Le Prix Charlotte Perriand 2025
Image: SANAA, Sydney Modern Museum, Sydney, Australia, 2022. Photo: Iwan Baan
ARCHITECTURE
SANAA
Le Prix Charlotte Perriand
The Créateurs Design Awards announced SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa as recipients of the 2025 Le Prix Charlotte Perriand. This honor recognizes their unparalleled contributions to modern architecture and design, further solidifying their legacy as visionary leaders in the field. SANAA is at the forefront of architectural innovation, renowned for its minimalist yet profound designs that harmoniously blend form, function and environment, resulting in numerous commissions and buildings around the world – including Sydney Modern, La Samaritaine in Paris, Louvre Lens and Grace Farms in the USA.
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2024 LVMH Prize
Image: Hodakova, Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection.
FASHION
Hodakova
LVMH Prize for Young Designers
Hodakova won the 2024 edition of the LVMH Prize for Young Designers, receiving the award from Dior ambassador and special jury member Natalie Portman at a ceremony at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Sweden-based Ellen Hodakova Larsson is dedicated to building the first fully sustainable fashion house in the world and changing people's mindset. Establishing her namesake brand in 2021, she champions craftsmanship by choosing existing products and transforming them into luxury pieces. Working with discarded pieces compels her to focus on quality, potential and craftsmanship.
2024 Praemium Imperiale
Image: Shigeru Ban, SIMOSE (Simose Art Museum + Simose Art Garden Villa), Hiroshima, Japan, 2023.
ARCHITECTURE
Shigeru Ban
Praemium Imperiale for Architecture
Japanese architect and humanitarian Shigeru Ban has been named the 35th Laureate of the Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture. Shigeru Ban's contributions to architecture have been significant, not only for the distinctive design aesthetics but also for the innovative use of materials, particularly in the context of emergency interventions and humanitarian work. Designer of landmark buildings including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Aspen Art Museum and the Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shigeru Ban is know for setting up the NPO Voluntary Architects Network (VAN) in 1995.
Image: Doris Salcedo, Palimpsest, 2013 - 2017, hydraulic equipment, ground marble, resin, corundum, sand and water, variable dimensions. Installation view Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2022. © Photo Mark Niedermann/Doris Salcedo/Courtesy the artist and White Cube.
ART
Doris Salcedo
Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture
Colombian-born Doris Salcedo received the Praemium Imperiale Award for Sculpture. Doris Salcedo is celebrated for her work relating to humanitarian issues and the violence suffered by victims of Colombia’s 52-year civil war, which came to an end in 2016. Her Fragmentos (2018), created to mark the end of the Colombian civil war, used melted weapons given up by members of the left-wing guerrillas FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). One of Salcedo’s most powerful recent works Palimpsest (2013-17), was shown at the Fondation Beyeler in 2022-23. This huge installation features the names written in sand on stone of refugees and asylum seekers, the vulnerable seeking safety, who have lost their lives at sea.
Image: Detail from "Room 30" in Sophie Calle's The Hotel (Siglio Press, 2021). Image courtesy of the artist and Siglio Press
ART
Sophie Calle
Praemium Imperiale for Painting
French conceptual artist Sophie Calle received the 2024 Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting. Through photography, film and text, she is known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. In her first work, The Sleepers (1979), she invited strangers to sleep in her bed and then interviewed them. With The Address Book (1983), she took an address book that she had found and contacted people in the book, creating a portrait of its owner. Calle has also boldly exposed her own life in her works. Take Care of Yourself (2007), created for the French Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, asked 107 women to interpret the last line of a break up letter, eliciting remarkable, varied and poetic responses.
2024 Vincent Scully Prize
Image: Hood Design Studio, International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, 2023.
ARCHITECTURE
Walter Hood
Vincent Scully Prize
The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. has named Walter Hood as the 26th recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize. Recognized for his impactful work designing sustainable landscapes that enhance urban communities and empower marginalized groups, Walter Hood founded Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, in 1992. His practices focus on integrating art, landscape design and urban research to respond to each project’s context. His major projects include the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, the Oakland Museum of California and the recently opened Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing Park in Jacksonville, Florida.
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2024 Queen Elizabeth II Award for
British Design
Image: S.S. Daley, Fall 2024 Menswear Fashion Show.
FASHION
S.S. Daley
Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design
Steven Stokey-Daley, founder and creative director of S.S. Daley, has won the 2024 Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, which recognizes young designers who are making a difference to society through sustainable practices, or community engagement. His label explores the duplicity of his British heritage, centring around themes of class and identity. He’s known for embracing sustainable practices, using deadstock and donated fabrics to create designs.
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Prix du design de l'Institut du monde arabe
Image: AAU ANASTAS, Stone Matters, Jericho, Palestine, 2017. Photo: Mikaela Burstow
DESIGN
AAU ANASTAS
Grand Prix du jury
The Institut du monde arabe has presented the second edition of its design prize. The Palestinian duo AAU ANASTAS, which forges links between craft and architecture and places stone and its various uses at the heart of its practice, won the Grand Prix du jury. The studio has argued for a contemporary, structural use of stone in architecture in Palestine and elsewhere. Elias and Yousef are particularly interested in the politics of using stone for low-carbon structures, more resilient cities and more responsible quarrying.
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The Armory Show 2024
Image: Anina Major, The Landing, TERN Gallery, The Armory Show 2024. Photo: Kunning Huang
ART
Anina Major
Pommery Prize
Anina Major won The Armory Show 2024 Pommery Prize for her installation The Landing with TERN Gallery. Anina Major is a visual artist from The Bahamas. Her decision to establish a home contrary to the location in which she was born and raised motivates her to investigate the relationship between self and place as a site of negotiation. By utilizing the vernacular of craft to reclaim experiences and relocate displaced objects, her practice exists at the intersection of nostalgia and identity.
