A number of leisure projects have made it on the shortlist for The British Design Awards 2011.

The UK Pavilion at last year's Shanghai Expo, designed by Heatherwick Studio; St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London by RHWL and Richard Griffiths Architects

; and the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Yorkshire all feature on the five strong list.

The list also features the Plasma Studio-designed Creativity Pavilion at the Xi'an International Horticultural Expo in China and the Living Architecture holiday home project across the UK created by Alain de Botton.

The British Design Awards (BDAs) recognise functional and original new work created by designers for UK and international brands.

Now in their tenth year, the BDAs 2011 are supported by ELLE Decoration in association with John Lewis and supported by Telegraph Magazine.