World Architecture Festival, the world’s largest annual, international, live architectural event, will take place at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, on the 6 - 8 November 2024.

The global architecture community gathers at WAF to celebrate, learn, network, and find inspiration. Annually, WAF organizes the largest live-judged architecture awards program globally. Through presentations by architects to eminent delegates and global judging panels, it honors design accomplishments.

The 2024 World Architecture Festival (WAF) comprises; events programme and keynote talks, live judging of finalists’ projects, gallery of all award entries, exhibition area, networking and social events including partner fringe events, gala dinner announcing the overall winners, a tours programme of local architectural landmarks in Singapore.

This year's conference theme is "Tomorrow". The theme will be dissected around the question: How will the trends we observe in our surroundings—such as population shifts, urbanization, digital technology, artificial intelligence, immersive environments, and cultural shifts—affect architecture, urban design, landscape, and interior design?

BIG Partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann, and EAA co-founder Emre Arolat will be delivering keynote speeches at this year's festival. Foster + Partners Senior Partner John Blythe, Mario Cucinella Architects founder Mario Cucinella, 3XN Founder and Creative Director Kim Herforth Nielsen, MAD founder Ma Yansong are among this year's speakers. More speakers can be seen on WAF's page. 

Speakers from around the world will be asked to discuss the changes they anticipate and how their own work and ideas reflect these changes.The theme is based on Reyner Banham's description as a "historian of the immediate future"; our goal is to illuminate what we might be able to see in the dark right now.

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