We are delighted to announce that multiple Benoy projects across APAC have been honoured at 2022 World Architecture News & World Interiors News Awards. With hundreds of entries from international design firms worldwide, the awards ceremony is also highly respected for its vigorous, objective and competitive judging process.
The winning projects include:
• David Jones Elizabeth Street Flagship Store – Bronze Award:
Retail Chain Stores, Department Stores, Supermarkets and Show Rooms category (Interior Design)
• Seazen Suzhou Wuyue Plaza – Bronze Award:
Retail Chain Stores, Department Stores, Supermarkets and Show Rooms category (Interior Design)
• Jewel VIP Lounge – Bronze Award:
Transport Hubs category (Interior Design)
• Huafa Jinwan Mall – Finalist:
Retail Chain Stores, Department Stores, Supermarkets and Show Rooms category (Interior Design)
• Guangzhou Yangtian Substation 220-kV – Finalist:
Future Projects — Urban Design category (Architecture)
The World Architecture News (WAN), incorporating World Interiors News (WIN), is one of the most prestigious international industry award bodies honouring outstanding architecture and interior design works that are innovative, visionary and imaginative.
Click the links below to view the winners:
https://www.worldinteriorsnewsawards.com/2023-ceremony
https://www.wanawards.com/results-2022
Congratulations again to the winning teams!
David Jones Elizabeth Street Flagship Store
Located in the heart of Sydney, the David Jones Elizabeth Street Flagship Store is one of Australia’s leading and most iconic department stores. Benoy’s challenge was to enhance the heritage structure and provide a more contemporary and inspiring retail environment, while at the same time celebrating the store’s opulent and storied past. The resulting design strategy involved a series of delicate and thoughtful architectural and interior modifications. By blending the existing building fabric with a re-designed layout, it maximised the store’s twelve levels, while allowing smooth, circulatory movement throughout and enabling a more diverse retail offering.
Seazen Suzhou Wuyue Plaza
When Marco Polo arrived in Suzhou he was most impressed by the city’s waterways and called it the“Venice of the East”. Our goal was to create an authentic, contemporary reinterpretation, using world-class design thinking and internationally proven techniques. Through careful analysis of the urban morphology and the architectural typologies on Pinjiang Road, we extracted the essential qualities of this historical area to create an indoor retail street that is not a mere imitation, but an authentic reinterpretation of the Old Town.
Jewel VIP Lounge
Located within Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport, the design brief for Jewel VIP Lounge was to provide an exclusive and luxurious lounge in Jewel that offers a differentiated and unique experience for an exclusive group of guests such as government ministers and high-net-worth individuals. The lounge also serves as a platform to cross-promote Jewel tenants and sponsors.
Huafa Jinwan Mall
Huafa Jinwan Mall is located in the core area of Zhuhai’s new Aviation City and is also a prime location adjacent to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Built on a land area of 58,483.24 m², Benoy designed a trendy (“affordable luxury”) shopping mall and a retail street to maximise the retail opportunity provided by the new aviation city. Using“Dream Flight Journey” as the design theme, our vision is to build Huafa Golden Bay Center into a place that belongs to the new generation and new thinking.
Guangzhou Yangtian Substation 220-kV
Located in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, this substation competition is intended to integrate into both physical urban context and social fabric while capturing the local historical heritage in the area. Covering a total area of 14,600 m2, the project will be built on the local material palette to create a series of layered walls that allow the substation to sit harmoniously within the surrounding natural and built environment.
