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

01/09/2026

We’re excited to announce the Winners of the Design Educates Awards 2026!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated and shared their ideas, projects, and vision of meaningful design with us.

Explore the full list of awarded projects on our website and discover the designs that are shaping a more meaningful future.

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28/08/2026

Honorable mention in Architectural Design 2025

The Craig

Location: Monmouthshire, Wales
Team: Wycliffe Stutchbury

Concrete blockwork repair to Welsh 17th century barn clad, in English oak sourced in adjacent woodland. Timber harvested, seasoned and machined from fallen branches on site.

Photo credits: Wycliffe Stutchbury

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25/08/2026

Honorable mention in Architectural Design 2025

Mitsubishi Pavilion (Expo 2025 Osaka)

Company name: Mitsubishi Jisho Design, Inc.
Location: Yumeshima Island, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Team: Mitsubishi Pavilion Project Team, Shoichiro Matsui, Daisuke Nemoto, Takushu Arai, Kyosuke Nakamura

The theme of the Mitsubishi Group pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai—“keeping the world vibrant”—is reflected in the core design concept of life, nature, and human society as interconnected and interacting elements. The pavilion consists of a belowground level and two aboveground levels of layered geometries, beginning with a semi-underground elliptical space. Overlapping this space is a rhombus whose vertices touch the interior curve of the oval. A rectangle similarly laid out within the rhombus provides an additional layer for the structure. Each of these three geometric forms symbolizes a different element—the ellipse, life; the rhombus, nature; and the rectangle, society—while the architecture expresses their mutually supportive relationship.

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22/08/2026

Honorable mention in Architectural Design 2025

Hyex Kaihin-Makuhari

Company name: KAMITOPEN Architecture-Design Office Co., Ltd.
Location: Chiba, Japan
Team: Masahiro Yoshida

“AIR” Train High, Perform High! Hyex Kaihin-Makuhari promotes “Altitude Training in the City.” The concept of this facility is to hack training through an altitude-training environment and methodology, aiming to enhance athletic performance. By training, in a hypoxic room—where oxygen levels are reduced while air pressure remains unchanged—cardiopulmonary function is strengthened, and the body’s ability to transport oxygen through the bloodstream improves, ultimately leading to enhanced performance. Therefore, we attempted to design the “air” itself, essential for improving performance. Upon entering, visitors pass through a space bathed in a deep, clear sky blue, leading to the warm-up area—a mirrored space where they can release bodily tension while gazing up at a transparent blue ceiling.

Photo credits: Keisuke Miyamoto

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18/08/2026

Honorable mention in Architectural Design 2025

Feuerwehr Tübingen-Lustnau

Company name: Gaus Architekten
Location: Tübingen-Lustnau
Team: - Gaus Architekten - Schneck Schaal Braun Engineering Company Construction Ltd. - ebök planning and development GmbH - Engineering office Rieder GmbH - frei raum concept - Carpentry Hämmerle

Design Statement: As a full timber construction and as a building using only renewable energy sources such as sun power for electricity and hot water as well as wood pellets for heating, the fire station sets new standards for the symbiosis of functionality, aesthetics and sustainability in architectural design. It is not only a functional fire department, but also a widely visible expression of resource-saving construction in municipal architecture. Only regional and FSC-certified wood from Blackforest has been used. The tripartite structure results in an elegant appearance, which is given additional dynamic by its partially rounded corners. Idea: The building industry is responsible for 30% of CO2 emissions and around 50% of resource consumption worldwide. Ways must be found to reverse this balance. The Lustnau fire department shows how: With renewable, regional materials and holistic sustainability concepts for the building’s construction and operation period.

Photo credits: Oliver Rieger

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14/08/2026

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

White Rock

Company name: Omar Gandhi Architects
Location: Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada
Team: Omar Gandhi, Chad Jamieson, Kelly Cameron, Justin Cormier, Jonah Samson, Andrew Hooke, Kristi MacDonald, Craig Morris

At the end of a winding driveway through the forest, White Rock sits above a rocky incline overlooking the north bank of the Gaspereau River Valley. This valley is the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and holds significance for the Acadian community, named after the gaspereau fish. South of Wolfville, the valley is home to farms, orchards, and now Nova Scotia’s leading vineyards and cideries. At the base of White Rock lies one of the region’s most celebrated vineyards. White Rock is designed as a retreat — a secluded perch for rest and reflection above the valley. Accessible only by foot via a steep gravel path, the slowed approach deepens immersion in nature. The cabin appears both rooted and hovering, set amid tall trees, rocky outcrops, and a raw forest floor. A long, low dry-stacked stone wall guides the approach.

Photo credits: Ema Peter Photography

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11/08/2026

🏆 We are pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Kuczia, architect, educator, Founder of Kuczia Architects, and Initiator and Curator of the Design Educates Awards, as a member of the Design Educates Awards 2026 Jury, bringing his vision and long-standing commitment to meaningful architecture and design to this year’s evaluation process.

06/08/2026

Honorable mention in Architectural Design 2025

Multi-Purpose Hall Ingerkingen - Modernization und Extension

Company name: Atelier Kaiser Shen
Location: Schlägweidestraße 2, 88433 Schemmerhofen
Team: Prof. Florian Kaiser, Goubin Shen, Kilian Juraschitz, Matthias Stauch, Johannes Schreiner, Tim Kölle, Patrick Schneider

The concept of building upon existing structures is highly contemporary, as it addresses both the desire for continuity and the need for resource-efficient use of energy and materials. In the refurbishment and extension of the Ingerkingen multipurpose hall, the focus lies not only on the pragmatic preservation of the existing structure (approximately 60% of the building mass) but also on the dialogue between old and new — highlighting the architectural potential of continued building. Existing and new elements are clearly legible through their construction and choice of materials. The vertical extension and expansion, executed in lightweight timber frame construction, is articulated through a ventilated timber facade. Inside, the different phases of construction remain visible and narrate the story of the building’s evolution. The high degree of structural retention was made possible by the development of an innovative load-bearing system.

Photo credits: Brigida González

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04/08/2026

🏆 We are pleased to welcome Dang Qun, Co-Founder and Principal Partner of MAD, as a member of the Design Educates Awards 2026 Jury, bringing her outstanding expertise in visionary architecture and innovative design to this year’s evaluation process.

02/08/2026

Special Recognition in Architectural Design 2025

House with a cap

Company name: IFAgroup
Location: Gdańsk, Poland
Team: IFAgroup: Kamil Domachowski, Maciej Busch, Karolina Wood-Domachowska, Adrianna Jemioł, Jakub Brzuchański

A House with a cap - built in Gdańsk (Poland), at the junction of two city districts — one historical (Oliwa) and the other contemporary (Przymorze). It serves as a historical accent in a modern interpretation. The house is situated between two buildings: one lower, the other higher. Designed shape of the roof results from a line connecting these two neighboring structures and is an interpretation of a mansard roof. Despite its modern character, the house does not dominate the surroundings but subtly integrates into its context. The resulting form is the outcome of the reconstruction, extension, and vertical addition to a “”Polish cube”” — a type of single-family house typical of the 1970s in Poland. The transformation followed a principle of recirculation — reusing the old structure to create a new one. The term “mass” seems particularly apt to describe the building, which appears to have been sculpted from a snow-white block.

Photo credits: Jakub Nanowski (Perspektywa)

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