The 51st Cycle of the WA Awards 10+5+X, organized by the World Architecture Community, has commenced the voting stage to select the best projects in the categories of Architecture, Interior Design, and Students.

Today, on 2 August, at 08:30 am GMT +0, the voting process for the WA Awards 51st Cycle commenced, and it will be closed on Thursday, 21 August 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 Malaysia, Turkey, India, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Georgia, United States, Bangladesh, China, Rwanda, Germany, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Palestine, Colombia, Cyprus - Turkish Republic of Northern, Portugal, Algeria, Taiwan, Italy, 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 51st Cycle of WA Awards.

Aero Grove by Xinyun Li in the USA is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 51st Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image © Xinyun Li

Zaha Hadid Architects' 5 projects, including Capital International Exhibition And Convention Centre in China, Cityzen Tower in Georgia, Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum in China, Studio City Phase 2 in China, King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Saudi Arabia, aoe's Ghaf Woods Experience Centre in UAE, IDMM Architects' Boryeong Elystay in South Korea,  ASK Architects' F&L Headquarters in South Korea, Mental Design Works' Envoy Experience Center in Turkey are among projects competing to be the winner of the 51st Cycle.

You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the WA Awards 10+5+X 51st Cycle

The first group of jury members is composed of WA Honorary Members and former winners of the WA Awards. They will choose the first 10 winning projects. The second group of jury members consists of World Architecture Community Members, who will select 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, 21 August 2025 (23:59 GMT +0) and help choose the best projects of the 51st WA Awards 10+5+X on the World Architecture Community.

Capital International Exhibition And Convention Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 51st Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Virgile Simon Bertrand

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.

Boryeong Elystay by IDMM Architects in South Korea is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 51st Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © IDMM Architects

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, 21 August 2025 (23:59 GMT +0).

Stylera by Sanjay Puri Architects in India is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 51st Cycle in the Interior Design/Realised category. Image © Manan Surti

Now that you know everything, you may go ahead on the Voting Page for your preferred projects by Thursday, 21 August 2025 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 51st 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 towards the end of August.

Procession Through The Grove: A Spa Embedded In The Landscape by Lara Yassine in Cyprus is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 51st Cycle in the Architecture/Student category. Image © Lara Yassine

One Cycle ends and Another begins! 

Now, the WA Awards 52nd 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 52nd Cycle until 3 November 2025.  

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

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