WAFVirtual: World Architecture Festival 2020

WAFVirtual December 2020

World Architecture Festival goes virtual in December, returning as live event in June 2021: WAFVirtual takes place 30 November – 4 December 2020, the worldwide architectural community can engage in a week of activity

Iconic Awards 2020 Winners

Adidas HQ Herzogenaurach Iconic Awards

Iconic Awards 2020 winners news – Kengo Kuma and Associates win “Architects of the Year” + Alberto Caiola Studio win “Interior Designers of the Year”) + Adidas AG win “Architects’ Client of the Year”.

LOOP Design Awards 2020 Entry News

Sugamo Shinkin Bank Nakaaoki Branch, Saitama

The LOOP Design Awards news: open architectural platform for creative talent – designers around the world can showcase their best architecture project designs

RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2020

Iulia Cistelecan wins 2020 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship

RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2020 awarded to Iulia Cistelecan, from the London School of Architecture, for her project ‘Life Between Shelters: Refugee camps of today becoming cities of tomorrow’.

Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate

Neues Museum Building Berlin interior by David Chipperfield Architects

Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate news – COVID-19 response: due to uncertainties caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Japan Art Association has reluctantly decided to postpone the 32nd annual awards.

Daylight Award 2020: Research Architecture

Myyrmäki Church Vantaa building

Daylight Award 2020 Laureates news, international dual prize for research and architecture: Juha Leiviskä, Finland ; Russell Foster, United Kingdom ; Henry Plummer, United States, for Lifetime Achievement

Asia Pacific Property Awards 2020: 10 DESIGN

Narra Residences at Empire City in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by 10 DESIGN

Asia Pacific Property Awards 2020: Narra Residences, by 10 DESIGN, at Empire City in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, wins the Residential High Rise Architecture category: 278 unit residential complex in HCMC.

Pritzker Prize Architecture Award 2020 Winners

Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia

The Pritzker Architecture Prize winners news – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Receive of Dublin, Ireland, selected as the 2020 Pritzker Prize Laureates, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation.

Winners of the 2019 Tile of Spain Awards

Institute Research Sant Pau Pich Architects Barcelona

PICHarchitects, 2BMFGG and José María Sánchez García win the first prizes in the annual 2019 Tile of Spain Awards competition for the creative use of ceramics in architecture and interior design.

Institution of Structural Engineers 2020 Gold Medal

Dresden Railway Station building

Institution of Structural Engineers 2020 Gold Medal news: Dr Mike Cook FIStructE wins, award recognises his infectious enthusiasm and curiosity for structural engineering and his passionate response to challenges of climate change.