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2023

KRIS YAO | ARTECH–Winner of LOOP Design Awards 2023

2023
We are excited to share that KRIS YAO | ARTECH is awarded Best Firm in Asia in the LOOP Design Awards 2023, Hainan Energy Trading Building receives the one and only Office of the Year Award, Han Pao-Teh Memorial Museum and Han-Gu Villa are named Winners in the Cultural and Hospitality & Hotels Category, and Joy City Chongqing is the Citation Winner of Mixed-Use Buildings. A total of 690 projects around the world submitted in this event, and only two winning projects can make the jury's cut for each category. Renowned firms such as Perkins & Will and SANAA Architects are among the winners this year.

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- KRIS YAO | ARTECH-Best Firm in Asia
- Hainan Energy Trading Building-Office of the Year Award Winner
- Han Pao-Teh Memorial Museum-Cultural Category Winner
- Han-Gu Villa-Hospitality & Hotels Category Winner
- Joy City Chongqing-Citation Winner of Mixed-Use Buildings
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KRIS YAO | ARTECH–winner of DNA Paris Design Awards

2023
KRIS YAO | ARTECH receives recognition at the DNA Paris Design Awards 2023. The awarded projects include the Hainan Energy Trading Building, winner of commercial & offices; Hotel Resonance Taipei, winner of hospitality; Han Pao-Teh Memorial Museum, honorable mention in cultural architecture. The Nanjing Shangqinhuai International Cultural Exchange Center and Feng Zikai Arts Center also made the list of official selection.

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Han Pao-Teh Memorial Museum named finalist for 2023 Architizer A+

2023
Han Pao-Teh Memorial Museum has been selected as one of the 5 finalists in the cultural category of Architizer A+ Award.  
Voting for the Popular Choice Award opens now.  

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2022

Foxconn Headquarters Shanghai wins the Architecture MasterPrize

2022
Foxconn Headquarters Shanghai receives the prestigious Architecture MasterPrize in Commercial Architecture category by integrating green and environmentally friendly smart technology in the simple and modern architecture design. Zaha Hadid Architects, OMA and Takenaka Corporation are among the winners.

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KRIS YAO | ARTECH has received an Architizer A+ Firm award - Best in Asia.

2022
We are excited to share with you that KRIS YAO | ARTECH has received an Architizer A+ Firm award - Best in Asia.
 
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2021

Taipei Performing Arts Center received Taipei City Government Distinguished Public Construction Awards

2021
Taipei Performing Arts Center received the Taipei City Government Distinguished Public Construction Awards for its innovative procedures and techniques, that are based on rigorous construction administration and coordination.
 
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Hotel Resonance Taipei and Joy City Chongqing received Eurasian Prize 2021

2021

Selected by the international jury, Hotel Resonance Taipei and Joy City Chongqing received the Gold and Silver Diploma respectively from the Russian architecture and design award 'Eurasian Prize 2021'.

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Palace Museum, Southern Branch listed in ArchDaily CN's Top 100 projects

2021
Inspired by three Chinese calligraphy strokes: the thick ink, the half-dry and the smearing, Palace Museum, Southern Branch presents itself as an ink-dark sculptural from sitting in the green fields.  The sensuous Museum is listed in ArchDaily’s Top 100 projects.

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Museum of Prehistory-Tainan Branch & National Taiwan University Cosmology Hall receive honorable mentions from LOOP Design Awards 2021

2021

Museum of Prehistory-Tainan Branch & National Taiwan University Cosmology Hall are recognized by international awards again. Both projects receive the honorable mentions from LOOP Design Awards 2021, respectively in cultural and educational buildings categories.

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Langyang Musuem wins Public Art Awards

2021

The design of Langyang Museum artistically transforms the unique cuesta rocks on the northeast coast into architectural form and harmoniously blends in with its natural surroundings. The Museum receives the 7th Public Art Awards, Environmental Integration Award by Ministry of Culture, and is the only award-winning work that the main architectural building acts as the public art object.

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Langyang Museum Latest News 2021.01.04
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2020

Museum of Archaeology receives 2020 DFA Awards

2020

Museum of Archaeology is recognized again, winning 2020 DFA Awards-Merit Award.

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World Architecutre- A New Taiwan Museum under the Interweaving of Two Orders
Archdaily- Museum of Archaeology (NPM)
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2019

2019 Taiwan Architecture Award Honorable Mention—NTU Chee-Chun Leung Cosmology Hall

2019

NTU Chee-Chun Leung Cosmology Hall receives the 2019 Taiwan Architecture Awards Honorable Mention. The project was also the finalist of the 2018 WAF Award and won the 2018 Architizer A+ Awards Special Mentions.

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2018

2018 Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention─NTU Cosmology Hall

2018

The 2018 Architizer A+ Award received thousands of entrants and only the most remarkable and the top 5 % would be selected by the jury as Special Mentions. 

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https://awards.architizer.com/ 
https://awards.architizer.com/finalists/#special-mention

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2017

Formosa Television Media Center has been awarded the First Prize of the 19th National Golden Award for Architecture

2017

The Formosa Television Media Center has received the 19th National Golden Award for Architecture and is the First Prize in the category of construction quality in the type group of Midrise Commercial Office Building. Designed by KRIS YAO | ARTECH, the building has a metaphoric form of camera viewfinder while multiple architectural volumes creates layers. A glowing box of studio space floats within the giant frame, symbolizing the corporate's logo "Taiwan's eye".

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Formosa News 2017/11/07
Formosa News 2017/11/08

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"Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts" and "Han-Gu Villa" have been awarded the "2017 CADA AWARDS" by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA)

2017

The CADA has been recognized as one of the most important architectural awards in the region. This year's CADA is selected by the five international jurors from prominent professional schools and practices of USA, Norway, France, and Denmark). There are eight professional categories for the awards.
"Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts" has won the Gold Award in the category of Education & Religious, and "Han-Gu Villa" have won the Silver Award in the category of Commercial (Office/Hotel).

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2017 Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards (CADA by HKIA)

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On April 28, Willy Yu received the 2017 Fellow of the American Institute of Architects at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 in Orlando, Florida.

2017
The College of Fellows Investiture Ceremony was held in the AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Architect Yu and other fellows of this year were welcomed at the ceremony. As one of AIA's highest membership honors, AIA Fellowship recognizes their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society.
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Willy Yu has been bestowed the 2017 Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects

2017

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has elevated the 2017 new Fellows on February 10th to its prestigious College of Fellows:
Willy Yu, our Senior Partner, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

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2016

Palace Museum, Southern Branch has received the Special Award of Taiwan Architecture Awards

2016
The architectural design is inspired by three themes from Chinese calligraphy, thick brush strokes, hollow strokes, and ink washes, creating three interwoven lines that form the building.
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China Steel Corporation Headquarters is selected as the “2016 Around the World in 80 Buildings: Asia's Most Astounding Architecture” in Architizer's collection.

2016

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http://architizer.com/blog/80-asia/

Architizer's A+Awards program was created to recognize the world's best architecture and design.
From soaring towers to critically designed spaces, these monumental projects represent emerging ideas on culture and place. Both private and public, the designs reimagine building techniques and forms to create new experiences.

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THSR Changhua Station received Architizer A+ Award - Global Voting for the most Popular Bus & Train Station

2016
Architizer A+ Award has 49 categories, and includes architecture projects from more than 100 countries. After the final run, “THSR Changhua Station” by KRIS YAO | ARTECH received the Global Voting -2016 A+ POP award of the Bus & Train Station category.The other 2016 finalists of this category are: Anaheim Regional Tranportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) by H.O.K., Arnhem Central Masterplan by UNStudio, Delft Station by Mecanoo Architecten and Benthem Crouwel Architects and Vienna Central Station by Theo Hotz Partner Architects.
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2015

Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts has received the Special Award of Taiwan Architecture Awards

2015
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2014

Water Moon Monastery has been awarded the “National Architecture Awards, 2014”

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China Steel Corporation HQ Designed by Kris Yao has been awarded the “International Architecture Awards, 2014”

2014

China Steel Corporation HQ has been awarded the “International Architecture Awards, 2014”

The International Architectural Awards organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd., has announced the 2014 award winners. This annual program give an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction  to the general public worldwide and it  has become the most significant international awards program in the world. Winners of this year , including Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Arup Associates, Steven Holl Architects….etc.  In November 2014, the program will present a special exhibition of all awarded buildings, “The City and the World” during the Second Istanbul Design Biennial in Istanbul, Turkey. After Istanbul, the exhibition will then travel inside Europe and the USA in 2015.

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On June 27, Kris Yao received an AIA Honorary Fellowship at the 2014 AIA Annual Convention held at Roosevelt University, Chicago

2014

The AIA Annual Convention was held this year in the Auditorium Theater at Roosevelt University, designed by Louis Sullivan, the "father of modernism." Kris Yao and three Spanish architects were bestowed with the Hon. FAIA in the ceremony.

AIA introduced Architect Yao with the following words: "Kris Yao has demonstrated his humanity with the development of physical elements that hold true to human emotion and conditions, cultural and historical context, and a sense of scale and place. His architecture has a poetic nature, using his native eastern aesthetic and spirituality with a sense of natural light, interplay of surfaces and forms and executing all with a high level of innovation and professionalism."

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8th Far Eastern Architectural Design Award - Honorable Mention & Most Popular Award - Water-Moon Monastery

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Kris Yao has been bestowed the 2014 Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects

2014
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States with over 150 years of history.  In February 7th, AIA had announced Kris Yao, the Taiwanese architect is to be bestowed the 2014 Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects. AIA National Convention and the Design Exposition this year is to be held in Chicago, Illinois in June.  Kris Yao will receive the honor and presenting his architecture philosophy in the Convention seminars.
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2013

First Prize, 35th Taiwan Architecture Award─Water-Moon Monastery

2013
After on-site visits of 11 finalists, Water-Moon Monastery has granted the First Prize of the "2013 Taiwan Architecture Award". This year the juries include Japanese Architect Norihiko Dan, and four Taiwanese Architects, Yi Yong Yang, Malone Chang, Shu-Ting Li, and Hua-Shan Guan. The juries commented that though the Water-Moon Monastery is a religious project, it transcends religious and nonreligious tastes. The open spatial design is welcoming, with an abstract presentation of light and shadow giving visitors a sense of serenity.
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China Steel Corporation Headquarters Designed by Kris Yao Won Architizer A+ Frist Prize

2013
Designed by architect Kris Yao of Kaohsiung Steel Group headquarters building, was the New York high-rise office Architizer A + first prize. The award total of more than 100 pieces from around the world competing skyscrapers, Steel headquarters for review and online voting double first prize.
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First Prize, Architizer A+ Award For High-Rise Office Building Class Group (16 Floors +) Both The Jury And Popular Vote─China Steel Corporation Headquarters

2013
Architizer 於2009年創立於紐約,為目前全球主要建築網站之一。 2013年Architizer 舉辦第一屆A+ 大獎,邀請全球知名建築師Steven Hall, Bjarke Ingels (BIG)、工業設計師 United Nude- Rem D Koolhaas等200多位專業評審,評選來自100多個國家的建築作品,並且開放全球網路票選。
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2012

Taipei Urban Landscape Award, First Prize - Shih Chien University Gymnasium and Library / NOWnews

2012
台北市都市景觀大獎為北市推動優質都市環境景觀重要獎項,第11屆屆參賽作品含括各類型,包含社區營造空間、公私部記者門主導之都市空間、都市空間 展演活動或藝文裝置及其它等,結果由「實踐大學體育館及圖資大樓」榮獲首獎,同時「中山創意基地URS21」獲頒都市再生特別獎、「光點華山/華山電影藝術館」則獲頒歷史建築再利用特別獎殊榮。
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Perspective Awards 2012─Lanyang Museum

2012
透視設計大賞 (Perspective Award) 於2004年由香港Perspective雜誌創辦,邀請各國的設計師參賽,表揚國際建築、室內與工業設計作品中的永續性、挑戰性與原創性。
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11th Taipei Urban Landscape Awards First Prize─Shih Chien University Gymnasium And Library

2012
Taipei Urban Landscape Awards First Prize — Shih Chien University Gymnasium and Library
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