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.
- 2024Design Vanguard 2024, Architectural RecordArchitectural Record (US) — annual emerging-firm recognition
- 2020ArchDaily Best Young Practices of 2020ArchDaily — global emerging-firm list
- —Seed Grant, Design Trust Hong KongDesign 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
- 2019Hong Kong Design Centre
- —Perspective 40 Under 40 AwardPerspective Magazine
Evelyn Ting
- 201414th Venice Architecture Biennale — US Pavilion curatorial teamLa Biennale di Venezia
- —Council of the Arts Grant, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT — Council of the Arts
- —Perspective 40 Under 40 AwardPerspective 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.
Cheung Sha Wan Pier Canopy
- HKIA Award of Hong KongPublic Space / Civic / Communal Building
- Architecture Masterprize2024 · Landscape Architecture (Installation & Structures)
Growing Up Pavilion
- 1st Prize, Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers CompetitionHong Kong Institute of Architects — Young Members Committee
- AIA Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Design Centre
- Architecture MasterprizeSmall Architecture and Installation & Structures Category
- A&D Trophy AwardBest Pop-Up Architecture
Brief Encounters
- Taipei International Design AwardPublic Space Design Category
The Open Courtyard
- 1st Prize, Tianfu Cultural City Chuanxi Linpan CompetitionInternational architecture competition
Embroideries of East Kowloon
- Finalist, East Kowloon Cultural Centre Public Artwork CompetitionPublic art competition
Filtration
- 2nd Prize, Busan Opera House CompetitionOpen 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 HousesYAC (Italy) — international architecture competition
- —Honorable Mention, Kowloon East International Design CompetitionHong Kong — international design competition