INSIDE, the sister festival of the World Architecture Festival, has revealed its shortlist with insta-friendly designs. INSIDE, celebrating the world’s finest examples of interior design, is taking place at the same venues with WAF, and it will be held in Amsterdam from 4-6 December this year. 

Prominent projects have been shortlisted in 9 categories for the 2019 World Festival of Interiors and they are Bars & Restaurants, Civic, Culture & Transport, Creative Re-use, Display, Health & Education, Hotels, Offices, Residential and Retail. 

With designers ever conscious of how their projects will appear on Instagram, a host of jaw-dropping interiors that push the design boundaries define the twelfth edition of INSIDE, the World Festival of Interiors. 

Whether it’s a novelty cat café in Guangzhou, China, or a global heritage brand such as Fortnum and Mason inside London’s Royal Exchange, across the board we’re seeing design with a capital D. 

Major world architects and designers shortlisted include BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, Woods Bagot, Universal Design Studio, Buro Ole Scheeren, alongside others such as E Studio, KTX archiLAB, ONG&ONG, Snuper Design, Koichi Takada Architects and more. 

B/Hive, Smales Farm by BVN in association with Jasmax. Image © John Gollings

This year's INSIDE World Festival of Interiors shortlist consists of 92 projects from across the world. All nominees will present their projects to distinguished international juries that include Johan Carlsson of Jac Studios, Annabel Kassar of AKK, James Grose of BVN and Weng Shanwei of AN Design during the Festival to compete for one of the nine INSIDE category awards. 

Open to all festival attendees, the presentations are followed by a live exchange between the designers and jurors. The overall winner of the "World Interior of the Year" will be announced at an exclusive gala dinner on Friday 6th December at Beurs van Berlage.

HUUU! Eyewear Trendsetter, Tanatkiat Chongkriengkrai / AA+A, Bangkok, Thailand. Image © VARP

"INSIDE has been a growing part of the overall World Architecture Festival programme since 2012 and continues to grow in terms of quantity and quality. We are delighted with the intriguing designs and geographical spread of this year’s entries and look forward to the live judging in Amsterdam," said WAF programme director Paul Finch.

INSIDE World Festival of Interiors with WAF will welcome more than 2,000 of the world’s leading architects and designers to Amsterdam for three days of conference programmes, awards, exhibitions and fringe events from 4-6 December. 

World Architecture Community is official Media Partner for this year's festival and offers to its Professional Members 10% discounted tickets over regular festival prices during WAF registration! All you have to do is to upgrade your World Architecture Community membership to Professional here or visit your WAC Settings page and send us ([email protected]) an email to get your promo code for your WAF registration!

See the full INSIDE World Festival of Interiors 2019 shortlist below:

Banu Flagship Restaurant - Studio Link-Arc + Kane A|UD, Zhengzhou, China. Image © Quingshan Wu

Bars & Restaurants

Banu Flagship Restaurant - Studio Link-Arc + Kane A|UD, Zhengzhou, China

Bar Lotus - Tim Kwan / OFFICE AIO, Shanghai, China

Blooming restaurant (Beijing Solana) - Yi Chen & Muchen Zhang, Beijing, China

Dean & DeLuca STAGE, Buro Ole Scheeren, New York, USA

John Anthony - Linehouse, Hong Kong, China

Karavanstop Cafe - One Bite Design Studio, Lantau, Hong Kong

Kiew kai ka & Artisan cafe @ oneniman - proud design, Chiang mai, Thailand

MAÇAKIZI HOTEL BEACH CLUB - TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS, Bodrum, Turkey

Meow Restaurant - E Studio, Guangzhou, China

noma - BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, Denmark

Petra Maslak - GEO_ID, Istanbul, Turkey

Sunmai - Ahead Concept Design, Taipei City, Taiwan

The Fortnum’s Bar and Restaurant at The Royal Exchange - Universal Design Studio , London, United Kingdom

The Green Isle - Keng-Fu Lo / Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

The Top of Cloud - RSAA/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang, Xi'an, China

Wanda Jin Hotspring Danzhai - Wanda Hotel Design Institute, Danzhai, China

WAY2 - Pig design, China

Bedok Public Library by ONG&ONG. Image © ONG&ONG and National Library Board

Civic, Culture & Transport

Renovation Metro Oostlijn, GROUP A, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cloud of Luster, KTX archiLAB, Himeji City, Japan

WUHAN PANLONG PLAZA YINXING CINEMA, One Plus Partnership, Wuhan, China

SHENZHEN CINE SKY CINEMA, One Plus Partnership, Shenzhen, China

Bedok Public Library, ONG&ONG, Singapore

The shattered Holiness: Shanghai Taihoe Cinema, Scale Art Design + CROX with Botta Lai and C.R.LIN, Shanghai, China

Flow - Turkish Airlines Lounges at Istanbul Airport, Softroom, Istanbul, Turkey

Qujiang Creative Cultural Centre, The Oval Partnership, Xi'an, China

LocHal Library, Mecanoo architecten, Tilburg, Netherlands. Image © Ossip Architectuurfotografie

Creative Re-use

Jiangnan Mintage Museum and the Headquarter of Kingjee Group, Fan Architectural Firm (FANAF), Nanjing, China

49 HUB Warehouse 116, Interior Architects 49, Bangkok, Thailand

LocHal Library, Mecanoo architecten, Tilburg, Netherlands

Urban Home of Nature, ORIGIN ARCHITECT, Beijing, China

UPON SHARED COMMUNITY | SWIMMING POOL RE-CREATIVE, PU CHEN/Archiland, Tianjin, China

MDR Truss Campus, Rapt Studio, California, USA

The Can, segmento urbano| MELOM, Matosinhos, Portugal

1 Lyric Square, Stiff+Trevillion, London, United Kingdom

Puwan CCRC, WIT Design & Research, Beijing, China

LaCanTouch FF&E Gallery, Library and Salon, Vermilion Zhou Design Group, Shanghai, China. Image © Yunpu Cai

Display

Antique Glasses Museum-SENSE OF VISION, HUNG CHIH-YUAN/NONE TO TEN DESIGN LAB, Taichung, Taiwan

CR CITY CROSSING, LSDCASA, JiNan, China

Tongue n Groove Flagship Showroom, Nick Tobias / Tobias Partners, Waterloo, Australia

The Cloud Maze, RSAA/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Inflorescences, TEAM_BLDG, Suzhou, China

LaCanTouch FF&E Gallery, Library and Salon, Vermilion Zhou Design Group, Shanghai, China

The Fire Of Holy Spirit, Yi Chen & Muchen Zhang, Beijing, China

Shenzhen-HongKong International Center, S.U.N DESIGN INC., China

Classroom Makeover for the Blind, Creative Crews, Pattaya, Thailand. Image by Creative Crews

Health & Education

Northern Beaches Hospital, BVN, Sydney, Australia

Classroom Makeover for the Blind, Creative Crews, Pattaya, Thailand

TWA - The World Academy, INNOCAD architecture, King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia

American International Hospital, ONG&ONG, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Preschool in India, PAL Design Group, Gurugram, India

The University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute, SPA and BVN, Adelaide, Australia

Dream and Maze, The Other Place. Guilin Litopia, Studio 10, Guilin, China. Image © Chao Zhang

Hotels

CAN BORDOY, OHLAB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Dream and Maze, The Other Place. Guilin Litopia, Studio 10, Guilin, China

ALILA VILLAS KOH RUSSEY @ CAMBODIA, STUDIOGOTO, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Jiyu Spa, Tianwen Sun / Shanghai Hip-pop Design Team, Danyang, Jiangsu, China

Wanda Vista Hotel Qingdao Movie Metropolis, Wanda Hotel Design Institute, Qingdao, China

Dainty Dancer, YZ ENVIRONMENT DESIGN, Chongqing, China

Courtyard No.1, Larry Wen, Heze, China. Image © Ligang Huang

Offices

KWG Cohesion Co-working Space, John Zhang, Tina Wang, Shanghai, China

Courtyard No.1, Larry Wen, Heze, China

Maike Group Office, Ming Dang, Xi'an, China

Attabotics Office, Modern Office of Design + Architecture, Calgary, Canada

Tahoe, PAL Design Group, Hong Kong, China

FCA, Perkins and Will, London, United Kingdom

Lien Foundation Office, Produce, Singapore

JERDE, Rapt Studio, California, USA

Norwest Venture Partners San Francisco, Rapt Studio, California, USA

A Scene of woods, Sun-Life Interior Design, Taichung City, Taiwan

Nordic European Centre, Singapore, TA.LE ARCHITECTS, Singapore

Merkez Ankara Sales Office, Yazgan Design Architecture, Ankara, Turkey

WMY Workplace Interior Design, Zhe Zhang/ Within Beyond Studio, Beijing, China

Pet house, Zhang Hai'aog, Shanghai, China. Image © Zhang Hai'ao

Residential

Santiburi The Residences, Interior Architects 49, Bangkok, Thailand

Transformers, Bo Li/ Shenzhen Cimax Design Company Limited ; Lei He/ Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, XiAn, China

Redfern Warehouse, Ian Moore Architects, Sydney, Australia

JCA Living Lab, J.C. Architecture, Taipei city, Taiwan

Gemdale The One, LSDCASA, Shenzhen, China

Urban Home of Nature, ORIGIN ARCHITECT, Beijing, China

A Box of Happiness, Scale Art Design with Botta Lai, Shanghai, China

Boutique Home, Snuper Design, Taiwan

Residential, SSA Architects, Mumbai, India

Original villa, VBD Creative Design Center, Hangzhou, China

W.DESIGN, Lakeville, ShangHai, China

Tidal Arc House, Woods Bagot, Flinders, Australia

St Andrews Beach Villa, Woods Bagot, St Andrews Beach, Australia

Pet house, Zhang Hai'aog, Shanghai, China

The animal backbone, Zhu Xiaochen/I.F.S.E. SPACE CREATIVE LAB, Shanghai, China. Image courtesy of INSIDE

Retail

JHW store, Atelier tao+c, Zhengzhou, China

Gift Shops of National Museum of Qatar, Koichi Takada Architects, Doha, Qatar

An The Sweet, Leo Hu / WJ Design, Hangzhou Zhejiang, China

Aesop Bondi Junction Signature Store, mlkk studio, Sydney, Australia

Kids Winshare, PANORAMA DESIGN GROUP, Chengdu, China

The UNSW Bookshop, SJB, Sydney, Australia

Tianu - The Revival Project, Studio PKA, Mumbai, India

HUUU! Eyewear Trendsetter, Tanatkiat Chongkriengkrai / AA+A, Bangkok, Thailand

The animal backbone, Zhu Xiaochen/I.F.S.E. SPACE CREATIVE LAB, Shanghai, China

Top image: Gift Shops of National Museum of Qatar, Koichi Takada Architects, Doha, Qatar. Image © Tom Ferguson Photography 

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