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AWARDS

Ageing and Health - The 12th Mine Hospital Renewal Design by Yijian Architects
Photo credit: Yijian Architects

WAFX 2024 Prize Winners Announced: ver thirty exemplary future
projects that address major
Recognising Architects Tackling Oarchitectural issues facing society
and the planet have been announced as
Today’s Global Issues winners of this year’s World Architecture
Festival WAFX Awards. The WAFX Prize
awards projects that best use design and
Singapore, Singapore architecture to tackle major world issues
across eleven key categories, including
health, climate change, technology, ethics,
Ageing and Health - Shenzhen Rehabilitation Center by Stefano Boeri Architetti China and values.
Photo credit: Stefano Boeri Architetti This year’s category winners for Ethics
and Values include a project that explores
rebuilding Gaza’s landscapes and restoring
the agricultural and cultural heritage of
the land. It also includes the designs for
a public park for a city in Iran, which
imagines a future with no restriction on
civil freedoms, providing hybrid public
spaces for men and women. Winners of
the Power and Justice category include a
project in Istanbul designed around the
Alevism community's need for a legitimate
space in the city, designed around the
ritual of gathering and assembling. The
Carbon and Climate category winners
include the transformation of a disused
gas tower in Münster into a sustainable
residential tower.
The WAFX Award winners are
selected from the finalists of the Future
Projects categories in the WAF Awards
Programme, for their ambition and
scope in response to today’s pressing
global issues. The WAFX 2024 Winner
Announcement comes ahead of the live

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