Iranian architects win World Architecture Festival Awards

“Sadra Civic Center” plan by Karand Architecture Group (Ali Shariati and Zahra Sarbandi) won the first award at the Competition Entries Future Project Winner category and “Guyim Vault House” plan in Shiraz by “Alireza Taghaboni” won the second award at the House Future Project category of the event.

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is an annual festival and awards ceremony, one of the most important events dedicated to the architecture and development industry. The first four events were held in Barcelona, from 2008 to 2011, at which point the festival moved to Singapore for four years. Since 2016, host cities have included Berlin and Amsterdam. At the festival around 200 shortlisted projects compete for awards in 31 categories. One of these projects is awarded the World Building of the Year title. All the entries are published in the World Buildings Directory online database and each year the World Architecture Festival publishes a list of the winners of the awards.