Patty Hopkins among judges to decide Dezeen Awards 2025 winners

Eighteen leading architects and designers met this week to decide the winners of Dezeen Awards 2025, in partnership with Bentley, who will be revealed at the Dezeen Awards 2025 party in November.

The Dezeen Awards master jury took place at the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel in London and included architect Patty Hopkins and designers Richard Hutten and Sofia Lagerkvist.

Designers Laurids Gallée and Helle Mardahl, as well as architects David Thulstrup and Pablo Pérez Palacios also joined to finalise the 49 award winners.

A dedicated panel of industry experts including Samira Rathod and Caroline Till also met to determine the winner of the Bentley Lighthouse Award, a special award supported by Bentley that rewards an individual whose work has had an overwhelmingly beneficial impact on social and environmental sustainability.

Winners  announced in November

All this year’s winners will be announced at the end of November at the Dezeen Awards 2025 party in London, with shortlist announcements made between 6-13 October.

Guests at the party will be the first to find out who has won the prestigious project of the year awards across architecture, interiors, design and sustainability. Tickets are now available to purchase here.

Also unveiled at the ceremony will be this year’s Designers of the Year, nominated by Dezeen Awards judges, who have then been shortlisted and selected by Dezeen’s editorial team.

Top image: The Dezeen Awards 2025 master jury. Above: (L-R) Helle Mardahl, Benjamin Hubert, Sofia Lagerkvist and Laurids Gallée at the master jury day at One Hundred Shoreditch

The master jury discussed 269 shortlisted entries selected from 4,300 projects in 89 countries around the globe.

Joining Hopkins and Palacios on the architecture master jury panel were architects Simon Allford, Sonali Rastogi and designer Zoe Lowres.

(L-R) David Thulstrup, Linda Boronkay, Ben Saltmer and Tatjana von Stein at the master jury day in London

Thulstrup was joined on the interiors master jury panel by Linda Boronkay, Tatjana von Stein and Ben Saltmer.

Joseph Grima and Benjamin Hubert were alongside Galleé, Mardahl, Lagerkvist to decide the winners of the design categories.

Rotterdam-based designer Galleé remarked, “it’s exciting to see how the industry shares a trajectory that leaves a strong place for independent design, from individual makers to small teams.”

(L-R) Ana Maria Duran Calisto, Caroline Till, Samira Rathod and Richard Hutten at the master jury day at One Hundred Shoreditch

Ana Maria Duran Calisto completed the sustainability panel with Rathod, Hutten and Till, who all also selected the recipient of this year’s Bentley Lighthouse Award winner.

“In recent years we have seen numerous companies within the design industry scale back or revise their sustainability goals, citing factors such as economic pressure, supply chain disruption, and shifting political landscapes,” said Till.

Till and her fellow judges agreed, and commended that, despite industry challenges, designers are “taking a bold and unequivocal stance to keep sustainable innovation at the forefront of the design conversation”.

Former Dezeen Awards judges Patrik Schumacher and Tina Norden joined for the exclusive dinner at One Hundred Shoreditch

Following the day of judging, an exclusive drinks reception and dinner took place in the One Hundred Room at One Hundred Shoreditch, where the master jury was joined by former judges Patrik Schumacher, Charlotte Taylor and Rio Kobayashi.

Following the shortlist announcements in October, the next date to note in the design calendar is the pinnacle of this year’s programme – the Dezeen Awards party, which will take place on 25 November at Exhibition White City in London.

Dezeen Awards 2025 party tickets on sale

The event will be a chance for everyone who entered this year’s Dezeen Awards to celebrate their achievements alongside fellow nominees, winners and our esteemed Dezeen Awards judges.

We also invite the wider architecture and design community to join us for this special occasion. Last year’s party saw over 600 guests from the global Dezeen Awards community gather to celebrate their achievements.

This year, guests will be treated to a night of drinks, food, entertainment and music, while Dezeen Awards winners will be able to collect their trophies and certificates.

Tickets are available at a discounted rate of £180 for all studios that entered this year’s Dezeen Awards, and £225 for everyone else. Plus, save an additional 10 per cent on the standard ticket price when you book a package of five or more tickets – buy yours today.

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The photography is by Mark Cocksedge.

Dezeen Awards 2025 in partnership with Bentley

Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers across the globe. The eighth edition of the annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley’s architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.