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World Architecture Festival 2009 Winners

6 de noviembre de 2009 | By: admin
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The World Architecture Festival has announced the winners to their 9 categories (Civic and Community, Culture, Holiday, House, Housing, Learning, New and Old, Office, and Shopping) after the break you’ll find a couple of images for each of the winners with the captions provided by the festival.

Civic and Community
Emergency Terminal, Zagreb, Croatia
Produkcija 004, Croatia
WAF-EmergencyTerminal-1
An eight storey terminal in the heart of Zagreb, with partly translucent walls, provides for Zagreb’s emergency medical assistance institute.

Culture
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, South Africa
Peter Rich Architects, South Africa

WAF-Mapungubwe-1

Sited at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers, with rounded roofs and surfaced in local rubble in order to become part of the landscape.

Holiday
Restaurant Tusen, Ramundberget, Sweden
Murman Arkitekter ab, Sweden

WAF-Tusen-1

Restaurant built on the ski slopes near the Helags and Skars mountains with a birch log frontage.

House
Klein Bottle House, Rye, Australia
McBride Charles Ryan, Australia

WAF-Klein-1

Holiday home shaped like an origami Klein bottle.

Learning
The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur, India
Morphogenesis, India

WAF-Pearl-1

Designed as a low cost environmentally sensitive campus.

New and Old
TKTS Booth and the Redevelopment of Father Duffy Square, New York, USA
Perkins Eastman, USA (Architect), Choi Ropiha, Australia (Concept Architect), William Fellows/ PKSB (Plaza Architect), Dewhurst MacFarlane and Partners (Structural Engineer)

WAF-Tkts-1

Dramatic red TKTS booth and redevelopment of Father Duffy Square in the iconic Times Square in New York.

Office
Unileverhaus, Hamburg, Germany
Behnisch Architekten, Germany

WAF-Unilever-1

A dynamic new headquarters for the Unilever Germany Company providing an exciting and environmentally responsible office building for staff.

Shopping
Havaianas, São Paulo, Brazil
Isay Weinfeld, Brazil

WAF-Havainas-1

The iconic brand’s first dedicated store in Brazil. which mirrors the laid back approach of the flip flop manufacturer, a simple box design and oversized red logo form the shell of the building.