WA Awards 48th Cycle is open and accepting entries

Since 2006 and for over 47 Cycles, World Architecture Community organizes the prestigious and acclaimed World Architecture Community Awards (WA Awards). WA Awards 10+5+X 48th Cycle is looking for the best, innovative and breathtaking projects from all over the world until  22 August 2024 (23:59 GMT +0). ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) will support the WA Awards as a media partner.

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Gianni Ranaulo Design's The Nest By Sonara in United Arab Emirates won the WA
Awards in the 47th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Nara.

WA Awards includes over 2,250 winning projects since it was established. Since 2006 and for over 46 Cycles, World Architecture Community organises the prestigious and acclaimed WA Awards 10+5+X. The aim of the WA Community Awards is to highlight and recognise remarkable projects that might otherwise remain unnoticed by the international public, yet have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.

Eligible Members

Applications for WA Awards 10+5+X are only open to architects, architecture offices, interior designers, interior design offices, and architecture and interior design students.

Categories

WA Awards is accepting projects for architects, interior designers and students under 2 major sections: Architecture and Interior Design. Then projects should be sent under these 3 sub-categories Realised, Designed and Student. All participants should send their projects that meet these conditions.

For Architecture

  • WA Designed Award: Projects that were not built
  • WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (built maximum within the last 10 years)
  • WA Student Award: 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

For Interior Design

  •  WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (maximum within the last 10 years)
  •  WA Student Award: 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

WA Awards is free-of-charge for WAC Professional Members and Students. For further details, please visit WA Awards 10+5+X and How To Participate. Pricing details and WAC Membership Benefits can be seen from here.

Evaluation Criteria

WA Awards' evaluation criteria is based on Novelty, Originality and Creativity in design that reflect and inspire a commitment to the art of architecture are the major criteria. World Architecture Community tries to bridge the gap between theory and practice; thus the architect’s explanations and member’s discussions on submissions will be critical for recognition as much as the design itself.

About WA Awards 10+5+X

Since 2006 and for over 46 Cycles, World Architecture Community organizes the prestigious and acclaimed World Architecture Community Awards (WA Awards). The WA Awards highlights and recognizes remarkable projects that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse. Given the International nature of the 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.

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.