Nominations for CID Awards 2025: Saudi close on December 26
The CID Awards 2025: Saudi is set to celebrate excellence in commercial interior design across the Kingdom for a third year running, shining a spotlight onto the projects pushing creative and functional boundaries. The ceremony will take place in early February, with more details to be revealed soon. Nominations are now open.
With a such diverse array of categories, it’s essential to understand the distinction between Best Interior Design Concept of the Year and Interior Design of the Year. The difference allows both conceptual visions and fully realised designs to be showcased and celebrated, alongside the people and firms shaping the rapidly evolving design industry in Saudi.
Future project categories
The Best Interior Design Concept award focusses on projects in the design or concept phase. The award is dedicated to design plans across a number of sectors that are not yet completed but have the potential to shape the future of design. These categories emphasise creativity, innovation, and bold thinking, allowing designers to showcase ground-breaking design concepts that could redefine their respective sectors.
These categories provide a platform for designers to highlight unbuilt projects, demonstrating how their ideas can address market trends, user needs, and environmental considerations, even before construction begins.
You can submit your design plans for projects in Saudi Arabia that are not yet complete within these categories:
- Best Interior Design Concept: F&B
- Best Interior Design Concept: Hotel
- Best Interior Design Concept: Residential
- Best Interior Design Concept: Office
- Best Interior Design Concept: Retail
- Best Interior Design Concept: Health, Wellness & Leisure
Completed projects
In contrast, the Interior Design of the Year awards are dedicated to completed projects that showcase outstanding execution and have been finished within the 12 months leading up to December 26, 2024. These categories celebrate the culmination of creativity, collaboration, and technical expertise, recognising spaces that are already making an impact across the Kingdom and shaping Saudi’s modern design vernacular.
You can submit your completed design projects across the following categories:
- Best Use of Art in Interior Design
- Best Use of Lighting in Interior Design
- Interior Design of the Year: Residential
- Interior Design of the Year: Hotel
- Interior Design of the Year: Restaurant
- Interior Design of the Year: Café and Coffee Shop
- Interior Design of the Year: Retail
- Interior Design of the Year: Health, Wellness & Leisure
- Interior Design of the Year: Office
- Architectural Project of the Year
- Designing for Good
- Heritage Preservation