DS AWARDS BEST INTERIOR 2025

We invite all professional interior architects to compete for the DS Awards Best Interior.

There will be a dedicated exhibition for the nominated entries during Designers' Saturday 2025, and the winner will be announced at the Saturday Night Party.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

The DS Awards Best Interior is an open national competition for professional interior architects with a 3-year higher education degree or equivalent professional background. Each participant can submit up to three completed interior projects between September 2023 and May 2025.

GOAL

The mission with DS Awards Best Interior is to recognise the sustainable, experimental, novel and groundbreaking projects within the broad field of Interior Architecture in Norway, and to celebrate publicly the exquisite designers behind those works. The ambition is to inspire the forward-thinking clients, related industries, the peer designers and general public to develop our living and working environments to become ever better.

CATEGORIES

This year we introduce three sub-categories to DS Awards Best Interior. The objective is to celebrate more clearly the diversity of projects that are under the field of Interior Architecture. The categories are:

• public (culture, education, exhibition…)
• commercial (hospitality, retail, work…)
• living (housing, homes, cabins…)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The DS Awards Best Interiors seeks for the greatest works in the field. The assessment will be done through a holistic evaluation, where the following aspects will be the bases:

• environmental sustainability
• cultural sensitivity and social awareness
• innovation and originality
• purposeful

These criteria are not hierarchical, and each work can tackle the expectations uniquely as found relevant for the project.

JURY

The head of the jury is internationally known interior architect Cristiano Pigazzini from Note Stockholm. The other six distinguished jury members represent the Norwegian Interior Architecture scene: Myrna Becker (MNIL), Anne Cecilie Hopstock (MNIL), Marlene Fenger Vedal (MNIL), Kristian Hoff-Andersen (MNAL) (MNAL), Merethe Strømmen (MNIL) and Murad Khan (MNIL). The jury is dedicated recognizing and appreciating diversity of approaches and types of works and operating on principals of equal treatment.

PRIZES

1st prize: Best Interior Public

1st prize: Best Interior Commercial

1st Prize: Best Interior Living

DEADLINE

20.05.2025 (23:59)

APPLICATION

The application should consist of a single pdf document in landscape format, optimized for screen viewing. The first page must include:

• Category
• Project title
• The author(s) and copyright
• Contact information (mobile number and email)
• A brief description of the concept addressing the evaluation criteria (max. 200 words)

The document can be up to 5 pages long and should illustrate the project through drawings, renderings, and photographs. External links should not be included. The maximum file size is 5 MB.

Application should be emailed to: [email protected]

Subject field in the email: “Best Interior 2025, ‘category’, ‘title-of-your-work’”.

The shortlisted applicants should be prepared to exhibit their work physically in Oslo in September during the Designers' Saturday. Technical details of the exhibition will be provided to those who are shortlisted.

CONTACT PERSONS

Professor Toni Kauppila: [email protected]

Heidi Lie, Designers' Saturday: [email protected]