Bulgarian Architects and Designers with Awards from the BIG SEE 2021 Festival
Architectural and design bureaus and designers from Bulgaria won awards from the BIG SEE Design Month festival in Slovenia, which were presented at a virtual ceremony last week. Due to the Kovid pandemic, the 19th edition of the festival under the motto "Southeast Europe - Where Life is Creativity" was held only online.
Traditionally, the awards for achievements were awarded in six areas - design in the field of tourism; fashion and accessories; Interior Design; architecture; product design and wood products, as the Bulgarian participants were awarded in the first four categories. A total of 26 conceptual and already realized projects, as well as products were awarded.
In the category "Tourism", Plovdiv was awarded as a creative destination, in relation to which the jury points out the fact that it is the oldest continuously populated city in Europe and the first in Bulgaria, chosen as European Capital of Culture (2019). The role of the Kapana creative industries district as an environment for the exchange of ideas, cooperation and growth through culture is especially noted.
Stanislava Dimitrova and Prototype 23 studio were awarded a prize for the LET’S PLAY! Collection, made entirely of natural fabrics.
"BIG SEE" 2021 awarded the most participants from Bulgaria - 16, in the field of interior design. Among the winners are offices and individual designers from Ruse, Sofia, Varna and other cities, who presented their solutions for furnishing office buildings, homes, sports facilities, restaurants and cultural institutions. This year, for example, the project for the establishment of the Goethe Institute in Sofia was awarded.
The authors of eight different buildings and public spaces received recognition in the category "Architecture". Among them, the festival highlighted the modernization of the pedestrian zone in Vratsa, the construction of the multifunctional hall of the 1st language high school in Varna, the office building of the company "Kamenitza" in Plovdiv, a beach monitoring station in Varna, apartments in the complex "Pancharevo Park" - Sofia and others.
A member of the international jury, which evaluated the submitted projects and teams, was also the fashion designer from Bulgaria Nelly Miteva. The festival with traditional Bulgarian participation takes place every autumn at the initiative of the Center for Creative Economy in SEE BIG SEE from Ljubljana. In his work he focuses on the countries of Central and Southeastern Europe, Italy, Malta and Israel.
All selected projects from Bulgaria in the respective categories can be viewed on the festival website:
https://bigsee.eu/awards/
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