Messner Mountain Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects
World Architecture
Festival announces
2016 Awards shortlist
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Messner Mountain Museum, by Zaha
Hadid Architects, and China Pavilion for
Milan Expo 2015, by Studio Link-Arc, both
shortlisted in the Completed Buildings:
Culture category of WAF 2016.
A ‘Happiness Centre’ in Bhutan, a futuristic
London tube station, a miniature library in
the Philippines and a former Stalinist expo
centre turned urban farm are among the
projects that have today been shortlisted
for the World Architecture Festival
(WAF) awards 2016 – the world’s biggest
architectural awards programme.
WAF organisers saw a significant uplift
in entries submitted from across Europe
in 2016 as the festival relocates to Berlin.
Now in its ninth year, WAF has received
a record number of award entries for
November’s annual event.
The largest rise in year-on-year entries
came from the UK and Germany. UK-based
architects have the highest number of
projects on the shortlist, followed by their
peers from the robust economies of Turkey
and Australia respectively. The truly
international shortlist extends to include
architects from 42 different nations with
projects based across 58 countries.
All types and sizes of architectural projects
are represented on the 343-strong
shortlist, with entries ranging from
private homes, shops and schools to large
commercial developments and ambitious
landscape projects.