World Architecture Festival

Step onto the world stage

Winning a WAF award is your passport to the international architecture scene. Both professionally and personally transformational, the WAF awards are your gateway to global exposure, recognition and success.

WAF Awards, the ‘Oscars of Architecture’, sit at the heart of the Festival, the foremost conference and exhibition event in global architecture. In a unique format, keynote talks from the industry’s leading lights sit alongside presentations from award finalists, live judging and multiple conference sessions. And it’s all enjoyed by the WAF community of 2,000 delegates from around the world.

Benchmark with the world’s best. Becoming a WAF finalist is an illustrious achievement when you are competing with hundreds of other architects of all sizes from across the globe.

Take the next step. Winning at WAF opens the door to global media coverage, peer and client recognition and the potential for exciting new commisions.

Transform your career. Category winners go on to compete for the ultimate accolades of World Building Building of the Year and Future Project of the Year, accolades which transform careers, promoting you to a global design elite

2014 Highlights

Judges

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Sasa

Radulovic

Principal

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Charles

Jencks

Landscape Architect, Sculptor, Writer and Co-Founder

Maggies Cancer Care Centres

Andrew

Grant

Director

Grant Associates

Manuelle

Gautrand

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Founding Partner

Peter

Cook

Director

CRAB Studio

Sou

Fujimoto

Principal Director

Sou Fujimoto Architects

WAF Testimonials

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“ Winning the award is a great encouragement for what we have done, for refreshing ourselves, our architecture. After WAF, we have been well-known from around the world and it gives us chances to meet and talk to different people, this is very important to us, especially when we are always searching for doing something new. ”

Toan Nghiem, Principal, A21 Studio, winners of World Building of the Year 2014

“ WAF will blow your mind. ”

Layton Reid, Director, Desitecture

“ It has been amazing to be part of the WAF award winning team. When you look across the range and quality of projects put forward for the WAF Awards, to be short listed and then become associated with the overall winner is a momentous achievement for Grant Associates. ”

Keith French, Director, Grant Associates

“ Winning the WAF award has given credibility and respect to the work of the practice, an unquestionable kudos which speaks for itself - we are taken seriously and shown respect. ”

Peter Rich, Principal, Peter Rich Architects

“ At WAF you have serious discussions about architecture and start to see where we’re going to be in the future. It’s that dialogue face to face, with people that are doing amazing things that makes this one of the most important things that happens in architecture each year. ”

Michael Heenan, Principal and CEO, Allen Jack+Cottier Architects

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