Introduction
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
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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Troll’s Tongue Observation Platform
2nd Prize Winner
Melbourne Protest Art Institute: Make Art Not War
3rd Prize Winner
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
Shortlisted projects
Hotel Fortune
Czech Republic Distant Past
TangSPA
The Fence of Imagination
Bergstation
Monument for Remembering
A Mute Icon
Andes
180 Old Street
Volatile Structure
Hideaway
LUX AETERNA
Back me to the Earth
Divine Geometry
Introspection
Inhabited Section
ISLANDS
The Lower Marsh Escape Room
Urban Experience
Old Yellow Bricks
Living in books; a house of memories
Interpretation Center in Flower Field
Nameless Pavilion
Melbourne Protest Art Institute: Make Art Not War
Samuka Museum
Solitude
Vapor Bridge
PAPER ISLAND
Liminal Stairway
A school in the small town of Marsassoum, Senegal
LAKE HOUSE
Architecture of Economy
Allihies Mining Resort
Reimage Nature: Reviving Sea Cave in Port Island
Helm Station 2122
Calmness
SUBJUGATED // MEDICATED
Timeless
Atmospheric Exploration. A City in Flux
Rapunzel in Quarantine - "The Great Escape"
