16 Dec 2024.
“A soup to remember” was awarded at the only creative competition judged by journalists
The Epica Awards competition, established in 1987, is judged by media representatives from over 60 countries worldwide
Brigada is shortlisted for the World Interior News awards which celebrate the best designs through several categories like residential, workspace, retail, restaurants, hotel or museum and exhibition interiors. The Glypthoteque HAZU’s exhibition The Culture of Smoking: From Taboo to Taboo stands side by side with some of the best exhibition spaces globally such as Rijksmuseum or Marfa Contemporary Gallery.
World Interior News (WIN) is a sister web page of the World Architecture News, the leading online publisher about architecture and since 2010 when it was launched WIN became a significant online source featuring current interior design trends and innovations.
Respected professionals sit in the WIN annual awards jury: Rabih Hage designed the TGV railway stations Paris Montparnasse and Nantes, the French Pavillion for Seville Expo and was pronounced the best interior designer in 2004 by the British Interior Design Association. Sally Mackereth was recently listed among the six best architects in London by the Daily Telegraph’s online magazine The Luxury.
Perparim Rama has been a consultant for the London 2012 Olympics and project leader in designing the Urban Regulating Plan for London city. Sean Hatcher designed the winning entry for Max Mara’s headquarters, Italy and T-Mobile’s global headquarters in Bonn. Juliet Kinsman is Mr & Mrs Smith’s editor-in-chief, a global boutique hotels guide. Afroditi Krassa was awarded Designer of the Year in 2010 by Elle Deco. Clementine Rodgers is a lighting designer whose key projects include Barbecoa restaurant for Jamie Oliver and Interior Lighting Strategy for Canterbury Cathedral.
Here’s what the judges had to say about Brigada’s work:
The exhibition intrigued the judges with its ‘difficult topic matter’. They found the designers took ‘quite a clever approach’ to create ‘a space within a space’, with ‘interesting displays of objects’, ‘coherent’ and brilliantly ‘devoid of the prejudice’ associated with the subject of smoking.
