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4.56 Jvpd Luxury Residential Apartments by Prashant Chauhan Wins the A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Prashant Chauhan acknowledged for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that 4.56 Jvpd Luxury Residential Apartments by Prashant Chauhan, designed for Zero9, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About 4.56 Jvpd Luxury Residential Apartments
4.56 JVPD is a residential building located in Juhu, Mumbai. The building holds luxury apartments, with one apartment on each floor and two duplex apartments. Post tensioned slabs remove the need for beams, so each internal floor plate is column free and the interiors can be planned in many ways. Large open windows bring daylight and cross ventilation into every apartment. A private lift opens directly into each home. The building reaches a height of 52.9 metres, which respects the limit set by the nearby airport funnel zone.
Award Record
Prashant Chauhan is a winner of 14 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2015 - 2016 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/167615
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167615
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167615
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/153362
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.zero9.in/works/456_jvpd-158
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- 4.56 Jvpd Luxury Residential Apartments
- Function
- Luxury Residential Apartments
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Cadet Blue, Dark Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zero9
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Prashant Chauhan
- Country
- India
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167615
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025.; Photographer Umang Shah, 4.56JVPD for ZERO9, 2025
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Building consists of Luxury Apartments, one apartment on each floor and two duplex apartments. The internal floor plate is column free and allows complete flexibility to design the interiors.
- Inspiration
- Mumbai Apartments are usually small and tiny, Hence we wanted to give the luxury vibe to this project with large columnfree spaces and a private lift coming into your home. The large open windows bring lot of day light.
- Research
- The beam depths in each apartment reduced the usable space for interiors and hence we used Post Tensioned Slabs to avoid beams and provide maximum space to the end user. The spaces were also designed coloumn free to ensure maximum flexibility for the end user to plan the home as per their desire.
- Challenge
- The Restriction of height was major challenge in this project as the plot location was under airport funnel zone. we managed to get 5 podiums and 10 floors with the help of Post Tension Slabs.
- Realization and Technology
- The apartments are made with Post tensioned slabs
- Operation and Interaction
- The project was carried out in a span of 4 year by excaving the basement floors and then further building the main structure.
- Project Duration and Location
- the project is located in Juhu, Mumbai. The project started in 2020 and finished in December 2024.
- Specifications
- The building in 52.9M in Height with each apartment 27.5M in length X 10.5M in breadth.
- Keywords
- Luxury Residential Building, Apartments, Luxury Apartments, Architecture, Urban Architecture, Mumbai, Juhu, Mumbai Architecture, Juhu Building Design, Modern Building Design in Juhu
