{"id":177633,"date":"2021-07-21T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T07:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=177633"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T07:43:51","slug":"world-architecture-festival-2021-shortlist-unveils-best-designed-buildings-and-landscapes-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/architect\/world-architecture-festival-2021-shortlist-unveils-best-designed-buildings-and-landscapes-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"World Architecture Festival 2021 Shortlist Unveils Best-designed Buildings and Landscapes From Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

World's Best Architectures and Landscapes Revealed for WAF 2021 Shortlist<\/h3>\r\n

S<\/span>ome of the best architecture by today\u2019s foremost practices is revealed as the World Architecture Festival<\/a> (WAF) Awards announces its 2021 shortlist<\/a>, celebrating buildings and landscapes to have been completed across the world between 2019 and\u00a02021. The 200-strong shortlist has been selected from over 700 entries from countries ranging from China and Japan to Mexico and Ecuador.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Jiyu Square by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co Ltd, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Amongst the shortlist for the WAF Awards, the world\u2019s biggest architectural awards programme, are: a stylised urban landscape linking Abu Dhabi\u2019s desert to its modern city grid; Heatherwick Studio's Singapore skyscraper, Eden; China\u2019s Culture Exhibition Centre featuring a sun and a moon pavilion, and a tourist development on a Persian Gulf island built to empower the local community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Wuchazi Bridge by Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design & Research, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The theme for the 2021 edition of the festival is: \u2018Resetting the City: Greening, Health and Urbanism\u2019 and the awards attracted 732 entries from 55 countries, submitted across 20 completed buildings and landscape categories; an increase of 44% in submissions from 2019\u2019s edition of the festival.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Colins Arch by Woods Bagot & SHoP Architects, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

WAF will reconvene this year in Lisbon, at the FIL exhibition centre, from 1-3 December, the first time the event has been hosted in the Portuguese capital following previous editions in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Singapore and Berlin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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North Perth House by Nic Brunsdon, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Other major world architects shortlisted this year include: B.I.G. Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners, Rafael Vi\u00f1oly Architects, Grimshaw Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The 20 completed buildings and landscape categories range from Housing, Office, Transport, Health and School to Civic and Community, Sport, Religion, Culture, and Production Energy and Recycling, with entries representing the most beautiful to the most innovative in contemporary architecture.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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FDNY Rescue Company 2 by Studio Gang Architects, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The architects and designers behind each shortlisted project will compete for category prizes live at WAF in December. Presentations of the shortlisted designs will be made to more than 100 international juries in front of festival delegates. Category winners then compete against each other on the final day of the festival, to compete for the ultimate accolades of World Building of the Year, Future Project of the Year, Interior of the Year and Landscape of the Year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Cote Rocheuse Winery by Severin Proekt, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

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We are delighted with both the quantity and quality of this year\u2019s entries. This promises to be the most competitive awards programme we have ever run, and we look forward to meeting the shortlisted architects in Lisbon.<\/p>\r\n

WAF programme director Paul Finch<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

The completed buildings \u2018Super Jury\u2019 which will decide the World Building of the Year 2021, includes: Jeanne Gang, Founding principal and partner, Studio Gang, Abdelkader Damani, Artistic Director, Frac Centre-Val de Loire | Biennale d'Architecture d'Orl\u00e9ans, Kim Herforth Nielsen, Co-Founder & Principal, 3XN Architects and Christina Seilern, Principal, Studio Seilern.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Wishing Pavilion by Daydreamers Design, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The \u2018Super Jury\u2019 for the Landscape of the Year includes: Robert Sch\u00e4fer, Landscape Architect & Journalist, Brita von Schoenaich, Principal, Bradley-Hole Schoenaich\u00a0Landscape, Lily Jencks, Founder, LilyJencksStudio | JencksSquared, Todd Langstaff-Gowan, Landscape Architect, Historian, Author and Collector, and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan\u00a0Landscape Design.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Aria Hotel by Sanjay Puri Architects, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

About World Architecture Festival (WAF)<\/h4>\r\n

World Architecture Festival and INSIDE World Festival of Interiors will take place at the FIL exhibition centre, Lisbon, on the 1-3 December 2021.\u00a0WAF is where the world architecture community meets to celebrate, learn, exchange and be inspired.\u00a0WAF is the world\u2019s largest annual, international, live architectural event. It includes the biggest international architectural awards programme in the world, dedicated to celebrating excellence via live presentations to an audience of high-profile delegates and international juries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Carolina Panthers Training Facility by Populous, Photo credit: World Architecture Festival<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The 2021 World Architecture Festival (WAF) comprises:<\/p>\r\n