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This week we published the winner of the architectural photograph of the year award, futuristic trains for London and a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Cambodian genocide researchers (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week.

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New Tube train designed by Priestmangoode

London studio Priestmangode hit the headlines this week as it revealed designs for London's new air conditioned, wi-fi enabled, driverless tube trains.

Snøhetta designs bank notes for Norway

Snøhetta-designed banknotes were selected for use by the central bank of Norway and London-based designer Ross Lovegrove designed his first wooden chair.

Portrait of Moshe Safdie

In architecture news, Moshe Safdie called for a "reorientation" to the way cities are designed, saying that a vogue for skyscrapers and the privatisation of public space is creating cities "not worthy of our civilisation".

Clichy-Montfermeil metro station by EMBT

Architects were selected to design two of three new "iconic" train stations for Paris as part of a major infrastructure development, and the city of Almere in the Netherlands selected a zinc-clad chapel to be built over its lake.

National Theatre by Denys Lasdun

We continued our series on Brutalism by looking at one of London's most divisive Brutalist buildings – Denys Lasdun's National Theatre – and published new photographs of Thomas Heatherwick's new gin distillery.

Scape House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

Popular projects this week included a Japanese house comprising a variety of box-like structures that jut out in various directions, a kindergarten designed as a "village for children", and UNStudio's newly completed theatre that glows in the dark.

UNStudio's Theatre de Stoep

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