Who are the brightest young minds in architecture and design? Today, we can tell you!
Click on the tab below to discover the winners of the prestigious 40 Under 40 Awards 2024. The 40 talented professionals, aged under 40, were chosen from an incredibly strong field of candidates from Asia Pacific and beyond. Click on the photograph of each winner to read about what drives their hunger for success.
They will be formally recognised, and receive their award certificate, at the PERSPECTIVE Gala Presentation Evening in Hong Kong on February 20, next year.
We have also revealed the studios in the running to win top honours in A&D Awards 2024, Asia Pacific’s leading awards program for the architecture and design community. Click on the tab below to see the shortlisted projects in contention for a highly coveted Gold, Silver or Bronze Award, or a distinguished Certificate of Excellence.
Those Awards will also be announced at the Gala Presentation Evening – so it’s a night you can’t afford to miss! We’ll share venue and registration details in early January. In the meantime, congratulations to all the winners. We look forward to celebrating with you and your colleagues in February!
Rocco Yim’s twin passions for his craft and home city shone through again as he humbly accepted the HKIA Gold Medal for 2024, among the highest accolades within Hong Kong’s architecture community. Pictured above (centre) with Housing Secretary Winnie Ho and HKIA President Benny Chan, he urged his peers to channel their creativity towards the well-being of society.
While technology is transforming architecture and design by automating many time-consuming processes, is it also threatening traditional skills, like hand sketching, that have long been part of the designer’s toolkit? RIBA HK is hosting a fascinating new exhibition and competition motivated by Chair Dennis Ho’s passion to preserve the art of sketching.
Architect Owen Lam is just 36 years old but he’s already forging an impressive reputation as a thought leader in intergenerational design. His proposal for a creative and sensitive refurbishment of old tenement buildings, in which many elderly residents live alone in Hong Kong, has helped him win one of two leading industry awards and a trip to Japan to study intergenerational housing projects.
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.
