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5 best spatial designs from the 2023 Golden Pin Design Award

5 best spatial designs from the 2023 Golden Pin Design Award

From Thailand to Japan, the winning works highlight the importance of sustainability, biophilia and regenerative design.

This bamboo-built ‘sea-to-table’ pavilion cultivates and serves its own oysters

This bamboo-built ‘sea-to-table’ pavilion cultivates and serves its own oysters

Reinvigorating its local Angsila economy, this pavilion in Thailand becomes a floating restaurant where fishermen and visitors can select and eat their own oysters. No wonder it won The Influencer award at INDE.Awards!

Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion by CHAT Architects wins The Influencer at 2023 INDE.Awards

Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion by CHAT Architects wins The Influencer at 2023 INDE.Awards

This year’s winner of The Influencer is both at home in its watery landscape and sets the agenda for revitalisation of people and place.

Your last days to enter INDE.Awards! Plus 10 past winners to inspire you

Your last days to enter INDE.Awards! Plus 10 past winners to inspire you

INDE.Awards entries close this Thursday 31 March. We’ve rounded up 10 of our all-time favourite INDE.Awards winning projects.

From a love motel to a neighbourhood ‘street’ hotel

From a love motel to a neighbourhood ‘street’ hotel

CHAT architects transform a Bangkok love motel into a neighbourhood ‘street’ hotel; and in the process, promote urban activities derived from forgotten traditions and street typologies.

Building the future

Building the future

A great building stands the test of time however an iconic building can indelibly imprint itself on a populace’s psyche to become an institution. But what is an iconic building? The Building category in this year’s INDE.Awards showcases fine examples of timeless architecture that could just be the next icons of the future.

Samsen STREET Hotel turns Bangkok’s vices upside down

Samsen STREET Hotel turns Bangkok’s vices upside down

CHAT architects transform a Bangkok love motel into a neighbourhood ‘street’ hotel, and in the process, promote urban activities derived from forgotten traditions and street typologies.

Chat Architects On Architecture With A Lower-Case ‘a’

Chat Architects On Architecture With A Lower-Case ‘a’

Chat Architects digs into the underbelly of Bangkok’s chaotic urban scape for inspiration to create truly local spatial encounters.