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CULTURED 195 WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITY CENTER Kayonza, Rwanda Sharon Davis Design Innovation doesn't always mean slick materials and eye-grabbing forms. For this center, the designer collaborated with Women for Women International, an organization that teaches war survivors marketable skills to help them rebuild their communities. Here, urban buyers and rural farmers can meet. The facilities are maintained by local women, so it creates a strong network that can support the community for generations. HALLEY VI RESEARCH STATION Antarctica Hugh Broughton Architects and AECOM Constructed by Galliford Try for the British Antarctic Survey This building stands on moveable columns so it can change height for snow drifts and other deployments. But the architect put as much thought into the way the doors sound as when they close, the way it smells when the scientists are in it and other human elements. It can be very desolate and lonely, and people spend a lot of time there. And this speaks to the complexity of architecture.