This is a list of awards, winners and commendations awarded by the international World Architecture Festival (WAF).
History In 2008, all listed projects were declared award winners. Beginning in 2009, only five projects per year received official awards.
The list is compiled from the official websites of the World Architecture Festival and World Buildings Directory. Where there was a discrepancy between the information on the project page and the winner list from WAF (World Architecture Festival), the information from the WAF list was used. All project names are spelled as they appear in the WAF list; as a result, links may lead to articles with different spellings. In some cases, the projects were renamed after receiving the award. The note to the list contains a link to the project page with the World Buildings Directory and is sorted in the same sequence as in the winner lists published by the World Architecture Festival.
Complete list of winners +Sortable table Picture Year Award Category Project name Location Architect Architect location 2008 Award winner Civic Award winner of category Civic: GZBICC – Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Center , Guangzhou BURO II – CITIC (Brussels – Guangzhou) & 2008 Award winner Culture Award winner of category Culture: Oslo Operahouse , Oslo Snøhetta 2008 Award winner Energy, Waste & Recycling Award winner of category Energy, Waste & Recycling: Landscape Restoration of the Controlled Rubbish Dump "La Vall d'en Joan", El Garraf Batlle & Roig Architects (Esplugues de LLobregat) 2008 Award winner Health Award winner of category Health: | , Ouagadougou FAREstudio (Rome) 2008 Award winner Holiday Award winner of category Holiday: Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre , Osoyoos Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects 2008 Award winner Housing Award winner of category Housing: Mountain Dwellings , Copenhagen S BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (Copenhagen N) 2008 Award winner Building of the Year Olivia McDowell:World Architecture Festival in The Sepcifier , retrieved 22 October 2010 Learning Award winner: Building of the Year and winner of category Learning: Universita Luigi Bocconi , Milan Grafton Architects (Dublin 2) 2008 Award winner Nature Award winner of category Nature: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum , Seattle Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism (New York) 2008 Award winner New & Old Award winner of category New & Old: Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution , Washington D.C. Foster + Partners 2008 Award winner Office Award winner of category Office: Duoc Corporate Building , Santiago Sabbagh Arquitectos (Santiago) 2008 Award winner Pleasure Award winner of category Pleasure: Sheep Stable , Almere 70F Architecture (Almere) 2008 Award winner Production Award winner of category Production: BMW Welt – Event, Exhibition and Automobile Delivery Center , Munich Coop Himmelb(l)au Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH (Vienna) 2008 Award winner Religion & Contemplation Award winner of category Religion & Contemplation: Dornbusch church , Frankfurt Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten (Frankfurt am Main) 2008 Award winner Sport Award winner of category Sport: Sports Hall Bale , Bale 3LHD Architects (Zagreb) 2008 Award winner Shopping Award winner of category Shopping: K:fem , Stockholm Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB 2008 Award winner Private House Award winner of category Private House: Final Wooden House Sou Fujimoto Architects (Nakano) 2008 Award winner Transport Award winner of category Transport: Nordpark Cable Railway Zaha Hadid Architects (London) 2009 Award winner: World Building of the Year Culture, Completed Buildings Award winner: World Building of the Year and winner of category culture: Mapungubwe Museum and Interpretive Centre Peter Rich Architects (Johannesburg ) 2009 Award winner: Future Project of the Year Cultural, Future Projects Award winner: Future Project of the Year and winner of category Cultural: The finished project won category Display in 2010 Spanish Pavilion for 2010 Expo Shanghai Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (Barcelona) 2009 Award winner: Interiors and Fit Out Overall Winner Interiors and Fit Out – Retail (small) Award winner category Interiors and Fit Out – Retail (small): Corian Super-Surfaces Showroom , Milano Architect Amanda Levete Architects (London) 2009 Award winner: Structural Design of the Year Structural Design – Spans (e.g. bridges, stadiums, big sheds) Award winner category Structural Design – Spans (eg bridges, stadiums, big sheds) : ARENA ZAGREB , Zagreb Architect UPI-2M 2009 Award winner: Student design competition Student design competition: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses Award winner category Student design competition: AECOM Design + Planning Urban SOS , Mumbai Sabrina Kleinenhammans, a graduate at MIT , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Civic and community Winner of category Civic and community : Emergency Terminal Zagreb , Zagreb Produkcija 004 (Zagreb) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Display Winner of category Display: CAGES FOR MACAWS IN THE PALM GROVE OF BARCELONA ZOO , Barcelona Batlle & Roig Architects (Esplugues de LLobregat) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Health Winner of category Health: TELETON TAMPICO , Tampico Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos (Distrito Federal) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Holiday Winner of category Holiday: Restaurant Tusen , Ramundberget Murman Arkitekter ab (Stockholm) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings House Winner of category House: Klein Bottle House , Rye McBride Charles Ryan (Prahran) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Housing (inc mixed use) Winner of category Housing (inc mixed use): The Met , Bangkok WOHA (Singapore) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Landscape Winner of category Landscape: The Adaptation Palettes: Regenerative Landscape Design , Tianjin Kongjian Yu – Turenscape (Turenscape) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Learning Winner of category Learning: The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur , JaipurMorphogenesis (New Delhi) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings New and old Winner of category New and old: TKTS Booth / Redevelopment of Father Duffy Square , New York Choi Ropiha, Perkins Eastman and William Fellows/PKSB Architects (Manly), and 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Office (inc mixed use) Winner of category Office (inc mixed use): Unileverhaus See article about the Unileverhouse on German Wikipedia , Hamburg Projektarbeitsgemeinschaft Behnisch Architekten 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Production, energy and recycling Winner of category Production, energy and recycling: Bodegas Protos , Valladolid Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners London () 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Shopping (inc mixed use) Winner of category Shopping (inc mixed use) : Havaianas , São Paulo Isay Weinfeld (São Paulo) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Sport Winner of category Sport: Berry Sports Hall , Berry Allen Jack+Cottier (Sydney) 2009 Category Winner, Completed Buildings Transport Winner of category Transport: Bras Basah Mass Rapid Transit station, Singapore WOHA (Singapore, ) 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Commercial Winner of category Commercial, Future Projects: Statoil Hydro office , Oslo a-lab (Oslo) 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Competition entries Winner of category Competition entries, Future Projects: Szentendre Cemetery , Szentendre Architects A4 Studio, A4 Studio Kft (Budapest) 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Education Winner of category Education, Future Projects: Malama Learning Center , Kapolei Eight Inc. (Singapore) 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Experimental projects Winner of category Experimental projects, Future Projects: Mobile Performance Venue Various Architects AS 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Health Winner of category Health, Future Projects: Al Jalila Children's Specialty Hospital , Dubai Architects Studio Altieri Spa and Studio Altieri International (Thiene) and 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Infrastructure, Future Projects – Masterplanning Winner of category Infrastructure, Future Projects – Masterplanning: THINKING BEYOND THE STATION: AGUASCALIENTES CITY SUBURBAN TRAIN, MEXICO , Aguascalientes RVDG arquitectura+urbanismo Mexico City () 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Landscape Winner of category Landscape, Future Projects: East London Green Grid , London Design for London 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Masterplanning Winner of category Masterplanning, Future Projects: Our city – our urban spaces , København V Entasis (Copenhagen) 2009 Category Winner, Future Projects Holiday Resort Mero Beach Dominica Winner of category Residentia, Future Projects: Mero Beach project Dominica BURO II 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings Civic and community Commendation category Civic and community: Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Synagogue , Evanston Ross Barney Architects (Chicago) 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings Civic and community Commendation category Civic and community: La Cisnera Community Centre , Arico GPY Arquitectos (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings Health Commendation category Health: St Jozef community health center , Deventer One Architecture (Amsterdam) 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings House Commendation category House: Chen House , Sanjhih C-Laboratory (Turku) 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings House Commendation category House: Sliding House , Suffolk RMM (London) 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings Health, Landscape Commendation category Health, Landscape: Maggie's Centre London Is listed as shortlisted on project page, but included as Commendation in complete list with World Architecture Festivals. Visited 6 July 2013. , London Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (London) 2009 Commendation, Completed Buildings Office (inc mixed use) Commendation category Office (inc mixed use): Ironbank , Auckland RTA Studio 2009 Commendation, Future Projects Commercial Commendation category Commercial, Future Projects: Kuggen , Gothenburg Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB 2009 Commendation, Future Projects Commercial Commendation category Commercial, Future Projects: Top Code , Imola (Bologna) Lelli & Associati Architettura and Cristofani Architetti (Faenza) and 2009 Commendation, Future Projects Experimental projects Commendation category Experimental projects, Future Projects: Timber Stadium RMM (London) 2009 Commendation, Future Projects Education, Future Projects – Infrastructure, Future Projects – Masterplanning Commendation category Education, Future Projects – Infrastructure, Future Projects – Masterplanning: Grangegorman Masterplan , Grangegorman Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners / DMOD 2009 Commendation, Future Projects Residential Commendation category Residential, Future Projects: 360º Building , São Paulo Isay Weinfeld (São Paulo) 2009 Commendation, Future Projects Residential Commendation category Residential, Future Projects: Digby Road , London Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects (London) 2009 Commendation, Interiors and Fit Out Culture, Interiors and Fit Out – Culture and civic, New and old Commendation category Culture, Interiors and Fit Out – Culture and civic, New and old: The Great North Museum , Newcastle upon Tyne Farrells (London) 2009 Commendation, Structural Design Spans (e.g. bridges, stadiums, big sheds), Structural Design – Timber Commendation category Spans (eg bridges, stadiums, big sheds), Structural Design – Timber: Richmond Olympic Oval Roof , Richmond Cannon Design 2009 Commendation, Structural Design Civic and community, Interiors and Fit Out – Bars and restaurants, Structural Design -Spans (e.g. bridges, stadiums, big sheds)