OPEN's Tank Shanghai has won the International Urban Project Award (IUPA) 2020 for the Special Prize. OPEN's founding partners LI Hu and HUANG Wenjing attended the gala and delivered a speech on October 30. Presented by Bauwelt magazine in Berlin and World Architecture magazine in Beijing, together with Architecture Society of China and other institutions, IUPA celebrates excellent urban projects around the world. The main criterion for the selected projects is a strong urban design that not only withstands challenging times, but also empowers.

OPEN's UCCA Dune Art Museum has been nominated for the Beazley Designs of the Year 2020, and featured in the DOTY exhibition at the Design Museum in London. It is our second Designs of the Year nomination since the Garden School / Beijing No.4 High School Fangshan Campus in 2015.

The prestigious Beazley Designs of the Year is the Design Museum's annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts, and designers in the world today. The annual awards and exhibition convene the very best examples of design across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport, selected by the public and design experts from around the world.

All nominated projects will be presented at the Design Museum from October 21 until March 28, 2011. The category and overall winners will be announced at the Beazley Designs of the Year awards ceremony on 26 November 2020.

OPEN’s UCCA Dune Art Museum was awarded “the New Culture Destination of the Year in Asia/Pacific” by Leading Culture Destinations Awards 2020. Winners from other regions of the world also included MoMA in NYC (North America), Amos Rex in Helsinki (Europe), and National Museum of Qatar in Doha (Middle East).
 

Being regarded as the “Oscar for museums”, the Leading Culture Destinations Awards holds the annual awards ceremony once a year since 2015, highlighting the most exceptional established and emerging cultural initiatives around the world.

OPEN’s founding partner HUANG Wenjing was invited to judge Dezeen Awards 2020, among an international panel comprised of leading figures from the architecture and design world, including Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Ben van Berkel, and Patrik Schumacher.

Organised by Dezeen, the world's most popular and influential architecture and design website, and now in its third year, Dezeen Awards has become the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers around the world.

OPEN’s UCCA Dune Art Museum was highly commended for cultural building of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019.

OPEN's two projects, Tank Shanghai and UCCA Dune Art Museum , each won an Interior Design 2019 Best of Year Award in the ceremony held in New York City on December 6th, standing out from 2,638 entries this year.

Launched by the prestigious global publication Interior Design magazine, Best of Year program honors the most significant work of the year in every design category and recognizes the industry’s leading interior designers, architects, and manufacturers from around the globe. Now celebrating its 14th year, it showcases the development trend in design while simultaneously setting the benchmark even higher for the future.  

Tank Shanghai is the winner in Greater Good: Social Impact category, a newly-added category honoring projects that give back to the community and advance social equity and inclusion. UCCA Dune Art Museum is the winner in Large Museum/Art Gallery category. 

OPEN’s UCCA Dune Art Museum has won the 2019 LEAF Awards “Best Arts & Culture Building Project”. Launched in 2001, the LEAF (Leading European Architects Forum) Awards celebrates some of the influential and outstanding projects and personalities in the built environment and the international architectural communities. This year’s prestigious judging panel includes Archigram’s founder Sir Peter Cook, and directors from Henning Larson and Zaha Hadid Architects. OPEN’s Tank Shanghai also entered this year’s shortlist of the "Best Arts & Culture Building" category.

OPEN’s recent project, Tank Shanghai, has been awarded Honorable Mentions in the “Spaces, Places, and Cities”, and “Best Design Asia-Pacific” categories in Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards 2019.

Established by one of the most influential and recognized American business magazines Fast Company, Innovation by Design Awards is the only competition to honor creative work at the intersection of design, b usiness, and innovation. This year’s honorees stand out from more than 4,300 entries – a record – across 22 categories including fashion, architecture, graphic design, data visualization, social good, user experience, and more.

OPEN's UCCA Dune Art Museum has won the 2019 AZ Awards, as the 'Best in Buildings Under 1,000 Square Metres category', selected by a judging panel comprised of 5 leading figures in the architectural and design fields including Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne. The jury stated “the Dune Art Museum embodies a unique relationship between interior and exterior. The space speaks of the place, and the materiality coherently fosters the concept.”

Launched in 2011 by AZURE, a leading North American magazine focused on contemporary architecture and design, the AZ Awards 'showcases the world's best projects, products and ideas'.

OPEN is proud to announce that the UCCA Dune Art Museum has been named 2019’s Cultural Building of the Year by the ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards! Organized by ArchDaily, this peer-based architectural award—the largest of its kind—recognizes inspiring buildings which advance architecture as a discipline. From the 4,000 projects which were entered into this year’s awards, the Dune Art Museum was selected as the winner of the award’s Cultural Building category through a democratic voting process in which over 80,000 readers participated.

OPEN’s Chapel of Sound, a unique semi-outdoor concert hall in northern China, has been awarded a Citation in the 66th annual Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards. One of the foremost accolades for creative practice in North America, the P/A Awards recognize and celebrate innovative ongoing work, contractually scheduled to be built, whose design excellence promotes new thinking in the field of architecture.

Located at the base of a remote valley north of Beijing, the Chapel of Sound is designed in harmony with its natural surroundings, and shaped by the natural properties of sound. The project, currently under construction, was one of ten honored in this year’s Awards, where it was commended for offering a new paradigm for an opera house and “an opportunity for a sound experience that anyone can take part in.”