WAFX 2021 Winners Have Been Announced!
Twelve big-picture architectural initiatives addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges have won the first of this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards. The 2021 WAFX Awards celebrate project proposals from across the world tackling today’s global issues, ranging from pandemic control and the climate emergency, to social equity, cultural identity, aging populations, and food supply.
The WAFX Award winners are all selected from entries to the Future Projects category in the WAF Awards Programme, for their ambition and scope. This year’s category winners include a fast installation modular hospital for epidemic prevention, a floating eco-campus off Manhattan island, a grand prototype smart transportation city from Bjarke Ingles and Toyota, a zero-carbon office development in central London, the world's first high-rise data centre in Shanghai, and a new eco-tourism typology at Cagbalete Island, Philippines.
Live interviews with the 12 WAFX Awards winners will take place at WAF Futures, a free-to-view virtual event taking place from 12-14 July 2021, sponsored by GROHE. After presenting their project each winner will be in conversation with a specially selected guest, a studio panel including: esteemed architect Alison Brooks; Founding Partner of Ash Sakula Architects Cany Ash; Head of Architecture at Royal Academy Vicky Richardson, and more. The overall WAFX winner will be announced at the 2021 World Architecture Festival which returns this year as a physical event, taking place in Lisbon for the first time, from 1-3 December.
Paul Finch, Director of the World Architecture Festival, comments:
This year’s WAFX winners feature an inspiring set of ideas and approaches in respect of many of the major issues of our time. From all-wood offices to conceptual projects combining nature with the man-made, architects have once again shown how design can be deployed to tackle challenges and investigate opportunities.
For further detail on the WAFX you can visit WAF’s web site.
You can find the winners of the WAFX 2021 Awards below:
WAFX 2021 Kazananları:
Ageing Winner: ‘Taikang Community Gui Garden’ by Sunlay
Climate, Energy & Carbon Winner: ‘Paradise, London’ by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Construction Technology Winner: ‘Museum for Architecture + Residences’ by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Cultural Identity Winner: ‘Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi’ by Department of Culture and Tourism-Abu Dhabi
Digital Technology Winner: ‘Shenzhen Qianhai Telecommunication Centre’ by Schneider+Schumacher International GmbH
Ethics & Values Winner: ‘#WeThePlanet Campus’ by 3deluxe
Food Winner: ‘Cagbalete Sand Clusters’ by Carlo Calma Consultancy Inc.
Health Winner: ‘The Deformable Modularized COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention Hospital, Shanghai’ by School of Architecture & Design, China University of Mining and Technology
Re-use Winner: ‘Silo City’ by STUDIO V Architecture
Smart Cities Winner: ‘Toyota Woven City’ by B.I.G. Architecture D.P.C.
Social Equity Winner: ‘A Resilient Duplex for Fort Severn First Nation’ by Two Row Architect and KPMB Architects
Water Winner: ‘Horizon Manila’ by William Ti, Jr.