Architecture and design nominees announced ahead of star-studded 2025 Créateurs Design Awards

The nominees for the 2025 Créateurs Design Awards have been announced ahead of a special ceremony to be held in Paris on Saturday, January 18th. 

Joining the previously announced Andree Putman Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Norman Foster and Le Prix Charlotte Perriand Award winners from SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) were the 14 category nominees (three of which are for Architecture). The CDA says each uniquely elicits the "global outlook of creativity, blending tradition with innovation" with Lina Ghotmeh's critically popular new workshops for the Hermès brand outside of Paris leading the field as perhaps the best-known example.

Others, including Philippe Starck, Studio MK27, and Sumayya Vally, will look forward to hearing their names called live from the Shangri-La Paris hotel. A look back at the 2024 edition of the Créateurs Design Awards can be found here.

The 2025 CDA nominees are:

BEST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT in ARCHITECTURE

• Lakeside Gallery Residence by Atelier Échelle/Canada
• Santa María del Oroby MCxA Group/Mexico
• The House of Courtyards by Studio VDGA/India
• Wood Up by LAN Architecture/France

BEST HOSPITALITY PROJECT in ARCHITECTURE

• 28.0855 by Van Van Atelier/Mexico
• Los Milics Vineyard Tasting Room by Chen Suchart Studio/USA
• Maison Brummell Majorelle by Studio Bergendy Cooke/Morocco
• Overwater Bamboo Restaurant by Atelier Nomadic/Maldives

BEST COMMERCIAL & CULTURAL PROJECT in ARCHITECTURE

• La Almazara, Ronda by Philippe Starck/Spain
• Precise Acts - Hermès Workshops by Lina Ghotmeh/France
• Sun Tower by OPEN Architecture/China
• Terra Cotta Workshop by Tropical Space/Vietnam

BEST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT in INTERIOR DESIGN

• Antwerp Estate by Nathalie Van Reeth/Belgium
• Infinity House by Róisín Lafferty/Ireland
• Moroccan Decadence by Nicholas Vincent/USA
• Project Broad by Elicyon/UK
• Village House by Studio MK27/Brazil

BEST HOSPITALITY PROJECT in INTERIOR DESIGN

• Banyan Tree Yangcheng Lake by Yang & Associates Group/China
• Bistro Gina by Fyra/Finland
• Manna by K-Studio/Greece
• Song - Four Seasons Hangzhou by ABConcept/Hong Kong
• Selva Restaurant & Sonora Cocktail Bar by El Equipo Creativo/The Netherlands

BEST COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL PROJECT in INTERIOR DESIGN

• Aatma Manthan Museum by Sanjay Puri Architects/India
• Ajman Ruler’s Court by Roar/UAE
• Shenzhen Galaxy Twin Towers by Yu Qiang & Partners/China
• Simple Art Museum by Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee/HAS Design and Research/China
• Tojiro Knife Gallery Osaka by Katata Yoshihito Design/Japan

BEST PRODUCT DESIGN

• Cuddle by Frank Chou/China
• Quadrat Armchair by Pelle/USA
• Rude Collection by Faye Toogood cc-tapis/Italy
• The Kissing Cabinet by Adam and Arthur/Australia

BEST COLLECTION

• El Díade Mañana by Dixten Studio/Spain
• Escaping Forward by Nacho Carbonell and Carpenters Workshop Gallery/France
• Gear by Hector Esrawe/Mexico
• Mystic Garden by Brynjar Sigurðarson and Veronika Sedlmair/Germany
• Perpetual Motion by Workshop Collection/USA

BEST DESIGN COLLABORATION 

• Archive Light by BCXSY and Lobmeyr/Netherlands
• Cenote by Patricia Urquiola for Agape/Italy
• Craft x Tech Tohoku Project by Tangent along with Maria Cristina Didero, Sabine Marcelis, Studio SWINE, Ini Archibong, Yoichi Ochiai, Michael Young, Hideki Yoshimoto/Japan
• IDEOLOGIST x François de Martignac/France
• AXISTOOLS by Main Nuéand OUR LEGACY WORKSHOP/Sweden

DESIGN LIMITED-SERIES and BESPOKE

• Folia Collection by Federico Stefanovich/Mexico
• IImārat Series by Deepak Gugarri/India
• Ishigaki Floor Lamp Coral by Aki+Arnaud Cooren/France
• Knot Collection by Poujardieu Vincent/France
• Táas by EWE Studio/Mexico

BEST PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHY

• Cobalt Townhouse by Barbara Corsico/Italy
• Enhance - The Art of Bed Dressing by Ruth Maria Murphy/Ireland
• KAFD by Shoayb Khattab/UAE
• Mustras - The Human Nature Of Craftsmanship Meets Design by Barbara Corsico/Italy
• Surf Ghana Busua by Julien Lanoo/Ghana

EXCELLENCE IN DIGITAL ART

• IVA POPSURREAL by Suzan Valois/France
• Mirror of the Mind for The Sphere Las Vegas by Krista Kim/Canada
• Simulation Hypothesis by Maxim Zhestkov/UK
• STUDIO KI Tarot Fables of Form & Fate by Caroline Keslassy/France

EXCELLENCE IN CREATIVE JOURNALISM

• Ai Weiwei Profile: No Place Like Home by Jay Cheshes/Smithsonian Magazine
• For These Native American Creatives, Fashion and Art Are Inextricably Linked by Stephanie Sporn/Art Basel
• Maurizio Cattelan Turned a Banana Into Art. Next Up: Guns by Laura Rysman/The New York Times
• Metabolism in Motion by Charmaine Chan/PostMag

EXCELLENCE IN ART & DESIGN CURATION

• 2084: A Diorama Of The Future by HEAD Genève Department Of Interior Architecture/Switzerland
• Duo by Melek Zeynep Bulut/UK
• Islamic Arts Biennale artistically directed by Sumayya Vally/Saudi Arabia
• Juxtaposed: A Portal to African Design by Jomo Tariku and Wexler Gallery/USA
• Maison Diez Company by Rodrigo Fernandez Barajas/Mexico