Winners announced: 2A Continental Architectural Awards

The 2A Continental Architectural Awards was founded to pay tribute to the living architect or architects whose architecture and artwork exhibits a blend of those qualities of ability, vision, flair, and dedication. We honor the architecture and architects that may have produced regular and noteworthy contributions to the human race and the built environment by making use of art and architecture.

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The 2A Continental Architectural Awards was founded to pay tribute to the living architect or architects whose architecture and artwork exhibits a blend of those qualities of ability, vision, flair, and dedication. We honor the architecture and architects that may have produced regular and noteworthy contributions to the human race and the built environment by making use of art and architecture.

The 2019 2A Continental Architectural Award seeks to recognize and promote architectural concepts in the fields of social development, contemporary design, area conservation, conservation of the environment as well as landscape design. The 2ACAA 2019 acknowledges a person whose considerable body of work has a long-lasting influence on architecture.

Objectives of 2019 2A Continental Architectural Award

By organizing 2019 2A Continental Architectural Award, we are trying to explore community interest as well as involvement in the arena of architecture. And the successful wrap up of the contest would contribute to architectural community identity, worth and pride. The Continental Architectural Award aims to bring constructive attention to an architectural project and help encourage and add to the business as well as the institutional identity of architecture.

At its best, architecture, as well as design, is all about taking on technology to set the mind free. At 2ACAA, it’s about innovating, pushing limits, and making the most of technologies as well as materials to apprehend the near impossible. It is about crafting built forms; structures as well as spaces that can propel our spirits, letting them ascend, endorse our humanity, and eventually embrace our very souls.

The 2019 2A Continental Architectural Award stands:

To move the approval of quality architectural design forward – in Europe, Asia and all over the world
To celebrate the supreme accomplishments and realizations in architecture, interior design as well as landscape design

To display the top-notch talent and creative visionaries in the field of art and architecture

We believe grand architecture is about creating an eternal design that will stay for generations, stirring people and inspiring their lives. Pioneering structures and architecture can help spruce up the way we live our lives for the better and allow us to make the most of the room we have? The 2019 2A Continental Architectural Award is a potentially career-making tribute and will be given to the person or group we feel has explored the innovative ground and formed something genuinely commendable.

Judging Criteria

Our panels of adjudicators comprise of well-regarded architects, industry experts and professionals who would consider entries in various categories across different disciplines of architecture, interior design as well as landscape design. The 2ACAA 2019 is revering and awarding the talents of one and all who push the borders and set innovative standards, who turn the ‘regular’ into something astonishing and motivate others, now and for generations to come. There are three decisive factors for different categories of projects:

Criteria for all categories (excluding interior and urban design)

Design achievement
Technical advancement, including engineering achievements (structural, mechanical, etc)
Innovative use of materials
Environmental sustainability
Cultural identity
Social responsibility, community, and urban connectivity
The effects of economic conditions on the project
Criteria for urban projects
Design achievement
Contextual analysis and study
Environmental sustainability
Cultural identity
Social responsibility, community, and urban connectivity
The effects of economic conditions on the project

Criteria for interior projects:

Design achievement
Technical advancement, including engineering achievements (construction detail, structural, mechanical, etc)
Innovative use of materials and experimentation with new materials
Environmental sustainability
Cultural identity
Social and economical responsibility

The 2019 2A Continental Architectural Award aims to develop into one of the most prized architectural awards and set a new standard for the architectural and design business – worldwide. We aim to identify persons and teams who have made a considerable contribution to the territory of architecture. Our award makes out that brilliance in architecture goes far beyond the practical rationale of a structure.

The complete list of winners is below:

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