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.”
Image credit: woha.net
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)
Image credit: chrofi.com
Culture – The Piano Mill, Stanthorpe, Australia (Conrad Garrett)
Image credit: conradgargett.com.au
Display – Hammershus Visitor Centre, Allinge, Denmark (Arkitema Architects and Professor Christoffer Harlang)
Image credit: arkitema.com
Health – Hospital AZ Zeno, Knokke, Belgium (Temporary association AAPROG – BOECKX. – B2Ai)
Image credit: b2ai.com
Higher Education and Research – Exeter College Cohen Quadrangle, Oxford, United Kingdom (Alison Brooks Architects)
Image credit: alisonbrooksarchitects.com
Hotel and Leisure – Hotel Jakarta, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SeARCH)
Image credit: search.nl
House – 81 Hollybrook Grove, Dublin, Ireland (David-Leech Architects – A House in a Garden)
Image credit: david-leech.co.uk
Small Scale Housing – Weston Street, London, United Kingdom (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris)
Image credit: ahmm.co.uk
New and Old – Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (Heatherwick Studio)
Image credit: Iwan Baan
Office – C&P Corporate Headquarters, Graz, Austria (INNOCAD Architecture)
Image credit: innocad.at
Production, Energy and Recycling – Länsisalmi Power Station, Vantaa, Finland (Parviainen Architects)
Image credit: parviainenark.fi
Religion – Belarusian Memorial Chapel, London, United Kingdom (Spheron Architects)
Image credit: spheronarchitects.co.uk
School – Muku Nursery School, Fuji City, Japan (Tezuka Architects)
Image credit: archello.com
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)
Image credit: archello.com
Transport – London Bridge Station, London, United Kingdom (Grimshaw)
Image credit: grimshaw.global
Villa – High Horse Ranch, Northern California, USA (KieranTimberlake)
Image credit: kierantimberlake.com
To view a list of 2017’s award-winning buildings, click here. For more information, visit worldarchitecturefestival.com.
