World Architecture Festival 2021 Reveals Its Winners

World Architecture Festival has revealed the winners for this year’s categories, highlighting buildings and landscapes completed across the world between 2019 and 2021. Chosen from almost 500 shortlisted projects from 62 countries, the winning projects showcase exemplary contributions to the built environment reflecting this edition’s theme: ‘Resetting the City: Greening, Health and Urbanism’. In addition to the completed buildings categories, the annual award also announced Copenhill, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, as the 2021 World Building, while SLA was awarded Landscape of the Year for its design of Al Fay Park.

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Spread across 20 categories of completed buildings and landscapes, the winning projects include a capsule hotel in China, a tennis arena in Australia, a train station in the United States, or a waterfront revitalization project in Russia. BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw, 3XN or SOM are just some of the architectural practice’s whose recently completed projects received distinctions within the World Architecture Festival.

The 2021 World Architecture Festival winners are as follows:

Civic and Community: Kirkkonummi Library / JKMM Architects

Culture: Phoenix Central Park / Durbach Block Jaggers, John Wardle Architects

Display: Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion, Dubai Expo 2020 /Grimshaw

Health: Rigshospitalet Hospital North Wing / Link Arkitektur and 3XN with Nickl & Partner and Kristine Jensens Tegnestue

Higher Education and Research: Scion Innovation Hub / RTA Studio + Irving Smith

Hotel and Leisure: RAAS Chhatrasagar Hotel / Studio Lotus

House & Villa (Rural/ Nature): Coopworth / FMD Architects

House & Villa (Urban/ Suburban): Sky House / MIA Design Studio

Housing: Holme Apartments / John Wardle Architects

Mixed-Use: The Post Building / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

New and Old: Capsule hostel and bookstore in village Qinglongwu / Atelier tao+c

Office: OLDERFLEET / Grimshaw

Production, Energy and Recycling: Copenhill /BIG

Religion: Niijima Chapel / Tezuka Architects

School: Fortitude Valley State Secondary College / Cox Architecture and ThomsonAdsett

Shopping: New Alley – Old Story / Shanghai Urban Architecture Design Co Ltd

Sport: Ken Rosewall Arena Redevelopment / Cox Architecture

Transport: Moynihan Train Hall / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Landscape – Nature Context:

Sanya Mangrove Park / Turenscape

Suining South Riverfront Park / ECOLAND Planning and Design Corp.,, Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute CO.LTD.

Path of the Forest, Roques Blanques Park Cemetery / BATLLE,  ROIG ARQUITECTURA SLP

Koper Central Park / ENOTA d.o.o.

Landscape – Urban Context:

Revitalizing Kazan’s Prime Waterfront / Turenscape

Impression of Railway / S.D. Atelier Design & Planning

Al Hosn Masterplan / DCT +  CEBRA Abu Dhabi

Xuhui Runway Park / Sasaki

Niederhafen River Promenade / Zaha Hadid Architects

Al Fay Park / SLA Architects