Giorgio Borruso is an Italian architect, known for his designs of international retail fashion houses. Since 2000, Borruso's firm has been based in Venice, Los Angeles, California.
Career Borruso has attended universities in Italy and Spain. In 2000, he relocated his firm to Venice, Los Angeles, California.
Borruso first received attention in 2001 with the Miss Sixty showroom in South Coast Plaza. His works have received over 170 international design awards. Several of his works are included in museum collections internationally, including the Chicago Athenaeum and the Red Dot Museum in Essen, Germany. Borruso was named Retail Design Luminary in 2006,Design Ideas DDI Magazine and Designer of the Year in 2005 by DDI magazine.Design Ideas DDI Magazine His recent works include Lord & Taylor in New York, Carlo Pazolini in Milan, New York, Rome, and London, and the Snaidero USA showroom in New York City.
Selected awards and honors German Design Prize (Germany 2013) Design Practice of the Year - FX Design Awards (UK 2012)Hooper,Emily. "Winners of 2012 FX International Interior Design Awards Recently Named" , talkcontract, Jan 7, 2013 Red Dot: BEST OF THE BEST Design Award (Germany 2012)“Giorgio Borruso Design scoops Red Dot award”, Interior Design Today Retail Design Institute Store Carlo Pazolini in Milan : STORE DESIGN AWARD and INNOVATIVE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN (2011)"RDI Announces Store Design Award Winners" , designretailonline International Architecture Award (Chicago Athenaeum) (2010,"INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS FOR THE BEST NEW GLOBAL DESIGN 2010" Chicago Athenaeum 2008)"2008 INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS FOR THE BEST NEW GLOBAL DESIGN" Chicago Athenauem GOOD DESIGN Award (2008,"Good Design 2008" Chicago Athenaeum 2007,"Good Design 2007" Chicago Athenaeum 2006,"Good Design 2006" Chicago Athenaeum 2005"Good Design 2005" Chicago Athenaeum) Red Dot: Product Design Award (Germany 2012 "Best of the Best," 2009, 2008, 2007)"The Store of the Future" California Apparel News American Architecture Award (Chicago Athenaeum) (2010,"American Architecture Awards" Chicago Athenaeum 2007"American Architecture Awards" Chicago Athenaeum) Contract Interiors Award (2010)Webb, Michael "Interiors Awards 2010: Large Office Winner" Contract Design Magazine, Jan 29, 2010 FX International Interior Design Award (UK 2007) Interior Design Best of Year Award (2008,"Best of the Year Awards 2008" Interior Design 2007"Best of the Year Awards 2007" , Interior Design) LABC Los Angeles Architecture Award (2007)"Los Angeles Business Council Honors City’s Best Architecture" , AIArchitect IIDA Interior Design Award (2009,"news release" IIDA 2007) AIA/LA Design Award (2011,"AIALA Design Awards Winners" AIA Los Angeles 2007"More Than 70 Awards Given for Projects, Practices, and Possibilities AIA Los Angeles) Future Marketing Award (UK 2006) Superior Achievement in Design and Imaging Award (2012,"Lord & Taylor", National Real Estate Investor 2006,"FORNARINA STORE WINS TENTH AWARD THIS YEAR" , Sportswear International 2005"Memorable Projects: 2002 Miss Sixty , Eventscape) NASFM Retail Design Award (2005,"MEMORABLE PROJECTS, Las Vegas, NV and Los Angeles, CA" , Eventscape 'Store of the Year’ 2006"Fila named Store of the Year", VMSD) Institute of Store Planners/VM+SD International Store Design Award (‘Store of the Year’ 2004,"Fornarina Named Store of the Year", VMSD 2005,"ISP/VM+SD Retail Design Winners for 2005 Unveiled", VMSD 2006"Fornarina, Rio de Janeiro, ISP/VM+SD Store Design Competition Winner", VMSD)
External links GIORGIO BORRUSO DESIGN's official website Interior Design, "Best of Year Awards" (2007) Interior Design, "Snaidero Coral Gables, Florida" (December 2007)
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