This time last year Zaha Hadid Architects completed a south London school with a running track through the middle, which went on to win this year's Stirling Prize.
Konstantin Grcic was announced as the recipient of the 2010 Designer of the Year Award at Design Miami and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) was forced to close due to funding cuts.
Universal Design Studio designed a pleated facade for an H&M store in Seoul, while one of our readers called the 8 House residential complex by BIG "a seductive three dimensional diagram designed to be inhabited by robots."
Tokujin Yoshioka created a see-through mobile phone, Nemaworkshop designed an espresso bar that resembles a library turned on its side and Junya Ishigami presented chairs wearing crocheted clothes.