World Architecture Festival

The World Festival of Interiors has crowned the Pingtan Children Library, by Condition_Lab, as winner of the World Interior of the Year. The low-cost wooden building creates an attractive light-filled space for children to read, learn and play.

The winner of the World Building of the Year has been named at the close of the World Architecture Festival. Quay Quarter Tower, by 3XN Architects, won for its innovative design, which involved radically renovating an existing skyscraper.

The World Architecture Festival has announced the 2022 Architectural Photography Awards shortlist, featuring 23 fantastic images that capture the best of the built environment, with everything from a mirrored skyscraper to a rock-like music venue.

Big, small, expensive and affordable – almost every conceivable type of building features in this year's World Architecture Festival WAF shortlist, which offers a superb opportunity to take stock of the current state of architecture around the globe.

Alongside the World Architecture Festival, the World Interior of the Year has also been decided. The winner is the Capsule Hostel and Bookstore, a radical renovation of a dilapidated old building in rural China.

The prestigious World Building of the Year prize has been revealed at the close of this year's World Architecture Festival. CopenHill, by Bjarke Ingels Group, has won for its inspired combination of waste-to-energy plant and ski slope.

The World Architecture Festival has revealed the winners of the Special Prize, which celebrates exceptional architectural merit. This year's selection includes the winner of the Timber Prize, as well as Best Use of Color, and more.

Gleaming high-rises and luxury homes are all well and good, but sublime architecture usually begins with a drawing. The World Architecture Festival aims to celebrate both digital and pencil and paper creativity with its Architecture Drawing Prize.

The World Architecture Festival has announced its shortlisted projects for the 2021 Timber Prize. The competition recognizes superb buildings from around the world that highlight the beauty and versatility of wood as a building material.

The winner of the Architectural Photography Awards has been announced during the WAF in Amsterdam. Laurian Ghinitoiu won the overall prize for his stunning photo of the BIG-designed museum The Twist, while also picking up two category awards.

The 2019 Inside World Festival of Interiors recently took place in Amsterdam alongside the World Architecture Festival. During the annual event, the JCA Living Lab, a renovated home in Taipei, Taiwan, was named the World Interior of the Year.

A disused railway storage shed that's been transformed into an innovative public library has been awarded the prestigious World Building of the Year prize at the 2019 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.