You know what the Dutch love almost as much as design? Design awards. Yesterday, they announced the latest: The 2009 Great Indoors awards, which selected five winners, from among over 380 entries worldwide. The lucky few will now share $45,000 in prize money--a pittance, compared to the bragging rights of coming out on top, in front a judge of grim-faced Dutch design snobs. And the winners are...

Here, in the restaurant category, the Las Vegas outlet of Beijing Noodle no. 9, designed by Design Spirits, a Japanese firm. The interior is covered in laser-cut, metal scrims, which look like lace.

The winner in the institutional category: The Library for University of Amsterdam, by Bureau Ira Koers & Studio Roelof Mulder. It bears all the hallmarks of a Dutch interior: Minimalism that would border on the severe, except for a splashes of color and weirdness, in the forms of light fixtures on the columns that look like mushrooms sprouting from a tree trunk.

[Via Arch Daily]

The information desk.

Tree stumps: A must.

The stacks are contained in orange plastic drawers. Very 2001: A Space Odyssey.

See Arch Daily for more pics of this project.

The winner in the office category: The main offices for an advertising agency, designed by i29 (and previously featured on FastCompany.com). The project is exceptionally sustainable, despite its swank appearance: All of the furniture was scavenged locally rather than bought new. It was then repainted with a special eco-friendly paint, to make the entire thing look bespoke and high-style.

Green seldom works for the Sprockets crowd but here, it does.

Vud yoo lyke to play zum pool on our pool table?

The most prestigious award, for interior designer of the year, went to Guise, a young Swedish architecture firm.

Here: An interior they created for the flagship store of Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, in Stockholm.

[Via Arbitare]

The poor shop keepers must go through lots and lots of cleaning products.

The delicate, architectural hanging racks.

One of the dressing rooms. The chair is by Konstantin Grcic (whose designs are now up in an exhibit in Chicago, featured in a recent slideshow).

For more on this project, see Arbitare.

The retail award was kind of a no-brainer: It went to OMA/Rem Koolhaas's Prada Transformer (which we previously covered). The massive experimental pavilion was installed in Seoul, Korea last summer.

The Transformer has four, differently shaped sides; turning it over allows the different shapes to create varying floorplan configurations.

Cranes were used to move the Transformer through its four stages. Including...

...a movie theater...

...an art exhibition by Natalie Djurberg, a Swedish artist best-known for phantasmagorical claymation films...

...and an exhibition of pieces from Prada's recent history.