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MONU AWARDED AS WINNER IN THE CATEGORY GRAPHIC AND EDITORIAL DESIGN 2025

MONU Magazine is the winner in the Graphic Design/Editorial category at the DNA Paris Design Awards 2025. The DNA Paris Design Awards is a global design prize based in Paris, open to professionals across architecture, interior, landscape, product, and graphic design. MONU was judged outstanding for its visual, editorial, and graphic design among a broad field of international creative work. The awards ceremony took place on October 24, 2025, at the Espace Niemeyer in Paris.

LISE MEITNER SQUARE WINS LOOP DESIGN AWARD 2025

Lise Meitner Square, designed by BOARD in collaboration with STAR – strategies + architecture, has been named Winner of the LOOP Design Awards 2025 in the “Landscape and Public Space” category. The jury recognised the project for transforming a highly constrained geothermal site into a generous 2,600 m² public space — an inventive integration of infrastructure and civic life.

LOOP highlighted the square’s design ingenuity: the orange asphalt ring marking the geothermal perimeter, bold ground graphics, and a resilient material palette tailored to strict maintenance requirements. Selected from hundreds of international entries, the 2025 LOOP awards received submissions from 49 countries, underscoring the global competitiveness of this recognition. The award celebrates Lise Meitner Square’s ability to turn technical constraint into social value — a public space that is both robust and unexpectedly poetic.

In addition to the LOOP Design Award, the project has received multiple international distinctions: it’s also a Platinum Winner at the ADC Awards 2025 in “Public & Urban Spaces – Landscape,” and won two Platinum Awards in the Houzee Awards 2025 for “Urban Landscape Design” and “Courtyard & Patio Design”. On top of that, it was Runner-Up in the RTF Global Architecture & Design Awards 2025, Shortlisted for the Architecture Hunter Awards 2025 (Public & Urban Design), and Longlisted in the Archello Awards 2025 for “Public Space of the Year”.

Images:

1. The quote by Françoise Héritier, a French anthropologist and feminist, from her book Le Sel de la Vie runs parallel to the orange oval on the Lise Meitner Square. Image ©STAR – strategies + architecture
2. The design of the square highlights the geothermal energy system at its centre. The choice of materials responds to the strict maintenance constraints associated with the geothermal infrastructure, while the colour palette aligns with the overall identity of the surrounding START-Ivry project by STAR – strategies + architecture. Image ©STAR-BOARD
3. Though shaped by constraints, Lise Meitner Square is ultimately a gift to the neighbourhood, a fully open, inclusive public space. Image ©STAR-BOARD
4. The security zone around each geothermal wellhead, materialised by an orange asphalt oval, shapes the arrangement of buildings in the square. Image ©STAR – strategies + architecture
5. Three circular areas are designated as flexible-use zones, for sports, fitness, café terraces, and more, each materialised with a different surface treatment. Image ©STAR-BOARD

WINNER OF THE AZ AWARD 2025

STAR – strategies + architecture’s project “START–Ivry” won both the Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award at the AZ Awards 2025 in the category of “Urban Design – Built Developments”. BOARD designed the public space, the so-called “Lise Meitner Square”, of this award-winning project in Paris.

The AZ Awards is Azure’s international architecture and design competition that recognizes the world’s best projects, products and ideas providing an international platform for exceptional talents to receive well-deserved exposure and acknowledgement.

Azure is a Toronto-based Canadian media brand and design magazine covering architecture and design. The award winners will be published in the July/August issue of the magazine. The prize ceremony of the AZ Awards 2025 took place on June 19, 2025 at the Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto, Canada.

Images:

1. The “Lise Meitner Square”
2. At the prize ceremony on June 19, 2025
3. After the prize ceremony at the Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto

NOT MOVING BUT RENOVATING AWARD

The Cabanon has been longlisted for the “ARC25 Niet Verhuizen maar Verbouwen Award” (Not Moving But Renovating Award) by the de Architect, one of the the leading architecture platforms in the Netherlands. The award celebrates creative, forward-thinking renovations. The finalists will be announced on the May 19.

Images:

1. ©Ossip Architectuur Fotografie
2. The “ARC25 Niet Verhuizen maar Verbouwen Award” 2025