This time last year London company Hulger launched the Plumen 001 designer lightbulb, which went on to win this year's Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award.
A culture and leisure centre by Philippe Starck opened inside a former wine cellar in Bilbao as Hungarian architects Plant completed a winery at the foot of a volcanic hill in Hungary.
London Fieldworks installed bird and bug boxes around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing, Nendo unveiled their acclaimed Thin Black Lines series of furniture and The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO hotel opened in Shanghai.
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