2005
Travel + Leisure Design Award for Rem Koolhaas
February
17, 2005
Travel
+ Leisure Magazine announced the winners of the first annual
Travel + Leisure Design Awards for The Best in Museums, Restaurants,
Hotels, Luggage, Airplanes, and more. Including a "Best
Cultural Space" award for the Seattle Central Library by
Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Ramus.
Press
Release
New York, NY (February 8, 2005) – Nancy Novogrod, Editor
in Chief of Travel + Leisure magazine, announces the winners
of the first annual Travel + Leisure Design Awards, recognizing
outstanding work in design and architecture during the past
year. Highlighting the significance of design to the travel
experience, the awards cover eleven categories, including: Best
Museum, Best Restaurant, Best Travel Gadget, Best Retail Space,
Best Cultural Space, Best Transportation, Best Luggage, Best
Hotel (Fewer than 75 Rooms), Best Hotel (75 Rooms or More),
Best Infrastructure, and Best Public Space. There is one winner
per category, and honorable mentions in several categories.
Moderated
by T+L Consulting Design Editor Chee Pearlman (former editor
in chief of award-winning I.D. magazine), the Travel + Leisure
Design Awards were selected by an illustrious jury of experts:
Tyler Brûlé, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Charles Gwathmey,
Brooke Hodge, Murray Moss, and Terron Schaefer. The Awards are
featured in the March 2005 issue on page 174, and online at
www.travelandleisure.com.
Nancy
Novogrod says, “The magazine regularly highlights architecture
and design in its pages, but we were delighted to finally have
the opportunity to officially recognize the architects and designers
who have such a positive impact on travel. It was also a great
pleasure to work with Chee and our distinguished panel of judges.”
2005 TRAVEL + LEISURE DESIGN AWARDS
BEST
MUSEUM
Winner: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Yoshio Taniguchi, architect
BEST RESTAURANT
Winner: Yauatcha, London
Christian Liaigre, interior designer
BEST
TRAVEL GADGET
Winner: Leica D-Lux
Achim Heine, product designer
BEST
RETAIL SPACE
Winner: Globe-Trotter/Mackintosh, London
Taisuke Higuchi, interior designer
BEST
CULTURAL SPACE
Winner: Central Library, Seattle
Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Ramus, architects
BEST
PUBLIC SPACE
Winner: Millennium Park, Chicago
Frank Gehry, architect; Kathryn Gustafson, landscape architect;
Anish Kapoor and Jaume Plensa, artists
BEST
TRANSPORTATION
Winner: Singapore Airlines’ A340-500 interior
In-house design team
BEST
LUGGAGE
Winner: Valextra’s overnight bag
In-house design team
BEST
HOTEL (Fewer than 75 Rooms)
Winner: Hotel Omm, Barcelona
Juli Capella, architect; Sandra Tarruella and Isabel López,
interior designers
BEST HOTEL (75 Rooms or More)
Winner: Q!, Berlin
Graft architects
BEST
INFRASTRUCTURE
Winner: Millau Viaduct, Millau, France
Norman Foster, architect
The winners of the Travel + Leisure Design Awards 2005 will
be celebrated at an event in Chelsea, NYC, on February 17th.
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Liz
Marsh/212 382 5684
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