After evaluating all 380 competition entries, the international jury of The Great Indoors Award 2009 has selected five nominees in each of the five categories and chose a winner in each category.

The award winners were announced in Maastricht/Netherlands during the award ceremony on November 28th 2009:

Category Show & Sell - Retail
Including shops, showrooms, trade-fair stands, exhibitions etc.

Firm: Office for Metropolitan Architecture - OMA (NL) Project: Prada Transformer, Seoul 2009 Client: Prada

Category Relax & Consume - Leisure
Including hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants, spas, wellness centres etc.

Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle

Category Concentrate & Collaborate - Work
Including offices, studios, administration buildings, conference centres etc.

Firm: i29 Interior Architects (NL) Project: Recycled Office, Amsterdam 2009 Client: Gummo

Category Serve & Facilitate - Public
Libraries, hospitals, theatres, schools etc.

Firm:Bureau Ira Koers & Studio Roelof Mulder (NL) Project: Library for University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2009 Client: University of Amsterdam

Category Interior Design Firm of the Year 2009

Guise (SE) The Swedish firm Guise is one of those young firms that combine a distinctive method and a modest budget in its projects. The jury was particularly sold on the firm’s clear design methodology and quality in graphics, and sees in this underlying design concept a future scenario in which simple ingredients are effective identity carriers that also maximise functionality.

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Initiators of The Great Indoors Award are FRAME magazine; Marres CCC and The Netherlands Architecture Institute/ Bureau Europa.