World Architecture Festival

2010 Award winner: ONCE Foundation Award for Accessibility (Two joint winners) Category: Sport. Aviva Stadium, Ireland, Dublin by Populous in association with Scott Tallon Walker

For complete list of winners see List of World Architecture Festival winners

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is an annual festival and awards ceremony for the architecture industry. The first festivals was held in Barcelona in 2008, while since 2012 the festival was held in Singapore. At the festival around 200 shortlisted projects compete for awards in 31 categories. One of these projects is awarded the World Building of the Year title. All the entries are published in the World Buildings Directory online database^[1] and each year the World Architecture Festival publishes a list of the winners of the awards.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

History

The World Architecture Festival was first held in 2008 as a "festival and live awards competition dedicated to celebrating and sharing architectural excellence from across the globe." In the first four years the festival was held in Barcelona and since 2012 in Singapore. Several hundred projects are entered in the competition for the awards and more than 200 of these are shortlisted for live presentation at the festival. All the presentations of the entries are collected in the World Buildings Directory. The architects pay a submission fee to enter a project for a WAF Award and travel to where the festival is arranged to present the project live if it is shortlisted. The entries are voluntary and the festival does not control who submits projects. In 2011 the Inside Festival (for interior architecture and design) was added in the same venue and arranged at the same time as WAF.^[7]

The 2008 festival

2008 Culture of the Year: Oslo Opera House, Norway, by Snøhetta

The World Architecture Festival was held for the first time on 22–24 October 2008 in Barcelona. Its programme director was Paul Finch. An important part of the festival was the awards programme. The competition was open to building completed within the past 18 months, between January 1, 2007 and June 20, 2008. There were 722 entries competing in 17 categories, comprising 96 building types from 63 countries. After a preselection, 224 projects from 43 countries have been shortlisted. All the shortlisted architects presented their work during the festival and the winners competed for the top award, the World Building of the Year. The judging panel was headed by Norman Foster and included Stefan Behnisch, Robert Stern and Zaha Hadid among the 40 architects on the panel. 1,900 visitors from 70 countries attended the festival.^{[8][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

In 2008 the World Building of the Year was awarded to: Universita Luigi Bocconi, Italy (by Grafton Architects).^[2]

For complete list of winners see List of World Architecture Festival winners

Gallery of some of the 2008 winners

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  New building with the Aula Magna In the background: 2008 'Building of the Year, Learning: Universita Luigi Bocconi, Italy, by Grafton Architects
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  2008 Housing of the Year: Mountain Dwellings, Denmark by Bjarke Ingels Group
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  2008 Nature of the Year: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, USA, by Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
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  2008 Production of the Year: BMW Welt, Germany by Coop Himmelb(l)au
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  2008 Transport of the Year: Nordpark Cable Railway Stations,^[15] Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects
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  2008 Award winner, New & Old: Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution, United States, Washington D.C. by Foster + Partners
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  2008 Award winner, Shopping: K:fem, Sweden, Stockholm by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
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  2008 Award winner, Private House: Final Wooden House, Japan by Sou Fujimoto Architects
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  2008 Culture of the Year: Oslo Opera House, Norway, by Snøhetta

The 2009 festival

The second World Architecture Festival took place in Barcelona at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB) on November 4 to 6 2009. Projects from 67 countries participated in the competition. 272 projects were shortlisted, in 15 categories. A jury of architects and industry figures from around the world judged the competition’s 45 Awards. The winners of the 15 categories of completed buildings competed for the Building of the Year Award. In addition to the categories from the 2008 festival three new sections were added: Interiors and Fit-out, Structural Design and Future Projects. In 2009, 1,507 architects from 71 countries came to Barcelona for the festival. ^{[16] [17] [18]}

Awards 2009^[3]

• World Building of the Year (Category: Culture, Completed Buildings ) Mapungubwe Interpretation Center in South Africa by Peter Rich Architects^[19]
• Future Project of the Year (Category: Cultural, Future Projects ) Spanish Pavilion for 2010 Expo Shanghai in China by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT^[20]
• Interiors and Fit Out Overall Winner (Category: Interiors and Fit Out - Retail (small) ) Corian Super-Surfaces Showroom in Italy, Milano by Architect Amanda Levete Architects^[21]
• Structural Design of the Year (Category: Structural Design - Spans (e.g. bridges, stadiums, big sheds) ) Arena Zagreb in Croatia, by Zagrebby Architect UPI-2M^[22]
• Student design competition (Category: Student design competition: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses ) AECOM Design + Planning Urban SOS in India, Mumbai by Sabrina Kleinenhammans, a graduate at MIT^[23]

For complete list of winners see List of World Architecture Festival winners

Gallery of some of the 2009 winners

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  2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Housing (inc mixed use) The Met’‘, Thailand, Bangkok by WOHA
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  2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, New and old, TKTS Booth / Redevelopment of Father Duffy Square’‘, USA, New York by Choi Ropiha, Perkins Eastman and William Fellows/PKSB Architects
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  2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Office (inc mixed use) Unileverhaus,^[24] Germany, Hamburg by Projektarbeitsgemeinschaft Behnisch Architekten
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  2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Sport, Berry Sports Hall’‘, Australia, Berry by Allen Jack+Cottier
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  2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Transport, Bras Basah Mass Rapid Transit Station’‘Singapore, Republic of, Singapore by WOHA
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  2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings, Health, Landscape, Maggie's Centre London’‘, United Kingdom, London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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  2009 Commendation, Structural Design, Spans (eg bridges, stadiums, big sheds), Structural Design - Timber: Richmond Olympic Oval Roof’‘, Canada, Richmond by Cannon Design
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  2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings: Ironbank (Auckland), New Zealand, by RTA Studio
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  2009 Commendation, Future Projects: Kuggen, Sweden, by Wingårdh arkitektkontor AB
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  2009 Award winner: Future Project of the Year, Cultural, Future Projects, Spanish Pavilion for 2010 Expo Shanghai in China by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
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  2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Display: Cages for Macaws in the Palm Grove of Barcelona Zoo, Spain, Barcelonaby Batlle & Roig Architects
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  2009 Category Winner, Future Projects, Commercial: Statoil Hydro office, Norway, Oslo by a-lab
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  2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings, House: Chen House, Taiwan, Sanjhih by C-Laboratory
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  2009 Commendation, Interiors and Fit Out Culture, Interiors and Fit Out - Culture and civic, New and old: The Great North Museum, United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne by Farrells

The 2010 festival

2010 Category Winner: Completed Buildings, Transport, The Helix Bridge by Cox Rayner Architects & Architects 61

The third World Architecture festival took pace in Barcelona at the CCIB Forum (Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona) November 3 to 5 2010. The festival was the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in 2010. More than 500 entries from 65 countries competed in 15 main categories and in over 20 further sections. The festival had 5 awards sections, 42 categories and more than 100 types of buildings. The competition was open for entries on April 2 to July 9 and the shortlist was announced in late August. The shortlisted projects were presented at the festival.^{[18][25][26][27][28]}

Awards 2010^[4]

• World Building of the Year and winner of category culture (Category: Culture ) MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Italy, Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects^[29]
• Future Project of the Year (Category: Masterplanning, Future Projects ) The Arc in Palestinian Territory, Occupied by Suisman Urban Design^[30]
• Interiors and Fit Out Overall Winner (Category: Interiors and Fit Out - Offices ) ANZ Centre in Australia, Melbourne by Hassell^[31]
• Structural Design of the Year (Category: Structural Design - Glass (where used structurally) ) Medieval & Renaissance Galleries in United Kingdom, London by MUMA^[32]
• Student design competition (Category: Student design competition: Campus Catalyst Project AECOM Design + Planning Urban SOSin Haiti, Port-au-Prince by Robin Bankert, Michael Murphy, Robin Bankert, Michael Murphy, Caroline Shannon and Joseph Wilfong, University of Harvard^[33]
• The Art and Work Award for Buildings Designed to Display Art (Category: Structural Design - Glass (where used structurally) ) Medieval & Renaissance Galleries in United Kingdom, London by MUMA^[34][35]
• ONCE Foundation Award for Accessibility (Two joint winners) (Category: Sport ) Aviva Stadium in Ireland, Dublinby Populous in association with Scott Tallon Walker^[36]
• ONCE Foundation Award for Accessibility (Two joint winners) (Category: Civic and community, Health) West Vancouver Community Centre in Canada, West Vancouver by Hughes Condon Marler Architects^[37]

For complete list of winners see List of World Architecture Festival winners

Gallery of some of the 2010 winners

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  2010 Award winner: World Building of the Year and winner of category culture: MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts’‘, Italy, Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects
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  2010 Award winner: Interiors and Fit Out Overall Winner, Interiors and Fit Out of the Year: ANZ Centre, Melbourne by Hassell
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  2010 Award winner: Structural Design of the Year,Structural Design - Glass (where used structurally): Medieval & Renaissance Galleries’‘, United Kingdom, London by MUMA
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  2010 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Display: Spanish Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010’‘, China, Shanghai by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT & Benedetta Tagliabue, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
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  2010 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Holiday: Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali Indonesia’‘, Indonesia, Bali by WOHA
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  2010 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Housing (inc mixed use): Pinnacle @ Duxton’‘, Singapore, Republic of by ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism
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  2010 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Learning: School of the Arts, Singapore’‘, Singapore, Republic of, Singapore by WOHA
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  2010 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Sport: Soccer City, National Stadium - 'The Melting Pot' ‘‘, South Africa, Johannesburg by Boogertman + Partners (in association with Populous)
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  2010 Category Winner: Completed Buildings, Transport, The Helix Bridge by Cox Rayner Architects & Architects 61
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  2010 Category Winner, Future Projects, Infrastructure, Future Projects: West Kowloon Terminus’‘, Hong Kong by Aedas
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  2010 Commendation, Completed Buildings, Display: Danish Pavilion - Shanghai World Expo 2010 in China, Shanghai by BIG
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  2010 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Civic and community: City of Justice, Spain, Barcelona by David Chipperfield Architects and b720 Arquitectos

The 2011 festival

2011 Transport of the Year: Kurilpa Bridge by Cox Rayner Architects

The fourth World Architecture Festival (WAF) was held in Barcelona from November 2nd to 4th 2011 at Centre de Convencions Internacional de Catalunya. More than 700 projects were entered for the competition. More than 1,300 people attended the awards ceremony. The competition opened for entries on April 1 and closed on June 30, 2011. In 2011 Michael Sorkin, Ben van Berkel, Jo Noero, Odile Decq and Professor Kongjian Yu, and Tim MacFarlane were members of the jury. The opening night was held inMedia-ICT (by Cloud 9) which was later to win the World Building of the Year Award. The World Building of the Year was elected from the 16 completed buildings winning their category.^{[38][39][40][41]}

Awards 2011^[5]

• World Building of the Year (Category: Office (inc mixed use) ) Media-ICT in Spain, Barcelona by Cloud 9^[42]
• Future Project of the Year (Category: Infrastructure, Future Projects ) Hanimaadhoo International Airport in Maldives by Integrated Design Associates Limited^[43]
• Structural Design of the Year (Category: Structural Design - Towers ) Eight Spruce Street in United States of America by Gehry Partners, LLP^[44]
• ONCE Foundation Award for Accessibility (Category: Culture ) Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico, Mexico City by Arditti+RDT/arquitectos^[45]
• People's Choice Award, by OpenBuildings (Category: Culture ) Memorial house Todor Proeski in Macedonia, Krushevoby Syndicate studio^[46]

For complete list of winners see List of World Architecture Festival winners

Gallery of some of the 2011 winners

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  2011 Award winner: Structural Design of the Year, Structural Design - Towers: Eight Spruce Street, United States of America by Gehry Partners, LLP
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  2011 Award winner: People's Choice Award, by OpenBuildings Culture: Memorial house Todor Proeski, Macedonia, Krushevo by Syndicate studio
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  2011 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Housing (inc mixed use): 8 House, Denmark, Copenhagen by Bjarke Ingels Group
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  2011 Category Winner, Completed Buildings: Learning: Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom, Cambridge by Stanton Williams
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  2011 Award winner: World Building of the Year, Category, Completed Buildings: Office (inc mixed use): Media-ICT,^[47] Spain, Barcelona by Cloud 9
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  2011 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Sport: SPEEDSKATING STADIUM INZELL - MAX AICHER ARENA, Germany, Inzell by BEHNISCH Architekten
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  2011 Category Winner, Future Projects, Masterplanning, Future Projects: West Kowloon Cultural District Conceptual Plan, Hong Kong by Rocco Design Architects Ltd
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  2011 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Display: Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion, Norway, Hjerkinn by Snøhetta

The 2012 festival

2012 Award winner: Future Project of the Year,Landscape (Projects), urban (Completed designs): Kallang River Bishan Park, Singapore by Atelier Dreiseit

The fifth World Architecture Festival (WAF) was moved to Singapore at Marina Bay Sands and was held from October 3 to 5 2012. The festival awards was nicknamed «The Architectural Oscars» at the time. The World Architecture Festival was at the time the world's largest global architectural awards programme. Paul Finch was director of the festival. There were over 700 entries from more than 60 countries. Awards were given in 33 categories and 301 entries were shortlisted. The competing projects were judged after a presentation during the festival. In the jury choosing the World Building of the Year 2012 were Ben van Berkel, Moshe Safdie, Mok Wei Wei, Jürgen Mayer, Yvonne Farrell, Peter Cook, Kenzo Tange, Sou Fujimoto, Jeanne Gang, Dietrich Ebermarle and Charles Jencks among others. Over 1800 architects, designers and press from more than 60 countries attended.^{[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57]} There was some criticism of the list of speakers beeng white, male, over 40 since of the 44 speakers on the festival 4 were women and 9 Asians.^[58]

Awards 2012^[6]

• World Building of the Year (Category: Display ) Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Republic of Singapore by Wilkinson Eyre Architects^[59]
• Future Project of the Year, Landscape (Category: Landscape (Projects), urban (Completed designs) ) Kallang River Bishan Park in Republic of Singapore by Atelier Dreiseitl^[60]
• Future Project of the Year (Category: Masterplanning ) Msheireb - Heart of Doha in Doha, Qatar by AECOM, London (UK), Adjaye Associates (UK), Allies and Morrison (UK), Eric Party Architects (UK), Gensler (USA), HOK (USA), John McAslan and Partners (UK), Mangera Yvars Architects (UK), Mossessian & Partners (UK), Squire & Partners (UK)^[61]
• Student Team of the Year (Category: Student Team of the Year from University of Ferrara in Italy ) In the Core of Renaissance Architecture in Italy, Ferrara by Student team^[62]
• Director's Prize (Category: New and Old ) Plaza España in Adeje in Spain, Tenerife by Menis Arquitectos SLP^[63]
• Small Project Award (Category: Transport ) Marina Bay Station in Republic of Singapore by Aedas, Quarry Bay & Aedas Pte Ltd (Station Architect)^[64]
• Small Project Award (Category: Office ) Office for an Advertising Film Production Company in India, Bangalore by SJK Architects^[65]

For complete list of winners see List of World Architecture Festival winners

Gallery of some of the 2012 winners

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  2012 Award winner: World Building of the Year, Display: Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, Republic of by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
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  2012 Award winner: Small Project Award, Transport: Marina Bay Station, Singapore, Republic of by Aedas, Quarry Bay & Aedas Pte Ltd (Station Architect)
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  2012 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Health: The Royal Children's Hospital, Australia, Melbourne by Billiard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart
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  2012 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Hotel/leisure: Victoria Tower, Sweden, Kista by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB N/A
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  2012 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Office: Darling Quarter, Australia, Sydney by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp & FJMT
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  2012 Category Winner, Completed Buildings, Transport: Bodrum International Airport, Turkey by tabanlioglu architects
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  2012 Award winner: Student Team of the Year from University of Ferrara in Italy: In the Core of Renaissance Architecture, Italy, Ferrara

The 2013 festival

The sixth annual WAF was held in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands from 2 to 4 October 2013.^[66] It was attended by over 2,100 architects and designers from 68 countries.^[67] WAF was collocated with INSIDE World Festival of Interiors. The entries competed in 29 award categories across three category groups of completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects:^[68]

• Completed Buildings: Civic and community, Culture, Display, Health, Higher education/research, Hotel/leisure, House, Housing, New and Old, Office, Production/energy/recycling, Religion, Schools, Shopping, Sport, Transport and Villa.
• Landscape Projects: Completed designs - urban.
• Future Projects: Commercial mixed-use, Competition entries, Culture, Education, Experimental, Health, House, Infrastructure, Leisure led development, Masterplanning, Office and Residential.^[69]

More than 300 projects from 50 countries made the official 2013 shortlist.^[70] The festival’s organiser’s were i2i Events Group.

The jury included Ken Yeang, Patrick Bellew, Jeanne Gang, Dietmar Eberle and Ken Tadashi Oshima.^[71]

Awards 2013

• World Building of the Year (Categories: Culture, Culture - Galleries) Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, fjmt + Archimedia - Architects in Association.^[72]
• Future Project of the Year (Categories: Future projects competition and Future projects culture) National Maritime Museum of China by Cox Rayner Architects.^[73]

Gallery of some of the 2013 winners

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  2013 World Building of the Year Culture & Culture - Galleries: Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp + Archimedia - Architects in Association
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  Landscape Projects - Completed designs Category winner: The Australian Garden, Cranbourne by Taylor Cullity Lethlean + Paul Thompson

The 2014 festival

The seventh annual WAF was held in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands from 1 to 3 October 2014. The event had more than 2000 attendees.

Awards 2014

• World Building of the Year Winner: the Chapel / Vietnam / a21studio
• Completed Buildings:
  • House (sponsored by Grohe) House for Trees / Vietnam / Vo Trong Nghia Architects
  • Housing (sponsored by Grohe) The Carve / Norway / A-Lab
• Office: Liberty Place / Australia / Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
• Higher Education & Research: Dalarna Media Library / Sweden / ADEPT
• Display: Te Kaitaka ‘The Cloak’ / New Zealand /Fearon Hay Architects
• Schools: Chobham Academy / UK/ Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
• Shopping: Yalikavak Marina Complex / Turkey / EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
• Religion: La Ascension del Señor Church / Spain / AGi architects
• New and Old: Rethinking the Split House / China / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
• Civic & Community: the Chapel / Vietnam / a21studio
• Culture: Danish Maritime Museum / Denmark / BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
• Hotel and Leisure: Son La Restaurant / Vietnam / Vo Trong Nghia Architects
• Villa: Dune House / New Zealand / Fearon Hay Architects
• Production Energy and Recycling: Lune de Sang Sheds / Australia / CHROFI
• Sport: Singapore Sports Hub / Singapore / Singapore Sports Hub Design Team
• Transport: Scale Lane Bridge / UK / McDowell+Benedetti

The 2015 festival

The eight annual WAF was held in Singapore at Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre from 4 to 6 November 2015.^[74]

• World Building of the Year: The Interlace, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture
• Future Project of the Year: Vancouver House, by Bjarke Ingels Group
• Landscape of the Year: Yanweizhou Park
• Small Project Prize: Lidingövallen
• AkzoNobel's Prize for Colour in Exterior Architecture: ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office
• Student Charrette Winner: School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
• Religion Winner: Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Education City, Doha by Mangera Yvars Architects

References

External links

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• Official website - World Architecture Festival
• Official website - World Buildings Directory
• World Architecture Festival joins EMAP 16 October 2014