Entries have opened for the 2018 World Architecture Festival Awards program. This year the World Architecture Festival will relocate from Berlin to Amsterdam and will be held the RAI Convention Centre.
An international judging panel has also been announced, including the four-person “super jury” that comprises David Adjaye (principal, Adjaye Associates), Nathalie de Vries (director and co-founder, MVRDV), Mohsen Mostafavi (dean, Harvard University Graduate School of Design) and Li Xiadong (founder, Li Xiaodong Atelier).
Practices entered in the awards’ 31 will present their projects to a number of juries. Architects of the projects eligible for the World Landscape, Future Project and Completed Building of the Year awards will make a final presentation to the super jury.
Australian members of the more than 130-person jury pool include Andrew Burges (owner, Andrew Burges Architects), Cameron Bruhn (editorial director and general manager content portfolio development, Architecture Media), Michael Heenan (CEO, Allen Jack and Cottier Architects), Ronald Hicks (principal, HDR), Ann Lau (director, Hayball) and Hamish Monk (principal, Monk Mackenzie Architects).
Australian projects were well represented in the 2017 edition of the awards, with 43 entries on the shortlist. Among the winners were Allen Jack and Cottier Architects and NH Architects, which won the Future Project of the Year Award for an unbuilt project with a reference design for the relocation and redevelopment of the Sydney Fish Market, to be designed by 3XN.
In 2016, Hayball’s design for South Melbourne Primary School, one of the first “vertical school” proposals in Australia, was awarded the same prize by the WAF super jury.
The World Architecture Festival will take place from 28 to 30 November 2018. Entries made to the WAF Awards before 20 April will receive an early bird discount.
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The World Architectural Festival is held concurrently with the Inside World Festival of Interiors. Entries for the Inside Awards are also open. For details, click here.
