IFI – the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers announced the winners for the second edition of its IFI DDA – Design Distinction Awards, a global design competition featuring the today’s best-of-the-best designed projects, at a virtual awards ceremony on 21 February 2022. From a sustainable, community-centered school catering to 400 girls under the poverty line in Rajasthan, India; the modernization of Parisian barracks as a means of regenerating the city; to a private wine cave excavated into limestone along a secluded river bend in the USA; and a new typology self-service store for online shopping customers in Finland, the IFI DDA 2022 winners showcase the diversity of Interiors practice and immense value of high-quality architecture worldwide.
The IFI Design Distinction Awards form part of IFI GAP – Global Awards Program, recognizing and awarding excellence in the design outcome of built projects, compiling a repository of projects that will continue to impact the discipline at the world level for years to come. This year’s edition gathered a record-breaking number of outstanding entries from over 50 countries across all world regions.
Over 150 IFI DDA 2022 Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards were presented in 10 categories: Commerce, Habitat, Health, Humanitarian, Learning, Play, Stay, Student, Sustainability and Work. The IFI GAP 2022 ceremony featured preeminent leaders of Interior Architecture/Design, who comprised IFI’s leadership and the prestigious IFI GAP 2022 international jury.
Namely, the IFI DDA 2022 Jury featured a stellar selection of international Interior Architecture/Design practitioners and, for the first time, a media jurors comprised of leaders from top international design publications/platforms. This panel of luminaries included: Steve Leung, IFI Past-President 2020-2022; Steve Leung Design Group – SLD (Hong Kong SAR, China) (Jury Chair); Soo K. Chan, SCDA Architects (Singapore); Randy Howder, Gensler (USA); Marcio Kogan and Renata Furlanetto, Studio MK27 (Brazil); Amanda Stanaway, Woods Bagot (Australia); Paul Tange, Tange Associates (Japan); Adam Tihany and Alessia Genova, Tihany Design (USA); George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, Yabu Pushelberg (Canada); and Woody Yao, Zaha Hadid Design – ZHD (UK); Media jurors: Sarah Douglas, Wallpaper* (UK); Paul Keskeys, Architizer (USA); and Jessica Ma, Designwire (China).
IFI proudly partnered with world-renowned Zaha Hadid Design and Citco for the design and production of Gold Award winners’ IFI DDA 2022 trophies. Carved from a singular orthogonal block, the trophies maintain a direct relationship with each other; embodying the spirit of collaboration and cooperation that leads to exceptional and distinct designs.
IFI is delighted to showcase such incredible talent and projects from across the world, a testimony to the resilience of the global design community through recent social and financial challenges. The full list of 2022 IFI DDA winners can be found on the IFI website.
Winners were announced as part of the IFI GAP 2022 virtual gala ceremony, which premiered on the IFI website and all the Federation’s related platforms. Following the virtual premiere, the IFI GAP 2022 Awards Ceremony remains available on-demand and accessible by visiting https://ifiworld.org/ifi-gap-2022-awards-ceremony
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About IFI
Founded in 1963, IFI – the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers is the preeminent and only world organization conceived to coalesce the world Interior Architecture/Design communities, policymakers, experts and enthusiasts. IFI mandates supporting the improvement of humanity through and by design. Bringing together designers worldwide, we build fellowship to foster design excellence and to share the discipline’s knowledge, while evolving global-scale topical matters for resolution. At the world level, acting as the ‘UN’ for Interiors, IFI’s responsibilities include comprehensively strengthening professional knowledge, caliber of work and integrity of practice, as well as promoting the value of quality design and advancing its impacts.