Travel + Leisure Magazine Announces The Winners Of The 2005 Travel + Leisure Design Awards

The Best in Museums, Restaurants, Hotels, Luggage, Airplanes, + More

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Nancy Novogrod, Editor in Chief of Travel + Leisure magazine, announces the winners of the first annual Travel + Leisure Design Awards, recognizing outstanding work in design and architecture during the past year. Highlighting the significance of design to the travel experience, the awards cover eleven categories, including: Best Museum, Best Restaurant, Best Travel Gadget, Best Retail Space, Best Cultural Space, Best Transportation, Best Luggage, Best Hotel (Fewer than 75 Rooms), Best Hotel (75 Rooms or More), Best Infrastructure, and Best Public Space. There is one winner per category, and honorable mentions in several categories.

Moderated by T+L Consulting Design Editor Chee Pearlman (former editor in chief of award-winning I.D. magazine), the Travel + Leisure Design Awards were selected by an illustrious jury of experts: Tyler Brule, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Charles Gwathmey, Brooke Hodge, Murray Moss, and Terron Schaefer.

The Awards are featured in the March 2005 issue on page 174, and online at www.travelandleisure.com.

Nancy Novogrod says, "The magazine regularly highlights architecture and design in its pages, but we were delighted to finally have the opportunity to officially recognize the architects and designers who have such a positive impact on travel. It was also a great pleasure to work with Chee and our distinguished panel of judges."

 2005 TRAVEL + LEISURE DESIGN AWARDS
 BEST MUSEUM
 Winner: Museum of Modern Art, New York
 Yoshio Taniguchi, architect

 BEST RESTAURANT
 Winner: Yauatcha, London
 Christian Liaigre, interior designer

 BEST TRAVEL GADGET
 Winner: Leica D-Lux
 Achim Heine, product designer

 BEST RETAIL SPACE
 Winner: Globe-Trotter/Mackintosh, London
 Taisuke Higuchi, interior designer

 BEST CULTURAL SPACE
 Winner: Central Library, Seattle
 Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Ramus, architects

 BEST PUBLIC SPACE
 Winner: Millennium Park, Chicago
 Frank Gehry, architect; Kathryn Gustafson, landscape architect; Anish
 Kapoor and Jaume Plensa, artists

 BEST TRANSPORTATION
 Winner: Singapore Airlines' A340-500 interior
 In-house design team

 BEST LUGGAGE
 Winner: Valextra's overnight bag
 In-house design team

 BEST HOTEL (Fewer than 75 Rooms)
 Winner: Hotel Omm, Barcelona
 Juli Capella, architect; Sandra Tarruella and Isabel Lopez, interior
 designers

 BEST HOTEL (75 Rooms or More)
 Winner: Q!, Berlin
 Graft architects

 BEST INFRASTRUCTURE
 Winner: Millau Viaduct, Millau, France
 Norman Foster, architect

The winners of the Travel + Leisure Design Awards 2005 will be celebrated at an event in Chelsea, NYC, on February 17th.

Sophisticated, modern, and always intelligent, Travel + Leisure is the world's leading travel magazine. Currently in its 35th year, Travel + Leisure examines the way we travel now and where we'll be going years from now, putting into context all the elements of the traveler's experience-from hotels, restaurants, and shopping to architecture, culture, and politics-while delivering the latest news on security, health, trends, and innovations. Travel + Leisure inspires readers to explore the world, armed with reliable advice and a better understanding of the endless possibilities of travel. Travel + Leisure is published by American Express Publishing Corporation and managed by Time Inc.

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