Hospitality

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Cafes, bars, restaurants and hotels are eligible for this category. Functionality and smart planning will be important considerations for the jury here, but just as important will be the ways in which designs work with the program and personality of the venue in question to deliver that all important memorable experience, drawing the clientele back for more.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

International Project

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This category is open to any international interior design project produced by an Australian practice, or an international practice first established in Australia, now working overseas. All hospitality, commercial, public, retail or residential work will be considered, with each project judged according to the criteria stipulated in the relevant local category. Winners will be drawn from the projects that best address their category criteria.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Retail

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Submissions to this category should be retail fitouts that demonstrate a good understanding of all the things that contribute to making a shopper’s visit to a store a memorable one (and, of course, a profitable one for the store in question). Product display, the translation of the brand in the design, the experiential qualities of the space and efficient planning all come into play here.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Single Residential

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This award recognises excellence in the interior design of a single dwelling. Qualities under consideration include spatial planning and programming and its relationship to the ‘look and feel’ of the design. The selection of fixtures, fittings, hard and soft furnishings etc comes into play here, but the handling of space, light and structure is also of key concern. Hence, designs that have been dealt with in this respect as a totality (architecture and interior) will be highly regarded. Single apartments, townhouses, terraces and standalone dwellings are all eligible.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Multi-Residential

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This category relates exclusively to designs for multi-unit residential complexes, ie interior designs that apply to more than one dwelling. Much like the Single Residential category, spatial planning and programming and its relationship to the ‘look and feel’ of the design are critical. Importantly though, the design will also be considered with regards to the strictures of multi-unit, template based design. In this respect, attention will be paid to qualities of modularity and economy of construction, and how the design contributes to the rationing and exploitation of space and the provision of amenity. Absolutely essential to this will be an understanding of how the design reflects its target market demographic.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Residential Decoration

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This category is all about the dressing of residential interiors and how that contributes to enhance the experience of inhabitation. Unlike the other two Residential categories, Residential Decoration is concerned purely with qualities brought to an existing dwelling by a designer who may have had little or no input into its architectural elements. The selection of furnishings, both soft and hard, colour, surfaces, and fixtures and fittings are all of key importance here.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Workplace – over 1000sqm

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A category for large commercial office designs, over 1000sqm in size. Key considerations here include how a commercial fitout has been designed to enhance the efficiency of the workplace not just from the perspective of user productivity, but also with regards to comfort and happiness. Also of interest here is how the design relates to the brand and ethos of the company, and whether it contributes to strengthen or improve its workplace culture.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Event

Pop-up shops, theatrical staging, exhibitions, marquees and other temporary installations-cum-event spaces are all eligible for entry into this category. While clever, readily demountable design is likely to dominate here, the manner in which it contributes to the experience of the event itself is of course absolutely key.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Workplace – under 1000sqm

This category for the smaller, more bespoke office solutions, under 1000sqm in size – with often concomitantly more tightly constrained budgets. Nevertheless, the considerations at play in this category differ little to those for Workplace –Over 1000sqm.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Object – furniture and lighting

This category serves as a showcase of the best Australian furniture and lighting design. Work submitted to this category will be judged on form and function, however objects that demonstrate genuine innovation (be it in terms of materials, manufacturing, distribution, functionality etc) will be highly regarded. Please note student projects and/or prototypes are not eligible for this category.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.

Public Space

This category is open to any interior design projects funded by a public body and/or that are dedicated to public use. Projects that might be suitable for inclusion here include institutional buildings such as schools, museums, galleries, libraries, churches etc. Given the wide variety of typologies this category is likely to play host to, submissions will be judged on case-by-case criteria with regards to how they have acquitted their stated brief. In general terms, however, the projects will be judged on their ability to engage, and serve, the general public.

All submissions to this category must also include a separate statement detailing how the project addresses sustainability issues.