Australian projects win 2024 WAFX Prizes

Three Australian projects are among the category winners of the 2024 WAFX Prizes, awarded by organisers of the World Architecture Festival (WAF).

The WAFX Prize recognises projects that best use design and architecture to take major world issues across 11 categories, such as Carbon and Climate, Re-Use, and Ethics and Values.

Eligible projects are selected from finalists of the Future Projects categories of the WAF Awards.

Woods Bagot's University of Tasmania Forestry Building is a winner of the Building Technology category; the University of Technology Sydney - National First Nations College by Warren and Mahoney in association with Greenaway Architects, Oculus and Finding Infinity received a prize in the Cultural Identity category; and the Greenline Project Master Plan by Aspect Studios, TCL and City of Melbourne was a winner of the Water category.

"This year's winners show how major challenges affecting people and environments generate responses which address functional and social problems, while lifting the spirits of those who will benefit from creative architecture and design," said Paul Finch, director of World Architecture Festival. "We look forward to seeing these ideas presented at our Festival in Singapore this November."

In all, 33 future projects are recognised in the WAFX Prizes. An overall winner will be announced at WAF in Singapore between 6 and 8 November, along with the winners of the WAF Awards.

See all the WAFX winners here.