The World Architecture Festival is one of the world’s biggest gatherings of the global architectural community. This year's festival took place from 3 to 5 November 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.
At the heart of the festival is the largest international architectural
awards programme in the world – the World Architectural Festival Awards (WAF Awards). This year's winners were chosen from a shortlist of 236 entries. MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, UK, has won global architecture’s most coveted accolade of ‘World Building of the Year’.
List of the 2010 winners of the World's Best Buildings Awards:
World Building of the Year: MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome.
Photo: Helene Binet
World Building of the Year
World’s Best Culture Building
MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Italy
designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (UK)
‘Building will talked about in the history of architecture’
(The MAXXI was recently also honoured with the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010.)
World’s Best Private House
A Forest for a Moon Dazzler, Costa Rica
designed by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architect (UK)
Bamboo house in Costa Rica designed for moon gazing
World’s Best Housing Development
The Pinnacle @ Duxton, Singapore
designed by ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism (Singapore)
Project ‘offers new ways of interlocking high density developments’
World’s Best Learning Building
School of the Arts, Singapore
designed by WOHA (Singapore)
WOHA scoops two category awards at WAF
World’s Best Office Building: Vali-Asr Commercial Office Building.
Source: WAF
World’s Best Office Building
Vali-Asr Commercial Office Building, Iran,
designed by Kelvan (Iran)
‘It’s a jewel of a building within an intense urban environment’
World’s Best Holiday Building
Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali
designed by WOHA (Singapore)
‘Architect protected environment without compromising design’
World’s Best Shopping Building
Yamaha Ginza, Japan
designed by Nikken Sekkei Ltd (Japan)
Judges praise exceptional detail
World’s Best Sport Building
Soccer City, National Stadium - 'The Melting Pot', South Africa
designed by Boogertman+Partners (South Africa)
‘Project gives new exciting future to local area’
World’s Best Display Building
The Spanish Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010, China
designed by Miralles Tagliabue Embt (Spain)
‘The Spanish Pavilion is as much a piece of art as it is architecture’
World’s Best Health Building
The Brain and Mind Research Institute – Youth Mental Health Building, Australia
designed by BVN Architecture (Australia)
Unanimous vote secures landmark victory
World’s Best Civic and Community Building
City of Justice, Spain
designed by David Chipperfield Architects (UK) and b720 Arquitectos (Spain)
Project cleverly fuses the urban relationship with city
World’s Best Landscape: Shanghai Houtan Park.
Photo: Kongjian Yu
World’s Best Landscape
Shanghai Houtan Park, China,
designed by Turenscape (China)
Project is inspiring high performance, but low maintenance design
(Shanghai Houtan Park has also received an Award of Excellence 2010 within the ASLA 2010 awards programme this year.)
World’s Best Production, Energy and Recycling Building
Yevlakh Seed Industry Campus, Azerbaijan
designed by TOCA (Turkey)
Unique project works as a machine
World’s Best Transport Building
The Helix Bridge, Singapore
designed by Cox Rayner Architects (Australia)
‘Structure will become important addition to pedestrian experience in Singapore’
World’s Best New and Old Building
DDB Office, Isanbul, Turkey
designed by Erginoglu & Calislar Mimarlik Insaat Ticaret ve Turizm Limited
Sirketi (Turkey)
'Regeneration provides successful exemplar for others to follow'
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