World Architecture Awards 10+5+X

For over 52 Cycles, the World Architecture Community has organized the prestigious and acclaimed World Architecture Community Awards (WA Awards). The WA Awards highlights and recognizes remarkable projects that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.

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

World Architecture Community has always seen architecture as a holistic approach. However, evolving technology and the changing conditions of today's architectural design oeuvre have shown that the interior design profession has gradually grown into a distinct business and design field. For this reason, starting from the 33rd Cycle of WA Awards, the World Architecture Community launched the new Interior Design section. 

So, we are welcoming you to participate in World Architecture's WA Awards 10+5+X with your Architecture and/or Interior Design (in Realised and Student categories only*) projects. 

*The WA Awards is not accepting Interior Design - Designed projects.

Eligible Members

Only Architects, Architecture Offices, Interior Designers, Interior Design Offices, Architecture and Interior Design Students are eligible to apply to WA Awards 10+5+X.

Categories

This competition has 3 distinct categories for Architecture section and 2 distinct categories for Interior Design as listed below, each with 10+5+X winners:

For Architecture:

• WA Designed Award: Projects that were not built,
• WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (maximum within the last 5 years),
• WA Student Award: School projects designed by Students/Academics (projects must have been studied in students' undergraduate years or in Master's Degree), only "Designed/Conceptual" projects valid - Student category projects must be presented with Supervisor or Tutor/Instructor's name and surname in the "Project Team" section during the upload. Student category projects which don't comply with these criteria will be removed from the competition, 

For Interior Design:

• WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (maximum within the last 5 years),
• WA Student Award: School projects designed by Students/Academics (projects must have been studied in students' undergraduate years or in Master's Degree), only "Designed/Conceptual" projects valid - Student category projects must be presented with Supervisor or Tutor/Instructor's name and surname in the "Project Team" section during the upload. Student category projects which don't comply with these criteria will be removed from the competition, 

In order to submit a project to the WA Awards in the Student category for both Architecture and Interior Design categories, an architecture/interior design student and his/her project's have to meet these criteria below;

- Architecture/Interior Design student must be pursuing an Architecture/Interior Design Degree from the Department of Architecture in any University,  

- Architecture//Interior Design student must still be a student at the time of applying for the WA Awards,

- The submitted project must be designed by the architect himself/herself,

- The submitted project must be a school project designed by Student (projects must have been studied in students' undergraduate years or in Master's Degree), only "Designed/Conceptual" projects are valid,

Realised and Designed categories under Architecture that are open to our Basic, Business, and Professional members. Additionally, the Student category, which is exclusively reserved for our Academic members (without a participation fee), accepts both Architecture and Interior Design projects.

As a participant if you designed a building together with its interior, and if you prefer, you may participate with the same project to both (Architecture and Interior Design - Realised) Awards by paying their attendance fees. While attending the Interior Design section of WA Awards, we kindly ask you to upload only plans, interior photos and descriptions from your project that are relevant to the section.

Timing

The WA Awards 10+5+X runs typically for 3-4 cycles per year. This gives our jury more breathing room and gives participants more time to finalise their projects. Please consult “How to Participate?” page to learn about the current cycle’s submission deadline.

Selection Process

The WA Awards Jury, composed by a mixture of our Honorary Members and earlier WA Awards Winners, selects the first 10. The next 5 will be awarded based on the Votings of fellow community members of World Architecture. To vote on projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 project uploaded to their page at least 1 month ago, and the project must be open to the public, having been approved by the World Architecture Community.

Finally, the "X" will be those projects, which did not make it to the final selection of 10 or 5, but which had that something "special", that made them worthy of selection and acknowledgement as "X" by the WA Jury.

Participation Fees

WAC Academic Members may participate in the WA Student Award category, with a single project per cycle, free of charge.

WAC Basic and Business Members may participate to the WA Designed Award or WA Realised Award categories but will be subject to a fee. (The Professional and Academic members may participate with additional projects in a given cycle, subject to a fee as well) Participation to the WA Designed Award will require a fee of US $130 per cycle and per project submission, while the WA Realised Award will be subject to US $240 per cycle and per project submission. They may not participate to the WA Student Award.

Winners

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

Your Next Steps

At the top or the bottom of this page, you will see:

"How to Participate" button that takes you to the "How to Participate?" page, where you will find more specific and important information about participating in the WA Awards.

"WA Awards Submissions" button, which takes you to the section where community members (who have at least 1 project uploaded at least 1 month ago on their page) can Vote on the current cycle's participating projects, and the WA Jury can vote.

The "WA Awards Winners" button will guide you to review all the previous cycle winners.

Make sure to participate to this acclaimed competition to showcase your work and get the visibility it needs.