Recently, the National Architecture Award Council, represented by the Vietnam Association of Architects, has issued Official dispatch No. 04/GTKTQG2024 to companies and architectural consulting agencies in the fields of planning, architecture, interior design, landscape, etc., inviting them to participate in the National Architecture Award 2024 – 2025 and submit their projects before October 30, 2024. To help guide contestants to choose their works, Architecture Magazine has compiled 4 categories of projects of this year’s Award.
As the highest and most prestigious official Award for Architecture in Vietnam and recognized by the State as the basis for consideration of other noble National Awards, the National Architecture Award is organized to select and award prizes every 2 years, for 4 categories of projects:
- Construction;
- Interior and exterior design and Landscape architecture – Urban design;
- Planning;
- Research and architectural criticism.
The author who wins the National Architecture Awards will be exempted from the requirement of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) when renewing the Architectural Practicing Certificate.
Categories of projects
Construction
- A1. Residential architecture:
- Independent House.
- Apartment buildings, commercial buildings, public housing, resettlement housing, social housing, mixed-use housing in urban areas, villages, dormitories, etc.
- A2. Public architecture:
- Commercial and mixed-use service buildings: Shopping malls, offices and multi-purpose services, etc.
- Resorts: Resorts, hotels, amusement parks, etc.
- Headquarters buildings: Agencies, offices, research institutes, etc.
- School and hospital: Schools, hospitals – health care buildings, etc.
- Cultural and social buildings: Theaters, museums, exhibition halls, art centers, cultural palaces, community houses, places of worship, etc.
- A3. Industrial architecture: Factories, warehouses, workshops, industrial zones, export processing zones and other production.
- A4. Special projects: Sports complexes, stadiums, airports, train stations, wharves, bridges, roads, etc.
- A5. Conservation and adaptation of architectural heritage: Projects to conserve or restore architectural heritage, projects to reuse or develop architectural heritage.
Interior and exterior design and Landscape architecture – Urban design
- B1. Interior and exterior design
- B2. Landscape architecture – Urban design
Planning
- C1. Urban planning (general planning, zoning planning, detailed planning)
- C2. Inter-district construction planning, district construction planning and rural planning (general planning for commune construction and detailed planning for rural residential areas)
- C3. Construction planning of functional areas (general construction planning, zoning planning and detailed construction planning)
Research and architectural criticism
- D1. Architectural research and architectural critiques (publications published within 2 years before the deadline for submission of the Awards).
- D2. Specialized architectural and planning journals (published within 2 years before the deadline for submission) and Collections of articles by topic (with a quantity of 5 articles within 2 years before the deadline for submission of the Awards).
- D3. Cinematographic movies, videos and television programs on architecture (works broadcast/ premiered within 2 years before the deadline for submission of the Awards).
Contestants eligibilities
The author is a Vietnamese citizen with projects in or outside the country; the author is a foreign citizen with projects in Vietnam with the following conditions:
- The author does not participate in the National Architecture Award Council and is not a family member (wife, husband, father, mother, child, sibling) of a member of the National Architecture Award Council.
- The author does not participate in the Steering Committee, the Organizing Committee of the National Architecture Award Council, the Secretariat – Technical Team.
- The author is the person in charge – the head of the architectural design, is primarily responsible for creating the project idea, is the head of the departments in the planning project, etc.
- Each author/group of authors can submit different works to the contest.
- The work has never participated in the National Architecture Awards, does not violate the regulations, standards, and norms of Vietnamese law.
- Architectural projects under category A, B that have been completed and accepted for use before the deadline for submitting the application for the contest; Planning projects under category C approved by competent authorities before the deadline for submitting competition documents (plans that have been fully or mostly implemented are encouraged); Architectural research – architectural criticism under category D that have been printed, published, released, and premiered before the deadline for submitting competition documents.
Award criteria
Projects and works that have never participated in any National Architecture Awards, meeting the criteria for each category below.
- General criteria
- Design ideas are new, creative and innovative in a modern, progressive direction.
- Focus on identity, locality, cultural, social and humanistic significance.
- Creativity according to the criteria of Vietnam Green Architecture and the applicable world Green Architecture standards is encouraged.
- Works that have a community-wide impact, contributing to positive architectural orientation are encouraged.
- Construction and Interior and exterior design (categories A, B):
- Solutions that meet the requirements of good spatial organization, including functional chains and architectural shaping. Meet the requirements of reasonable planning, harmonizing the relationship between the interior and the building, between the building and the surrounding landscape.
- Apply modern technology and techniques, use advanced, efficient and environmentally friendly materials.
- Urban and rural planning (category C):
- Reasonably exploiting natural landscape conditions and cultural characteristics of the location in organizing urban and rural spaces, ensuring the quality of living and working environments for people.
- Saving resources – especially in the use of land, water resources, and forest resources in planning.
- Towards organizing sustainable development, with solutions to adapt to climate change.
- Research and Architectural criticism (category D):
- Being scientific, providing knowledge in the field of architecture from traditional to modern and updating information on contemporary architectural trends.
- Contributing to expanding and improving the professional qualifications of architects and popularizing knowledge about architectural art for the community.
- Criticizing architecture in a constructive spirit, actively contributing to the development of architecture, encouraging architectural creation in a progressive and humanistic direction.
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