Winners revealed: 2025 Australian Interior Design Awards

Refined aesthetics, clear narratives and a dedication to consumer wellbeing had been the widespread themes among the many winners of the 2025 Australian Inside Design Awards, introduced on 6 June in Melbourne.

The jury commented that, “the strongest tasks place human expertise on the forefront, creating immersive spatial environments that educate, deliver pleasure, nurture and encourage.”

The jury awarded Central by J.AR Workplace the Premier Award for Australian Inside Design, praising it as a “extremely ingenious venture” that was “executed with a stage of cleverness that makes use of constraints to its benefit.” Central is a superior instance of emotive inside design, creating an area for enjoyable, raucous nights out, and likewise took dwelling the Hospitality Design Award and the Better of State Industrial for Queensland Award.

The 2025 jury comprised Katherine Ashe (Vittino Ashe), Maria Correia (Grey Puksand), Ben Edwards (Studio Edwards), Will Fung (CO-AP), Peta Heffernan (Liminal Studio), Shona McElroy (Smac Studio), Damien Mulvihill (Design Workplace), and Tamara White (Warren and Mahoney). The jury was convened by Geraldine Maher, Director of Maher Design and Katherine Featherstone (Inexperienced Constructing Council of Australia) joined as sustainability advisor.

The jury shared that this 12 months’s awards “are a possibility for our business to face again, take all of it in and genuinely have a good time the standard of inside design being produced in Australia at present. We may give ourselves a collective pat on the again as we proceed to supply work that’s ingenious and complex.”

Premier Award for Australian Inside Design

J.AR Workplace for Central

Residential Design

Studio Prineas for Montage Residence

Residential Ornament

Sally Caroline for Panorama Home

Hospitality Design

J.AR Workplace for Central

Retail Design

Platform by Design Workplace for Vic’s Meat Chatswood Chase

Set up Design

Gloss Artistic in collaboration with Azuma Makoto and Nationwide Gallery of Victoria for Botanical Lab for Children

Public Design

Studio SC for The Australian Conflict Memorial New Entrance

Office Design

Cox Structure for Cox Structure Adelaide Studio

Hames Sharley with Arup and Peter Farmer Designs for Arup Office Perth/Boorloo

Rising Inside Design Apply

Studio Loads

Sustainability Development

Hames Sharley with Arup and Peter Farmer Designs for Arup Office Perth/Boorloo

Better of State

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Commendations

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The Australian Inside Design Awards are introduced by the Design Institute of Australia and InteriorsAu. The awards are supported by Dulux, Area, Sub-Zero Wolf, Laminex, Elton Group, Roca, GH Industrial and Nightworks. For extra pictures of this venture, see the Australian Inside Design Awards gallery.