Dezeen Awards 2022 project of the year winners revealed
The winners of this year's Dezeen Awards architecture, interiors and design projects of the year have been announced at the Dezeen Awards 2022 party.
Argo Contemporary Art Museum and Cultural Centre by Ahmadreza Schricker Architecture North was named architecture project of the year, Ecole Camondo Méditerranée by Émilieu Studio won interiors project of the year, and Wheeliy 2.0 by Quantum was named design project of the year.
Each of the overall winners was chosen from the Dezeen Awards category winners that were announced earlier this month.
The winners were announced at a party at One Hundred Shoreditch in London that was attended by shortlisted studios along with Dezeen Awards judges past and present including Fabio Novembre, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Hanif Kara, Tosin Oshinowo, Alison Brooks and Tom Dixon.
Read on to find out which projects were crowned overall winners:
Architecture project of the year: Argo Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre by Ahmadreza Schricker Architecture North
Argo Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre, a conversion of a 1920s factory in Tehran, beat 10 other projects to win architecture project of the year, having won the cultural building of the year project category earlier in the competition.
"It is a bold adaptive reuse of a historic structure in the centre of Tehran and proposes a purposeful future use, which is inclusive, which respects the past while being forward-looking, and as such is a building that has a wider cultural and political significance," said the judges.
Interiors project of the year: Ecole Camondo Méditerranée by Émilieu Studio
Interiors project of the year was won by Émilieu Studio for its Ecole Camondo Méditerranée design school in Toulon, France, and secured its place in the final by winning the civic and cultural interior category.
The studio created a large-scale flexible learning space, only furnished with reused local materials. "This school sets a new example of how to approach design education, creating a sense of openness and mobility, which is what a school should be all about," commended the judges.
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Design project of the year: Wheeliy 2.0 by Quantum
Design project of the year was won by Japanese startup studio Quantum for its reduced weight foldable wheelchair Wheeliy, having previously won the product design of the year category. The wheelchair features yellow accents that help those unfamiliar with wheelchairs to operate it intuitively, acting as visual cues.
"The current range of products available to this community is appalling. Wheeliy is a dignified design solution for an underrepresented group in society. This project was designed with inclusivity in mind and addresses a user group whose needs have been neglected for too long," the judges said.
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"Agenda-setting" awards
"Each of these projects is about more than just good design," said head of Dezeen Awards Claire Barrett.
"While every one of them excels and pushes the envelope, more than that they each show how design can be a powerful tool for change."
The winners, including category winners and overall winners which were announced two weeks ago, received a hand-made trophy designed by Atelier NL and a Dezeen Awards 2022 certificate.