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12 shortlisted buildings include Compton Verney Chapel and Landscape Project in Warwickshire by Purcell and Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton by Arup.

Shortlist of 19 buildings for the RIBA Awards in the region, shortlisted from 57 entries, including a treetop walkway at Westonbirt, to the Wapping Wharf development at Bristol, and including a number of private houses and university buildings

An outstanding selection of design projects, both national and international, have been shortlisted for the interior design industry’s most prestigious awards; the 2017 Australian Interior Design Awards.

Entries to the A’ Design Awards are peer-reviewed and anonymously judged by an influential jury panel of leading scholars, important press members and established professionals. The A’ Design Award promises fame, eminence, attention and international recognition to The A’ Design Award Laureates through the Coveted A’ Design Prize which is granted to the awarded designs.

Twelve buildings have been shortlisted for the 2017 RIBA Northwest (Royal Institute of British Architects) Awards; the winners will be announced at an Awards evening at the Manchester School of Art on 24 May 2017.

Shortlisted buildings include Leicester Cathedral’s Richard III Project ‘With Dignity and Honour’ and The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratories for Sustainable Chemistry, Nottingham.

Thirteen buildings have been shortlisted for a 2017 RIBA Yorkshire Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). They include a visitor centre and museum, a theatre, a housing development, and a biomass power plant

Shortlisted architects include a crisply formed luxury house by New York’s Richard Meier & Partners Architects with UK architecture office Berman Guedes Stretton.

Nine buildings shortlisted for RIBA Northeast (Royal Institute of British Architects) 2017 Awards, including Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Durham University by Studio Libeskind and The Malings, Newcastle upon Tyne by Ash Sakula Architects.

The BD Architect of the Year Awards – Edinburgh practice Reiach and Hall wins. Now in its 13th year, the AYA’s are unique in rewarding architectural practices for the best body of work in 15 different categories.

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, RCR Arquitectes, Catalunya, Spain, selected as 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates. The award is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.

The United States of America takes the first place among 98 represented countries in 2017 with 557 Design Awards won globally. WDR ranks all the countries based on the number of designers that have been granted with the A’ Design Award. China came second with 520 Design Awards and surprisingly (as it isn’t a large country) Taiwan came third with 447.