Waf awards 2017 shortlist

16-Nov-2017 Can an arena be a good neighboor? Large stadiums and music venues are often placed in the outskirts of cities, but not in Copenhagen. Royal Arena, a 35.000 square metre venue, has just opened in the middle of a residential area, and is designed by 3XN Architects together with HKS to be a good neighbour. One of the most anticipated cultural venues in Copenhagen, the 35,000 m2 Royal Arena, opened with four sold out concerts by Metallica. Specially designed for concerts and international level sporting events, this new venue combines two key ambitions: to create an attractive and highly flexible multi-purpose arena that can attract spectators locally as well as internationally, while ensuring that the building’s presence will... More

ABOUT Studio Guilherme Torres is a company of talents, composed by his founder and by his enfantterribles – the architects Rafael Miliari and Enrico Beer Boimond, and managed by the luxury industry specialist, Debora Atsuko. It was founded in 2001 in the city of Londrina. Ten years later, it moved to São Paulo and, nowadays, is currently crossing an important renewal phase. CONCEPT This project was born in parallel with the renovation of the company’s framework. The main idea reflects the spirit of the 21stcentury, that is to be multidisciplinary and go beyond the architecture and design that Studio Guilherme Torres is already known for. Therefore, the space was designed to allow new creations and projects. STRUCTURE "Architecture... More

- Hanoi after the 1975, (the end of the war with USA) undertake a rapid and uncontrolled urbanization growth. Its population increase from 880.000 thousand to 7.500.000 million of people, and the need of welcome the new inhabitant came at the expenses of green and public spaces leaving Hanoi today to be a true concrete jungle Hanoi city is in great need to update and increase its infrastructure and new project are actually taking place, but these projects are destroying the legacy between nature and its citizen, eradicating a already depleted aspect of the city: Its GREEN. - In 2016 to allow the construction of an elevated rail line (the first in Hanoi) 170, 150 years old tree were cut down. The population protested vigorously against... More

Identity The Farm 38° 30°, an iconic boutique dairy factory, derives its name from the coordinates of the site it is located in, the “38° 30° Valley of Art” in the village of Afyon Tazlar, in the province of Afyonkarahisar in Central Turkey. Located at the entrance of the valley, this dairy factory offers degustation for visitors, all the while exhibiting the production process of the dairy products of the farm. While ensuring maximum efficiency for the production line as in a “classical” cheese factory building, the boutique factory adopts a more contemporary attitude via its monumental form. The building wraps around an inner green courtyard and opens itself to the exterior via its large welcoming canopy. The building typology is upgr... More

Jinmao Harbour Shopping Center is a community lifestyle mall located in the core of the overall Lanhai New Harbour City at Jiaozhou Bay, the western shoreline of Qingdao. In response to the government’s plan to revive the old town district, the mall will rejuvenate the coastal landscape. Lying between a high-end residential zone and the cruise terminal, the mall offers five levels of above ground retail and two levels of basement parking. An outdoor stepped garden drives circulation to the skypark above the terminal and the seaside promenade, and connects the adjacent developments. Along the shoreline, strong waves have crafted a natural landscape of layered shale staggered on top of each other. The staggered shale was translated into... More

The spatial development patterns of city regions is shaped by the need for central locations of global cities, whereas industrial production capacities, wholesale supplies, and customer services spread out the peripheries, as well as various residential zones. Not only for easy accessibility but also to satisfy the need for face-to-face interactions, have the communicative transport hubs become the iconic meeting places of our era. Having previously designed various projects in the city, such as Astana Arena and Astana Media Center, Tabanlioglu Architects are well experienced about the conditions, needs and goals of the city and the citizens. Astana is in the geographical center of Kazakhstan and having a wide transport and communica... More

OVERVIEW --The Capers is a mixed residential development comprising two 36-storey towers and two 5-storey blocks of residential apartments, rising from the piano nobile of a landscaped carparking podium. It is located amidst the suburban sprawl of Sentul, 5 km north of the Kuala Lumpur city-centre. It occupies 4.3 acres amongst various other land-parcels within the larger Sentul Masterplan. It is developed by YTL LAND under the leadership of DatoYeohSeok Kian -- mastermind, risk-taker and visionary. THE AESTHETIC IDEA --The search for architectural form began from an interpretation of the site: its flat terrain and geography, and its rugged landscape of greenery and parks. The organic form of the towers drew inspiration from... More

The building shapes within the programmatic organization and adapts to the local climate and architecture. The indigenous fabric of mud brick houses in the villages of Middle Anatolian plain is the main reference. The complex is composed of an agglomeration of masses that form an inner pedestrian street inbetween. The inner street is the semi -open circulation and public spine of the campus. It also gathers the programs in a horizontal relationship and a gathering space. The façade is composed of terra cotta baguettes that metaphorically refer to the local use of mud brick in the villages. The terra cotta layer on the façade forms a double façade to provide shading and temperature control inside the building. The program is composed o... More

14-Nov-2017 This a unique sustainable and digital school in the Netherlands. Two existing schools in two neighbouring locations in Maastricht are merging into a new school on a new location in that city. This particular location was chosen to strengthen the weak social structure of the two neighbourhoods and to introduce a new digital education system to learn also more about the environment, nature and sustainability. Even the playground outside has different zones to help children (re)discover nature and explore their world by means of experiments or to build and test objects. The digital way of teaching is for the most part paperless (virtual), which is represented in the architecture of the building. It shows a brick element wi... More

ATLAS HOTEL HOIAN is located in Hoi An’s “Old Town; an area which has rapidly grown since it was officially named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.Recently, most of the ancient houses have been converted into shops and restaurants that serve the daily influxof tourism. The neighborhood is well known for its beautiful tiled-roofscape and itsinternal courtyardsthat provide a layered spatial quality between the inner and outer spaces. This quality has been slowly eroded due tochaotic commercial flow. As a consequence, Old Town has lost its charmof a calm and peaceful lifestyle. Located in an irregular plot of land, the designapproach of Atlas Hotel is to turn this constrain into its unique character. The linear layout is divided into sev... More

This project is the result of the cooperation between Gottlieb Paludan Architect & Urban Design One of the world’s largest biomassfuelled CHP plant has been built in an urban context in Stockholm as an extension of the existing Värtaverket. Värtaverket is surrounded by industrial, office, residential and recreational areas. This major extension was required to show consideration for its neighbours, and respect the presence of a number of protected oak trees and the function of the area as a fauna path between the northern and southern parts of Djurgården – a scenic area that blends into Stockholm proper. The building is wrapped in curved brick slats, which may be regarded as a subtle nod to the fine, old industrial buildings on th... More

13-Nov-2017 Leaded by French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Normandy Regional Council, this project is to create a whole new gastronomic learning center. It’s located in the heart of Saint-Lô Technopole, a 50 Ha campus dedicated tohigher education and research. The building containsinnovative tools dedicated to a more performant pedagogy whose goal is to provide qualified and skilled people to companies. Beyond the gastronomic restaurant, opened to public, the campus includes a brasserie, a chic snacking to take-away and a space for oenology. It also integrates a high-performance kitchen for low temperature cooking and a mini amphitheaterwith videoconference to offer online trainings and Michelin-starred chefs demonstration. Arch... More

New Zealand was the last landmass to be inhabited, and then deforested with unrivalled speed. Its new clearedlandscapes are still so young they shift, when they failnewnative trees grow. It might take a hundred years or more, but buildings that participate in this shift couldonedayinhabit near-original forest. This is something new, for New Zealand architecture was established and has remained in clearings.To inhabit its original forest landscape, architecture must understand existing contextrather than generate new landscapes, it must be soft, patient and ready to change;as we exhibited at the 2015 Prague International Architecture Festival entitled Soft-Context:Soft-Architecture. Bach-with-Two-Roofs found itself in a shifting landscape... More

Entirely clad in bricks, THE CLOUDS marks the completion of the surrounding ecodristrict, offering a reinterpretation of Paris courtyards that connects Rue des Cévennes with the park that lies in the centre of the district. The two architects imagined this walkway to favour gentle circulation on the lot, which was envisioned from the very beginning as a pedestrian oasis and a pioneer biodiversity program. The design of the project offering 109 apartments within the Boucicaut ZAC relies on two solutions to lessen the impact of the project’s high density: 1-Stretching across the project is a courtyard, surrounded by four facades (windows open mainly onto kitchens, bedrooms and a few bathrooms), much like traditional Paris courtyards.... More