It's that time of year for Design Museum's popular Designs of the Year 2015 awards, a showcase of noteworthy works created by international stars, up-and-coming startups, and students. A total of 76 projects from the previous year were selected for the categories Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphic, Product and Transport. Last year, Zaha Hadid took the top prize with the all-too-familiar Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Category winners will be announced on May 4, and the overall winner will be revealed during a Design Museum event on June 4. In the meantime, all nominated works will be exhibited at London's Design Museum beginning March 25.

The Architecture category has some solid contenders that could make it anyone's game (maybe), with some of them having already won some top awards. Love 'em or hate 'em, here they are:

↑ FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON - Paris, France. Designed by Frank Gehry and Gehry Partners

↑ ONE CENTRAL PARK Sydney, Australia. Designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel.

↑ ARENA DO MORRO - Natal, Brazil. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

↑ BEIJING NO.4 HIGH SCHOOL FANGSHAN CAMPUS - Beijing, China. Designed by OPEN Architecture.

↑ DESERT COURTYARD HOUSE - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Designed by Wendell Burnette Architects.

↑ FORFATTERHUSET KINDERGARTEN - Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by COBE.

↑ HOUSE FOR TREES - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects.

↑ UC INNOVATION CENTER – ANACLETO ANGELINI - Santiago, Chile. Designed by ELEMENTAL.

↑ LA ÚLTIMA ESPERANZA - THE LAST HOPE - Manabi, Ecuador. Designed by AL BORDE.

↑ SAW SWEE HOCK STUDENT CENTRE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS - London, UK. Designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey.

↑ PHILHARMONIC HALL SZCZECIN - Szczecin, Poland. Designed by Barozzi / Veiga.

↑ WATERBANK CAMPUS AT ENDANA SECONDARY SCHOOL - Laikipia, Kenya. Designed by PITCHAfrica.

↑ SANCAKLAR MOSQUE - Istanbul, Turkey. Designed by Emre Arolat Architects.

↑ LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND - Shanghai, China. Designed by Atelier Deshaus.

Other notable nominations include Google's self-driving car for Transport, a grid-free dry diversion toilet called Blue Diversion by Eawag (The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and EOOS for Product, Asif Khan's Sochi Olympic Megafaces in Digital, and Snøhetta + Metric Design's proposed designs for Norway's new banknotes.