World Architecture Community has opened projects of the WA Awards 10+5+X 42nd Cycle to the Voting stage to name the best projects in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories. 

Voting process for the WA Awards 42nd Cycle has started today (14 November) at 09:00 am GMT +0 and will close on Sunday, 4 December (23:59 GMT +0).

Once more, a wide range of innovative projects are now competing in the 42nd Cycle of WA Awards, which were submitted from 29 different countries across the world in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories.

These countries are Turkey, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Greece, Vietnam, Iran, India, Poland, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Mexico, South Korea, Jordan, Colombia, Morocco, Russia, United States, Qatar, Benin, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Lithuania, Ukraine, Egypt, Czech Republic. A great mix and global coverage, to say the least!

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

Start your Voting for the 42nd Cycle of WA Awards.

Heesoo Kwak's Elystay in South Korea is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 42nd Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Jaeyoun Kim

Acclaimed Vietnamese firm ROOM+ Design & Build's Cage House in Vietnam, Chongqing Yueji Architectural Design Office's mountainous Chongqing 1949 Grand Theater in China, Dongzhu Chu's Ecological Civilization Education Exhibition Hall Of Jinyun Mountain in China, VTN Architects' gridded-form FPT University Hanoi in Vietnam, Pham Huu Son's SANTO By The Sea in Vietnam, Sanjay Puri Architects' The Courtyard Office in India, Jianan Shan's ceremony hall featuring "floating and dancing curtains" in Guangzhou, Heesoo Kwak's Elystay in South Korea are among the projects competing to be the winner of the 42nd Cycle.

You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the WA Awards 10+5+X 42nd Cycle

The first jury member group is comprised of WA Honorary Members and previous cycles' WA Awards Winners who will decide for the first 10 winning projects. 

The second jury member group is the World Architecture Community Members who have at least 1 project that was uploaded 1 month ago in their WAC pages. This members will name the other 5 winning projects through their Votes. 

The abovementioned jury members may go ahead and click here to Vote for their preferred projects by Sunday, 4 December (23:59 GMT +0) and help choose the best projects of the 42nd WA Awards 10+5+X on World Architecture Community.

Play Architecture's Open Mall At Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 42nd Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image © Lucid Dream

In the WA Awards Submissions page, submitted 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.

WAC's Honorary Members are composed of 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, WAC Professional Member Sanjay Puri, the founder of Sanjay Puri Architects, Consultant & Culture advisor, author of DFID project research 2003 Jane Samuels, are among the WAC's Honorary Members. 

Pham Huu Son's SANTO By The Sea in Vietnam is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 42nd Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Hiroyuki Oki

2 distinctive groups of WAC Members will Vote submitted projects 

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.

Both Voting processes take place at the same time and will be completed by Sunday, 4 December (23:59 GMT +0).

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.

Simin Wang's Make Me Nail Salon in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 42nd Cycle in the Interior Design/Realised category. Image © Hantao Zhou

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, 4 December, 2022 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 42nd 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-December 2022. 

Sidoine Takam's RELIVE in Ukraine is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 42nd Cycle in the Architecture/Student category. Image courtesy of Sidoine Takam

One Cycle ends and Another begins! 

World Architecture Community has opened the WA Awards 43rd 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 43rd Cycle till 15 February 2023.  

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

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