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NEWS AWARDS Surface Design Awards 2024 winners
The winners of the much-anticipated Surface Design Awards were announced at this year’s Surface Design Show, with The Tarang Pavilion in Gandhinagar, India by The Grid Architects taking the Supreme Winner prize.
Woven House in Kent by Giles Miller Studio
An impressive number of projects, totalling over 160 entries across 20 countries, were entered into this year’s awards, which are a celebration of innovation in material use in architectural design projects around the world. The Surface Design Awards honour outstanding achievements in both interior and exterior design, recognising innovative and sustainable projects. The trophies themselves were made by solid surface specialists Hanex UK, crafted from reclaimed scrap material, which means that every award is unique and illustrates the beauty that can be created from something which was destined for landfi ll. The judging panel, headed up by
Moshu Treehouse scheme by Hitzig Militello Arquitectos The Nest by Studio Lotus
Nimi Attanayake, director and co- founder of NimTim Architects, and Charlotte McCarthy, head of interiors at Heatherwick Studio. In addition, the judging panel included Carly Sweeney, the director of Universal Design Studio, Chris Laing, an architectural designer, activist, consultant, founder of Signstrokes and Deaf Architecture Front and Gurmeet Sian, architect and founder of Offi ce Sian, designer Kangan Arora, Sofi a Steffenoni leader of Material Assemble, Lanre Gbolade architect and co-founder Gbolade Design Studio, Maria-Elena Patru director of Hill Patru and Gillian Lambert of AOC Architecture. The judging panel had the diffi cult job of selecting the category winners from 40 entries shortlisted across the 13 diverse categories. The Exterior Surface of the Year award was won by Woven House in Kent by Giles Miller Studio. Judges praised its “clear craftsmanship with biophilia cleverly being used out of context.” The winner in the Interior Surface of the Year category was Casta by Portugal’s Matter which garnered praise for “creating circularity of waste, with the collaboration of local industries, both authentic and contextual.”
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The Rowe (Wells Clad Vitreous Enamel Cladding) by AJ Wells & Sons clinched the top spot in the Commercial Building Exterior category, described as ‘an interesting way to use cladding and a good way of spreading joy to the public and making the building better.’ The Commercial Building Interior award, meanwhile, was won by Argentina’s Hitzig Militello Arquitectos for their Moshu Treehouse scheme, taking the prize in this category thanks to its playfulness, and its ability to “take a common material and make it look interesting by having a collaboration between this and other natural materials,” said the judges. India’s The Nest by Studio Lotus was triumphant among the Housing Exterior fi nalists with the judges praising its simplicity: ‘an interesting form while thinking about the landscape as well,’ they said. Closer to home, the Cork House in London by Polysmiths Ltd took the top spot in the Housing Interior category. As the name suggests, cork was a key component of this project with the judges impressed by how a confi dent use of this material “contributes to the overall environment of the house, acoustically using a material known for its inherent quality as well as how it looks.”
Among the Light and Surface Exterior fi nalists, Tonkin Liu won the award for their Sunderdea Sunderland scheme with the judges commenting “there is so much to like about this strong submission, even more so that it enhances at night.” This year’s Supreme Winners were also successful in the Light and Surface Interior category with the Tarang Pavilion by The Grid Architects impressing with the way the lighting accentuated the three-dimensional form, and the combination of the structure with natural materials proving transformative, “bringing the colour and the texture of the terracotta brick tiles to life,” according to the judges.
The winner among the Public Buildings shortlisted was the Macam – the Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art. Hitzig and Militello Arquitectos gained
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