Australians victorious at 2016 WAF Awards

Three Australian-designed projects have been honoured at the 2016 World Architecture Festival Awards, which was held in Berlin this year.

Francis Jones Morehen Thorp’s The Waterfront Pavilion, Hayball’s South Melbourne Primary School and WOHA’s Kampung Admirality each won their respective categories.

FJMT’s The Waterfront Pavilion won the Display category. The project was strongly connected to its history and context, the structure’s form echoes its wharf setting and the vessels it celebrates. The judges said the building “cleverly borrowed from naval architecture and warehouse construction to create a unique and poetic building.”

South Melbourne Primary School by Hayball.

South Melbourne Primary School by Hayball.

Hayball’s South Melbourne Primary School won the Future Projects Education category. The government primary school will provide education for 525 students and will include facilities for the growing Fishermans bend community. The judges said it will be “an innovative and inspiring vertical campus, we believe it will be a great learning environment in a highly dense new development area.”

Kampung Admiralty by Woha, Singapore.

Kampung Admiralty by Woha, Singapore.

In the Commercial Mixed-use Future Project category, WOHA was awarded for Kampung Admirality in Singapore. The project will be Singapore’s first integrated public development that brings together a mix of public facilities and services under one roof. The judges said the complex “will meet the needs of Singapore’s ageing population” and “offers great lessons for the future of mixed-use projects.”

Across the Tasman, New Zealand’s Monk McKenzie Architects and LandLab’s won the Completed Buildings Transport category for their project #LightPathAKL.

More than 300 projects from 58 countries were shortlisted for the awards. Among them were 24 Australian projects and additional international projects by Australian practices. See the full list of winner here.

The 2016 World Architecture Festival is colocated with the 2016 Inside World Festival of Interiors. See the Australian winners from the 2016 Inside Awards here.

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