![Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron](https://thespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Switch-House-1.jpg)
Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron
Tate Modern’s Switch House and IKEA’s flat-pack refugee shelter are among the architecture nominees for the Design Museum’s annual Beazley ‘Designs of the Year’.
The twisted brick Tate Modern extension – designed by Herzog and de Meuron – also faces competition from OMA’s gilded Prada Foundation in Milan, which revived a derelict early 20th-century distillery.
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Among other buildings vying for the prize are Wayne Hemingway’s fairground Dreamland Margate and Turner Prize-winner Assemble’s Granby Workshop.
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Better Shelter by IKEA Foundation
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Arena for Learning, UTEC, by Grafton Architects
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Via 57 West by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
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Design That Saves Lives by Arup
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Granby Workshop by Assemble
![](https://thespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Harbin-Opera-House.jpg)
Harbin Opera House by MAD
![](https://thespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Margate.jpg)
Dreamland Margate by Hemingwaydesign
![](https://thespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Nida-House.jpg)
Nida House in Navidad, Chile by Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Diego Perez, Carlos Atala and Ricardo Ballesta
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SL11024 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
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Sustainable Housing by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
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The Green by AOC
‘Architecture’ is one of six categories in the annual design competition – now in its ninth year – which also include digital, fashion, graphics, products and transport. David Bowie’s Blackstar album artwork and a sexual health testing kit have also been nominated for the prize, which celebrates the most innovative innovative products, concepts and designers from the last 12 months.
![David Bowie's 'Darkstar' record artwork, by Jonathan Barnbrook](https://thespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Darkstar.jpg)
The nominees will go on show at the Design Museum’s new Kensington digs, renovated by John Pawson, on 24 November. Winners will be selected from each category and an overall winner will be crowned on 26 January 2017.
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