Dezeen Awards is the most popular and accessible celebration of the world s best architecture, interiors and design projects and studios.
Enter before 31 March to save 20 per cent
Standard entry prices remain unchanged for the fourth year in a row, making Dezeen Awards the most affordable and accessible awards programme in architecture and design.
It costs just £100 per category for small companies and £200 for large companies to enter before the standard entry deadline on 2 June. But studios can save 20 per cent by entering before 31 March.
Categories for architecture, interiors and design
There are 36 categories this year: 10 each for architecture, interiors and design projects and two categories in each sector honouring the best established and emerging studios.
Dezeen s top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2020
This museum celebrates the history of ceramic production in Jingdezhen, both in terms of its architecture and its exhibits.
Built around the city s imperial kiln ruins, which date back to the Ming Dynasty, the building is made up of brick vaults that recall the forms of traditional kilns. These structures were assembled by hand, using a mix of new and recycled bricks.
Named at Dezeen Awards 2020 as the best housing project of the year, this renovated building explores a new model of co-living.
Fei Architects added large windows and new balconies, in order to create a diverse mix of communal and private spaces within the building. This suits the lifestyles of its occupants – a group of seven individuals who identify as slash youths, meaning they have multiple creative jobs, and the lines between their home lives and work live are often blurred.
Dezeen s top 10 British architecture projects of 2020
Thomas Heatherwick s studio explores the healing power of nature with this cancer care centre in the grounds of St James s University Hospital in Leeds.
Like other Maggie s Centres, the building is designed as a supportive environment for those dealing with cancer. It is built from sustainably sourced spruce wood and contains more than 17,000 plants.
Kingston University has been completely transformed with this major new teaching building by Grafton Architects.
Intended as a new gateway to the university s campus in southwest London, Town House is enveloped by a facade of colonnades, which create sheltered walkways and balconies around the exterior. The aim is to open up the building s activities to the neighbourhood.
Architecture studio Enter Projects Asia has created a design installation for the Spice & Barley gastro lounge in Bangkok using rattan sculptures and gold hues to fuse Thai tradition with modern design.
Enter Projects Asia, which is based in Phuket, Thailand, used 3D-modelling to create large sculptures that weave through the 300 square-metres space at the Riverside resort.
These were made from rattan, a type of climbing plant with a flexible woody stem, and reach 30 metres from the floor to the ceiling.
Top image: the shape of the sculptures reference nearby high rises. Above: rattan columns reach the ceiling
They were informed by the use of the space – Spice and Barley serves gastro food but also specialises in craft beers imported from Belgium.