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The studios selection is the fourth and final Dezeen Awards 2020 longlist to be unveiled. The architecture longlist, the interiors longlist and the design longlist were also published earlier this week.

All longlisted studios are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the Dezeen Awards website where you can find an image and more information about each one.

Awards will be given to the best studios in each of the architecture, interior design and design categories, with studios founded less than 10 years ago competing in the emerging studio categories and more established practices battling to be named studio of the year.

Studios in the running to be named architect of the year include Beijing-based MAD Architects, Indian architecture practice Sanjay Puri Architects and Australian studio John Wardle Architects, while London-based Mamou Mani and RAW Architecture are longlisted in the emerging architect of the year category.

US-based Yabu Pushelberg will battle with Ab Rogers Design in the interior designer of the year category, while Beijing-based Office AIO and Kingston Lafferty Design will compete in the emerging category.

In the design categories, Form us with love and Ini Archibong are both vying to be named designer of the year, while Adam Nathaniel Furman, Charlotte McCurdy and Shahar Livne Design are all hoping to be named emerging designer of the year.

See the full studio longlist below:

Architect of the year

› Alison Brooks Architects, London, UK
› Atelier Alter, Beijing, China
› Austin Maynard Architects, Melbourne, Australia
› Bergmeisterwolf, Bressanone, Italy
› Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect, Paris, France
› John Wardle Architects, Collingwood, Australia
› Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design, Miami, US
› LEVER Architecture, Portland, US
› Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, Los Angeles, US
› MAD Architects, Beijing, China
› Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Mexico City, Mexico
› Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, Berkeley, US
› Mosbach Paysagistes, Paris, France
› NADAAA, Boston, US
› Pdaa, Paris, France
› Sanjay Puri Architects, Mumbai, India
› SO – IL, Brooklyn , US
› Spasm Design Architects, Mumbai, India
› Studio Gang, Chicago, US
› Studio Saxe, San Jose, Costa Rica
› Thuy Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
› WATG, New York, US

Browse all studios on the architect of the year longlist page.

Emerging architect of the year

› 3andwich Design / He Wei Studio, Beijing, China
› A Small Studio, London, UK
› Atelier Cho Thompson, San Francisco, US
› CAAT studio, Sydney, Australia
› DesignAware, Hyderabad, India
› DEVOLUTION, Xiamen, China
› DROO, London, UK
› Gad · Line+ Studio, Hangzhou, China
› Julius Taminiau Architects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
› K-studio, Athens, Greece
› KOGAA, Brno, Czech Republic
› Kooo Architects, Tokyo, Japan
› Lendager Group, Copenhagen, Denmark
› Mamou-Mani, London, UK
› Nimtim architects, London, UK
› Office Off Course, Shanghai, China
› Office S&M, London, UK
› Peter Pichler Architecture, Milan, Italy
› Proctor & Shaw, London, UK
› RAW Architecture, Jakata, Indonesia
› Robert Hutchison Architecture, Seattle, US
› Studio Takuya Hosokai, Tokyo, Japan
› SUMMARY, Porto, Portugal
› Surman Weston, London, UK
› UNITEDLAB Associates, Long Island City, US
› Vladimir Radutny Architects, Chicago, US
› Will Gamble Architects, London, UK
› Winwood Mckenzie Architecture, Melbouurne, Australia

Browse all studios on the emerging architect of the year longlist page.

Interior designer of the year

› 1508 London, London, UK
› Ab Rogers Design, London, UK
› Atelier Alter, Beijing, China
› Cecconi Simone, Toronto, Canada
› Dkstudio Architects, Toronto, Canada
› Esrawe Studio, Mexico City, Mexico
› Fogarty Finger Architecture, New York, US
› Kelly Wearstler, Los Angeles, US
› Liqui Group, Chula Vista, US
› Maurizio Lai Architects, Milan, Italy
› Michaelis Boyd, London, UK
› Norm Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark
› Preen, Los Angeles, US
› SkB Architects, Seattle, US
› Studio Robert McKinley, New York, YS
› Studio_VDGA, Pune, India
› Takasu Gaku Design and Associates, Fukuoka, Japan
› Waldo Works, London, UK
› Yabu Pushelberg, New York, US

Browse all studios on the interior designer of the year longlist page.

Emerging interior designer of the year

› Esoteriko, Woollahra, Australia
› Alexander&CO, Bondi, Australia
› Atelier Maison, Siggiewi, Malta
› Atelier Tao+C, Shanghai, China
› AtMa, Tokyo, Japan
› Bitte Design Studio, Tangerang, Indonesia
› Buchanan Studio, London, UK
› Daytrip.studio, London, UK
› Deferrari+Modesti, Florence, Italy
› Formafatal, Prague, Czech Republic
› Kingston Lafferty Design, Dublin, Ireland
› NC Design & Architecture Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
› NJ+ Arquitetos, São Paolo, Brazil
› NOMOS, Madrid, Spain
› Office AIO, Beijing, China
› Office of Tangible Space, Brooklyn, US
› Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge, Barcelona, Spain
› Run For The Hills, London, UK
› Sophie Dries Architect, Paris, France
› Ste Marie Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
› Studio-Gram, Goodwood, Australia
› YOUTH Studio, Manchester, UK
› Zooco Estudio, Madrid, Spain

Browse all studios on the emerging interior designer of the year longlist page.

Designer of the year

› Büro Ziyu Zhuang, Beijing, China
› Emmanuelle Moureaux architecture + design, Tokyo, Japan
› EWE Studio, Mexico
› Form us with love, Stockholm, Sweden
› Formafantasma, Amsterdam, Netherlands
› Fuseproject, San Francisco, US
› GHYCZY, Swalmen, Netherlands
› Ini Archibong, London, UK
› Joe Doucet x Partners, New York, US
› KEM STUDIO, Kansas City, US
› Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios, London, UK
› Norm Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark
› SPREAD, Tokyo, Japan
› Studio Ini, London, UK
› Studio Waldemeyer, London, UK

Browse all studios on the  designer of the year longlist page.

Emerging designer of the year

› Aberrant Architecture, London, UK
› Adam Nathaniel Furman, London, UK
› Baldwin Studios, Brunswick, Australia
› Burggrafburggraf, Bad Liebenzell
› Charlotte McCurdy Research, Brooklyn, US
› Collin Townsend Velkoff, Nürnberg, Germany
› Crosby Studios, New York, US
› Hans Ramzan, London, UK
› Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, Brooklyn, US
› Marcin Rusak Studio, London, UK
› Mario Alessiani Design Studio, Teramo, Italy
› Objects of Common Interest, Brooklyn, US
› Pawlak & Stawarski, Poznan, Poland
› Poppy Lawman Studio, Oslo, Norway
› Selek, Eugene, US
› Shahar Livne Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands
› Special Projects, London, UK
› Studio Terhedebrügge, Berlin, Germany
› T SAKHI, Beirut, Lebanon
› The Liminal Space, London, UK
› The New Raw, Rotterdam, Netherlands
› Valdís Steinarsdóttir, Reykjavik, Iceland
› Wang & Söderström, Copenhagen, Denmark
› Zaven, Venezia, Italy

Browse all studios on the emerging designer of the year longlist page.

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Architect Caro Lundin took a less-is-more approach for the creation of ARC Club, a fuss-free co-working space in east London for those struggling to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

It took just six weeks for Lundin and her self-titled studio to complete ARC Club, which takes over a formerly characterless retail unit in the neighbourhood of Homerton.

The co-working space is meant to cater to the growing number of individuals who, according to surveys observed by Lundin, are finding it tricky to efficiently do their job from home during the pandemic due to lack of proper workspaces.

Its “starkly beautiful” interiors have been decked out with a selection of low-cost and durable materials that Lundin felt reflected a climate where co-working is “a necessity and not a nice-to-have”.

Designing a more modest space also meant that membership would be cheaper for those interested in working at ARC Club according to the architect.

“Intricate details and indoor gardens are fun, but they come with a big price tag – and they’re a lot harder to keep clean,” said Lundin, who founded ARC Club alongside Hannah Philp.

“When designing ARC Club, I asked myself ‘what do people need to work?’ A comfortable seat, natural light, thoughtful acoustics; the physical and emotional space in which to think,” she told Dezeen.

“Functional doesn’t have to be boring, it’s a neutral space that enables the people who visit it to be their best professional selves.”

At the centre of ARC Club, which measures just over 232 square metres, are a pair of boxy, sound-proofed pods crafted from birch plywood.

Inside, they accommodate a handful of private meeting rooms, storage cupboards, printers and a kitchenette complete with silver-metal cabinetry.

Lundin chose to house these services inside a pod-style system so that it can be scaled up or down to suit different-sized branches of ARC Club that open in the future.

The pods are surrounded by various work areas. A few of the furnishings, like the birch-ply tables with the arched legs, were made by Lundin’s studio while some of the chairs were sourced second hand.

Pops of colour have been introduced to brighten up the space. Heavy orange curtains are used as room dividers, blue cone-shaped pendant lights have been suspended from the ceiling and bands of yellow paint have been made on the concrete structural columns.

Yellow tiles also clad surfaces in the bathrooms.

Further branches of ARC Club co-working spaces are planned to open in 2021.

Like the Homerton location, they will occupy vacant high-street commercial units in popular residential areas so that members can do what Lundin has monikered “WNH” – work near home.

“A neighbourhood workplace like ARC Club allows people to retain the best of what the office has to offer – full functionality, work-life separation and human interaction – without having to get on a bus or a train,” Lundin explained.

“In essence, it’s an accessible flexible option for a new breed of remote worker who has grown used to scheduling their work around their day, instead of the other way.”

The global coronavirus crisis has forced many to re-think offices and the way in which we work.

Interior designer Sevil Peach predicts that, post-pandemic, companies will scrap working in corporate towers and instead opt to have central “hubs” where just a small per cent of staff will gather.

Architecture practice Weston Williamson + Partners also released a series of graphics that illustrated how businesses could create socially-distanced offices. Tips included wrapping screens around desks, having touch-free doors and employing a cook so that employees don’t have to use a shared kitchen.

Photography is by Andrew Meredith.

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While handwashing has become an integral part of the public’s precautions in response to Covid-19, three billion people around the world still don’t have access to handwashing facilities at home.

As part of a campaign to encourage world leaders to increase their investment in water and hygiene, artists have been invited to interpret these issues in a creative way for WaterAid’s Art of Change competition.

Out of the 285 entries from around the world, the designs have been narrowed down into a shortlist of 12, as chosen by artist Grayson Perry, illustrator Jean Jullien, photographer and artist Aida Muluneh, and actor and art collector Russell Tovey.

The shortlisted artists took the theme in various directions, ranging from more literal interpretations highlighting the importance of clean water, to ideas of community and togetherness. The final winner will be decided by a public vote that closes on October 10.

Vote for your favourite at art.wateraid.org

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Annabelle Tugby Architects has created its own design studio by renovating and extending a semi-derelict joinery workshop in a cow field in Cheshire, UK.

Located in the village of Styal, the self-designed studio was built as Annabelle Tugby Architects outgrew its previous office and required a larger space into which it could expand.

Rather than building from scratch, the studio adopted a more eco-friendly approach of refurbishing an old rustic building with “character and texture” and adding a small timber frame extension.

“The previous office was just down the road but as the size of the practice increased we sought a beautiful old building nearby to renovate and grow into,” explained Tom Overbury of Annabelle Tugby Architects.

“We were keen to work with a building which had character and texture. We are also very conscious of the need to adapt and reuse buildings wherever possible rather than simply demolishing them,” he told Dezeen.

“The setting of the new building, surrounded by a field of beautiful longhorn cows and calves makes it a beautiful place to work year-round.”

Now complete, the original gabled building serves as the studio’s main drawing space, chosen for its spacious interior with a high ceiling.

The office’s ancillary spaces, such as the kitchen, meeting room and toilet, are therefore contained within the new timber extension that is single-storey and flat-roofed.

“The decision was made quite early on to leave the main drawing space as a whole volume and have a single storey extension adjacent to it,” explained Overbury. “It felt worthwhile to preserve this volume.”

Externally, the workshop’s original white render finish has been updated and overclad with white-washed bricks, while the extension is finished in contrasting large, black timber panels.

These materials were chosen to pay homage to local vernacular, but to also visually exaggerate the differences in scale and form of the two buildings.

“As a village Styal has a selection of beautiful historic black and white properties, generally black timber and white painted brick or render,” explained Overbury.

“From the outset we sought to respect this context with whitewashed brick to the main workshop space and larger format black timber cladding chosen to complement this on the single-storey extension.”

Inside the main studio space, the existing timber doors on the front elevation of the workshop have been restored and refitted for use as the studio’s model display area.

To maximise natural light, a full-length skylight has been added to the ridge of the roof while glazing to the rear opens out and frames views of the surrounding field.

The interior finishes are designed for warmth and tactility, dominated by natural lime plaster and lime-ash wood boards.

Furniture and cabinetry throughout was also made from wood, designed by the studio and crafted by a local steel fabricator and joiner. This includes a joiner’s bench in the meeting room that nods to the building’s former use.

“The interior finishes were chosen with a view to creating a warm and sensitive place to spend a day working,” explained Orbury.

“We sought to avoid soulless plasterboard altogether and used natural lime plaster and limed ash veneered boards.”

Annabelle Tugby Architects’ studio is complete with an air source heat pump, which is the office’s sole heat source and was chosen as a sustainable alternative to a traditional combination boiler.

Other rural, self-designed studios on Dezeen include David Guambo’s stilted workspace in Ecuador that has a straw roof and John-Paul Philippe’s refurbished barn in Connecticut that doubles as his home.

Photography is by Annabelle Tugby Architects.

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