In this final interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri&Hu about his restaurant design within the Waterhouse at South Bund hotel in Shanghai, where cut-outs in the ceiling mean diners can look up into the bedrooms above.

In this movie he talks about the importance of the private dining room in Chinese culture and how his design challenges this idea. He continues his discusion of the Chinese attitude to restoration and recycling and how Shanghai is becoming a centre for new culture.

Neri&Hu also received the overall prize for this hotel, the Waterhouse at South Bund - see our movie about the project as a whole here.

We published the winners of all nine categories on Dezeen Wire as they were announced and have published talks with the winners on Dezeen Screen. You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

Inside awards: Wellington International Airport
by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific

In this interview taken from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Nick Barratt-Boyes of Studio Pacific and Ralph Roberts of Warren & Mahoney about their design for a new terminal at Wellington International Airport, where a copper-clad cave connects three exisiting buildings.

Barratt-Boyes and Roberts explain how their client’s brief for “a design to divide opinion” became the driving force of the project, the controversy it caused and the attractions of their native New Zealand.

We published the winners of all nine categories on Dezeen Wire as they were announced and will publish talks with the winners on Dezeen Screen over the coming weeks. You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

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Inside awards: Bar Code office by Ministry of Design

In this latest interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Colin Seah from Ministry of Design about the design of their own office, a former shophouse in Singapore where the rooms and the furniture within them are arranged in rows like a barcode.

We published the winners of all nine categories on Dezeen Wire as they were announced and will publish talks with the winners on Dezeen Screen over the coming weeks. You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

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Inside awards: Strelein Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects

In this next movie from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Australian architect Ian Moore, whose monochrome conversion of a former grocery warehouse in Sydney won the residential category.

Moore explains the concept behind the project before talking about working on The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters as an engineer in the 1980s, designing a combined home and photography studio when he moved back to Australia and how the famous Maison de Verre in Paris has influenced his work.

We published the winners of all nine categories on Dezeen Wire as they were announced and will publish talks with the winners on Dezeen Screen over the coming weeks. You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

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Inside awards: the Waterhouse at South Bund by Neri & Hu

As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. See photos and more information in our story on Dezeen.

In the movie, Lyndon talks about the attitude towards restoration in China, its importance in retaining the essence of a city and how his design gives public space back to the public.

We published the winners of all nine categories on Dezeen Wire as they were announced and will publish talks with the winners on Dezeen Screen over the coming weeks. You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

Inside awards: St Barbara Bastions by Architecture Project

As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Alberto Miceli-Farrugia of Architecture Project about their renovation of a property overlooking the Grand Harbour in the Maltese capital of Valletta, which won the creative re-use category. The building is part of the historical city fortifications known as St Barbara Bastion and has been converted into offices with a residential apartment at roof level.

In the movie, Miceli-Farrugia talks about how the Maltese climate, history and being surrounded by the sea impacts on his work, the human mind’s capacity to create cities from impossible situations and the appeal of Jane Fonda in 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella.

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Inside Awards: Hostem by JamesPlumb

As part of the series of Dezeen Talks we filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Russel and Hannah Plumb of JamesPlumb about their interior for outfitters Hostem in east London, using found objects and concrete plinths, which won the retail category.

You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse CrawfordPaul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

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Inside awards: Football Training Centre Soweto by RUFproject

As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Andy Walker from Nike Football and Sean Pearson from architects RUFproject about the Football Training Centre in Soweto, which won the culture and civic category.

We published the winners of all nine categories on Dezeen Wire as they were announced and will publish talks with the winners on Dezeen Screen over the coming days. You can also watch interviews with the judges, including Ilse Crawford, Paul Priestman and Andre Fu in the same series.

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Inside awards: V&A Ceramics Study Galleries by OPERA Amsterdam

In the first of a series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona last week, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Dutch designer Jeroen Luttikhuis of interior design studio OPERA Amsterdam about the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London, which won the display category.

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