The WA Awards 10+5+X 50th Cycle, organized by the World Architecture Community, have started the Voting stage to select the best projects in the Architecture, Interior Design, and Student categories. 

Today (12 April) at 07:00 am GMT +0, the voting process for the WA Awards 50th Cycle commenced, and it will be closed on Thursday, 1 May 2025 (23:59 GMT +0).

We have once again received a diverse array of innovative projects submitted from 24 countries in the Architecture, Interior Design, and Student categories, spanning the globe.

These countries are India, United States, China, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey, Rwanda, South Korea, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Brazil, Vietnam, Japan, Poland, Malta, Portugal, Bangladesh, Argentina, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Kenya, Thailand. 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 50th Cycle of WA Awards.

Seriema House by TETRO Architecture in Brazil is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 50th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Luisa Lage

TETRO Architecture's Seriema House in Brazil, Sanjay Puri Architects' 4 projects; Shiva 1800 in India, Nine X Nine in India, Screen 504 in India, Miraj Crafts Village in India, Studio Symbiosis' 2 projects; Gwalior Train Station in India and Parinee I Lobby in India, UDG-STUDIO WESTWOOD's Xinyue Art Gallery in China, Shen-Chiang Mao's Geometry in Taiwan, ACE Architecture's Bodrum Hotel Complex in Turkey, Jing Gao's Wuxi Liangxi Medical Device Industrial Park in China are among projects competing to be the winner of the 50th Cycle.

You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the WA Awards 10+5+X 50th Cycle

The first group of jury members consists of WA Honorary Members and previous winners of the WA Awards. They will select the first 10 winning projects. 

The second group of jury members is made up of World Architecture Community Members, who will determine the remaining 5 winning projects through their votes.

The above-mentioned jury members may go ahead, and click here to Vote for their preferred projects by Thursday, 1 May 2025 (23:59 GMT +0) and help choose the best projects of the 50th WA Awards 10+5+X on the World Architecture Community.

Wuxi Liangxi Medical Device Industrial Park by Jing Gao in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 50th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Mlee

In the WA Awards Submissions page, the submitted projects are listed under the Architecture page. Then submitted projects are divided into 3 sub-categories; Realised, Designed and Student in the Architecture page. 

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.

Gwalior Train Station by Studio Symbiosis in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 50th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image © Studio Symbiosis

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.

Voting criteria for the World Architecture Community Members

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 Thursday, 1 May 2025 (23:59 GMT +0).

Shiva 1800 by Sanjay Puri Architects in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 50th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image © Sanjay Puri Architects

Now that you know everything, you may go ahead on the Voting Page for your preferred projects by Thursday, 1 May 2025 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 50th 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 in early May. 

The Light Inside: Net-Zero Cabins In Aosta Valley, Italy by Luan Fontes in Italy is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 50th Cycle in the Architecture/Student category. Image © Luan Fontes

One Cycle ends and Another begins! 

Now, the WA Awards 51st 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 51st Cycle until 18 July 2025.  

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

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