WAN Awards - Education 2010

Closing date: 28 February 2010
Winner announced: 5 May 2010

About the awards
The WAN AWARDS Education Sector is a major international competition, and the first of our 6 bi-monthly 'Excellence in Design' series for 2010. There are two categories:

1. Completed Projects
2. Unbuilt / Design-Only Projects

For the 'completed' category, if you have designed an educational building, whether a school, college, university or academy that has been completed during the last three full calendar years, (on or after January 1st 2007), you can now enter for the WAN AWARDS Education Sector 2010.

If you have a design for an educational building that is yet to be built - even if it may never be built - you can now enter your project into the 'Unbuilt' category for the WAN AWARDS Education Sector 2010.

Celebrating Architecture Sustainably
Competitions and awards have always been an intrinsic element of winning new work for architects, but now, under the present economic cloud, it has become ever more important. The value of an award is determined not only by the quality of the jury panel but also by the number and calibre of participants.

Using the exclusive WAN database and contacts around the world, WAN acclaims to be able to pull together an unprecedented fusion of high quality architecture and internationally acclaimed judges drawn from both top architectural practices and experts from each sector.

WAN has driven architectural news into the 21st century and now with these awards, WAN is seeking to break the traditional mould of an annual award with a lavish dinner at the end. Whilst this format can work well at a national level, it is unpractical and unsustainable on a global scale. Taking a fresh approach, the WAN Awards are run on bi-monthly rolling programme by sector culminating in a WORLD ARCHITECTURE EXPO in the following year hosted in a capital city. This will move around the world each year and begins with an exhibition featuring winning and shortlisted entries at this year’s London Festival of Architecture. A summit will be held at the EXPO city, where a selection of prominent judges will discuss the entries in the backdrop of the local architecture. The video is broadcast around the world through the WAN network providing the highest exposure for the participants with the smallest carbon footprint.

Schedule of the WAN Awards sectors with the successive deadlines:

Judging Criteria
The jury will judge entries on a number of factors including originality, innovation, form and special quality, sustainability and context, but the following two areas will carry the most weighting.

• How your design addressed the key elements of the brief.
• Specific examples of how your building has enhanced the education process.

Please email submissions and direct any questions or problems regarding entries / registration to james.forryan@wantoday.com.

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