In 2015, China Design Center, together with the partner WAN (World Architecture News), lands in China for the first time, which lifts a huge wave in architecture field. As a high-end office furniture brand, MATSU feels honor to be WAN’s exclusive partner in support. At the night of 23rd, July, the Awards ceremony of “WAN Asia Awards—Residential Category” was held in MATSU Shanghai flagship showroom, while the open exhibition was going to meet the public for free from 24th, July to 29th, July.

WAN Award is one of the greatest awards among the world architecture field. Established in 2005, just within two years, this award ranks the first in Google search engine in aspect of Architecture News.

Mr. Lell Barnes, the board member and design director of John Portman & Associates and Mr. Ju Pei Chen, chief architect of Vanke Group, Shanghai, participated in this award ceremony as the contest judges. They and Prof. Liu Ke Cheng, Dean of architecture institute from Xi’an university of architecture and technology, with 200 distinguished guests from fields of architecture design, interior design and real estate development, witnessed the establishment of the historic milestone in oriental architecture.

As the contest judge, Mr. Lell Barnes, the board member and design director of John Portman & Associates shared with us how the 2015 WAN Asia Design Award came to the world. Mr. Ping Gang, President of DC international design office, and his partner Mr. Dong Yi got the Nomination Award of 2015 WAN Asia Award on the stage.

From “Design China” to “Chinese Style Design”
There were 6 nominated artworks in the 2015 WAN Asia Award, one of them is from DC international design office. They expressed the design concept for the entries “nine hall mansion in the west town ”(the location is in QingPu), which demonstrated the expectation to make Chinese Style Design from Design China.

Finally, “Goodwood Residence” from WOHA Architects, which is located in Singapore, stood out among masterpieces from China, Singapore, Thailand, etc. and won the prize and honor of “WAN Asia Award—Residential Category”

The Winner:
Goodwood Residence,，Singapore
Architects：WOHA Architects

Goodwood Residence is located in the forest conservation area designated by Singapore National Park Bureau. Good wood covers 20 hectares of historic lush rain forest, which is seldom found in Orchard Scotts area.

The extension of architecture, the combination of east and west
All the finalists of the WAN contest were exhibited on the spot by MATSU BL modular architecture system. BL aluminum alloy allows the ingenuous fusion of easy and clear outline and the outside solemn exhibition hall full of balance and Chinese characteristics, which reached smooth and profound combination of east and west although it’s the first time for WAN, an international award, to come to Asia.
BL system has very high recovery efficiency, nearly 100%(except for the screen material). This can tell us the intention of being environment-friendly.

MATSU & WAN
Before this event, MATSU and WAN have already cooperated very successfully. In 2014, during the event of WAN colorful architecture award, Ergolding middle school, supported by MATUS and German partner, NIMBUS, finally won the prize.

This time, due to the common love and pursuit for beautiful design, WAN Asia Award, China Design Center and MATSU organized WAN Asia Award. This cross-border cooperation of architecture design and furniture brand shows the combination of international platform and Asian market. We sincerely hope for more cross-border exchanges and innovation, seek more common progress and Asian prosperous architecture development and establish more professional platforms for Asian excellent architectural projects.