In its sixth year, the Shaw Contract Group Design Is… Award program honored oustanding projects by architecture and design firms. Through these winning projects, selected from commercial and hospitality spaces from around the globe, design is teaching, inspiring, healing, and uniting.

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum yesterday announced the winners and finalists of the 2011 National Design Awards. First launched at the White House in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards were established to promote excellence and innovation…

Contract magazine has named Studio O+A principals Verda Alexander and Primo Orpilla as Designers of the Year for 2011. The magazine gives this award annually to individuals whose work and practice raise the standard for excellence in commercial design and exhibit tremendous potential for ongoing…

Greek practice Point Supreme Architects have shared with us their latest realized project: Marble Mural, a partition wall at the Interior Design Show 2010 in Athens, Greece.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2011 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Following are the eleven winning projects in the category "Interior Architecture":

The interior design of the new Mandarin Oriental Hotel Barcelona, by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola, recently helped the hotel win the title "Best Hotel Project of 2010" by Interior Design Magazine. Architects of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group's latest luxury offspring were Carlos Ferrater and Juan…

In the previous post, we just published the winners of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards in the Architecture category. In this article, we present the winners in the category Interior Design Commercial / Temporary. The nationwide competition, organized by Design Exchange (DX), is open to all…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2010 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Selected from over 700 total submissions, 28 recipients located throughout the world will be honored in June at…

Wallpaper* just published the winners of their 2010 Design Awards. Entries come from every possible part of the design field, from architecture to fashion design to industrial design, and were awarded in 66 respective categories. A panel of judges, including icons like architect Steven Holl, fashion designer John…

Last weekend, the international jury of ‘The Great Indoors’ awarded five interior design projects during a festive ceremony in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The Great Indoors is an international, biennial award rewarding the best public interior designs in various categories every two years. By awarding prizes and…