Unico Community Gym is near completion. The project is expected to be in use in the spring of 2024.
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DFA Design for Asia Awards Ceremony was held at Hong Kong Palace Museum. Our principal Fai Au has received the Silver Award recognition on behalf of O Studio Architects design team.
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Snowland Air Base received DFA Design for Asia Awards Silver Award. This award is the flagship program of Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), celebrating design excellence and acknowledging outstanding designs with Asian perspectives. Since its launch in 2003, the DFA Design for Asia Awards has been a stage upon which design talents and corporations can showcase their design projects internationally.
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Snowland Air Base received Bronze Award for Shenzhen Global Design Award among 5198 entries around the globe. In parallel with the Shenzhen Design Week, the Shenzhen Global Design Award is organized to recognize and reward outstanding designers from different countries with creativity, vision, foresight and influence.
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Snowland Air Base has been completed at Hebei, China. This building is the first small-scale private airport for the district. It accommodates various functions including hangar for private jets and helicopters, corporate showrooms, flight exhibition, ski retails, F&B and administrative offices.
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Church of Seed is featured in “The Architecture of Prayer”. Hosted at the Center Art Gallery at Calvin University, this exhibition showcases drawings and travel photography of historic church buildings in dialogue with new projects built between 1999 and the present. The collective works of over 40 global architectural firms demonstrates a rich diversity of design thinking and applied theology from the Catholic and ecumenical Protestant traditions. Exhibition Period: February 6-April 7, 2023
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Green Origin Ice Wine Pavilion has been selected as the Gold Award winner of 2022 Asia Design Prize from 1830 entries submitted this year. This award is Asia’s first public-interest social brand that selects concept designs which try to solve social problems in Asia.
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Art Installation “Wheels of Life” has won Red Dot Design Award this year. Together with the workshop series, this is a community project promoting up-cycling, in collaboration with Echo Asia Communications and Alva Hotel by Royal.
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O Studio Architects has been selected as Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard this year. Architectural Record selects annually 10 top emerging firms around the globe that are demonstrating inventive approaches to shaping the built environment as Design Vanguards. Dedicated to documenting architectural history, the renowned publication Architectural Record has been in print for 125 years, and awards this annual prize to young, game-changing architects from 2000 on.
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Green Origin Ice Wine Pavilion is featured in the latest issue of Architectural Record.
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Green Origin Ice Wine Pavilion has been completed at Hebei, China. This building accommodates the functions of ice wine making, storing and tasting.
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Two community workshops which promote the idea of upcycling have been held at Alva Hotel by Royal. Participants were invited to design and make an art wall with used bicycle parts and abandoned yarns.
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Art Installation “Wheels of Life” has been completed for the opening of Alva Hotel by Royal. Composing of eighty eight recycled bicycle wheels collected from the local community, this art installation will be exhibited till February 2020.
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Good Design Award Ceremony 2019 was held at Ropponigi Hill, Tokyo. “Compact-ivating Oil Stree” is currently showcased in Good Design Award exhibition at Tokyo Midtown, Japan.
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“Compact-ivating Oil Street” exhibition and workshops won 2019 Good Design Award. Good Design Award exhibition this year will be held at Tokyo Midtown, Japan from 31/10 to 04/11
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Tetris Tower is at its final stop – Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center, Kowloon Park. Exhibition period: 26/04/2019 – 23/06/2019.
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Fai Au spoke in the public forum “Vertical Fabric: Density in Landscape – Towers Commons”, an event of the Venice Biennale Hong Kong Response Exhibition. The exhibition is now held at City Gallery, Central. Exhibition Period: 20/03/2019 – 22/04/2019.
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After over 6 months of Venice Biennale, tower design “Tetris Living” is now home and exhibiting in the Venice Biennale Hong Kong Response Exhibition at Hall F, Tai Kwun. Exhibition Period: 14/02/2019 – 23/02/2019.
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Snowland Air Base is currently under construction. It is expected to be completed in the beginning of 2019.
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The tower design “Tetris Living” is currently showcased in Venice Biennale. It is a tower celebrating high-rise living with end-user participation and sense of neibourhood. Exhibition Period: 26/05/2018-25/11/2018.
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“Stack Your Dream Home” Model-making workshop was held at Oi! North Point. Fai Au led young participants to design their dream homes with 1:20 white foam model.
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The Art Installation “Compact-ivating Oil Street” designed by Fai Au is exhibiting at Oi! Art Space, North Point. This installation invites participants to design and assemble their own dream homes in the exhibition room. Exhibition Period: 06/04/2018-13/05/2018.
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The works of Fai Au’s HKU youth housing design studios 2015-2017 are featured in 2017 Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture(Hong Kong). Exhibition period: Dec 12 2017 to Feb 11 2018.
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Fai Au co-curates 2017 Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Hong Kong). The theme this year is “City Smart: Density 2.0”. Exhibition period: 12 Dec 2017 to 11 Feb 2018.
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Church of Seed is featured in Braun’s new book “Massive, Expressive, Sculptural: Brutalism now and then”. This book showcases examples of brutalism from the past and the present by some of the greatest and most interesting architects.
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Church of Seed is exhibited at PMQ 10×100 Exhibition, which showcases 100 carefully selected architects’ projects, 50 each from Mainland and Hong Kong, during the contemporary urbanization in the past 10 years in China. Exhibition Date: 17/02/2017 – 05/03/2017.
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Fai Au conducted his keynote speech for ChinaGSD Symposium “Culture and Innovation: The Life and Death of a Pragmatic City” in Shenzhen.

Church of Seed is featured in Phaidon’s new book “This Brutal World”. This book is a curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built. It includes works by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn.
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“REVEAL 2: +-x÷” Exhibition opening ceremony was held at ArtisTree. Art installation “ModelsTree” designed by Fai Au and HKU students is showcased in the exhibition.

“Stack Your Dream Home” model-making workshop was held at ArtisTree. The workshop invited kids to design their dream homes with 1:20 white foam models.

The installation “ModelsTree in ArtisTree – Stack Your Dream Home” designed by Fai Au, Philip Li and twenty young designers is being showcased in Reveal 2 Exhibition organized by HKIA. The exhibition will be held from September 10 to October 07 2016 in ArtisTree Hong Kong.

The Entrance Space Design for National Proteome Center has received Silver Award in Interior Category, 2016 IDA International Design Awards.
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Church of Seed has received Silver Award in Architecture Category, 2016 IDA International Design Awards.
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The Entrance Space Design for National Proteome Center has been selected as the finalist of Special Architectural Award – Architecture Interior in 2015 HKIA Annual Awards.
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National Proteome Science Center has been completed in Zhong Guan Cun Life Science Park, Beijing.
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Luofu Mountain Museum designed by Fai Au with ADARC receives Merit Award of 2015 Design For Asia Awards.
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The works of O Studio Architects were exhibited in “Past Present Future” – Tracking Hong Kong Architecture exhibition at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei.

The works of Fai Au’s youth housing studio in HKU were exhibited in “Past Present Future” – Tracking Hong Kong Architecture exhibition at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei.

Our Principal Fai Au receives Young Architect Prize, Chivas 18 Architecture and Design Awards 2014. The Young Architect Prize is given to individual who has shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession at an early stage of their architectural career.

Nature and Architecture is the awards focus in 2014. There are 2 facets of this focus:

• The harmonious connection between architecture and its surrounding natural environment
• Blending natural elements into architecture in terms of design elements, building materials and the overall building process

“Pavilion + ” by O Studio Architects with ARCA has been selected as Commendation Entry of WKCDA Arts Pavilion Design Competition.
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O Studio has been featured in recently published “Architecture Now! Vol 9”. The book is edited by Philip Jodidio, published by Taschen.
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The works of O Studio Architects was exhibited in 2013 Agoras Guangzhou Green Architecture Exhibition, and our principal Fai Au shared his perspective in the Agoras Forum.
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Luofu Mountain Museum, a project designed by ADARC Associates Limited and our principal Fai Au receives 2012 HKIA Merit Award for Projects outside Hong Kong. HKIA Annual Award Exhibition will be held at Pacific Place, Admiralty from 24th May 2013.
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Fai Au has been appointed as Habitat for Humanity Youth Build Ambassador 2013. Together with 10000 volunteers all over the world, he will build homes for families in the poor regions of nine Asian countries. In April he will go to Liangkou Town, Conghua in mainland China to build homes for families in need.
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Fai Au’s writing “A Necessary Resistance within Architect – Engineer Collaboration” has been included in the recently published book “Interdisciplinary Design: New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering”. The book is edited by Hanif Kara and Andreas Georgoulias, published by Harvard Graduate School of Design and Actar.
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Church of Seed has been featured as part of the special issue “Religious Architecture” in the Korean architecture and design magazine “Architecture and Culture”.

Church of Seed receives Certificate of Excellence in the Professional/Architecture category of the 2012 Perspective Awards.
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Church of Seed has been featured in the recently released book “Concrete Architecture and Design”, published by Braun Publishing AG in Switzerland.

Church of Seed has been featured in the Hong Kong architecture and design magazine Hinge.

The design team comprising Foster + Partners and O Studio Architects has been shortlisted to submit design proposal for the Xiqu Center, one of the first landmark buildings for the West Kowloon Cultural District, scheduled for completion at the end of 2015.

Church of Seed has been featured in the Australian architecture and design magazine “Specifier”.
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In 2011 HKIA Annual Award Ceremony, O Studio Architects receives Medal of the Year for Projects outside Hong Kong from Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, GBS, JP, Secretary for Development of HKSAR.

This is the highest honor of all awards given by HKIA to members’ works of architectural excellence outside Hong Kong and setting an outstanding benchmark in architectural profession. O Studio Architects is the youngest practice winning this award category so far.

HKIA Annual Award Exhibition is held at Pacific Place, Admiralty from 11th to 15th May 2012.
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Fai Au has been selected as the winner of 2012 Perspective 40 under 40 Award. Organized by Perspective magazine, this is an annual award recognizing 40 outstanding young design talents around the globe.
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Church of Seed has been featured on the German architecture and design magazine AIT.
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Church of Seed has been featured on the New York architecture and design magazine Metropolis.
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Church of Seed has been featured on the architecture and design magazine Case da Abitare.

Church of Seed has been featured on the design magazine Milk X China.

The research and works of Fai Au are published on “Still Building – Young Architect’s Award Recipients since 1990”, the YAA 20th Anniversary celebration booklet by Asian Cultural Council.
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Church of Seed, completed in 2010, has been selected as the winner of 2011 World Architecture Community Award among 77 short-listed projects around the world.
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Fai Au has been nominated for the Young Architect Prize, 2010 China Architecture Media Award. He is one of the two Hong Kong architects being selected for the nomination. This prize aims at rewarding young architects who practice in the Greater China region and design with care about society and culture.
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Church of Seed is currently under construction. The ground –breaking took place in April 2010. The concrete structure is currently 50 % completed, and the building is expected to complete in November 2010.
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Luofu Mountain Museum, built in 2009, has been featured in “A View on Harvard GSD vol. 2”, an annual publication showing works by Harvard GSD students.
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Fai Au, in collaboration with Harvard GSD teammates Shane Campbell, Ignacio Correa, Macy Leung and Xue Zhou, has won the runner-up of 2010 ULI/Gerard. D. Hine Urban Design Competition.
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Fai Au and his Harvard GSD Teammates presented their finalist project for ULI/Gerald. D. Hines Urban Design Competition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, San Diego. The presentation catalyzed an exciting discussion among the Jury panel and the general public.

Fai Au was interviewed by Hing Magazine Hong Kong. He shared his view on architecture and Philosophy.

Fai Au received his YAA award at the 2007 HKIA Annual Award Ceremony. The winning project, Fanling Classic Car Museum will be exhibited in Pacific Place, Admiralty from 26 April to 10 May 2008.

Fai Au presented his winning project, Fanling Classic Car Museum to the media at the HKIA Annual Award Press Conference. The proposed transformation of the former magistracy court to a classic car museum became the core interest of the media.

After the finalist interviews the Jury decided to award Champion to Fai Au. His winning design project, Fanling Classic Car Museum and his professional portfolio were well recognized by the jury.
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