The winners of the FX International Interior Design Awards were announced at a terrific showbiz-style party on the 29th November at Grosvenor House in London, with Jimmy Carr as the evening’s MC.
The Awards, which celebrate world-class design excellence, were open to architects, designers, clients and suppliers for interior design projects or products that were completed or launched between 20th July 2015 and 20th July 2017. Categories included Public Space Scheme, Floor Covering, Hotel, Surfaces and Museum or Exhibition Space – in some of the most hotly contested categories, there were as many as 10 judges on a category!
The judging panel was an independent panel of experts from many different sectors of the design world, including engineers, clients and architects. Each judge was invited for their integrity, opinions and experience, and they ranked their top six entries in each category -before even knowing who their co-judges were! Placings were scored and added together to create the shortlist, and finally the ultimate winner.
Four other prestigious awards were voted for by FX readers worldwide; Ken Shuttleworth was the recipient of the Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Design Award, which closed the Awards ceremony and made room for the celebrations to really start!
The full list of category winners is as follows:
Bar or Restaurant
Fucina Restaurant by Andy Martin Architecture
Public Space Scheme
Basecamp by Gensler
Lighting Product
USM Haller E by USM
Public Sector
New Cancer Centre at Guys Hospital by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Stantec Architecture
Floor Covering
Marmoleum Cocoa by Forbo Flooring Systems
Mixed-Use Development
LAI Yard by Minggu Design
Retail Space
Warehouse, Argyll Street by Checkland Kindleysides with Alasdhair Willis
Public, Leisure or Office Furniture
Edge by PearsonLloyd for modus
Hotel
At Six Hotel by Universal Design Studio
Surfaces
Freestile by Chroma Global Flooring Solutions
Workspace Environment Small (under 40,000 sq ft)
Fender HQ by Rapt Studio
Workspace Environment Large (over 40,000 sq ft)
Thailand Creative and Design Center by Department of Architecture
Lighting Design
Smythe Library, Tonbridge School by BDP
Museum or Exhibition Space
TIRPITZ by Tinker Imagineers
Leisure or Entertainment Venue
Storyhouse, Chester by Bennetts Associates
2017 Product of the Year
Infra-Structure by Vincent Van Duysen, by Flos Architectural
UK Project of the Year
Sky Central by PLP Architecture, AL_A, HASSELL, Arup and Mace
Global Project
Uber Advanced Technologies Group by Assembly Design Studio
Breakthrough Talent of the Year
Jonathan Mizzi
Product Designer of the Year
Anna Hart
Interior Design Practice of the Year
Resonate Interiors
Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Design
Ken Shuttleworth
For more information on the various category winners and what the judges had to say about each design, please visit: www.designcurial.com/news/fx-awards-2017-the-winners-5984603
