The Results of the Seventh Annual World Architecture Festival

Bestowing awards across an array of categories, the annual World Architecture Festival celebrates smart, sustainable, and stunning design. This year the seventh annual event was held in Singapore at the Moshe Safdie–designed Marina Bay Sands resort from October 1 to 3. A jury of architects, educators, and editors doled out prizes over each of the festival’s three days, alongside programming that included guest lecturers, such as architect Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and 2014 AD Innovator Ole Scheeren , and a score of panels and presentations on a range of topics.

Among the award winners were 2011 AD Innovator Bjarke Ingels’s new Danish Maritime Museum, in the Culture category, and House for Trees in Vietnam, designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects as a prototype for urban living in that country’s dense capital, which clinched the House prize.

The top honor, World Building of the Year, went to the Chapel, a community center for youth programs, exhibitions, and events designed by a21studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Built on a 32-by-65-foot lot, the steel structure has a branching, treelike support at its core, while multicolored curtains festoon indoor and outdoor spaces. For a full list of the winners, go to worldarchitecturefestivalom .

Click here for a slide show of some of the festival’s winning projects.

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