Dezeen Awards 2024 has announced its shortlist across the encompassing categories of Architecture, Interiors, Design, Sustainability, Designers of the Year and the Bentley Lighthouse Award and works from leading and upcoming studios, architects and designers all over the world are in the running for recognition. For the 2024 edition of the Dezeen Awards, an esteemed panel of 90 professionals are looking for entries that are "beautiful, innovative and beneficial" to the people and the environment. The architecture jury includes architects Dong Danshen, Francine Houben, Keiji Ashizawa and Sumaya Dabbagh. The interiors panel consists of interior designers Bobby Berk, Patricia Urquiola and Brigette Romanek, product designer Ameechi Mandi and architect Shushana Khachatrian. Designers Tej Chauhan, Jasper Morrison and Inga Sempé, artists Pilar Zeta and Faye Toogood and fashion designer Ozwald Boateng are among the jury members for the design shortlists. The sustainable jury panel includes Jonas Pettersson, Noella Nibakuze, Mina Hasman and Henrik Taudorf Lorensen. As a media partner, STIR takes a look at this year’s nominees.

Architecture

The shortlist for architecture award features 82 projects spanning categories such as urban and rural residential design, housing design, house renovation, civic, cultural, workplace, health and wellbeing,education,heritage,hospitality, infrastructure and transport, landscape and urban design, small project and mixed-use architecture. Naming a few projects that made it to the list, the  housing project Malling Dampmolle in Denmark by CEBRA has a star-shaped plan that creates green pockets, the Zebun Nessa Mosque by Studio Morphogenesis is a civic project in Bangladesh that offers an essential gathering space for workers in nearby factories, cultural architecture project Robert Olnick Pavilion in the United States features striking white interiors by MQ Architecture and the workplace design project Pavillon Jardins made from concrete and wood integrates nature and architecture in France by Atelier du Pont.

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Interiors

The interior design shortlists are sorted into nine sub-categories of residential, restaurant and bar, hotel and short-stay, small workplace, large workplace, small retail, large retail, health and wellbeing and exhibition interior design. Several projects from the 49 shortlisted ones are from countries including Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Spain. Dutch designer Maarten Baas made the list with the Orato Offices lobby in the Netherlands for an inviting environment for visitors to rest and lounge. Iranian-French architect, designer and scenographer India Mahdavi's 2023 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces design exhibition is selected for its intimate setting of an early 20th-century France. Taiwan-based architecture studio Divooe Zein Architects is shortlisted in the Health and wellbeing interiors category for transforming a former mining facility into a Mineless Heritage Restoration. Two projects by Norm Architects, the Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park in Tokyo and the Chancery House in London are shortlisted in the hotel and short-stay interiors and large workspace interiors.

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Design

Fifty-nine practices over the world are shortlisted across furniture, seating, lighting, architectural lighting, surface, textile, workplace, graphic, installation and two product design categories. Rotterdam-based Studio RAP’s surface design projects New Delft Blue and Ceramic House are selected for its 3D printed tiles that reinvent the traditional delft blue porcelain plates. Transdisciplinary practice Snohetta's website makes it to the list for its sustainable digital design along with its terracotta wall tiles Void, featuring scaleable patterns and textures that can be customised for different uses. Global design firm Pentagram's product design Ambessa Play DIY Flashlight is made for the children residing in refugee camps to educate them about science and electricity. British artist Justyna Green’s taboo-breaking graphic design for Modibodi Teen First Period Kit features educational illustrations of a vulva and cheerful packaging.

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Sustainability

The sustainability design award shortlists are divided in six sub-categories一building, renovation, interior, consumer, building product and material innovation一and features 35 studios from countries including Brazil, Thailand, Switzerland and Poland, offering local to industry-wide innovative design solutions to deal with waste. The five-storey sustainable renovation project Haus 1 by Dutch firm MVRDV extends towards its surrounding landscape through a visually striking external staircase. The Alder Collection for Mater by Spanish-born architect and designer Patricia Urquiola consists of tables and tools made from biodegradable plastic and coffee waste.

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Designers of the Year

Nominees from 20 countries including South Korea, Germany, Nigeria and Mexico are shortlisted across six categories一architect, emerging architect, interior designer, emerging interior designer, designer and emerging designer一of Designers of the Year awards. Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and Paris-based architecture and urban design firm Studio Gang and New-York based SO-IL Studio are shortlisted for the Architect of the Year category along with four other practices. Indian architecture practice Studio Saar and Shanghai-based HCCH Studio are in line for winning Emerging Architect of the Year award among six total entries. British designer Holloway Li and Mumbai-based design firm Act of Quad, alongside four other studios, are in the shortlist for Emerging Interior Designer of the Year. For the Designer of the Year award, Japanese design studio Nendo is shortlisted along with five other practices.

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The Bentley Lighthouse Award

Introduced first in 2023, the Bentley Lighthouse award recognises designers for their sustainable, inclusive or community upliftment initiatives that make the world a better place. Dutch designer, researcher and product lifecycle enthusiast Christien Meindertsma from Asperen is in line to be recognised for curating sustainable commercial products and utilising wool and flax fibres for her designs. London-based designer and Mexican plant-based materials expert Fernando Laposse is selected to contribute to regenerative architecture by devising circular economies and systems. Natsai Audrey Chieza, founder of the London-based company Fabe Futures, is shortlisted for its biotechnology-driven design approach that has the potential to empower the design and research industry towards a more sustainable future. Luke Haverhals, founder of an Illinoi-based company that provides plant-based alternatives to petrochemical products, is shortlisted along with Paco Böckelmann and Kevin Rouff, founders of Amsterdam-based Studio ThusThat that focuses on repurposing waste materials from large-scale operations such as mining, turning them into sustainable furniture designs  and objects.

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