Car manufacturers Aston Martin and architects Foster + Partners are among the winners of a competition to design a new Routemaster bus for London.

Design Winners:

‘In this category we asked entrants with technical skills to submit detailed designs for a double-decker bus that may influence a 21st century Routemaster.

We wanted more than ideas – we wanted vision, and the competition was fierce!

There were two classes within the design category:

* Whole bus: Detailed technical drawings for an entire bus concept
* Elements: Detailed technical drawings for a part or parts of a new bus

The winners of either of these classes may see their designs being taken forward to major bus manufacturers.’

Whole Bus Design

Joint First:

Aston Martin and Foster + Partners, UK

Capoco Design Ltd, UK

Prize: £25,000 each

Runners Up:

Héctor Serrano Studio, Miñarro García and Javier Esteban (UK, Spain and Spain)

Jamie Martin, UK

Prize: £10,000 each

Merit Awards:

David Bradshaw, UK

Style to Design Ltd, UK

Concrete All Round Creative, Belgium

LA:UK Design Ltd, UK

Eric Woodcock, UK

Prize: £2,000 each

Elements

Merit Awards:

Lotti Duke, UK

Rhys Wyman, UK

Prize: £1,000 each

Next Steps:

‘We’ve chosen the winners and got loads of great ideas for London’s new bus – so where do we go from here?

The aim of our competition was to harvest a range of creative ideas for a bus fit for the 21st century. We will now pass the best designs and concepts on to bus manufacturers, so they can be developed into final design proposals.

A competitive tendering process will then determine to which company we award the final contract to build the new bus for London. This should be decided by the end of next year.’

The first prototype of the new bus will be on the streets of London by 2011.

Read more about the competition: www.tfl.gov.uk