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London, United Kingdom, 2026-07-17 –

This yr’s finest worldwide structure and interiors are revealed because the 2026 World Architecture Festival (WAF) shortlist is introduced. Celebrating probably the most excellent new accomplished buildings, interiors and panorama designs from around the globe and visionary future architectural tasks, the shortlist units the stage for the pageant’s second occasion within the USA. Finalists will current their tasks stay to a world panel of esteemed judges at WAF 2026, which is able to happen on the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 18-20 November.

The 2026 WAF shortlist options 416 tasks, throughout classes starting from finest Creative Re-Use, Housing and Education to finest Hotel, Health, Sports and Culture. Selected from over 630 entries, this yr’s shortlist celebrates unimaginable groundbreaking architectural and design achievements.

View venture picture highlights from the 2026 WAF shortlist here.
 
This yr’s WAF shortlist brings collectively venture entries from world-leading practices together with: Foster + Partners, Snøhetta, Herzog & de Meuron, Coldefy, Grimshaw, Sanjay Puri Architects, Perkins&Will, and Woods Bagot alongside work from an thrilling new era of rising studios.

Within the shortlist, practices from the USA are probably the most extremely represented, with China, India, UK, and Australia additionally within the high ten.
 
The full WAF shortlist awards may be seen here. 
 
This yr’s 205 shortlisted accomplished buildings embrace all the things from an immersive tropical clubhouse in Vietnam to a landmark fish market in Sydney and a 1.2-acre oceanfront park in Florida.
 
The 48 shortlisted interiors vary from an off-grid non-public wildlife sanctuary and visitor lodge in South Africa to a design-led rooftop bar in Bangkok, whereas the 12 shortlisted landscapes embrace a clubhouse in Vietnam designed as a dwelling organism and an ecological landmark within the Philippines that showcases the structural materials qualities of bamboo.
 
The 151 future tasks shortlisted embrace a climate-responsive house in Mumbai and an bold imaginative and prescient for a youngsters’s hospital in Texas.
 
WAF options the world’s largest live-judged structure awards, complemented by keynote talks, an exhibition, and varied fringe occasions together with structure excursions, networking alternatives, and workshops.
 
This yr’s WAF Judging Panel of 164 consultants representing 37 nations, contains: Peter Cook, Founder at Peter Cook Studio Crablab, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), Olga Bolshanina, Senior Partner at Herzog & de Meuron and Cazú Zegers, Director and Founder at Cazú Zegers Architecture.
 
The full listing of WAF Judges for 2026 may be seen here.
 
Still to come back, the winners of this yr’s WAFX Awards, celebrating structure that tackles main world points, shall be introduced on Monday 20 July on WAF social media channels, with the Special Prizes bulletins following on Monday 27 July.
 
All finalists on the shortlist will current their tasks inside their classes through the first two days of the pageant. On the ultimate day, class winners from throughout all 43 classes will go on to current to the Super Jury to compete for World Building, Landscape, Future Project and Interior Project of the Year. The total winners of this yr’s Special Prizes, together with WAFX, can even be introduced stay from the pageant.
 
WAF programme director Paul Finch feedback: “WAF continues to thrive with more than 630 entries to the Awards programme this year, despite global challenges. As ever, the combination of major practices and smaller firms, perhaps entering WAF for the first time, is refreshing, and the shortlisting judges were impressed by the design standards of the selected entries. We have also shortlisted designs for a host of special prizes, which will make for a stimulating set of presentations to our international judges in Fort Lauderdale this November.”
 
WAF shall be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for its 19^th version, following earlier editions of the pageant in Miami, Singapore, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Berlin.
 
Press can apply for an Official Press Pass to attend the World Architecture Festival here.
For extra particulars on the 2026 World Architecture Festival and the WAF Awards please go to: worldarchitecturefestival.com @worldarchfest #WAF26

About World Architecture Festival (WAF)
www.worldarchitecturefestival.com

World Architecture Festival will happen on the Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 18–20 November 2026.

WAF is the place the world structure group meets to have a good time, study, trade and be impressed.

Every yr, WAF hosts the world’s largest live-judged structure awards programme. It celebrates design achievements by shows by architects to high-profile delegates and worldwide judging panels.

The 2026 World Architecture Festival (WAF) contains:

• A celebration of the world’s finest structure, panorama and inside tasks
• Events programme and keynote talks
• Live judging of awards finalist shows
• Gallery of all award entries
• Exhibition space
• Networking and social occasions together with companion fringe occasions
• Gala dinner saying the general winners
• A excursions programme of native landmarks in Fort Lauderdale

WAF is organised by emap, publishers of The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal.

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