WA Awards for Chinese Architecture (WAACA) was established by World Architecture magazine in 2002, and was awarded biennially. The mission of WAACA is to encourage and introduce completed works addressing the national conditions of China with innovative values. It aims at enlivening the academic atmosphere of Chinese architectural community, promoting the prosperity of Chinese architectural design, enhancing the quality of Chinese architecture, contributing to the public understanding and recognition of architectural industry in China, and introducing Chinese architects and architectures to the world.

In 2014, the seventh cycle of WA Awards for Chinese Architecture expanded to a larger range, with increased the categories of the awards, and identifying more clearly the value appeal of each award. By encouraging more types of projects to participate in the selection, WAACA intends to introduce more outstanding Chinese architectural works to the Chinese society and the world.

Oct 12th, 2018, when 2018 WAACA was held in Beidaihe, the jury selected 59 entries in total for Winners, Highly commended and Shortlisted projects of WA Achievement Award, WA Design Experiment Award, WA Social Equality Award, WA Technological Innovation Award, WA City Regeneration Award and WA Housing Award from a total of 354 valid entries on the basis of their independent judgment.

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Offices and cultural buildings both offer the perfect opportunity to design the atrium of your dreams. These central spaces, designed to allow serendipitous meetings of users or to help with orientation in the building, are spacious and offer a lot of design freedom. Imposing scales, sculptural stairs, eccentric materials, and indoor vegetation are just some of the resources used to give life to these spaces. To help you with your design ideas, below we have gathered a selection of 15 notable atriums and their section drawings.

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• Architects

  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

• Location

  Suzhou, China

• Category

  Housing

• Lead Architects

  Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu

• Design Team

  Nellie Yang, Jerry Guo, Begona Sebastian

• Area

  30000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Pedro Pegenaute

Through his series of architectural photographs, photographer, Marc Goodwin, is giving us an inside look into the architecture firms of the world’s greatest cities. His work has brought us through a collection of Nordic architectural offices, firms both large and small in London, numerous studios within Beijing, a selection of practices in Seoul, and a compendium of offices through the French capital. Shanghai is the next to be added to his list with his most recent collection showcasing the rich architectural culture of China’s largest city.

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PRODUCE Workshop's flexible plywood "Shop-in-Shop" interior for Herman Miller at the XTRA flagship store in Singapore has been named the world's best interior of 2017 at the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, which took place alongside the 2017 World Architecture Festival in Berlin. The overall winner was selected from a list of 9 nine category winners announced over the first two days of the event, which themselves were selected from a shortlist of 78 projects.

Dubbed "Fabricwood" by its designers, the winning space comprises a 20-meter arched structure constructed of plywood panels modeled to give the appearance of fabric. The installation was also the winner of the Display category.

Last year's top honors were awarded to Hangzhou AN Interior's Black Cant System.

Read on to see all of the category winners.

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the Day 1 category winners of their 2017 awards slate. Winners selected among 32 categories over the first two days of the conference will then continue on to compete for the title of the World Building of the Year 2017 to be announced on the final day of the event on Friday.

The world’s largest architectural award program, the WAF Awards year saw its biggest year yet, with a total of 924 entries received from projects located in 68 countries across the world. The finalist projects will be selected live at the festival by a Super Jury made up of jury chair Robert Ivy, Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects; Nathalie de Vries, Director & Co-founder of MVRDV; Ian Ritchie, Founder of Ian Ritchie Architects; and Christoph Ingenhoven, Founder of Ingenhoven Architects.

You can check out the full shortlist here, and see which built and future projects took home awards after the break.

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• Architects

  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

• Location

  Taikoo Li Sanlitun North No. 11, Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Beijing, China

• Category

  Interior Design

• Design Team

  Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu, Briar Hickling, Jacqueline Min, Qixiaofeng, Daisy Yuen, Nicolas Fardet, Christine Neri, Siwei Park

• Area

  350.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

Three projects have been selected as the winners of The American Architecture Prize (AAP) 2017, which aims to recognize “creativity and innovation in architectural, interior and landscape design.”

An expert Jury judged thousands of entries from 68 countries and winners were selected from 41 categories. The jurors included Peggy Deamer, Professor of Architecture at Yale University; Troy C. Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the Guggenheim Foundation and Museum; Ben Van Berkel, Principal of UNStudio and Professor at Harvard University Graduate School, and many more.

It has been a privilege to receive such exceptional entries competing for the AAP this year. Every submission is outstanding in its own way. All these entries from accomplished architects and architecture firms give us the opportunity to not only promote amazing designs but also to marvel together at the evolution of architecture, interior design and landscape architecture across the globe - AAP President Hossein Farmani.

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• Architects

  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

• Location

  11 Hepingli South Street, Dongcheng Area, Beijing，China

• Category

  Renovation

• Design Team

  Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu, Nellie Yang, Jerry Guo, Brian Lo, Nicolas Fardet, Christine Neri, Siwei Ren, Haiou Xin

• Area

  2680.0 m2

• Photographs

  Pedro Pegenaute

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• Architects

  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

• Location

  Cheung Kong Centre, 2 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Architect in Charge

  Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu

• Area

  268.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

Take a walk through the Hub Performance and Exhibition Center, designed by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, in the dynamic Hongqiao District of Shanghai, China. The video, produced with Pedro Pegenaute, showcases the Center's nature-inspired interior, featuring dramatic lighting and views framed by walnut- and oak-covered aluminum branches recalling forest canopies.

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• Architects

  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

• Location

  650, Sinsadong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea

• Category

  Store

• Principals in Charge

  Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu

• Associate in Charge

  Anne-Charlotte Wiklander

• Area

  1949.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Pedro Pegenaute

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• Architects

  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

• Location

  No.202, Wukang Road, Shanghai, China

• Category

  Fast food

• Architect in Charge

  Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu

• Design Team

  Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu, Tony Schonhardt, Laurent Tek, Zhao Lei, Elisa Ascari, Yifei Lu

• Area

  93.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Dirk Weiblen

This edition of Section D, Monocle 24's weekly review of design, architecture and craft, travels to Indonesia’s third city Bandung, where former architect and current Mayor Ridwan Kamil "is transforming public space." The show also takes a tour of three early 20th-century apartment buildings in Montreal, and hears from Neri & Hu Design and Research Office in Shanghai.