
COMPILED BY Lindi Brownell Meiring
The winners of the 2018 World Architecture Festival have been announced, this year including the striking Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, designed by architect Thomas Heatherwick.
The overall winner of this year’s awards (World Building of the Year), as well as the winner of the Mixed Use Completed Buildings category, was the Kampung Admiralty retirement village in Singapore, designed by Woha Architects.
According to the studio, the building is Singapore’s “first integrated public development that brings together a mix of public facilities and services under one roof.”

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Below, in no particular order, are the winners in this year’s Completed Buildings category.
Civic Use – Maitland Riverlink, Maitland, Australia (CHROFI with McGregor Coxall)

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Culture – The Piano Mill, Stanthorpe, Australia (Conrad Garrett)

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Display – Hammershus Visitor Centre, Allinge, Denmark (Arkitema Architects and Professor Christoffer Harlang)

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Health – Hospital AZ Zeno, Knokke, Belgium (Temporary association AAPROG – BOECKX. – B2Ai)

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Higher Education and Research – Exeter College Cohen Quadrangle, Oxford, United Kingdom (Alison Brooks Architects)

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Hotel and Leisure – Hotel Jakarta, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SeARCH)

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House – 81 Hollybrook Grove, Dublin, Ireland (David-Leech Architects – A House in a Garden)

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Small Scale Housing – Weston Street, London, United Kingdom (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris)

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New and Old – Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (Heatherwick Studio)
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Office – C&P Corporate Headquarters, Graz, Austria (INNOCAD Architecture)

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Production, Energy and Recycling – Länsisalmi Power Station, Vantaa, Finland (Parviainen Architects)

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Religion – Belarusian Memorial Chapel, London, United Kingdom (Spheron Architects)

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School – Muku Nursery School, Fuji City, Japan (Tezuka Architects)

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Shopping – Shanghai Greenland Center / Greenland Being Funny (NIKKEN SEKKEI)

Image credit: Hu Wenkit / PDOING Vision via archdaily.com
Sport – Gymnasium Blaise Pascal High School, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Koffi & Diabaté Architectes)

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Transport – London Bridge Station, London, United Kingdom (Grimshaw)

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Villa – High Horse Ranch, Northern California, USA (KieranTimberlake)

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To view a list of 2017’s award-winning buildings, click here. For more information, visit worldarchitecturefestival.com.