Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2013 shortlist announced

Yesterday, June 24, have been announced the shortlist for the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2013, an independent awards that reward the best-designed restaurants and bars last year in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world. Five Spanish restaurants have been selected in different international categories. The Awards this year attracted 667 entries.

The Restaruant & Bar Design Awards 2013 jury includes Anne Kyyrö Quinn (Architectural Textil Designer), Casper Vissers (Founder and CEO moooi), Chris Bangle (Managing Director Chris Bangle Associates), Chris Webb (Senior Director Interior Design Europe Hilton), David Kester (Director, Thames & Hudson), Dominic Harris (Founder, Cinimod Studio), Giles Coren (Restaurant Critic, The Times), Ken Freivokh (Partner, Ken Freivokh Design), Maxim Velcovsky (Art Director, Lasvit), Mourad Mazouz (Restauranteur, Sketch), Nika Zupanc (Designer), Richard Vines (Chief Food Critic, Bloomerg News), Ross Urwin (Creative Director Home and Lifestyle, Lane Crawford), Sandy Suffield (Creative Director, Wolff Olins), Sebastian Mariscal (Design Principal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio), Stephen Alden (Chief Executive Officer, Maybourne Hotel Group), Tamara Lohan (Founder & CEO, Mr & Mrs Smith), Tom Aikens (Chef Restauranteur), Yenn Wong (Owner, JIA Boutique Hotels), Janet Wardley (Head of Visual Design, Harvey Nichols) and Chris Boum (International Editor, Time Out).

Sketch - Design Martin Creed - United Kingdom - Category Restaurant London

Virgin Atlantic JFK Clubhouse - Design Slade Architecture - United States - Category Americas Bar

View 62 - Design Un Design - Hong Kong - Category Asia Restaurant

Awards are divided in three main cateogries, which are further divided into subcategories, including:

- Projects located in the UK: Standalone Restaurant, Standalone Bar or club, Multiple Restaurant, Multiple Bar or club, London Restaurant, Restaurant or bar in a retail space, Restaurant or bar in a transport space, Restaurant or bar in a hotel, Pub, Fast/Casual, Restaurant or bar in another space, London Bar, Restaurant or bar in a heritage building.

- Projects located in the UK or internationally: Canteen, Lighting, Identity, Pop-Up

- Projects located outside of the UK: Europe, Australia & Pacific, Asia, The Americas and Middle East & Africa.

Rocambolesc - Design Sandra Tarruella - Spain - Category Europe Bar

Salon Urbain - Design Sid Lee Architecture - Canada - Category Americas Bar

Tramshed - Design Waugh Thisleton - United Kingdom - Category London Restaurant

Winners will be announced at an innovative ceremony at the London's Farmiloe Building, on the 12th September 2013.

Barrio East - Design Dtwo Design - United Kingdom - Category Multiple Bar or Club

VIP Lounge Arco Madrid 2012 - Design Teresa Sapey - Spain - Category Pop-Up

Capo - Design NeriHu Design - China - Category Asia Restaurant

Among the international categories, found five Spanish restaurants/bar/spaces selected at the shortlist. The “Europe Restaurant” category includes “Ikibana”, by El Equipo Creativo and “Nicky's Food & Drinks“, by Oscar Vidal Quist; the “Identity” category, the brand image of “Eyescream and Friends”, by Estudio m Barcelona, the “Europe Bar” category, the “Rocambolesc“, by Sandra Tarruella and finally, the “Pop-Up” category, the VIP Lounge of Arco Madrid 2012 Show, bt Teresa Sapey.

Eyescream and Friends - Design Estudio m Barcelona - Spain - Category Identity

Izakaya - Design LW Design Group - Arab Emirates - Category Middle East and Africa Restaurant

Nicky Food and Drinks - Design Oscar Vidal - Spain - Category Europe Restaurant

In next issues we will shelling some of these spectacular dining spaces. Some of which we’ve posted here, as the WakuWaku in Germany, designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group.

TQLA - Design Idea - Bulgaria - Category Lighting

Loof - Design Takenouchi - Singapore - Category Asia Bar

Camp and FURNACE - Design Smiling Wolf - United Kingdom - Category Pop-Up

Here you can see the shortlist with its different categories

Source: Restaurant & Bar Design Awards

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