Tokujin Yoshioka (work seen below) may know how to make a consumer/memeber of the general public stop in their tracks outside a store window, but these interior designers certainly know how to take your breath away once you step inside.
'Giving recognition to the best interior design worldwide, The Great Indoors Awards is an international, biennial, interior design award. The total amount of prize money is €30,000.'1
"The Great Indoors Award is intended to provide the interior designer with a platform of some stature, as well as to prompt debate and disburse information on interior design. The aim is to reward work of excellence and, at the same time, to show this work to the world. We hope to motivate and convince potential clients from both the private and the public sectors. Above all else, we want The Great Indoors to give the profession of interior design the status and position it deserves. An unambiguous name would be nice, too. "1
-Guus Beumer, Director of Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht and Director of NAiM/ Bureau Europa
& Robert Thiemann, Editor in chief of Frame magazine
These are just some of the nominees!
Firm: 3XN (DK) Project: Saxo Bank, Copenhagen 2008 Client: Saxo Bank
Firm: i29 Interior Architects and Snelder Architects (NL)
Project: Poetry in Motion, Amstelveen 2009 Client: Panta Rei College
*some of the winners*
Firm: Office for Metropolitan Architecture - OMA (NL)
Project: Prada Transformer, Seoul 2009 Client: Prada
(winner of the Show and Tell -Reatil catagory)
Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle
(winner of the Relax and Consume - Leisure category)
Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle
Although I'd prefer to seeing these spaces in the 3D, the photos have left me a bit speechless.
Creators, participants and winners of The Great Indoors Awards, your outta sight.
1 Beumer, Guus, and Robert Thiemann. The Great Indoors 2009. Web. Dec. 2009. http://www.the-great-indoors.com/.
1 comments:
hehe I participated in the Great Indoors Workshop called the Great Expectations and I got to go to its award ceremony dinner :) -Joon
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