2025 CATEGORIES

All products can be entered into this category. This will be judged by a different panel from the other categories. The judges will be looking for the most inventive and deserving product of 2025.

Interior luminaires, lamps and exterior lighting products for use in workplace, retail, leisure, exhibition, public or commercial settings.

Furniture designed for public areas including office, hotel, leisure, occasional and break-out furniture. Includes soft seating for receptions and now also includes workplace and task seating.

For wall, flooring, cladding and surface design products, including decorative, creative and inventive surfaces.

This category has been introduced in recognition of the huge sector worldwide of flooring applications. All floor covering products which can be used in contract interior design are welcome, so any material that can work in offices, schools, hospitals and hotels etc.

Schemes for civic, transport, education or medical projects including schools, colleges, universities, health centres, and hospitals. This category is also open to private projects within these sectors.

The ultimate display space! This category is for the creative use of exhibition space in museums and galleries, for either temporary or permanent exhibitions.

This includes the signage and wayfinding involved in your project as well as the brilliant advertisements and logos that you’ve designed for your clients.

The interior design of bars or restaurants – as wild as you like! Eligible projects include both temporary and permanent bars or restaurants.

Looking for the best global project, this category is open to projects of all kinds. This means your project can be entered twice, once for any of the above sector categories, and again for the category of Global Project. As each category will be judged by a completely different panel of judges, even if you don’t win your sector category, you could still win this!

Leisure and entertainment projects, including spas, health clubs, gyms, salons, nightclubs and cinemas.

The Build to Rent and Private Rental Sector (PRS) is an enormous burgeoning sector so we invite you to enter projects from the past three years to win this award. This category is open to both developers and architects/ designers.

Complete hotel schemes including new-build, conversion, restoration and refurbishment projects.

Completed schemes that make the best use of lighting in all contract applications including office, retail, leisure, exhibition, public space and commercial settings.

Projects that ‘reinvent buildings’ including change of use. This can be a combination of residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or industrial projects, as well as mixed-use real estate development projects by a private developer and/or with public funding. This award will be credited to both the developer and the designer.

This is a new category for outside spaces including roof gardens, landscape design or connecting buildings through bridges, gardens, waterfalls and anything that improves our experience of outdoor space.

This concerns any space where the public can gather. This could be outside as well as inside, including atriums, grand reception areas, forum spaces, piazzas etc. This category also includes privately funded projects in which the general public can assemble.

Design schemes in all forms of retail outlet, including shopping centres, retail concepts and stores. Judges will be looking for the use of new technology for retail, and the kind of interiors that draw customers in and provide amazing consumer experiences.

A workspace environment maximising comfort, productivity and efficiency, including reception areas, break-out zones, or entire office departments. This will be judged on the total concept for the client and workers alike. The unusual, the wild and the daring are most welcome! Projects can be corporate or more bespoke.

The same criteria as for Workplace Environment Small – except for size.

This is for all UK office projects of any size, so it is an additional category to the Workplace Small or Large categories which have international projects to be judged against. All categories are judged by a separate panel.

By popular demand, we’ve introduced a category for UK architects and designers from all of the above sectors.

Criteria to be confirmed shortly

Criteria to be confirmed shortly