With just one week left to enter Dezeen Awards 2024, we're spotlighting seven changes we've introduced to our categories this year.
With new interiors categories including textile and surface design, as well as the addition of landscape and urban design, there's a category for you.
Next Thursday 30 May at 23:59 London time is your final chance to enter and be in with a chance to win. You can find out more here.
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Read on to see how we've revised this year's categories:
House renovation
We've merged our renovation and extension categories to create one a single award for outstanding refurbished homes. This includes residential buildings which have been repaired, revamped, refitted or extended.
Shortlisted projects last year included a two-storey studio attached to a primary residence, which sits on railroad tracks by Olson Kundig Architects and a remodelled 1980s home outside Kuala Lumpur designed to look inward at its main garden by Core Design Workshop.
Mixed-use project
The mixed-use project now focuses exclusively on new build, extended or refurbished mixed-use developments designed for at least two distinct uses, such as residential, commercial or cultural.
Dutch studio MVRDV's jagged, mountain-like Valley skyscraper housing 200 flats, offices, and restaurants was shortlisted in this category in 2023 alongside WEEK and Cobe's concrete arched buildings containing social and student housing, offices, restaurants, and a police station.
Landscape and urban design
This new category recognises landscape architecture or urban design projects such as masterplans and design for the public realm.
Past shortlisted projects featuring landscape and urban design include local practice Taller Capital's linear walkway in Mexico City designed for water retention and dust control or a park on a formerly derelict area of Manchester by London-based Studio Egret West.
Residential interior
This is an interior architecture and design category. We are looking for apartment and home interiors that have only been remodelled on the inside. For new build and house renovations where the whole house has been designed or remodelled – inside and out –please enter our House or House renovation in our architecture categories.
Last year, local studio Sierra + De La Higuera incorporated Moroccan zellige tiles to delineate areas in a 1940s apartment in Madrid, landing a spot on last year's shortlist alongside winner architecture practice Studio Asaï's house in Namibia which nods to Southern African nature.
This category is sponsored by Graff.
Seating design
Don't worry, the furniture design category is staying! However, we've created a separate category for seating design, which includes chairs, benches and seating (excluding office use) for indoor and exterior use.
A chair developed by Zaha Hadid Design crafted in wood by Japanese furniture maker Karimoku as well as a solid recycled cast aluminium chair by Australian designer Tom Fereday were both shortlisted in last year's programme.
Surface design
Enter any wall, floor, ceiling and surface coverings, including tiles, flooring, paint, wallpaper and other decorative surfaces and finishes, into this category.
Projects that could be entered include an acoustic dampening collection informed by the appearance of natural stone, eco-friendly, graphene-infused paints featuring rich reds and deep greens, and high-performance porcelain stoneware surfaces for walls, floors and structures.
Textile design
Design of textiles for the home, including fabrics, rugs, blankets, curtains, upholstery plus weaving, 3D knitting and other soft furnishings can be entered.
You can submit anything from a zero-carbon wool alternative made from human hair to a rug collection informed by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-sabi or a range of fabrics combining material innovation with intricate patterns!
Dezeen Awards 2024 in partnership with Bentley
Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers across the globe. The seventh edition of the annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley's architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.