AHEAD Asia 2020 awards winners announced in video ceremony

The AHEAD Asia awards is announcing its winners today in a video ceremony broadcast on Dezeen, after its Singapore awards ceremony was postponed due to coronavirus outbreak.

The AHEAD awards celebrates striking hospitality projects from across the world, and is split into four different regions: Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Africa.

AHEAD made the decision to replace its Asia winners ceremony, which was due to take place today, with an online presentation due to the coronavirus outbreak. A physical event has been rearranged for 7 September at Andaz Singapore.

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The ceremony, which can be watched above or on the AHEAD website, is hosted by Sleeper Magazine's editor-at-large Guy Dittrich, and features imagery and videos of the winning projects, as well as video chat appearances from AHEAD's sponsors announcing the winners.

Entries were reviewed by a judging panel made up of leading hoteliers, architects, interior designers and industry commentators.

The judging panel picked the winners from a list of properties that opened, reopened or launched in the continent between September 2018 and August 2019.

AHEAD Awards director Matt Turner commented: "We were sadly unable to host our award ceremony as originally planned at Andaz Singapore due to the coronavirus, but of course the health and safety of our guests is paramount. We remain committed to celebrating the best in hospitality experience and design, so took the opportunity to try something new and host our first ever awards webcast. We look forward to hosting a follow-up event for our AHEAD community in Asia in September."

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Anastasia Tikhomirova stacks ceramic cylinders to create fragile furniture and lighting

Hand-moulded ceramic modules are balanced on top of each other to form structures close to two metres high, in this homeware collection by Russian architect Anastasia Tikhomirova.

The six-part Sirin Alkonost series was created for Moscow's Fabula gallery and presented at the Collectible design fair in Brussels last week.

The collection comprises of two tables and standing shelves, as well as a light and candle holder. These, in turn, are made up of up to 85 hollow ceramic cylinders, that are layered onto a skeleton of metal rods.

"My main goal was to challenge the material," Tikhomirova told Dezeen.

"Traditionally ceramics is used to create decorative, sculptural forms or flat surfaces like tiles. For me, as an architect, the fun came from trying to create some sort of building material, a structural element from it, to juxtapose those qualities of stability and fragility."

The clay modules are hand built and glazed in Moscow, and come in three different variations. Tall, thin cylinders are used to create the three-legged shelving units and the singular poles that make up the two lighting features.

Pearlescent spheres form precariously balanced feet, while wider, hockey puck-shaped modules are used to create the base of the tables.

"The assembly process is similar to a pearl necklace, you just put the beads on the string," said Tikhomirova.

"Or in our case, a metal rod. Although there's an order I prefer to use for stacking the elements, the owner can re-arrange them in their own way."

Each of the pieces is presented in two different colour schemes, which give the collection its name. Sirin features a palette of dark, moody green, grey and blue, while Alkonost brings in warm, faded shades of ocre and rust.

"The names come from Russian folklore and fairytale birds," the designer explained. "One is very joyful and light and one is more melancholic and wise."

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