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Thomas Heatherwick’s London bus, the expanded Städel Museum, and the Pentax Q10 are among the winners of the Travel + Leisure 2013 Design Awards.

Before planning your next trip, be sure to review the newly crowned winners of the Travel + Leisure Design Awards, which will be featured in the magazine’s March issue. The winners, announced today, range from Schneider & Schumacher’s souped-up Städel (Best Museum) and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park first imagined in the early 1970s by Louis Kahn (Best Public Space) to Weimar-era glam Pauly-Saal in Berlin (Best Restaurant) and Götti Switzerland sunglasses that fold flat (Best Travel Accessory). Many of this year’s favorites will come as no surprise, including Thomas Heatherwick‘s diesel-hybrid London bus (Best Transporation) and the Microsoft Surface (Best Tablet). Meanwhile, 2013 T+L Design Champion Rolf Fehlbaum, the literal and figurative chairman of Vitra, joins past honorees such as ubercollector Micky Wolfson, André Balazs, and Amanda Burden. Tasked with choosing “the best new examples of design” in 22 categories was a jury moderated by Chee Pearlman that included interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud, creative director Stephen Doyle, and architect Deborah Berke. Keep reading for the full list of winners.
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