Architects Amanda Levete and Doreen Heng Liu, interior designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, designer Mario Tsai and art journalist Cao Dan have been named as judges for Dezeen Awards China 2024.
Dezeen Awards China 2024 has launched in partnership with Bentley. Enter before 23 August to avoid late entry fees. Click here to register your details and start your entry.
This regional edition of Dezeen Awards, now in its second year, aims to showcase the very best emerging and established Chinese names in architecture, interiors and design.
Read on for more about the second set of industry professionals who will be judging the entries this year:
British architect Levete is a Stirling Prize-winner and founder of the London-based architecture practice AL_A. She will be joining Sou Fujimoto on this year's architecture jury.
AL_A was longlisted last year in the Education project category for two new buildings at Wadham College Oxford.
Other projects of AL_A include the waterfront Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon and the ongoing Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall in Serbia.
Levete has been recognised with a CBE for services to architecture, received the Jane Drew Prize, been elected an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was recently made a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Liu is the founder and principal of Guangzhou-based Node Architecture and Urbanism and will also sit on our architecture judging panel.
Node's Shenzhen Lotus Water Culture Base, a public space on top of the water purification station in Honghu Park was longlisted in the Civic building category in Dezeen Awards 2022. Its undulating landscape installation Ku Landscape was also longlisted in the Landscape project category in Dezeen Awards 2020.
Liu has a doctorate in design from Harvard Graduate School of Design and is currently a professor at Shenzhen University as well as director of the Greater Bay Area Innovation Design Lab.
Tsai is the founder of Hangzhou-based brand Mario Tsai Studio and will sit on this year's design jury.
The studio was crowned designer of the year in Dezeen Awards China 2023. The judges remarked that "his dedication to exploring new technology and unconventional materials has elevated his work in innovative and surprising ways."
Recent projects of his include the Mazha Lighting System 5.0, a modular lighting system informed by scaffolding and a furniture collection made from bent sheets of flexible steel.
Yabu and Pushelberg are the founders of design practice Yabu Pushelberg and will be joining Atelier Tao+c founders Tao Liu and Chunyan Cai on the interiors judging panel.
They recently collaborated with musician Bruno Mars to design The Pinky Ring, a cocktail lounge and live music venue at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas.
At this year's Milan design week the studio teamed up with Kohler to design their first product booth informed by the flow of water, a theme also tackled by Samuel Ross' Terminal 02 installation.
The studio has also recently presented their Miles pendant lamp for Lasvit, drawing a poetic connection between music and glass blowing.
Dan is the founder of art, design and technology platform Artemisia and will be joining Shang Xia founder Qiong Er Jiang on our design judging panel.
After working as a publisher for major Chinese art publications Leap and The Art Newspaper China, Dan founded Artemisia to promote connections and interactions between the public, private companies and artists.
As well as publishing regularly in The Art Journal and ArtReview, she is currently president of Meta Media Group's art platform (MM'Art+), a leading media business group in China working in the fields of business, culture, art, fashion and lifestyle.
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Dezeen Awards China 2024 in partnership with Bentley
Dezeen Awards China is the first regional edition of Dezeen Awards which celebrates the best architecture, interiors and design in China. The annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley's architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.