MUZIJI Shortlisted for America’s Best Of Year Interior Design Awards
In the 2025 international design award season, Karvone once again delivered outstanding results:
MUZIJI (in the Medium Commercial Lobby + Amenity category) was shortlisted for the finals of the American Best of Year Awards. This marks our consecutive achievement of this international honor for more than 10 years, and also represents our sustained leading strength in cross-domain scenario construction, urban cultural expression, and commercial space innovation.
At the same time, the MUZIJI project has also gained multiple recognitions globally: including the Merit Award of the DFA Design for Asia Awards, a place on the longlist of the UK’s Dezeen Awards, and a shortlist for the APIDA Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards. With its unique local cultural expression and spatial experience construction, MUZIJI has continued to attract attention in international evaluation systems.
Best of Year: One of the World’s Most Influential Interior Design Awards
Hosted by America’s *Interior Design* magazine, the Best of Year Awards is hailed as the “Oscars of Global Interior Design”. It aims to recognize the most forward-looking and influential design works of the year. With rigorous evaluation criteria and comprehensive category coverage, it attracts first-class design firms from around the world to compete every year, and has become an important benchmark for measuring the international standards of design institutions.
The BOY Awards cover multiple fields such as residential, commercial, office, cultural and public spaces, drawing thousands of entries from across the globe each year. Being shortlisted itself signifies that the project has obtained international recognition in terms of aesthetics, functionality, innovation and social value.
Award-Nominated Project: Ideal Community “MUZIJI”
Project Name: MUZIJI
Enchanting Village
Award Category: Medium Commercial Lobby + Amenity
With “Enchanting Village” as its emotional core, MUZIJI reconstructs modern community space. Drawing inspiration from the lifestyle of old urban areas and the layout of courtyard houses, the design team integrated over 15 composite business formats including under-eaves gathering spaces, community cafes, tea halls, and youth tribes to create a “super cultural venue”. The space reshapes emotional connections between people through scenarios such as sloped roofs, the “Spiritual Tree” in the central square, a sunken reading area, and a bamboo forest glass house. By prioritizing operation and introducing a curator co-creation model, the space realizes the transformation from real estate to lifestyle, exploring the authentic ecology and humanistic warmth of future communities.