Honest minimalism came out on top in the 2011 World Architecture News
(WAN) Interior Design Awards announced earlier this week, with a house
in the Girona district of Catalonia, Spain, winning the top award in the
residential category.
Other
shortlisted spaces were recognized for investigating ideas about
materiality and proportion (California), contrasting interior worlds
(Little Venice, London), combining drama and functionality (Mayfair,
London) and composed architecture (Indonesia).
"Residential was
by far the hardest category to pick a winner," says jury panel member
Terence Conran, who adds that the winning space by Anna Noguera "could have easily been overdone but [was] created in a restrained and thoughtful manner."