This week on Dezeen, we announced the shortlisted architecture, interior and design projects that are in line to win Dezeen Awards in 2019.
Now in its second year, Dezeen Awards recognises the world's best architecture, interior and design projects, as well as the studios and individual architects and designers producing the best work.
This week we revealed the shortlisted projects ahead of the ceremony in October, including a house in England made from recycled cork, Europe's first underwater restaurant, and the world's first silent wireless breast pump.
John Pawson pares back Barbican apartment to "a state of emptiness"
Another prize-worthy project that was popular with readers this week was John Pawson's overhaul of a London Barbican estate apartment, to which he applied his signature minimalist aesthetic. Pawson employed the idea of "paring away everything to a state of emptiness" when designing the flat, which now features pale surfaces and a handful of furnishings arranged around a central timber volume.
New details of Álvaro Siza's first US project revealed in images
Elsewhere in the US, new renderings of Álvaro Siza's luxury condominium tower in New York were revealed, offering a full look at the Portuguese architect's first project in America.
The images show the interior and exterior of the 37-storey residential building on 611 West 56th Street, which boasts a stepped form with pale Turkish limestone cladding on its exterior, and minimal d...