Design for Asia Award 2007

The winners run the gamut from Japan's Fuji Kindergarten to an eco-friendly retreat in the Himalayas by Studio Mumbai Architects
By Frederik Balfour

The Design for Asia Awards, organized by the government-backed Hong Kong Design Center and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, are now in their fifth year, attracting nearly 600 entries from 20 different countries including Hong Kong. The winners for 2007 reflect just how innovative design can touch every age and level of our modern experience—how we study, shop, listen to music, or take a vacation. The winning designs range from the revolutionary Fuji Kindergarten design by Japan's Takaharu + Yui Tezuka architects, to a project by architecture students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for a stone-and-wood footbridge in China's Gansu province that can be taken apart and reassembled after floods, to a remote eco-friendly retreat in the Indian Himalayas by Studio Mumbai Architects.

Here is a glimpse of some of the winning designs.

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