HAYAMA KACHITEI, designed and CD by KA, received the Gold Award in the “Service/Hospitality Space” category of the “KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2021”.

■What KUKAN DESIGN AWARD is:

(Organizers: JCD/DSA)

*The awards existed as JCD and DSA awards respectively until 2018, when they were merged for the third year.

*Operated as a partnership with iF DESIGN AWARD in Germany

*2021 Jury (honorifics omitted): Taku Satoh, Masanori Yokokawa, Ryu Kosaka, Manabu Chiba, Taro Igarashi, Yuko Nagayama, and others.

Selection Process:

-Applications were received from April to June, and 887 works were collected.

-Longlist 303 works were selected through preliminary screening on the web.

-Ten works in each of 11 genres were selected for the shortlist.

-Gold, Silver, and Bronze prizes for each genre were announced at the public screening on September 25.

-The grand prize, “Kukan of the year,” which transcends categories, will be announced at an awards ceremony in Tokyo in November.