Pictured: The Cork House, Polysmiths Ltd, United Kingdom
The winners of the highly anticipated Surface Design Awards have been announced at this year’s Surface Design Show, with The Tarang Pavilion in Gandhinagar, India by The Grid Architects taking the Supreme Winner prize.
An impressive number of projects, totalling over 160 entries across an unprecedented 20 countries, were entered into this year’s Surface Design Awards, which are a celebration of innovation material usage in architectural design projects around the world.
Pictured: The Tarang Pavilion in Gandhinagar, India, by The Grid Architects
The judging panel, headed up by 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 Office Sian, designer Kangan Arora, Sofia 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 Surface Design Awards 2024 Winners are as following:
EXTERIOR SURFACE OF THE YEAR
Woven House, Giles Miller Studio, United Kingdom
INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE YEAR
CASTA, Matter, Portugal
COMMERCIAL BUILDING EXTERIOR
The Rowe - (Wells Clad Vitreous Enamel Cladding, AJ Wells & Sons, UK
COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTERIOR
Moshu Treehouse, Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, Argentina
HOUSING EXTERIOR:
The Nest, Studio Lotus, India
HOUSING INTERIOR:
The Cork House, Polysmiths Ltd, United Kingdom
LIGHT + SURFACE EXTERIOR FINALISTS:
Sunderdea Sunderland, Tonkin Liu, United Kingdom
LIGHT + SURFACE INTERIOR FINALISTS:
Tarang, The Grid Architects, India
PUBLIC BUILDING
MACAM – The Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art Portugal
LANDSCAPE AND PUBLIC REALM
Manduca Market, Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, Argentina
TEMPORARY STRUCTURE FINALISTS:
Cien, Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, Argentina
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Red from past to present, Jeevan Jyot, India
