Awards & Grants

Awards, grants and recognitions received by New Office Works.

Studio awards

Recognition of the studio's body of work — Architectural Record Design Vanguard, ArchDaily Best Young Practices, and Design Trust Hong Kong.

  • 2024
    Design Vanguard 2024, Architectural Record
    Architectural Record (US) — annual emerging-firm recognition
  • 2020
    ArchDaily Best Young Practices of 2020
    ArchDaily — global emerging-firm list
  • Seed Grant, Design Trust Hong Kong
    Design Trust HK — research / studio grant

Founder awards

Honours and grants received personally by Paul Tse and Evelyn Ting — including the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (US Pavilion curatorial team), the DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award, the MIT Council of the Arts grant, and Perspective 40 Under 40.

Paul Tse

Evelyn Ting

  • 2014
    14th Venice Architecture Biennale — US Pavilion curatorial team
    La Biennale di Venezia
  • Council of the Arts Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    MIT — Council of the Arts
  • Perspective 40 Under 40 Award
    Perspective Magazine

Built-project awards

Awards won by individual projects — HKIA Award, AIA Hong Kong Merit, Architecture Masterprize, DFA Design for Asia, A&D Trophy, Taipei International Design Award, and competition prizes.

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Cheung Sha Wan Pier Canopy

Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong
  • HKIA Award of Hong Kong
    Public Space / Civic / Communal Building
  • Architecture Masterprize
    2024 · Landscape Architecture (Installation & Structures)
NOW 14

Growing Up Pavilion

West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
  • 1st Prize, Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition
    Hong Kong Institute of Architects — Young Members Committee
  • AIA Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Design Centre
  • Architecture Masterprize
    Small Architecture and Installation & Structures Category
  • A&D Trophy Award
    Best Pop-Up Architecture
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Brief Encounters

Hong Kong
  • Taipei International Design Award
    Public Space Design Category
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The Open Courtyard

Tianfu, Chengdu, China
  • 1st Prize, Tianfu Cultural City Chuanxi Linpan Competition
    International architecture competition
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Embroideries of East Kowloon

East Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Finalist, East Kowloon Cultural Centre Public Artwork Competition
    Public art competition
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Filtration

Busan, South Korea
  • 2nd Prize, Busan Opera House Competition
    Open Category — international competition

Competitions & recognitions

International architecture competitions where NOW received finalist or honourable-mention status — entries that did not proceed to construction but reflect the studio's entry into juried global discourse.

  • Finalist Mention, Young Architects Competition — Observatory Houses
    YAC (Italy) — international architecture competition
  • Honorable Mention, Kowloon East International Design Competition
    Hong Kong — international design competition