Honors | KRIS YAO｜ARTECH

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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Eurasian Prize 2021 winners announced

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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LOOP Design Awards 2021-National Taiwan University Cosmology Hall

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

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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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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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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
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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)

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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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.

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.

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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http://www.krisyaoartech.com/en/projects/spiritual-spaces/Water-Moon-Monastery

2011年10月27日至31日於韓國首爾市松波區所舉辦之第15屆「2011年國際宜居城市大會」國際決賽中，蘭陽博物館從全球43個入圍城市（社區）中脫穎而出，榮獲Project Awards金賞大獎。

2011 FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Awards Construction Quality Category Excallence Award─Lanyang Museum. Construction Quality Category Excallence Award─International Finance Center.

2011 FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Awards- Taiwan Branch.
Special Contribution For National Development And Property Construction Award (Taiwan, R.O.C.).

行政院舉辦品質最高榮譽的「公共工程金質獎」揭曉。宜蘭縣政府籌建18年的「蘭陽博物館」榮獲最高殊榮「特優獎」，這已經是這座博物館今年內第三度獲得國內建築首獎，堪稱三冠王。

Superior Construction Quality Awards , 10th Public Construction Golden Quality Award for Outstanding Public Architectural construction. – Lanyang Museum

FIRST PRIZE, 32TH TAIWAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD─LANYANG MUSEUM

「台灣的建築師水準很齊，五件作品很難評出高下。」大陸評審團幾乎一直認可。在第七屆遠東建築獎決賽評審中，在大家激烈討論下，最後評初台灣建築師姚仁喜的大元聯合建築師事務所「蘭陽博物館」贏得本屆台灣組的傑出獎，獲得全國最高的建築獎金一百萬元。

The 1st Annual “Selected Excellent Urban Design Reviewed Project at Taoyuan County”:

Award list Public Space Design First Prize,Taipei MRT Airport DE03 Link Competition〈A15-A20 stations〉/ Design by KRIS YAO | ARTECH Private Development Design First Prize, Quanta Research & Development Center / Design by KRIS YAO | ARTECH.

Class 1 Architect Registration, People Republic of China (The National Administration Board of Architectural Registration) The Chinese Government had announced on January 7th, 2009 that 37 Taiwanese architects were qualified to acquire the Class 1 PRC Architect Registration. The name lists were carefully selected, and Kris Yao was among one of the 37.

由國家文化藝術基金會所主辦的「國家文藝獎」，為獎勵以生命力量堅持藝術創作，並積極創造獨特且具現代風格的藝文工作者。一向被藝文界視為國家最高榮譽的獎項，目前共分文學、美術、音樂、舞蹈、戲劇、建築、電影等7種類別。

Honorable Mention, 6th The Far Eastern Architectural Design Award, 2007-Taiwan High Speed Rail Hsinchu Station.

Honorable Mention, Wei-Wu-Ying Center for The Arts Competition, 2006

After reviewing 18 selected works, the judges of Taiwan Annual Architecture Award finally chose the winners in the evening of October, 24. They decided to give the award to 4 remarkable projects including Taipei 101, Taiwan High Speed Rail Hsinchu Station, National Pingpei Senior High and Xinyi-Planning District Pedestrian Overpass.

Quanta Research & Development Center is awarded Honorable Mention. The design of Quanta Research & Development Center is formed by a two floors courtyard, and allocated most of the facilities on the site. A skylight is covered on the top of atrium creating a centralized space. Outside of the massing is constructed with the double curtain walls. By using the materials of various dots and punched holes, the second floor is formed by a bar-code as the word “QUANTA.”

Kris Yao received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley, 2005 After graduating for 26 years, the College of the Environmental Design (CED) of the University of California, Berkeley, is going to give Kris Yao the Distinguished Alumnus Award on May 23rd this year. 

5th Far East School Campus Architecture Honorary Award, 2004 – Shih Chien University College of Design designed by Kris Yao had won the 5th Far East School Campus Architecture Honorary Award. The juries agreed with the decoration-free architectural concrete material, which expressed well of the self-examination, sincere and honest spirit advocated by the University’s education.

2nd Annual Green Architecture Design Award, 2004- Fubon Tian-Mu Housing

Invitation Exhibition at the 1st International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, 2003 Mobility: Taiwan Exhibition - in transferring

Honorable Mention, the Taiwan Architecture Award, 2003-Shih Chien University College Of Design, Taipei

Second Prize, Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 1 Renovation Competition.

Representing Taiwan to participate at the 8th Int’l Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2002 THSR Hsinchu Station/Kris Yao is to represent Taiwan team at the Venice architecture Biennial. Yesterday, the Taiwan team to the Venice Architecture Biennial is announced. Starting from September 6th, the THSR Hsinchu Station, which will be completed in 2004, will represent the new trend of Taiwan architecture to be exhibited La Biennale Di Venezia 8th Int’l Architecture Exhibition in Venice.

台灣建築獎-內湖仁寶電腦獲獎

Honorable Mention, WA Architecture Awards, 2002- Compal Headquarters, Taipei This year’s “WA Architecture Awards” sponsored by the famous Chinese architectural magazine “World Architecture” is just announced. 3 winners and 3 honorable mentions were chosen out of all 44 nominated works. Architect Kris Yao’s Compal Headquarters was awarded with Honorable Mention.

Six Works Awarded First Prize- The First WA Chinese Architecture Award

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1st Prize, the Taiwan Annual Architecture Award, 2001- Compal Headquarters, Taipei

1st Prize, the Outstanding Architectural Design Award in Chiangsu Province, 2000- Yageo Corp. Suzhou Factory, China

2nd Prize, 921 Earthquake School Rebuilding Design Award, The 2nd Far Eastern Architectural Design Award, 2000 After an eight-hour marathon discussion carried out by the 11 juries, the additional award list of the “special awards of the 921 earthquake school rebuilding award” was finally announced. Kris Yao (Shuang Wen Junior High School of Nan-Tou County) was awarded with the 2nd prize.

「突破與創新」做為第一屆遠東傑出建築設計獎的主題，準確的說這個獎是對台灣當前優秀建築師建築設計成就的一種肯定，但廣義的角度來說，做為台灣第一個由民間企業主辦的建築獎，其主題「突破與創新」含蓋了「建築專業經驗傳統」的承啟。換言之，建築的專業經驗如果可以成為一種傳統，其累積的結果將是一種「文化風格」的顯現，也當然是生活於此的人民一種生活態度與生活內容的「再現」。本屆遠東建築設計傑出獎，以正式獎項之外的「特別獎 」頒發給張昌華建築師與王大閎建築師，我認為應為植基於二位資深建築師在其建築設計作品中對過去五十餘年來的台灣傳統建築發展在建立台灣建築專業經驗傳統上有著不可磨滅的重要貢獻。

1st Prize, 1th The Far Eastern Architectural Design Award, 1999 As expected by the architecture design field, the 1st Prize of 1th The Far Eastern Architectural Design Award was won by Kris Yao. His submitted projects including “Yuan Ze University Library,” “TNNUA College Of Sound And Image Arts,” and “Continental Engineering Corporation Headquarters.”。

“Luminary Buddhist Center” designed by KRIS YAO | ARTECH had won “First Prize, 21th Taiwan Architecture Award.”

“Continental Engineering Corporation Headquarters” designed by KRIS YAO | ARTECH had won “Honorable Mention, 21th Taiwan Architecture Award.”

Honor Award, the 20th Taiwan Architect Awards, 1998- Yuan Ze University Library, Taoyuan.

He is an architect who uses “humanity” and “affection” to create resonance between architecture and people. The 1997’s National Outstanding Architect Award is awarded to Kris Yao, who is comparably a new comer of the design field. The news has surprised most of people who believed that this award will be given out in a “senior priority” sequence. The publics show their curiosity, and start to discover more about Kris Yao!

Honor Award, the 18th Annual Chinese Architect Journal Award, 1996- Fubon Banking Center.

Honorable Mention, the 18th Taiwan Architect Awards, 1996- Dong Hwa University Graduate Student Housing.