The shortlists of the awards held as part of the World Architecture Festival and INSIDE Festival, one of the most important architectural meetings in the world, have been announced. A total of 19 projects from Turkey will compete in the finals.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced this year’s festival shortlist of 420 projects, with entries from around the world including Portugal, Malaysia, Finland, Mexico, Turkey, Australia, Japan, India and the United Kingdom. The awards program honors the best newly completed buildings and landscape design projects, ranging from rural villas to contemporary religious buildings and healthcare facilities built during the pandemic.
This year, the festival deals with the theme “Together”, which explores how architecture responds to the renewal of collective life after the pandemic. The festival’s live event program also aims to analyze the role of architecture in its commitments to combating climate change. In addition to the completed buildings, the Projects of the Future category also includes inspiring architectural concepts.
The World Architecture Festival is an award program where short-listed projects are evaluated live in front of the jury, with presentations by project author architects. The works that come first in 43 categories in which completed buildings and projects that have not yet been built will compete for the organization’s top awards: “World’s Best Building”, “Landscape Design of the Year”, “Best Unfinished Project of the Year” and “Best Interior of the Year”. In the INSIDE Festival, which is organized in parallel with the World Architecture Festival, interior designs compete. Within the scope of INSIDE Festival, a total of 75 projects in 11 categories made it to the finals this year.
As every year, within the scope of the World Architecture Festival and INSIDE Festival, the building, architectural project and interior designs of architecture and interior design offices from Turkey are competing. 9 architectural buildings from Turkey are shortlisted in the WAF Compeleted Buildings categories. Autoban is one of the offices that reached the finals in the “Completed Buildings: Transport” category with its “Galataport Istanbul Cruise Port” and in the “Completed Buildings: Hotel and Leisure” category with its “Joali Being”. EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture’s Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum will compete in the “Completed Buildings: New and Old” category; Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architecture, on the other hand, made it to the finals in the “Completed Buildings: Production Energy and Recycling” category with its “Palanga Goat Shelter”. Erkal Architecture will compete in the “Completed Buildings: Higher Education and Research” category with its “Çankaya University Faculty of Architecture” building, and GAD Architecture will compete in the “Completed Buildings: Hotel and Leisure” category with its “Divan Event Space”. Tabanlıoğlu Architects will be in the “Completed Buildings: Hotel and Leisure” category with its “Bodrum Loft” and in the “Completed Buildings: Culture” category with its “Atatürk Cultural Center”. Yazgan Design and Architecture, on the other hand, was shortlisted in the “Completed Buildings: Production Energy and Recycling” category with its “Heper Lighting Factory”.
In the WAF Future Projects categories, 6 projects of 4 different offices from Turkey are on the short list. GAD Architecture will compete with its “Cappadocia Spa Hotel” project in the “Future Project: Leisure Led Development” category and with its “Çamlıbahçe Pazaryerine” project in the “Future Project: Civic” category. Tabanlıoğlu Mimarlık will compete with its “Karakiyanskiy Rayon Safari Resort” in the “Future Project: Leisure Led Development” category and with “IGA Istanbul VIP Terminal” in the “Future Project: Infrastructure” category. UMM – Uludağ Architecture will appear with “Istanbul Yenikapı Cruise Port” in the “Future Project: Infrastructure” category, and with the “Buyukada Mosque” in the “Future Project: Competition Entries” category.
In the INSIDE categories, 4 interior designs from Turkey were shortlisted. Autoban “Galataport Istanbul Cruise Port” is in the “Public Buildings” category with its interior design project. MAS Architecture is in the Residential (Single Dwelling) category with its “PH7800”. MSE (Metex Studio Erk) will compete with “Radisson Collection Hotel Bodrum” in the “Hotels” category and Boytorun Architecture made it to the finals in the “Temporary/Meanwhile Uses” category with its “TOGG CES Fair Stand”.
This year’s international jury members of the World Architecture Festival include Mario Cucinella, Tracy Meller, Sanjay Puri, Gonka Arık Calışkan, Sir Peter Cook, Yui Tezuka, and Shane O’Toole, Eva Jiricna, Issa Diabaté, Nadia Tromp, Jo Noero, Ann Lau and Nigel Coates. On the other hand, Olga Bolshanina (Herzog & de Meuron), Linzi Cassels (Perkins&Will), Tuğçe Rizeli Bilgi (GEO_ID), Meisa Batayneh (Maisam Architects & Engineers), Heather Dodd (Savage + Dodd Architects), James Grose (BVN) are the members of the INSIDE Festival jury.
