Beyond Design Awards · MMXXVI
Nienke Schram
Ditt Officemakers
Winner of the category
Workplace Vision
For making the office feel less like an obligation and more like a destination.
The jury notedAs the winner of Workplace Vision, Nienke Schram recognises the office as a place capable of inspiring genuine attachment. At Ditt Officemakers, that conviction is informed by the warmth of walnut, the confidence of red and an enduring admiration for Renzo Piano. Her current preoccupation with Italy strengthens a sensibility in which work and pleasure may share an address.
And also, winner of
Architecture of the Year
For buildings that will still make sense in a hundred years.
The jury notedIn recognition of a talent that makes the rest of us nervous, we found, on closer inspection, an almost reckless commitment to rood, a debt to Renzo Piano, and to lightness, built precisely and a fascination with italy that comfortably predates its fashionability. Several of us claimed, afterwards, to have predicted it. The jury noted, in particular, your “Office crush”. You are hereby named winner of this category, by unanimous and faintly emotional decision.
Recorded in two categories
· Entry verified 18 September 2026
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