Archello is pleased to welcome four new jurors to the Archello Awards 2024 program. They will become part of a growing jury panel invited to evaluate entries for 75 architecture product and project categories. Read on to learn more about Veronica Mimoun, Robert van Vugt, Jaël Noordhof and Pramoth Kitkanasiri:
Veronica Mimoun runs her own Barcelona-based interior design office, Veronica Mimoun Studio, with a large team of specialized professionals. Her training began in the financial sphere. She studied Economics and Business Administration at Esade, Barcelona and finished her studies in the USA and Paris. Veronica's qualities and strengths that she used in the financial world come into play in the business of her interior design studio. Her attention to detail is not only appreciated in the quality of her designs and creativity but also in meeting budgets.
Veronica has been designing beautiful and sophisticated homes for private clients and investment clients for several years. Her current portfolio has more than 20 active projects in the USA and Europe. The firm’s projects include Penthouse in Eixample, Barcelona, which was named as an Archello Awards 2023 Housing Interior of the Year finalist.
Robert van Vugt is an architect and founder of Lichtstad Architecten. The architectural firm is housed in a monumental and former Philips factory in the city of Eindhoven known as De Lichttoren. This year the firm celebrates its ten-year anniversary with several publications and awards.
Lichtstad Architecten is an architectural firm active in residential and commercial housing, care and sports buildings. Its projects and design assignments express sustainability and circularity. The studio works according to the philosophy ‘the art of omission’: by visibly using circular pure raw materials in its architecture, it is believed that awareness and impact will follow. Recent projects with circular design as a common thread include the sports center Bredius in Muiden, Netherlands, which was named the Archello Awards 2023 Sports and Leisure Building of the Year.
Jaël Noordhof is creative director at Mirato, an interior design and build studio based in the Netherlands. Noordhof has an honors degree from the ArtEZ University of the Arts, a postgraduate degree in environmental psychology and a pre-masters degree in architecture and technology. Storytelling is the starting point in her design approach: by embracing a broad perspective on design she actively seeks connections with architecture.
Noordhof is currently working on a large-scale cultural center in the public domain housing a library, a music school and a broad offering of creative classes within a single building. This project is perfect for expressing her vision: 'crafting spaces for stories to be shared, experienced, and appreciated. Narratives in physical form, where people can work in, live in and be part of.' One of her projects with Mirato, HQ Sunrock in the Netherlands, was named an Archello Awards 2023 winner for both the Office Interior of the Year and the overall Interior of the Year .
Pramoth Kitkanasiri is the founder and design director of Bangkok, Thailand-based Spacy Architecture. He earned his degree in architecture from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology with academic distinction. He then furthered his education in physical planning and urban design, along with real estate development at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan.
Kitkanasiri's work explores interconnections among nature, space and architecture. He perceives architectural form as a body, and space within it as a soul or spirit. He believes the two function concurrently and also depend on one another. His projects include Double Slash // Coffee Space, which was recognized as one of Archello’s 2021 Best Projects. Another of his latest works, City Fresh, was named the winner of the Archello Awards 2023 Shop of the Year.
