The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced this year's events and prestigious jury members to discuss your projects with world-renowned architects. This year, WAF 2016 will take place at the Arena Berlin in Germany between 16-18 November, 2016. Present to, interact with and receive live feedback from WAF international jurors at this year's event in Berlin. The WAF awards are the only global awards programme where finalists get to exchange and discuss their work with jurors face to face.

World Architecture Festival now celebrates its ninth edition and after following four successful years in Singapore, the festival now embraces Europe and this year's event will be held in Arena Berlin, which is Franz Ahrens’ historic former bus depot.

WAF2016's co-located sister event 'INSIDE World Festival of Interiors' will also welcome the most famous interior designers and architects coming together from around the world to learn, connect and share ideas. Over three inspiration-filled days INSIDE shines a spotlight on the people, projects and developments that are changing the face of global interiors.

Entry Deadline for WAF 2016 and INSIDE World Festival of Interiors: 10 June, 2016

The festival allows an additional three weeks to hopeful entrants wishing to submit across the festival’s 31 categories.

Important Days for WAF Awards:

Entry deadline: 10 June, 2016

Shortlist announced: July 

Last day for finalists to buy Festival passes at discounted rate: 22 July

Category judging live at WAF in Berlin: 16 – 17 November

Super-jury judging and overall winners announced live at WAF: 18 November

Fees

Entry prices: Early bird rate: 875 EUR 

Standard rate: 925 EUR. Receive a 15% discount when you submit three or more entries.

How to enter WAF 2016

1. Open your WAF account at worldarchitecturefestival.com/ enter now

2. Choose the category that you want to enter – remember you can enter a project into more than one category and there is no limit to the amount of categories that you can enter.

3. Tell us the details of your project, provide a project description and upload images and plans to support your entry.

4. Upload the artwork for your entry boards that will be used by the WAF judges to make their shortlisting decisions and be displayed at the Festival. We will print your entry boards.

5. You can save and come back to your entry at any stage. Once you have paid your entry fee online your entry is complete.

Download the full entry guide here: https://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/resources/entry-guide-2016

To enter: Go to www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/enter

Jury Members:

WAF is where your work gains international exposure and where you can make global connections. Present and discuss your works with the most prominent architects. See all judges here: 

Simon Allford, Co-founder and Director, AHMM

Stefan Behnisch, Founder, Behnisch Architekten

Richard Francis-Jones, Director, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Principal, Belatchew Arkitekter

Christoph Ingenhoven, Founder, Ingenhoven Architects

Matthias Sauerbruch, Founder, Sauerbruch Hutton

Meinhard Von Gerkan, Founding Partner, gmp - Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

Christine Murray, Editor, The Architectural Review

Christina Seilern, Principal, Studio Seilern

Ole Scheeren, Buro Ole Scheeren

Kongjian Yu, Turenscape

Patrick Bruce, The Oval Partnership

See some of WAF 2015 winners below:

Culture: Museum of Painting and Sculpture / Turkey / Emre Arolat Architects. Image courtesy of WAF.

Housing: The Interlace / Singapore / OMA / Ole Scheeren. Image courtesy of WAF.

Display: Brazilian Expo Pavilion / Italy / Arthur Casas / Marko Brajovic. Image courtesy of WAF.

Higher Education & Research: Toho Gakuen School of Music / Japan / Nikken Sekkei. Image courtesy of WAF.

Mixed-Use: Casba / Australia / Billard Leece / SJB Architects. Image courtesy of WAF.

Shopping: Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu / China / The Oval Partnership. Image courtesy of WAF.

See all World Architecture Festival Day 1 Winners

See all World Architecture Festival Day 2 Winners

Top image from left to right: Simon Allford, Stefan Behnisch, Richard Francis-Jones, Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Christoph Ingenhoven, Matthias Sauerbruch, Meinhard Von Gerkan, Christine Murray, Christina Seilern, Kongjian Yu, Patrick Bruce, courtesy of WAF.

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