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There are 76 nominated projects competing to be
crowned Design of the Year 2015. Here we showcase 20 of the finalists.
All finalists' details are on show at London's Design Museum with the
overall winner announced in June. Curator Gemma Curtin provides video
narration.
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The Current Table
Combines stylish design with technology - because it can charge phones,
tablets and computers.The glass table surface contains a special solar
cell which creates an electrical current. It means that the cell doesn't
need direct sunlight to work, and can rely on diffused light instead. |
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Kano
The importance of coding is currently being widely emphasised, and this
kit from Kano tries to help people understand more than just computer
software.
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Project Daniel
Project Daniel is the world's first 3D-printing prosthetic lab. The
founder, Mick Ebeling, tracked down Sudanese teenager - Daniel Omar -
who lost both his arms when a bomb went off while he was tending cattle.
Two 3D printers have since been left in the local hospital so more
people can receive artificial limbs - for a cost price of about $100. |
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Billboard
This billboard in Peru might look ordinary - but it is actually hard at
work attracting and filtering pollution from the sky. It then returns
purified air to the local atmosphere at a rate of 100,000 cubic metres
per day. It would take 1,200 mature trees to do the same. |
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Sancaklar Mosque
This building looks like it has been there for generations - but it is
the new Sancaklar Mosque in Istanbul. The designers Emre Arolat
Architects were inspired by the fact that a mosque does not have a
predefined form, and that anywhere clean may be a prayer room.
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Food market
Located in the centre of Rotterdam, Markthal is a new covered food
market in the Netherlands. There are also 228 apartments - each with
windows or glass floors made of sound-proof, and smell-proof, triple
glazing.
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One Central Park
Seeming, in part, to defy gravity - the towers of the One Central Park
project have transformed Sydney's skyline. A vertical landscape garden,
designed in collaboration with French artist and botanist Patrick Blanc,
covers much of the buildings' facades.
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Foundation Louis Vuitton
The Foundation Louis Vuitton is in Paris. Housing an art collection and
hosting concerts, it is a "glass cloud" of 12 curved sails that emerge
from the Bois de Boulogne. More than 3,000 curved glass panels were used
in construction.
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BMW
As in previous years, the nominees in the transport section are focused
mainly on eco-production and efficiency. The i8 plug-in hybrid from BMW
claims to have increased efficiency due to its lightweight construction.
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