World Building of the Year (and Office): Media-TIC, Barcelona, Cloud 9, Spain |
The fourth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) wrapped up in Barcelona on November 4. More than 1,300 people attended this year’s awards ceremony, which capped the three-day event, and got a peek at the 700-plus international projects entered. Seminars and keynote speakers touched on issues of “disaster” and “difference,” including David van der Leer, assistant curator of Architecture and Urban Studies at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, who also led the museum’s team in executing the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a touring project that wrapped up its New York City run in October.
Many of the winners graced the pages of Architectural Record this year, including Marlon Blackwell’s St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas. Blackwell’s church won the Civic and Community award in the Completed Buildings category. Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street residential tower in New York City, Bjarke Ingel’s 8 House in Copenhagen, and Koji Tsutsui’s InBetween House in Karauizawa, Japan also took home awards.
Below is a complete list of WAF winners. See the for images.
AWARD WINNERS
World Building of the Year
Media-TIC, Barcelona
Cloud 9, Spain
Future Project of the Year
Hanimaadhoo International Airport, Maldives
Integrated Design Associates Limited, Hong Kong
Structural Design of the Year
8 Spruce Street – Beekman Tower, New York, USA
Gehry Partners, LLP, USA
Once Foundation Award for Accessibility
Museum of Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City, Mexico
Arditti + RDT arquitectos, Mexico
People’s Choice
Memorial house Todor Proeski, Krushevo, Macedonia
Syndicate studio, Macedonia
COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Civic and Community
Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, Springdale, USA
Marlon Blackwell Architect, USA
Culture
Shima Kitchen, Tonosyotyo, Japan
Atelier Ryo Abe, Japan
Display
Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion, Hjerkinn, Norway
Snøhetta
Health
Rehabilitation Centre Groot Klimmendaal, Arnhem, Netherlands
Architectenbureau Koen van Velsen, Netherlands
Holiday
Raas Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
The Lotus Praxis Initiative, India
House
Small House, Sydney, Australia
Domenic Alvaro, Australia
Housing
8 House, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjarke Ingels Group, Denmark
Landscape
A Mother River Recovered - The Sanlihe Greenway, Qian'an, China
Turenscape, China
Learning
Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Stanton Williams, United Kingdom
New and Old
Puzzle Piece, Canary Islands, Spain
Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos, Spain
Office
Media-TIC, Barcelona, Spain
Cloud 9, Spain
Production, Energy and Recycling
Waste Treatment Facility, Vallès Occidental, Spain
Batlle & Roig Architects, Spain
Shopping
Decameron, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Studio MK27, Brazil
Sport
Speed Skating Stadium, Inzell, Germany
Projektarbeitsgemeinschaft Behnisch Architekten Pohl Architekten, Germany
Transport
Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane, Australia
Cox Architecture, Australia
Villa
InBetween House, Karuizawa, Japan
Koji Tsutsui & Associates, Japan
FUTURE PROJECTS
Commercial
Wadi Rum Resort, Jordan
Oppenheim Architecture + Design, USA
Competition Entries
Glacier Discovery Walk, Alberta, Canada
Sturgess Architecture, Canada
Experimental
The Tower of Nests, Shanghai, China
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture AB
Education
Women’s Opportunity Center, Kayonza, Rwanda
Sharon Davis Design, USA
Cultural
Zhang Da Qian Museum, Neijang, China
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Spain
Residential
Wafra Living, Kuwait
AGi Architects, Kuwait
Masterplanning
West Kowloon Cultural District Conceptual Plan, Hong Kong
Rocco Design Architects Ltd, Hong Kong
Infrastructure
Hanimaadaoo International Airport, Maldives
Integrated Design Associates Limited, Hong Kong
Health
Binh Chanh Pediatric Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
VK, Roeselare, Belgium
2050 A+P, Vietnam
Nhat My, Vietnam
Landscape
Shoreline Walk, Beirut, Lebanon
Gustafson Porter, UK