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The Pavilion on the Zocalo, by Mexico City firm Productora, has been named the winner of the prestigious award for emerging architects.

The Design Museum in London has nominated 76 projects and products as the year’s very best, displaying them in an exhibit that runs to August 23. Here are our six favourite contenders, from responsive street furniture to mushroom lamps.

The 2015 Pritzker Prize was announced just a day after Frei Otto, the German innovator of lightweight, tensile architecture, died at the age of 89.

Last week, over a three-day festival in Singapore, WAF announced the winners in its 28 categories, from completed projects to future visions, and awarded special prizes to seven spectacular structures, including the World Building of the Year.

These standout projects – by emerging Asian firms Neri & Hu, Asylum Creative and a21studio – made the shortlist in the World Festival of Interiors, which announces the nine winners at the Inside Festival in October.

Renowned for his imaginative solutions to emergency shelters and low-tech architecture, the “paper” architect has been awarded the industry’s most prestigious award.

The iF International Forum Design recently honoured beautiful and clever products in a range of categories. Here are our favourites, including the Pixel Box Cinema by One Plus Partnership (seen here) and Issey Miyake’s origami lights for Artemide.

The $50,000 prize from the Canada Council for the Arts will allow the architecture firm, which co-curated Canada’s pavilion at the 2012 Venice architecture biennale, to research ways of fostering a city’s design culture.