Eighteen leading architects and designers met this week to decide the winners of Dezeen Awards 2024, in partnership with Bentley, which will be revealed at the Dezeen Awards 2024 party in November.
The Dezeen Awards master jury took place at the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel in London and included architect Keiji Ashizawa and designers Patricia Urquiola and Lee Broom.
Designers Peter Mabeo and Pilar Zeta, as well as interior designer Claudia Afshar and architect Alexandra Hagen also joined to finalise the 46 award winners.
A dedicated panel of industry experts including Mina Hasman and Pooran Desai met to determine the winner of the Bentley Lighthouse Award, a special award supported by Bentley that rewards an individual whose work has had an overwhelmingly beneficial impact on social and environmental sustainability.
Winners will be announced in November
Winners will be announced at the end of November at the Dezeen Awards 2024 party in London with shortlist announcements made in October. Guests at the party will be the first to find out who has won the prestigious project of the year awards across architecture, interiors, design and sustainability.
Also unveiled at the ceremony will be this year's Designers of the Year, where we asked readers to put forward designers for consideration who have been finally shortlisted and selected by Dezeen's editorial team.
The master jury discussed 225 shortlisted entries selected from 4,000 projects from just under 100 countries around the globe.
Joining Ashizawa and Hagen on the architecture master jury panel were Saudi-based architect Sumaya Dabbagh, Spacon & X co-founder Nikoline Dyrup Carlsen and Reddymade founder Suchi Reddy.
"Design is a powerful tool to achieve change and it's clear much of the creativity in architecture today is directed towards building more sustainable societies," said Hagen.
"It gives me hope for the future."
Urquiola and Afshar were joined by Carolina Maluhy + Partners founder Carolina Maluhy, and Bentley head of design collaborations Chris Cooke.
On judging the interiors winners, Urquiola remarked "we were all connected to interior design but with very different perspectives".
"Yet, in the end, there was a shared sensitivity", she continued, "it confirmed that we are a community with diverse ways of exploring, driven by a shared vision, even where our approaches differ."
British industrial designer Tej Chauhan, who was part of the panel to decide the winners of the design categories, concurred.
"Evaluating the unique sensitivities of each was incredibly interesting," he said. "While our perspectives differed at times, we all came to a joint decision on very deserving winners."
"A really enjoyable day of judging"
Chauhan continued, "we had to wrap our minds around some exceptional projects across a wide range of sectors. It was a really enjoyable day of judging projects that ultimately left us feeling nourished and inspired."
Deliberating alongside Chauhan to decide the winners of the design categories were Broom, Mabeo and Zeta and Parisian designer Inga Sempé.
Henrik Taudorf Lorensen, founder and CEO of Copenhagen-based furniture design studio Takt, and Malin Orebäck, design strategist and senior advisor at the Research Institutes of Sweden's (RISE) Circular Business Lab, were on the sustainability panel alongside Hasman and Desai.
"The imagination this year's entries embody is truly an inspiration," said Desai.
"It is exactly what we need to put our society back on a track to build a better world for us all."
Following the day of judging, an exclusive drinks reception and dinner took place on the night of the master jury day in the One Hundred Room at One Hundred Shoreditch, where the master jury was joined by the Dezeen Awards community including judges past and present.
These included product designer Jasper Morrison, Design, Bitches co-founder Rebecca Rudolph and multidisciplinary designer Bethan Laura Wood.
Dezeen Awards winners' party tickets on sale
Following the shortlist announcements in October, the next big date in the Dezeen Awards calendar is the pinnacle of this year's programme – the Dezeen Awards winners' party, which will take place on Tuesday 26 November at Hackney Church in London.
The event will be a chance for everyone who entered this year's Dezeen Awards to celebrate their achievements alongside fellow nominees, winners and our esteemed Dezeen Awards judges. We also invite the wider architecture and design community to join us for this special occasion.
Guests will be treated to a night of drinks, food, live entertainment and music, and Dezeen Awards winners will be able to collect their trophies and certificates on stage.
Tickets are available at a 20 per cent discounted rate of £216 for all studios that entered this year's Dezeen Awards, and £270 for everyone else. Plus, save an additional 10 per cent on the standard ticket price when you book a package of five or more tickets. Subscribe to the Dezeen Awards newsletter to keep up to date with the latest announcements on the party.
The photography is by Mark Cocksedge.
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.