On October 26, the KPF-Designed NYU Shanghai Campus won the Merit Award for Architecture at the 2024 AIA International Design Awards ceremony in Hong Kong.
During the closing ceremonies of this year’s AIA International Conference Hong Kong, KPF’s NYU Shanghai was honored with the Merit Award for Architecture in recognition of its exceptional building design and positive experiential impact on students, faculty, and visitors. The conference, which took place between October 24 and 27, was organized around the theme “Architectural Intelligence” and recognized outstanding projects in four categories: Architecture, Interior Architecture, Urban Design, and Unbuilt.
The NYU Shanghai campus comprises four buildings arranged in a pinwheel pattern that organizes a variety of outdoor spaces that range in scale from expansive quad to intimate alcove. These contrasting qualities of inward courtyard and external façade evoke fundamental ideas of academic landscapes cross culturally, from European abbeys to Chinese gardens, reflecting the school’s international perspective. The project’s massing approach breaks the buildings down into shifting bars that are connected from floor to floor through atria. Rather than separating programs into distinct buildings—which would result in “siloed” academic communities—the campus program is stacked vertically, creating layers that extend across the whole campus.
See the full list of AIA winners here.