SKY DESIGN AWARDS 2022 JUDGING PANEL

(Names in no particular order and more judges information will be release)

Born in March 1976, Manuel Rabaté is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po, 1998), and of HEC Business School (2001). He began his career as a Deputy Director at the auditorium of the Musée du Louvre from 2002 until 2005. He participated among other things in the creation of new programmes on Islamic Arts in the context of the first performance contract concluded between the French government and the museum for its modernisation. He joined the Musée du quai Branly as a Deputy Director of Cultural Development a year before its opening in 2006, and structured the administrative and financial management of many key issues for the opening. After the opening, he led the launching of the first exhibitions abroad including "Masques - Beauté des Esprits" exhibition at the Bahrain National Museum, 2008. Manuel Rabaté joined Agence France-Muséums in 2008, a year after the signing of the intergovernmental agreement between France and the United Arab Emirates marking the birth of the Louvre Abu Dhabi project. Subsequently, he has followed the project from its conceptual phase until its operational implementation as a Secretary General and the acting CEO since 2010. He was appointed CEO of Agence France-Museums in 2013 under the proposal of the Board of Directors and its Chairman, Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, to set up in Abu Dhabi a multidisciplinary team of museum professionals and follow through the phases of the project realization in collaboration with the major French museums and their UAE partners.

In September 2016, Manuel Rabaté was appointed Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi). Aside from his duties in the service of museums, Manuel Rabaté has also chaired the reflection group-Culture & Management, in which he had created the museum department. He has also taught Arts and Cultural Management at various universities in France and Abu Dhabi (Paris-Dauphine University, Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi since the establishment of the Master in "History of Art and Museum Studies").

Head of Design & Founder Thomas Lykke (born 1971) trained as a fashion designer in Copenhagen and San Francisco before turning his eye to the design industry where he worked as Interiors Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine from 2000-2003 before setting up his own design company, OEO Studio, in Copenhagen in 2003.

Since 2011, Thomas Lykke has held the position as Creative Director for Japanese textile maker Hosoo and from 2009-2011, Thomas Lykke was part of the Creative Force for Scandinavian luxury lifestyle brand Georg Jensen. Back in 2011, OEO Studio shaped the strategic and creative direction of the Shanghai-based design brand Stellar Works and Thomas Lykke held the position as Creative Director of Stellar Works from 2011 to 2013. Thomas Lykke is also member of the Danish Design Council since 2015.

OEO Studio was founded in 2003 and is based in Copenhagen with a project office in Tokyo, Japan. OEO Studio has created award-winning designs for a broad spectre of discerning clients, from the interiors of Michelin-starred restaurants to aspirational objects that have earned their place in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Design Museum in Copenhagen. 

Koichi Tanaka is the founder and CEO, and Director of LIGHTLINKS, a Japanese lighting designer and consultant and has a wealth of experience in Japan, Hong Kong and Europe. He graduated from University College London with a Master’s degree in Light and Lighting, which is Europe's long standing lighting specialist graduate course. He has worked for several well-known lighting manufacturers and design firms in Japan and Europe. His professional background will make it possible in a design process to easily communicate with the project managers, architects, designers, contractors, and other consultants for any type of international projects.

LIGHTLINKS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED was founded in Hong Kong and Tokyo to provide professional lighting design and consulting services for wide range of projects. LIGHTLINKS's design philosophy is literally based on “LINKAGE”. They see LIGHT as a valuable media, which can link people with society and function as a bridge between people who have different cultures and custom and believe LIGHT is something that can link art, design and technology. Some of the major works include: in Hong Kong, “The Mills”, “Central Market”, “The Quayside”, in Macau “MGM Cotai Emerald Villas”, “Melco Studio City Phase2”, In China, “Hyatt Regency Liberation Square Chongqing”, “Shenzhen Prince Bay K11&Dpark”, “Nohga Hotel Akihabara Tokyo” in Japan, etc. 

Kevin P. Flanagan, with over 35 years of experience, realizing visionary award-winning designs throughout the World, his design solutions resolve both the city context and environmental/wellbeing concerns, and social spaces that promote the exchange of ideas and equity, in a single bold concept; his designs are a response to the nature of place. He spoke most recently on the topic of the benefits of Timber Towers, and a Vision for a more liveable Greener City at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat CTBUH 10th World Congress in Chicago. He was a founding member and former Partner at PLP Architecture, London. He began his career in Montreal and Toronto and worked at SITE and KPF Architects in NYC and co-founded the London office. Kevin has lectured, exhibited, and published widely. His most notable recent work includes the multi-award winning most sustainable and wired building in the world, The EDGE, Amsterdam, Netherlands, which won among others, the ULI Award, the BREEAM Awards 2016 for both Best Office and the Most Sustainable Building in the World, and AIA Europe Sustainability Design Award. Most recently Kevin's design for The EDGE in Amsterdam won the United Nations Sponsored “Global Model of Smart Green Building Award", at the 16th Global Forum on Human Settlements. He has earlier won two Chicago Athenaeum Awards for the Grant Thornton Tower in Chicago, USA and for the landmark ADIA Headquarters in Abu Dhabi. While also sweeping the categories, winning four International Architecture Masterprize Awards for Platinum Best High Rise, in timber, Gold Best Office Design, Silver Best Transport, and a Mention for Sustainable Public building/ Opera House. His earlier design for The De Hoftoren Headquarters (International High-Rise Award design) for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (The Hague, Netherlands) and The Marina Towers Master Plan and Residential Tower, on the Corniche in Beirut, Lebanon. I have spoken several times in relation to The EDGE in Amsterdam, the world’s most sustainable and best example of IoT, and the Oakwood Timber Tower series with Cambridge University, both of which he designed .

Here are recent video links. https://youtu.be/M7sjLeBKfZQ And ]a recent conference on design https://youtu.be/qWbNlwnW5aA Kevin studied at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, UK), the University of Texas, Texas, USA, and a teaching Study Scholarship in Rome, Italy. He has taught and lectured most recently at Cambridge University, Manchester University, UK, and Bahcesehir University Istanbul, Turkey, related to both The EDGE, and the RIBA award winning collaboration focused on his design for the Oakwood Timber Towers design series 1-8.

Kevin is presently involved in Projects in Kuwait, Fiji, London , Toronto and New York.
Kevin P Flanagan, AIA, FRAIC, FRGS, FRSA, Member AAAS Senior Architect, former senior associate partner KPF International NYC, USA/ co-founder KPF International, London, and co-founder, former partner PLP Architecture, London, UK.

Luca Albero was born in Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples, Italy in 1974.

He worked as Worldwide Visual Merchandising Director for Fendi from 2003 to 2018

And is currently Dior’s Worldwide Visual Merchandising Director since 2018

Managing Partner Anne-Marie Buemann (born 1973) holds a degree international marketing management and has worked as a consultant within a number of creative industries before joining OEO Studio in 2003. With 20 years of professional experience in the fields of branding, design and concept development, Anne-Marie Buemann leads daily operations at OEO Studio as well as being responsible for driving a broad range of projects in close collaboration with Head of Design and Founding Partner Thomas Lykke.

OEO Studio was founded in 2003 and is based in Copenhagen with a project office in Tokyo, Japan. OEO Studio has created award-winning designs for a broad spectre of discerning clients, from the interiors of Michelin-starred restaurants to aspirational objects that have earned their place in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Design Museum in Copenhagen.

Daishi Yoshimoto is an architect and principal of Yoshimoto Associates, an architecture design studio in Tokyo. A licensed architect both in Japan and the US, Daishi’s career spans multiple cultures and over 25 years of experience in residential, commercial, and hospitality design. Some of his major works include the French Embassy in Tokyo, TRI-SEVEN ROPPONGI, and ONSEN RYOKAN YUEN SHINJUKU. His work has received wide recognition in design awards including the BCS Award (Japan), iF Award (Germany), DFA and APIDA (Hong Kong). 

Daishi is a founding member of the Japan Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), where he served as President and is currently its representative to the International Region board. In parallel with his professional practice, Daishi teaches a design studio at Kokushikan University's architecture program.