The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for annual exhibition and awards program the Brit Insurance Design Awards.

Nearly 100 designs have been nominated by industry experts across seven categories: architecture, furniture, product, interactive, fashion, graphics and transport design.

Above: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Westminster Academy (London, UK).

One winner in each of the categories will be selected by a panel at the end of February and an overall winner will be announced on 18 March 2009. There will also be a ‘People’s Choice Vote’, which the public will be able to vote for from January via the exhibition blog.

Above: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos, Eight Inscribed Houses and Three Patios (Spain, Gran Canaria)

An exhibition of all the shortlisted designs at the Design Museum will be open to the public 12 February - 14 June 2009.

Above: Snøhetta, Oslo Opera House (Oslo, Norway)

Above: Steven Holl Architects Beijing, Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China)

Here is the full shortlist:

Architecture

• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Westminster Academy (London, UK)
• Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, Alison Brooks Architects, Maccreanor Lavington Architects, Accordia
• Housing (Cambridge, UK)
• Snøhetta, Oslo Opera House (Oslo, Norway)
• Design Indaba, 10×10 Project (Cape Town, South Africa)
• Steven Holl Architects Beijing, Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China)
• Shuhei Endo, Education Centre (Osaka, Japan)
• Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos, Eight Inscribed Houses and Three Patios (Spain, Gran Canaria)
• Herzog de Meuron Architects, CaixaForum Cultural Centre (Madrid, Spain)
• West 8, Spadine WaveDeck (Toronto, Canada)
• Renzo Piano Building Workshop, California Academy of Science (San Francisco, USA)
• Adjaye Associates, Contemporary Museum of Art (Denver, USA)
• Ishigami+Associates, Kanagawa Institute of Technology (Kanagawa, Japan)
• McDowell Benedetti, Castleford Bridge (Yorkshire, UK)
• Novartis Campus Masterplan (Basel, Switzerland)
• Subarquitectura, Tram Stop – Sergio Cardell Plaza (Alicante, Spain)