On behalf of LEAF International, the official LEAF Judging panel are delighted to announce the 2015 winners. All winning projects demonstrate buildings that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community.

LEAF International would like to thank all those who entered the Awards and all those who joined us in celebrating at the Landmark Hotel in London, England. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.

We would like to say a very special thank you to all of our judges:

• Michael Clark – Director, Aedas
• Alan Crawford -Founder, Crawford Partnership Architects
• Valerie Evans -Director, Architecture, Atkins Global
• Firas Hnoosh – Director, BDP
• Božana Komljenović – Associate, Zaha Hadid Architects
• Lukasz Platkowski – Tall Buildings Practice Area Leader, Principal, Gensler
• Heinz Richardson – Director, Jestico + Whiles
• Jim Rimelspach – Principal and Founder, Wilson Associates
• Peter Shaw – Global Board Director, Aedas

This year’s winning projects:

• Mixed – Use Building of the Year

   – Kavellaris Urban Design KUD

   – Project: 2 girls Building

• Residential Building of the Year – Single Occupancy, Sponsored by Rossana

   – Architect Robby Cantarutti

   – Project: Riverside Cabin

• Residential Building of the Year – Multiple Occupancy, Sponsored by Rossana

   – Studio MK27

   – Project: V_Itaim

• International Interior Design Award of the Year, Sponsored by Laufen

   – INNOCAD

   – Project: HQ ÖBB

• Commercial Building of the Year
  Sponsored by Havells Sylvania

   – LAN Architecture

   – Project: Euravenir Tower

• Hospitality Building of the Year

   – Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP co. Ltd

   – Project: Ribbon Chapel

• Refurbishment of the Year
  Sponsored by Kingspan

   – Nikken Space Design LTD

   – Project: ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hiroshima Chapel

• Public Building of the Year

   – Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanlioglu

   – Project: Dakar Congress Center  

   – Steven Holl Architects with JM Architects

   – Project: Seona Reid Building – Glasgow School of Art

• Best Sustainable Development of the Year, Sponsored by GIRA

   – Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

   – Project: Wanarn Clinic

   – Henning Larsen Architects

   – Campus Kolding, SDU, University of Southern Denmark

• Best Future Building of the Year – Drawing Board, Sponsored by ABB

   –  Sanjay Puri Architects

   – Project: Reservoir

   – 3TI Progetti Spa – 3TI LAB Srl

   – Project: Civic Centre

• Best Future Building of the Year – Under Construction
  Sponsored by ABB

    – Andrew Bromberg of Aedas

    – Project: The West Kowloon Terminus under the Hong Kong Section of the Express Rail Link

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• Urban Design of the Year

    – Henning Larsen Architects and Tredje Natur

    – Project: Vinge Train Station

• Best Façade Design and Engineering of the Year, Sponsored by AGC

    – Logon Architecture

    – Project: Shanghai Museum of Glass

• Developer of the Year
  Sponsored by Lutron

    – Battersea Power Station

    – Project: Battersea Power Station 

• Overall Winner
  – Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co. Ltd

  – Project: Ribbon Chapel

• Lifetime Achievement Winner
  – Moshe Safdie

  In accepting the LEAF Lifetime Achievement Award in London recently, Moshe Safdie urged the assembled architects, designers, and educators in the building profession to turn their attention to our global cities.

  “Humanizing mega scale is the single most urgent task that awaits us in the decades to come,” Safdie stated. He went on to say, “Neither the privacy of a house, nor the community of a village, are possible now without major new inventions which transcend individual buildings. They demand a new urban vision.”

  Citing the pressing issues that architects must tackle, Safdie urged the audience, “At a time where our cities are both thriving and ailing, proliferating to accommodate the majority of humankind, yet increasingly depriving us from the fundamental qualities of life, not only light, air and nature, but the deprivation of mobility; the erosion and privatization of the public realm; now is the time to declare, once again, that it is the cities we create that really matter.”

  Safdie was recognized for his career-long commitment to innovations in housing, urban design and humanistic architecture. Earlier this year, Moshe Safdie was named the 2015 Gold Medal recipient by the American Institute of Architects. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, honorary degrees, and civil honors, including the Companion of the Order of Canada, the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, la Medaille du Merite from the Order of Architects of Quebec, Canada, and Israel’s Rechter Prize.

To watch a video message from Hiroshi Nakamura, please visit the website: http://www.arena-international.com/leafawards

A special thanks to all of our sponsors who helped put this fantastic event and evening celebration together and to our esteemed judging panel.

To view the LEAF Awards website please visit: http://www.arena-international.com/leafawards/

To view the complete shortlist of entrants please visit: http://www.arena-international.com/leafawards/