COMPILED BY Lindi Brownell Meiring
Will one of these striking structures take 2017’s World Building of the Year title? The category winners, as well as the overall winner, will be announced at the annual World Architecture Festival, to be held from 15 – 17 November 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
We’ve gone through the categorised shortlist of completed buildings and picked 22 architectural gems that really stand out.
Civic and Community: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Suzhou Chapel, Suzhou, China
Culture: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Vendsyssel Theatre, Hjørring, Denmark
Display: Alison Brooks Architects, The Smile, London, United Kingdom
Display: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
Display: Woods Bagot , Xiangjiang FFC Marketing Display Centre, Changsha, China
Health: Marlon Blackwell Architects, Harvey Pediatric Clinic, Rogers, United States of America
Health: Ntsika Architects, Westbury Clinic, Johannesburg, South Africa
Higher Education & Research: Savage + Dodd Architects, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South Africa
Hotel & Leisure: Artgroup Architect Studio, Artkazal – Reed Apartment, Morahalom, Hungary
Hotel & Leisure: Markus Tauber Architectura, Restaurant Brix 0.1, Bressanone, Italy
Hotel & Leisure: Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Atlas Hotel Hoi An, Hoi An, Vietnam
Hotel & Leisure: WOW Architects and Warner Wong Design, Vommuli Island Maldives, Vommuli Island, Maldives
House: Andrew Burges Architects, Brick House, Sydney, Australia
House: Daisuke Ibano + Ryosuke Fujii + Satoshi Numanoi, House in the City, Tokyo, Japan
House: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, Falcon Beach House, Perth, Australia
Housing: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Urban Rigger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mixed Use: ACME, Eastland, Ringwood, Australia
New and Old: Architecture Project with Jens Bruenslow, Villa Castro, Naxxar, Malta
Office: Studio Guilherme Torres, Guilherme Torres Studio, São Paulo, Brazil
Production, Energy & Recycling: DSDHA, Alex Monroe Workshop, London, United Kingdom
Religion: WTA Architecture and Design Studio, The Chapel of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, Pambujan, Philippines
Villa: Hamish & Lyons, Stepping Stone House, Maidenhead, United Kingdom
View the full shortlist at worldarchitecturefestival.com.
