Since 2008 and for over 20 Cycles, World Architecture Community organises the prestigious and acclaimed WA Awards 20+10+X. The aim of the WA Community Awards is to highlight and recognise remarkable projects that might otherwise remain unnoticed by the international public, yet have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.

Now, after seven years and thousands of participating projects from all around the Globe, time has come for us to re-think the WA Awards to better reflect both participants profiles and participating projects.

WA Awards 23rd Cycle, Extended Deadline: July 31, 2016

WA Awards accepts submissions in 3 distinct categories:

WA Designed Award: Projects that were not built,
WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built,
WA Student Award: Projects designed by Students.

Evaluation Criteria

Novelty, Originality and Creativity in design that reflect and inspire a commitment to the art of architecture are the major criteria. World Architecture Community tries to bridge the gap between theory and practice; thus the architect’s explanations and member’s discussions on submissions will be critical for recognition as much as the design itself.

Timetable & Calendar

The timetable for our 3 cycles per year is identical between cycles. The first three months as of the announcement of the new cycle, you are welcome to upload and submit your projects for WA Awards consideration. The fourth month of the cycle will be for the WA Jury to evaluate and vote (the first 10 of the 10+5+X). In the meantime, during the entire 4 months, World Architecture Community members may rate the projects that were submitted for WA Awards consideration and at the end of the cycle, once the 4 months are passed, the 5 most rated projects by World Architecture Community members would form the second 5 of the 10+5+X. Within the same time, the WA Jury may also chose some projects as the “X” part of the 10+5+X.

The annual calendar is as follows:

The 3 annual cycles will start on January 1st, May 1st and September 1st every year.
These cycles deadlines will be end on the last day of March, July and November, respectively.
Finally the winners will be announced around May 15th, September 15th and January 15th, respectively.

Jury

The WA Jury, composed by a mixture of our Honorary Members and earlier WA Award Winners, will select the first 10. The next 5 will be awarded based on the ratings of fellow community members of World Architecture. Finally, the "X" will be those projects, which did not make it to the final selection of 10 or 5, but which had that something "special", that made them worthy of selection and acknowledgement as "X" by the WA Jury.

Fees for WA Awards

The table below lists the different options in a matrix format

In this table, the green checks match the members who can participate to the different categories free-of-charge (with 1 project only by cycle), as part of their membership benefits. 

The blue checks match the categories in which members may participate, subject to a fee ($100 for WA Designed Award and $200 for WA Realised Award, per project and per cycle). 

Finally the red crosses represent the combinations that do not allow participation. 

Example: Academic Members may apply to the WA Student Award free-of-charge, to the WA Designed Award with a $100 fee and may not apply to the WA Realised Award.

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Top image: Shincheon-Ri House in South Korea by Heesoo Kwak