Leisure projects in contention for Building of the Year prize at World Architecture Festival Awards
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has revealed the architects and buildings in contention for awards glory at this year’s event in Berlin in November.
The prestigious WAF Awards celebrate completed architectural projects, future projects and landscape projects across 30 categories.
A panel of industry professionals – including David Chipperfield and Christoph Ingenhoven – alongside former winners and festival speakers have selected the final shortlists based on entries submitted from architects around the world.
Here are this year’s leisure category shortlists:
Hotel And Leisure - Completed Buildings
• 1+1 > 2 Architects, Earth Village, Ha Giang, Vietnam
• Aim Architecture, Fushengyu Hotspring Resort, Mianyang, China
• Bates Smart, Canberra Airport Hotel, Canberra, Australia
• Duangrit Bunnag Architect, The Naka Phuket, Phuket
• Jacques Ferrier Architecture, Nakara 4 star Residential Hotel, Cap d'Agde, France
• MIA Design Studio, Naman Retreat Pure Spa, Danang, Vietnam
• nA Nakayama Architects, Zaborin, Hokkaido, Japan
• Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Le Meridien Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, China
• Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, Grand Hyatt Playa del Carmen Hotel, Playa del Carmen
• Studio Lotus, Baradari, City Palace Jaipur, Jaipur, India
• Studio PCH and Montalba Architects, Nobu Ryokan, Malibu, USA
• URBNarc, Alila Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia
Culture - Completed Buildings
• Advanced Architecture Laboratory, Singapore University of Technology and Design, The Future of Us, Singapore
• BVN and Conrad Gargett in association, Australian Army Museum of Military Engineering, Holsworthy, Australia
• Furuichi and Associates, Miyahata Jomon Museum, Fukushima, Japan
• GreenhilLi architecture + design, New Wings at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
• Menis Arquitectos, CKK "Jordanki", Torun, Poland
• Nikken Sekkei, Akagane Museum, Niihama City, Japan
• OLI Architecture, Mu Xin Art Museum, Wuzhen, China
• Patterson Associates, Len Lye Centre, Taranaki, New Zealand
• Pere Puig Arquitecte, Montagora Cultural Centre, Barcelona, Spain
• Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Romsdal Folk Museum, Molde, Norway
• Riegler Riewe Architekten, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland
• Robert Konieczny- KWK Promes, National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przelomy, Szczecin, Poland
• Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark
• Studio Farris Architects, City Library Bruges, Bruges, Belgium
• Studio Gang, Writers Theatre, Glencoe, USA
• Studio Link-Arc, China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015, Milan, Italy
• waa (we architech anonymous), MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
• Zaha Hadid Architects, Messner Mountain Museum Corones, Plan de Corones, Italy
Sport - Completed Buildings
• Allen Jack+Cottier, Abbotsleigh Multi-Purpose Sports Hall, Sydney, Australia
• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, AEP Fitness Centre, Oklahoma City, United States
• Effekt, GAME Streetmekka, Esbjerg, Denmark
• HCMA Architecture + Design, Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre, Surrey, Canada
• Populous, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon, France
• Populous, Estadio BBVA Bancomer, Monterrey, Mexico
All finalists will be invited to present their projects live to judging panels at the festival from 16-18 November before the final category winners are chosen. Winners from each category will then be considered by a 'super-jury', who will select the World Building of the Year, the Future Project of the Year and the Landscape of the Year.
Last year’s winners were OMA and Buro Ole Scheeren, whose Interlace ‘vertical village’ housing development in Singapore won Building of the Year, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), who took home the award for Future Project of the Year with their Vancouver House skyscraper. Turenscape International's Yanweizhou Park won the Landscape of the Year award.
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