Winners of World Architecture Community Awards

The winners of the 1st cycle of the 20+10+X Architecture Awards were recently announced by World Architecture Community.

The aim of the awards is to highlight and publish remarkable projects that might otherwise remain unnoticed by the international public but have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse. World Architecture Community is now calling for submissions for the 2nd cycle. Deadline is October 24, 2008.

Twenty projects were selected as winners of the 1st cycle by the votes of WA Honorary Members:

DesignBuild PNG: Labu-tale Haus Sik, Papua New Guinea

Odile Decq: Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (with Burkhard Morass), Italy

Bjarke Ingels:, LEGO (conception), Denmark (image below)

Shigeru Kuwahara: trifurcation, Japan

Anand Mata: Housing for Shipmakers (conception), India

Rolando Rojas: Caleta de Pescadores en Pan de Azucar (conception), Chile

Imrul Kayes: handmade, the MUD house in Bangladesh (conception), Bangladesh (image below)

Marks Barfield Architects: The Lightbox, United Kingdom

Jim Burton: Yoga Studio, United States

Dennis Sam Shaju: Kalagram (conception), India

Lab Zero: Carapace House (conception), France (image below)

Hugo Kohno TokyoMatsuya Unity, Japan

HAS Architecture: EKOYapi (conception), Turkey

Przemek Olczyk: origami (conception), Poland

A2G arquitectura: gbd, china beijing 2007 (conception), China

Rafiq Azam: Meghna Residence : living in delta, Bangladesh (image below)

planet 3 studios architecture pvt. ltd.: Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, India

Charles Correa: Brain and Cognitive Science Center, United States

Bibiana Ulanosky: Chico Mendes Environmental Resources Center, Spain

Ramin Mehdizadeh: Stair House, Iran (image below)