Tag World Architecture Festival

15-09-2022

Waiting for WAF 2022 Special Awards Finalists.

In anticipation of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) to be held in Lisbon, November 30-December 2, 2022, the finalist projects for the Special Awards were recently revealed. These are architectural projects that have been shortlisted for the WAF Awards and which stand out in particular for certain features or materials used to make them, in addition to the best small-scale project and two new special awards.

28-12-2021

World Building of the Year 2021 and other winners of the 2021 WAF Awards

The Copenhill / Amager Bakke project, designed by the BIG architectural firm is World Building of the Year 2021. Future Project of the Year 2021 is Silo City designed by Studio V Architecture in New York. Landscape of the year 2021 is Al Fay Park designed by SLA Architects, the first urban biodiversity park in the Middle East built in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. The 15th edition of the World Architecture Festival will take place in Lisbon in 2022.

13-07-2021

The architecture of the future: winners of the 2021 WAFX Prize

The twelve winners of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) awards for unbuilt architectural projects, the WAFX 2021 Prize, have been announced. The candidates are projects from all over the world addressing today’s global challenges, from controlling pandemics to the climate crisis, from food supplies to social equality, diversity and cultural identity and so on, divided by category: office, residential, education and health, culture, leisure and experimentation.

13-12-2018

A bioclimatic gym in Abidjan by Koffi & Diabaté Architectes

The gymnasium at Blaise Pascal High School in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Koffi & Diabaté Architectes, founded by Guillaume Koffi and Issa Diabaté, won the award for the best sports building built at the 2018 World Architecture Festival.

10-12-2018

World Building of the Year Award 2018 goes to WOHA’s Kampung Admiralty building

The winners of the biggest prizes at the 2018 World Architecture Festival were announced at a gala dinner in Amsterdam concluding the festival on 30 November. The Kampung Admiralty mixed-use facility designed by WOHA and built in Singapore was named World Building of the Year 2018.

06-12-2018

Winners of the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam

Three days of winners and prizes featuring important international speakers, with 130 judges representing fully 35 countries: the best architecture in the world was on show in Amsterdam at the 2018 World Architecture Festival.

19-10-2018

Winners of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2018

In the run-up to the annual World Architecture Festival (WAF), held this year in Amsterdam, at the end of November, the winners of the second annual Architecture Drawing Prize 2018, curated by WAF, Sir John Soane’s Museum and Make Architects, were announced in London.

29-11-2017

Fabricwood named World Interior of the Year for 2017

Fabricwood, an interior design project for a furniture showroom in Singapore by Produce.Workshop, was named Interior of the Year for 2017 at the INSIDE Festival of Interiors in Berlin during the World Architecture Festival.

22-11-2017

World Architecture Festival 2017, Berlin

The tenth World Architecture Festival 2017 ended with the gala celebrations in Berlin, where both the winners of the many different categories and next year's location for the festival - Amsterdam - were announced.