Partners and Sponsors
World Architecture Festival:
Where architects meet you, your products and your services.
Find out how by calling Sarah Sincock-Wholey on +44 (0) 20 7728 4581 or email sarah.sincockwholey@emap.com.
Partner Sponsors
GROHE is Europe’s largest and the world’s leading single-brand manufacturer and supplier of sanitary fittings, holding roughly eight percent of the world market. As a global brand for sanitary products and systems, GROHE is setting standards in quality, technology and design.
Summer 2008 saw the launch of the Iconic GROHE Ondus collection. A dedicated international in-house design team of 12, headed up by Paul Flowers, Vice President of Design, works to fulfil the GROHE philosophy: ‘Design is a fundamental pillar of the GROHE strategy to deliver ‘the perfect balance of superior technology, quality and design’. Testament to this is the bespoke cutting edge GROHE Ondus collection; the award winning products make up the first complete digital bathroom range in the world.
GROHE is also leading the way on water conservation within its EcoJoy programme. Dedicated to using its advanced technological resources, first class materials and design innovation to ensure water efficiency. This equates to less water wastage, cost savings and products that not only deliver impressive performance but that also last a lifetime.
Seven decades of research and development have resulted in a range of products that are recognised worldwide for their technical excellence. This year is no exception, summer sees GROHE launch an unprecedented number of new products, many of which that have already received international design awards such as iF and the reddot award.
For the first time Dyson will attend the World Architecture Festival to showcase the Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer. It's the fastest hand dryer – and it's hygienic, too, purifying the air before blowing it onto hands. And because it uses up to 80% less energy than warm air hand dryers, it costs less to run.
Visit us in the Festival Hall or join us at the Opening Night Reception to find out how our machine can help to reduce your project’s carbon footprint.
Keynote Sponsors
Established in 1900, Nikken Sekkei has always strived to provide innovative and sustainable design for their clients. The firm has been involved in over 20,000 diversified projects in 40 countries worldwide, actively contributing to the social welfare and economy on a global scale.
Many of Nikken Sekkei's Projects, such as Toyota Motors Headquarters Buildings and Tokyo Midtown have had their top-class environmental performance capabilities proven time and again. Our goal is to ensure that our designs prioritize not only architectural design but user comfort and achieve net-zero energy consumption for a sustainable future.
Participated as a sponsor of the keynote Lectures for the 1st World Architecture Festival, we were pleased about the variety of events that the WAF had to offer, as well as providing the lectures and the discussions which covered wide range of subjects including current issues in the architectural world. The information the participants received will better equip them to correspond in today's changing the architectural field. In addition, the WAF provides the opportunity to hear and see the presentation of the finest works from the world presented in front of international juries and delegates. The program was effective in increasing cultural awareness. As an architecture firm, we would like to contribute to the success of this great event this year also and support the architectural community.
Category Sponsors
Megaman is one of the world's leading manufacturers of energy saving, compact fluorescent lamps and is probably best known for its pioneering work on innovative new designs of CFL that enable replacement of less efficient light sources in a wide range of applications. Megaman's innovations include Ingenium technology, which offers an unparalleled life of up to 15,000 hours with an extended switching life cycle of 600,000 times, plus a luminous efficacy of 7% more than conventional CFLs using electronic ballasts.
The Megaman range includes candle and golf ball lamps, bulb-shaped CFLs, spotlights for direct replacement of halogen sources and high output fluorescent lamps for use in high bay and flood lighting.
Nike Grind was established in the early 1990s, shortly after the creation of Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program.The Nike Grind program was created to reduce the amount of waste resulting from the production and use of athletic shoes and is an integral part of Nike’s corporate responsibility initiative. The program’s purpose is to develop innovative and sustainable solutions for recycling post-consumer athletic shoes of any brand, along with scrap materials from Nike’s manufacturing processes. Through exclusive technology created by Nike engineers, the company created a way to breathe new life into old athletic shoes by turning them into something new, a material called Nike Grind. This raw material, resulting from ground-up athletic shoes, is used in creating high-quality sports and playground surfacing products, Nike footwear, apparel and equipment. Shoes with production flaws, along with scrap materials left over from the manufacturing process, are also looped in to become recycled, with the aim of minimizing as much waste as possible.
Student Competition Sponsors
Jason Prior, EDAW AECOM President: “The World Architecture
Festival is the most influential forum for the architecture and
urban design debate. It is the place where global issues can be
examined by a mix of established practitioners, young architects
and students- and we have brought our student competition to the
WAF because students and the issues they choose to investigate
will receive the greatest scrutiny and greatest support at the
festival.”
Supporters
Rusresorts is a development company founded in 2008 to build a chain of international class resorts in Russia, with Vnesheconombank as a financial partner. The first project – “The Golden Ring” resort is a recreational complex of an international class for 3,000 tourists, which is situated near Pereslavl Zalesskiy, 130 km from Moscow.
As a part of national program “Affordable housing”, Rusresorts is realizing a Star village project on the territory of Golden Ring complex. Theme of the settlement – comfortable and easy-to-build private house, which is affordable for common people. Main conditions for the designs: low cost, low energy consumption, autonomous engineering systems, good quality contemporary architecture. For each house a technological chain would be made. As a result of this project, several designs would be chosen for future industrial production on the territory of Russia.
Start of the project will be held on 19-22 of October 2009 in Moscow during Building Festival, a big gathering of specialists in urban planning, architecture and development.
The team of Star village:
- West 8 (master plan and general coordination)
- Transsolar (engineering concept)
- TDI (urban planning architecture consultant)
- Architects: Rogers Stirk Harbor and Partners, Hopkins, Architecture studio, BIG, Wilkinson Eyre, FOA, Thomas Leeser Architects, Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop, J.P. Viguier, MVRDV, Sergey Skuratov architects, Totan Kusembaev and others
Administration – Petr Shura (CEO), Petr Kudryavtsev (deputy CEO).
If you have a wide knowledge and experience in affordable housing projects, and you are interested in Star Village, please send a letter to pk@rusresorts.com.
Figueras International Seating is an international company based on design and innovation. For over 80 years we’ve specialized in public seating. We make sure we always find the right solution for each project, because we know satisfied clients are our best letter of introduction. We innovate every day so that we can offer effective, functional solutions tailored to the needs of our clients. Whether we’re working on standard products or signature creations, each new requirement becomes a challenge to overcome and can lead to the development of a new concept.
At the Figueras Design Centre we make the ideas and designs architects conceive for their projects a reality. We work in close collaboration with architects around the world to develop the right product for each project. This process leads to the creation of signature products – one-of-a-kind or customized chairs that meet both aesthetic and functional requirements.
Our presence in over 130 countries means nothing unless we can offer personalized service and adapt to the specific needs of each market. At Figueras International Seating we’re able to stay close to our clients thanks to an extensive network of local agents, installation teams and showrooms throughout the world.
Product Showcases
Swisspearl® is the leading European manufacturer of cement composite façade systems for high-end architecture. The 100 % environmentally friendly façade products are the result our unique coloration technology, façade «know-how» and system competence for panels specially designed for the very reliable ventilated cladding application. The appealing conceptual possibilities of a wide range of products, aspects and colours and our reliable long lasting quality are famous in Europe, where we have delivered more than 15 million m2 of façade products since 1990.
VitrA is the premier supplier in the Turkish market of high quality ceramic sanitary ware, bathroom and kitchen faucets, acrylic bathtub and shower trays, concealed cisterns, toilet seats, bathroom cabinets, and bathroom accessories and the leading Turkish exporter of most of these products. In international markets, VitrA Bath is successfully promoting its flagship brand, VitrA, as a global brand offering the best combination of price, quality and design.
International sales are the central component of VitrA's long-term growth strategy. Exporting 82 percent of its production to some 75 countries around the world, VitrA is a leading contender in many European markets, including Germany and the UK, where it has respective market shares of 13 and six percent. VitrA is also raising its standing in other highly competitive markets, like France, Italy, Turkey's neighborhood countries, Russia, Middle East, Gulf Region and North Africa.
VitrA's global objective is to make VitrA one of the top bathroom brands worldwide by redefining the bathroom and recreating consumers' perception of the bathroom space as an unexpectedly exciting one, thus arousing their interest and desire to have one. In this quest, VitrA promotes the unique bathing tradition of its country of origin, which gives it a special vantage point from which to reinvent the bathroom experience using a "form + architecture + functionality" design approach that combines superior aesthetic concepts with sophisticated technology.
Woodfit Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is now one of the leading specialist joinery’s and bespoke furniture manufacturers in Ireland
The company relocated in 2000 to a 25,000 sq. ft. facility. The manufacturing plant has the most up to date plant and equipment in modern joinery production including computerized cutting and machining centres. The most recent Development has been that of Woodfit acoustics which consists of timber acoustic panelling both standard and custom designed. Soft wall panelling, and the ability to design, consult, test and sign off.
With a number of successful projects completed in Ireland Woodfit has now set its sights on the rolling out of these products to the global marketplace.
Woodfit was awarded "The Irish Joinery of the Year" in 2003 for the Helix, Mahony Hall, Dublin City University.
Woodfit received an Opus Timber Award in 2006 for its work on the Marine Institute Headquarters, Co. Galway.
Woodfit has been accredited with an award finalist at the world architectural festival 2009 for its works in the complete joinery fit out of Wexford Opera House; this is the first custom built Opera Theatre in the Republic of Ireland.
We are an energy-charged provider of turnkey solar systems. Since 2000 we have started to work on photovoltaic systems. In 2008 we founded Solectric S.r.l. Company for Building Integrated Photovoltaics - BIPV. The experience we have gained is feed back to our customers in every new project. We are happy to advise you with absolute neutrality when it comes to system manufacturer. For this reason we tailor our photovoltaic project engineering and implementation to specific project needs.
We manage your photovoltaic investment in Europe!
Casa Decor, an exhibition open month, takes place in an emblematic empty building which provides through its transformation into an innovative opportunity to promote the venue not only for the proprietor, but also for the participating designers, architects and companies as they have a unique platform to present their interpretations of the latest tendencies related to every aspect of our daily habit/environment without any client constraints through the real-life environments (living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, etc.).
As each venue is different, Casa Decor offers a fabulous PR platform and marketing opportunity to all companies and individuals participating in the exhibition or to those which search for a new venue for product launches, Press Conferences, lunches, cocktail parties, etc. Casa Decor is a “must to see” social-cultural event, as the icon of design in each city hosting the exhibit.
Casa Decor receives approximately 50,000 visitors per exhibit and the media impact of each exhibit is around 3,500,000 euros.
Koleksiyon, combining design, technology, technical quality and competent workmanship is one of the leading furniture companies in Turkey with a distinctive tradition of design for 34 years.
With an annual production capacity of 400,000 m2 of wooden furniture and 54,000 pieces of upholstered furniture Koleksiyon manufactures for cultural and business centres, accommodation and recreational facilities, offices and homes. With a human resources of 500 people, with skill and ingenuity, including designers, engineers, technical managers and expert craftsmen, Koleksiyon also performs licensed production and designs for local and international markets.
As a renowned brand in global markets, Koleksiyon exports products to many foreign countries such as England,Germany, France, Ireland, Belgium, Romania, Hungary, Macedonia, Russia, Japan, Israel, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Iraq and Qatar.
For more information regarding commercial opportunities at the Festival please contact:
Sarah Sincock-Wholey
Senior Business Development Manager
T +44 (0) 20 7728 4581
E sarah.sincockwholey@emap.com
