Best buildings of 2016 revealed at day one of World Architecture Festival 2016
A Mallorca house made up of four white blocks, a Swedish cultural complex and a renovated Turkish library are among today's category winners at this year's World Architecture Festival awards.
The awards aim to showcase the best architecture of the last 12 months. A second batch of category winners will be revealed tomorrow.
Completed buildings will then go on to compete for the World Building of the Year prize on Friday, while unrealised projects will be pitched against one another for the Future Project of the Year award.
Dezeen is media partner for both the World Architecture Festival (WAF) and Inside, which are taking place at Arena Berlin in Germany until 18 November. The first category winners of the Inside awards were also announced today. Read on for the list of today's WAF category winners:
House:Â House MM, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, by OHLAB
Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab designed this house on the Spanish island of Mallorca as a series of white blocks, all oriented towards different viewpoints.
Large windows offering views to suit the activities taking place in each block. The living-cum-dining room overlooks the sea, the kitchen points to the vegetable patch, and the bedrooms face the more private garden.
Housing:Â Aluminium Tip, Paris, France, by Babin and Renaud Architectes
This Paris block contains six floors of apartments ?three per floor ? and every home boasts rooms orientated to face out to the street.
The building has a shimmering facade ...
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