Besides being an exciting way to share work on the FRAME platform and receive real-time feedback from industry professionals, FRAME Awards has led interior design studios to increased recognition and more authority within their niches. Six winning studios from 2024 share their experience below.
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Fyra
Large Office of the Year 2024
‘The way a workplace welcomes individuals, accommodates diverse needs, and nurtures wellbeing can be a true game-changer.’ Oma Louekari of Fyra says about its winning project Ey Finand. The studio won points with the jury for applying an unconventionally domestic, cosy aesthetic to a workspace resulting in an office that prioritizes employee’s comfort, supporting various ways of working. ‘We were able to reach new audiences, for example on social media, as FRAME shared our achievement, and being able to tell our clients that our work is recognized on this level, is a joy,’ said Louekari of the studio’s win.
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Arta Architects
Furniture of the Year 2024
Arta Architects took the prize for Furniture of the Year for Tai Kwun Chairs, a flexible seating system custom-designed to fit with a specific set of stairs often used for public performances, allowing audiences to enjoy large scale performances and small group gatherings in comfort. Winning the category has ‘led to international client inquiries, speaking engagements and a particularly thrilling milestone: our recent debut at Milan Design Week 2025,’ said Tat Lai Wong, co-founder of Arta Architects. ‘Beyond global exposure, the critical feedback and connections within the design community have been instrumental in refining our approach and ambition,’ says Arnold Wong of the deeper impact of winning on his studio’s work.
Photo: Amit Geron
Baranowitz + Kronenberg
Small Apartment of the Year 2024
‘Putting our design philosophy out there to be scrutinized is a great tool to evaluate our mode of thinking, beliefs, and aspirations and to evolve,’ said Alon Baranowitz of Baranowitz + Kronenberg, winner of the Small Apartment category for Urban Refuge. The serene 47 sq-m apartment is dominated by the use of Douglas fir was complimented by the jury for its clever storage and treatment of light. The win has also expanded the studio’s reach: ‘FRAME Awards has certainly steered the attention of many who were not aware of our involvement in this scale of projects, a fact that introduced a new audience on our doorstep.’
Photo: Yua Sawamura
We+
Set Design of the Year 2024, Best Use of Colour 2024
We+ scored a hat-trick in 2024’s awards, winning Designer of the Year in addition to two category wins for its ethereal Straordinaria installation. Toshiya Hayashi, one half of the star design duo, says of the win: ‘as a design studio that specializes in spatial design, receiving the FRAME Award for Designer of the Year was a great honor, as it signified that our ongoing efforts were recognized on a global scale. We were especially proud that the award recognized not just a single project, but the studio as a whole—underscoring the strength of our teamwork.’ The award has given the studio ‘tremendous confidence and motivation as we move forward with our creative endeavors,’ says Hayashi.
Photo: Masayuki Hayashi
Hakuten
Window Display of the Year 2024
Hakuten’s window display for Shiseido tastefully married the skills of traditional Japanese umbrella craftspeople with a Christmas holiday theme. ‘Winning the award three years in a row gave us confidence that we’re consistently producing high-quality designs each year,’ says Aki Ito of Hakuten, noting how the win ‘let to increased trust and recognition from design studios both in Japan and abroad.’ Recognition for the project was beneficial to Ito’s team as well, gaining ‘attention within the company, which led to various new projects. Being recognized purely for our spatial design gave me confidence.’
Photo: Aiste Rakauskaite
Paul de Ruiter Architects
Learning Space of the Year 2024
Lauded by the jury for its sustainability and use of technology, Paul de Ruiter Architects’ Langeveld Building for the Erasmus University Rotterdam brings the outside in with plenty of lush greenery and real, constructive tree trunks in its atrium – but the real innovations are in the circular principles underlying the design. Materials from demolition projects and recycled or biobased materials were used wherever possible, and a natural ventilation system based on research into the ventilation of termite mounds reduces energy consumption by up to 85 percent. Winning the award has positioned the studio ‘more clearly as a firm that not only designs beautiful building but also leads the way in healthy and sustainable architecture,’ bringing ‘valuable exposure, especially within the educational sector and among clients who prioritize sustainability and wellbeing,’ says Paul de Ruiter, founder of Paul de Ruiter Architects.
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