World Architecture Festival 2024

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World Architecture Festival and INSIDE World Festival of Interiors will take place at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, from 6-8 November, 2024.

WAF and its co-located event, Inside World Festival of Interiors, will welcome the world’s leading architects and designers for three days of talks programmes, awards, exhibitions and fringe events, showcasing leading international practices, the best new projects, and most pressing live debates.

World Architecture Festival 2024 shortlist reveals most innovative projects from across the globe. The shortlist celebrates the best new completed buildings and landscapes as well as the most inspiring future architectural concepts, across 33 categories, ranging from residential, to transport, to retrofit.

Every year, WAF hosts the world's biggest live-judged architecture awards programme. It celebrates design achievements through presentations by architects to high-profile delegates and international judging panels.

The 2024 World Architecture Festival (WAF) comprises:
- Events programme and keynote talks
- Live judging of finalists’ projects
- Gallery of all award entries
- Exhibition area
- Networking and social events including partner fringe events - Gala dinner announcing the overall winners
- A tours programme of local architectural landmarks in Singapore Inside World Festival of Interiors runs alongside WAF, with its own awards and conference programme.

WAFX Awards
Over thirty exemplary future projects which address major architectural issues facing society and the planet have been announced as winners of this year’s World Architecture Festival WAFX Awards. The WAFX Prize awards projects that best use design and architecture to tackle major world issues across eleven key categories, including health, climate change, technology, ethics and values.