Architect Sibylla Hartel, interior designers Alexy Kos and Che Huang and designers Charlot Magayi and Todd Bracher have joined the judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2026.

Dezeen Awards, in partnership with Trimble, is searching for the world's best architecture, interiors and design.

Entries close next week! Submit your projects by 23:59 London time on Wednesday 27 May, for the chance to put your work in front of our stellar panel of industry-leading judges.

Read on to find out more about who will be judging this year's entries:

Hartel, partner at British landscape architecture firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman, will join the architecture jury.

The architect brings extensive botanical knowledge to the practice and is passionate about creating distinctive, beautiful and robust landscapes.

She has worked on significant landscape architecture projects, including the design and implementation of Taikoo Place in Hong Kong, the design of a planted tower in the City of London and the design development of a landscape masterplan for a research district in Oxford.

Kos and Huang, co-founders of London-based design practice Child Studio, will join the interiors judging panel.

The studio is known for residential and hospitality interiors that balance architectural heritage with contemporary life, often within listed and historic buildings.

Its work combines natural materials, bespoke furniture and carefully curated antiques and artworks to create spaces with a sense of domesticity and permanence.

Recent projects include a Mayfair pied-à-terre and Belgravia townhouse in London, as well as The Twenty Two hotel and members' club in New York City.

Nairobi-born designer Magayi, founder and CEO of Mukuru Clean Stoves, will join this year's design jury.

Magayi founded the social enterprise to help protect families against deadly factors affecting communities in the African subcontinent, such as household air pollution, energy poverty and malaria.

The organisation has since manufactured and distributed over 700,000 life-saving clean cookstoves and launched the world's first patented mosquito-repellent fuel.

Magayi has been globally recognised as one of the most influential innovators transforming the future of clean energy and public health in Africa, receiving the Earthshot Prize in 2022 and being named a TIME Climate 100 Leader in 2025.

Joining Magayi on this year's design jury is New York City-based industrial designer Bracher, creative director of office furniture brand Humanscale.

Bracher has spent over a decade at Humanscale as a key design partner, working on projects including the Path and Trea chairs.

He has accrued numerous accolades for his work, and in 2024, Nova by Humanscale was named Dezeen Awards workplace design of the year.

Entries close next week!

There is just one week left to enter Dezeen Awards 2026. Enter your projects by 23:59 London time on 27 May before it's too late!

With 49 categories to choose from, whether you work in architecture, interiors or design, there's a category for you.

Creating an entry is easy! Simply create an account or log in via our entry platform, answer five simple questions and upload your best project imagery.

Dezeen Awards 2026 in partnership with Trimble

Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers worldwide. The ninth edition of the annual awards is in partnership with global technology company Trimble. Through connected hardware and software solutions, Trimble helps designers to transform the way they shape spaces and buildings as well as drive productivity in the process. Trimble's collaboration with Dezeen Awards demonstrates its ongoing commitment to inspiring and supporting creative excellence across the globe.