WA Awards ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

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WA Awards

World Architecture Award

BRIEF

Running now for its 30th Cycles, WA Awards 10+5+X is a well-established competition that gives its participants and winners a great opportunity to have their projects highlighted and recognised both among their peers and in the marketplace.

Given the International nature of World Architecture Community, participants from around the Globe and in particular from regions less covered by general or specialised media, get a chance to share and promote their projects, which would otherwise go unnoticed.

Awarding follows a very democratic procedure whereby available WA Jury Members’ and Previous Cycle Winners vote for the 10 and willing World Architecture Community members’ rate for the +5.

Since its redesign in July 2015 (22nd Cycle), WA Awards is split into 3 categories: WA Designed Awards, WA Realised Awards and WA Student Awards. This allows for better evaluation for the WA Jury members and a fairer competition among participants and their projects (i.e. comparing apples with apples).

SCHEDULE

Deadline: Jan 15, 2019

AWARDS

Winners of WA Awards 10+5+X are announced approximately 10 days after the final deadline for submission. They will receive a special poster a WA Award Certificate that will be made available to the participants a few weeks after the announcement of the winners.

FEES

In this table, the green checks reflect the member types who can participate to the different categories free-of-charge (with 1 project only by cycle), as part of their membership benefits. As such Professional Members may participate in either Designed or Realised categories and Academic Members may participate in the Student category with a single project, within a specific cycle free-of-charge

The blue checks match the categories in which members may participate, subject to a fee ($100 for the Designed category and $200 for the Realised category, per project and per cycle). As an example, an Associate Member may participate in either Designed or Realised categories after paying the appropriate participation fee. Another example is that while an Academic Member may participate in the Student category free-of-charge (green check), he or she may also participate to the Designed category, where the Participation fee will apply.

Finally the red crosses represent the combinations which are not valid. For example, Professional or Associate members may not participate to the WA Awards in the Student category.

Participation fees are as follows and apply to the blue checks in the table above: WA Designed Award is subject to $100 participation fee and WA Realised Award is subject to $200 participation fee. Again, Professional members and Academic members are exempt from the participation fee for a single project in a single cycle as shown with the green checks in the table above.

Furthermore, all projects are welcome, be it a concept / design or a real-life built project (maximum within the last 10 years) provided they are ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS – this means landscaping, interior design or product design projects will be excluded from the competition and if any fees were paid for participating, there will be no refund.

Architects and Students from all countries are welcome to join the competition; there are no restrictions of any sort except that of being a registered member of the World Architecture Community (registration to WAC is completely free-of-charge). Projects must be submitted latest by the deadline specified at the top of this page, to be eligible for the current cycle. Deadline extensions, if applicable, are communicated via e-mai and are updated on this page.

Please note that WA Awards is based on trust and honesty and World Architecture Community may not be responsible for tracking the ownership of projects uploaded to the World Architecture Community website. In case of dispute projects, where the ownership is challenged and justified, will be excluded from the competition and any paid fees, be it participation or professional membership fees WILL NOT BE REFUNDED.