Now in their 14th year, the WIN Awards are intended to celebrate the best interior designers, and their most dazzling work, on an international scale. Get started on your entry today to qualify for the standard entry rate, which ends on July 4th.
Every project entered in the WIN Awards is assessed by an expert panel of senior industry judges from across the world.
Briar Hickling (pictured above left) is from New Zealand and co-founded architecture and interior design practice Linehouse in 2013 with Alex Mok. The practice has international experience with studios in Auckland, Hong Kong and Shanghai and a portfolio of work across China, Asia Pacific and Europe, from the small scale and the intricate, to the grand and public.
Briar has a particular interest in the hospitality design sector, with recent projects including Ying’n Flo hotel in Hong Kong – a lifestyle guesthouse for modern day travellers. It aims to break the traditional hotel narrative of serious spaces and strict boundaries, instead featuring a series of communal social spaces aimed at providing home comfort.
Another recent project is the Gaga Coast Restaurant in Shanghai which involved the transformation of a three-storey building into a three floor restaurant – each with contrasting colours and materials that tell a different part of the design story.
Brair urges WIN Award entrants to “be bold and be creative”. She hopes the WIN Awards will “bring a sense of achievement to designers and motivate designers to create more interesting design work”.
Nada Elsaid (pictured above, centre) is the co-founder and creative director of London-based Studio Anqet. An experienced interior architectural designer and project manager, she has worked on projects across the Middle East, Europe and the UK covering a range of sectors including residential, commercial and healthcare.
Nada holds a steadfast conviction that exceptional design ought to not only enhance one's quality of life but also elevate, ignite inspiration and evoke delight, and she wants WIN Award entrants to “inspire us”.
She says: “Allow us to see how your design can transform and elevate lives”.
She believes the WIN Awards are vital as “good designs should be showcased and celebrated”.
“This helps ignite the imagination and creativity that lies dormant within the new generation of designers,” she says.
As the Founding Principal of Netherlands-based practice STUDIO THO, Chi-Thien Nguyen leads a multi-disciplinary commercial interior design practice focusing on the hospitality, repositioning, housing and workplace sectors. He previously served as the Chair of Interior & Preservation Design at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and has worked on projects across the United States, Middle East and Asia. His previous projects include the transformation of the historic landmark Union Trust Building in Pittsburgh PA and White Elephant Hotel Palm Beach, a re-imagined 1924 historic landmark.