After three days of the Worlld Architecture Festival in Singapore, the festival’s super-jury has awarded the prestigious World Building of the Year award to The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio. The award was sponsored by UOL Group Ltd.
 


Three other major awards were awarded during tonight’s gala dinner awards ceremony to mark the culmination of WAF 2014:


• Future Project of the Year (sponsored by Far East Organization): Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, designed by 5468796 Architecture + number TEN architectural
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Landscape Project of the Year: National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
• Small Project of the Year: The Pinch, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / The University of Hong Kong


Two inaugural prizes were also awarded this evening:

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Colour Prize (sponsored by AkzoNobel): Departments of Law and Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, designed by Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau 

• Wood Excellence Prize (sponsored by American Hardwood Export Council): Alex Monroe Studio, Snowfields, UK, designed by DSDH

Individual press releases about the winners are attached in the PDF document.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About WAF

World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest annual festival and live awards programme for the global architecture community.

It is taking place at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore between 1^st – 3^rd October 2014.

WAF has three central pillars of activity:

• A wide-ranging conference programme, featuring keynote lectures, dozens of expert-led talks and seminars from thought-leading architects and designers from across the globe.
• The world’s largest annual awards programme in which practices from around the world compete across 28 award categories for global recognition. Architects of every shortlisted project are invited to attend the festival to give a live presentation to a panel of judges, asserting their case for why their project should win. The winners of each category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014. This year’s super jury members are Richard Rogers (chair), Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
• Three festival halls where all award entries are displayed in a unique awards gallery and where sponsors and suppliers can interact with delegates, make new contacts and showcase their services and products.

As well as this the festival plays host to an international, live student charrette; parties and receptions in some of Singapore’s most exciting locations; exclusive tours to Singapore’s most recent architectural sites of interest and a celebratory gala dinner and awards ceremony.

WAF has welcomed over 12,500 attendees to date, including over 2,000 in 2012. The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, itself a previous WAF Award winner, is WAF’s home for the third year running, having been held in Barcelona for four years previously, providing the perfect backdrop to this truly global architectural extravaganza.

WAF are proud to work with Founder Partner, Grohe and Headline Partner, AzkoNobel.

WAF awards Programme

The WAF awards are the global industry benchmark for excellence. Entries are welcome in 29 categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects.

Individual Categories

Completed Buildings:

• Civic and community
• Culture
• Display
• Health
• Higher education/research
• Hotel/leisure
• House
• Housing
• New and Old
• Office
• Production/energy/recycling
• Schools
• Shopping
• Sport
• Transport
• Villa

Landscape Projects:

• Completed designs – rural and urban

Future Projects:

• Commercial mixed-use
• Competition entries
• Culture
• Education
• Experimental
• Health
• House
• Infrastructure
• Leisure-led development
• Masterplanning
• Office
• Residential

About WAF’s organisers – i2i Events Group

i2i Events Group delivers world-class exhibitions and large scale events in key sectors including home and gift, fashion, retail, healthcare, energy, environment, education, technology and media. Its portfolio of world-wide events includes World Retail Congress, RWM, Spring Fair, Naidex, BVE, Bett and Pure London. It prides itself on opening up possibilities for its customers and each year brings more than 250,000 decision makers together to network, source, test, buy and sell brilliant products,  services, ideas and solutions. The company is headed up by Mark Shashoua who joined EMAP as Group MD of EMAP Connect in November 2011 and became CEO of i2i Events Group in March 2012.  i2i Events Group is powered by Top Right Group, formerly known as Emap International Ltd.