And the winners are...

A spatial investigation group based at Goldsmiths, University of London has been named the overall winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year 2018. Forensic Architecture – which focuses its work on exposing miscarriages of justice through research – won for its survey exhibition Counter Investigations, mounted last March at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Also recognized were the Falcon Heavy rocket by Elon Musk’s Spacex, which won for transport design, and Thomas Heatherwick’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, the victor in the architecture category. The Beazley Designs of the Year are on view at London’s Design Museum until January 6. In November, Amazon revealed that its HQ2 project would be built in two cities, rather than in one. The developments will cost an estimated $5 billion in construction and investments across the two sites, in Long Island City, New York and Arlington, Virginia. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has announced projects in nine cities as the winners of the 2018 National Urban Design Awards. Among them is the Urban Beehive Project in Charlottetown, PEI by Nine Yards Studio, which took the Community Initiatives category. Other winners include Toronto’s Public Work, for the Tocore: Downtown Parks and Public Realm Plan, and Lemay, which won for its restoration of Place Vauquelin in Old Montreal. Among other major accolades handed out this past fall was the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stephen Lawrence Prize for 2018, which recognized Tonkin Liu’s transformation of an agricultural shed in North Yorkshire into a sustainable home. And the 2018 Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture has been awarded to the Teopanzolco Cultural Center in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Isaac Broid and Productora designed the project to relate to an adjacent pre-hispanic ruin. Read about it on page 050 of this issue.