15 projects 'shaping contemporary life' honored at 2026 Créateurs Design Awards

The Créateurs Design Awards have announced the winners for its 2026 edition. The award honors creative endeavors across 15 categories, seven of which encompass architecture and interior design projects. Other categories include product design, curation, photography, landscape, digital art, creative journalism, and curatorial practice.

"This year’s edition recognizes projects and voices shaping contemporary life through craft, material intelligence, cultural memory, and emerging digital practices," organizers said. "The winners represent a global field of creators working across disciplines and geographies, including China, the United States, Brazil, India, Japan, Italy, Ireland, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and more. In addition to the category awards, the 2026 Créateurs Design Awards presented two of its highest honors."

As we reported earlier this month, the CAD has also awarded honors to two acclaimed architects. Christian de Portzamparc was awarded the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing an architect whose “poetic urban vision and sculptural mastery have shaped contemporary architecture worldwide.” Meanwhile, Tiantian Xu was awarded Le Prix Charlotte Perriand, honoring an architect “whose rural revitalization work in China transforms culture, memory, and community through design.”

The 2026 winners are as follows:

Best Commercial and Cultural Project in Architecture
Drifting Stones: The Stacks and The Hut by DoDesign, China

Best Hospitality Project in Architecture
Desert Rock Resort by Oppenheim Architecture, USA

Best Residential Project in Architecture
House of Memories by Studio Lagom, India

Excellence in Landscape Architecture
Clos du Val by Surfacedesign, USA

Best Project Photography
Noir Matiere by Shoayb Khattab, UAE

Excellence in Art and Design Curation
Eva Jospin: Re Selvagem by Marcello Dantas, Casa Bradesco, Brazil

Excellence in Creative Journalism
Design for Women, by Women by Anne Quito, CNN

Excellence in Digital Art
Marina Abramovic Element (MAE) by Marina Abramovic and TAEX, UK

Best Design Collaboration
Hemispheres Collection by HOSOO and DIMORESTUDIO, Japan and Italy

Best Limited Series and Bespoke Design
Realm of Living Things by Aoki Kunimasa, Japan

Best Product Design
Giant Otter Armchair (Poltrona Ariranha) by Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros, Brazil

Best Collection
La V olupte by Atelier L’inconnu, Lebanon

Best Commercial and Cultural Project in Interior Design
Roisin Lafferty Gallery by Roisin Lafferty, Ireland

Best Hospitality Project in Interior Design
Javier’s Los Angeles Restaurant by Atelier Gulla, USA

Best Residential Project in Interior Design
Project Pennyroyal Tea by Multitude of Sins, India