Press Release
Grace Residence by Satoshi Kurosaki Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Satoshi Kurosaki recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Grace Residence by Satoshi Kurosaki, designed for APOLLO Architects & Associates Co., Ltd.. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Grace Residence
Grace is a small timber framed residence for a family of three on a riverside lot on the outskirts of Tokyo. The house is designed for a work from home lifestyle. Storage, kitchen appliances and other functional features are built into the walls to enhance unity and continuity in the long, narrow space. Private rooms occupy the first floor, while the second floor is a single open room under a gable roof with exposed rafters and indirect lighting. A glazed front balcony with deep eaves forms a transition between work and leisure.
Award Record
With this recognition, Satoshi Kurosaki is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/169916
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/169916
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!169916
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/303530
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://apollo-aa.jp/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Grace Residence
- Function
- Residence
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Light Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Sky Blue, Slate Gray and Light Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- APOLLO Architects & Associates Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Satoshi Kurosaki
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #169916
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photography : Masao Nishikawa Videographer : Seiya Aoki
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A key design challenge was assimilating contradictory elements such as work/leisure, interior/exterior, and private/public in order to achieve that harmonious lifestyle within a limited space. In contrast to private areas such as the master bedroom and child’s bedroom on the first floor, the second floor consists of a single open room. The front balcony, a glassed-in intermediary space with deep eaves, plays an especially important role in transitioning between work and leisure.
- Inspiration
- This small wood-framed residence for a family of three takes advantage of the riverside views from its lot on the outskirts of Tokyo. Designed to cater to a work-from-home lifestyle, the storage, kitchen appliances, and other functional features are built into the walls to enhance unity and continuity in the long, narrow space. The result is a home where daily life coexists comfortably with work.
- Research
- Enclosing all functional elements within wall storage units allowed us to eliminate the visual noise of excess objects and enhance concentration on work. Meanwhile, the exposed rafters of the gable roof with indirect lighting set into them make this second-floor space both unusual and relaxing. Perhaps this design approach, which takes smallness not as a minus but as a plus in terms of coziness and comfort, will be even more sought after in the post-Covid 19 era.
- Realization and Technology
- Exterior Finish : Galvalume, Elastic Lysince Spray Floor : Tile Flooring, Walnut Flooring Wall : Wallpaper Ceiling : Wallpaper, Spruce Pine Fir (SPF), Lauan Plywood, Walnut Lighting : LED
- Project Duration and Location
- Design Period : March 2019 - August 2019 Construction Period : December 2019 - March 2021
- Specifications
- Principal Use : Private housing Structure : Timber Site Area: 133.70m2 Total Floor Area : 106.16m2（49.69m2 /1F, 56.47m2 /2F)
- Keywords
- GRACE, APOLLO Architects & Associates, House, Residence, Residencial,Architecture, Japan
