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World Architecture Festival

Sunset Chapel, Mexico by Bunker Arquitectura

WAF 2011 Awards shortlist announced Subscription Required

17 August 2011 | By Tom Ravenscroft

The 284-strong shortlist of projects competing for prizes at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has been unveiled

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Two London Schools: Cottrell and Vermeulen, Agents of Change and revitalising beautiful brickwork Subscription Required

31 January 2012 | By Cany Ash , Robert Sakula

In stitching together disparate school campuses, these two additions reinterpret a London idiom to reaffirm the facade’s urban significance and the lost art of ornament

Fluidly planned, humanely scaled and inviting, Sandal Magna aims to dispel notions of educational authoritarianism

Wiggleworth's Wakefield School design Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Gillian Horn

Reworking local urban and industrial morphologies for a human scale and young imaginations, this primary school in Wakefield transforms anomie into engagement

The mesh facade creates an interesting ornamental facade

AAVP Architecture's Casares-Doisneau School decorates French soil Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Andrew Ayers

Emblematic of wider transformation in the grim flatlands north of Paris, a new school rises from the ashes of a former industrial site in Saint-Denis

House in Komazawa and Pilotis in a Forest_Japan_Go Hasegawa

Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Wilson

Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest

The 17-Storey Tower

Lacaton & Vassal's revitalisation of a Parisian tower block Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Ayers

The striking transformation of a run-down tower in northern Paris suggests an alternative approach to the physical and social redevelopment of decaying post-war housing

World Architecture Festival 2011

Sunset Chapel, Mexico by Bunker Arquitectura

WAF 2011 Awards shortlist announced Subscription Required

17 August 2011 | By Tom Ravenscroft

The 284-strong shortlist of projects competing for prizes at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has been unveiled

Shortlist for Inside: World Festival of Interiors awards announced Subscription Required

10 August 2011

Inside has revealed a 41-strong shortlist of projects battling to win prizes at the inaugural World Festival of Interiors