IDEA Awards... Countdown 10th and 11th October,2014

About the Award

The Interior Design Excellence Awards( IDEA) is a professional architecture/interior design award that aims to provide a world class platform to recognize and honor outstanding architects and designers in the industry. IDEA recognizes design projects, acknowledges design excellence, encourages innovative ideas and techniques within the industry and showcases architects and designers that represent excellence in the profession. 

2014 Theme

REDEFINING NIGERIA’S SKYLINE

 WHY IS IDEA CONFERENCE  IMPORTANT FOR NIGERIA?

 WE TACKLE THE ISSUES THAT MATTER.

WE KEEP ABREAST OF THE ISSUES FACING

NIGERIA AND SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF

A HIGH QUALITY BUILT ENVIRONMENT.

In 2012 for example, the conference was chaired by the Vice President of Nigeria represented by the minister of Housing and the theme was “Architecture and Interior Design in Nation building”. A special feature of the IDEA 2012 conference and awards was the IFI declaration. The declaration, which explores the value relevance, responsibility, culture, business knowledge and identity of Interior Design / Architecture, was adopted by the President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Design; Shashi Caan and the executive board of IFI.

 The theme for 2013 was “Nigeria’s commitment to sustainable urban development”. The conference which explored the power and practicality of urban development. Arc. Femi Majekodunmi was a keynote speaker, the President of the NIA; Ibrahim Haruna and Arc. Kunle Adeyemi (who designed the floating school in Makoko and also worked on the proposed fourth mainland bridge) were speakers. The event was chaired by Shashi Caan the President of IFI.

The IDEA website received, on average 8350 unique visitors and 3,962 page views each month, last year it tops Google rankings for Nigerian Architecture and is linked to dedicated accounts for Twitter and Facebook,  along with an IFI website content distributor.

Our email digest is received by 750 subscribers, with a higher than average percentage of ‘opens’ at approximately 45 percent.  The digest provides valuable Industry insights and attracts a strong advertising base.

 WE KEEP NIGERIA INFORMED AND

INVOLVED IN THEIR CITY’S ARCHITECTURAL/

INTERIOR DESIGN ENVIRONMENT.

IDEA 2014 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER

About Mario Cucinella

Mario Cucinella is an italian  architect and designer  . In 2009, the first Italian architect for 30 years now to win a prize Marché International des Professionals d'Immobilier (MIPIM) in the category green building with the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies  Two years later, in 2011 he won the prestigious award again in the same category with the Italian headquarters of 3M .He graduated in Genoa with Giancarlo De Carlo in 1987. From 1987 to 1992 he worked in the studio of architect Renzo Piano in Genoa and Paris , as a project manager. In 1992 he founded Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) in Paris and in 1999 in Bologna . From 1998 to 2006 he was professor at the Laboratory of Technology of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara . Since 2004 he is a visiting professor at the ' University of Nottingham .

Since 2009 he has been the coordinator of the Master in Sustainable Architecture at IED Turin . He is particularly interested in the issues related to environmental design and sustainability in architecture . Dedicated to the research and development of products of industrial design .

Among his outstanding achievements are the SIEEB Sino-Italian Ecological Building in Peking, the CSET Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies in the University of Nottingham campus in Ningbo, China, the new seat of the Municipality of Bologna , the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) of Ningbo and the station Villejuif - Léo Lagrange in the Paris Metro . The new Civic Offices in Bologna, the new headquarters for 3M Italia in Milan, the new building for ARPA - Regional Agency for the Environment – in Ferrara, the mixed-use building Santander – the first Cened certified Class A building in the area – in Milan and the research project for the 100K € Home.

As well as his architectural design activities, Mario Cucinella also devotes himself to the research and development of industrial design products and to teaching: he holds the position of visiting Professor at Nottingham University and, until last year, taught Architectural Technology at the Faculty of Architecture in Ferrara. He also regularly gives lectures, in Italy and abroad.

Among his prizes, the Mipim Green Building Award 2009 (Cannes, France), the Architectural Review Future Projects Award 2009 (Cannes, France), the International Architecture Award (USA 2007) from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, the Energy Performance+Architecture Award (Paris, 2005) and the Special Award for the Environment at the Cityscape World Architecture Congress (Dubai, 2005), the Outstanding Architect Prize 2004 from the World Renewable Energy Congress (Denver, USA) and the 1999 Architecture Prize from the Berlin Akademie der Kunste.