American Standard, a LIXIL power brand, recently held a grand awards ceremony and exhibition to honor the American Standard Design Award (ASDA) 2023 winners and finalists. The event, which showcased purposeful design solutions for multi-generational living across Asia Pacific, took place at The Arts House Singapore on July 12, 2023.

The ASDA was created as a platform to nurture and recognize exceptional tertiary student designer talent in the industry. LIXIL, through the American Standard brand, is delighted to honor the winners and showcase their exceptional ideas. For over 140 years, the American Standard brand has continuously set new benchmarks in delivering bathroom solutions that combine purposeful designs and pioneering technologies.

The ASDA was created as a platform to nurture and recognize exceptional tertiary student designer talent in the industry. LIXIL, through the American Standard brand, is delighted to honor the winners and showcase their exceptional ideas. For over 140 years, the American Standard brand has continuously set new benchmarks in delivering bathroom solutions that combine purposeful designs and pioneering technologies.

The ASDA welcomed participation from student designers from tertiary institutions from ten countries across the Asia Pacific. This competition’s second edition received a two-fold increase in qualified entries from the previous year, with up to nearly 1,500 entries.

The entries were judged at two levels – National Level and APAC Level. At the national level, a judging panel made up of architecture and design luminaries from each country evaluated entries received from local participants. The regional competition was conducted across Asia-Pacific and the First Prize Winners from each country were evaluated by the Asia-Pacific judging panel to determine the APAC Grand Prize Winner.

The national winners were Aevan Georgeline de Jesus from the Philippines, Sin Ponleu from IndoChina (Cambodia/Laos/Myanmar), Azra Hrnjic from Australia, Riya Awati from India, Grace Wong Jing Yee from Malaysia, Rossalinda from Singapore, Marisa Chonpracha from Thailand, and Duong Pham Ngoc Hoai from Vietnam.

After an exciting regional judging round, IndoChina’s Sin Ponleu emerged as the APAC Grand Prize Winner for his design titled “One Space, One Love.”

Ponleu expressed his happiness in winning the APAC grand prize, “I am very grateful for this achievement; it has been such an incredible experience for me to move forward to higher levels. With this achievement, I will remember to keep pushing myself to improve and continuously learn new things, all in the pursuit of enhancing the quality of life through architecture.”