An increasing number of architects and projects apply for the prize of the World Festival of Architecture every year. This year, the organizers received 924 applications, of which less than half were shortlisted - 434. The leader in the number of finalist projects, as in previous years, is Great Britain, the homeland of the forum organizers, EMAP. The USA, Australia and Turkey are just a little behind.
The nominees will be evaluated in 32 categories in four sections: completed projects, "future projects", small projects and landscape. A special prize will also be awarded for the best use of color. All finalists will make presentations of their projects during the festival, which will be held in Berlin from November 15-17 this year, and the winners will be announced at the same time.
Last year, Russia was represented in the final by 12 projects. This time there are a third less of them, and most of them are in the "future projects" section.
Two projects by Nikita Yavein's studio "Studio 44" were nominated in the categories "Education" and "Master Plan". This is a project of a sports and recreation complex of a judo school in St. Petersburg and a concept for the development of a residential area in Pushkin.
Blank Architects entered the final with three projects at once. Two of them were designed for
the recently concluded competition for the design of three new Moscow metro stations. These are the projects of Rzhevskaya and Sheremetyevskaya. And the third was created to participate in the Genoa Blueprint competition - for the reconstruction of the exhibition complex in Genoa.
Three Russian workshops claim to win with already completed projects. SPEECH - with the installation “City DNA”, created in Milan by order of INTERNI as part of the Design Week and Furniture Salon, “City-Arch” - with the Nuvi At eco-center in the city of Beloyarsky (KhMAO), TOTEMENT / PAPER - with a museum-storage brandy factory "Alliance 1892".
Below we present the most striking finalist projects by foreign architects. The full list of objects that formed the shortlist of the award can be found at
the WAF website.
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology MAAT, Lisbon (completed projects / culture)
AL_A
Peterson Automotive Museum, Los Angeles (Completed Projects / Exhibition Space)
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
British Airways i360 Observation Tower, Brighton & Hove, UK (Completed / Leisure)
Marks Barfield Architects
Antwerp Port Authority Building (completed projects / office)
Zaha Hadid Architects
Country house Triangle House, Sao Paulo (completed projects / villa)
Bernardes arquitetura
Student Residence Urban Rigger, Copenhagen (completed projects / housing)
BIG
Church of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, Philippines (completed projects / religion)
WTA Architecture and Design Studio
Reconstruction of the shopping center Printemps, Paris (completed projects / new and old)
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Brommy pedestrian bridge in Berlin (future projects / infrastructure)
SPANS Assosciates
Canal hydroelectric in Boston (future projects / infrastructure)
Paul Lukez Architecture
Expansion of the Rocca al Mare district school with temporary KODA module classes, Tallinn (completed projects / school)
Kodasema
Three projects in the final - from the German bureau Sergey Tchoban and Ekkehard Voss nps tchoban voss. This is the Orthodox monastery of St. George in Götschendorf, as well as an apartment building and a cloth factory in Berlin.
