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Interior Awards 2020: Meet Federico Monsalve

People | What will you be looking forward to while judging the Interior Awards 2020? / Federico Monsalve (FM): Interiors from cities and provinces other than Auckland. The awards are a fantastic place to get a s...

2017 Interior Awards Q&A: Samantha Scrymgeour

People | Federico Monsalve: Once you became a finalist… how was it presenting to a live audience (nerve racking, informative, inspiring, none of the above?!) / Samantha Scrymgeour: It was empowering. The whole p...

On your marks…

News | “Each year the competition has gone from strength to strength bringing to the fore a wide array of talent from practices both big and small,” says Federico Monsalve, editor of Interior magazine and conv...

Interior Awards jury: Meet Federico Monsalve

People | What music are you likely to be listening to while selecting the finalists to the Interior Awards? / Federico Monsalve (FM): A bit of upbeat jazz to start with. Ark Ovrutski and Branford Marsalis have b...

Interior Awards Q&A: Carolina Izzo

People | Federico Monsalve: Craftsmanship… what does it mean to you? / Carolina Izzo: Craftsmanship is knowing how to treat or create something that, in your hands, can get a life of its own again or endure as ...

Workplace expanded

News | The 2015 Interior Awards will see its highly popular Workplace Category divided into two sections: / workplaces up to 1000m2 and; / workplaces above 1000m2 / “The move recognises the unique set of d...

Happy Bones

Projects | A dynamic trio of Kiwi expats in New York– made up of Luke Harwood (co-director of fashion label Stolen Girlfriends Club), Kirsten Nevill-Manning (former head of HR at Facebook) and Craig Nevill-Manni...

Checkpoint

Review | What happens when you recreate a public interior entirely out of wood and exhibit it in a gallery context? United States artist Roxy Paine has been doing just that and, late last year, exhibited Check...

Interior Awards Q&A: Andrew Patterson

People | Federico Monsalve: How was the Civic Award (Interior Awards 2015) received by your firm and your colleagues? / Andrew Patterson: We were very happy and grateful for the award. It was a fantastic evening...

Report from Amsterdam

Review | The combined jury panel for both World Architecture Festival (WAF) and Inside: World Festival of Interiors was composed of nearly 150 architects, designers and academics from the world over. Some of t...

2018 Interior Awards Q&A: David Hoad

People | What are you doing these days and what have been your career highlights since the award? / Since the award I have progressed to a senior role in the Warren and Mahoney Sydney studio. I am currently ta...

Mark your calendars for Interior Awards 2019

News | The Interior Awards is now in its ninth year of celebrating New Zealand's most innovative interiors, and our panel of expert judges will soon be on the lookout for your entries. / The 2019 categories...

Greening Dubai: Ibrahim Al-Zu’bi

People | Federico Monsalve (FM): Your company develops, among other things, mega malls in the Middle East and, interestingly, one has a ski slope. The whole concept of a ski slope in the desert, to me, sounds a ...

Designer interview: Kathryn Roberts

People | Federico Monsalve (FM): What do you think are some of the biggest lessons interior designers need to learn from the pandemic? / Kathryn Roberts (KR): Since we were forced to adapt and flex really quickl...

Ebbs and flows: Spark Christchurch

Projects | As a thermal buffer, the entire envelope of the new Spark building in central Christchurch has been designed as a twin-skin, glass façade from Thermosash. The glass has been frosted, fritted and decor...

The countdown is on!

News | A panel of judges comprising some of the design industry's leading talent are soon to begin the search for New Zealand's most outstanding bespoke commercial spaces, interior craftsmanship and innovato...

2015 Interior Awards: Students wanted

News | “This is an invaluable tool for the future movers and shakers in the field,” says Federico Monsalve, Editor of Urbis and Interior magazines and convener of the awards, “it offers unprecedented networkin...

2016 Interior Awards: Entries now open

News | Entries to the 2016 Interior Awards open today. The awards programme is presented by Interior magazine and celebrates – through nine competition categories - the best commercial interior design projec...

Finalists announced: Interior Awards 2020

Awards | “We are very pleased with what has ended up being a record-breaking year in terms of the number of entries,” said Federico Monsalve, convenor of the awards and Interior editor for Architecture NZ magazi...

Interior Awards Q&A: Rawstorne studio

People | Federico Monsalve: In many ways it is an unusual project for Interior Awards. What made you want to enter? / Sarah Johnson: We don’t work in traditional interior design but a lot of our projects are ‘in...

Interiors on display

People | Federico Monsalve (FM): How did the idea for the show originate? / Kim Paton (KP): It was absolutely born from that deep love of mine for the diorama or staged scene. [In dioramas], there is often a lov...

From fishing nets to carpets

Practice | Federico Monsalve: I’d imagine it’s quite a difficult undertaking to source these post-consumer waste materials? / Fabrizio Calenti (FC): Raw material procurement is still the most complicated and, in...

Interior Awards 2017: Judges and sponsors announced

News | An impressive line-up of industry experts has been selected to join Interior magazine editor and awards’ convenor Federico Monsalve in selecting the year’s top commercial interiors. “There is a sense of...

Shifting courts

Review | There is a mere handful of buildings as important for the continuation of democracy and civil society as the court of law. Apart from deciding innocence or guilt and dispensing punishment, it is in th...

Black mirrors: part one

Review | Architectural visualisations are on the verge of a potentially disruptive shift. Advances and easier access to powerful gaming engines have meant the animation rendering that used to take hours, if no...

Alpine comforts: QT Queenstown Hotel

Projects | QT Hotel’s main entrance is on a pencil thin, hill-perched street that runs parallel to the western end of Queenstown’s famous Lake Esplanade. As a site, it makes complete sense: direct, unobstructed ...

Interior Awards Q&A: Meg Rowntree

People | Federico Monsalve: Where does your trophy live? / Meg Rowntree: It’s probably more interesting to tell you how it got to where it now lives! On the awards night, it was in and out of its case, it then l...

Hot House: Lindis Lodge

Projects | This South Island building undulates, flows and resurfaces from the depths of its surrounding hill. Against the idyllic backdrop of the Huxley Range, it becomes almost invisible, camouflaged in part b...

Chip off the new block: Blockchain and the building sector

Practice | Federico Monsalve (FM): How did your interest in the applications of blockchain to the construction industry begin? / Dermott McMeel (DM): It is partly because, before being a researcher, I was an archi...

Ready, set, go…

News | More important, however, is the increasing variety and depth of projects we come across each year,” says Federico Monsalve, editor of Interior magazine and convener of the awards for the fourth year run...