For over forty years I have been working as an experimental artist and designer. In all of that time I have become very aware of how important aesthetics are in dictating the amount of the earths resources that are consumed by the human population. Most things, including building, have to look a certain way in order for people to feel good about using them, and most often a lot of resources are consumed just to make these things look a certain way. Much of the stuff we use could be made with much fewer of the earths resources if they did not have to maintain a specific aesthetic, directed toward a specific consumer. As an example buildings, especially houses, in most cases would function very well as places in which we are sheltered from the elements and our basic functional needs are supported without the requirement to maintain a specific aesthetic image. In fact, if we were all blind, it would not matter what our houses looked like as long as they kept us physically comfortable.
World Festival of Interiors announces second set of category winners in the world’s foremost interior design awards
INSIDE – World Festival of Interiors has today announced the final category winners for their annual interior design awards programme. These complete the list of the nine winners who will go head-to-head tomorrow in live crit presentations to a distinguished panel of judges, in a bid to win the World Interior of the Year crown.
Clive Wilkinson Architects claimed the Office category award for their work with the Barbarian Group in New York. The office features an ‘endless’ table that enables the entire office to sit at one free-flowing circular desk. At key locations the desk rises to allow casual meeting spaces in grotto-esque areas under the table. Made up of 870 unique plywood panels, the table equates to a 4,400 square foot surface.A cinema in China that traces back the roots of filmmaking won the Civic, Culture and Transport category. CINE TIMES by One Plus Partnership Limited subtly reminds visitors of the origins of cinema, in an age where new technologies have rapidly changed the industry. Undulating walls symbolise film rolls with thin breaks reminiscent of the breaking and reunifying of film, used in bygone editing processes.In the Education and Health category, CRAB Studio took the award for their Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Australia. The bold design optimises spaces throughout the building to allow for relaxation areas and breakout work areas. The judges commended the project for adding a ‘sense of theatre to an education environment.’Another project in Australia was the recipient of the Creative Re-Use award: the Sustainable Industries Education Centre – Tonsley Tafe. The project by MPH Architects and Architectus is a great demonstration of adaptive re-use on a major scale and was described by the judges as ‘thoughtfully considered’. The new single-site facility is the combination of five separate campuses and features a layout based on flexibility and adaptability.These four winners will join yesterday’s category winners in presenting their projects to the INSIDE super jury tomorrow. The winner of the World Interior of the Year will be announced at a gala dinner at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
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Final list of Category winners:
Category: Bars & Restaurants Architect/Designer: JOYCE WANG STUDIO Project: Mott 32 Location: Hong Kong
Originally a storage facility for family heirlooms forgotten by wealthy Chinese immigrants, Joyce Wang Studio combined this history into their contemporary design. Mott 32 creates a blend of industrial New York design and classical Chinese décor, complemented with an inspired collection of forgotten heirlooms, Colonial-style furnishings and antique Chinese propaganda. Accessibility to the site for diners was also a difficult issue to tackle for the practice due to a long snaking route but this meandering path now creates a more hidden and exclusive arrival experience.
Category: Civic, Culture and Transport Architect/Designer: One Plus Partnership Limited Project: CINE TIMES Location: Hong Kong
The design of Cine Times traces back to the roots of film making, in an age where movies are rapidly changing with new technologies One Plus Partnership set out to subtly remind visitors of the original black and white pictures of the 19th century. Free flowing walls symbolise the rolls of film with thin breaks reminiscent of the breaking and reunifying the rolls of film. Lights fill every void and hang in multiple directions from the ceiling, allowing visitors to imagine themselves as the star of the movie they are about to see.
The Sustainable Industries Education Centre (SIEC) – Tonsley Tafe project is an initiative of the South Australian government to reduce operating costs of the TafeSA’s Building and Construction Trade Training programs. The scheme sets out to consolidate five aging campuses into a single contemporary site. The new facility is an example of adaptive re-use on a major scale, as 90 per cent of the existing steel structure has been retained and a new flexible and adaptable education facility have been created to provides opportunities for innovation and displays of students’ work. The internal layout successfully provides a variety of spaces for student learning and glazed partitioning is used throughout to maximise the showcasing of work. The internal design surrounds two intersecting streets that separate the public areas and the teaching and learning spaces.
Category: Display Architect/Designer: Singapore University of Technology and Design Project: IDC Space: research and display space for the International Design Centre Location: Singapore
Situated at the heart of the Dover Campus of the Singapore University of Technology and Design, IDC Space is a showcase space for the International Design Centre. The 13m x 16m space hosts an office, a small prototyping lab as well as an exhibition gallery for showcasing some of the most exciting on-going IDC design research work. The space features a ceiling installation comprised of 6000 custom-designed lighting and display components; the light fixtures are based on a patent-pending SUTD/IDC design. Partitions, posters, and exhibition panels are suspended from the ceiling so the space can quickly be reconfigured for multiple uses.
The Abedian School of Architecture is located on the Bond University campus designed in the 1980s by Arata Isozaki. The building is a long, airy structure split over three levels articulated by a series of rooms that can be used for casual.
Category: Hotels Architect/Designer: FHAMS Ltd. Project: Tama Hotel Phnom Penh Tower Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Located in the Phnom Penh Tower building, the Tama Hotel has been designed for oversees business visitors. Workspace and comfortable settings suited for both long and short stay guests’ help to create a homely environment. The restaurant has been designed to be a working lunch space for entertaining clients and desk space for laptops.
Category: Offices Architect/Designer: Clive Wilkinson Architects Project: The Barbarian Group Location: New York, USA
This radically simplified office concept imagines an endless table that physically connects everyone in the office to each other. With a highly constrained budget, the architects adapted an existing office space for a flexible community of 125 to 175 people, recycling perimeter rooms and services for acoustically controlled spaces and clearing the central zone. The endless table’s plywood structure rises from the existing oak floor with pony walls supporting the table, which is lifted to fly over the pathways in the office. By maintaining surface continuity, this results in arches with grotto-like spaces underneath which can accommodate a variety of amenities, meeting spaces, private focused workspace, or bookshelves and other storage. The top surface of the table is an ethereal pearlescent white, with a clear epoxy coating, emphasising its fluid nature. After being initially drawn by hand and then molded in a physical model, the plywood supporting structure was thereafter entirely shaped by computer-aided design. In its final form, the table is made up of 870 unique plywood panels equating to a 4,400 square foot surface.
Category: Residential Architect/Designer: JOYCE WANG STUDIO Project: XINTIANDI PENTHOUSE Location: Shanghai, China
A three-storey penthouse set in the heart of Shanghai’s Xintiandi district, this private residence boasts some of the best lake and skyline views in the city. A cantilever staircase winds around the double-height atrium and as one ascends the stairs the stunning view unfolds. The dinning area sits within a nest-like environment so the family can enjoy the intimacies of their home. Wood-grain etched concrete, Corten steel and walnut timber line the walls, floors and ceiling in reference to the warehouses of old Shanghai. Geometric graphic patterns are created on the flooring as one material joins another in order to zone various areas in the home.
Category: Retail Architect/Designer: studio mk27 Project: Cultura Bookstore Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Cultura bookstore has been designed to be a bookstore for the 21st century, a store where socialising, relaxing and purchasing are all combined. The top floor provides the main area of the store, a large area encased with bookshelves provides an open plan space with lounge chairs where customers can read and discuss. The space also features large tables and can be used for lectures and other events.
Alongside the category winners the following were awarded Highly Commended:
Category: Bars & Restaurants Architect/Designer: SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS Project: Auriga Location: Mumbai, India
Transformed from a disused warehouse, Auriga is a nightclub and restaurant that creates the feeling of being within a sculpture rather than looking at one. The nightclub on the ground floor is made up of a series of angular aluminium fins that fold to create the roof, the walls, bar and staircase. On the second floor the restaurant is a more fluid design to contrast to the angular shapes downstairs, thin wooden strips flow freely from the ceiling and walls to the bar and kitchen counters. Auriga has been designed and delivered on a small budget and in a sustainable manner, the lower floor is made from the waste metal left over from the manufacturing of air conditioning units and the upper level is leftover wood from other projects.
Category: Creative Re-use Architect/Designer: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Project: Design Republic Design Commune Location: Shanghai, China
Located in the center of Shanghai, the Design Commune houses the new flagship store for Design Republic, a modern furniture retailer. The Commune features a design gallery, an event space, a café, a restaurant by Michelin-Starred Chef Jason Atherton, and a one-bedroom Design Republic apartment. Situated within the historic relic of the Police Headquarters built by the British in the 1910s, Neri&Hu introduced a modern glass insertion onto the brick façade creating a direct contrast with the interior, where modern white rooms are juxtaposed with untouched remnants of brick walls.
Category: Education and Health Architect/Designer: CIT Project: Architecture Factory Location: Cork, Ireland
Created from an existing warehouse, this cost effective education and learning facility uses shipping containers to create lecture offices and studios. An open boulevard creates both easy circulation around the site and acts as an interactive and co-learning area. Prior to designing this project CIT tested the learning outcomes of using shared studio spaces and the results showed that learning improved dramatically when students were directly exposed to their peers work and learning techniques. This outcome saw the design focus on open space and student interaction at the core of the site. Architecture Factory holds 13 workspaces delivered for just €60,000 and accommodates 332 people.
Category: Hotels Architect/Designer: a21studio Project: The Tent Location: Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
The Tent is a small spa perched in the folds of a rock face terrace, inside an operating hot spring and mineral resort looking over the main river of Nha Trang city, Vietnam. One of the biggest constraints of the site is the intense heat from the West, which is constant throughout the year but the Tent’s steep roof with thick thatch helps not only to deflect the sunlight but also blends the project with the surrounding landscape. The roof props lend a distinctive look to the Tent, shields the interior against the elements and also makes up the main structure of the building. The main beams that span the Tent are connected using indigenous building techniques, mortise and tenon joints, together with local materials, dry-stacked stones and coconut leaves, with rocks quarried on site and reinforced steel and tiles. Inside the Tent, the space is divided into two levels, on the lower space there is an infinity mineral pool with traditional wooden furniture. On the upper floor, there is a private bedroom covered by a wood frame and coloured glass with a net installed in the void between the structure and rock, allowing guests to look down to the river below.
Category: Residential Architect/Designer: Manor Studio Pte Ltd Project: Chu Lin Road Apartment Location: Singapore
Chu Lin Road Apartment is an intervention within an apartment built in the 1960s post war period, nestled in the quaint neighbourhood of Chu Lin Road. The original footprint of the apartment was both deep and long but suffered from a lack of natural light and ventilation. The impetus of the new design was to retain the spaciousness of the original layout whilst encouraging maximum cross ventilation and natural light. The false ceiling that ran across the space was removed and the original walls were demolished in favour of an open plan space, following the structural beams. These beams, which once used to cap off the full height brick walls, now support a floating solid pine cabinetry in the middle of the apartment. Designed with different heights and porosity, and extending in various directions, this central cabinet piece is conceived as a sculpture that not only forms the focal point of the apartment but also delineates the spaces while maintaining spatial continuity, ventilation and natural lighting throughout the apartment.
Category: Retail Architect/Designer: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Project: Camper Showroom/Office Location: Shanghai, China
Inspired by the surrounding urban environment, this Camper Showroom reassembles the Shanghai ‘nong-tang’ alleyways. An exterior lane extends into the showroom creating a sectional cut in the structure and a skylight heightens the experience by casting long linear shadows across the walls throughout the day. Neri&Hu designed the store as their interpretation of a two-storey house slotted in an old warehouse. The project sees grey brick combined with wood salvaged from demolished lane houses. The salvaged wood reveals a history from the paint, newspaper and wallpaper still attached to the planks.
Notes to Editors:
INSIDE FESTIVAL ORGANISERS: i2i EVENTS GROUP
i2i Events Group delivers world-class exhibitions and large scale events in key sectors including architecture, interior design, home and gift, fashion, retail, healthcare, energy, environment, education, technology and media. Its portfolio of world-wide events includes World Retail Congress, RWM, Spring Fair, Naidex, BVE, Bett and Pure London. i2i Events Group prides itself on opening up possibilities for its customers and each year brings more than 250,000 decision makers together to network, source, test, buy and sell brilliant products, services, ideas and solutions.
HELIX investigates the notion of space-atmosphere, adaptability, reuse, and sustainable manufacturing processes.
HELIX is a diffuse furniture system that generates a continuous interior space by adapting simultaneously to any vertical and horizontal surface while defining an immersive spatial atmosphere. Its form recalls a natural system that emerges from the structure beneath.
After three days of the World Architecture Festival in Singapore, the festival’s super-jury has awarded the prestigious World Building of the Year award to The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio. The award was sponsored by UOL Group Ltd.
Three other major awards were awarded during tonight’s gala dinner awards ceremony to mark the culmination of WAF 2014:
Future Project of the Year (sponsored by Far East Organization): Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, designed by 5468796 Architecture + number TEN architectural
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, designed by 5468796 Architecture + number TEN architectural
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, designed by 5468796 Architecture + number TEN architectural
Landscape Project of the Year: National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
Small Project of the Year: The Pinch, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / The University of Hong Kong
The Pinch, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / The University of Hong Kong
The Pinch, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / The University of Hong Kong
Two inaugural prizes were also awarded this evening:
Colour Prize (sponsored by AkzoNobel): Departments of Law and Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, designed by Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau
World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest annual festival and live awards programme for the global architecture community.
It is taking place at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore between 1st – 3rd October 2014.
WAF has three central pillars of activity:
A wide-ranging conference programme, featuring keynote lectures, dozens of expert-led talks and seminars from thought-leading architects and designers from across the globe.
The world’s largest annual awards programme in which practices from around the world compete across 28 award categories for global recognition. Architects of every shortlisted project are invited to attend the festival to give a live presentation to a panel of judges, asserting their case for why their project should win. The winners of each category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014. This year’s super jury members are Richard Rogers (chair), Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
Three festival halls where all award entries are displayed in a unique awards gallery and where sponsors and suppliers can interact with delegates, make new contacts and showcase their services and products.
As well as this the festival plays host to an international, live student charrette; parties and receptions in some of Singapore’s most exciting locations; exclusive tours to Singapore’s most recent architectural sites of interest and a celebratory gala dinner and awards ceremony.
WAF has welcomed over 12,500 attendees to date, including over 2,000 in 2012. The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, itself a previous WAF Award winner, is WAF’s home for the third year running, having been held in Barcelona for four years previously, providing the perfect backdrop to this truly global architectural extravaganza.
WAF are proud to work with Founder Partner, Grohe and Headline Partner, AzkoNobel.
WAF awards Programme
The WAF awards are the global industry benchmark for excellence. Entries are welcome in 29 categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects.
Individual Categories
Completed Buildings:
Civic and community
Culture
Display
Health
Higher education/research
Hotel/leisure
House
Housing
New and Old
Office
Production/energy/recycling
Schools
Shopping
Sport
Transport
Villa
Landscape Projects:
Completed designs – rural and urban
Future Projects:
Commercial mixed-use
Competition entries
Culture
Education
Experimental
Health
House
Infrastructure
Leisure-led development
Masterplanning
Office
Residential
About WAF’s organisers – i2i Events Group
i2i Events Group delivers world-class exhibitions and large scale events in key sectors including home and gift, fashion, retail, healthcare, energy, environment, education, technology and media. Its portfolio of world-wide events includes World Retail Congress, RWM, Spring Fair, Naidex, BVE, Bett and Pure London. It prides itself on opening up possibilities for its customers and each year brings more than 250,000 decision makers together to network, source, test, buy and sell brilliant products, services, ideas and solutions. The company is headed up by Mark Shashoua who joined EMAP as Group MD of EMAP Connect in November 2011 and became CEO of i2i Events Group in March 2012. i2i Events Group is powered by Top Right Group, formerly known as Emap International Ltd.
Departments of Law and Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, designed by Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, designed by 5468796 Architecture + number TEN architectural
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, designed by 5468796 Architecture + number TEN architectural
National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
National Arboretum Canberra, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
The Pinch, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / The University of Hong Kong
The Pinch, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / The University of Hong Kong
Departments of Law and Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, designed by Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau
Departments of Law and Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, designed by Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau
World Architecture Festival has just announced the winners of 13 award categories on the second day of the event in Singapore. The details of the winners are below, with individual press releases attached in the PDF document.
Completed Buildings:
New and old: Rethinking the Split House by Neri&Hu
World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest annual festival and live awards programme for the global architecture community.
It is taking place at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore between 1st – 3rd October 2014.
WAF has three central pillars of activity:
A wide-ranging conference programme, featuring keynote lectures, dozens of expert-led talks and seminars from thought-leading architects and designers from across the globe.
The world’s largest annual awards programme in which practices from around the world compete across 28 award categories for global recognition. Architects of every shortlisted project are invited to attend the festival to give a live presentation to a panel of judges, asserting their case for why their project should win. The winners of each category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014. This year’s super jury members are Richard Rogers (chair), Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
Three festival halls where all award entries are displayed in a unique awards gallery and where sponsors and suppliers can interact with delegates, make new contacts and showcase their services and products.
As well as this the festival plays host to an international, live student charrette; parties and receptions in some of Singapore’s most exciting locations; exclusive tours to Singapore’s most recent architectural sites of interest and a celebratory gala dinner and awards ceremony.
WAF has welcomed over 12,500 attendees to date, including over 2,000 in 2012. The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, itself a previous WAF Award winner, is WAF’s home for the third year running, having been held in Barcelona for four years previously, providing the perfect backdrop to this truly global architectural extravaganza.
WAF are proud to work with Founder Partner, Grohe and Headline Partner, AzkoNobel.
WAF awards Programme
The WAF awards are the global industry benchmark for excellence. Entries are welcome in 29 categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects.
Individual Categories
Completed Buildings:
Civic and community
Culture
Display
Health
Higher education/research
Hotel/leisure
House
Housing
New and Old
Office
Production/energy/recycling
Schools
Shopping
Sport
Transport
Villa
Landscape Projects:
Completed designs – rural and urban
Future Projects:
Commercial mixed-use
Competition entries
Culture
Education
Experimental
Health
House
Infrastructure
Leisure-led development
Masterplanning
Office
Residential
About WAF’s organisers – i2i Events Group
i2i Events Group delivers world-class exhibitions and large scale events in key sectors including home and gift, fashion, retail, healthcare, energy, environment, education, technology and media. Its portfolio of world-wide events includes World Retail Congress, RWM, Spring Fair, Naidex, BVE, Bett and Pure London. It prides itself on opening up possibilities for its customers and each year brings more than 250,000 decision makers together to network, source, test, buy and sell brilliant products, services, ideas and solutions. The company is headed up by Mark Shashoua who joined EMAP as Group MD of EMAP Connect in November 2011 and became CEO of i2i Events Group in March 2012. i2i Events Group is powered by Top Right Group, formerly known as Emap International Ltd.
Rethinking the Split House by Neri&Hu
The Chapel by a21studio
Danish Maritime Museum by BIG
Son La Restaurant by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Dune House by Fearon Hay Architects
Lune de Sang Sheds by CHROFI
Scale Lane Bridge by McDowell+Benedetti
Chris O’Brien Lifehouse by Rice Daubney
Singapore Sports Hub by Singapore Sports Hub Design Team
The Village by Sanjay Puri Architects
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria by 5468796 Architecture and Number TEN Architectural Group
FPT Technology Building by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Skyfarm by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Arup Associates
World Architecture Festival has just announced the winners of 16 award categories on the opening day of the event in Singapore. The details of the winners are below, with individual press releases attached in the PDF document
Completed Buildings:
House: House for Trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest annual festival and live awards programme for the global architecture community.
It is taking place at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore between 1st – 3rd October 2014.
WAF has three central pillars of activity:
A wide-ranging conference programme, featuring keynote lectures, dozens of expert-led talks and seminars from thought-leading architects and designers from across the globe.
The world’s largest annual awards programme in which practices from around the world compete across 28 award categories for global recognition. Architects of every shortlisted project are invited to attend the festival to give a live presentation to a panel of judges, asserting their case for why their project should win. The winners of each category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014. This year’s super jury members are Richard Rogers (chair), Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
Three festival halls where all award entries are displayed in a unique awards gallery and where sponsors and suppliers can interact with delegates, make new contacts and showcase their services and products.
As well as this the festival plays host to an international, live student charrette; parties and receptions in some of Singapore’s most exciting locations; exclusive tours to Singapore’s most recent architectural sites of interest and a celebratory gala dinner and awards ceremony.
WAF has welcomed over 12,500 attendees to date, including over 2,000 in 2012. The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, itself a previous WAF Award winner, is WAF’s home for the third year running, having been held in Barcelona for four years previously, providing the perfect backdrop to this truly global architectural extravaganza.
WAF are proud to work with Founder Partner, Grohe and Headline Partner, AzkoNobel.
WAF awards Programme
The WAF awards are the global industry benchmark for excellence. Entries are welcome in 29 categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects.
Individual Categories
Completed Buildings:
Civic and community
Culture
Display
Health
Higher education/research
Hotel/leisure
House
Housing
New and Old
Office
Production/energy/recycling
Schools
Shopping
Sport
Transport
Villa
Landscape Projects:
Completed designs – rural and urban
Future Projects:
Commercial mixed-use
Competition entries
Culture
Education
Experimental
Health
House
Infrastructure
Leisure-led development
Masterplanning
Office
Residential
About WAF’s organisers – i2i Events Group
i2i Events Group delivers world-class exhibitions and large scale events in key sectors including home and gift, fashion, retail, healthcare, energy, environment, education, technology and media. Its portfolio of world-wide events includes World Retail Congress, RWM, Spring Fair, Naidex, BVE, Bett and Pure London. It prides itself on opening up possibilities for its customers and each year brings more than 250,000 decision makers together to network, source, test, buy and sell brilliant products, services, ideas and solutions. The company is headed up by Mark Shashoua who joined EMAP as Group MD of EMAP Connect in November 2011 and became CEO of i2i Events Group in March 2012. i2i Events Group is powered by Top Right Group, formerly known as Emap International Ltd.
House for Trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
The Carve by A-Lab
Liberty Place by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Dalarna Media Library by Adept
Te Kaitaka ‘The Cloak’ by Fearon Hay Architects
Chobham Academy by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Yalikavak Marina Complex by Emre Arolat Architects
La Ascension del Señor Church by AGi architects
Freedom of the Press Monument by Gustavo Penna Arquiteto & Associados
For FRAME, a low cost and short construction period were realized by substituting regular wooden frameworks for exposed concrete with FRP (fiber-reinforced plastic) that can be converted.
This house, with a studio for a husband who is a fashion photographer, is located in an area with flooding risks from torrential rains. Therefore, the entrance level is raised by 800 mm. The studio level on the first floor is lowered to maintain the ceiling height.
When I got the opportunity to work in Rio de Janeiro the “the marvelous city”, I was thrilled, I knew that whatever I design it has to be and behave as a part of this wonderful place.
I started working on the master plan in my office in Rome, but it’s when I came to Rio that the actual shape was defined. The inspiration came while seating on one of the many famous beaches with a local cold drink. I remember drawing in my sketch book simple 5, 6 lines, but they captured it all.
The restructuration and expansion of the helicopter base for civil security in Nimes Garons is a relatively complex project, under two major constraints. Firstly the fact that the work should be done without interrupting the activity of helicopter maintenance requiring extreme rigor in the areas of site partitioning and scheduling of work, then look at environmental issues classified BBC and Very High Energy Performance (TPHE). To this is added disparate entities built into the ground that need the introduction of a first coherent site.
Major names feature in world’s biggest architectural awards programme
Organisers see substantial increase in Asian entries
Singapore, 2014-07-09 – A Buddhist temple in Singapore, an invisible eco-tourism resort in Turkey, a maritime museum in Copenhagen and the new masterplan for Gatwick Airport are among the projects that have today been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) awards 2014 – the world’s biggest architectural awards programme.
National Australia Bank, 700 Bourke St, Melbourne – Woods Bagot
Taking place at this year’s seventh annual World Architecture Festival, the WAF awards 2014 have attracted entries from more than 50 countries. The festival organisers, i2i Events Group, received entries from across the globe, from countries such as Costa Rica and Kuwait, to Japan and Jordan.
Akiha Ward Cultural Center – Chiaki Arai Urban and Architecture Design
The organisers have seen a huge increase in entries from Asian countries, with projects in China, Malaysia and Vietnam up on last year by 87%, 71% and 140% respectively. The geographic spread of entries on the shortlist is further complemented by the variety of projects, from an opera house in Italy, to a variety of health facilities in Australia and a chapel in Brazil.
Stamp House – Charles Wright Architects
Buildings designed by established global practices such as Zaha Hadid Architects, OMA, Foster & Partners, BIG, Woods Bagot, KPF, Farrells, Perkins & Will and Aedas, feature in the shortlisted entries. Practices will compete across 27 individual award categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects, presenting their shortlisted designs live to international judging panels and delegates at this year’s festival.
For the first time, this year’s festival will have a separate small projects category as the judges wished to highlight design skill which had a disproportionate relationship to the physical size of a project.
Yalikavak Marina Complex – Emre Arolat Architects
Paul Finch, WAF Programme Director said: “From small structures to industrial complexes, the breadth of projects shortlisted this year reveals the diversity and strength of global architectural design. It also demonstrates the creativity and tenacity of the international architectural community in creating these truly remarkable schemes. We’d like to congratulate the architects responsible as they prepare to present the merits of their schemes live at the festival in October.”
Wat Ananda Metyarama Thai Buddhist Temple – Czarl Architects
The 2014 festival is being held in Singapore for the third time, taking place between 1 – 3 October. The winners of each future project and completed building category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building or Future Project of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014.
Dongdaemun Design Plaza – Zaha Hadid Architects
This year’s ‘super jury’ comprises a selection of the world’s leading architects and designers, led by renowned British architect Lord Richard Rogers. Rogers will be joined on the super-jury by Rocco Yim (Hong Kong), Julie Eizenberg (USA), Enric Ruiz Geli (Spain) and Peter Rich (South Africa).
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Administration Information Building – Aedas
Two additional prizes will be awarded at this year’s festival for the first time to reward the creative use of colour and materials: The Exterior Colour Prize, sponsored by AkzoNobel; and the Wood Excellence Prize, sponsored by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC).
Spotlight Youth Space – Astudio
The theme for WAF’s main conference sessions in 2014 will be ‘Architects and the City’. Speakers will examine the contribution architects can make, and the way they affect and are affected by, politics, infrastructure, planning, communities and technology. Presentations and panel discussions will feature prominent architects including keynote speeches from Lord Richard Rogers (UK); Moshe Safdie (Canada) and Rocco Yim (Hong Kong); and representatives from policy-makers and urban organisations.
World Architecture Festival is collocated with INSIDE World Festival of Interiors www.insidefestival.com. INSIDE celebrates the world’s finest interiors of the last year and also has at its heart a live international awards programme.
Narigua House – P+O Architecture – Narigua
About WAF
World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest annual festival and live awards programme for the global architecture community.
It will take place at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore between 1st – 3rd October 2014.
WAF has three central pillars of activity:
A wide-ranging conference programme, featuring keynote lectures, dozens of expert-led talks and seminars from thought-leading architects and designers from across the globe.
The world’s largest annual awards programme in which practices from around the world compete across 28 award categories for global recognition. Architects of every shortlisted project are invited to attend the festival to give a live presentation to a panel of judges, asserting their case for why their project should win. The winners of each category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014. This year’s super jury members are Richard Rogers (chair), Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
Three festival halls where all award entries are displayed in a unique awards gallery and where sponsors and suppliers can interact with delegates, make new contacts and showcase their services and products.
As well as this the festival plays host to an international, live student charrette; parties and receptions in some of Singapore’s most exciting locations; exclusive tours to Singapore’s most recent architectural sites of interest and a celebratory gala dinner and awards ceremony.
Christchurch Botanic Gardens Centre – Patterson Associates Ltd
WAF has welcomed over 12,500 attendees to date, including over 2,000 in 2012. The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, itself a previous WAF Award winner, is WAF’s home for the third year running, having been held in Barcelona for four years previously, providing the perfect backdrop to this truly global architectural extravaganza.
WAF is proud to work with Founder Partner, Grohe and Headline Partner, AzkoNobel.
Salvaged Ring – a21studio
WAF awards Programme
The WAF awards are the global industry benchmark for excellence. Entries are welcome in 27 categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects.
Danish Maritime Museum – BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
About WAF’s organisers – i2i Events Group
i2i Events Group delivers world-class exhibitions and large scale events in key sectors including home and gift, fashion, retail, healthcare, energy, environment, education, technology and media. Its portfolio of world-wide events includes World Retail Congress, RWM, Spring Fair, Naidex, BVE, Bett and Pure London. It prides itself on opening up possibilities for its customers and each year brings more than 250,000 decision makers together to network, source, test, buy and sell brilliant products, services, ideas and solutions. The company is headed up by Mark Shashoua who joined EMAP as Group MD of EMAP Connect in November 2011 and became CEO of i2i Events Group in March 2012. i2i Events Group is powered by Top Right Group, formerly known as Emap International Ltd.
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