The Full List of World Architecture Festival 2022 Winners

From the building of the year, and interior of the year, to the future project of the year, Arch2O has compiled a fully detailed list for you, showcasing the World Architecture Festival 2022 Winners.

The Full List of World Architecture Festival 2022 Winners:-

1) Future Project of the Year:

The year 2022’s Future Project of the Year honors the finest still unfinished works of architecture from throughout the globe. The integration between a sports recreation park and a cultural avenue in Iran, created by CAATStudio, was named the winning project in this category (Kamboozia Architecture and Design Studio).

The idea displays an urban trail for bicyclists and pedestrians in Tehran’s Abbas Abad hills complex’s western section. When the project ends, its goal will be to turn the city into an enticing, interactive narrative that guides visitors between four zones using geometric shapes.

The World Architecture Festival’s Future Project super jury complimented the concept for offering an unexpected consistency between the city’s street grid and the district’s new parkland attraction, describing it as “intricately managed geometry.”

2) World Building of the Year:

Quay Quarter Tower, designed by 3XN, has been announced as the World Building of the Year 2022 at the fifteenth annual World Architecture Festival in Lisbon. QQT, near the Sydney Opera House, rejects the norms of a standard, uniform high-rise and is set out as a vertical village to foster a feeling of community and provide areas centered on cooperation, health, and well-being.

The 206-meter tower, built by stacking five changing volumes, was created using a groundbreaking sustainability approach called upcycling. As well as creating a social core with stunning scenery, the sequence of stacked atria also allows for abundant natural light to penetrate all floors.

3) Landscape of the Year:

For its work on the project Preservation and Rehabilitation of Rural Landscape of Gaodang: A Buyi Ethnic Minority Group Village in Southwest China, SHANCUN Atelier, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University + Anshun Institute of Architectural Design was named the winner of the Landscape of the Year 2022.

Ecological degradation, haphazard development, the hollowing out of the economy and society, deterioration of housing quality, and a weakening of community cohesion are just a few of the issues Gaodang Village dealt with.

Since 2015, the team has been developing a preservation and restoration plan in response to the difficulties and putting it into action gradually using the method of “investigation and study – consensus-building – planning and design – phased execution.” This initiative’s primary emphasis is balancing the natural and built environments, inspiring communities through legacies, and renovating homes using climate-adaptive technologies.

The World Architecture Festival’s Landscape of the Year judges praised the project for valuing regional cultural diversity, traditional cultural inheritance, and social equity for vulnerable groups, in addition to aesthetic landscape design and living environmental improvement. They also praised the project for its practical significance of the philosophy of mutualism between nature and humans.

4) World Interior of the Year:

The Dong Minority village of Pingtan, Tongdao Province, Hunan, China, is home to the Pingtan Children’s Library. This compact wood building has three levels and occupies an area of about 80 square meters. More than 400 local children attend the primary school courtyard where the building locates. Instead of a structure with floors and rooms, this is a structure made of two interlinked spiral staircases, forming a double loop that serves as both the children’s seats and the vertical circulation.

According to the judges, this project’s significance stems from two key lessons. The first relates specifically to the Pingtan youngsters who, beyond enjoying themselves while playing in the library, have come to understand that their culture is still alive and vital in this rapidly evolving world.

The second has to do with the discipline; it makes one aware of the social significance of architecture at a time when, particularly in a metropolitan city like Hong Kong, architecture seems to have lost its spirit to ever-demanding developers. The World Architecture Festival’s jury noted, “Design must have a purpose, not just for high-end structures, and social effect does not require a significant financial investment.”

5) World Architecture Festival Award Overall Winner:

In Dakar, Senegal, an iconic tower is a subject of the project proposal named “Tower of Life.” speculating on the active role Africa may play on a global scale, driving a design agenda where sustainability, openness, and ecology win.

Tower of Life is an energy-positive building covered with an earth membrane that was locally printed and functions as a living system, utilizing an economy of materials, energy, water, air, culture, and robotics. The Tower of Life symbolizes ecological architecture, establishing the parameters for what, why, and how architecture functions in the face of a global climate emergency.