Equipo Creativo Wins the "Architizer A+ Award 2023" for "Best Interior Design Firm"

Spanish architecture and interior design studio El Equipo Creativo has won this year’s "Best Interior Design Firm" award at the prestigious international Architizer A+ Awards 2023. The award recognizes the studio’s impeccable track record, built on the enormous creative talent that can be seen in their extensive portfolio of acclaimed interior design projects, including the restaurant recently named as number two in the world, "Disfrutar". With this award, El Equipo Creativo, founded in 2011 and led by architects Oliver Franz Schmidt, Natali Cañas del Pozo and Lucas Echeveste Lacy, has achieved the most outstanding international accolade possible for an interior design studio.

Speaking of the award, Oliver Franz says "We are very pleased to have won this award, not only because it represents a very important recognition of our work, but also because it is a great source of pride for us put Spanish interior design firmly on the world map."   

Natali Canas del Pozo adds: "It is a milestone for El Equipo Creativo to be among the best interior design studios in the world, and we are enormously grateful to both the jury and the public who voted for us as the best international interior design firm."
 
For his part, Lucas Echeveste commented that "This award is very stimulating for our entire team, made up mostly of architects and interior designers, whose philosophy is centered on the belief that spatial design should tell compelling stories and inspire people, while always based on a solid conceptual approach".

The Architizer A+Awards were created eleven years ago by the architecture platform Architizer with the intention of democratizing architecture and are considered the most important and the most international awards in the industry honoring the best buildings and spaces around the world. The A+Awards 2023 award ceremony will be held in partnership with the online platform and bookstore Material Bank next October at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. The event will coincide with the modern and contemporary art fair Paris+ par Art Basel and will bring more than 600 leading figures in architecture, art and design together at the gala.

El Equipo Creativo is an interior architecture studio based in Barcelona specialized in the design of hospitality, gastronomy, and branding spaces.  The studio shares the idea that design should tell a story and inspire people, always taking a solid conceptual approach. Their work has been recognized with more than 70 international design awards. Among them, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards (considered the "Oscars" of hospitality design), which they have won in numerous editions, the FRAME Award, which recognizes the most innovative and conceptual design in the world, and the Interior Design magazine’s BOY Awards. The studio has also been recognized for its track record and methodology, receiving the Interior Practice of the Year prize (WIN Awards) and also Firm of the Year (The American Architecture Prize).