From November 30th through December 2nd, 2022, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) held its first physical event in three years. The annual festival, adapting to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic, is regarded as one of the most critical events in the global architectural.
The final day of this year’s World Architecture Festival in Lisbon has culminated in 3XN’s Quay Quarter Tower named the World Building of the Year during a special ceremony at the city’s historic converted Convento Do Beato.The 46-story Sydney tower provides a remarkable example of adaptive.
It doesn t happen every day that a large piece of urban infrastructure is crowned the globe s best new building design, but at today s closing ceremony of the annual World Architecture Festival, one industrial facility reigned supreme over a shortlist of 200 noteworthy new buildings: CopenHill.
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The World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has released its shortlist for 2021, celebrating some 200 buildings and landscapes created between 2019 and 2021.
Being the world’s biggest architectural awards program, some of the entrants on show most certainly live up to the grand scale. A stylised urban landscape linking Abu Dhabi’s desert to its modern city grid; Heatherwick Studio s Singapore skyscraper, Eden’ China’s Culture Exhibition Centre featuring a sun and a moon pavilion; and a tourist development on a Persian Gulf island built to empower the local community, are all in the running for awards within their respective categories.