21/09/2026
An award-winning Moroccan villa in Bali. Royale Residence, Pandawa — Silver Award for Future Project Interior Design at the 12th CREDAWARD.
Future Project Interior Design is the category for villas still being built. The jury reads the drawings, the specification and the intent, and decides whether the finished villa will be worth the claim — and whether the firm can deliver it. There are no photographs to lean on.
Why Moroccan, in Bali? Morocco has been designing for heat and glare for centuries — thick walls, deep arches, shade, water at the centre of the plan — and Bali has the same sun. Six hundred metres from Pandawa beach, the answer was obvious. Six bedrooms, a twenty-two-metre pool, a rooftop jacuzzi facing the ocean, sauna, gym, a barbecue terrace, a playground, native Balinese planting around Moroccan tile. Inside, hand-laid tile, carved screens, a chandelier under a coffered ceiling, four-poster beds in arched niches — every room decided before a single wall exists.
And underneath: solar with lithium storage, rainwater harvested and filtered, reverse-osmosis drinking water, a plan oriented to the wind so the villa stays dry through the rains. The jury’s criteria include the environment. We took that literally.
Earlier this year London named Royale Residence Best in the World at the International Property Awards. Shanghai asks for something different. A finished villa can be admired; a future project has to be proven. The jury are developers, professors and practising architects, and they do not judge a render on whether it is pretty — they read the plan, the structure and the numbers and decide whether it will work as drawn. Royale Residence passed that test, which says more about the villa than any brochure can. The last slide we showed said what we believe: we are not building residences, we are crafting a history to be inherited.
Silver Award, one of the night’s highest honours. Award-winning before its first guest arrives.