World Architecture Community has opened projects of the WA Awards 10+5+X 40th Cycle to Voting stage to name the best projects in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories. 

Voting process for the WA Awards 40th Cycle has started at 10:00am GMT +0 and will close on Sunday, 10 April (23:59 GMT +0).

WA Honorary Members and previous cycles' WA Awards Winners will cast their Votes to select the first 10 winning projects in each category. Meanwhile, WA Community Members will cast their Votes to name the next 5 winning projects. 

The 40th Cycle project list includes a wide range of innovative and striking projects submitted from 32 different countries across the world in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories.

These countries are Kazakhstan, Moldova, India, Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico, Iran, Vietnam, Pakistan, Cambodia, China, Brazil, Poland, Rwanda, United States, Tajikistan, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Germany, Malaysia, Spain, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, United Kingdom. A great mix and global coverage, to say the least!

Zaha Hadid Architects' Striatus Bridge in Italy is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 40th Cycle in Architecture/Realised category. Image © naaro

The competing offices in the Voting stage are Sanjay Puri Architects with 3 projects, VTN Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects with 2 projects, Studio Symbiosis, Davood Boroojeni Office, Snow Kreilich Architects, Play Architecture, More Design Office, LYCS Architecture, 6717 STUDIO, BXB Studio with 2 projects and more, who will compete to be the winner of the 40th Cycle.

You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the 40th WA Awards 10+5+X

WA Honorary Members and previous cycles' WA Awards Winners and WA Community Members, who have at least 1 project that was uploaded 1 month ago in their WAC pages, may go ahead and click here to Vote for their preferred projects by Sunday, 10 April (23:59 GMT +0) and help choose the best projects of the 40th WA Awards 10+5+X on World Architecture Community.

Davood Boroojeni Office's Museum Of Life in Iran is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 40th Cycle in Architecture/Designed category. Image courtesy of Peno Visualization Studio

Projects are listed under 2 major sections; Architecture and Interior Design. Then submitted projects are divided into 3 sub-categories; Realised, Designed and Student under these two sections.

As usual, the submitted projects will be evaluated by the WA Awards jury, composed of WAC Honorary Members and previous cycles' Winners for the first 10 and by WAC's Community Members for the other 5 through their Votes. 

WAC's Honorary Members are an exclusive group of invited architects, acclaimed critics, academics and theoreticians, editors of architectural magazines, curators and other experts from architectural centers and other organizations.

Nikos Fintikakis, co-founder of SYNTHESIS AND RESEARCH, acclaimed Indonesian architect Budi Sukada, who is senior lecturer at the University of Tarumanagara, artist and teacher Ruth Jacobson, Alhadeff Architects founder Giancarlo Alhadeff, Sanjay Puri, the founder of Sanjay Puri Architects, are among the WAC's Honorary Members. 

Play Architecture's Dining Space At DevaDhare in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 40th Cycle in Architecture/Realised category. Image © Bharath Ramamrutham

WA Awards' judging is based on 2 selection processes: WAC Members' Voting and WAC's Honorary Members and earlier WA Award Winners Voting. 

The members mentioned above will see "the Vote" button defined for them after clicking on the World Architecture Awards 10+5+X Submissions page. Voting is realized by a mixture of WAC's Honorary Members and earlier WA Award Winners. Their Votes will determine the first 10 winning projects. 

The second judging is WAC Members' Voting, which is realized by the fellow community members of World Architecture Community. Their Votes will decide the next 5 awarded projects.

In order to Vote the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded minimum 1 month ago in his/her page and the project must have been opened to the public by being approved by World Architecture Community.

Peihe Xie's Chasing Light in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 40th Cycle in Interior Design/Realised category. Image courtesy of AD ARCHITECTURE

WAC's Members are composed of architects, interior designers, students and academics. To be able able to Vote the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded minimum 1 month ago in his/her page.

Now that you know everything, you may go ahead on the Voting Page for your preferred projects by Sunday, 10 April, 2022 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 40th WA Awards 10+5+X on World Architecture Community.

World Architecture Community organises the WA Awards 10+5+X, running typically for 3-4 cycles per year, to recognise and highlight some of the great projects of our fellow community members.

World Architecture Community plans to announce winners in mid-April, 2022. 

Chester Goh's Super-Hydro-City! in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 40th Cycle in Architecture/Student category. Image courtesy of Chester Goh

One Cycle ends and Another begins! 

World Architecture Community has opened the WA Awards 41st Cycle accepting entries in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories to compete in the next round. 

If you missed the previous cycle, you can send your entries to the WA Awards 10+5+X 41st Cycle until 8 July, 2022.  

See all previous winners for WA Awards 10+5+X here.