Architects Francine Houben and Sumaya Dabbagh, designers Alfredo Häberli and Bethan Laura Wooden and designer Karen Millen have been introduced as judges for the 2024 Dezeen Awards.
The Dezeen Awards 2024 have been launched final month in partnership with Bentley. Submit your entry by Wednesday, March 27 to avoid wasting 20% on entry charges.
Now in its seventh 12 months, this system has develop into the final word prize for architects and designers in all places, with winners chosen by a prestigious worldwide jury.
Learn on to search out out extra concerning the new names becoming a member of this 12 months's judging panel:
British designer Millen, co-founder of style model Karen Millen, will be a part of artist Justina Blakeney on the inside judging panel.
Millen expanded into interiors underneath Room by KM and has labored on quite a few residential tasks, from Ibiza mansions to English nation homes.
After an extended absence from the style world, Millen launched The Founder Assortment for Karen Millen final 12 months, which celebrates her 40-year legacy with the model.
Founding associate and inventive director of Mecanoo, Houben will be a part of French architect Odile Decq on the structure panel.
The Netherlands-based architect has labored on worldwide tasks spanning theatres, museums and libraries knowledgeable by the native inhabitants, tradition and local weather.
Mecanoo's tasks embody a six-building mixed-use growth linked by out of doors areas for the Amstel Design District life sciences growth in Amsterdam and a inexperienced and blue tiled home referred to as Villa BW within the Dutch village of Schoorl.
Houben was named Architect of the 12 months by Architects' Journal and likewise obtained the BNA Kubus, a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Institute of Netherlands Architects.
Becoming a member of Houben on the architectural jury will likely be Dabbagh, from Saudi Arabia.
Dabbagh's up to date and modern method to structure addresses themes of id, place and context throughout a spread of sectors together with industrial, residential and academic.
The Dubai-based studio has obtained quite a few awards for its tasks, together with the Mleiha Archaeological Middle and the Gargash Mosque.
In 2017, the architectural agency grew to become one of many first RIBA licensed practices within the Gulf area.
Swiss-Argentinian designer Häberli is the founder and director of Alfredo Häberli Design Improvement and can sit alongside product designer Lee Broom on the design panel for this 12 months's awards.
The Zurich-based product designer combines know-how and supplies to create modern designs, together with a scratch-resistant watch with hexagonal sides for Swiss watchmaker Rado.
He has labored with worldwide manufacturers resembling Alias, BD Barcelona, BMW, Kvadrat, Luceplan, Moroso, Schiffini and Vitra.
Häberli was named Designer of the 12 months by the German design journal Architektur & Wohnen and obtained the Grand Swiss Design Award from the Swiss Federal Workplace for Tradition.
Becoming a member of Millen on the interiors judging panel will likely be British designer and artist Wooden.
Wooden is the founding father of the multidisciplinary studio Bethan Laura Wooden which focuses on materials investigation and artisanal collaborations in furnishings, lighting and textiles.
The London studio works carefully with museums and galleries such because the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Swiss Institute, the Daelim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork. He has additionally collaborated with worldwide manufacturers resembling Perrier–Jouët, Rosenthal, Kvadrat, Hermès and Dior.
Wooden's latest tasks embody a sequence of colourful rest room fixtures for producer Kaldewei and a collaborative exhibition with 100 designers and hook studios for Californian gallery Blunk House.
Dezeen Awards 2024 in partnership with Bentley
The Dezeen Awards are the final word accolade for architects and designers throughout the globe. The seventh version of the annual awards program is in partnership with Bentley as a part of a wider collaboration to encourage, champion and maintain design excellence and spotlight innovation that creates a greater and extra sustainable world. This ambition enhances Bentley's structure and design enterprise initiatives, together with the Bentley Dwelling vary of furnishings and actual property tasks around the globe.