【Award】MGallery Wuxi Won Hotel Design of The International Hotel & Property Awards 2025

Dangkou Ancient Town Hotel Wuxi – MGallery Collection by WATG & Wimberly Interiors is the winner of Hotel Design – Asia Pacific Award of The International Hotel & Property Awards 2025. The design draws deeply from the Jiangnan-style water town’s historic fabric—where canals thread through the landscape and moon bridges elegantly arch over tranquil waterways. WATG’s integrated design celebrates this heritage while crafting a refined and immersive guest experience.

About the Award:

The International Hotel & Property Awards are hosted by design et al, a leading UK interior design magazine. At design et al, our aim is to commend design, recognise talent, create opportunities and quite simply to offer inspiration. For over 16 years now, design et al Magazine & The International Hotel & Property Awards aim has been to promote the leading companies in the residential interior design & architecture industry and bring together the design elite of this industry for an international celebration of your work. Having your work shortlisted in our Awards is believed to be “the pinnacle of recognition within the industry.”

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Source: https://thedesignawards.co.uk/watg-hotel-design/

【Award】Qingdao Financial City by KPF Won The 2024 International Architecture Awards

Designed by Kohn Peterson Fox (KPF), Qingdao Financial City, a pair of iconic mixed-use towers at the core of the Jinjialing new financial district located in Qingdao, China were recognized as winners in the Skyscraper and High Rises category of the 2024 International Architecture Awards, a program designed by The Chicago Athenaeum. 

Check out the full list of the 2024 winners here.

About the Award:

Since 2004, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. have organized The International Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, significant new buildings, landscape architecture, and planning projects designed and/or built around the world’s leading architects, landscape architects, and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally. The International Architecture Awards give an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public worldwide.

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Source: https://www.kpf.com/news/eight-kpf-projects-recognized-in-the-2024-international-architecture-awards

【Award】Ahead Asia Finalists - Four Seasons Suzhou & Hyatt Centric Shanghai

Two of our recent projects, Four Seasons Suzhou and Hyatt Centric Shanghai by red design, have been shortlisted as the finals for the 2024 Ahead Asia Awards. Congratulations!

Designed by Avalon Collective, the newly built Four Seasons Suzhou integrates the classical Chinese Garden principles, blending outdoor and indoor spaces to create a seamless, culturally rich experience for guests. The project will be running in the finals in the Hotel Newbuild category.

A proud final 4 in the Hotel Renovation category, Hyatt Centric is the first hotel project from the Shanghai-based design practice - red design. The hotel pays homage to its historic location down to the finest detail, transforming an outdated hotel into a vanguard of modern hospitality.

About the Award:

AHEAD is the leading Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design. Each year, the series comprises four regional annual awards programmes, celebrating the achievements of those shaping the hospitality industry across Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Europe. Organised by the team behind industry-leading publication Sleeper, AHEAD is a touchstone of design excellence across the globe, judged by 60+ industry-leading figures including architects, interior designers and developers.

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【Award】Mason Studio-Designed Runxi Towers Received Three IDA Awards

Mason Studio has been recognized for their international thinking and approach in the design of Runxi Towers in Shenzhen, China by the IDA International Design Awards.⁠
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The project was awarded in the following three categories: ⁠
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Gold in Residential Interior Design / Housing - Multi Unit Dwellings⁠
Bronze in Interior Designer Of The Year / Residential⁠
Bronze in Interior Designer Of The Year / Mixed Use⁠
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Congratulations Mason Studio!
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About the Award:

The International Design Awards (IDA) exists to recognize, celebrate and promote exceptional design visionaries and discover emerging talent in Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic and Fashion Design worldwide.

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【Award】Kimpton Qiantan Shanghai Shortlisted for The International Hotel & Property Awards

Studio Carter-designed Kimpton Qiantan Shanghai was shortlisted for Hotel Design Asia Pacific Award by The International Hotel & Property Awards 2024. Congratulations!

Located on the banks of Huangpu River in Pudong New District, the hotel is elegance, luxury and sophisticated. The designer Robbyn Carter, founder of Studio Carter, integrated Parisian and Shanghainese design elements to creates flexible spaces infused with fresh modern aesthetics.

About the Award:

The International Hotel & Property Awards are a global platform for the leading designers and architects in the hospitality industry and provide the perfect global stage, underpinned by a strong ethos to support and develop the design sector with a robust voting process, to recognise and reward creative and design excellence. The Awards are renowned for bringing together an elite group of companies, only the best interior designers, architects, developers within the hospitality design industry can be shortlisted.

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【List】2023 AD100 Includes The Ritz-Carlton Harbin Restaurants & Journée

We are thrilled to share that two projects that we photographed, The Ritz-Carlton Harbin Restaurants by AB Concept and Journée by red design, both made the 2023 AD100 List! Congratulations AB Concept and red design!

Click HERE to view the full list of this year’s “The 100 Most Influential Architects And Interior Designers In China”.

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King Wong Heen at The Ritz-Carlton, Harbin / ab concept

From the bottle-gourd-formed counter and mirrored caisson ceilings to the parquet timber flooring and elegant silhouette water-drop crystal screens, the cross composition celebrates the transformation of traditional Asian characters into a new era of Chinese aesthetics. Teal shades and bronze details consistently run through the main dining room, creating a bright and elegant space that delivers sophistication and charm.

Manor 54 at The Ritz-Carlton, Harbin / ab concept
Manor 54 at The Ritz-Carlton, Harbin / ab concept

Guests enter the restaurant through a glass pavilion that serves as the framework of the entrance, modeled after elegant European conservatories. Opulent bronze metal lattice patterns and turquoise stained-glass elements line the large windows where light can flood into the space capturing fragments of sparkle and colour to preserve a sumptuous, yet inviting atmosphere.

JOURNÉE / red design
JOURNÉE / red design

Journée, literally translated as ‘daytime’, reimagines the classic dark, heavy French bistro as a light-filled experience, positioned to attract the discerning and fashionable clientele that characterise the youthful city of Shenzhen.

JOURNÉE / red design
JOURNÉE / red design

The restaurant offers an experience of authentic elegance, perfectly suited to the high quality French cuisine served within.

About the List:

Since 2013, Architectural Digest (AD) has been unveiling its prestigious AD100 list biennially, spotlighting 100 exemplary architects and design firms within the Chinese architectural and interior design industry.

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【Award】Runxi Towers Won Three Prestigious Design Awards

Mason Studio-designed Runxi Towers by China Resources won three prestigious awards - Architectural Press Release, World Interior News Awards, and WIN Awards 2023, and Asia-Pacific Space Designers Association Awards! APSDA Awards! Congratulations Mason Studio!

  • Gold in 2023 CD Awards in the APR Hosted Awards

  • Bronze in Residential Developments in the WIN Awards

  • Honorary Mention in Projects of the Year - Public in the APSDA Awards

Runxi Towers

On one of the area’s last remaining development plots, Runxi Towers is coveted for its site: an adjacent park and golf course with beautiful views as a retreat from the busy city. Amenities include a fitness centre, spa, piano room, mahjong room, offices, games rooms, piano halls and party rooms to support the residents and their guests.

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About the Awards:

APR Awards

APR Awards recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine Architecture design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between Architecture and the natural world, Architecture and the community, and Architects and the city.

WIN Awards

Supported by World Interiors News, the WIN Awards recognise the outstanding works of innovative, visionary and imaginative interior designers worldwide.

APSDA Awards

Introduced in 2021, the APSDA Awards is an interior design award that seeks to recognize the best and brightest designers in the industry, for their outstanding projects and professionalism as well as their contribution to furthering the field of interior design.

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【Award】Hotel Indigo Hangzhou Uptown Won Luxury Lifestyle Award

Studio Carter won Luxury Lifestyle Award for Best Interior Design of a Hotel: Hotel Indigo Hangzhou Uptown. Congratulations Ms. Robbyn Carter and the team!

Hotel Indigo Hangzhou Uptown

Situated in the picturesque West Lake scenic area, Hotel Indigo Hangzhou Uptown is more than just a hotel; it's a journey through time and culture.

About the Award:

Luxury Lifestyle Awards is a global award program that selects, recognizes, celebrates, and promotes the best luxury goods and services worldwide.

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【Award】Two SOM China Projects Awarded Gold by Pro+ Award

Two SOM projects, Shandong Gold Poly Financial Plaza & Ningbo Guohua Financial Tower, won the Gold Award at the 2022 Pro+ Award. Congratulations to the architects and many thanks to SOM for the opportunity to photograph some impressive architecture!

About the Award:

As an award with professionalism, benchmarking, value and credibility in the real estate industry, "Pro+ Award" takes "applicability, economy, green and beauty" as the construction policy, guides the sustainable and healthy development of urban construction, and selects the annual real estate projects with real commercial value, cultural value and social value from the three aspects of early-stage planning, post evaluation and whole process management of the project.

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【Award】2022/23 International High-Rise Award Nominee - Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank HQ

Selected by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), the International High-Rise Award 2022/23 has nominated 34 outstanding projects from 13 different countries to compete for this year’s edition, including Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters. Congratulations SOM!

Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters

A 158-meter-tall, 33-story tower located on the edge of a public park in one of Shenzhen’s key business districts

Designed to respond to the region’s tropical climate through a series of biophilic and sustainable design solutions

About the Award:

The International High-Rise Award is bestowed every two years for a high-rise that combines exemplary sustainability, outer shape, and internal use of space and takes full consideration of social and urban planning-related aspects in order to create an exemplary design. Further criteria are innovative engineering and cost-effectiveness.

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【Award】Wenzhou-Kean University Won 2022 International Architecture Award

Ge Hekai Hall at Wenzhou-Kean University won a 2022 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award! The International Architecture Awards is awarded annually by The Chicago Athenaeum International Museum. Congratulations Moore Ruble Yudell!

About the Award:

Founded in 2005 by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre, the distinguished Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards recognize the most significant and inspirational buildings of the year and set a global standard for architectural achievement worldwide.

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【Award】Shen Ye Upperhills Mixed-Use Development Won Gold At The 8th CREDAWARD

SOM won multiple awards at the 8th CREDAWARD in 2022, including a Gold Award with an office project that we photographed, Shen Ye Upperhills Mixed-Use Development. Congratulations!

About the Award:

CREDAWARD adheres to the evaluation criteria of “architectural aesthetics, environmental priority, user experience, and economic efficiency.” Over the past decade, CREDAWARD has maintained its rigorous selection process, an open and transparent selection mode, and strict award mechanisms, CREDAWARD is widely regarded in the industry as one of “the most credible awards” and has become one of the most important ways for project owners to find a quality design firm.

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【Award】Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters Wins 2021 MIPIM Asia Award

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s project Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters was shortlisted for the 2021 MIPIM Asia Awards Best Office Development category and won SILVER in the Best Green Development category. Congratulations!

About the Award:

Created in 2007, the MIPIM Asia Awards celebrate excellence and innovation among the very best of the Asian real estate industry. The competition honours the industry's most useful, sustainable and visionary projects, completed or yet to be built, in Asia-Pacific.

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【Award】Grand Hyatt Xi'An Wins 2020 AHEAD Award Asia

Congratulations LTW Designworks on the double win in the 2020 AHEAD Award Asia! Grand Hyatt Xi'An Hotel won both Guestrooms and Lobby & Public Spaces categories.

About the Award:

AHEAD is the leading Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design. Each year, the series comprises four regional annual awards programmes, celebrating the achievements of those shaping the hospitality industry across Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Europe. Organised by the team behind industry-leading publication Sleeper, AHEAD is a touchstone of design excellence across the globe, judged by 60+ industry-leading figures including architects, interior designers and developers.


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【Award】Grand Hyatt Xi’An & JW Marriott Qufu Shortlisted for AHEAD Award 2020

Two hotels we photographed recently, Grand Hyatt Xi’An and JW Marriott Qufu, are shortlisted for multiple categories in this year’s AHEAD Award in the Asia region. Congratulations LTW Designworks for the nominations!

About the Award:

AHEAD is the leading Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design. Each year, the series comprises four regional annual awards programmes, celebrating the achievements of those shaping the hospitality industry across Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Europe. Organised by the team behind industry-leading publication Sleeper, AHEAD is a touchstone of design excellence across the globe, judged by 60+ industry-leading figures including architects, interior designers and developers.

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【Award】Poly Pazhou & Tianjin CTF Named as 2020 Award of Excellence Winners

Two of our recent architecture projects, Poly Pazhou & Tianjin CTF, by SOM have won this year’s Award of Excellence by CTBUH!

About the Award:

The CTBUH Annual Awards program recognizes projects, practices, and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability and human well-being at the highest and broadest level. The program aspires to provide a more comprehensive and sophisticated view of these industry-leading projects, drive improvements in every aspect of performance, and showcase those that deliver the greatest benefit to the individuals and communities who interact with them.

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【Award】M·Cube wins Special Price for Exterior Design of 2019 Prix Versailles Award

Congratulations to MVRDV for winning the Special Prize for Exterior Design in the Shopping Malls Category for the Central Asia and The Northeast Region of the 2019 Prix Versailles Award with M·Cube, a 40,000-square-metre shopping centre in the center of Beijing!

About the Award:

Announced each year at UNESCO since 2015, the Prix Versailles is a series of architectural competitions that shine a light on the finest contemporary projects worldwide. The Official List pays tribute to innovation, creativity, reflections of local heritage, ecological efficiency and the values of social interaction and participation and is in line with the principles of intelligent sustainability, taking the projects’ ecological, social and cultural impacts into consideration.

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【Award】Interior Design 2018 Best of Year Winner - Sangha by Octave

Congratulations Tsao & McKown Architects for winning Interior Design’s 2018 Best of Year Beauty/Spa project with Sangha by Octave! Glad to have had the opportunity to photograph this beautiful project.

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Sangha Retreat by Octave is a life learning and wellness community on the shores of beautiful Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou. Sangha seeks to re-establish the connection and unity between people and the inner self, others, and nature.

About the Award:

Interior Design's Best of Year has become the ultimate measure of excellence, showcasing what's happening today in every category of design while simultaneously setting the bar even higher for the future. It is the design industry's premiere design awards program, honoring the most significant work of the year as well as recognizing designers, architects, and manufacturers from around the globe.