WAF Winners

John Hill
9. novembre 2015

WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2015 AWARD WINNERS

OVERALL WINNERS


World Building of the Year
The Interlace (Singapore)
OMA/Ole Scheeren

Future Project of the Year
Vancouver House (Canada)
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Landscape of the Year
Yanweizhou Park (China)
Turenscape

International
Small Project Prize

Lidingövallen (Sweden)
DinellJohansson

AkzoNobel's Prize for Colour in Exterior Architecture
ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office (Turkey)
Yazgan Design Architecture

COMPLETED BUILDINGS, BY CATEGORY

Civic & Community
Cam Thanh Community House (Vietnam)
1+1>2 International Architecture JSC

Culture
Soma City Home for All (Japan)
Klein Dytham Architecture

Display
Brazilian Expo Pavilion (Italy)
Arthur Casas, Marko Brajovic

Health
Walumba Elders Centre (Australia)
iredale pedersen hook architects

Higher Education & Research
Toho Gakuen School of Music (Japan)
Nikken Sekkei

Hotel & Leisure
Lanserhof, Lake Tegern (Germany)
Ingenhoven Architects

House
Saigon House (Vietnam)
a21 Studio

Housing
The Interlace (Singapore)
OMA/Ole Scheeren

Mixed-Use
Casba (Australia)
Billard Leece, SJB Architects

New & Old
Courtyard House Plugin (China)
People's Architecture Office

Office
HIGO (Japan)
Nakayama Architects

Production, Energy & Recycling
Fabrica de Oliva (Uruguay)
Marcelo Daglio Arquitectos

Religion
Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar)
Mangera Yvars Architects

Schools
Ballet School (Russia)
Studio 44 Architects

Shopping
Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu (China)
The Oval Partnership

Sport 
San Mamés Stadium (Spain)
Azcárate (ACXT-IDOM)

Transport
Fulton Center (USA)
Grimshaw, Arup, James
Carpenter, HDR,
Page Ayres Cowley​

FUTURE PROJECTS, BY CATEGORY

Commercial Mixed-use

Gardens at Punggol (Singapore)
Serie + Multiply Consultants

Competition Entries
Quay Quarter (Australia)
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Culture
Museum of Painting and Sculpture (Turkey)
Emre Arolat Architects

Education
Performing Arts Centre (UK)
Studio Seilern Architects

Experimental
Home Farm (Singapore)
SPARK

Health
Al Maha Centre (Qatar)
HDR Rice Daubney

House
ISSA Grotto / Hill House (Croatia)
Davor Matekovic, PROARH

Infrastructure
Cukurova Regional Airport Complex (Turkey)
Emre Arolat Architects

Leisure-Led Development
Olympic Stadium Transformation (UK)
Populous

Masterplanning
Kaliningrad Development Concept (Russia)
Studio 44 Architects

Office
Reservoir (India)
Sanjay Puri Architects

Residential
Vancouver House (Canada)
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

World Building of the Year 2015: OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren, The Interlace (Photo: Iwan Baan)

WAF's special format brings architects from all over the world together to present their projects and have juries pick winners in numerous categories; those winners are highlighted in the right column. Each of the winners is then in the running for the World Building of the Year and Future Project of the Year, for completed and "future" projects, respectively. Below we highlight those winners, as well as some of the other special winners and a few of the categories won by World-Architects member firms.

WAF started in 2008 and was held in Barcelona its first four years, followed by four years in Singapore. Next year the ninth WAF will be held in Berlin. For more on the festival, read our 2013 interview with WAF director and founder Paul Finch.

World Building of the Year

The Interlace (Singapore)
OMA/Ole Scheeren


After last year's award to a small chapel in Vietnam, this year's super jury went in the opposite direction and gave the World Building of the Year award to the humongous Interlace building in Singapore. Started in 2007, when Ole Scheeren was a partner and OMA (he left in 2010 to start his eponymous firm), the project with more than 1,000 residences on 8 hectares was completed two years ago.

Six-story blocks are stacked in hexagonal arrangements to create courtyard and shared rooftop spaces. Though not quite the "radical reinterpretation of contemporary life" that Scheeren contends (it's too upscale to be radical), it's hard to deny the project's scale and the unexpected relationships created through the regular stacking of what would be sizable buildings in and of themselves elsewhere.

World Building of the Year 2015: OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren, The Interlace (Photo: Iwan Baan)

Future Project of the Year

Vancouver House (Canada)
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group


We first learned about BIG's design of a 500-foot-tall residential tower next to highway overpass in Vancouver during a studio visit in early 2013. A lot has happened in those two-and-half years: BIG has moved from Chelsea to a bigger office in Lower Manhattan, and the tower has changed names from the Beach + Howe project to Vancouver House. But the form has stayed the same – the plan moves from a triangular plan at the base to a rectangular plan at the top. The base contains offices, shops and other functions, while the tower houses 500 apartments.

Future Project of the Year: Vancouver House, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group (Visualization: BIG)

Landscape of the Year

Yanweizhou Park (China)
Turenscape


WAF focuses almost exclusively on buildings, with awards for interiors projects held in the separate Inside festival that takes place at the same time and venue. One exception within WAF is the Landscape of the Year award, which doesn't go through the same multi-category weaning process as the buildings but results in a winner that is just as striking. Turenscape's resilient landscape for Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua City was designed to adapt to the monsoon floods. Colorful footbridges connect the park to the city and provide a means of access over the river's rising waters.

Landscape of the Year: Yanweizhou Park, Turenscape

Small Project Prize

Lidingövallen (Sweden)
DinellJohansson


Starting this year, architects whose projects were shortlisted in one of the completed building categories could submit them for consideration in this special prize for small projects. The "Little Bird Nest" that Kalle Dinell and Morten Johansson designed for Lidingo Football Club took the inaugural award. The project combines seating, offices, and a cafe in one structure that looks as good full as it does empty.

International Small Project Prize: Lidingövallen, DinellJohansson (Photo: Mikael Olsson)

AkzoNobel's Prize for Color in Exterior Architecture

ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office (Turkey)
Yazgan Design Architecture


This year marks the second time for the special prize that rewards creative ways of integrating color on the exterior of a building. The showroom that Yazgan Design Architecture designed for a three-tower complex with nearly 1,000 residences beat out eight other projects to win. The undulating exterior is wrapped with a gradient of colored fins that give the building a shifting presence depending on one's location.

AkzoNobel's Prize for Colour in Exterior Architecture: ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office, Yazgan Design Architecture (Photo: Yunus Özkazanç)

Selected Category Winners


Hotel & Leisure
Lanserhof, Lake Tegern (Germany)

Ingenhoven Architects

The Lanserhof resort in Southern Bavaria offers 70 rooms and suites with a combination of luxury hotel facilities and state-of-the-art medical care under one roof. The design by Ingenhoven Architects integrates the building into the landscape while layering larch wood screens over the large expanses of glass.

Hotel & Leisure: Lanserhof, Lake Tegern, Ingenhoven Architects

Competition Entries
Quay Quarter (Australia)
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp


This category allows firms that did not win competitions to receive some kudos for their designs. FJMT was one of six finalists for the Quay Quarter competition in Sydney, which was won by 3XN and also included Ingenhoven, Morphosis, MVRDV and SANAA. To win this time, FJMT bested eight shortlisted projects at WAF, including Form4 Architecture's Lyrical Seashore.

Competition Entries (Future): Quay Quarter, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Experimental
Home Farm (Singapore)
SPARK


SPARK's conceptual proposal combines two seemingly unrelated functions: seniour housing and urban agriculture. According to SPARK, "The research-based design addresses two pressing challenges faced by Singapore: how the city state might support a rapidly aging society, and how it might enhance its food security (90% of which is currently imported)."

Experimental (Future): Home Farm, SPARK

Office
Reservoir (India)
Sanjay Puri Architects


Mumbai's Sanjay Puri won the future office category with a design that looks to history, specifically the ancient stepwells in India's western regions. His design for an office in the desert region of Rajasthan will be built from local sandstone to integrate the building into its context physically as well as culturally.

Office (Future): Reservoir, Sanjay Puri Architects

WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2015 AWARD WINNERS

OVERALL WINNERS


World Building of the Year
The Interlace (Singapore)
OMA/Ole Scheeren

Future Project of the Year
Vancouver House (Canada)
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Landscape of the Year
Yanweizhou Park (China)
Turenscape

International
Small Project Prize

Lidingövallen (Sweden)
DinellJohansson

AkzoNobel's Prize for Colour in Exterior Architecture
ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office (Turkey)
Yazgan Design Architecture

COMPLETED BUILDINGS, BY CATEGORY

Civic & Community
Cam Thanh Community House (Vietnam)
1+1>2 International Architecture JSC

Culture
Soma City Home for All (Japan)
Klein Dytham Architecture

Display
Brazilian Expo Pavilion (Italy)
Arthur Casas, Marko Brajovic

Health
Walumba Elders Centre (Australia)
iredale pedersen hook architects

Higher Education & Research
Toho Gakuen School of Music (Japan)
Nikken Sekkei

Hotel & Leisure
Lanserhof, Lake Tegern (Germany)
Ingenhoven Architects

House
Saigon House (Vietnam)
a21 Studio

Housing
The Interlace (Singapore)
OMA/Ole Scheeren

Mixed-Use
Casba (Australia)
Billard Leece, SJB Architects

New & Old
Courtyard House Plugin (China)
People's Architecture Office

Office
HIGO (Japan)
Nakayama Architects

Production, Energy & Recycling
Fabrica de Oliva (Uruguay)
Marcelo Daglio Arquitectos

Religion
Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar)
Mangera Yvars Architects

Schools
Ballet School (Russia)
Studio 44 Architects

Shopping
Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu (China)
The Oval Partnership

Sport 
San Mamés Stadium (Spain)
Azcárate (ACXT-IDOM)

Transport
Fulton Center (USA)
Grimshaw, Arup, James
Carpenter, HDR,
Page Ayres Cowley​

FUTURE PROJECTS, BY CATEGORY

Commercial Mixed-use

Gardens at Punggol (Singapore)
Serie + Multiply Consultants

Competition Entries
Quay Quarter (Australia)
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Culture
Museum of Painting and Sculpture (Turkey)
Emre Arolat Architects

Education
Performing Arts Centre (UK)
Studio Seilern Architects

Experimental
Home Farm (Singapore)
SPARK

Health
Al Maha Centre (Qatar)
HDR Rice Daubney

House
ISSA Grotto / Hill House (Croatia)
Davor Matekovic, PROARH

Infrastructure
Cukurova Regional Airport Complex (Turkey)
Emre Arolat Architects

Leisure-Led Development
Olympic Stadium Transformation (UK)
Populous

Masterplanning
Kaliningrad Development Concept (Russia)
Studio 44 Architects

Office
Reservoir (India)
Sanjay Puri Architects

Residential
Vancouver House (Canada)
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

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