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The Design Educates Awards (DEAwards) recognize, showcase, and promote globally the best educational ideas and implementations of architecture and design.

03/06/2026

Design Educates Awards 2026 is now open! Let’s revisit some of the outstanding projects recognized in previous editions.

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

Kore

Company name: Aalto University
Location: Finland
Team: Instructors: Pekka Heikkinen, Laura Zubillaga, Philip Tidwell and Mauri Konttila. Developed by students of the Wood Program 2020-2021 Full Cresits: https://korewoodprogram.com/

KORE is a 24m² demountable and transportable wooden house, designed and built by fifteen students of the Aalto University Wood Program. Conceived to use space as efficiently as possible, the compact structure organizes all living functions around a central core—“kore” in Finnish—containing key amenities for cooking, washing, storage, and utilities. Sliding doors and a pull-out birch ladder reveal and conceal the core’s functions, offering spatial flexibility and privacy. A lofted sleeping area sits above, accessed via the ladder. The surrounding living, dining, and working spaces maintain a strong visual and spatial connection to the outdoors through large openings and a striking triple-glazed skylight.

Photo credits: Kimmo Räisänen

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31/05/2026

🏆 We are honored to welcome Pritzker Prize Laureate Prof. Toyo Ito as a member of the Design Educates Awards 2026 Jury, bringing his visionary perspective to this year’s selection of meaningful architecture and design.

28/05/2026

Design Educates Awards 2026 are looking for projects that go beyond aesthetics.

We invite architects, designers, studios, and emerging creatives from around the world to submit works that create meaningful impact for people, society, and the environment.

We welcome:
- Architecture projects of every scale
- from small shelters and exhibition installations to residential, public, and urban solutions
- Realized works and conceptual proposals
- Products, designs, and ideas within the special category “Design for Impact”

At DEAwards, we believe great design should not only look beautiful - it should communicate value, inspire change, and contribute to a better future.

Projects completed within the last 5 years are eligible.

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25/05/2026

🌍Meet the Jury of the Design Educates Awards 2026

We are honored to welcome an outstanding international jury of architects, designers, innovators, and educators who continue to redefine the boundaries of architecture and design.

This year’s jury includes:
Toyo Ito, Carlo Ratti, Francine Houben, David Basulto, Barbara Holzer, Doriana Fuksas, Rainer Mahlamäki, Dang Qun (MAD), Oskar Zięta, Martin Reuter, Thomas Schroepfer, Dr. Peter Kuczia and more.

Their diverse perspectives and expertise help us recognize projects that go beyond aesthetics and create meaningful impact for people, society, and the environment.

Submit your project and become part of the 8th edition of the Design Educates Awards.

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21/05/2026

🏆 Design Educates Awards 2026 are now open!

Join the 8th edition of the Design Educates Awards - celebrating meaningful architecture and design that go beyond aesthetics and create a positive impact on people, society, and the environment.

We are looking for:
• Architecture projects of every scale
• Design for Impact
• Realized works and conceptual proposals

This year’s jury brings together some of the world’s leading architects, designers, innovators, and educators, including:
Toyo Ito, Barbara Holzer, Rainer Mahlamäki, Doriana Fuksas, Carlo Ratti, Francine Houben, David Basulto, Dang Qun (MAD), Oskar Zięta, Martin Reuter, and many more.

Whether you are an emerging designer or an established practice - we invite you to share projects that demonstrate meaningful value and inspire change through design.

Submit your work and become part of a global platform for impactful ideas.

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19/05/2026

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

Feuerwehrhaus Bühl

Company name: Alpstein Planung GmbH
Location: Lindauerstraße 1, 77815 Bühl, Deutschland
Team: Florian Häusler, Felix Thiemann, Madelaine Sies, Hartmut Hornstein

Simply Building with Quality The aim was to create a distinctive home for the important work of the Bühl (Bühl am Alpsee) volunteer fire department. Alongside the main street, a building emerges that shapes the local landscape and was realized as a functional, cost-effective, and sustainable structure. Only the truly necessary was built, keeping quality craftsmanship in mind. Starting with the smallest possible volume under a sloped roof, which reflected the required room heights for the vehicle hall, auxiliary rooms, and training room. This philosophy was implemented in all aspects. The single-story timber structure was built on a thermally activated concrete slab, using wood from the nearby municipal forest.

Photo credits: Nicolas Felder

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14/05/2026

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

TROFA TOWN HALL

Company name: NOARQ - NO ARQUITECTOS, LDA
Location: Paços do Concelho, Praça do Município 480, 4785-205 Trofa, Portugal
Team: Author: José Carlos Nunes Oliveira Collab.: André Oliveira, Gaia Ferraris Hugo Araújo, Sara Bitossi, Giulia Furlotti, Ana Fortuna, João Quintas, Juliana Sampaio.

The rehabilitation and the extension of the former “Indústria Alimentar Trofense” buildings into the Trofa City Hall. Trofa is the youngest municipality in Portugal and was the only one that did not have an institutional building. For more than 25 years, the City Council occupied scattered spaces in the city, in a precarious situation. The building site is in the south of the urban centre. An incomplete and old area of the city. occupied by an Industrial complex. The plot covers 6,200.85 sqm. Is a strip measuring 28 by 200 meters parallel to the abandoned railway line. The reuse of the industrial complex required a considerable increase in area and an underground floor. We decided to preserve just the seminal building. The new building proposal reduces itself to a series of 5 juxtaposed narrow parallelepipeds divided into 3 floors. The first parallelepiped is used for the longitudinal circulation in the building. Two more blocks on each of the tops of the old building constitute the central mass of the City Hall, where are located all the municipal services. The third parallelepiped attached to the west façade has lost its configuration, to integrate the old building and to preserve its dialogue with the landscape.

Photo credits: Duccio Malagamba

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09/05/2026

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

Nanchang OCT Contemporary Art Center

Company name: Decode Urbanism Office(DUO)
Location: Nanchang city, China
Team: We try to team up with nature to create some existence which can touch human spirit.

Essentially, this design originated from an intention to transcend the conventional exhibition function of an art gallery. By prioritizing public interests that are seemingly unrelated to the gallery itself, this approach—though appearing detached from art at first glance—ultimately reinforces the gallery’s social responsibility: the democratization of art. The project site has a distinctive feature—it is located at the junction between an urban community and a significant wetland landscape. However, this unique intersection lacks facilities that allow the public to overlook the wetland scenery. The construction of this art gallery presents an excellent opportunity to provide a recreational platform for people to appreciate the natural landscape. Visitors can enjoy distant views of the wetlands while participating in various activities, and this vision became the starting point of the design. At the same time, the establishment of this public space has brought considerable attention to the art gallery, attracting many visitors. Most of these visitors do not come with the intention of appreciating art; in fact, many of them have little understanding of—or even interest in—art.

Photo credits: Arch-Exist Photography, Xuexuezi

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06/05/2026

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

house b·o

Company name:
Location: Kortrijk
Team: driearchitecten is a close-knit, creative team with a horizontal structure, direct communication, shared responsibility, and strong client focus that boosts creativity, knowledge flow, and engagement.

For this project, we built upon a place with a rich history. We were inspired by Le Corbusier, who elevates functions and redefines the ground floor as a service level. Therefore, on the ground floor, we accommodated the essential functions: a space for cars and bicycles, an entrance hall, cloakroom, laundry room, utility room, storage, office space, and an indoor garden.The first floor is reserved for sleeping and bathing, while the second floor houses the living spaces, with expansive terraces. The focus was on maximizing the use of sun and light, given the northern orientation of the existing house. The new top floor opens up to the south to make the most of natural sunlight. This architectural intervention is conceived as a palimpsest: a subtle balance between reuse and renewal, where the original monastic atmosphere is preserved, and the spaces are revitalized. The project creates a new world atop a rich history, with a careful harmony between preservation and innovation.

Photo credits: Klaas Verdru

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