We’ve been nominated as one of the five finalists of the CURRY STONE DESIGN PRIZE a New International Design Award for Humanitarian Innovations.

The Curry Stone Design Prize is awarded every year to breakthrough design solutions with the power and potential to improve our lives and the world. The Curry Stone Design Prize recognizes exceptional, emerging design innovations that contribute to the vitality of the world community. These designs may improve the human spirit, increase awareness of the environment, or respond to areas of need in the world, whether to provide shelter and clean water or address climate change and humanitarian crises.

The winner receives an award of $100,000. Up to four other finalists receive $10,000 each. The annual international prize, which comes with no strings attached, recognizes exceptional designers based on the merit of their ideas and the potential to bringing their ideas to fruition. The Curry Stone Design Prize purposely defines design in the broadest possible sense – encompassing architecture, urban planning, product, landscape, graphic, interior, and industrial design – and invites new definitions that defy tradition and break boundaries.

All the finalists will be officially unveiled on Sept. 13, 2008 at the 11th International Venice Architecture Biennale. Press event is scheduled at 10:30am – at the Circolo Ufficiali Marina Militare, next to the entrance to the Arsenale.

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