News

Jan 2026     The Official Award for the ‘Bloom Trail Amusement Park’ was published in below link.

ISDA | HKASD

Dec 2025     The Official Award Ceremony for the ‘Bloom Trail Amusement Park’ Global Grand Prize will be held at The Qube, a premier venue at PMQ, Hong Kong, on December 11th.

International Sustainable Design Awards 2025 Ceremony

Sep 2025     Appointed as an adjunct professor in the Department of Architecture at both the University of Seoul and Hongik University

Aug 2025     ‘Bloom Trail Amusement Park’ / KMJ+A get the news from HKASD International Sustainable Design Awards 2025 (ISDA 2025) / Nominated for the Global Grand Prize

https://kmj-a.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GLOBAL-AWARD.jpg

Mar 2025     ‘Cloudhaven’ / Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 / Platinum Prize

Cloudhaven | FADA

Interview with KIM, MINJAE: The Vision Behind Cloudhaven

Future Art and Design Award UK announces 2025 Spring Season Winners

Dec 2024 – Jan 2025      ‘Ocean of Dreamers’ project is exhibited in ‘The Art of Sketching’ exhibition.

The Art of Sketching – Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC)

RIBA Hong Kong Chapter Sketch Exhibition: Architecture Narratives 2024

Art of Sketching exhibition, Hong Kong | RIBAJ

Aug 2024      ‘Living Buds’ project to be published in media in below link.

super compact living bud houses make up KMJ+A’s eco-village concept in sicily (designboom.com)

Mar 2024     ‘The Landscape of Learning’ / Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2024 / Gold Prize

Gold Winner | ‘The Landscape of Learning’, Campus for Children & Rural Community | KMJ+A (architecturepressrelease.com)

Gallery of South Korea’s Longest Art Gallery Bridge and a Brutalist Congress Center in Croatia: 8 Competition-Winning Projects Submitted by the ArchDaily Community – 51

June 2023     ‘Silhouette from Nature’ project is selected as one of top 20 finalists among 1000 submissions and is exhibiting in the Valley of Love, Da Lat, Vietnam.

The Global Monument Design Competition Finalists Announced (vietnamdesign.org.vn)

June 2023  ‘the Solar Root’ project has been published in archdaily magazine as one of 8 public projects.

A Central Square in Greece and a Giant Clock in Germany: 8 Unbuilt Public Spaces Submitted by the ArchDaily Community | ArchDaily

April 2023     ‘BLOSSOM LIGHT’ project has got finalist award / Ro-Plastic Prize Competition 2023

Exhibition | Ro District | Palazzo Bandello – Via Matteo Bandello 22, Milan from 17 to 23 April, 2023.

Oct 2023    ‘the Solar Root’ has got finalist award and the project will be exhibited in Mannheim, Germany during BUGA23.

LAGI 2022 Mannheim

BUGA 23 – Startseite – Mannheim BUGA 23

THE SOLAR ROOT | LAGI-2022 (landartgenerator.org)

May 2022      ‘Seoul Loop’ project to be published in several media in below links.

/Designboom magazine/

‘seoul loop’ by kim min jae architects (designboom.com)

/Infobuildenergia.it magazine/

Seoul Loop, struttura in legno che immette ossigeno in città (infobuildenergia.it)

/IDEAS FOR GOOD magazine/

“Artificial photosynthesis” architecture appearing in the skies of Korea to reduce CO2 emissions in towns | World Social Good Ideas Magazine | IDEAS FOR GOOD

/aasarchitecture magazine/

Seoul Loop by Kim Min Jae Architects – aasarchitecture

/Global Design News/

Kim Min Jae Architects create a sustainable mega-structure to provide an oxygen source, a ‘green lung’, in the polluted city of Seoul – Global Design News

/Novinky.cz magazine/

Dřevěná smyčka a umělá fotosyntéza mají pročistit ovzduší Soulu – Novinky.cz

/FUTUREPROSSIMO magazine/

Seoul Loop, “foresta sopraelevata” ad anello per dare ossigeno alla città (futuroprossimo.it)

Mar 2022      ‘Ocean of Dreamers’ / MUSE Design Awards / Gold Prize & Platinum Prize

Platinum Prize Link

MUSE Design Awards | Conceptual Ocean of Dreamers (museaward.com)

Gold Prize Link

MUSE Design Awards | Cultural Ocean of Dreamers (museaward.com)

Oct 2017         Digital ‘Soul of Apple’ / Hirosaki Design Week / Shortlist Nominated

http://www.city.hirosaki.aomori.jp/hdw/apple_award2017_result.html

Aug 2017        ‘Festival of Nature’ /  Paphos Beach Shelter Int’l Design Competition / First Prize

kim min jae architects proposes shape-shifting flower parasols (designboom.com)

https://photo.cover-images.com/search/set-361841-aefdccad1780c8c4821910acf3baa31b635de3f7#

https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/festival-of-nature

http://www.branders.ch/journal

Dec 2016        ‘Gestures’ /  LG Display OLED / Shortlist Nominated

GESTURES | designboom.com

Nov 2016        ‘The Torso‘ /  VMODERN / Honorable Mention

2016 VMODERN Furniture Design winners announced!

Nov 2016        ‘The Green Intervention‘ / City above City international competition / Second Prize

Young Architects Worldwide Create Solutions for Urbanization in the “City Above the City” Competition | Informed Infrastructure

Young architects worldwide create solutions for urbanisation in the “City Above the City” competition

Young architects worldwide create solutions for urbanization in the “City Above the City” competition | PRISM

Aug 2016        ‘Weight of Holocaust’ / Atlantic City Boardwalk / Book_Memorializing the Holocaust / Author_Jonathan Fox

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1143220104