TarhVa Afarinesh received the Hotel Design Award at the SBID International Design Awards 2015 for the IKIA 3 & 4 Star Hotel in Iran.
The winning project is developed on a land of 23’000 m2 opposite the main passenger terminal of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport as a part of newly developed airport cities positioned 35 km to southwest of Tehran.
Designed as a cluster of a 3-Star hotel with 196 rooms and a 4-Star hotel with 296 rooms, the total area spans to 55’000 m2, with common service areas, separated guest and public areas.
Ms. Shiva Aghababaei, Architect of the firm says:
“This is the first airport hotel in Iran and the first Iranian hotel operated by an international hotel chain after the revolution. As the architect of the project, I am very happy to receive this award. Every acknowledgement brings hope to my country and my people. I try to bring life into my projects using sharp and brighten colours for wellbeing of people who visit and I hope everyone who sees the project shall feel this. I want to thank everyone that has helped and this award is the best reward to receive.”
Sponsoring the Hotel Design category again is high-end electrical firm, ABB Group. International Key Account Manager, Katrin Förster says:
“The SBID Design Awards 2015 are again a fantastic opportunity for us to prominently support excellent creation and design in Interior Architecture. We chose to exclusively sponsor the Best Hotel Design of the Year because most of the superb designers and their shortlisted projects are personally known by us. Our products improve hotels worldwide, which makes us even more excited to be involved”.
The winners of the SBID International Design Awards 2015 were revealed on Friday 27 November in abeautiful ceremony at the prestigious Dorchester hotel in London. This year, the Awards represented industry talent from 41 countries from all creative corners of the world.
Winning an SBID International Design Award is truly a high achievement as all 14 categories are assessed by a technical panel, the public vote and a panel of leading industry experts who look for outstanding examples of technical content and aesthetic creativity. As one of the highest accolades of design excellence, the awards serve to reward and celebrate outstanding projects and products from the industry at large.
All of the projects and products from the winners and the finalists are featured in The Global Interior Design2015 coffee table book.
The 2015 judges included Lewis Carnie, Head of Programmes at BBC Radio 2 & 6; Sir Michael Dixon, Director at the National History Museum, London and Robert Hudson, Chief Executive of the National Association of Shopfitters; Kevin Mau, Senior Creative Director at The Boeing Company; Ben McOwen Wilson, Director of Content Partnerships at YouTube; Jane Preston, Facilities Manager UK, Real Estate & Workplace Services at Google; David Lewis, Managing Director of Sunseeker London; Mathew Dalby, Creative Director at The Studio at Harrods; Carolina Calzada, Managing Director at Global Color Research; Patrick Taylor, Managing Director of Taylist Media; Theresa Dowling, Editor and Group Editorial Director for Progressive Market Intelligence (FX, Blueprint).
For more information on the SBID Awards, visit www.sbidawards.com
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The SBID International Design Awards has come to be regarded as one of the highest accolades in the interior design industry. Each category undergoes an exclusive two-tier judging process by panels of leading industry experts for both technical content and aesthetic creativity and evaluates elements such as brief compliance, budget, health & safety, and fit-for-purpose design. The past Awards received entries from over 30 countries, across 5 continents around the world.
The winners will benefit from extensive media and social media exposure throughout the year as well as the right to use the ‘SBID Winner 2015′ logo on their website. They will also have the opportunity to network with top design professionals and potential clients and will receive the crystal SBID Awards 2015 trophy at the ceremony. Shortlisted entrants will also receive media and social media exposure and the right to use the ‘SBID Finalist 2015′ logo.
About SBID (Society of British International Design)
The Society of British and International Design (SBID) is the professional accrediting organisation for the interior design industry in the UK supporting the interests of interior designers and manufacturers by guiding and measuring the profession’s trading standards through practice, competence and education.
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