World Architecture Community Awards 50th Cycle Winners Announced

World Architecture Community has announced the winners of WA Awards 10+5+X 50th Cycle in Architecture and Student sections. WA Awards presents 39 different winning projects from 18 different countries with a fantastic mix of building types, spanning from Costa Rica, China, South Korea, Brazil, Malta to Slovenia, Japan, United Kingdom, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Bangladesh.  ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) has continuously supported the award as one of the media partners.

Top image in the article (from left to right): Ying Chen's Layering Pocekts - Fish
Dining Venue (© Ying Chen), Studio Symbiosis's Gwalior Train Station (© Studio
Symbiosis), YKH Associates' Inje Residence (© Dongwook Jung), TETRO
Architecture's Seriema House (© Luisa Lage), UDG-STUDIO WESTWOOD's Xinyue
Art Gallery (© Arch-Exist Photography), Luan Fontes' The Light Inside: Net-Zero
Cabins In Aosta Valley, Italy (© Luan Fontes), Kiana Alasty's The Resonance
(© Kiana Alasty), Studio Symbiosis' Parinee I Lobby (© Vishal Jayaprakash).

The Competition has 2 Selection Criteria

The competition has 2 selection criteria; One by the Votes of its official jury, composed of honorary members and previous' cycle winners, delivering 10 awards, in each of the three categories (Realised, Designed and Student). Another by the Votes of WAC's registered members who decide to Vote, which makes the +5, a totally democratic selection.

Architecture/Realised category

Selected by the votes of Honorary Members and Winners in earlier cycles (10 projects)

• No Footprint Wood House, Costa Rica, by Oliver Schütte
• Regional Science Centre At Rajkot, India, by Jayesh Hariyani
• Xinyue Art Gallery, China, by UDG-STUDIO WESTWOOD
• CONC, China, by Mind Architects
• Seriema House, Brazil, by TETRO Architecture
• Geometry, Taiwan, by Shen-Chiang Mao
• Path Art Studio And Personalized Residence Maharagama, Sri Lanka, by Dishna Thilanka
• Passive Solar House With Pit Garden, Japan, by D Environmental Design System Laboratory
• Nine x Nine, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects
• The Brewhouse and Trident Park, Malta, by Ritchie Studio Ltd

Selected democratically, through the votings of community members (+5 projects)

• No Footprint Wood House, Costa Rica, by Oliver Schütte
• Regional Science Centre At Rajkot, India, by Jayesh Hariyani
• Seriema House, Brazil, by TETRO Architecture
• Path Art Studio And Personalized Residence Maharagama, Sri Lanka, by Dishna Thilanka
• Inje Residence, South Korea, by YKH Associates

Inje Residence by YKH Associates (c) Dongwook Jung

See the winning projects here.

Architecture/Designed category

Selected by the votes of Honorary Members and Winners in earlier cycles (8 projects)

• Invocation Hall, Iran, by Meysam Feizi
• Gwalior Train Station, India, by Studio Symbiosis
• Shiva 1800, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects
• Miraj Crafts Village, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects
• Bodrum Hotel Complex, Turkey, by ACE Architecture
• Layering Pocekts - Fish Dining Venue, United States, by Ying Chen
• Izmir Presidency and City Council!, Turkey, by Wall Corporation
• Planning and Architectural Design of Lu Feng China Resources Hope Town, China, by Lab.C.[Architecture]

Selected democratically, through the votings of community members (+4 projects)

• Invocation Hall, Iran, by Meysam Feizi
• Gwalior Train Station, India, by Studio Symbiosis
• Miraj Crafts Village, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects
• Layering Pocekts - Fish Dining Venue, United States, by Ying Chen

See the winning projects here.

Architecture/Student category

Selected by the votes of Honorary Members and Winners in earlier cycles (10 projects)

• The Light Inside: Net-Zero Cabins In Aosta Valley, Italy, by Luan Fontes
• The Resonance, Iran, by Kiana Alasty
• Inverted Continents: Amphibious Architecture For Flooding, Colombia, by Isaac Duran
• Fragments: Traces in Motion, Colombia, by Julian Matiz
• The Red Sea Pearl: Marine Life Research Center and Aquarium, Saudi Arabia, by Tariq Midher
• Boma Bliss, Kenya, by Lulu Hasan
• Unveiling the Depths: Transforming an Abandoned Limestone Quarry into a Tourism Destination, Bangladesh, by Upama Talukder
• The Erythros Sensorial Excavation House, Turkey, by Hakan Sahin
• Weaving Urban Harmony: Bridging Commerce and Urban dynamics by redefining Zahur Hawkers Market, Chittagong, Bangladesh, by Sidratul Muntaha
• Co-Lab Artery, Turkey, by Yaren Esen

Selected democratically, through the votings of community members (+5 projects)

• The Erythros Sensorial Excavation House, Turkey, by Hakan Sahin
• ACCORDIVATOR (Accord Activator) Future Of Entrepreneurial Epicenter, Bangladesh, by MD Munsurun Nabi'
• Gödence Reborn, Turkey, by Burak Kınır
• Urban Grove, Turkey, by Yiğit Karaşahin
• Hall Of Urla, Turkey, by Yunus Kaplan

See the winning projects here.

Interior Design/Realised category

Selected by the votes of Honorary Members and Winners in earlier cycles (6 projects)

• Parinee I Lobby, India, by Studio Symbiosis
• Urla EEG House, Turkey, by Yalın Tasarım Architecture
• Swatantra Residence, India, by SPACES ARCHITECTS@Ka
• Onur Ambalaj Executive Offices, Turkey, by Yalın Tasarım Architecture
• Office for HDFC Life, India, by ALHAD GORE
• Bangkok Bank Private Bank, Thailand, by Peeraya Ketmek

Selected democratically, through the votings of community members (+3 projects)

• Parinee I Lobby, India, by Studio Symbiosis
• Urla EEG House, Turkey, by Yalın Tasarım Architecture
• Onur Ambalaj Executive Offices, Turkey, by Yalın Tasarım Architecture

See the winning projects here.

Call for applications for the 51st WA Awards

With this announcement, we'd like to remind you that the 51st Cycle of WA Awards is now open for submissions. You can submit your entries until 18 July 2025 (23:59 GMT +0). If you also want your project to get the recognition it deserves, make sure to participate before the deadline is over. Your starting point is How to Participate. Read more about WA Awards 10+5+X.

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