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WAFX 2021 Prize Winners and WAF Future

Projects finalists 2021 announced

Lisboa, Portugal

welve big-picture architectural Programme, for their ambition and scope. sponsored by GROHE. After presenting
initiatives addressing some of the This year’s category winners include a their project, each winner will be in
Tworld’s most pressing challenges fast installation modular hospital for conversation with a specially selected
have won the first of this year’s World epidemic prevention, a floating eco- guest, a studio panel including esteemed
Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards. campus off Manhattan Island, a grand architect Alison Brooks; Founding Partner
The 2021 WAFX Awards celebrate prototype smart transportation city from of Ash Sakula Architects Cany Ash;
project proposals from across the world Bjarke Ingles and Toyota, a zero-carbon Head of Architecture at Royal Academy
tackling today’s global issues, ranging office development in central London, Vicky Richardson, and more. The overall
from pandemic control and the climate the world’s first high-rise data centre WAFX winner will be announced at the
emergency, to social equity, cultural in Shanghai, and a new eco-tourism 2021 World Architecture Festival which
identity, ageing populations, and food typology at Cagbalete Island, Philippines. returns this year as a physical event,
supply. Live interviews with the 12 WAFX taking place in Lisbon for the first time,
The WAFX Award winners are all Awards winners will take place at WAF from December 1 to 3.
selected from entries to the Future Futures, a free-to-view virtual event
Projects category in the WAF Awards taking place from July 12 to 14, 2021, Paul Finch, Director of the World
Architecture Festival, comments:
“This year’s WAFX winners feature an
FUTURE PROJECTS > inspiring set of ideas and approaches in
COMMERCIAL MIXED-USE FARM, Calgary, Canada respect of many of the major issues of our
by Modern Office of Design + Architecture time. From all-wood offices to conceptual
projects combining nature with the man-
made, architects have once again shown
how design can be deployed to tackle
challenges and investigate opportunities.”
The shortlist of the WAF Future Projects
Award supported by ABB, also announced
today, will also be under discussion at
WAF Futures, at a session on July 12 with
WAF Director Paul Finch, WAF Curator
Jeremy Melvin, and members of the guest
studio panel. Representatives of over
180 finalist projects from 40 countries
will go on to compete live in front of a

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