World Architecture Festival

The World Architecture Festival ( WAF) is an annual organized in Barcelona by EMAP, a media bullhead, which also organizes other festival, including the World Retail Congress and the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. The first WAF took place in October 2008. In the course of the festival is a prize for the " Building of the Year " award.

Building of the Year

• 2008 - Bocconi University, Milan ( Grafton Architects)
• 2009 - Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, South Africa, Peter Rich Architects.
• 2010 - MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome ( Zaha Hadid Architects).
• 2011 - Media -ICT, Barcelona ( Cloud 9 )
• 2013 - Auckland Art Gallery extension, FJMT and Archived Media

Winners in the categories

Opera House in Oslo, Norway ( Snøhetta, 2008 winner in the category Culture )

BMW Welt, Munich (Coop Himmelb (l) au, 2008 winner in the category production )

North Park Cable Railway Stations, Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects, Winner 2008 in the category Transport

2009

• Civic and Community: Produkcija 004, Emergency Terminal, Zagreb, Croatia
• Culture: Peter Rich Architects, Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, South Africa
• Display: Batlle & Roig Architects, Cages for Macaws, Spain
• Health: Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, Teleton Tampico, Mexico
• Holiday: Murman Arkitekter from, Restaurant Tusen, Ramundberget, Sweden
• House: McBride Charles Ryan Klein Bottle House, Rye, Australia
• Housing: WOHA, The Met, Bangkok, Thailand, Singapore
• Learning: The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Morphogenesis, Jaipur, India
• New and Old: Perkins Eastman, USA ( Architect), Choi Ropiha, Australia (Concept Architect), William Fellows / PKSB (Plaza Architect), Dewhurst MacFarlane and Partners ( Structural Engineer ), TKTS Booth and the Redevelopment of Father Duffy Square, New York, USA
• Office: Behnisch Architekten, Unilever House, Hamburg, Germany
• Production, Energy and Recycling: Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners, Bodegas Protos winery, Spain
• Shopping: Isay Weinfeld Havaianas, São Paulo, Brazil
• Sports: Allen Jack Cottier, Berry Sports Hall, Australia

2008

• Housing: Bjarke Ingels Group, Mountain Dwellings, Denmark
• Culture: Snøhetta, Oslo Opera House, Norway
• Energy, Waste & recycling: Batlle & Roig Architects, Landscape Restoration of the Controlled Rubbish Dump " La Vall d'en Joan ", Spain
• Health: FAREstudio, Centre pour le Bien -être des Femmes et la prévention of genital mutilations féminines ' G.Kambou ', Burkina Faso
• Holiday: Bakker Boniface Haden Architects, Nk'Mip Desert Cultural CentreHotson, Canada
• Learning: Grafton Architects, Universita Luigi Bocconi, Italy
• New and Old: Foster Partners, Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution, USA
• Office: Sabbagh Arquitectos, Duoc Corporate Building, Chile
• Pleasure: 70F Architecture, Sheep Stable, The Netherlands
• Production: Coop Himmelb (l) au, BMW Welt - Event, Exhibition and Automobile Delivery Centre, Germany
• Religion & Contemplation: Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten, Dornbusch Church, Germany
• Sports: 3LHD Architects, Sports Hall Bale, Croatia
• Shopping: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor, K: fem, Sweden
• Private House: Sou Fujimoto Architects, Final Wooden House, Japan
• Transport: Zaha Hadid Architects, North Park Cable Railway Stations, Austria
• Student charrette: HafenCity University Hamburg