WAF and INSIDE shortlists revealed
Finalists for the World Architecture Festival and World Festival of Interiors Awards have been announced.
With more than 700 entries from architects and designers across the world, projects from 47 countries have made the 2015 shortlists.
The eighth annual World Architecture Festival shortlist consists of 338 projects across 31 categories, ranging from small family homes to large commercial developments and landscape projects.
Major world architects shortlisted include Foster & Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, OMA/Ole Scheeren, Rogers Stirk Harbour, Rafael Vinoly Architects, BIG, Grimshaw, Heatherwick Studio and Carlos Ott.
All finalists will present live to the jury, including Principal Sasa Radulovic and landscape architect, sculptor, writer and co-founder Charles Jencks, at the festival in Singapore on 4-6th November, 2015.
The shortlist for WAF in Hotels and Leisure includes:
Edison Residence, KANVA
G Kelawai Hotel, K2LD Architects with Architects T. Y. Au
Lanserhof Lake Tegern, Ingenhoven Architects
Maxx Royal Kemer Resort and Spa, Baraka Buildings
Öijared Hotel, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
Olive Grove, Pattersons Associates
Sandibe Safari Lodge, Botswana, Michaelis Boyd Associates
St Regis Instanbul, EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Thermal Spa Hotel, GAD Architecture
Ulrichshof, noa
Yacht Club de Monaco, Foster + Partners with Alexandre Giraldi
Youth Hotel in iD Town, O-office Architects.
Running concurrently with WAF, INSIDE have had entries from 16 different countries spanning across the nine categories that make up the awards.
The INSIDE shortlist for Hotels consists of:
Hotel Hotel ground floor interior, March Studio
Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion Hotel, Flanagan Lawrence
Skytel, Panorama
St Regis Hotel Istanbul, EEA-Emre Arolat Architects.
WAF is a networking event offering three days of seminars with dedicated streams for WAF and INSIDE. More than 2000 architects from 60 countries attended last year. This year includes talks from speakers such as Sir Peter Cook, Michael Sorkin, Liu Thai Kerr, Manuelle Gautrand and Kerry Hill.
