World Architecture Community Awards 49th Cycle Winners Announced

World Architecture Community has announced the winners of WA Awards 10+5+X 49th Cycle in Architecture and Student sections. WA Awards presents 34 different winning projects from 18 different countries with a fantastic mix of building types, spanning from Iran, South Korea, Colombia, Finland, Saudi Arabia to Slovenia, Japan, United Kingdom.  ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) has continuously supported the award as one of the media partners.

Poster image (from left to right): Yazgan Design Architecture's Ayvalık Stone
House (© Yazgan Design Architecture), Meysam Feizi's Laanak Villa (© Iman
Panahi), YKH Associates' Hillmaru Country Club (© Dongwook Jung), Akshay
Heranjal's Center For Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness For TAPMI (©
SURYAN //DANG), MIA Design Studio's The Park (© Chien Trieu), Sungho Ko's
Sunglim Mokjang (© Dohwa Kang), Feride Ege's Collaborative Health Nexus
Museum (© Feride Ege), Xinyue Geng's Let's Play! - A Journey Of Regeneration
And Reconnection In Glasgow (© Xinyue Geng).

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)

• Center for Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness for TAPMI, India, by Akshay Heranjal
• Adib Apartment, Iran by Babak Hassanpour
• The Park, Vietnam, by MIA Design Studio
• House on the Cliff, Spain, by Pablo Gil
• Hillmaru Country Club, South Korea, by YKH Associates
• CHILAMSAGYE, South Korea, by Sungho Ko
• Hubei Three Gorges Resettlement Museum, China, by Dongzhu Chu
• Ses Veles Puigpunyent, Spain, by Joan Fortuny
• unglim Mokjang, South Korea, by Sungho Ko
• Diriyah Art Futures. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, by Schiattarella Associati

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

• Adib Apartment, Iran by Babak Hassanpour
• House on the Cliff, Spain, by Pablo Gil
• Hillmaru Country Club, South Korea, by YKH Associates
• YeongJongDo Onnuri Church, South Korea, by Hyung-Chul Shin
• SEONYUDOWON, South Korea, by Sungho Ko

See the winning projects here.

Architecture/Designed category

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

• Ayvalık Stone House, Turkey, by Yazgan Design Architecture
• Malek-Cheshme Therm, Iran, by Ghasem Navaei
• Laanak Villa, Iran, by Meysam Feizi
• Earth Home, India, Sanjay Puri Architects
• Passive house blessed with sun space for grapevine, Japan, by Kikuma Watanabe
• Rhythm Ankara, Turkey, by ACE Architecture
• Calla Garden 2, Vietnam, by GK Archi
• Route Home, Slovenia, by Anton Zizek
• Dubai Seahouse, United Arab Emirates, by Ghasem Navaei
• Re-walled, Iran, by ODD DESIGN/Ahmad Feyz, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini

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

• Ayvalık Stone House, Turkey, by Yazgan Design Architecture
• Malek-Cheshme Therm, Iran, by Ghasem Navaei
• Laanak Villa, Iran, by Meysam Feizi
• Calla Garden 2, Vietnam, by GK Archi
• Leaning House, Vietnam, by ROOM+ Design & Build

Leaning House by ROOM+ Design & Build (c) ROOM+ Design & Build

See the winning projects here.

Architecture/Student category

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

• Harbour Metabolism, the Netherlands, by Elif Ertemiz
• Collaborative Health Nexus Museum, Turkey, by Feride Ege
• Force of Nature: Helsinki Design Museum, Finland, by Luan Fontes
• Weaving Nizwa, Oman, by Abdul Mateen
• Social Factory: Basmane, Turkey, by Zeynep Demircan
• Right to Dwell: Rethinking Refugees’ Shelter Design, the Case of Al-Zaatari Camp, Palestine, by Ruba AbuGheith
• The School in the Park, Colombia, by Santiago Caballero Barrios
• Let's Play! - A Journey Of Regeneration And Reconnection, Glasgow, by Xinyue Geng
  Reviving Old Cairo, United Arab Emirates, by Rawan Khedr
• Layered-Void Hub: Void's Evolution Layers Unveiling Transformation, Turkey, by Hakan Şahin

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

• Collaborative Health Nexus Museum, Turkey, by Feride Ege
• Weaving Nizwa, Oman, by Abdul Mateen
• Social Factory: Basmane, Turkey, by Zeynep Demircan
• Reviving Old Cairo, United Arab Emirates, by Rawan Khedr
• Unveiling Biodiversity: A Natural History Museum Complex for Discovering the Treasures of Bangladesh, Bangladesh, by Nusrat Nasrin Ananna

Unveiling Biodiversity-A Natural History Museum Co… Nusrat Nasrin Ananna (c) Nusrat Nasrin Ananna

See the winning projects here.

Call for applications for the 50th WA Awards

With this announcement, we'd like to remind you that the 50th Cycle of WA Awards is now open for submissions. You can submit your entries until 31 March, 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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