One week to go until Dezeen Awards 2022 opens for entries

It's Dezeen Awards' fifth birthday! Entries open on 8 February, with the discounted early-entry period running until 30 March 2022. Sign up to the Dezeen Awards newsletter to be the first to hear about new updates!

Join us to celebrate Dezeen Awards' fifth year anniversary as well as the world's best architecture, interiors and design!

Prices for early entries and standard entries remain unchanged from last year. In fact, we have maintained our standard entry rates since the first Dezeen Awards in 2018, meaning our programme continues to be as accessible as possible for studios of all sizes and locations.

Our low entry prices are designed to attract smaller studios and avoid categories being dominated by large companies. Just over 55 per cent of winning entries in 2021 were submitted by companies with 10 employees or fewer.

All longlisted and shortlisted projects get their own page on the site, and shortlisted projects are given full editorial coverage on Dezeen.

Shortlisted entries are also automatically entered into the Dezeen Awards public vote, where our readers decide which projects and studios deserve to win.

All Dezeen Awards winners receive a bespoke hand-made trophy designed by Atelier NL and a certificate.

Have we caught your attention? Below is a reminder of our key dates so you don't pass up the opportunity to enter this year:

8 February 2022

Dezeen Awards 2022 opens for entries. Subscribe to the Dezeen Awards newsletter to not miss any deadlines or special announcements!

30 March 2022

Early entry deadline. Enter now to benefit from our discounted prices.

1 June 2022

Standard entry deadline. Hurry up! The next entry fees are higher...

8 June 2022

Late entry deadline. This is your last chance to become a Dezeen Awards 2022 winner!

August 2022

We publish the architecture, interiors, design, sustainability and media longlists. Every longlisted project gets its own page on the Dezeen Awards website.

See the 2021 longlists ›

Early September 2021

We unveil the shortlisted projects and studios. Every shortlisted entry gets its own page on the Dezeen Awards website and also gets a dedicated write-up on Dezeen.

See the 2021 shortlists ›

Late September 2022

The public vote opens. Dezeen readers choose their favourite projects and studios from the shortlists.

October 2022

Voting closes and we reveal the public vote winners.

See the 2021 public vote winners ›

November 2022

It's time to salute the best architecture, interiors and design projects of the year, plus the best emerging and established studios.

See the 2021 winners ›

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Margas seating by Louise Liljencrantz for &tradition

Dezeen Showroom: for furniture brand &tradition, Swedish designer Louise Liljencrantz created the Margas lounge chair and sofa to bring warmth to interiors.

Combining a Scandinavian feel with strong lines and warm textures, the Margas seating features a curved upholstered form and short wooden legs.

Margas is available as a two-seater or lounge chair

Liljencrantz originally created the piece for a private residential project for which she wanted a sofa that could "hold court in the centre of a room".

Margas is available as a lounge chair or two-seater sofa. The legs come in black, oiled oak or oiled walnut, and there is also the option of a swivel base for the lounge chair.

The seating was designed to hold its own in the centre of a room

&Tradition suggests the piece would work well in hotel lobbies or upscale offices as well as private homes.

"Contemporary yet classic, the Margas reflects Louise Liljencrantz's remarkable ability to transform an interior with standout pieces," said &tradition founder and CEO Martin Kornbek Hansen.

Available from the end of March, the Margas lounge chair is one of two products launched by &tradition as part of their New for Spring launch. The second product will be unveiled tomorrow.

Product: Margas
Designer: Louise Liljencrantz
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Listing bid launched to stop demolition of Will Alsop's upside-down-boat cafe

Architectural charity Twentieth Century Society has applied to have the Will Alsop-designed La Frégate cafe in Jersey protected to prevent it being demolished as part of plans to redevelop its waterfront site.

The cafe in St Helier, which was an early work designed by Stirling Prize-winning architect Alsop, is currently under threat of demolition as part of a wider plan by the Jersey Development Company to develop the site.

"Tragedy if this cafe were to be demolished"

Designed by Alsop in collaboration with local architect Derek Mason, the cafe opened in 1997 and looks like an upturned boat.

Twentieth Century Society applied to have the cafe listed as, although small, it is a significant early work by Alsop, who passed away aged 70 in 2018.

"Just occasionally a tiny building can have a big impact – that's definitely the case here," said Twentieth Century Society director Catherine Croft.

"La Frégate is playful and joyous, and a rare example of a work by one of the most extraordinarily inventive architects of the past few decades," she told Dezeen.

"It would be a tragedy if this cafe were to be demolished and we hope that the feasibility studies currently underway will show that it's possible to save it."

La Frégate cafe is under threat of demolition

The La Frégate cafe is currently under threat as it is not included in the Jersey Development Company's plans for the redevelopment of the site, which were submitted to planning last week.

Masterplanned by UK studio Gillespies, the 11.5 hectare site is set to have 1,000 homes as well as office blocks, cafes, shops, an indoor swimming pool, cinema and arts building, built on it.

Read:

Ten of Will Alsop's architectural highlights

According to the Jersey Development Company, the cafe will be removed as the seawall protecting the site needs to be raised by 1.2 metres to prevent flooding.

"[Our] consultant's advice was that the sea defences needed to be raised by 1.2m and the slipway relocated," said a spokesperson for the Jersey Development Company.

"In order to maintain views out over the seawall the land level needs to increase by the same amount," they continued.

"La Fregate cafe is located in close proximity to the seawall and in order to increase the land levels, it is proposed to be removed."

Cafe a "much-loved building"

Alsop was one of the UK's most recognised architects, known for designing distinctive colourful buildings including The Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Canada and Peckham Library in London, which won the Stirling Prize in 2000.

Marcos Rosello, who co-founded London studio All Design with Alsop, believes that the media attention is drawing attention to the "little gem" of a building.

"I spent seven years growing up in Jersey and have fond memories of it, so this is quite close to my heart in many ways, said Rosello.

"The local support in Jersey shows it is another much-loved building and the publicity is making more people aware of this little gem."

It is not included in plans to redevelop the site

Rosello hopes that if the building has to be removed from its currently position it can be saved and rebuilt elsewhere. He cites Alsop's Cardiff Bay Visitor's Centre, which was relocated rather than demolished in 1994, as an example of this.

"Jersey Development Company are looking at the viability of moving it so let's hope this happens as this should be the worst case in this instance," said Rosello.

Following Alsop's death we rounded up his most significant buildings, and took a look at eight influential works designed by the architect that never got built.

The photography is courtesy of Twentieth Century Society.

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Five architecture and design events in February from Dezeen Events Guide

Madrid Design Festival, a Neri Oxman retrospective and a drag-queen-led tour of celebrity homes during Palm Springs' Modernism Week are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month.

Among the other events taking place in February is the World Around architecture summit in New York, which will include presentations on major projects from the last year including Tadao Ando's controversial Bourse de Commerce redesign, Depot Boijmans by MVRDV and David Chipperfield's restoration of the Neuenational Gallerie in Berlin.

Read on for details of our five highlights from January and see Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around the world.

Yasmeen Lari (above) is speaking at the Build conference and Neri Oxman is exhibiting at SFMoMA (top image)

Madrid Design Festival
1 February to 31 March, Spain

Designers Hella Jongerius and Patricia Urquiola feature alongside curator Jane Withers in a female-heavy speaker line-up at this year's Madrid Design Festival.

Now in its fifth year, the event is set to host more than 60 talks and masterclasses as part of its Design Pro conference, in which leading local and international voices will reflect on their practice and speak first-hand about recent projects.

The accompanying events programme, which spans nearly two months, will see more than 40 exhibitions and hundreds of other happenings taking place in galleries, showrooms and workshops across the city.

Build
3 to 5 February, Portugal and online

Housed in Porto's OMA-designed Casa da Música, as well as being live-streamed online, this three-day conference will look at how high-tech and low-tech construction techniques can be combined to decarbonise the built environment.

In attendance will be Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, who has built more than 45,000 affordable climate-change resilient homes using mud and lime, as well as representatives from Kengo Kuma & Associates and Ibuku, a Balinese studio specialising in bamboo construction.

Albert Frey's Cree House is open for Modernism Week. Photo is by Lance Gerber

Modernism Week
17 to 27 February, USA

Iconic modernist homes over more than 30 Palm Springs neighbourhoods are opening their doors this February as part of Modernism Week, including Albert Frey's Cree House and the former residence of architect William F Cody.

Visitors can explore the city's architectural landmarks by foot, bike or bus with the help of a number of guided tours, including a sunset drive past famous celebrity haunts and homes hosted by drag queen Bella Da Ball.

Meanwhile, the event's extensive speaker programme will encompass two talks from MAD Architects, a three-part symposium on the legacy of black designers in Southern California and a presentation from Signe Nielsen, the landscape architect behind Heatherwick Studio's floating park Little Island in New York.

Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects
19 February to 15 May, USA

A biopolymer pavilion, 3D-printed death masks and a chaise longue that doubles as an anechoic chamber are among more than 40 projects by American-Israeli architect Oxman, which are on show as part of this exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The retrospective spans work created by Oxman's eponymous studio and under her leadership of MIT's Mediated Matter research group, looking at how it combines biomaterials and novel fabrication techniques to create a regenerative architecture that works for other species than just humans.

Oxman's Aguahoja pavilion will be on show at SFMoMA. Image is by Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group

Collect Fair
23 to 27 February, UK and online

After moving online in 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Collect fair for contemporary collectable craft and design is once again returning to London's Somerset House this month for its 18th edition.

Participating galleries are set to exhibit an unprecedented number of new artists while the Collect Open exhibition will showcase 12 installations from emerging artists hailing from Chile, Israel and the UK.

For those unable to attend in person, the fair is presenting virtual showrooms via the online art platform Artsy, while its accompanying talks programme will be live streamed.

Yasmeen Lari's portrait is courtesy of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan and the top image is by Yoram Reshef.

About Dezeen Events Guide

Dezeen Events Guide is our guide to the best architecture and design events taking place across the world each year.

The guide is updated weekly and includes virtual events, conferences, trade fairs, major exhibitions and design weeks, as well as up-to-date information about what events have been cancelled or postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Inclusion in the guide is free for basic listings, with events selected at Dezeen's discretion. Organisers can get enhanced or premium listings for their events, including images, additional text and links, by paying a modest fee.

In addition, events can ensure inclusion by partnering with Dezeen. For more details on inclusion in Dezeen Events Guide and media partnerships with Dezeen, email eventsguide@dezeen.com.

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Roar to open Meta Space studio to design property in the metaverse

Emirati studio Roar has announced it is expanding its architecture and interior design business to the metaverse, where it has purchased land for its new showroom.

Roar has bought two plots of digital land in the 3D virtual world Decentraland and intends to turn them into Roar Meta Space – a studio to design and develop property for the virtual environment.

It sees the Roar Meta Space housing a commercial art gallery, a furniture showroom and store, a creative and business event space and an "experimental hotel of the future".

Metaverse "not a passing fad", says Roar founder

The studio's founder and creative director Pallavi Dean said it was "vital that Roar puts a flag in the ground in the metaverse".

"The metaverse is clearly a lasting commercial phenomenon, not a passing fad, so we want – and need – to be there," said Dean. "We're already in advanced discussions with several clients about really exciting projects."

Roar's studio in the metaverse will design and develop virtual property

Expounding on her vision for the metaverse, Dean said that the metaverse had the advantage of removing two main barriers to creativity in architecture: safety regulations and budget.

However, she plans to employ restraint, as she believes that successful design in the metaverse will be "relatable instead of ultra-futuristic or sci-fi".

Meta Space an extension of designing with AR and VR

Dean also encouraged architects and designers to view the metaverse as an extension of their current practice rather than a disruption.

"This is not unchartered territory for us," said Dean. "Designing with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) is second nature; it's how we work. They're the tools of our trade."

"Traditionally we would hand the designs to engineers and builders to create a physical space – the metaverse simply cuts out that part of the process," she continued.

Read:

Andrés Reisinger sells collection of "impossible" virtual furniture for $450,000 at auction

Roar bought its plots in Decentraland for 18,600 Mana (the platform's cryptocurrency token) or approximately US$36,000 (£27,000). The studio says the land is situated in a desirable area close to the fashion district.

Pallavi founded Roar in 2013 and the Dubai-based studio has since created numerous physical spaces across the region, including homes, hotels, offices and schools.

Its recent projects have included the Drop Coffee cafe interior and the technology-equipped AREA 2071 nursery school, both in Dubai.

More designers and brands experiment with metaverse

Roar is not alone among designers and architects in entering the metaverse, the emerging digital universe that enthusiasts believe will form an increasingly important part of our work and personal lives.

Artist Krista Kim sold the first NFT digital home last year, while artist Andrés Reisinger and architect Alba de la Fuente recently designed a Dieter Rams-inspired house to sit in a wintery metaverse.

Many companies have also embraced the technology, such as Adidas, which has begun producing virtual versions of its clothing that can be worn by metaverse avatars.

The images are courtesy of Roar.

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