Check out some of the best new designs named as 2024 FRAME Awards winners

The winning spaces and designs from the 2024 FRAME Awards were presented in Hong Kong recently. The awards are an international competition and celebrating outstanding achievements in the field of interior design and product design as organized each year by the Netherlands-based design publication FRAME.

Jury members for the competition came from a  broad spectrum of different design areas, including retail design, architecture, hospitality, and commercial interiors. Here are some highlights of the 2024 winners.

Single-Brand Store of the Year (cover image)

The Tamburins Seongsu Flagship Store by Eonsld and The System Lab (Seoul, South Korea)

Description: "Tamburins is reshaping the concept of offline stores to create a distinctive brand experience, solidifying its presence not just through products but also in the realm of space. Tamburins views its stores as places for customers to fully immerse themselves in the brand, rather than just spaces for making purchases. Their spaces intuitively showcase the aesthetics they pursue."

Pop-Up Store of the Year

Portable Bakehouse by F.O.G. Architecture (Hangzhou, China)

Description: "The overall form is informed by a barn. The wooden structure features shading board on the front and rainproof canopy supported on top at the back, with stacks of grain sacks as façade and ladder on the side, referencing a straw shed for resting commonly seen on Chinese farmland. We want to maximise its flexibility and mobility, able to be adapted in various environment, creating a new public space within an urban city. We want to use architecture as a medium to connect people and the land."

Best Use of Material

Suetomi Aoq Café Stand by Ryohei Tanaka / G Architects Studio (Kyoto, Japan)

Description: "This is a coffee stand belonging to AoQ, a new brand established by SUETOMI, the renowned confectionery shop in Kyoto. The stand is on Karasuma-dori street which runs from the Kyoto train station, and is located on the ground floor of a two-story wooden building at an intersection surrounded by hotels and office buildings."

Lighting of the Year

Array by Umat Yamac

Description: "Array is an exploration of thread and its potential to create lightweight and dynamic sculptures of light. Composed of an array of fine threads pulled taut between two rings, the collection presents a variety of conical and cylindrical silhouettes that can be combined together to form a compelling installation. Experimenting with light, Yamac manipulates layers of technically processed thread into majestic, three-dimensional volumes that shimmer overhead."

Furniture of the Year

Tai Kwun Chairs by Arta Architects

Description: "Tai Kwun is a unique mix of heritage and contemporary architecture. With a deep respect for authenticity, 16 heritage buildings have been meticulously restored for adaptive reuse, while two new buildings designed by renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron were added, featuring designs inspired by the site’s historic brickwork. The Laundry Steps at Tai Kwun is located underneath one of these new buildings, and has in the last 5 years been a space for impromptu gatherings, events, and performances. While the space is incredibly popular, the outdoor concrete steps were relatively uncomfortable for visitors to sit on for longer periods of time, and resulted in a lack of welcoming atmosphere."

Best Use of Colour

Straordinaria by We+ (Milan, Italy) 

Description: "This is an installation that embodies the product philosophy of Elica, an Italian company standing at the forefront in the production of cooking appliances, exhibited in the courtyard of Palazzo Litta, one of the most iconic stages in Milan and a magnificent example of Lombard Baroque architecture."

Multi-Brand Store of the Year

Naïve Bookstore by Atelier Tao+C (Hebei, China)

Description: "Since its inception, the publishing institute - naïve has set up bookstores in several cities that accommodate books and coffee to intrigue reading behaviors within its conceptualized space. On a snow field of Aranya Chongli in northern China, atelier tao+c conceived the new naïve bookstore as a luminous space in the midst of ice and snow, seamlessly integrated with the surrounding landscape, climate and nature. The existing site is a bare concrete space about 400sqm with partially double height ceiling, next to the snow-covered slopes and firtree forest on the south side."

The four designers winning in the Honorary Categories are:

Lifetime Achievement Award - Kjetil Trædal Thorsen of Snøhetta

Client - Veja

Designer - We+ 

Emerging Designer - Bonnie Hvillum