WORDS Lindi Brownell Meiring IMAGES via World Architecture Festival
The winners of the world’s best buildings have been announced at this year’s World Architecture Festival, held in Singapore from 4 – 6 November.
The overall winner for World Building of the Year went to Singapore-based residential development, The Interlace (which we featured here).
Browse our gallery above to view the award-winning projects. Below, in no particular order, you’ll also find a list of the world’s best completed buildings for 2015.
- Civic & Community: Cam Thanh Community House, Vietnam (1+1>2 International Architecture JSC)
- Display: Brazil Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015, Italy (Arthur Casas / Marko Brajovic)
- Higher Education & Research: Toho Gakuen School of Music, Japan (Nikken Sekkei)
- House: Saigon House, Vietnam (a21 Studio)
- Housing: The Interlace, Singapore (OMA / Ole Scheeren)
- Mixed-Use: Casba, Australia (Billard Leece / SJB Architects)
- Office: HIGO, Japan (Nakayama Architects)
- Shopping: Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu, China (The Oval Partnership)
- Culture: Soma City Home for All, Japan (Klein Dytham Architecture)
- Health: Walumba Elders Centre, Australia (iredale pedersen hook architects)
- Hotel & Leisure (sponsored by Grohe): Lanserhof, Lake Tegern, Germany (Ingenhoven Architects)
- New & Old: Courtyard House Plugin, China (People’s Architecture Office)
- Production, Energy & Recycling: Fabrica de Oliva, Uruguay (Marcelo Daglio Arquitectos)
- Religion: Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar (Mangera Yvars Architects)
- Schools: Ballet School, Russia (Studio 44 Architects)
- Sport (sponsored by Figueras): San Mamés Stadium, Spain (Azcárate (ACXT-IDOM))
- Transport: Fulton Center, USA (Grimshaw / Arup / James / Carpenter / HDR / Page Ayres Cowley)
Read more about the World Building of the Year 2015.