And the winner of the ECIA Interior Award 2025 is...​

Villa KinderZahn, a project of Lars-Erik Prokop, Architekten Bucher & Prokop, Germany.

From all 75 submissions, accross 20 different ECIA member countries, the jury, a diverse group composed of leading European architects/designers, recognised this project as the most forward-looking project in the field of interior architecture/design.

A shared second place was for the project Architecture Firm Stockholm Office by Katya Högberg, Tengbom, Sweden and the project Kulturareal Schlitz by Charlotte Greifenstein & Frank Dittel, Dittel Architekten, Germany.

"The ECIA Interior Award celebrates not just aesthetic excellence, but design’s power to shape human experience,” said ECIA President Martin Thörnblom. The work embodies the Davos Quality System of governance, functionality, environment, economy, diversity, context, sense of place and beauty.

The projects exemplifies how our profession can contribute to high-quality Baukultur, demonstrating its importance and relevance in the built environment, creating spaces that enhance well-being and health through design excellence and sustainability.

The award ceremony took place on 25 April 2025, after the ECIA Conference Substance in Oslo, Norway.

Click here to watch the replay.

ECIA Interior Award 2025​​​​​​​​​​​​

for the most forward-looking project in the field of interior architecture/design

The ECIA Interior Award is a non-profit competition exclusively for Interior Architects of the ECIA member organisations.

This competition is a tribute to excellence in European interior architecture and design. The main objective is to identify and disseminate good practices showing the relevance of Interior Architects /Designers in contemporary challenges in the built environment. The first edition of the ECIA Award is launched in November 2024. The theme for this edition is to highlight the most forward-looking European project in the field of interior architecture (regardless of scale, the competition has no categories).

Out of all submissions maximum 10 will be shortlisted by a selection committee. This shortlist is then evaluated by a professional jury, which selects the top 3 finalists.

The finalists are invited to present their projects during the award ceremony that will take place during the hybrid ECIA conference "SUBSTANCE" on 24 April 2025.

The winner of the award becomes an ambassador for the European Interior architecture.

The value of the Award lies in the exemplary status acquired by the winning project(s) within the the profession and a wider public. All shortlisted entries will benefit from promotion through various distribution channels, ensuring recognition for their exceptional quality and contribution to the field of interior architecture.

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Creative Europe.

Neither the European Union or Creative Europe can be held responsible for them,