AWARD-WINNING AND FUN LIVING

The Buji Residences, a long-term project by Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM), has been honored with the Architecture + Color category award at the 2025 Architizer A+ Awards. The prestigious award recognizes the design’s use of colour tuned to the tropical light conditions of Buji’s mountaintop site.  Renowned for its competitiveness across architecture, landscape and interior design fields, this A+ Award is also a testament to the project’s seamless integration of landscape and architectural form.

Conceived for a forested mountaintop setting, Buji Residences reimagines typical luxury housing with a vivid aesthetic language that resonates with Shenzhen’s youthful energy and the lush surrounding environment. Recognised for its use of color, Buji Residences pairs pink and purple hues with the deep emerald green of the planting design.

Bold yet calming with its analogous colour pairings, the Buji Residences stands in opposition to the generic neutral color schemes that have become the status quo of residential design, demonstrating that bold but visually pleasing colors and patterns can enrich residential communities.

The A+ Award follows a string of global recognition for Buji’s landscape design. In November 2024, the project was named Landscape of the Year at Canada’s Grands Prix du Design, praised by the jury for “setting a new bar for quality of living in high‑density settings”. Previously, the project won the Guangzhou Design Week’s Sustainable Design Gold Award for its community-first driven approach to sustainability.

THE BUJI RESIDENCES
LOCATION Shenzhen, China
ARCHITECTS Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)
PHOTOGRAPHY Wu Qingshan and Amey Kandalgaonkar