World Architecture Festival 2014

Shortlist unveiled


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By ArchReady - 30/Jul/2014

Dongdaemun Design Plaza | Zaha Hadid Architects

Taking place at this year’s seventh annual World Architecture Festival the WAF awards 2014 have attracted entries from more than 50 countries.

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.

Practices will compete across 27 individual award categories, spanning completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects.

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).

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.

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 been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) awards 2014.