Celebrating Architectural Excellence
Discover the world's most talented and award-winning architects, showcasing their innovative designs and groundbreaking projects. Our comprehensive directory features architects from around the globe who have made significant contributions to the field of architecture.
Featured Architects
Sirena Kiviranta
Finland (FI)
Established in 2015, Drop is a design company renowned for its outdoor spas, design fires, and saunas. The Drop Spa, conceptualized by designer Nikolai Ruola, boasts a distinctive drop-shaped design. Meanwhile, the creative mind behind the design fires, saunas, and lodges is Sirena Kiviranta. The Drop Saunas and Lodges are available in black, white, or natural wood colors, with the option for custom colors. Featuring a striking square design with a large glass front shaped like a drop, these structures are crafted from environmentally friendly and durable spruce-based cross-laminated timber (CLT). Each sauna arrives fully prefabricated for easy assembly on a stable foundation. Additionally, they come equipped with quality wooden benches and warm LED lighting. Proudly designed and manufactured in Finland, Drop products have received numerous accolades, including the prestigious Design of the Year award from the Association of Finnish Work in 2015—the first outdoor spa to achieve this distinction. Further international recognition includes the A Design award in 2019 and the Golden Wave award in 2022 for Drop Spa, highlighting the brand's commitment to exceptional design.
View ProfileTakanao Todo
Thailand (TH)
Takanao Todo is an architectural designer, ceramicist, lecturer and educator for supporting dyslexia in Japanese. His major contribution in design is realization of seamless integration from object, furniture, space and to the level of operation, while applying conceptual approach enabling to share the latent narrative to wider audiences. He is challenging how Japanese tea culture can evolve outside of Japan through design also. As Takanao is the first official dyslexic Japanese, his success encourages many dyslexia in Japan, as dyslexic social awareness in Japan is not well acknowledged.
View ProfileLiao Zhe-wei
Taiwan (China) (TW)
He is committed to providing highly creative, highly integrated design services. Focus on future innovation and green sustainability. A professional team integrating architectural design, interior design, landscape design, and graphic design. He has won 49 awards in domestic and foreign design competitions so far.
View Profileseike hisashi
Japan (JP)
A Japanese interior designer based in Osaka who produces spatial design, furniture design, exterior design for restaurants, retail stores, offices, residences, exhibition halls, etc., as well as graphics and decorations related to those spaces. They are characterized by the use of materials that take advantage of the characteristics of the region, and many of the designs are simple and minimalistic, typical of Japan.
View ProfileSerra Ozbay
Turkey (TR)
Serra Özbay, founder of İstanbul-based interior design firm SOS Interior, aim is to deepen the bond between homeowners and their living spaces in residential projects. She is passionate about understanding her clients' wants, needs, and interpreting their tastes with her distinctive style, all while paying attention to every detail. With a curious, enthusiastic, and innovative design approach, she revels in infusing interior spaces with the architectural, geographical, and historical essence of each project location.
View ProfileShigetaka Mohizuki
Japan (JP)
In Japan, traditional techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation are on the decline, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the skills of traditional craftsmen. As a temple carpenter and designer, he has participated in numerous architectural awards to convey the new possibilities of traditional techniques to young designers and builders by creating "attractive structural beauty" and "beauty of use" architecture based on the evolution of traditional techniques from the inheritance of traditional techniques.
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