Design Museum's Designs of the Year

London's Design Museum bills its Designs of the Yearawards as "the Oscars of the design world." Nominees for the seven categories—Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Transport and Product—were announced in March, with fifteen projects in the running in the Architecture category. The winner is Tour Bois le Prêtre in Paris, designed by Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. The project is the renovation of a 1960s Parisian tower block into a glassy building with generous living spaces added to the building's perimeter.

Other contenders in the Architecture category were MVRDV's Book Mountain, Louis Kahn's posthumous FDR Four Freedoms Park, Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho, and Renzo Piano's The Shard in London. An overall winner will be selected by the jury and announced on April 16.