• World Architecture Festival announces shortlist for inaugural Colour Prize

    24 September 2014

    A bank in Australia, a bridge in Sweden and a chapel in Vietnam, are among the eight projects shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for its inaugural Colour Prize.

    The Chapel - a21studio

    Sponsored by AkzoNobel, who are also Headline Partner of the festival, the Prize is the first of its kind to feature on the festival’s awards programme, the only criterion is that colour is an integral part of the exterior of the project.

    The architects responsible will now present their projects to the prize judges, including Dr Charles Robert Saumarez Smith CBE, Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts, and Goh Cheok Weng, General Manager for Projects, AkzoNobel Decorative Paints for South East & South Asia, live at the festival in October. The prize winner will be announced at the WAF awards ceremony on Friday 3 October.

    The shortlisted projects are:

    Project Name

    Architect

    		 Project Location
    Skyttelbron Shuttle Bridge in Lund

    Sweco Architects

    		 Lund, Sweden
    University of Paris IV-Sorbonne’s Clignancourt Centre

    GPAA

    		 Paris, France
    National Australia Bank

    Woods Bagot

    		 Melbourne, Australia
    ASB North Wharf

    BVN Donovan Hill in association with Jasmax

    		 Auckland, New Zealand
    Departments Of Law And Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business

    Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau

    		 Vienna, Austria
    The Chapel

    a21studio

    		 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Casa Lapis

    Architron Design Consultants S/B

    		 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Sustainable Industries Education Centre

    MPH Architects

    		 Adelaide, Australia

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