OPEN has won the "Architect of the Year" in Dezeen Awards China 2023.

Judges comments: “OPEN Architecture has consistently produced architecture that is radical and poetic but also functional. Its daring work strikes a rare balance between the man-made and the natural, with often spectacular results.”

Dezeen Awards China is a new regional edition of Dezeen Awards to celebrate the best architecture, interiors and design projects from studios based in China. 

AIA International Design Awards ceremony was held in Mexico City November 2, 2023. Shanfeng Academy designed by OPEN won the Honor Award for Architecture. 

AIA International is the broadest geographical component of the American Institute of Architects. The AIA International Design Awards recognize best practices, innovative thinking, and design excellence of AIA members’ projects worldwide. 

OPEN's founding partners Li Hu and Huang Wenjing were appointed as the Kenzo Tange Design Critics in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. They are co-teaching a design studio at the GSD this fall semester.

The Kenzo Tange Visiting Professorship was established in 1984 at Harvard, which brings luminaries to campus each year to teach and lecture, including Alvaro Siza, Peter Zumthor, Kazuyo Sejima, Zaha Hadid, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Yung Ho Chang, and Wang Shu.