The Frame Awards is the first and only global interior-design awards with a truly holistic approach. The Awards that will take place on February 20th will honour the world’s best interior projects, but also the people behind them. The work is judged by all industry stakeholders: interior designers, architects, retail brands, hospitality providers, cultural institutions, and educators. In total 36 awards are divided under Spatial, Executional, and Societal Awards covering the entire spectrum of interiors, while the Honorary Awards celebrate the people behind them. Today we unveil the nominees for best use of colour.

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No. 1 Courtyard in Guangzhou Road, Heze

In order to create a certain kind of visual effects of fantasy, the lamps are divided into two types: one is the warm yellow color light of 3000K, the other is the adjustable lamps for totally different colors. Different from conventional methods, the vertical installation method was adopted, making them combined with the vertical rib of the curtain wall. Observed from the facade of the exterior, all the lamps are concealed. In addition, a large number of materials in the room are stainless steel plates with various reflectivity and texture.

The lamps are arranged on the vertical track in groups of three with an angle of 24°, 36° and 60° respectively. The combination of different lights makes the natural lighting and the key lighting coordinate with each other perfectly. The 3000K lamp and the full color conversion lamp are arranged on the tracks of different loops respectively in order to control them flexibly and more conveniently.

ZEITGEIST COLLAGE

Zeitgeist Leibnitz is already the second hairdressing studio in the Zeitgeist ”family’. In the former showroom, the aim was to create a symbiosis of extroversion and the communication of security and privacy. Different elements – room zones – are placed against a background – room – and produce a new entity, the spatial collage. The heterogenous room inventory is thus given an ideological rationale.

The different work areas have been colour-coordinated; there are ubtle overlays at the cutting edges. The room changes when you walk through it. From every spot, it tells a new story, communicates in part with the outer room, but then consciously shuts itself off from it again and thus also integrates the spatial context into the collage. In the process, colour is the constant as the structure of the surfaces sensitively changes.

French restaurant atelier “nôl”, Tokyo

Located on the ground level, “nôl” is a restaurant atelier with a distinct concept. Functioning as a French cuisine restaurant, nôl can also be considered as a flexible space freed from the physical restraints of a classical restaurant. A place where talented chefs can use for catering preparation, or even for photo shooting. Thus compared to the spacious kitchen, this restaurant has only eight table seats.

Though it is compact, the goal was to create an atmosphere that suits the extraordinary dishes that will be prepared. Since the name of this facility comes from the French term “non-usuel (non-usual)” and “noir (black)” the space was designed with black as its key-color, and the task was to create a restaurant with a special feeling which is not fully open to the public considering the stance and characteristics of the space.

Loong Swim Club

The entire parent-child swim club is divided into five main functional areas and some auxiliary functional areas, all of which are centered around the behavioral habits of its target audience. In order to break the limitation of the spatial floor plan, the designer has worked out a streamlined flow after fully considering the user habits and potential behaviors of different target groups, so that adults, children and infants could all enjoy its caring service on this line.

The gorgeous colors and fairy-tale shapes are reflected in the mirror, making people feel like they are in the wonderland. The entire parent-child swimming pool uses a gentle color sense, and does not distinguish color in gender intentionally. The black thin-line adds a bit of avant-garde fashion to the overall space. Meanwhile, it also achieves the spatial aesthetic in terms of composition. The different sizes of ratio, from two centimeters of arched laces to three meters of arched doors, constitute the aesthetic proportional logic of the space. In order to create an intrusive dreamy experience, design without accent lighting is used, which motivates people to explore every corner in the space.

Wonder Galaxy

The answer lies in colour. A colour-filled future and a somewhat surrealistic atmosphere can help us recover the creative energy of childhood. Beginning with pink, and which possesses a kind of magic that has the power to transform the serious into the festive, to modernise even the most classical piece and to refresh even the soberest and dullest environments.

Wonder Galaxy is a daring, colouristic walk-in closet, a three-dimensional reality reminiscent of an Austin Powers’ film, but in which we are the players. The ensemble of alcoves and asymmetrical volumes afford a sensation of infinite depth, expanding the space and producing a perfect balance. The graduating colours suggest endless, parallel, Utopian realities. Fantasy colours and soap bubbles are combined with unusual materials, such as iridescent elements and ceiling fabric. Lighting is another fundamental part of the project and it remains again of the infinity of emotions, sensations and other experiences that we can have in the same environment.

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