http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/magazine/graphics/logo.png http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/waf-finale-heatherwick-reveals-olympic-cauldron-design-process/8636844.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/waf-finale-heatherwick-reveals-olympic-cauldron-design-process/8636844.article Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the Seed Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo and the London Olympic Cauldron, spoke to a full house at the final keynote address of WAF on Friday evening in Singapore Christine.Murray@emap.com (Christine Murray) Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:18 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2012-singapore-property-prices-on-the-rise/8636820.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2012-singapore-property-prices-on-the-rise/8636820.article The property market in Singapore was given a timely boost this week as leading architects from around the world flocked to the city. Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:36 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2012-wilkinson-eyres-cooled-conservatories-crowned-worlds-best-building/8636815.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2012-wilkinson-eyres-cooled-conservatories-crowned-worlds-best-building/8636815.article Wilkinson Eyre’s Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore has won the coveted world building of the year award merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Fri, 5 Oct 2012 12:58 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-the-architecture-technology-bond/8636794.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-the-architecture-technology-bond/8636794.article ‘Technology helps us to understand nature, the performance of nature and the physics of nature,’ said Enric Ruiz Geli, principal of Barcelona practice and previous WAF winner Cloud 9 Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:06 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/waf-blog-how-architects-abstracted-the-rainforest/8636793.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/waf-blog-how-architects-abstracted-the-rainforest/8636793.article The ‘abstracted rainforest’ as Andrew Grant of Grant Associates describes the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore is not only a spectacular design but also a celebration of a superb client and a design team that has become almost a seamless whole Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:02 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-keynote-architects-labelled-number-one-cause-of-global-warming/8636789.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-keynote-architects-labelled-number-one-cause-of-global-warming/8636789.article Spanish architect and net zero carbon advocate Enric Ruiz Geli of Cloud 9 has called on the profession to design out climate change Christine.Murray@emap.com (Christine Murray) Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:58 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/in-pictures-waf-day-two-victors-revealed/8636739.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/in-pictures-waf-day-two-victors-revealed/8636739.article Stanton Williams, Eric Parry Architects and 3XN have all picked up awards at the 5th World Architecture Festival in Singapore merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:18 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/waf-winner-video-gardens-by-the-bay-in-singapore/8636718.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/waf-winner-video-gardens-by-the-bay-in-singapore/8636718.article Andrew Grant, director of landscape architects Grant Associates, reflects on Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, winner of the best display project on the first day of WAF tom.ravenscroft@emap.com (Tom Ravenscroft) Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:47 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-singapore-unwrapped/8636730.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-singapore-unwrapped/8636730.article Mah Bow Tan, a member of the Singapore parliament and former government minister, explained the particular challenges that Singapore faces as a city state of 5.2 million people in an area half the size of London - and without, of course, any hinterland Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:20 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-delight-in-architecture-debated/8636727.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-delight-in-architecture-debated/8636727.article Festival director Paul Finch opened the discussion by saying that the qualities of commodity, firmness and delight, as defined by Vitruvius, have become the DNA of architecture and deeply embedded, and are usually used to describe architecture Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:19 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-global-renewal-at-relative-speeds/8636726.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-blog-global-renewal-at-relative-speeds/8636726.article If the pace of life is fast in Singapore, so is the rate at which buildings are renewed. Angelene Chan, director of DP Architects, described her practice’s work on the shopping magnet of Orchard Road Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:18 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/waf-keynote-buchanan-claims-neo-modernism-and-parametricism-not-the-future/8636715.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/waf-keynote-buchanan-claims-neo-modernism-and-parametricism-not-the-future/8636715.article Architecture critic Peter Buchanan has detailed the ‘end of Modernity’ and the genesis of a new, sustainable world order at WAF in Singapore Christine.Murray@emap.com (Christine Murray) Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:47 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/in-pictures-waf-day-one-winners-announced/8636705.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/in-pictures-waf-day-one-winners-announced/8636705.article Trong Nghia, Kerry Hill Architects and Nikken Sekkei have all picked up awards at the 5th World Architecture Festival in Singapore merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:24 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/1800-delegates-descend-on-5th-world-architecture-festival/8636680.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/1800-delegates-descend-on-5th-world-architecture-festival/8636680.article The 5th World Architecture Festival opened today at Moshe Safdie’s stunning Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:20 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/world-architecture-festival-2012-shortlists-revealed/8633234.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/world-architecture-festival-2012-shortlists-revealed/8633234.article Judges name 301 international schemes that ‘rethink and re-use’ in the running for the awards event to be held at the annual festival in October, writes MerlinFulcher merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:05 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/submit-now-waf-awards-entries-close-on-30-june/8632138.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/submit-now-waf-awards-entries-close-on-30-june/8632138.article Architects have until Saturday to submit schemes to this year’s World Architecture Festival awards taking place from 3 to 5 October merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:05 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/rsvp-now-waf-awards-party-in-clerkenwell-on-23-may/8629314.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/rsvp-now-waf-awards-party-in-clerkenwell-on-23-may/8629314.article Architects are invited to celebrate the launch of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) at the Figueras showroom in Clerkenwell next month merlin.fulcher@emap.com (Merlin Fulcher) Fri, 11 May 2012 10:11 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/world-architecture-festival-2012/8630013.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/world-architecture-festival-2012/8630013.article The world’s largest festival and live awards for the global architecture community: debate, learn and be inspired Fri, 4 May 2012 12:25 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2012-judges/8630014.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2012-judges/8630014.article Meet the judges for the World Architecture Festival 2012 Fri, 4 May 2012 11:26 GMT http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2011-awards-shortlist-announced/8630015.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/waf-2012/waf-2011-awards-shortlist-announced/8630015.article The 284-strong shortlist of projects competing for prizes at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has been unveiled Fri, 4 May 2012 10:26 GMT