Introduction

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Architectural 
Visualization Award

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its first annual Architect’s Sugar Architectural Visualization Award!

The Award series seeks outstanding architectural visualizations of all kinds. It is one of the Buildner’s ‘silent competitions’, in which participants must communicate without the use of any text, and solely through the use of visuals.

Visualizations are critically important to the industry, the primary communications tool for architects and designers to express creativity, design intent and aspirations. Visualizations are limitless in their scope, and can be used to describe details, spaces, buildings, systems, and even entire cities.

The way architectural visualizations are created has changed dramatically over the years, but regardless of the technology or technique, creative thinking has always been fundamental to developing innovative drawings.

The Architect's Sugar Architectural Visualization Award is the first competition in a series in which Buildner is calling for submissions from architects and enthusiasts to share some of their favorite work. Buildner’s network of architects and designers are some of the most talented in the world, and the Architectural Visualization Award is a chance to highlight the best of the best.

Buildner worked with an outstanding international jury to evaluate and award the received submissions: Jan Clostermann is the Founding Director of CLOU architects in Beijing, China; Xuanru Chen is a lead architect at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier; Andrea Hansen-Phillips is the principal of Datum Digital Studio, founder of the online journal Atlas of Visualization, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee; Michael Meredith is Associate Dean and Professor at Princeton University and a principal of MOS, an internationally recognized architecture practice based in New York; Stephen Pimbley is a British architect based in Singapore and is the founding director of SPARK Architects; Fabien Roy is a swiss designer, architect, and founder of Fabien Roy Studio; and James Whitaker is founder of London-based Whitaker Studio.

Buildner and its jury panel thank each of the participants and teams that submitted their work.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Michael Meredith

Princeton University, MOS

USA

Fabien Roy

Fabien Roy Studio

Switzerland

Marcelo Coelho

Marcelo Coelho Studio, MIT Department of Architecture

USA

James Whitaker

Founder of Whitaker Studio

United Kingdom

Stephen Pimbley

British architect based in Singapore and is the founding director of SPARK Architects

Singapore

Jan Clostermann

Founding Director of CLOU architects

China

Xuanru Chen

architect at ZJJZ Atelier

China

James Biber

Biber Architects

USA

1st Prize Winner

Project name

Distant Past

I participate in architecture competitions because it can give a work direction, focus and a set time frame. I find this gives me a space and an arena to bring forward ideas that otherwise might continue to float around without ever reaching their full potential.

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Author
Adrian Vindedal
Country
Norway

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Melbourne Protest Art Institute: Make Art Not War

Authors
Kelly Chun Wai Choi
Rebecca Andre
Country
Australia
+92 points Buildner University Rankings

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Back me to the Earth

Some of competitions that are different from traditional architecture, especially interaction design and interdisciplinary art. These give us more creative possibilities and space to explore.

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Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Rapunzel in Quarantine - "The Great Escape"

Author
Raveena Batham
Country
India
Project name

Bergstation

Project name

Atmospheric Exploration. A City in Flux

Author
Brent Haynes
Country
Canada
Project name

TangSPA

Company
Authors
Mantas Vilkelis
Ilya Korolyov
Karolis Bulika
Country
Denmark
Project name

Volatile Structure

Author
Geraldo Zamproni
Country
Brazil
Project name

A Mute Icon

Author
Igor Neminov
Country
United States

Shortlisted projects

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Hotel Fortune

Petr Vágner
Eva Jiřičná
Czech Republic

Distant Past

Adrian Vindedal
Norway

TangSPA

Mantas Vilkelis
Ilya Korolyov
Karolis Bulika

NOR3D

Denmark

The Fence of Imagination

Minaz Nafe
Delaram Moharrami
Elham Torabi javan
Iran

Bergstation

Fridtjof Schmidt

University of Kassel (Universität Kassel)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Monument for Remembering

Jennifer Kriegel
United States

A Mute Icon

Igor Neminov

Shimahara Visual

United States

Andes

Paul Jordan

Blackpoint Design Ltd.

United Kingdom

180 Old Street

Paul Jordan

Blackpoint Design Ltd.

United Kingdom

Volatile Structure

Geraldo Zamproni
Brazil

Hideaway

Michael Tweed
United States

LUX AETERNA

Ruth del carmen Orozco aguilar
Mexico

Back me to the Earth

Xian Zhu
Xi Luo

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Darmstadt)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Divine Geometry

Kenan Pence
Turkey

Introspection

Roberto Montisano

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Inhabited Section

Marcos Crane
United States

ISLANDS

Grzegorz Mączka
Marta Mączka
Poland

The Lower Marsh Escape Room

Miroslav Hristov

London South Bank University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

Urban Experience

Ka ming dennis Lui
Hong Kong

Old Yellow Bricks

Mert manas Erten

University of East London

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Turkey

Living in books; a house of memories

Margarita Chatzimichail
Pavlos Christodoulou

National Technical University of Athens - School of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Greece

Interpretation Center in Flower Field

Fábio Pereira
Portugal

Nameless Pavilion

Geonhee Park
New Zealand

Melbourne Protest Art Institute: Make Art Not War

Kelly Chun Wai Choi
Rebecca Andre

The University of Melbourne

+92 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

Samuka Museum

Ashish Ojha

Pi Visual

India

Solitude

Andreea Marian
Andreea Ivanescu
Evelina Ghise

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

Vapor Bridge

Francesco Moncagatto
Christian Galleano
Italy

PAPER ISLAND

Prince phi hung Nguyen
Denmark

Liminal Stairway

Mohamed Fakhry
United Arab Emirates

A school in the small town of Marsassoum, Senegal

Chun fei Wong
Malaysia

LAKE HOUSE

Santiago Vilaseca

KRAKEN STUDIO

France

Architecture of Economy

Abdulmalik Ghazzawi
Saudi Arabia

Allihies Mining Resort

Merlin Augele

Berlin University of the Arts , Universität der Künste Berlin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Reimage Nature: Reviving Sea Cave in Port Island

Chester Leung

Chinese University of Hong Kong

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Hong Kong

Helm Station 2122

Ruihua Yang

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Calmness

Jean paul El hachem

JPAG

Lebanon

SUBJUGATED // MEDICATED

Jack Carroll
Cody Hoonhout
Elliot Robinson
Australia

Timeless

Valentin Sala

FAU UNLP - Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Argentina

Atmospheric Exploration. A City in Flux

Brent Haynes
Canada

Rapunzel in Quarantine - "The Great Escape"

Raveena Batham
India