This was a unique edition of the Tubądzin Design Awards - a pandemic broke out during the competition. The contestants and participants had to face new design challenges due to the unique situation. Among the winners of the second stage were designers and designers from Moldova, Ukraine and Poland.
This year's edition of the Tubądzin Design Awards is held under the watchwords #freedom, #future and #nature. In this case, freedom is understood as the freedom of design, which is provided by modern design, technology, knowledge and imagination that changes reality into an even more beautiful one. However, today designers have to face new challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Hence the second slogan, which states the need to think about the future in terms of the "flexibility" of architecture, following the rapidly changing functions of public and private spaces. In all this, nature must not be forgotten. The lock-down period has made us all realize how much we need it and how much it contributes to everyday life.
First place in the Unlimited Architecture category - a project by Marta and Lukasz Gąsek.
© Studio Gąska
award and jury
The competition's jury is composed of design experts: Boris Kudlička, (Slovakia, chairman of the jury), a world-renowned stage designer, interior designer
and exposition; Malgorzata Szczepanska (Poland), editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration magazine, set designer, interior and exposition designer, producer of photo shoots; Martin Duplanitier architect, designer, founder of Martin Duplantier Architects SAS, President of the French architectural council "Architecture et Maitrise d'Ouvrage"; Oksana Shumelda (Ukraine), architect, designer, co-founder and creative supervisor of the studio "O.M.Shumelda"; and Tomasz Smus (Poland), Tubądzin Group brand architect. The award is given in three categories: Young Power for university students of architecture, interior design and design, Everyday Design dedicated to designers working in showrooms, and Unlimited Architecture - for architects and designers whose work deals with exterior architecture in the broadest sense. Special prizes from competition partners TERMA and GROHE are also awarded.
Project by Maciej Konopacki
© Maciej Konopacki
winners and laureates
The awarded Poles were in two categories. The first prize in the Unlimited Architecture category went to Marta and Łukasz Gąska of Studio Gąska for their project entitled. #azyl - a vertical building, surrounded by wildlife, where one can calm down and take a break from the hustle and bustle of the city. We wrote about it here.
Second place went to Adam Żarczyński of FDA Architects (co-authors: Aleksandra Ankiewicz, Maria Dobrowolska), and third prize went to Kateryna Kuznetsova, representing Decorkuznetsov office (co-authors: Anastasiia Sholopova, Valerii Kuznetsov) from Ukraine.
In the Young Power category, second place went to Mateusz Persanowski, representing Lodz University of Technology, and third place to Magda Malyga, studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In this category, the first prize went to Maria Sestacova from the Republic of Moldova for her restaurant interior design. In the Everyday Design category, representatives of Ukraine were awarded. The first prize was awarded to Romana Grushchynskaya (together with Olhom Zamiruk and Lubov Vozniak). The other two places on the podium went to Elena Maksimchuk's designs.
Special prizes were awarded to Maciej Konopacki from Poland by GROHE and Vadim Rusetski from Ukraine by TERMA.
First place in the Young Power category - project by Maria Sestacova.
© Maria Sestacova
brand associated with design
The Tubądzin Group is one of the most ozpognised ceramic tile manufacturers in Poland. They offer a full range of products, including large-format ceramic tiles, reaching sizes as large as 120×240 cm. Designs for Tubadzin Her products, are designed in cooperation with design and cultural artists. Among the designers are, among others. Maciej Zień, Dorota Koziara, Wojciech Siudmak. Tubądzin also organizes prestigious competitions for young designers and architects - Tubądzin Design Awards - and engages in educational, social and ecological activities.
We thank Tubądzin for providing the illustrations.
