for entries next Wednesday May 15. So it’s time to start preparing your submissions for this year’s competition.
Enter your most outstanding projects, completed over the last 18 months, in a choice of 36 categories across Architecture, Interior Design, Innovation and Product Design.
To find out more about the categories, eligibility criteria and how to enter, please download the A&D Awards 2024 Handbook. It provides everything you need to know about the Awards program.
Winners will be recognised at the highly anticipated PERSPECTIVE Gala Dinner around the end of the year. More than 230 luminaries of the architecture and design community gathered at the fabulous 2023 dinner – see images to the right.
Access to the entry platform will be made available right here from next Wednesday. Make sure you revisit and get your entries in!
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Can architects make good politicians? Absolutely, says Winnie Ho, who once designed commercial properties for local architectural firm Ho & Partners and is now Hong Kong’s Secretary of Housing. “I always see myself as an architect,” she says. And good architecture, like good politics, is all about putting people first.
The thing that impressed me was the youthful spirit. Young designers, young practitioners. You could feel the spirit and quality of their work. That’s encouraging.
Congratulations to the A&D Awards for celebrating excellence in architecture. I hope more professionals join in the coming years to make its impact even more far-reaching.
Thank you, A&D Awards. You’ve been an amazing support for our practice. Without you, I think we would not be where we are today.
The standard of entries was very high… I learnt a lot from them. I think they are an insight into Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.
My advice is if you don’t enter you will not know how good or bad you are. So enter and share your projects on a great platform of design.
I’ve seen some really good projects and outside the box concepts, so I can’t wait to see more interesting work next year.
I think the projects are of really high caliber, and the awards are an endorsement of the quality of design. I think everyone should support them.
