World Architecture Festival
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World Architecture Festival shortlist is here!
With significant representation from Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific, this year’s WAF shortlist is announced ahead of the Florida event.
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Reframing the vertical: Lessons from Miami, Doha and the Gold Coast
Following the World Architecture Festival (WAF) towards the end of 2025, Plus Studio Director Michael McShanag reflects on high-rise living from Miami to the Gold Coast.
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The University of Auckland’s Hiwa wins Sport Architecture at WAF 2025
Hiwa, the University of Auckland’s six-storey recreation centre by Warren and Mahoney with MJMA Toronto and Haumi, has taken out Sport Architecture at the 2025 World Architecture Festival. A vertical village for wellbeing and connection, the project continues its run of global accolades as a new benchmark for campus life and student experience.
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Fernando Menis wins World Building of the Year 2025 for The Holy Redeemer Church
The World Architecture Festival has named The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre of Las Chumberas in La Laguna, Spain as World Building of the Year 2025, alongside major winners in interiors, future projects and landscape.
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Entries open as WAF heads to Miami
Following Singapore last year, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025 is moving to the US for the first time in its 18-year history.
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Football, architecture and landscape design in Mexico
Set within a regular grid constructed using local materials and traditional techniques, Sordo Madaleno’s seven-hectare site is a veritable football campus.
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Winners from the 2024 World Architecture Festival
Another Sydney project has taken out the top prize this year in Singapore, with a wide range of other winnings works from around the world.
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World Architecture Festival: Day One winners from Singapore
Fresh from Singapore, the first round of winners from day one of the World Architecture Festival have been announced.
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Warming up for WAF: Shortlist announced for Singapore 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 World Architecture Festival has just been announced, with some standout nominees from our region.
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Q&A: Hassell and Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Project at WAF
Hassell recently presented its gigantic Metro Tunnel Project at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) alongside collaborators Weston Williamson and RSHP. We spoke to Hassell principal Ingrid Bakker about the scale of the work and what’s driving the design.
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Towards a golden age of Australian architecture?
On the eve of 2024, our new editor, Timothy Alouani-Roby, addresses an exciting yet provocative open letter to the Australian architecture community on the opportunities of an era.
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Meet the design brains behind GROHE SPA at the World Architecture Festival
At the 2023 World Architecture Festival, we caught up with Antoine Besseyre Des Horts, leader at LIXIL Global Design, Asia to hear about the latest at GROHE.
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AIA Gold Medallist Kerstin Thompson at the World Architecture Festival
Timothy Alouani-Roby caught up with the Melbourne-based architect at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) after her AIA Gold Medal speech.
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Five insights from Australian designers at the 2023 World Architecture Festival
We asked prominent designers travelling to Singapore a simple question: what does Australian design bring to WAF? Here are the five main topics that came up.
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China and Sydney provide global standouts in the WAF winners list
After three days of crits, talks and presentations, the full winners of the 2023 World Architecture Festival have been announced.
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Winners at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore
The 2023 World Architecture Festival (WAF) features no less than 44 category prizes – find out about the winners and commendations from days one and two here.
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2023 Architecture Drawing Prize winners revealed: A fusion of tradition and innovation
This year’s winning drawings in three categories – hand-drawn, digital and hybrid, will be showcased at World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 29 November to 1 December 2023.
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These 4 ‘big ideas’ will shape architecture in 2023
Fresh from her trip to the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon, Fender Katsalidis’ Nicky Drobis outlines four big ideas that will shape architecture in 2023.
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Check out AMP’s head office in the award-winning Quay Quarter Tower
Inside the internationally award-winning Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, AMP’s workplace by Hassell has been likened to a biophilic, vertical village.
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“Well, where do we go from here?”: Winston Shu on designing the Mactan-Cebu International Airport
After edging out stiff competition in the 2019 World Architecture Festival, Winston Shu reflects on 40 years of designing airports and the shifting politics of our “gateways on the world.”
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Counting Down the Winning WAF 2019 Indo-Pacific Projects…
Which architectural masterpieces from the region took out top awards at the recent World Architecture Festival? Considering three of the top five countries for entries are in the Indo-Pacific, we came home with plenty of wins.
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60 Australian projects shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival 2019
Australia proves to excel on the global stage with 60 projects shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival 2019.
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WOHA’s Kampung Admiralty Is WAF World Building Of The Year 2018
The one-stop integrated complex designed for Singapore’s ageing population claimed the title of World Building of the Year at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.
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Chinese University of Hong Kong Project Wins WAF 2017 ‘World Building of the Year’
A prototype house for post-earthquake conditions tops a global list of contenders at the World Architecture Festival 2017.
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A Prize For the Love of the Drawing
When was the last time you drew with a pencil rather than a mouse? The World Architecture Festival has announced that a hand-drawn and digitally conceived hybrid has won its inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize.
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The Top Interior Projects of 2016
A raw fashion boutique with geometric shapes was crowned the World Interior of the Year at the INSIDE Festival of Interiors 2016. Other category winners include a 1950s-inspired diner, a welcoming healthcare facility, an artisanal co-working space and more.
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This Year’s Best Architectural Works
The wait is finally over. Find out which projects came out on top at this year’s World Architecture Festival 2016.
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15 Singapore Projects Shortlisted For WAF 2016 Awards
A skyscraper defined by a massive vertical garden, mass housing of futuristic forms, and repurposed heritage monuments – here are some of the Singapore-based projects that made it to the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards shortlist this year.
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3 Stunning Hong Kong Projects Make the INSIDE Finals
A restaurant in the basement of a bank, a cinema and a home with edge have been shortlisted for the INSIDE awards.
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Singapore Sports Hub Bags A Win at World Architecture Festival
The project gets the prize for ‘Best Future Projects Leisure-Led Development Building’ at the international festival in Singapore. The winners from another 14 award categories on the first day have been announced.