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10 Apr 2013

Designs of the Year 2013

Design Museum Announce Category Winners for Designs of the Year 2013

DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2013 CATEGORY WINNERS ANNOUNCED

London 10 April 2013: The Design Museum announces the seven category winners for the annual Designs of the Year Awards. The awards celebrate the best of international design from the last 12 months. The overall winner for the Design of The Year 2013 will be announced on Wednesday 16 April at an awards evening held at The Angler, South Place Hotel, London.

Architecture Category winner:

Transformation of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris, France
2006–11
Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton, and Jean Philippe Vassal:

photograph from Design Museum

photographs from Design Museum

The seven category winners include GOV.UK, a new British government website which promises to revolutionise governmental online communications, bringing together different government websites into one single site making it a much easier and user friendly service. Oher winners include the renovation and reimagining of a faded 1960’s tower block in Paris, a landmark documentary an fashion icon Diana Vreeland, a reinvention of the wheel in the form of a unique folding wheel which can be applied to bicycles and wheelchairs and a chair constructed using the latest computer technology.

The Seven Category winners are:

• Architecture: TOUR BOIS-LE-PRÊTRE, PARIS – Designed by Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
• Digital: GOV.UK WEBSITE – Designed by Government Digital Service
• Fashion: DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL – Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
• Furniture: MEDICI CHAIR – Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi
• Graphics: VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IDENTITY – Designed by John Morgan Studio
• Product: KIT YAMOYO – Designed by ColaLife and PI Global
• Transport: MORPH FOLDING WHEEL – Designed by Vitamins for Maddak Inc.

Transformation of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris, France

photographs from Design Museum

Pete Collard, Curator of Designs of the Year comments: ‘Designs of the Year is the Design Museum’s authoritative review of the most innovative, forward-thinking and culturally relevant projects from the past twelve months. The work selected demonstrates the many ways in which design can transform our physical and cultural landscape.’

The seven winning designs will now compete for the overall Design of the Year 2013, to be announced on 16 April. The winning entries, along with all the shortlisted designs are on show at the Design Museum until 7 July.

Design Museum Design Awards : previous year

The Designs of the Year 2013 jury:

• Johanna Agerman Ross (Editor of Disegno)
• Amanda Levete (Architect)
• Olga Polizzi (Director of Design for Rocco Forte Hotels)
• Sarah Raven (Garden designer)
• Griff Rhys Jones (Actor and presenter)
• Nicolas Roope (Designer)
• Ilse Crawford (Designer) – Chair of the jury

Transformation of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris, France

photographs from Design Museum

Other Shortlisted Buildings:

Astley Castle,
Warwickshire

photo : Witherford Watson Mann

Four Freedoms Park,
New York

photo : Amiaga

Home for All,
Japan

photo : Naoya Hatakeyama

Ikea Disobedients,
New York

photo : Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Innocence,
Istanbul

photo : Orhan Pamuk

Thalia Theatre,
Lisbon

photo : Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos

T Site,
Tokyo

photo : Klein Dytham

Galaxy Soho,
Beijing

photo : Hufton and Crow

Metropolitan Arts Centre,
Belfast

photo : Christian Richters

Museum of Contemporary Art,
Cleveland

photo : Foreign Office Architects

A Room for London,
London

photo : Charles Hosea

Designs of the Year 2013 images / information from Design Museum London

Location: Shad Thames, London, UK, SE1 2YD

Design Museum London

Design Museum London exhibition

About the Design Museum

The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to architecture and industrial design. Founded in 1989 and currently located in Shad Thames, its work encompasses all elements of design, including product design, graphic design, and fashion. For the past 22 years, the museum has hosted exhibitions showcasing some of the most important pioneers of design including, Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, and Dieter Rams.

The Design Museum plans to relocate from its current home at Shad Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute building, in Kensington, West London. The project is expected to be completed by 2015. Leading designer John Pawson will convert the interior of the Commonwealth Institute building to create a new home for the Design Museum giving it three times more space in which to show a wider range of exhibitions, showcase its world class collection and extend its learning programme. For more information please visit: designmuseum.org

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