COMPILED BY Gina Dionisio PHOTOS Courtesy of WAF
Running alongside the annual World Architecture Festival, the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors recognises some of the most beautifully designed interiors from across the globe.
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors is the sister awards programme of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) and celebrates the finest examples of global interior design. From Hotels to Workplace, and Residential to Retail, the interior projects that have made the 2024 shortlist across 10 dedicated categories have now been revealed.
The categories are:
- Bars & Restaurants
- Education
- Health & Fitness
- Hotels
- Public Buildings
- Residential
- Retail
- Temporary/Meanwhile Uses
- Workplace (Large)
- Workplace (Small)
Below in order of the categories are the selected shortlisted projects.
Bars & Restaurants
- 001, Canalside Studio, Hong Kong
- Chernyi Cooperative Coffee Roasters, Freya Architects, Serbia
- DOP Restaurant & Bar, Atelier Sergio Rebelo, Portugal
- Four Twenty Five, Foster + Partners, UK
- Le Du, Department of Architecture Co, Thailand
- Minthis, Woods Bagot, Australia
- Pang Mei Noodle Bar LFS, OFFICE AIO, China
- PEDET food hall, 3XA, Poland
- Purple Mountain Courtyard, Minggu Design, China
- Smith & Mills, Woods Bagot, United States
- The Mangrove Cafe, Kidzink, United Arab Emirates
Education
- An Equatorial School of Architecture, Erik LHeureux FAIA / Special Projects, NUS, Singapore
- Children’s Library at The Western Academy of Beijing, studio vapore, China
- ILKON. Ilkeston Contemporary Arts, Chris Williamson RIBA, UK
- Midsommarkransen Elementary School, Tengbom AB, Sweden
- Shanghai Jingan Nanyang School – Special Education Classroom Renovation, Creative Crews in collaboration with Da Landscape, China
- UQ Brisbane City, BVN, Australia
- workspace & learning campus, Gayathri And Namith Architects, India
- WSU Bankstown City Campus, HDR, Australia
- Zhengze School, WIT Design & Research, China
Health & Fitness
- Doruk Nilüfer Hospital, Zoom TPU, Turkey
- ENHANCE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Vermilion Zhou Design Group, China
- Goodlife Studio @ Bukit Purmei, DP Architects, Singapore
- Minthis, Woods Bagot, Australia
Hotels
- Fasano Itaim, Studio mk27, Brazil
- LYF Sukhumwit 8 Bangkok Hotel, THAT IS ITH INTERIOR, Thailand
- Manna, K-Studio, Monogon, Greece
- Minthis, Woods Bagot, Australia
- Moxy Bangkok Ratchaprasong, design worldwide partnership, Thailand
- Paje Beach Resort, SPECTRUM, Tanzania
- The Blue by Just Inn, Tszwai So, Taiwan
Public Buildings
- Yueji Library & Bookstore, Enviro Tec Creatives, China
- Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C., Bates Smart, United States
- Jade Apartment, Matrix Design, China
- Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Hall, MAMA architects, Lithuania
- New Taipei City Circular Metro Line – The Moving Craft, JC. Architecture & Design, Taiwan
- REEF, C&C DESIGN CO.,LTD., China
- TARANG, tHE gRID Architects, India
- Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru, Grant Associates, India
- Tree O’clock — Villa Qabalah, Studio Locomotive, Thailand
- Villa Mundi, NOMADESSENCE, Switzerland
- Young V&A, AOC Architecture and De Matos Ryan, UK
Residential
- 6×18 Slender House, Spaces Architects@KA, India
- Canopy House, Studio mk27, Brazil
- Ishavasya, Where the Lord Resides, Spellbound, India
- Meditation Duplex, Sim-Plex Design Studio, Hong Kong
- Middle Envelope Apartment, CROSS ARCHITECTURE, Iran
- Sol Royal, Danielle Interiors, Spain
- Sunny Side Up, Rogan Nash Architects, New Zealand
- Back to Front House, Ian Moore Architects, Australia
- twentyfour, 3DM Architecture, Malta
Retail
- All In One – Banco BPI, Broadway Malyan, Portugal
- Apparatus, BGY ID, UK
- Arches and Portal, SAGA Bakery, Upper Room Collaborative Studio, Indonesia
- D.S. & Durga Abbot Kinney, Woods Bagot, United States
- Fender Flagship Tokyo, Klein Dytham architecture, Japan
- Foodie Social at Hong Shou Fang, Linehouse, China
- House of Porcelain, Dar & Wagh, India
- Hysan Place, Woods Bagot, Hong Kong
- La Manso flagship Store, External Reference, Spain
- Melt Season Flagship at Taiyuan, mlkk studio, China
- Qing Dynasty Post Office Renovation, More Design Office, China
- The Fennia Block, Olla Architecture, Finland
Temporary/Meanwhile Uses
- Algae Sips and Java Brews: A Digestive Food Truck, Hayley Eber & Lydia Kallipoliti, China
- Backpack Housing, HKU/ Superposition, Hong Kong
- Melt Season Shenzhen Installation, mlkk studio, China
- Neural MONOBLOC Black, Artificial-Architecture, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
- “Sydney Opera House: A beautiful idea” exhibition at Utzon Center Aalborg, JAC studios, Denmark
- Through the Looking Prism, TAKANAO TODO DESIGN, Thailand
Workplace (Large)
- 70 George_Cox Sydney Studio, COX Architecture, Australia
- Alibaba DAMO Nanhu Industry Park, Matrix Design, China
- ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL HEADQUARTERS, BAB ARCHITECTS, Turkey
- Architecture Firm Stockholm Office, Tengbom AB, Sweden
- CSL Global Headquarters and Centre for Research & Development, COX Architecture, Australia
- Good Job Games, Jeyan Ulku Architects, Turkey
- Google Flour Mills, Henry J Lyons, Ireland
- HKS Atlanta, HKS inc., United States
- InnoDom Cologne, kadawittfeldarchitektur gmbh, Germany
- OFFICE INTERIORS OF THE CITIBANK HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, SAAN architekci, Poland
- Panasonic XC KADOMA, Takenaka Corporation + Nikken Sekkei Ltd, Japan
- Precinct Properties Workplace, Warren and Mahoney, New Zealand
Workplace (Small)
- 743 Art Lab, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University & NONG STUDIO, China
- CFE, LOCAL, France
- DOSHI TECHNOLOGIES, Art and Architecture Associates, India
- From Zurich to Montevideo, BVO/ARQ, Uruguay
- HKS Mexico City, HKS inc., Mexico
- Penn Color Technology Center, DP Design, Singapore
- The Hub, GHD Brisbane, GHD Design, Australia
World Architecture Festival and Inside World Festival of Interiors will take place at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, on 6 – 8 November 2024. | worldarchitecturefestival.com
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