The deadline for the 2007 Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition was July 25, 2007. The screening for this competition was performed in two stages. Among the total of 752 entries, 10 entries passed the initial screening On August 8, 2007. The judges elected the first place and other prizes in the publicly implemented second screening on September 29, 2007. Toyo Ito Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects Masaru Okamoto Kume Sekkei co., Ltd. Riken Yamamoto Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop Kiyoshi Sakurai Nikken Sekkei Co., Ltd. Taro Ashihara Taro Ashihara Architects Kengo Kuma Kengo Kuma & Associates Kunito Takahashi Executive Managing Officer, Central Glass Co., Ltd. Shozo Baba Architectural Communication Consultant Ltd.   Central Glass Co., Ltd.   Shinkenchiku-sha   FIRST PLACE (¥2,000,000) Hironori Sorihashi (Graduate school, Kyoto College of Industry, Japan), Naoki Ono (Kyoto College of Industry, Japan) SECOND PLACE (¥300,000 each) Julian Chen (Architect, Denmark) Souya Takizawa, Kazuhisa Matsuda (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan) Makiko Takasaki, Akiko Nishioeda, Takahiro Takagi, Takeshi Yamanaka (Meiji University, Japan) HONORABALE MENTIONS (¥100,000 each) Sung Goo Yang (Free, Korea) Hélio Boto, Sandra Esteves (Architectural Office, Portuguese), Margarida Nogueira (Student, Portuguese) Masami Habuti, Akiko Yamada, Yuka Nanba (Architectural Office, japan) Masahiro Kinoshita, Yousai Isozaki (Architectural Office, Japan) Hiroshi Nishiyama, Kako Okudaira (Graduate School, Kobe Design University, Japan) Satoshi Numata (Architectural Office, Japan)