WAN EMEA Shortlist 2024
Current Projects
Residential
Commercial
1 The Island Quarter
Jestico + Whiles
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Unlocking a post-industrial brownfield site, 1 The Island Quarter forms the gateway to a major new cultural hub, marking the first part of The Island Quarter mixed-use masterplan, completed in September 2022. The canalside building houses a 2,000 sqm flexible events space, a bar, and a restaurant within a form that draws on the site’s ...
BEEAH Headquarters
Zaha Hadid Architects
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Powered by its solar array and equipped with next-generation technologies for operations at LEED Platinum standards, the new BEEAH Headquarters has been designed to achieve net-zero with future-ready technologies for minimal energy consumption to serve as a blueprint for tomorrow’s smart, sustainable cities. With their twin-pillared s...
BudaPrés Cider – Etyek, Hungary
BORD Architectural Studio
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The cider factory designed by BORD Architectural Studio is located on the Old Hill in Etyek (Hungary) where the landscape has long been defined by the sight of small wine press houses with gable roofs among the vineyards. A father and son, both passionate wine enthusiasts, embarked on a family venture to establish an apple orchard and ...
Publicly accessible
L´Usine Sports Center in Tarbes
IDOM
Copyright: IDOM/Pedro Pegenaute
The project is the result of an ideas competition for the transformation of an old military industry building from the early 20th century into a large sports center of importance for the city, the region and the country. The building, oriented north-south, measures 125 m long by 85 m wide, organized into a 20 m high central buildin...
Novartis Pavillon
AMDL CIRCLE
Copyright: Rasmus Hjortshøj
The Novartis Pavillon in Basel explores the potential of architecture to communicate the values of science. It not only serves as a representative building for the company but is also intended to extend beyond that purpose. Following an international competition held by Novartis, AMDL CIRCLE was chosen to design a building to co...
The Pyramid of Tirana
MVRDV
Copyright: Ossip van Duivenbode
In the heart of Albania’s capital city, a new kind of cultural hub opened in October 2023 and is accessible to the public. The Pyramid of Tirana, originally built in 1988 as a museum for communist dictator Enver Hoxha, has been dramatically transformed by MVRDV. Since the fall of the communist regime, the building was used by ever-chan...
Institutions
Education Above All Tents
Zaha Hadid Architects
Copyright: Photograph by Luke Hayes
In December 2022, Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) ongoing collaboration with the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation announced that 27 tents designed by ZHA will be manufactured and donated to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the Qatar Red Crescent to support populations displaced by conflict and natural disaster in ...
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