Dezeen Awards 2025: Top Interior Winners Revealed

The latest edition of Dezeen Awards 2025 has revealed thirteen interiors winners from seven countries, with Symbolplus Office in Tokyo named Interiors Project of the Year. From compact apartments and cinematic restaurants to skateparks in glass boxes, this year’s selection shows how thoughtfully crafted interiors can be both grounded in context and quietly experimental.

Symbolplus Office: authentic yet futuristic workplace

Designed by Japanese studio Symbolplus for its own practice, Symbolplus Office in Tokyo is both workplace interior (small) winner and overall interiors project of the year. The renovation uses warm earthen plaster, exposed timber and delicate Japanese paper to create a calm environment where sliding partitions and tilting panels allow the plan to shift between focused work and more communal settings.

The master jury highlighted how the project feels “authentic yet futuristic”, showing how traditional materials can be handled in a contemporary way without losing their tactile presence. By making it possible to almost forget that one is in an office, Symbolplus Office points toward a new generation of workspaces that prioritise well-being, flexibility and a deeper understanding of context.

Domestic and hospitality interiors rooted in place

In Singapore, In a Park by L Architects reworks a small flat around the owners’ expanding plant collection, setting terracotta brick against lush greenery to create a personal and slightly nostalgic living landscape. In Paris, Studio Asai’s Apartment in Bois de Boulogne layers deep colours, expressive timber and wood terrazzo to blend classic craftsmanship with a touch of eccentricity, earning the large residential interior award.

Hospitality winners also embrace strong local narratives. Ste Marie’s Olia, Mimi and Va Caffe at Citizen on Jasper in Edmonton orchestrates three distinct yet connected venues into a timeless restaurant interior. In Kyoto, UNC Studio’s Challe transforms a traditional wooden machiya into a Japanese-Mexican fusion cafe, using a minimal but precise intervention to weave new patterns through the existing fabric without overwhelming it.

Retail, leisure and exhibitions as narrative spaces

Retail interiors this year often read as three-dimensional brand stories. In Osaka, L/O and Katata Yoshihito Design’s Tojiro Knife Gallery translates the sharp precision of the knives into rhythmic timber cladding, turning a narrow alley shop into a theatrical yet functional gallery. In Shanghai, Onoaa Studio’s Sigma Space uses a pared-back palette and carefully choreographed light to present cameras as objects of quiet wonder while exposing zones for maintenance and repair.

Leisure, culture and wellness are equally expressive. AAN Architects’ Moreprk Skyline suspends an undulating concrete skatepark within a glass volume overlooking Shanghai, creating a civic stage where community and movement shape the interior. In Copenhagen, Christian + Jade’s exhibition The Age of Wood for Karimoku arranges Japanese timber species into a serene, educational landscape, giving material research a poetic spatial form.

Kitchens, bathrooms and the broader direction of interiors

In London, Studio Hagen Hall’s Pine Heath Kitchen revisits a 1960s townhouse with cherry wood and stainless steel, carving a “room within a room” that balances nostalgia with crisp detailing. In Sydney, Jillian Dinkel’s richly layered bathrooms for Kilmory House combine stainless steel, natural stone and crafted joinery, aligning the intimate spaces of bathing with a house conceived for entertaining.

Taken together, the interiors winners of Dezeen Awards 2025 signal an ongoing shift away from purely image-driven design toward emotionally resonant, context-aware environments. Across scales and programmes, they show how modest interventions, careful material choices and strong narratives can turn everyday interiors into places of memory, community and calm.