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SAWA, designed by Mei Architects and Planners, won the Experimental Future Projects category in the World Architecture Festival 2021. The apartment building drips with green roof and balcony plantings. It is also Rotterdam's...

Architects and their clients are often surprised when their visions don't quite align after the initial ideas are transformed into renderings, specs and floor plans...

A humanitarian project built with affordable, low-tech materials has won this year’s World Building of the Year at the tenth annual World Architecture Festival...

As if Iceland’s gorgeous waterfall-studded landscape wasn’t enough to draw the eye, Stockholm-based Utopia Arkitekter has designed a bright blue cabin for installation along the country’s most famous trekking trails...

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) recently announced the 338 projects that made its annual design awards shortlist. Among crystalline hills, nature-infused public spaces and lush urban eco-systems, Cloud City was chosen...

A unique bamboo skyscraper, a semifinalist at the World Architecture Festival, puts a new twist on the use of bamboo as a building material. Instead of a single tower jutting into the sky, GRG Architects' bamboo building...

In an earthquake-ravaged village in the Yunnan Province of China, architects John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere built the Pinch library, a wave-roofed community center that doubles as a play structure and a memorial to the September...

Despite their name and functionality, the Lune de Sang sheds are not your typical sheds. Built for working and habitation purposes, the concrete-and-stone structures were "conceived as ruins in the landscape…that have been...

Built to serve an urban ward with a lack of communal space, the 1,500-square-foot Chapel accommodates a variety of community activities, such as weddings and conferences, inside a simple, shed-like structure...

Taylor Cullity Lethlean created a journey through the various landscapes of Australia, welcoming intrepid visitors to try them all on for size in one fell swoop...

Clad in dark grey steel plates, Lecor's new HQ emphasizes the function of steel production. A glass box encased in a steel frame protrudes far over the façade. The first floor is dominated by a steel frame colored in pastel...

The World Architecture Festival is the world's most hotly-anticipated architecture awards event, so we're excited to learn that some of our favorite projects are featured in this year's recently announced shortlist...

International architecture and planning firm Hassell recently won multiple awards and commendations at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. One of the projects recognized was Hassell’s Common Ground housing project...

Read the rest of RTA Studio’s Carbon-Neutral C3 House is New Zealand’s First Win at World Architecture Festival Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2012, Auckland, C3 House, carbon neutral...

Read the rest of Nikken Sekkei’s Evaporative Cooling Bioskin Building Wins Energy Award at World Architecture Festival Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", bio skin, Bioskin, energy...