The first World Architecture Festival was a huge success, attracting almost 2,000 visitors from 70 countries worldwide.
Festival visitors listened to shortlist presentations, learned from seminar speakers including Norman Foster and Massimiliano Fuksas, browsed the Awards Entry Gallery, and witnessed Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, by Grafton Architects win the first World Building of the Year award.
Click the image above to see a short overview film of the Festival.
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Seminar reports
Read full reports from each seminar session. Highlights included Graham Stirk, Wolf Prix, and Stephan Behnisch
Awards Entries
View all 722 entries in the WAF Awards. Get inspiration and draw out themes in international architecture in the largest ever directory of recently completed work.
International Jury
WAf 2008 was an opportunity for peer review by some of the most distinguished professionals in the world.
Left, Chairman of the Jury: Lord (Norman) Foster, UK
Category reports
The Editor of each of our media partners report on what trends and themes they saw in their category.
View a full list of all category winners and highly commendeds in the WAF Awards Product Showcase
Love finding new products? View the products that were nominated to appear in the Product Showcase at the Festival.