Celebrate architectural excellence with your peers, partners and clients from across the globe at World Architecture Festival 2012. WAF's unique live judging is your chance to stand alongside the world’s leading architects and present your work to the world.
The 2012 World Architecture Festival awards entries open on 1 May 2012. You then have until 30 June to enter the projects that you want to share with the world. Open your account today, tell us what projects you are going to enter and we will explain what to do next.
Any
projects completed between 1 January 2011 - 30 June 2012 can be entered
or if you don't have a completed project you can enter any future
projects you have on the drawing board.
Download the entry guide here for full information.
NEW CITY: WAF 2012 will
be in Singapore. Known for its thirst for innovation and in recent
years for its growing appetite for conservation, Singapore a city that
is informed, vibrant and ambitious, presents a fitting backdrop for the
festival that reminds you why you do what you do.
NEW JUDGES: to celebrate WAF’s
fifth birthday we have enlisted a stellar jury that you will present to
and exchange with including Ben van Berkel, Juergen Mayer H, Neil Denari, Mok Wei Wei, Marcio Kogan, Kim Herforth Nielsen, Kerry Hill, Sanjay Puri and Kongjian Yu. See all our judges here.
Unique to WAF, these leading figures in global architecture will critique the shortlisted entries, live in Singapore.
NEW CATEGORIES: WAF has
four new categories and now four overall section awards including World
Building of the Year, Future Project of the Year, Landscape of the Year
and Small Project of the Year. Could your project win a WAF Award? See all the WAF categories here.
Download the entry guide here for full information.
NEW IDEAS: Hear the world’s leading
architectural thinkers discuss how architecture has the power to renew
and how the profession is, can, or perhaps needs to, renew itself.
WAF seminars and talks will investigate:
- Architecture around the world – growth market updates
- Solutions for rapid urbanization and high density living
- Where is architecture heading and where are we now – time to rethink?
- Architecture’s influence: the architect as tactician
- Key sector trends – all you need to know
- Designing for adaptability – prolonging the life of existing buildings
Find out more information here.
PLUS - NEW FOR 2012!
This year at WAF you can be part of focused city and sector forums that enable you to:
- Be informed on the key trends taking place in the sectors and typologies and cities that you are most interested in
- Exchange with your contemporaries on the commonalities of working in specific sectors and markets
- Make invaluable connections with potential partners and clients
- Discuss the projects you have seen in the category award presentations and question the presenters and judges
MEET, EXCHANGE, LEARN AND GET AHEAD AT WAF!
PLUS, STILL TO BE ANNOUNCED....new speakers, new events and lots more new features that will be waiting for you at WAF 2012!
Since the first WAF in 2008, over 8000 architects have attended the
Festival, from over 65 countries. WAF has seen over 100 award winners
including Zaha Hadid Architects, Grafton Architects, Peter Rich
Architects, EMBT, Snøhetta, Studio MK27, McBride Charles Ryan, Sanjay
Puri Architects, Bjarke Ingels Group and many more.
WAF is the must-attend architectural networking and learning opportunity of the year - and it all starts with an entry, we look forward to seeing your entries.
Kind regards,
Paul Finch
Director
World Architecture Festival |
