Awards / Recognition 

Awards / Recognition

2020-2021 A' Design Iron Design Award for Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category - Reckitt Benckiser Office Hong Kong

2020 German Design Award, Winner for Azalvo, Causeway Bay in the category Excellent Architecture - Interior Architecture

2020 German Design Award Winner for Campfire 'Media' Co-Work, Wong Chuk Hang in the category Excellent Architecture - Interior Architecture

2020 German Design Award Winner for Wenchang Luxury Beach Resort Hotel, China in the category Excellent Architecture - Conceptual Architecture

2019 HKB Management Excellence Awards - Innovator of the Year

2019 XLMS Best Architectural Planning & Build Company - Build Magazine U.K.

2019 REA Interior Design Award [Commercial] for Azalvo, Causeway Bay Hong Kong

2019 Most Reputed Architecture & Interior Design Solutions Of The Year, Hong Kong's Most Outstanding Business Awards 2019

2018 - 2019 Runner up for A’Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category - Wenchang Luxury Beach Resort Hotel. 15 April 2019, Milan Italy

2018 Best Sustainable Building – Hotels & Resorts [Architecture Category] ‘Wenchang Luxury Beach Resort’ - Asia Pacific Design Centre & International Design Award

2018 Best New Office Space [Interior Design Category] ‘Campfire Media Co-Working, Wong Chuk Hang’ - Asia Pacific Design Centre & International Design Award

2018 REA Interior Design Award [Commercial] for Campfire Media, Wong Chuk Hang

2018 REA Interior Design Award [Residential] for the Larvotto Apartment, Ap Lei Chau

2018 Honourable Mention 11th International Design Awards (IDA), Los Angeles U.S.A.for Campfire Media, Wong Chuk Hang

2018 Most Valuable Companies Award, Hong Kong.

2017 IDCS Interior Design Excellence Award - Best Sustainable Design, Asia Pacific. Bronze: Cundall Hong Kong Office

2017 '40 under 40' design Award [Architecture Category]

Publications / Talks / Exhibitions

LA Weekly article "12 Hong Kong Designers not to miss"

XLMS featured in DX Co-creating Hong Kong exhibition at DesignInpsire.

‘Hong Kong Designers in California for a nine-day Exchange Tour enriched with inspirations in design and technology’ Media Outreach

XLMS featured in DX Co-creating Hong Kong exhibition at DesignInpsire. Recent article published in Ming Pao Weekly(明報周刊),

2020 Certificate Membership of Hong Kong Designers Association

‘Hong Kong Designers in California for a nine-day Exchange Tour enriched with inspirations in design and technology’ SFWeekly 2019

‘Hong Kong Design Talents Explore Co-Creation in Exchange Tour in California’ 2019’ South China Morning Post - Tech

‘Hong Kong Designers in California for a nine-day Exchange Tour enriched with inspirations in design and technology’ Sina 2019

“Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” (TATHK) campaign held at JW Marriot Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles.

“Co-Creating Hong Kong” exhibition at DesignInspire on December 5 – 7, 2019. The exhibition is at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

2019 Design Inspire: Design Without Boundaries: The Creative Stories in Hong Kong', The Hong Kong Trade Development Council 

Ian Hau Speaker @ Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair (SZIDF) Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, Hall 2 from November 3 - 5, 2019.

Build Review 2019 Architecture Awards Winner’s Booklet

‘Pecha-Kucha’, Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) International Chapter, Hong Kong 9 May 2019

Press Logic - Business Interview with XLMS founder Ian Hau, 29 Jan 2019

2018 Certificate of Graduation, Design Incubation Programme - Hong Kong Design Centre

2018 Design Inspire: Design Without Boundaries: The Creative Stories in Hong Kong', The Hong Kong Trade Development Council 

‘Ask the Designer: Ian Hau on co-working and office design principles for the home’. Home Journal Published By: Johna Baylon,  December 6, 2018

‘Urban Serenity’, Published Jul 4, 2018 squarefoot.com.hk

‘Cundall Office by XLMS’ Dulux China -2018 Publication

‘A Tour of Campfire Coworking – Media’Published Officelovin’ 2018

‘Client Profiles XLMS Limited’ - Invest HK Published January 2018

‘Using Knowledge-Based Community Design to Cope with the New Reality | XLMS’ - 2017 HKMVC publication

2017 Corporate Membership of Hong Kong Institute of Interior Design

2017 ‘7+1’ Entrepreneurship for Design & Creative Business Certification

‘Placemaking’, Perspective Global - Published September 2017

2017 Membership to the Hong Kong Design Center

2017 Design Inspire: Design Without Boundaries: The Creative Stories in Hong Kong', The Hong Kong Trade Development Council 

‘How Hong Kong design incubator has helped start-ups turn ideas into viable businesses’ - Published South China Morning Post 9 November, 2017

‘Feng shui dictates the renovation of this prime Ap Lei Chau apartment’ – Home Journal Published 29 Nov 2017

‘Welcome Home’ - Published Today's Living - Dec 2017

‘XLMS’ - Published City Weekly 2017