Meet the 2023 Interior Awards jurors: Scott Compton

Scott Compton is a principal at Warren and Mahoney with a uniquely tailor-made method to inside design. He has intensive venture expertise in office, retail, lodges and hospitality, having labored in the UK, China and New Zealand. Scott is concentrated on producing revolutionary environments for famend manufacturers equivalent to TVNZ, MediaWorks, SkyCity, Chapman Tripp and, extra just lately, Google.

What’s one in every of your favorite inside areas, both right here in Aotearoa or overseas, that’s impressed you or your design considering? 

The Neues Musuem in Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects. As a local Englishmen having grown up surrounded by historic buildings, I’ve a heightened consciousness of sympathetic and revolutionary renovations. Neues Musuem is war-torn museum that wears its scars and but inserts some dramatic and modern supplies to create a very magnificent expertise. The fabric palette of prefab concrete with marble chips, glass and bronze is an ideal complement to the ornate and ruined material. Neues Museum embodies the true energy of reuse and the significance of revitalising ageing or ruined constructing inventory over constructing new. It may well by no means be replicated.

When you might design an inside venture for anybody, who wouldn’t it be and why?

It’s much less about who, extra in regards to the spirit of the consumer and your relationship. I take pleasure in collaborating with those that are respectful of our career and course of, and who can provide significant perception about themselves or their enterprise, which we are able to interpret and increase upon to succeed in one thing particular. Over time, I’ve discovered that each one the tasks the place we’ve achieved essentially the most satisfying outcomes have come from a spot of belief and confidence in our potential as designers to do what we do properly. That’s the reason we’re employed in any case. I like to paraphrase the Frank Gehry quote: “I don’t know why folks rent architects after which inform them what to do.”

What are you trying ahead to when judging the Inside Awards 2023?

For me, design is equal half science and emotion. I like a very good story and deep consideration of the which means behind issues. We dwell in an period the place figuring out your context and the provenance of our selections is foremost in our considering. Equally, good design mustn’t come at the price of strong and rigorous testing of the metrics or goal of the house – good design works extremely laborious and offers an expertise to all, proper throughout the board. Lastly, if a venture can shock or make me smile, it’ll win me over each time. Life is simply too brief to overlook out on good humour. Robust temporary. I sit up for seeing what’s out there.