Fourteen projects have been announced as category winners of the The World Architecture Festival’s (WAF) 2016 awards on Day 1 of the festival. Winners in 32 categories will be named over the first two days of the conference, and will then go on to compete for the title of the World Building of the Year 2016, to be announced on Friday.
The world’s largest architectural awards program, the 2016 WAF Awards consisted of 343 projects from 58 countries around the world. Finalists projects will be invited to present their project live at the festival to a "super jury" that includes Kai-Uwe Bergmann (BIG), Louisa Hutton (Sauerbruch Hutton), David Chipperfield, Ole Scheeren, and ArchDaily's co-founder and Editor-in-Chief David Basulto, who will determine the grand prize winner.
You can check out the full shortlist here, and see which built and future projects took home awards after the break.
Completed Buildings
Category: Culture
National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przełomy / Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes
Category: Mixed-Use
Malmö Live / schmidt hammer lassen architects
Category: Office
The Zig Zag Building / Lynch Architects
Category: House
HOUSE MM / OHLAB - Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab
Category: Housing
Category: Schools
German School / Grüntuch Ernst Architects
Category: Civic & Community
Category: Production, Energy & Recycling
Floating Fields / Thomas Chung
Category: New & Old
Beyazit State Library / Tabanlioglu Architects
Category: Display
The Waterfront Pavilion / Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Future Projects
Category: Civic
Hudson Yards Masterplan / Kohn Pedersen Fox
Category: Infrastructure
Istanbul New Airport / Scott Brownrigg and Grimshaw, Nordic, Haptic, Fonksiyon, TAM/Kiklop
Category: Office
a.spire / nabil gholam architects
Category: Experimental
Beach Hut, Singapore / Spark Architects
On Day 2 of the festival, winners will be announced in the following categories:
Completed Buildings:
- Health
- Higher Education & Research
- Hotels & Leisure
- Shopping
- Sport
- Transport
Future Projects:
- Commercial Mixed Use
- Competition Entries
- Culture
- Education
- Health
- House
- Leisure-Led Development
- Masterplanning Future
- Residential
- Landscape
- Small Projects
Check out more of our coverage on this year's event, here, or visit the WAF 2016 website, here.
