First winners announced for World Architecture Festival
World Architecture Festival, the world’s largest international architectural event, opened today in Berlin. The first day’s Awards category winners include a floating building on a mountain top, a hardwood ‘smile’ sculpture in London, a Turkish dairy factory and a Palestinian Museum.
The Civic – Future Projects category winner was Consulate Building, Staff Housing and School complex, in Karachi, Pakistan by edgeARCH. Judges praised the practice for the project?s ?clear conceptual logic and civic presence,? commenting that it ?will hopefully act as a paradigm for a new and more enlightened consular typology.?
The Civic and Community – Completed Building category was won by Eriksson Furunes + Leandro V. Locsin Partners for their Streetlight Tagpuro project in the Philippines. Alexander Eriksson Furunes was invited back together with his two partners Sudarshan Khadka and Jago Boase to rebuild the NGO Streetlight?s office, orphanage and study centre after the original premises were devastated by a Typhoon in 2013. Streetlight Tagpuro by Eriksson Furunes + Leandro V. Locsin
Photo credit: Completed Building Civic and Community
A floating museum in Nicosia, Cyprus designed by Pilbrow & Partners has won the Future Project award in the Competition Entries category. The architects conceived the museum as a floating deck set atop a hill offering views and protecting the archeological site below. The elevated deck and concrete veranda enable a d...
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