world architecture festival winners 2011

‘shima kitchen’ in tonosyotyo, japan by architects atelier ryo abe

image © ryo abe – architects atelier ryo abe

the grand jury for this year’s world architecture festival has revealed the first twelve winning projects from around the globe during the widely attended 3-day celebratory event in barcelona, spain. the selected feature completed buildings within the civic and community, culture, holiday, house, landscape, learning, new and old, office, production, energy and recycling, sport and transport categories. these have been chosen from over 700 projects created by a range of internationally renowned practices to local architects of 66 different countries.

unveiled on the second day included completed structures within the display, health, housing and shopping sectors along with future proposals. remaining to be released is the 2011 building of the year.

‘inbetween house’ in karuizawa, japan by koji tsutsui & associates image © iwan baan

list of winning projects:

civic and community: ‘saint nicholas antiochian orthodox christian church’ in springdale, USA by marlon blackwell architect culture: ‘shima kitchen’ in tonosyotyo, japan by architects atelier ryo abe display: ‘norwegian wild reindeer centre pavilion’ in hjerkinn, norway by snøhetta health: ‘rehabilitation centre groot klimmendaal’ in arnhem, netherlands by architectenbureau koen van velsen holiday: ‘raas jodhpur’ in jodhpur, india by the lotus praxis initiative house: ‘small house’ in sydney, australia by domenic alvaro of woods bagot housing: ‘8 house’ in copenhagen, denmark by BIG architects landscape: ‘a mother river recovered–the sanlihe greenway’ in china by turenscape learning: ‘sainsbury laboratory’ in cambridge, UK by stanton williams new and old: ‘puzzle piece’ in TM. de telde, spain by romera y ruiz arquitectos office: ‘media-ICT’ in barcelona, spain by cloud 9 sport: ‘speedskating stadium inzell – max aicher arena’ in inzell germany by behnisch architekten transport: ‘kurilpa bridge’ in brisbane, australia by cox architecture production, energy and recycling: ‘waste treatment facility from vallès occidental in vacarisses’ in vacarisses, barcelona, spain by batlle i roig architects shopping: ‘decameron’ in sao paolo,brazil by studio mk27 villa: ‘inbetween house’ in karuizawa, japan by koji tsutsui & associates

the sainsbury laboratory’ by stanton williams at the university of cambridge, cambridge, united kingdom image © hufton+crow see designboom’s original coverage of this project here.

‘8 house’ in copenhagen, denmark by BIG architects image © jens lindhe see designboom’s original coverage of this project here.

‘norwegian wild reindeer centre pavilion’ by snøhetta, dorve, norway image © klaas van ommeren see designboom’s original coverage of this project here.