World Architecture Festival Awards 2009

WAF es un evento anual internacional de arquitectura cuyo objetivo es premiar la excelencia en un formato en directo e interactivo, de un seminario de vanguardia y de la exposición de su contenido.
La presentación de trabajos a los premios WAF está abierta hasta el 26 de junio y el Festival se realizará de 4 al 6 de noviembre en Barcelona.

WAF is the only annual international architectural event to reward excellence in a fully interactive, inclusive live format. Through its unique entry and judging process and its cutting edge seminar and exhibition content, it is simultaneously a celebration of great architecture and an inspirational intellectual challenge to a major world profession.

Why Should I Enter the WAF Awards?
- Compete to win the highly prestigious “Building of the Year” prize, a major asset to any architectural practice.
- Exhibit alongside the world’s leading architects – every award entry will have their work shown.
- Benefit from the personal and organisational exposure gained from presenting in front of leading architect judges and peers.
- Learn about the latest architectural innovations through our seminar programme and this year’s highly relevant “Less Does More” thematic exhibition, helping you save your practice time and money in the future.
- Network with your peers as well as potential clients and key suppliers. Don’t get left behind while your competitors secure new contracts and negotiate better rates, join our online communities to get networking today.

Entrance Fees
- 995 Euros – Awards entry, including 2 three day visitor passes for the Festival.
- 545 Euros – Awards entry, without visitor tickets. Three day visitor tickets are available for 500 Euros each.
- 400 Euros – Subsequent Awards entries.

Eligibility
- Individual architects, practices, multi-professional teams, interior architects/designers, landscape architects.
- Developers, funders, contractors and other associated organisations (for example clients), may also enter on behalf of the architect, with their consent.

Eligible Projects
- Buildings, projects, interiors, landscape and structural designs, completed between 1 January 2008 and 26 June 2009 (for Completed Buildings, Interiors and Fit Out & Structural Design Categories). For Future Project category – design work started from January 2008.
- There is no limit on the number of buildings/projects that can be submitted (subsequent entries cost a further 400 Euros).
- Buildings/projects can be submitted in more than one category where relevant.
- All designs must be by professionals whose qualifications are recognised by their localaccreditation organisation.

Please note: If the building is judged to be the winner, the architect must be available in Barcelona to collect the trophy.
NB. You are able to enter projects in more than one category and also enter more than one project into the same category.

The Categories
Completed Buildings
Shortlisting in London, up to 16 in each category; shortlisted architects present in crit rooms Wednesday/Thursday at WAF; 15 category winners re-present on Friday to the superjury in the big room; category winners and overall winner receive awards on Friday evening. All category winners compete for the “World Building of the Year” award.
- Civic and community
- Culture
- Display
- Health
- Holiday
- House
- Housing (inc mixed use)
- Landscape
- Learning
- New and old
- Office (inc mixed use)
- Production, energy and recycling
- Shopping (inc mixed use)
- Sport
- Transport

Future Projects
Shortlisting in London, no limit on numbers; jury reviews these entries at WAF on Wednesday/Thursday am, and picks the best eight ideas. The winners are invited to present their projects in one of the crit rooms on Friday, winners and Project of the year winner receive their awards on Friday evening.
- Commercial
- Competition entries
- Cultural
- Experimental projects
- Infrastructure
- Landscape
- Masterplanning
- Residential

Interiors and Fit Out
Shortlisting in London, up to four in each category; shortlisted architects present on Wednesday/Thursday in the “spare” crit room; the category winners re-present to a final jury on Friday in a crit room; winners and overall winner receive awards on Friday evening.
- Bars and restaurants
- Culture and civic
- Health (large)
- Health (small)
- Hotels and casinos
- Offices
- Retail (large)
- Retail (small)

Structural Design
Shortlisting in London, up to four in each category; final jury reviews entries on Wednesday/Thursday and picks nine category winners. They present in a crit room on Friday; winners and overall winner receive awards on Friday evening.
- Composites/synthetics (eg carbon)
- Concrete
- Glass (where used structurally)
- Masonry (eg brick and stone)
- Metal (steel, aluminium)
- Spans (eg bridges, stadiums, big sheds)
- Tensile (eg fabric roofs)
- Timber
- Towers

Jury
Will Alsop
Lorenzo Apicella
Renato Benedetti
Justine Clark
Sir Peter Cook
David Dunster
Marcus Fairs
Sou Fujimoto
Nabil Gholam
Kim Herforth Nielsen
Charles Jencks
Chris Johnson
Hanif Kara
Kengo Kuma
Nicola Leonardi
Kieran Long
William Menking
Suha Özkan
Lee Polisano
Michel Rojkind
Robert Schäfer
Dennis Sharp
Catherine Slessor
Rafael Vinoly
Roger Zogolovitch

Online entry to the WAF Awards is open until 26 June 2009.
http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/

Publicado por: Alberto Gorbatt