AIA JAPAN AWARD for Architecture 2021
Michel van Ackere, AIA

• Company: Maki and Associates
• Project Name: The Bihar Museum
• Design Team: Fumihiko Maki, Hon. FAIA, Principal, Tomoyoshi Fukunaga, Director, Tatsutomo Hasegawa, Associate, Hisashi Nakai, Yoshihiko Taira, Issei Horikoshi, Kiwon Kim
• Associate Architect: Opolis Architects (Mumbai)
• Consultants: Program/Master Planning/Exhibition Design: Lord Cultural Resources (Mumbai /Toronto), Structural Engineering: Mahendra Raj Consultants Private Limited (New Dehli), MEP Engineering: Design Bureau (Mumbai), Quantity Surveyor: Dongre Associates (Mumbai), Landscape: Ohtori Consultants Inc. Environmental Design Institute (Osaka), Forethought Design Consultants (Pune), Lighting: AWA Lighting Designers (Mumbai / New York), Museum Branding, Wayfinding and Signage Design: Lopez Design, New Delhi.
• Contractor: Larsen & Toubro Construction
• Owner: Department of Art, Culture, and Youth (DACY), Government of Bihar, India

AIA JAPAN AWARD for Architecture 2021
Nobuaki Miyashita, International Assoc. AIA

• Company: MR STUDIO Co., Ltd.
• Project Name: Aida Sekkei Precut Division Ibaraki Factory
• Contractor: Kawada Industries, Inc., Aida Sekkei Co., Ltd.
• Owner: Aida Sekkei Co., Ltd.

AIA JAPAN AWARD for Interior Architecture 2021
Daichi Amano, AIA

• Company: Gensler and Associates / International, Ltd.
• Project Name: Shiseido Global Vision Center
• Design Team: Chie Matsushita, Tatsuhito Koike, Hisako Toritani, Hitoshi Murayama, Yunji Kim, Satoshi Goto, Miho Nakamura, Weijing Lin, Shoko Nakai, Yuki Fujii, Megumi Waida, Sara Kim, Yoshiko Hirabayashi
• Consultants: Project Management: Masahiro Iwata – Group Head, JLL, Noriaki Ishida – Senior Project Manager, JLL, Reiko Izumi – Senior Project Manager, JLL
• Contractor: Kajima Corporation, Ishizue Corporation
• Owner: Shiseido Company

HONORABLE MENTION for Interior Architecture 2021
Daishi Yoshimoto, AIA

• Company: Yoshimoto Associates Inc.
• Project Name: Tokyo American Club Nihonbashi
• Design Team: Yuki Shinohara
• Associate Architect: UDS (Schematic Design), Tanseisha (Executive Design)
• Consultants: Uchihara Creative Lighting Design (Lighting Design), Kankyo Engineering (MEP Engineering)
• Contractor: Tanseisha (C Work), Kajima (B Work)
• Owner: Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (Lessor), Tokyo American Club (Management)

SHORTLISTED PROJECT 2021
Mustafa K. Abadan, FAIA

• Company: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• Project Name: Nihonbashi 2-Chome Area Project
• Design Team: Mustafa K. Abadan, T.J. Gottesdiener, Jonathan Stein, Vram Malek,

Nicolas Medrano, Pablo de Miguel

• Associate Architect: Architect of Record: Joint architectural firm of Nihon Sekkei, Inc. and Plantec Architects Inc.
• Consultants: Institute of New Architecture, Uchihara Creative Lighting Design Inc., Ohtori Consultants, Rian Ihara Design Office Limited, Field Four Design Office, Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop
• Contractor: Obayashi Corporation, Kajima Corporation, Takenaka Corporation
• Owner: Mitsui Fudosan (developer), Nihombashi 2nd District Project Association (owner)

SHORTLISTED PROJECT 2021
Tsutommu Sugawara, International Assoc. AIA

• Company: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• Project Name: Shinkashiwa Clinic “Diabetes Mirai”
• Design Team: Takenaka Corporation
• Contractor: Takenaka Corporation
• Owner: Shinkashiwa Clinic