Register and send your projects to WA Awards 10+5+X 42nd Cycle and become internationally recognized

World Architecture Community (WAC) is now accepting applications for the 42nd WA Awards 10+5+X. The WA Awards highlights and recognizes remarkable projects that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse. ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) will support the WA Awards as a media partner.

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Can Zhang's Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum And Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum in China won the WA Awards in the 41st Cycle in the Interior Design/Realised category. Image © Ting Wang.

The competition is open to architects, interior designers and architecture and interior design students, and entries can be made via the membership page after registering as a WA member. The deadline for entries is 24 Octover 2022 (until 23:59 GMT). Given the International nature of World Architecture Community, participants from around the Globe and in particular from regions less covered by general or specialised media, get a chance to share and promote their projects, which would otherwise go unnoticed.

Categories

This competition has 3 distinct categories for Architecture section and 2 distinct categories for Interior Design as listed below, each with 10+5+X winners.

Architecture
  • WA Designed Award: Projects that were not built
  • WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (maximum within the last 10 years)
  • WA Student Award: School projects designed by Students / Academics (projects must have been studied in students' undergraduate years or in Master's Degree), only "Designed / Conceptual" projects valid - Student category projects must be presented with Supervisor or Tutor / Instructor's name and surname in the "Project Team" section during the upload. Student category projects which don't comply with these criteria will be removed from the competition.
Interior Design
  • WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (maximum within the last 10 years)
  • WA Student Award: School projects designed by Students / Academics (projects must have been studied in students' undergraduate years or in Master's Degree), only "Designed / Conceptual" projects valid - Student category projects must be presented with Supervisor or Tutor / Instructor's name and surname in the "Project Team" section during the upload. Student category projects which don't comply with these criteria will be removed from the competition.

Selection Process

The WA Awards Jury, composed by a mixture of our Honorary Members and earlier WA Awards Winners, selects the first 10. The next 5 will be awarded based on the Votings of fellow community members of World Architecture. In order to Vote the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded minimum 1 month ago in his / her page and the project should have been opened to the public by being approved by World Architecture Community. Finally, the "X" will be those projects, which did not make it to the final selection of 10 or 5, but which had that something "special", that made them worthy of selection and acknowledgement as "X" by the WA Jury.

Participation Fees

WAC Professional Members (please consult WAC's Membership Benefits) may participate to the WA Designed Award or WA Realised Award categories, with a single project by cycle, free-of-charge as part of their membership benefits. They may not participate to the WA Student Award. WAC Academic Members may participate to the WA Student Award category, with a single project by cycle, free-of-charge. Finally WAC Associate Members may participate to the WA Designed Award or WA Realised Award categories but will be subject to a fee. (The Professional and Academic members may participate with additional projects in a given cycle, subject to a fee as well) Participation to the WA Designed Award will require a fee of US $100 per cycle and per project submission, while the WA Realised Award will be subject to US $200 per cycle and per project submission. They may not participate to the WA Student Award.

Winners

Winners of WA Awards 10+5+X are announced approximately 10 days after the final deadline for submission. They will receive a special WA Award Winner Poster and a WA Award Certificate that will be made available to the participants a few weeks after the announcement of the winners.

About World Architecture Community

Founded in 2006, World Architecture Community provides a unique environment for architects, interior designers, architecture & interior design students and academics around the globe to meet, share and compete. As a truly global platform, World Architecture Community is the place where international contemporary architecture and interior design are expressed from all horizons, providing an equal opportunity to those countries generally less covered by international media.