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Over thirty exemplary future projects that address major architectural issues facing society and the planet have been announced as winners of this year’s World Architecture Festival WAFX Awards. The WAFX Prize awards projects that best use design and architecture to tackle major world issues across eleven key categories, including health, climate change, technology, ethics, and values.
View the full list of the WAFX Award winners here, and download press images here. This year’s category winners for Ethics and Values include a project that explores rebuilding Gaza’s landscapes and restoring the agricultural and cultural heritage of the land. It also includes the designs for a public park for a city in Iran, which imagines a future with no restriction on civil freedoms, providing hybrid public spaces for men and women. Winners of the Power and Justice category include a project in Istanbul designed around the Alevism community's need for a legitimate space in the city, designed around the ritual of gathering and assembling. The Carbon and Climate category winners include the transformation of a disused gas tower in Münster into a sustainable residential tower.
The WAFX Award winners are selected from the finalists of the Future Projects categories in the WAF Awards Programme, for their ambition and scope in response to today’s pressing global issues. The WAFX 2024 Winner Announcement comes ahead of the live WAF event, which takes place this year in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands from 6-8 November, and follows the WAF Shortlist announcement earlier this month (8 July), which celebrated the best new global completed buildings, landscapes and future architecture concepts.
Paul Finch, Director of the World Architecture Festival, comments: This year’s winners show how major challenges affecting people and environments generate responses that address functional and social problems while lifting the spirits of those who will benefit from creative architecture and design. We look forward to seeing these ideas presented at our Festival in Singapore this November”.
View the full shortlist, including the WAF Future Project shortlisted projects here.
The WAFX 2024 Category Prize Winners are:
Ageing and Health
Building Technology
Carbon and Climate
Cultural Identity
Digital Worlds
Ethics and Values
Food
Power and Justice
Re-Use
Smart Cities
Water
WAF represents the world’s biggest live-judged architectural awards program, where all finalists present their projects to a panel of judges at the international festival. Each of the 33 WAFX winning projects will present on the Festival Hall Stage at WAF, and the overall WAFX winner will be announced live during the festival, alongside other accolades, including World Building of the Year, Landscape of the Year, Future Project of the Year and Interior of the Year.
WAF returns to Singapore this year for its 17th edition. This follows previous editions of the festival in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Berlin. In addition to the unique live-judged awards programme and crit presentations, this year’s event will include a live events programme and keynote talks and insightful seminars from an international panel of speakers around the theme of ‘Tomorrow’.
The press can apply for an Official Press Pass to attend the World Architecture Festival here.
For more details on the 2024 World Architecture Festival and the WAF Awards please visit www.worldarchitecturefestival.com @worldarchfest #WAF24 #INSIDE24
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About World Architecture Festival (WAF)
http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com
World Architecture Festival and Inside World Festival of Interiors will occur at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, on 6 - 8 November 2024.
The world architecture community meets in WAF to celebrate, learn, exchange and be inspired.
Every year, WAF hosts the world's biggest live-judged architecture awards programme. It celebrates design achievements through presentations by architects to high-profile delegates and international judging panels.
The 2024 World Architecture Festival (WAF) comprises:
- Events programme and keynote talks
- Live judging of finalists’ projects
- Gallery of all award entries
- Exhibition area
- Networking and social events, including partner fringe events - Gala dinner announcing the overall winners
- A tour programme of local architectural landmarks in Singapore
Inside World Festival of Interiors runs alongside WAF, with its own awards and conference programme. Delegates have access to both events.
WAF and Inside are organised by EMAP, publishers of The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal.
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