The international Rethinking the Future Awards competition celebrates the talents of today's designers around the world. Previous RTD Award winners have included Bjarke Ingels Group & DIALOG, Perkins Eastman, Page, RTKL, AHR, and Sanjay Puri Architects. The 2017 edition reeled in 512 registrations from 30 countries. Following evaluations, the jury selected winners across 15 broad categories, ranging from Cultural to Hospitality to Urban Design.
Check out a list of the first-prize winning submissions below.
1st Prize - Cultural (Built)- Cocoon by Manasaram Architects1st Award - Cultural (Concept) - Seeking Roots With The Ghosts by Cheng Chieh Li
1st Prize - Hospitality (Concept) - Infinite Forest by Yitan Sun & Jianshi Wu
1st Prize - Housing (Concept) - Out Of The Box by Nudes
1st Prize - Institutional (Built) - Amanenomori Nursery School by Aisaka Architects’ Atelier
1st Prize - Institutional (Concept) - Horoshkola by Krost
1st Prize - Interior- Commercial (Built) - AXL–Jewelry Boutique by Labscape Design & Architecture
1st Prize - Landscape Design (Built) - Projet Bonaventure by City of Montreal
1st Prize - Landscape Design (Concept) - Eco-courtyard of City - a Green Corridor in Taipei City by Chi Lin
1st Prize - Mixed Use (Concept) - Imagining The Vertical City by Vijul Shah
1st Prize - Office Building (Built) - Bamboo Symphony by Manasaram Architects
1st Prize - Office Building (Concept) - XO Skeleton by EYP Architecture & Engineering
1st Prize - Pop-Ups & Temporary (Built) - Shi-An by Katagiri Architecture+Design
1st Prize - Product Design (Built)- Smart Lounger by Studio Symbiosis
1st Prize - Product Design (Concept) - Re[in]Spired Architecture by Efthymia Douroudi & Lantavou Maria Lantavou
1st Prize - Public Building (Concept) - Resurrection & Reinterpretation Of An Architectural Icon by Deepankar D. Sharma
1st Prize - Residence (Built) - The Pool House by Corneille Uedingslohmann Architekten
1st Prize - Residence (Concept) - Lagos’s Wooden Tower by HKA Hermann Kamte & Associates
1st Prize - Urban Design (Concept) - New York Horizon by Yitan Sun & Jianshi Wu
You can find more of the winners here.
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