Categories

Interiors

Education and Learning

We are looking at learning in its broadest sense. The category covers formal educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities. But it also includes research centres, libraries and training facilities. It combines both public and private sector facilities.
Submissions should include details of the interiors, highlighting any particular design features, materials and lighting.

Experiential Design

This category will reward the best use of lighting, audio visual and visual effects for installations, cultural venues, theatre productions, exhibitions and retail, trade show stands, display spaces, pavilions etc.
Submissions should give details of the project and its context, highlighting and explaining in simple terms the technologies used and the impact they had.

Lighting Projects

This category is looking for projects that have utilised light in a purposeful and meaningful way to transform the space. From decorative lighting to integrated lighting systems, the judges will be looking for excellent design, innovation and evidence of energy-efficiency.

Cultural Venues

We are looking for the best experiences for visitors to concert halls, museums, galleries and the like and the permanent and temporary exhibitions they offer. Submissions should include an outline of the interiors, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting and special effects.

Healthcare and Wellbeing

In a Covid-19 aware world, we are seeing continued growth in the healthcare and wellbeing sectors. As hygiene remains more critical than ever before, designers must look beyond pure aesthetics and instead focus on how to effectively create clinically safe spaces that are welcoming as well as being better places in which to work.

Submissions should include details of the interiors, highlighting any particular design features, materials and lighting.

Hospital and Clinics

Residential Care Homes

Healthcare Design: Response to Covid-19

This category is open to those projects which have demonstrated excellence how they have responded and adapted design for the Covid-19 crisis . Judges will be looking for initiatives that have created covid-secure healthcare spaces where patient well-being, social distance caring and frontline worker safety are paramount. Pop-ups and temporary structures will be eligible as well as more permanent design features.

Hospitality

We have brought together categories from previous years under the hospitality umbrella. There may be crossovers within hospitality projects, but submissions may be made into three subcategories. New projects as well as projects that are responding directly to covid will be considered.

Submissions should give details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting or special effects.

Bars and Clubs

Restaurants and Cafes

Hotels and other overnight accommodation

This includes hotels (of any size), bed and breakfasts, hostels, aparthotels, casino hotels, gastro pub accommodation, motels, holiday rental homes, guest houses etc.

Leisure and Entertainment

This umbrella category covers permanent and temporary environments and one-off events.
Submissions should give details of the project and its context, highlighting and explaining in simple terms the technologies used and the impact they had.

Cinemas, theatres and music venues

Sports stadiums and sports centres

Spas, health clubs and gyms

Residential Design

We are looking here for residential interiors that respond to their particular context and surroundings. They need to be appropriate for the person or people living there, but have an
enduring quality that transcends fashion. Submissions may be made into two subcategories.

Submissions should give details of the project, highlighting
any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.

Residential developments

This category is for multi-unit sites including apartment blocks, condominiums, show homes, student accommodation, developments with multiple homes.

One-off homes, large and small

This category is for bespoke and singular homes for an individual or family including new-builds, conversions, renovations and extensions.

Retail Design

Given the dominant and increased appeal of online shopping in some markets, retailers and brands are increasingly using design to enhance customers’ experience in-store. Here we are looking at retail in its broadest sense, including independent shops, chain stores, department stores, shopping centres, financial services hubs, travel agencies, salons, food halls, pop-ups and so on. Submissions may be made into three subcategories.

Submissions should give details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials or lighting aspects.

Retail chain stores, department stores, supermarkets and show rooms

Independent shops or small chains

Visual merchandising, concessions and pop-ups

Transport

Transport systems and hubs are improving worldwide as countries and cities upgrade their infrastructure. From airlines to ferry companies, competition for customers among individual operators is placing interior design more central to their businesses.

Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting aspects and signage/information systems.

Transport Hubs

Including airports, stations and terminal concourses, ticket offices etc.

Transport Interiors

Including trains, yachts, boats, planes, buses, spacecrafts, cars and commercial vehicles.

Workspace Interiors

The Covid-19 pandemic has immensely changed the way in which we work. Covid secure work spaces as well as home-working and co-working offices have grown apace. Submissions may be made into three subcategories. New projects as well as projects that are responding directly to covid will be considered.

Submissions should include details of the project, highlighting any particular design features, materials, lighting aspects and signage/information systems.

Corporate offices (less than 10,000 sqm)

Corporate offices (more than 10,000 sqm)

Studios, co-working spaces and home office

Judges' Awards

Outstanding Project of the Year (Winner chosen at judges’ discretion – not open for entry)

The gold award winning projects from all other categories will be eligible to be considered for the Outstanding Project award.

Emerging Interiors Practice of the Year

This award allows up-and-coming interior design firms to showcase their work on a global stage. The category is open to all firms under five years old or founded after 1 January 2016. It will be awarded to the practice that demonstrates its devotion to raising the bar for interior design, in terms of creative quality, materials innovation and social appropriateness.

The entry should feature at least 3 completed projects that the firm is particularly proud of since 1 January 2018. The judges will be looking for evidence of all-round excellence, regardless of the size of the practice and particular areas of expertise.

Please note that in order to be eligible for this award, your entry must feature at least 3 completed projects.

Interiors Practice of the Year

This award is open to any interior design practice or department that has been established for five or more years or founder before 1 January 2016. It will be awarded to the practice that demonstrates
its devotion to raising the bar for interior design, in terms of creative quality, materials innovation and social appropriateness.

Entrants are invited to submit a cross-section of their work completed since 1 January 2018. The judges will be looking for evidence of all-round excellence, regardless of the size of the practice and particular areas of expertise

Please note that in order to be eligible for this category, you must also enter at least two other categories.