LATE POST: The 5th BluPrint Annual Visionary Design Awards

AViD5 Professional Division Grand Prize winners Arkisens with BluPrint managing editor Miguel Llona, publisher Maite Tamparong Uy, and OMG chairman Jerry Tiu

Celebrate design in one night of vision and innovation

MANILA, Philippines - BluPrint magazine held their 5th Annual Visionary Design Competition (AViD5) awards last March 13 at World Trade Center Manila during the 19th Philippine World Building and Construction Expo (WorldBEX).

AViD was launched "to take Philippine museums from traditional to innovative," according to a press release from One Mega Group (OMG). Entrants were asked to design a concept for a contemporary art museum located at the heart of Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. 

Professionals (architects), students, and graduates of the arts participated in the competition. 

The winners

Professional Division: “Liwasang MU.NA (MUseo ng NApapanahong sining)”

Designed by Voltaire Manalo, Ted William Ang, and John Ross Lucilo of Arkisens

AViD Professional - Winning entry by Arkisens

Liwasang MU.NA is a proposal for an art museum that employs the idea of a public park and a “new museum.” It aims to bring contemporary art closer to everyone, contradicting the common perception that art is appreciated only by the highest classes in society. It also presents a general sense of openness and a continuous relationship between indoors and the outdoors is presented by the interlocking compositions of space and structures. 

Students and Graduates Division: Michael Dave Bognadon of St Louis University

AViD Students & Graduates winner St Louis University Winner

Bognadon’s entry was inspired by standard cube shipping containers which, in his words, are “efficiently constructed while remaining true to its purpose.” 

The judges

The panel of judges was headed by award-winning Architect Ed Calma. Also in the panel were School of Fashion and the Arts Dean, Architect Tobias Guggenheimer, and Architect Michael Pena.

Here are other photos from the event:

AViD5 awarding host Issa Litton

AViD5 Professional Division runner up Emerging Architects Studio

AViD5 Professional Division winners Arkisens

AViD5 Grand Prize Winner (Students Category) Michael Bognadon

AViD5 Students & Graduates Division runner-up Bryan Darryl Liangco and Mark Andrew Syner-Up

AViD Professional runner-up Emerging Architects 

AViD Students & Grads runner-up UST

BluPrint editorial team: graphic artist Patrick Kasingsing, managing editor Miguel Llona, editorial coordinator Andrea Arines, and assistant editor Sibyl Layag 

Ramon Orlina, OMG Home & Design publisher Maite Tamparong Uy, and Royal Pineda

School of Fashion and the Arts Chair for Interior Design Denise Ayado, Dean Arch Tobias Guggenheimer, and Maite Tamparong-Uy

Sculptor Ramon Orlina, OMG Home & Design publisher Maite Tamparong-Uy, and OMG chairman Jerry Tiu

Worldbex creative head Erick Dizon, Worldbex marketing director JR Ang, OMG AdProm manager Lotte Villarosa, Home & Design publisher Maite Tamparong Uy, and OMG EVP Archie Carrasco

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