World Architecture Festival 2012
WAF finale: Heatherwick reveals Olympic cauldron design process
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
WAF 2012: Singapore property prices on the rise
The property market in Singapore was given a timely boost this week as leading architects from around the world flocked to the city.
WAF 2012: Wilkinson Eyre’s Cooled Conservatories crowned world’s best building
Wilkinson Eyre’s Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore has won the coveted world building of the year award
WAF blog: The architecture-technology bond
‘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
WAF blog: How architects abstracted the rainforest
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
WAF keynote: Architects labelled ‘number one cause of global warming'
Spanish architect and net zero carbon advocate Enric Ruiz Geli of Cloud 9 has called on the profession to design out climate change
In pictures: WAF day two victors revealed
Stanton Williams, Eric Parry Architects and 3XN have all picked up awards at the 5th World Architecture Festival in Singapore
WAF winner video: Gardens by the Bay in Singapore
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
WAF blog: Singapore unwrapped
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
WAF blog: Delight in architecture debated
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
WAF blog: Global renewal at relative speeds
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
WAF keynote: Buchanan claims Neo-Modernism and Parametricism 'not the future'
Architecture critic Peter Buchanan has detailed the ‘end of Modernity’ and the genesis of a new, sustainable world order at WAF in Singapore
In pictures: WAF day one winners announced
Trong Nghia, Kerry Hill Architects and Nikken Sekkei have all picked up awards at the 5th World Architecture Festival in Singapore
1,800 delegates descend on 5th World Architecture Festival
The 5th World Architecture Festival opened today at Moshe Safdie’s stunning Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore
World Architecture Festival 2012 shortlists revealed
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
Submit now: WAF Awards entries close on 30 June
Architects have until Saturday to submit schemes to this year’s World Architecture Festival awards taking place from 3 to 5 October
RSVP now: WAF awards party in Clerkenwell on 23 May
Architects are invited to celebrate the launch of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) at the Figueras showroom in Clerkenwell next month
World Architecture Festival 2012
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WAF 2011 Awards shortlist announced
The 284-strong shortlist of projects competing for prizes at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has been unveiled
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