Green-ness marks winning entries in design contest

Goh with winners Labacanacruz and Caballes

MANILA, PhilippinesA University of San Carlos (USC Cebu) student, who incorporated a garden in her design of the interiors of an imaginary home, is the first Filipino winner for interior design in the Nippon Paint Young Designer Award (NPYDA).

Kristine Caballes, who received P50,000 for her winning entry, also got an additional P5,000 when her design was named Best Green Innovation. Caballes design impressed the judges so much she got a rating of more than 90 percent while the runner-up got less than 80 percent.

Jason B. Labacanacruz of Technological University of the Philippines (TUP Manila) won the gold and P50,000 as the first Filipino winner in the architecture category of NPYDA.

He also received P5,000 for winning the prize for Best Color Choice.

VERTICAL garden (left) in Caballes winning dining room design

Aside from the cash prize and trophy, the winners will each receive a six-month internship at Lor Calma & Partners and a fully paid trip in March to Osaka, Japan, to compete with the winners from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, China, Japan and Hong Kong for the regional title.

They will also participate in the Japan Learning Program, an exclusive workshop for NPYDA winners that will feature internationally renowned architects and interior designers as speakers and resource persons.

USC Interior Design professor Adrian del Monte, Caballes adviser, and TUP Architecture professor Elpidio Balais, Jr., Labacanacruzs adviser, each received P10,000. The winners schools each got P10,000 in cash and P10,000 worth of paint voucher.

NPYDA was launched in 2008 but was brought to the Philippines only last year. The competitions theme was Re: Think. Re: Create. Our Community, Our Home.

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Green-ness marks winning entries in design contest