Our friends at Wallpaper* yesterday announced the winners of their 2012 Design Awards. The international panel of judges, this year comprising Grayson Perry, Rafael Vinoly, Simon de Pury, Gerd Bulthaup, and Jean-Paul Goude, selected the top entries in eleven major design categories. Many more awards in highly…

Our friends at Wallpaper* today announced the winners of their 2011 Design Awards program. The annual award series honors exceptional design in eleven different disciplines, spanning from fashion design over architecture to industrial design. This year's panel of judges hosts big names like Pharrell Williams, Mario Bellini,…

The UK-based Restaurant & Bar Design Awards have taken the physical event to the virtual level by incorporating RFID identification technology, interactive audio environments and physical website integration.

In the course of an invited architectural competition for a highway service area, a proposal of the young architectural office Iseppi-Kurath from Grisons, Switzerland was selected as the winning project. The design of the two architects achieved to translate the theme of the “window towards the region” with…

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…

Swedish practice Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture (KKA) has been awarded the Scania Region Architecture Prize for their project Mirage. The prize celebrates the best building this year in Sweden’s southern region Scania.

In 2006, Frederik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky won the international architecture competition for a new dance hall in Falsterbo, Sweden, and started their studio; Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture. Now the building “Mirage” is to be inaugurated.

The list of Restaurant and Chef nominees for the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation’s most prestigious honors for culinary professionals, has been announced. Selected from thousands of online entries, the prestigious group of semifinalists in the 19 Restaurant and Chef categories represents a wide variety of culinary talent,…

The AIA/Los Angeles announced winners of the judges’ choice, as well as the people’s choice, in the 2008 Restaurant Design Awards, marking the fourth year of the AIA/LA’s much-anticipated awards program that recognizes the very best in restaurant, café, and lounge design. AIA/LA received over forty submissions in the…