Kouunji Kyakuden
Kouunji Kyakuden Reception Hall of Temple by Hiroaki Iwasa is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Kouunji Kyakuden is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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The project was a reconstruction of the 140 years old reception hall, which was one of the facilities of the Buddhist temple Kouunji. The old reception hall had been loved by the local community for a long period; however, due to its severe damage over the years, it needed to go through reconstruction. The architect solved these issues by updating and harmonizing, also devising some systems to pass on the memory of local community to the next generation. As a result, not only did the new reception hall achieve a sense of nostalgia but also a presence in the historical context.
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Kouunji Kyakuden by Hiroaki Iwasa
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Reception Hall of Temple
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Kouunji Kyakuden Reception Hall of Temple
Kouunji Kyakuden is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Kouunji Kyakuden is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Kouunji Kyakuden splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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Hiroaki Iwasa
Hiroaki Iwasa is a holistic architect with a 30-year career designing a variety of projects, from architecture to products to landscapes. He founded HIROAKI IWASA ARCHITECTS WORKSHOP in Tokyo, where he is the chief architect and holds the qualification of a first-class architect. In various projects, he grasps the situation from multiple perspectives and deep insight, approaches the issues honestly from the essential point of view, He has designed and realized rich environments that awaken the five human senses and satisfy a sense of well-being within landscapes, historical and cultural backgrounds. His various works, which emphasize the five human senses, have been realized in Japan and overseas, and have been praised in many fields and received numerous awards.
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Hiroaki Iwasa Architects Workshop is an architectural design office founded in Tokyo in 1998 by Hiroaki Iwasa with the aim of providing people with a better future.
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