World Architecture Community has opened projects of the WA Awards 10+5+X 45th Cycle to the Voting stage to name the best projects in Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories. 

Voting process for the WA Awards 45th Cycle has started today (6 October) at 08:30 am GMT +0 and the voting stage will close on Wednesday, 25 October 2023 (23:59 GMT +0).

We have received a wide range of innovative projects from all around the world, which were submitted from 25 different countries in the Architecture, Interior Design and Student categories.

These countries are Iran, India, Serbia, Poland, China, Turkey, Vietnam, United States, Costa Rica, South Korea, Taiwan, France, Thailand, Egypt, Colombia, Austria, Pakistan, France, Burkina Faso, Japan, Indonesia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Russia, Saudi Arabia. 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 45th Cycle of WA Awards.

Hanoi Eco School by Van Aelst I Nguyen & Partners in Vietnam is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 45th Cycle in the Architecture/Realised category. Image © Steve Van Aelst

Van Aelst I Nguyen & Partners' Hanoi Eco School in Vietnam, IDMM Architects' Fort & Port in South Korea, Sanjay Puri Architects' 6 projects, including Studios 90, Shree Town, On The Hills, Hill Museum - DUTS designs' Techstorm Headquarter Industrial Park in China, Oliver Schütte's Black House (Casa Negra) in Costa Rica, Hérault Arnod Architectures' Q-Park Ravet in France are among projects competing to be the winner of the 45th Cycle.

You are the jury now! Choose the best projects for the WA Awards 10+5+X 45th Cycle

The first jury member group is comprised of WA Honorary Members and previous cycles' WA Awards Winners who will decide for 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 Wednesday, 25 October (23:59 GMT +0) and help choose the best projects of the 45th WA Awards 10+5+X on the World Architecture Community.

Ke He's Baihua Kindergarten In Linmingdu, Wuyishan City in China is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 45th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image courtesy of HHC Design Studio Shenzhen University

In the WA Awards Submissions page, 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, are among the WAC's Honorary Members. 

Pragmatica Architectural Design Studio's ACCORAAC: Small Home, Large Life in Iran is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 45th Cycle in the Architecture/Designed category. Image courtesy of Pragmatica Architectural Design Studio

2 distinctive groups of WAC Members will Vote 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.

In order to Vote the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded minimum 1 month ago in his/her page and the project must have been opened to the public by being approved by 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 Wednesday, 25 October (23:59 GMT +0).

Gabriel Niño's Modulus 7 in Colombia is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 45th Cycle in the Architecture/Student category. Image courtesy of Gabriel Niño Guzmán

Now that you know everything, you may go ahead on the Voting Page for your preferred projects by Wednesday, 25 October 2023 (23:59 GMT +0), and help choose the best of the 45th WA Awards 10+5+X on 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 winners in the end of October 2023. 

Hend Hatem's Reviving Villa Badrans’ Organic Architecture Into A Multi-Disciplinary Designers’ Hub in Egypt is competing to be the winner of WA Awards 45th Cycle in the Interior Design/Student category. Image courtesy of Hend Hatem

One Cycle ends and Another begins! 

Now, the WA Awards 46th 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 46th Cycle until 12 January 2024.  

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

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