Register and send your projects to WA Awards 10+5+X 51st Cycle before 18 July 2025 and become internationally recognized
WA Awards 10+5+X 51st Cycle:
Deadline: 18 July 2025
The 51st Cycle of the WA Awards 10+5+X is now open for entries!
The WA Awards 10+5+X is an online architecture awards program that celebrates its 51st cycle and is recognized for its more inclusive process.
Architects, interior designers, and students worldwide are welcome to submit their entries for the WA Awards 10+5+X 51st Cycle until 18 July (23:59 GMT +0).
To start your entry, you need to create an account as a WAC member on this link.
The WA Awards has recognized over 2,450 winning projects since its inception. Established in 2006, the World Architecture Community has organized the prestigious WA Awards 10+5+X across more than 50 cycles. The purpose of the WA Community Awards is to spotlight and honor exceptional projects that might otherwise go unnoticed by the international public, yet possess the potential to inspire intriguing discussions about contemporary architectural discourse.
Eligible Members
Applications for WA Awards 10+5+X are only open to architects, architecture offices, interior designers, interior design offices, and architecture and interior design students.
Categories
WA Awards is accepting projects for architects, interior designers and students under 2 major sections: Architecture and Interior Design. Then projects should be sent under these 3 sub-categories Realised, Designed and Student. All participants should send their projects that meet these conditions:
For Architecture:
- WA Designed Award: Projects that were not built,
- WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (built maximum within the last 10 years),
- WA Student Award: Projects designed by Students/Academics (projects must have been studied in students’ undergraduate years or in Master’s Degree), only “Designed/Conceptual” projects valid – Student category projects must be presented with Supervisor or Tutor/Instructor’s name and surname in the “Project Team” section during the upload. Student category projects which don’t comply with these criteria will be removed from the competition,
For Interior Design:
- WA Realised Award: Projects that are actually built (maximum within the last 10 years),
- WA Student Award: Projects designed by Students/Academics (projects must have been studied in students’ undergraduate years or in Master’s Degree), only “Designed/Conceptual” projects valid – Student category projects must be presented with Supervisor or Tutor/Instructor’s name and surname in the “Project Team” section during the upload. Student category projects which don’t comply with these criteria will be removed from the competition,
WA Awards is free-of-charge for WAC Professional Members and Students.
For further details, please visit WA Awards 10+5+X and How To Participate.
Pricing details and WAC Membership Benefits can be seen from here.
WA Awards 10+5+X 2025 Media Partners are:
Aoyama Design Forum, BIG Architecture Festival, Design Shanghai, Design Shenzhen, Designart Tokyo, Young Moroccan Architecture Award, Kaira Looro Competition.
Notes to editors
About WA Awards 10+5+X
Since 2006 and for over 50 Cycles, World Architecture Community organizes the prestigious and acclaimed World Architecture Community Awards (WA Awards). The WA Awards highlights and recognizes remarkable projects that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.
Given the International nature of the World Architecture Community, participants from around the Globe and in particular from regions less covered by general or specialised media, get a chance to share and promote their projects, which would otherwise go unnoticed.
Website: https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-awards/
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About World Architecture Community
Founded in 2006, World Architecture Community provides a unique environment for architects, interior designers, architecture & interior design students and academics around the globe to meet, share and compete. As a truly global platform, World Architecture Community is the place where international contemporary architecture and interior design are expressed from all horizons, providing an equal opportunity to those countries generally less covered by international media.
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