INSIDE World Festival of Interiors has announced the best interior designs of 2016 across the categories of Civic, Culture and Transport, Display, Health & Education, Residential, Creative Re-Use and Hotels. The annual awards encompass the globe’s best interior designs from the past 12 months, and this year’s winners include a City Palace in Jaipur, a hospital in Mallorca and a display stand for the 2016 edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan.
Baradari City Palace by Studio Lotus won the Creative Re-Use category. Studio Lotus were invited by the royal family of Jaipur to redevelop the 14,000 sqft area of the former palace café in Rajasthan as a fine dining destination. The new intervention reinterprets traditional crafts of Jaipur – bespoke casting and foundry work - in a contemporary manner. The judges felt that this project represents an adaptive balance between archaeology and the contemporary – symbolising a new idea within the historic, palatial India.
Indigo Slam by Smart Design Studio won the Residential category. This private home in Chippendale, Sydney, is part of the neighbourhood’s reinvention as an artistic and cultural hub. The project’s façade of sculpted concrete, serene living spaces and spacious halls, creates a dynamic interplay of space and light. The judges commended the project for “working with classic architectural elements such as light, texture and space sequences with an impressive care for detail”.
Situated in the historic quarter of Palma de Mallorca, the OHLAB/Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab’s Puro Hotel won the Hotels category. It has an irregular configuration, adapting to the different existing buildings of the neighbourhood to create unique a space where each room is different. The judges said that “the architect showed an unique approach of developing and designing a ‘kit of parts’ to create a concept but very detailed solution." The practice’s second award was for Emardental Clinic in Mallorca which won the Health and Education category. The hospital offers a warm welcome, with oak finishes and soft tones, to guide patients around the space. The project has been designed with sensitivity to lighting and the highest attention to detail.
The Cut, stand design for Kvadrat, by Neri & Hu Desing & Research Office, won this year’s Display category. Designed for Salone del Mobile, the designers reinterpreted the classic furniture fair stand and transformed the space into an emotionally charged zone to intuitively affect each visitor on a primal level.
York Theatre Royal by De Matos Ryan was crowned the winner of the Civic, Culture and Transport category. This project was deemed to unlock the potential of the site, opening the theatre’s doors to a wider community. Housing a welcoming street-facing café that is clearly visible from the outside to draw people in, the building’s Victorian colonnade has been glazed to give an animated face to the street, akin to a storefront.