House of the Breathing Void Residential Home by Sylvia Georgiadou and Katerina Vagianou Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design

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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ House of the Breathing Void Residential Home by Sylvia Georgiadou and Katerina Vagianou, designed for ATHES architects, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

About House of the Breathing Void Residential Home

House of the Breathing Void is a residential house organized around a central atrium. The atrium acts as an open void where air and light circulate freely, forming the environmental core of the home. The atrium also creates a continuous dialogue between interior and exterior spaces. The house follows bioclimatic principles, with a clear southern orientation that captures sunlight, supports passive heating and encourages natural ventilation. The same orientation gives the building a diagonal form, a response that is both spatial and climatic.

About Sylvia Georgiadou and Katerina Vagianou

ATHES Architects are dedicated to delivering elegant, efficient, and thoughtfully applied design solutions. For the firm, the conceptual and developmental stages of a project are just as significant as the final outcome. By leveraging advanced digital design techniques and embedding sustainability principles at every stage, each project is approached as a distinct and meaningful design challenge. Blurring the boundaries between architecture and sustainability, ATHES Architects have established a holistic design methodology. This approach integrates environmental strategies across projects of varying scales, ensuring that sustainability is not an addition, but a core design driver.

Award Record

This recognition makes Sylvia Georgiadou and Katerina Vagianou a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award

The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

• Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/180265
• A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/180265
• Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!180265
• Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/379075

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