Winning Projects of the FAD Awards of Architecture and Interior Design 2020

The winners of the 62nd edition of the FAD Awards of Architecture and Interior Design 2020,  one of the longest running awards in Europe in this creative field, were announced at the end of July.

597 works were presented to the different categories and the winners can be found on the awards’ website. 200 works were presented in the category of Interior Design, Architecture had 171 projects, the City and Landscape section received 60 and Ephemeral Interventions received 53 works. Likewise, 71 candidatures were presented to the FAD Awards of Thought and Criticism and 42 to the International FAD Awards.

We highlight the winning project in the Architecture Category: "79 Social Dwellings at Saló Central” in the city of Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona) by Architects Juan Herreros Guerra, Jens Richter, Mariona Benedito Ribelles and Martí Sanz Ausàs. In this work, the jury highlighted the research, through the architectural project, on ways to transit and inhabit common spaces in collective housing buildings, as well as its ambition to build a community, and not just a building.

In the category of Interior Design, the award was given to cafe-restaurant "Run Run Run" designed by Architect Andrés Jarque and located in the Chamberí district of Madrid. The jury highlighted the work's commitment to creative, fresh and personal interior design, smart enough to read and enhance the conditions of the premises and the place where it is located in an exemplary manner, creating spaces in absolute harmony with the material and environmental ambitions of the functional project served, and attentive to generating urban synergies with its immediate surroundings.

The opening of the exhibition with all the FAD Awards and the presentation of the diplomas of the awarded and finalist works is scheduled to take place in Barcelona on November 5th, at the headquarters of the Association of Architects of Catalonia.

The FAD Awards of Architecture and Interior Design were created in 1958 in the city of Barcelona for recognizing the fruits of the incipient contemporary architecture of the late 1950s, which would become of utmost importance in the world a few decades later. Since then, for more than 60 years, the FAD Awards have been rewarding the best works of Catalan and Spanish architecture year after year.