SHANGHAI, China — January 24, 2022 — CRTKL brought home the 2021 Honor Award for Architecture and the 2021 Bronze Award Best of Show for Architecture at the 2021 AIA Shanghai | Beijing Design Awards this past week.
The New is a regeneration of an urban plaza and an underground commercial space, a small project of larger issues in urban renewal. With an institutional approach to commercial architecture that focuses on public place-making, the design reunites once divided urban and commercial spaces by breaking physical and conceptual demarcation of the ground and merging public realm with commercial spaces. Nested in lush landscape, the hidden destination carries metaphoric references to Chinese ideas and the site’s history to ensure that the resurrected place is aesthetically distinctive and contextually adaptive.
The AIA Shanghai | Beijing Design Awards were founded in 2018. The AIA Shanghai / Beijing Design Excellence Awards Program showcases innovation in architecture, interior architecture and urban planning. All submissions were judged by an International Master Jury comprised of leading figures from around the world, a unique blend of mainland and international architects, academics and urbanists.