Designs of the Year 2014

The Designs of the Year categories consist of Architecture, Design, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Fifteen projects on six continents are nominated in the Architecture category, and those are listed below alphabetically by project name. Category winners will be announced in early May, with the overall winner to be named in early June. Last year's overall winner, Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center, was the first time a work of architecture won Design of the Year in its then seven-year history. An exhibition of all the nominated designs runs from 25 March to 23 August 2015 at the Design Museum.

Arena do Morro
Mãe Luiza, Natal, Brazil
Herzog & de Meuron

Desert Courtyard House
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Wendell Burnette Architects

Foundation Louis Vuitton
Paris, France
Gehry Partners

Forfatterhuset Kindergarten
Copenhagen, Denmark
COBE

Garden School
Fangshan, Beijing, China
OPEN Architecture

House for Trees
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Long Museum West Bund
Xuhui, Shanghai, China,
Atelier Deshaus

Markthal Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands
MVRDV

One Central Park
Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Philharmonic Hall
Szczecin, Poland
Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga

Sancaklar Mosque
Istanbul, Turkey
Emre Arolat Architects

Saw Swee Hock Student Centre
London, England
O'Donnell + Tuomey

UC Innovation Center
Santiago, Chile
Elemental

La Ultima Esperanza - The Last Hope
Manabi, Ecuador
Al Borde

Waterbank Campus
Laikipia, Kenya
PITCHAfrica