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World Architecture Festival (WAF)

STAGE IS SET FOR INAUGURAL WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL

International media group Emap has formally announced the launch of the World Architecture Festival (WAF), an annual event which will celebrate the work, concerns and aspirations of the international architectural community. The Festival, which will take place in Barcelona, Spain over three days, from 22 - 24 October 2008, will include the biggest architectural awards programme in the world. The Festival venue is the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB).

The Awards
At the heart of the festival is the largest architectural awards programme in the world. The Awards will showcase, compare and contrast an outstanding range of completed buildings created by a profession which has always looked beyond national borders to the wider world of architectural culture.

Headed by Lord (Norman) Foster, the international judging panels will comprise architects, allied professionals, clients and critics, including a “super-jury”, who will decide the ‘best in show’ prize – the first architectural ‘Prix de Barcelona’. Please see notes to editors for full jury list.

Entries will be accepted from April 2008, with a closing date at the end of June. Shortlisting will be carried out by an international jury during July 2008. At this stage, 16 buildings will be shortlisted in each of the competition’s 16 categories (i.e., 256 buildings in total). All shortlisted architects will then present their work live to juries and audiences at the Festival, competing against each other to become category winners.

All entries will be exhibited at the Festival in a huge gallery modelled on the Barcelona grid, and after the Festival all entries will be permanently available on-line, on the WAF website.

The 16 awards categories are as follows:

Civic New & old

Culture Office

Energy, waste & recycling Pleasure

Health Production

Holiday Religion & contemplation

Home Shopping

Learning Sport

Nature Transport

The Exhibition
The aim of the World Architecture Festival is to reflect the increasingly international nature of architecture, while also celebrating its regional roots.

In addition to the awards competition and gallery, other elements of the Festival will include: a thematic exhibition, a live ideas charette for architecture schools; a curated exhibition of architect-nominated building products; city tours and social events, and plenary lectures.

Sponsors and media partners
Partner sponsors already signed for the first world Architecture Festival are international multi-disciplinary consultancy Arup, and international cost and project management consultant Davis Langdon.

Category sponsors already committed include engineering consultants Buro Happold and Adams Kara Taylor (AKT), and specialist paint manufacturer Keim.

Architectural magazines from around the world are supporting the World Architecture Festival, with 26 confirmed to date (see below). Editors will be invited to join the judging panels at the event, the first time the world’s architectural media have joined forces in this way.

Location
Barcelona has been selected as the location for this prestigious event, because of its long association with architectural excellence - from Antoni Gaudí to Enric Miralles. The World Architecture Festival will be held in the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB).

World Architecture Festival

Type Prijsvraag

Doelgroep Architects, allied professionals, clients and critics

Meer informatie Paul Finch, World Architecture Festival or Rachel Knowles, FD Tamesis

Prijs the first architectural ‘Prix de Barcelona’

Prijsuitreiking 16 juli

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