World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced shortlist for its 2018 World Architecture Festival Prizes, varying from the Amsterdam Prize, Best Use of Certified Timber, Glass Future Prize to Best Use of Colour and Small Project of the Year Prize.

Selected projects will be presented by the shortlisted architects to a special WAF jury on Friday 30th of November in Amsterdam. The overall winner for each prize will be announced at the Gala Awards Dinner in the Beurs van Berlage that evening. 

This year, WAF will be held at the RAI convention centre in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam from November 28 to November 30, 2018. World Architecture Community is an official Media Partner for the event and will be bringing you the hottest topics, key discussions and keynote sessions from the three-day event.

See the full list of shortlisted projects below:

The 'Amsterdam Prize' 

To mark this year's festival location, WAF is launching an ‘Amsterdam Prize’ for the best building in the city, completed between January 2017 and July 2018.

Arons en Gelauff architecten, Wiener & Co / Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Arons en Gelauff architecten, Wiener & Co / Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Benthem Crouwel Architects , North South Line / Amsterdam, Netherlands

- SeARCH, Hotel Jakarta / Amsterdam, Netherlands

Best Use of Certified Timber Prize

This is the first time WAF will be presenting a prize for the 'Best Use of Certified Timber' in completed buildings. This prize is supported by the Programme for Endorsement for Forest Certification (PEFC).

Architectus, Macquarie University Incubator / Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia

- AOUMM + Legnolandia, AOUMM - Save The Children Pavillion Expo Milan 2015 _ Refugee School Lebanon 2016, Italy / Lebanon (School delivery and additional design by Catalytic Action) / Milan, Italy

- Architectus, Macquarie University Incubator / Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia

- HDD, Mulan Weichang Vistor Centre / Mulan Weichang, China

- Ian Ritchie Architects, Royal Academy of Music Theatre and new Recital Hall / London, United Kingdom

- noa* network of architecture, Zallinger: Back to the origins / Saltria, Italy

- Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, NTNU Gjøvik / Gjøvik, Norway

- Spheron Architects, Belarusian Memorial Chapel / London, United Kingdom

- Taylor and Hinds Architects, krakani lumi / Wukalina, Australia

- Tzannes, International House Sydney / Sydney, Australia

Best Use of Colour Prize

The Best Use of Colour Prize, supported by Eastman, has been a popular special prize at WAF in recent years. All shortlisted completed building entries will be reviewed by a special jury on the last day of the Festival.

Scott Brownrigg, Three Rivers Academy / Surrey, United Kingdom

- Allen Jack+Cottier, Urbanest Darling Square Building 1 / Sydney, Australia

- dePaor, Pálás cinema / Galway, Ireland

- Department of Architecture, Mist Hot-spring Hotel / Xuchang, China

- FaulknerBrowns Architects, Sportcampus Zuiderpark / The Hague, Netherlands

- Form4 Architecture, Innovation Curve / Palo Alto, United States of America

- LAUD Architects, PCF Large Child Care Centre / Singapore, Singapore

- Lippmann Partnership, Emanuel Synagogue / Sydney, Australia

- Scott Brownrigg, Three Rivers Academy / Surrey, United Kingdom

- Temporary association AAPROG – BOECKX. – B2Ai, Hospital AZ Zeno / Knokke, Belgium

Glass Future Prize

This new WAF prize, sponsored by Guardian Glass, will be awarded to a Future Project entry which points to new ways in which glass and glass technology can be deployed in projects of any scale.

Steven Chilton Architects, Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre / Wuxi, China

- VTN Architects, Nanoco Head Office / Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

- Fluid Motion Architects, Tehran World Trade Center / Tehran, Iran

- Lund Hagem Architects and Atelier Oslo, Deichman Library / Oslo, Norway

- RB Systems, 265 West 45th Street / New York City, United States of America

- Steven Chilton Architects, Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre / Wuxi, China

- Studio Gang, Tour Montparnasse / Paris, France

Small Project of the Year

All the shortlisted projects will present to the prize judges live at the festival and the winner will be presented with the WAF Small Project of the Year Prize at the Gala Dinner on Friday 30th November.

VTN Architects, Bamboo stalactite / Venice, Italy

- Camilo Moraes, Piedras Bayas Beachcamp / Atacama Desert, Chile

- Office for Metropolitan Architecture, MPavilion / Melbourne, Australia

- Plano Humano Arquitectos, Chapel Our Lady of Fátima / Castelo Branco, Portugal

- SPEECH, Pavilion for artistic presentations / Moscow, Russia

- Studio Pacific Architecture, He Tohu Document Room / Wellington, New Zealand

- Tabanlıoğlu Architects, housEmotion / Milano, Italy

- Takenaka Corporation, Hanamaruki Miso-making Experience / Ina Nagano, Japan

- VTN Architects, Bamboo stalactite / Venice, Italy

- Zarch Collaboratives, Jacob Ballas Children's Garden / Singapore, Singapore

Architectural Photography Awards 2018 shortlist

The 20 shortlisted photographs will be exhibited at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Amsterdam, which takes place from 28th-30th November. 

Sense of Place: Jeff Eden - The Hive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, designed by Wolfgang Buttress

Buildings in Use

Omer Kanipak - The Hive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, designed by Wolfgang Buttress

Aldo Amoretti - Azur Arena in Antibes, France, designed by Auer Weber architects

Brad Feinknopf – Auburn University, Alabama, USA

Ryan Koopmans – Soviet-era Sanitorium at Tskaltubo, Georgia, designed by architect Kalashniko

Laurian Ghinitoiu - Vantablack Pavilion, Pyeongchang, South Korea, designed by Asif Khan

Exterior

Marius Liutkevicius - Apartment building in Yaiza, Lanzarote, Spain.

B.R.S.Sreenag - Vm Estancia in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India designed by KSM Architecture

He Zhenhuan - Bank of China Tower, Ningbo China designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Shao Feng - Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Border Crossing Facility designed by ECADI

Pawel Paniczko - Long Museum West Bund Shanghai, China designed by Atelier Deshaus

Interior 

Roman Robroek - A semi-abandoned power station in Kelenfold, Budapest, Hungary

James Newton - The Vortex, Bloomberg headquarters, London, UK designed by Foster + Partners

Andrew Robertson - The Ouse Valley viaduct in Sussex, UK designed by David Mocatta

Eugeni Pons - Théodore Gouvy Theatre in Freyming-Merlebach, France designed by Dominique Coulon & Associés Suraj Garg

Sense of Place

Marco Tagliarino - View of the Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy from the Arengario Balconi of the Palazzo dell'Arengario, Museo del 900 designed by Italo Rota and Fabio Fornasari

Zhu Wenqiao - Swimmers on the riverside opposite the construction of Raffles City Chongqing, China designed by Safdie Architects 

Dirk Vonten - Castle Neuschwanstein, Germany in Winter 

Jeff Eden - The Hive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, designed by Wolfgang Buttress 

Ai Qing - Seashore Chapel in Qinhuangdao, China designed by Vector Architects

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