Geraldine Chua . Articles 2015 Red Dot Awards: Product Design winners announced The 2015 Red Dot Design Award: Product Design laureates have been announced, with 1,240 products awarded the ‘Red Dot’ seal of quality for good design. Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia has been using 3D Printing for 14 years Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona is famed for being unfinished despite beginning construction in 1882, but 3D printing could give it a completion date of 2026. The power of acoustics for causing health A mammoth aluminium and steel-clad structure worth €390 million stands on the edge of Paris, home to the city’s new Philharmonie concert hall, but bearing the unfortunate burden of being ‘disowned’ by its architect, Jean Nouvel. Green roofs or solar panels to crown all new buildings in France France has passed a new law making it mandatory for the rooftops of all new buildings in its commercial zones to be partially covered in plants or solar panels. The ultimate test for architecture and design: do our buildings and spaces cause health? Canadian architect Tye Farrow puts this question to the industry: what if our health became the basis for judging every building and every public space? 2015 Good Design Awards entries live: 23 projects in running for Architectural Design category Good Design Australia has released the full list of contenders for this year’s program, with 20 projects in the running for the Architectural Design category.