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ENTRIES FLOOD IN FOR THE INAUGURAL WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL

ARCHITECTS WORLDWIDE ENTER THEIR PROJECTS INTO THE WORLD’S LARGEST ARCHITECTURE AWARDS SHOW

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has reported that over 100 projects have already been entered into the awards since the call for entries opened in mid-April 2008. Architects from 40 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Oceania and Africa have entered their buildings into the inaugural awards programme.

The annual event will celebrate the work, concerns and aspirations of the international architectural community. The Festival, which will take place in Barcelona, Spain over three days, from 22 - 24 October 2008, includes the biggest architectural awards programme in the world and will be held at the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB).

The international architecture community is invited to enter their projects into the prestigious awards show until 20th June 2008. The simple entry procedure starts at the website (www.worldarchitecturefestival.com) and finishes with a submission via hard copy. Entrants will be able to track their submissions via the website as well as buying Festival visitor tickets, and managing their bookings.

The Awards

The inaugural World Architecture Festival awards will showcase, compare and contrast an outstanding range of completed buildings created by a profession which has always looked beyond national borders to the wider world of architectural culture.

Headed by Lord (Norman) Foster, the international judging panels will comprise architects, allied professionals, clients and critics, including a “super-jury”, who will decide the ‘best in show’ prize – the first architectural ‘Prix de Barcelona’. Please see notes to editors for full jury list.

Following the closing date of 20th June, shortlisting will then be carried out by an international jury during July. At this stage, 16 buildings will be shortlisted in each of the competition’s 16 categories (i.e., 256 buildings in total). All shortlisted architects will then present their work live to juries and audiences at the Festival, competing against each other to become category winners.

All entries will be exhibited at the Festival in a huge gallery modelled on the Barcelona grid, and after the Festival all entries will be permanently available on-line, on the WAF website.

The 16 awards categories are as follows:

Civic New & old

Culture Office

Energy, waste & recycling Pleasure

Health Production

Holiday Religion & contemplation

Home Shopping

Learning Sport

Nature Transport

The Exhibition

The aim of the World Architecture Festival is to reflect the increasingly international nature of architecture, while also celebrating its regional roots.

In addition to the awards competition and gallery, other elements of the Festival will include: a thematic exhibition, a live ideas charrette for architecture schools, a curated exhibition of architect-nominated building products, city tours and social events and plenary lectures.

Sponsors and media partners

Partner sponsors already signed for the first World Architecture Festival are international multi-disciplinary consultancy Arup, one of the UK's leading manufacturers and suppliers of architectural aluminium systems Kawneer and international cost and project management consultant Davis Langdon.

Category sponsors already committed include engineering consultants Buro Happold and Adams Kara Taylor (AKT), Europe’s largest manufacturer of sanitary fittings Grohe and specialist paint manufacturer Keim.

Twenty-six architectural magazines from around the world are supporting the World Architecture Festival. Editors will be invited to join the judging panels at the event, the first time the world’s architectural media have joined forces in this way.

Location

Barcelona has been selected as the location for this prestigious event, because of its long association with architectural excellence - from Antoni Gaudí to Enric Miralles. The World Architecture Festival will be held in the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB).

Email: Rachel.knowles@fdtamesis.com