Olympic cauldron to NYC park up for design award

LONDON (Reuters) – Designs of everything from the London 2012 Olympic cauldron to a New York City park three decades in the making will compete for an annual award handed out by London’s Design Museum. The more than 90 nominations for the 2013 “Designs of the Year” encompass seven categories and span the globe from London’s newest landmark building, The Shard by Renzo Piano, to a non-stick ketchup bottle invented by a research group at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the museum said in a statement this week. …