INDE.Awards 2025 Winners
The Standard, Singapore by Ministry of Design
The Brewery by Tzannes Bundarra by Smart Design Studio and Those Architects
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It is with absolute pleasure that I have joined forces with the creative drive of Indesign to cra the 25 Year Anniversary issue. Congratulations!
Exploring the Issue theme of “Celebration”, we asked some of the very first architects, designers, and artists the magazine covered to share a recent project and a few words. The most compelling discovery was the simple fact that great creatives continue to make great work (In Focus p.86), and, that Indesign has been right there supporting them from the start.
Celebrating 25 years of Indesign, we pushed the issue deep into the world of celebration, with joy a deciding factor for every project or person selected for this incredible issue. How we celebrate, the hotels we love, the bars that spark trysts, chefs and artists that make the heart sing, it is, in short, a tribute to everything that a party should be, including the announcement of the INDE.Awards 2025 Winners! (p.19).
The extraordinary architecture and interior design around us is exceptional, and our dear friend Jan Henderson shares her thoughts on our own practice, MOD’s latest project, The Standard, Singapore (In Situ p.130). She also set her pen to celebrate Lane 23 by K2LD in Kuala Lumpur, and profiled the incredible chef, Darren Teoh, also in KL. TuBu in India, by Studio Renesa, is one of the most unusual hospitality projects to emerge and DISSH Armadale, by Brahman Perera, is just gorgeous. TAOA 798 Studio by TAOA in Beijing is a silvery box of infinite beauty, while The Brewery in Sydney by Tzannes sets the bar high for adaptive reuse. A whole new Village in Surry Hills by SJB, ASPECT Studios, and Studio Prineas has emerged, as has the amazingly twisted building, Bundarra, at Moore Park, by Smart Design Studio and Those Architects.
We sat down for conversations with some of my favourite creatives, namely Alicia C. Kirwan, Eric Tobua and Manuelle Gautrand (In Conversation p.186), and profiled some extraordinary characters shaping the world around us, including Dawn Ng, David Hicks, David Sequeira, and the aforementioned Darren Teoh (In Famous p.104).
Happy Birthday Indesign, and congratulations on 25 years of se ing the bar high!
Colin Seah Guest Editor
Photo, Jovian Lim. Article, page 132.
Raj Nandan CEO and Founder, Indesign Media Asia Pacific
Gillian Serisier Editor, Indesign Magazine
Colin Seah, Guest Editor
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Indesign Correspondents
Leanne Amodeo (Editor at Large) Sarah Hetherington (Indo Pacific) Stephen Cra i (Melbourne) Mandi Keighran (London) Andrea Stevens (New Zealand)
Contributors
Colin Seah, Gillian Serisier, Timothy Alouani-Roby, Aleesha Callahan, Stephen Cra i, Allan Fraser-Rush, Bec Gallo, Jan Henderson, Sarah Hetherington, Fel Lukins, Saskia Neacsu, Jane Rankin-Reid, Sylvia Weimer.
Photography & Artists
Ravi Asrani, Lauren Bamford, Peter Benne s, Sam Bisso, Bre Boardman, Luc Boegly, Tyrone Branigan, Christo Crocker, CreatAR Images, Andrew Curtis, Nicole England, Tom Ferguson, Avesh Gaur, Geo Gibbons, John Gollings, Tim Gri th, Florian Groehn, Ben Guthrie, Grant Hancock, Paul Katz, Jovian Lim, Jacquie Manning, Giulia Giannini McGauran, Shannon McGrath, Leah Jing McIntosh, Trevor Mein, Isabella Nalin, Justin Nicholas, Romello Pereira, Aaron Puls, Luc Remond, James Retief, Tom Roe, Mark Roper, Tom Ross, TAOA, Martin Siegner, Anson Smart, Saul Steed, Lillie Thompson,
Sara Vita, Nicholas Wa , David Yeow, Tim Yi-Ting Lee. Vicente Aguado, Zhong Chen, John Gollings, Donald Judd, Alicia C. Kirwan, Hilarie Mais, Dawn Ng, Patricia Piccinini, Huseyin Sami, David Sequeira, Eric Tobua.
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Colin Seah Founder and Design Director, Ministry of Design
Undeniably one of the nicest people in the design world, the Singapore-based founder and design director of the Ministry of Design (MOD), Colin Seah, is an acknowledged expert in the world of creatives. Named as Luminary award winner in the INDE.Awards 2024, he has twice been the recipient of Singapore’s highest design accolade, the President’s Design Award. He is also a three-time Grand Prize Winner of the Gold Key Award, the highest international hospitality accolade.
Founding MOD in 2004 with life partner Joy Chan Seah, the practice has gone from strength to strength with 140 projects realised across 30 cities. Moreover, since 2020 Colin has worked with the Singapore Tourism Board to redefine Singapore as a destination. Architecturally trained in the US and now licensed in Singapore, Colin honed his sensibilities working for Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. He also spent four years at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture researching design pedagogy and serving as a design critic. In short, he is a superstar of no small order and a delight to work with.
The Standard, Singapore, page 132.
Alicia C. Kirwan, page 200.
Gillian
Serisier Editor
Editor of both Indesign and Habitus magazines, Gillian brings a solid background in design journalism to her role. With twenty years in the design media industry, Gillian is a highly regarded arbiter and design champion. Working closely with the Architecture and Design community, Gillian has selected a series of exceptional Guest Editors to host Indesign over the coming issues. Spanning architecture, landscape, art and all elements of design from textiles to furniture, tiles and lighting, there is a wealth of content to benefit from her collaborative editorship.
TAOA 798 Studio by TAOA, page 160.
Introducing the Voices of Indesign –
The Celebration Issue
Jovian Lim Photographer
Singapore-based artist and photographer, Jovian Lim, works within the liminal spaces of perception, imbuing each body of work with ethereal qualities that hover between realism and romance. Blurring the line between the simple and sublime, Jovian instils commonplace materials with painterly qualities of consummate beauty. Within his practice, Jovian explores the rarefied forms of expression as a tangential exploration of that which is immutable, stripped of time, space, and particularity. In parallel with his artistic oeuvre, Jovian is a highly regarded architectural photographer and Indesign is beyond thrilled to include this exceptional artist.
The Standard, Singapore, by Ministry of Design, page 132.
Sylvia Weimer Art Director
German-born founder of Spacelab Design, Sylvia has been the longstanding art director for Indesign, Habitus and Luxury Travel magazines in the Indesign Media portfolio, and many more publications besides. With a sharp eye for editorial design, her art direction in the worlds of architecture, art, and design has led to impressive collaborations around the world. Her architecture and design portfolio includes work across magazines, books, websites, and advertising campaigns. For this special issue of Indesign, she took on the role of writer and sat down in Paris with one of her favourite architects, Manuelle Gautrand.
In Conversation with Manuelle Gautrand, page 194.
Jane Rankin-Reid Writer
Tasmanian born writer and art critic Jane Rankin-Reid has been at the forefront of art writing since her heady days in New York during the 1980s through to her continued world travels where art and design are viewed with her sharp gaze. Her work has been published in Le Monde, The Guardian UK and in a number of Australian publications. Her 1980s downtown New York memoir The Colour of Night has been serialised in the UK and the USA.
David Sequeira, page 124.
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Winners 2025
Celebrating regional design on the global stage
Celebrating INDE.Awards 2025
In late May, the incredible 2025 INDE.Awards jury gathered digitally and in person to deliberate the extraordinary shortlist and determine the Best of the Best. Assessing the submissions was indeed a challenge, however, the 34-strong jury made their decision, and the winning projects were chosen.
all categories, the INDE.Awards is the go-to program for determining those architects, designers, interiors specialists, and product designers at the forefront of the architecture and design industry today.
to elevate architecture and design to the highest levels of accomplishment across our region. This year, submissions to the INDE.Awards were exceptional, shining a light on emerging and established practices that pushed the boundaries of innovation, sustainability, and virtuosity of design acumen that underscored every project in exciting and inspiring ways.
origin, but globally. Members of the jury hailed from Australia, Singapore, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Hong Kong / China, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, deliberation process.
INDE.Awards 2025 Jury
Adam Goodrum
Aleesha Callahan
Alex Hopkins
Alicia Lynch Director, Interior Design & Design Management, Marriott
Angelene Chan
Brett Boardman
Chan Ee Mun
Chui Lai Judy Cheung
Colin Seah
David Teh
Devika Khosla
Dianna Snape
Dikshu Kukreja
Greg Natale
James Calder
Jefa Greenaway
Jeremy Smith Aotearoa / New Zealand
John Gollings AM
Koos de Keijzer FRAIA
Aotearoa / New Zealand, South-East Asia
Leone Lorimer LFRAIA
Luke Yeung
Mardi Doherty
Melvin Keng
Patrick Keane
Raj Nandan
Roshni Kshirsagar
Sara Folch
Sarah Bader
Sharyn Cairns
Shashi Caan Founding Partner, SC
Sidhartha Talwar
Thien Duong
Wendy Saunders Co-Founder and Principal Architect, Whare Timu Aotearoa / New Zealand
Partners
Best of the Best
Terminal 2 Kempegowda International Airport Interiors
Enter Projects Asia in collaboration with SOM | Bangalore, India
– INDE.Awards 2025 Jury
Photo: Nick Hufton
The Building - joint winner
Central Station
Woods Bagot in collaboration with John McAslan + Partners | NSW, Australia
“Central Station makes a wonderful statement as a modern urban project. With public spaces that support the community and amenity that helps run a city, this project will stand the test of time as a great infrastructure project that has people at its heart.”
– INDE.Awards 2025 Jury
Trevor Mein
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