EILO Awards Madrid 2025 celebrates the integration of nature into our daily spaces.
Plants in offices, businesses, hotels, stations, and airports improve health, reduce stress, increase concentration, foster a sense of belonging, and add value.
Interior landscaping is not simply "putting greenery under a roof": it is a discipline in its own right, requiring creativity, technique, and knowledge to design and maintain true ecosystems within buildings.
With this conviction, the European Interior Landscaping Organisation (EILO) held its biennial congress in Madrid and presented the EILO Awards Madrid 2025, recognizing the best interior landscaping projects at an international level.
This competition has established itself as a platform to provide visibility to creativity and innovation, highlighting the sector's contribution to social health and well-being, thus reinforcing its relevance in the contemporary landscape.
EILO Awards Madrid 2025 Category 1 focuses on large-scale projects (over 50 m²) where vegetation becomes an essential part of the architecture.
These are not mere decorations; they are installations that transform shopping centers, airports, hotels, or offices, turning them into spaces where nature defines the visitor's experience.
The jury especially values integration with architectural design and the impact on high-traffic public spaces.
In the Large Interior Green Spaces category, the winning projects were characterized by the following:
Creaplant (Switzerland) with The Green Lane
This project brings the outdoors in, recreating it through highly diverse vegetation. The use of pots is minimized, and materials are reused whenever possible. The originality of the proposal led the jury to award it the gold medal.
Biosyncora (Lituania) with Lush and Linear
Combining lush nature with modern architecture, this project features tall sculptural trees in polished steel planters. These reflect the vegetation, visually doubling the foliage and creating a sense of spaciousness.
Additionally, the planters, with their undulating shapes, function as sculptural elements. In this way, they create a contrast with the vegetation while simultaneously offering a serene and immersive environment. This space connects visitors with nature within a structured and elegant setting.
Plantart (Hungary) with Dorothea Hotel
The interior courtyard, designed by Lissoni & Partners, combines lush greenery, natural light, and modern architecture.
Highlights include an 8-meter Bucida tree as a focal point and an aromatic green wall that envelops visitors in natural scents.
The selection and arrangement of plants visually enrich the space, generate smooth transitions, and offer a relaxing and sensory environment, merging nature and contemporary design within the building.
EILO Awards Madrid 2025 Category 2 recognizes vertical installations made with living plants.
These can be walls integrated into the architecture or, conversely, independent structures; in any case, the protagonist must be a vertical garden.
Furthermore, the evaluation criteria include innovation in design, as well as the sustainability of materials and irrigation and lighting systems.
Finally, the aesthetic and creative aspects of the proposal are also valued, as they provide identity and coherence to the project.
In the Living Green Walls category, the winning projects were:
Element Green & Green Fortune (Alemania) con The Living Tree Project.
Created in the former Aquadom space, this project features an iconic interior tree with vertical and horizontal vegetation.
Inspired by nature and fiction, the project improves the indoor climate by providing oxygen and humidity, transforming the hotel into a living, healthy urban space.
Zuidkoop (Netherlands) with A Natural State of Mind
A conventional room was transformed into an indoor oasis with three green walls, visual continuity between levels, and a ceiling depicting the sky.
The space combines functionality and well-being, offering an environment where breathing, thinking, and connecting with nature are all part of the experience.
Innogreen (Finland) with Moss and Meadow
A living wall over 10m wide and 15m high, featuring more than 4,500 plants, integrates with a preserved moss wall at the top, creating a variety of textures and colors.
It features automated irrigation connected to the main water supply, leak sensors, and a proprietary patented system (2011) that utilizes semi-hydroponic plants in specialized bags for optimal growth.
EILO Awards Madrid 2025 Category 3 recognizes smaller-scale projects where space limitations are turned into an opportunity for creativity. Offices, hotels, waiting rooms, restaurants, and lounges are examples of environments that, thanks to ingenious design, achieve a major impact even with limited space available. Consequently, they demonstrate how careful planning can maximize both functionality and aesthetics simultaneously.
The jury looks for proposals that make excellent use of small spaces, generate unique sensations, and convert just a few square meters into a green oasis.
In the "Small but Mighty" Green Interiors category, the winning projects were:
PLNT (Netherlands) with Bar Botanique Amsterdam
A tropical restaurant where vegetation takes center stage: palms, trees, and climbing plants create layers, dynamism, and warmth. The vulkaponic system ensures healthy plants and sustainability. Although the space is small, its visual and sensory impact is immense, defining the venue's identity and offering a unique experience.
The Plantman (United Kingdom) with Residents Lounge – White City Living
Small interior green installations transform compact offices into cozy and functional spaces.
Living walls, room dividers, and botanical portraits improve acoustics, purify the air, and provide well-being and biophilic design, turning small areas into high-impact environments.
P2 Objekt Grün (Alemania) with Hanging Gardens.
Plant cubes made of recycled plastic were installed at eye level, creating a vertical green wall that accompanies the entire office floor, combining aesthetics with environmental consciousness.
Resilient and easy-to-care-for plants were selected, with special attention paid to sustainability. The goal was to create a pleasant, green, and practical work environment that combines aesthetics, functionality, and environmental awareness, making the workspace feel more vibrant and welcoming.
EILO Awards Madrid 2025 Category 4 only admits projects at least five years old that remain fully functional.
The award recognizes the ability to design durable spaces using resilient species, eco-friendly materials, and technical systems that ensure efficient maintenance (such as automated irrigation or adapted lighting).
This category demonstrates that interior landscaping is not only spectacular at its inception but can also endure over time with beauty and vitality.
In the Complexity, Sustainability, and Long-Term Maintenance category, the winning projects were:
Aplantis & Sumser Raumbegrünung (Suiza) with Spiral Hanging Garden.
Located at the Testo headquarters in the Black Forest, this project features hanging gardens and a 55-meter plant spiral connecting three floors, creating a vertical green sculpture that improves air quality and acoustics.
Inspired by the movement and light of the forest, the project brings living vegetation indoors.
Two main elements were created: hanging gardens in an atrium next to the stairs and a 55-meter plant spiral that connects three floors and reaches up to the skylights, forming a vertical green sculpture.
This architectural intervention transforms the space into a sensory experience, improving air quality and acoustics while offering an environment that inspires reflection and creativity.
The project was designed by Aplantis using the Natural Greenwall system and executed by Sumser Raumbegrünung.
Plant Designs (Reino Unido) with One Bank Street.
A transformation from artificial plants to one of London's greenest workspaces, featuring approximately 10,000 living plants across 8 floors.
Green walls, integrated planters, and large-scale ficus trees created a natural, calming, and visually striking atmosphere, enhancing the experience for both employees and visitors.
Creaplant (Suiza) with Inside-Out 1881.
Creaplant designed and installed a stunning vertical garden for the hospitality sector, transforming an industrial canteen dating back to 1881.
Working alongside architect Wolfgang Aeberhard, the project sought to merge the interior with the exterior. Creaplant handled everything from concept to installation and maintenance. Since its creation in April 2019, the living wall has been maintained every four weeks, featuring automated irrigation controlled by moisture sensors.
EILO Awards Madrid 2025Category Public Choice Award is the most participative recognition, decided by thousands of votes on social media. It values both the quality of the project and the companies' ability to connect with their community and provide visibility to interior landscaping. Furthermore, it drives the sector's outreach to a broad audience, proving that interior greenery can move and inspire people beyond the professional sphere.
In the Public Choice category, the winning projects were:
John Mini Distinctive Landscapes (EE. UU.) with Journey of the Palms.
In New York’s World Financial Center, sixteen 37-foot Washingtonia Robusta palms rise within a 120-foot glass atrium, serving as a symbol of resilience following 9/11.
Every decade, they are replaced for health and safety reasons through a rigorous selection and acclimation process that begins in Florida. The most recent installation took place in July 2024, noted for its horticultural precision and its aesthetic impact on interior landscaping.
Advance Plants (Australia) with Queen’s Wharf Brisbane.
A luxury development with 1,614 living plants across 20 floors, reflecting the tropical character of Queensland through functional and aesthetic design.
The project combined aesthetic and functional design, adapting species to specific microclimates and carefully selecting planters and mulches. Today, a specialized team maintains the space using sustainable systems, achieving a green, elegant, and functional environment that enhances the complex's architecture.
Plant Designs (Reino Unido) with Uncommon Holborn.
A co-working space that integrates biophilic design with living plants, natural scents, and immersive soundscapes to foster creativity and productivity.
The space connects people with nature through living plants, natural scents, and immersive soundscapes.
For two years, work spanned from initial concept to installation and maintenance, combining plants integrated into furniture, modular planters, and freestanding pots adapted to different microclimates and work zones.
The design includes private, collaborative, and wellness spaces, as well as outdoor terraces, cafés, and studios, fostering flexibility and productivity. The use of selected plants and sustainable substrates ensures plant health while promoting sustainability and well-being.
EILO Awards Madrid 2025 highlights the importance of integrating nature into daily life, demonstrating that interior landscaping creates healthier and more sustainable spaces.
For EILO, these awards celebrate the creativity and innovation of the sector. Plants transform buildings into places that inspire and care for people.
🌿 Indoor greenery is not a trend: it is the future, health, and well-being.
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