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Rethinking Oil Rigs - Offshore Data Centres by Arup announced as WAFX Winner 2023 at WAF
Singapore Architecture News - Dec 06, 2023 - 10:16 1220 views
THE WAFX Prize overall winner has also been announced during the live festival at the World Architecture Festival 2023.
WAFX recognizes projects that best use design and architecture to tackle major world issues, including health, climate change, technology, ethics and values.
The winning project was Rethinking Oil Rigs - Offshore Data Centres by Arup in United Kingdom. The project rethinks oil rig structures as data centres giving them a new function in the fast-expanding circular economy.
World Architecture Community is official media partner of this year's WAF and INSIDE festival.
STUDENT CHARRETTE supported by BROADWAY MALYAN
Seven university student teams were shortlisted to take part in a charrette related to the programme theme ‘Catalyst' during the live festival. The theme was intended to stimulate thinking about ways in which design could accelerate beneficial change in respect of challenges facing society.
The student charette was won by BALAY ARAPAAP: An Inclusive Informal Learning Center for the Remote Island of Puro Caoayan by Team C from University of North Philippines.
Next year, the World Architecture Festival and INSIDE World Festival of Interiors will take place once again at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, on 6 – 8 November 2024.
WAF is where the world architecture community meets to celebrate, learn, exchange and be inspired. WAF is the world’s largest annual, international, live architectural event.
The event includes the biggest international architectural awards programme in the world, dedicated to celebrating excellence via live presentations to an audience of high-profile delegates and international juries.
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