Now in its third edition, the A+Awards is an international awards scheme run by the Architizer platform. With over one million visitors per month and over 150,000 registered users, the site was described by the New York Times as "The Facebook of architecture".
Two separate juries were convened to short-list submissions from over 100 countries worldwide for the award's 90 categories: an internal jury (Jury Choice), composed of over 300 experts in the various sectors, and a global external jury (Popular Choice), made up of over 2 million followers, who cast a total of 40,000 online votes.
No other architecture prize in the world offers such a vast jury or such an open short-listing and awards system.
That's why the first place awarded by the Popular Choice jury in the Building Products - Façades category to Bios self-cleaning® ceramic sheet by Casalgrande Padana, is so significant, and bears further witness to the quality of the product and the excellence of the research undertake by the Italian company in the field of bio-active ceramic and advanced shell systems for architecture.
The winners will receive their A+Awards at an international gala to be held at the Highline Stages in New York on 14 May, before going onto an after party at the Jane Hotel, all within the framework of the events and exhibitions connected with the ever popular NYCxDesign week.
All the winning works will be published in a volume specifically produced for the A+Awards, thanks to a partnership between Architizer and the prestigious Phaidon publishing house.