2023 ADF Design Award

Call for Entries!!

ADF(NPO Aoyama Design Forum) is a non-profit organization established in Japan in 2009. We aim to train and improve the status of designers worldwide.

ADF decided to hold its annual international design award again this year under the new name of the “ADF Design Award” to make it more global. As in the past, ADF will set up a venue at Fuori Salone during the “Milano Salone (Salone Internazionale del Mobile)”, the world’s largest furniture trade fair scheduled for April 2023.

During the “Milano Salone”, your work will be exhibited in Milan. This is an extraordinary opportunity to show your work to the world. So, please don’t miss this chance and apply for the “ADF Design Award”.

This year’s design theme is “Design for Architecture”. We are looking for architectural works that are not only the beauty in appearance but also the process of the design is original and innovative.

Further, the architectural works must be beneficial to humans and consider the environment. We are looking for challenging architectural works to break new ground in architectural design.

Design Theme

• Design for Architecture

Categories

1. Hospitality: hotel, casino, theme park, pavilion
2. Commercial & Office: shopping center, department store, office building
3. Education & Sports: school, research facility, stadium
4. Cultural Buildings: theater, library, museum, art gallery, hospital
5. Public Architecture: government and municipal building, airport, station, port

Entry/ Submission Schedule

From August 15th, 2022 to December 30th, 2022 (JST)

Prize

• Best Performance Award 1 work
  Prize: 20,000 USD / Extra prize: Exhibit the award-winning work*
• Excellent Award 1 work for each category
  Prize: 10,000 USD / Extra prize: Exhibit the award-winning work*
• Encouragement Award 2 works for each category
  Prize: 1,000 USD

* ADF will support the production and site installation costs up to 2,000 USD for the Best Performance Award and Excellent award winners.
* There is a case of no corresponding work awarded.

Qualification Requirements

• Individual or group
• Regardless of nationality
• Must be a member of ADF * To be a member is at no cost.
• Architecture completed within 3 years

* To be an ADF member is at no cost.
* Registration: https://www.adf.or.jp/english/app/

Entry Fee

• Free

Submissions

• Proposal (Concept of the architecture, materials, details, and design)
• CV of the designer

* The files must be merge into a single PDF ( file must be with in 10MB)
* A4-sized material of landscape orientation. must be maximum of 5 pages

Judging Criteria

• Beauty: Artistic value in shape, color, detailing, and material selection
• Innovation: Responding to social changes, using new materials, innovative construction processes, and pioneering designs. Innovation is a challenge within limited conditions.
• Usefulness: The building is beneficial and sustainable for its users and the environment.
• Regional/Cultural/Chronological: The building blends with and differentiates itself from the region, and its superficial beauty fits with the times and cultural context.

Juries

• Marialisa Santi (The President of the Foundation of the Order of the Architects of Milan)
• Suzy Annetta (Design Anthology)
• Ottavio di Blasi（ODB OTTAVIO DI BLASI ＆ PARTNERS）
• Noriaki Okabe（岡部憲明）
• Akihisa Hirata（平田晃久）

Winner’s Announcement

• March 15th, 2023

Language

• English only

Others

• Best Performance Award and Excellent award winners will be exhibited at ADF exhibit space in Milano Salone (photo, architectural model, etc.).
• After Milano Salone, ADF will exibit your works at ADF gallery in Tokyo.
• The prize includes tax.
• In case any matters not described under the entry outline occur, ADF will have all the right to decide.
• Before submitting the work, applicants must confirm that part or all of the submitted work does not infringe on the rights of third parties (intellectual property rights, copyrights, etc.).
• If the organizers and sponsors use the images for the presentation of works, PR, and so forth, based on the purpose of this competition, the applicants will be allowed to use them free of charge.

Organizer

• ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum)

Media Partner & Supporter

AIA NYS, APSDA, Architizer, Arch2O, art4d, ASA, Asia Designers Directory, Design Anthology, Design Educates Awards, Dezeen, Design China Beijing, Grands Prix Du Design, HKDC, LOOP Design Awards, MIID, ORDER ARCHITECTS P.P.C. OF THE PROVINCE OF MILAN, World Architecture Community

2023 ADF Design Award

Contact

If you have any questions about the Award, please reach out to the following email.

E-mail: award@adf.or.jp

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• ADF DESIGN AWARD 2023