About World Architecture Festival (WAF) and Inside World Festival of Interiors

World Architecture Festival (WAF) is where the world architecture community meets to celebrate, learn, exchange, and be inspired.

WAF is the world’s largest annual, international, live architectural event. It includes the largest live architectural awards program in the world, dedicated to celebrating excellence via live presentations to an audience of high-profile delegates and international juries.

World Architecture Festival comprises of:

• A thematic conference program 
• 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

Inside World Festival of Interiors runs alongside WAF, with its own awards and conference program. Delegates have access to both events.

WAF and Inside are organized by EMAP, publishers of The Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal.

Founder Partner

GROHE is a leading global brand for complete bathroom solutions and kitchen fittings. Since 2014, GROHE has been part of the strong brand portfolio of LIXIL, a manufacturer of pioneering water and housing products. In order to offer "Pure Freude an Wasser", every product is based on the brand values of quality, technology, design, and sustainability. Focused on customer needs, GROHE creates life-enhancing and sustainable product solutions that offer added value for consumers and create outstanding water experiences in projects all around the world.

As the founder sponsor of the World Architecture Festival, GROHE is proud to support this important event for the 16th consecutive year. The brand is looking forward to welcoming the architect and design community at its booth to share ideas.

Headline Partners

ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation, and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 105,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. ABB technologies help architects to design buildings with a focus on CO2 neutrality, better building performance, and significantly higher living comfort.

Miele is the world's leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances including cooking, baking, and steam-cooking appliances, refrigeration products, coffee makers, dishwashers, and laundry and floor care products. This line-up is augmented by dishwashers, washing machines, and tumble dryers for commercial use, as well as washer-disinfectors and sterilizers for use in medical and laboratory applications (Miele Professional).

The Miele company, founded in 1899, has eight production plants in Germany, as well as one plant each in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, Romania, and Poland. These are joined by two plants belonging to Miele's Italian medical technology subsidiary Steelco. Sales in the 2020 business year amounted to approximately €4.5 bn, with a share of business outside Germany of approximately 71%. Miele is represented with its own sales subsidiaries, as well as via importers in almost 100 countries/regions.

Throughout the world, the family-run enterprise, now in its fourth generation, employs a workforce of around 21,000, whereof 11,050 are employed in Germany. The company is headquartered in Gütersloh, in Westphalia.