Small House / By Domenic Alvaro

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Domenic Alvaro
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Photo © Courtesy of Trevor Mein - meinphoto Pty Ltd

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: HOUSE
Small house is an ultra-compact concrete vertical house that adds to the urban fabric of inner city Surry Hills in Sydney. The site is so small it can fit into the garage of your typical sprawling suburban home (7mx6m).

Pixel Building / By studio505

Melbourne, Australia
studio505
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Photo © Courtesy of Ben Hosking

FIRST CARBON NEUTRAL BUILDING AT CARLTON BREWERY SITE
Grocon will start construction of the first Carbon Neutral office building of its type in Australia, and possibly the world, later this year.To be located at Grocon’s Carlton Brewery site at the top end of Swanston Street, the Pixel building will become a project office for the duration of the $1 billion urban renewal program.

Won Dharma Center / By Hanrahan Meyers Architects LLP

Claverack, NY, United States
Hanrahan Meyers Architects LLP
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Photo © Courtesy of Michael Moran

The Won Dharma Center, USA, is a 32,000 square foot recreational and spiritual retreat in Claverack, New York for the Won Buddhists, a Korean organization that emphasizes balance in one's daily life and relationship to nature.

Metalmorphosis Sculpture / By David Cerny

SCULPTURE, METAL WORKING

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
David Cerny
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Photo © Courtesy of David Cerny

‘Metalmorphosis’ is a giant dynamic sculpture 30 feet high, located by the main façade of the business centre ‘Whitehall’ in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first permanent public construction in USA by a Czech sculptorDavid Cerny.

Red Bull Headquarters Interior / By Sid Lee Architecture

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sid Lee Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Ewout Huibers

Picked over 2 different firms, Sid Lee Architecture and Sid Lee’s Amsterdam atelier were mandated to make the new Red Bull Amsterdam head offices.

SA Residence / By Shatotto Architecture

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shatotto Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Daniele Domenicali, Rafiq Azam

Unfolding Nothingness…
1. Inspiration

Water the most precious and abundant and life subtly woven with it, makes Bangladesh a country of toil and poetry.

Miguel Rio Branco Gallery / By Arquitetos Associados

Brumadinho, MG, Brazil
Arquitetos Associados
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Photo © Courtesy of Leonardo Finotti

Located on a sloping terrain, surrounded by forest, this pavilion redesigned the topography so that the volume of the building blends.

Eight Spruce Street ( Beekman Tower) / By Gehry Partners, LLP

8 Spruce Street, Newyork, United States
Gehry Partners, LLP
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Photo © Courtesy of Gehry Partners, LLP

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Structural Design of the Year 
The 867 ft, 76-story iconic Beekman Tower, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, is New York City’s tallest residential tower. Located in the middle of the block bounded by Nassau, Beekman, Spruce and Gold Streets, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, the 1.1 million SF mixed-use building has redefined the skyline of Downtown Manhattan.

Casa en Brione / By Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects

Brione sopra Minusio, TI, Switzerland
Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Hannes Henz

This house is located in a prime urban area above Locarno, with an impressive view of the city, mountains and a lake.

Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion / By Snøhetta

Hjerkinn, Norway
Snøhetta
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Photo © Courtesy of Ketil Jacobsen

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: DISPLAY
The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion is located at Hjerkinn on the outskirts of Dovrefjell National Park, overlooking the Snøhetta mountain massif.

A Mother River Recovered--The Sanlihe Greenway / By Turenscape

Qian'an, Hebei Province, China
Turenscape
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Image © Courtesy of Turenscape

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: LANDSCAPE

The Qian'an Sanlihe Greenway is transformed from former garbage dump and sewage drainage.

Raas Jodhpur / By The Lotus Praxis Initiative

Jodhpur, India
The Lotus Praxis Initiative
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Photo © Courtesy of Andre Fanthome--Overview of restored site and new hotel block

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: HOLIDAY
CREATIVE CONCEPT:
Hand crafting a story for today.

Set in the heart of the walled city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, RAAS is a 1.5-acre property uniquely located at the base of the Mehrangarh Fort. The brief was to create a luxury boutique hotel with 39 rooms in the context of the Old city quarter of Jodhpur.

Hanimaadhoo International Airport / By Integrated Design Associates Limited

Maldives
Integrated Design Associates Limited
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Image © Courtesy of Integrated Design Associates Limited

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Future Project of the Year

The new airport, designated as the country’s second international gateway, is located on an island with very limited land mass for an international airport of this size.

Decameron / By Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan

São Paulo, Brazil
Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan
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Photo © Courtesy of Pedro Vannucchi

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: SHOPPING

The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo.

Kurilpa Bridge / By Cox Architecture

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cox Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Christopher Frederick Jones

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: TRANSPORT

Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest structure to be based upon the principles of ‘tensegrity’, the term coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller to describe a system of balanced compressive and tensile forces.

Carbon Bar Interior / By B3 Designers

London, England
B3 Designers
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Photo © Courtesy of B3 Designers + Carbon Bar

The Carbon Bar is a welcome addition to the Cumberland Hotel, also home to the Kelly Hoppen designed Gary Rhodes’ W1 restaurant. Carbon features an interior inspired by industrial architecture and brings low-key, yet chic Shoreditch style to the West End.

Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church / By Marlon Blackwell Architect

Springdale, United States
Marlon Blackwell Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Timothy Hursley--At night, St. Nicholas presents a glowing, balanced composition. The architects embedded blue and yellow glass windows and a red cross in the white, western elevation. To further delineate the church, they surrounded it with a skirt of black mulch.

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church is the result of a transformation of an existing metal shop building into a sanctuary and fellowship hall in anticipation of a larger adjacent sanctuary on the same site.

In Between House / By Koji Tsutsui & Associates

Karuizawa, Japan
Koji Tsutsui & Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of Iwan Baan

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: Villa
The client chose a sloped site surrounded by Japanese larch trees in a mountainous region of Karuizawa, Japan, (an hour commute away from Tokyo on a bullet train) as the ideal location for their home.

CZP Chalet Zermatt Peak / By MLS Architekten AG

Zermatt, Switzerland
MLS Architekten AG
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Photo © Courtesy of Chalet Zermatt Peak + MLS Architekten AG--Chalet Zermatt Peak Exterior

Chalet Zermatt Peak has been created not only as a technical marvel, but a truly inspirational design project with many items bespoke designed and hand made.

Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge / By Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

Paris, France
Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
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Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pesendorfer--Overall view

The pedestrian bridge with a length of 304 meters links the new districts of Paris- Bercy and Tolbiac - and at the same time the new national french library with the Park Tolbiac.