World Architecture Community has opened the WA Awards 10+5+X 48th Cycle to the Voting stage to name the best projects in the Architecture, Interior Design, and Student categories. 

The Voting process for the WA Awards 48th Cycle has started today (3 September) at 07:30 am GMT +0 and the voting stage will close on Sunday, 22 September 2024 (23:59 GMT +0).

Once more, we have received a wide range of innovative projects from all around the world, which were submitted from 30 countries in the Architecture, Interior Design, and Student categories.

These countries are Iran, China, India, Slovenia, Rwanda, Romania, Taiwan, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, Brazil, South Korea, Portugal, Vietnam, Mali, Argentina, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Palestine, Germany, Italy, Jordan, United Kingdom, Japan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Egypt. 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. The World Architecture Community Members will cast their Votes to name the next 5 winning projects. 

Start your Voting for the 48th Cycle of WA Awards.

Masarycka by Zaha Hadid Architects in Czech Republic is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 48th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © BoysPlayNice

Zaha Hadid Architects' 4 projects; Masarycka in Czech Republic, Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre in China, Jiangxi River Bridge in China, Chengdu Science Fiction Museum in China, Super Void Space's Dehkadeh Iwan in Iran, Joan J Fortuny Arquitectes' 54 HPP Inca in Spain, Archtic's Lilong Arcade in China, Sanjay Puri Architects' Aatma Manthan Museum in India, Cando Archineering Group's Tamrin Space in Iran are among projects competing to be the winner of the 48th Cycle.

You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the WA Awards 10+5+X 48th Cycle

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

The second jury member group is the World Architecture Community Members. These members will name the other 5 winning projects through their Votes.

The above-mentioned jury members may go ahead, and click here to Vote for their preferred projects by Sunday, 22 September (23:59 GMT +0) and help choose the best projects of the 48th WA Awards 10+5+X on the World Architecture Community.

Lilong Arcade by Archtic in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 48th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image © Jiahua Xu

In the WA Awards Submissions page, the 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, Prof. Dr. Şengül Öymen Gür, are among the WAC's Honorary Members.

Aatma Manthan Museum by Sanjay Puri Architects in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 48th Cycle in the Interior Design/Realised category. Image © Vinay Panjwani

2 distinctive groups of WAC Members will Vote the 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.

To Vote for the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded a minimum of 1 month ago on his/her page, and the project must have been opened to the public by being approved by the World Architecture Community. WAC's Members are composed of architects, interior designers, students, and academics. 

Both Voting processes take place simultaneously and will be completed by Sunday, 22 September (23:59 GMT +0).

Seal Breaker by Ayçin Kurt in Turkey is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 48th Cycle in the Architecture/Student category. Image © Ayçin Kurt

Now that you know everything, you may go ahead on the Voting Page for your preferred projects by Sunday, 22 September 2024 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 48th WA Awards 10+5+X on the World Architecture Community.

The 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.

The World Architecture Community plans to announce the winners at the end of September. 

DUNES Therapeutic Center For Rheumatoid by Nour Farid in Egypt is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 48th Cycle in the Interior Design/Student category. Image © Nour Farid

One Cycle ends and Another begins! 

Now, the WA Awards 49th Cycle is open for entries in the Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories.

Start your entries today. 

If you missed the previous cycle, you can submit your entries to the WA Awards 10+5+X 49th Cycle until 13 December 2024.  

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

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