ENTRIES FLOOD IN FOR THE INAUGURAL WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
ARCHITECTS WORLDWIDE ENTER THEIR PROJECTS INTO THE WORLD’S LARGEST
ARCHITECTURE AWARDS SHOW
 The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has reported that over 100
projects have already been entered into the awards since the call
for entries opened in mid-April 2008. Architects from 40 countries
across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Oceania and
Africa have entered their buildings into the inaugural awards
programme.
The annual event will celebrate the work, concerns and aspirations
of the international architectural community. The Festival, which
will take place in Barcelona, Spain over three days, from 22 - 24
October 2008, includes the biggest architectural awards programme in
the world and will be held at the Centre Convencions Internacional
Barcelona (CCIB).
The international architecture community is invited to enter their
projects into the prestigious awards show until 20th June 2008. The
simple entry procedure starts at the website (www.worldarchitecturefestival.com)
and finishes with a submission via hard copy. Entrants will be able
to track their submissions via the website as well as buying
Festival visitor tickets, and managing their bookings.
The Awards
The inaugural World Architecture Festival awards will showcase,
compare and contrast an outstanding range of completed buildings
created by a profession which has always looked beyond national
borders to the wider world of architectural culture.
Headed by Lord (Norman) Foster, the international judging panels
will comprise architects, allied professionals, clients and critics,
including a “super-jury”, who will decide the ‘best in show’ prize –
the first architectural ‘Prix de Barcelona’. Please see notes to
editors for full jury list.
Following the closing date of 20th June, shortlisting will then be
carried out by an international jury during July. At this stage, 16
buildings will be shortlisted in each of the competition’s 16
categories (i.e., 256 buildings in total). All shortlisted
architects will then present their work live to juries and audiences
at the Festival, competing against each other to become category
winners.
All entries will be exhibited at the Festival in a huge gallery
modelled on the Barcelona grid, and after the Festival all entries
will be permanently available on-line, on the WAF website.
The 16 awards categories are as follows:
Civic New & old
Culture Office
Energy, waste & recycling Pleasure
Health Production
Holiday Religion & contemplation
Home Shopping
Learning Sport
Nature Transport
The Exhibition
The aim of the World Architecture Festival is to reflect the
increasingly international nature of architecture, while also
celebrating its regional roots.
In addition to the awards competition and gallery, other elements of
the Festival will include: a thematic exhibition, a live ideas
charrette for architecture schools, a curated exhibition of
architect-nominated building products, city tours and social events
and plenary lectures.
Sponsors and media partners
Partner sponsors already signed for the first World Architecture
Festival are international multi-disciplinary consultancy Arup, one
of the UK's leading manufacturers and suppliers of architectural
aluminium systems Kawneer and international cost and project
management consultant Davis Langdon.
Category sponsors already committed include engineering consultants
Buro Happold and Adams Kara Taylor (AKT), Europe’s largest
manufacturer of sanitary fittings Grohe and specialist paint
manufacturer Keim.
Twenty-six architectural magazines from around the world are
supporting the World Architecture Festival. Editors will be invited
to join the judging panels at the event, the first time the world’s
architectural media have joined forces in this way.
Location
Barcelona has been selected as the location for this prestigious
event, because of its long association with architectural excellence
- from Antoni Gaudí to Enric Miralles. The World Architecture
Festival will be held in the Centre de Convencions Internacional de
Barcelona (CCIB).
Email:
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