Timber iQ February - March 2019 // Issue: 42 | Page 16

EVENTS
World Architecture Festival 2018
The world's largest international architectural event, held at the end
of November 2018 in Amsterdam, held live presentations in which
hundreds of shortlisted projects were presented by architectural
practices from around the world.
By World Architecture Festival | Photos by World Architecture Festival.
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ore than 2 000 attendees participated with awards
going to projects worldwide including Cape Town
and other African countries.
We have a compiled a summary (below) of the various
categories and respective award winners.
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
- COMPLETED BUILDINGS
The category was won by CHROFI with McGregor Croxall for
their Maitland Riverlink project in Maitland, Australia. The
project included the creation of a new public space
between the town’s high street and river, flanked by public
amenities, with judges impressed by the clarity and
simplicity of the architects’ design in opening up the town
to the river by removing existing buildings.
CULTURE - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Awarded to Conrad Gargett for The Piano Mill project in
Stanthorpe, Australia. The building’s shape and construction
excited the judges, who felt it was perfect for its location,
viewing it as a ‘prime instrument in an orchestra of trees’.
DISPLAY - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
The category winner was Arkitema Architects & Professor
Christoffer Harlang for their Hammershus Visitor Centre in
Allinge, Denmark. Celebrating the largest castle ruin in
northern Europe, located on the tiny Baltic island of
Bornholm, the centre’s designs were hailed by judges as a
real ‘Gesamtkunstwerk – a total complete project’.
HOUSE - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
David Leech Architects won the category for its A House In a
Garden – 81 Hollybrook Grove project in Dublin, Ireland.
The practice’s first project was commended as an ‘extremely
precisely thought, conceptualised and executed exercise in
layers of detail’.
NEW AND OLD - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Heatherwick Studio won this award for its Zeitz MOCAA
project in Cape Town, South Africa. The inventive, creative
and intriguing reuse of industrial grain silos wowed the
judges, with the building’s new entrance lobby lauded as a
‘unique and evocative space’.
OFFICE - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
INNOCAD Architecture triumphed in this category with its
C&P Corporate Headquarters project in Graz, Austria. Judges
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were impressed by the intricate and adaptive design of the
real estate developer’s new landmark headquarters and
also praised the building’s open floorplates and smart
common areas.
PRODUCTION, ENERGY & RECYCLING
- COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Parvianen Architects won the award for their Lansisalmi
Power Station project in Finland. Judges commented that
‘the consideration exhibited in the composition extended
through the architect’s choice of materials and details,
which is rare in this building typology’.
SMALL SCALE HOUSING
- COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris was victorious in this
category, supported by GROHE, scooping the award for the
Weston Street development in London, UK. The judges felt it
constituted a ‘radical reimagination of the standard,
single-storey cellular residential model, offering a multi-
level, volumetric multi-dwelling typology’.
SPORT - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Koffi & Diabate Architectes won the category with its
Gymnasium, Blaise Pascal High School project in Abidjan,
Ivory Coast. The festival’s judges recognised it as ‘an
exemplary, ethical and beautifully realised project,
perfectly balancing tectonic and environmental design with
astonishingly mature spatial and formal control’.
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