Launched by Marcus Fairs in 2006, the design website Dezeen, now with over 3 million readers a month, is one of the major online resources for information, reviews and opinions about current architecture and design.

In 2018 Dezeen launched an annual design award and this year there were 42 categories or awards - with 14 in each of the three sectors of architecture, interiors and design. For each discipline there are 12 project categories and two studio categories with those six studio categories created to highlight the architects and designers considered to be producing the most outstanding work.

These categories included an award for Designer of the Year and Emerging Designer of the Year; with awards for Urban House of the Year; for Civic Building of the Year, Interior Project of the Year, Emerging Interior Designer of the Year and for the outstanding Exhibition Design.

There were also three overall project winner - one in each of the sectors of architecture, interiors and design - and, along with the winners of the 45 awards, 13 projects from the short list of 220 were highly commended.

The scale and ambition of the awards is amazing with 4,300 entries from 85 countries this year and with 78 judges for the 2020 awards including Norman Foster, Konstantin Grcic and Daniel Libeskind. There were also public votes for each category that sometimes but not always coincided with the choice of the judges.

In 2020 there were two Danish winners with the Copenhagen design and architecture studio COBE selected for the Dezeen Landscape Project Award 2020 for their major scheme for Karen Blixens Plads and the Soft Lounge Chair designed by Thomas Bentzen for TAKT was chosen for the Dezeen Seating Design Award 2020.

Lille Langebro by WilkinsonEyre and Urban Agency was shortlisted for the Infrastructure Project of the year and Norm Architects was shortlisted for the award for Interior Designer of the year.

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Karen Blixens Plads