WA Awards 10+5+X 42nd Cycle is now accepting entries! You can submit your entries before 24 October 2022 to be crowned by the prestigious and acclaimed WA Awards.

Having great success over its 40 Cycles so far, WA Awards 10+5+X 42nd Cycle is looking for its now winning projects from all over the world. WA Awards 10+5+X is open to architects, interior designers, and students across the world until 24 October 2022 (23:59 GMT +0).

If you are a WAC member, sign into your account here. If you’re not a WAC member, create an account and submit your entry.

The WA Awards is one of the most powerful online architecture awards setting a new recognition system based on its more democratized process.

The prestigious and acclaimed WA Awards 10+5+X have organized 3-4 cycles per year, in each Cycle, the WA Awards is seeking remarkable projects that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.

Over 1,953 projects were crowned with the WA Awards so far

The WA Awards crowned over 1,953 projects in Architecture, Interior Design, and Student categories so far. The key aspect of the competition is to provide opportunities for participants from all over the world particularly coming from less covered regions by the public or private media to showcase their offices and projects.

The most important feature that distinguishes the WA Awards from other awards is that it chooses more than one winner in each category, rather than selecting a single winner.

WA Awards 10+5+X has a standard deadline

Another key feature of the WA Awards is to follow a standard deadline. From the moment the previous Cycle closed, participants have roughly 3 months to prepare their projects and can follow the new deadline on our How To Participate page.

Architects, interior designers, and architecture and interior design students can submit their projects until 24 October 2022 (23:59 GMT +0) by registering to WAC from the page below. It’s free!

If you’re not a WAC member yet, create an account and submit your entry.

WA Awards 41st Cycle Winner Posters are prepared in high resolution for printable for its all winners

Participants should create an account from here by selecting Architect, Interior Designer, or Student.

They should upload their projects to their WAC Pages and submit their works whenever they want before the deadline. After upload, participants can review their projects and have more time to make corrections if necessary.

Who are eligible members at WA Awards 10+5+X?

Only Architects, Architecture Offices, Interior Designers, Interior Design Offices, and Architecture and Interior Design Students are eligible to apply to WA Awards 10+5+X.

WA Awards 10+5+X has limited categories

WA Awards 10+5+X is accepting projects in limited categories where the competition has 2 main sections in the WA Awards: Architecture and Interior Design.

Then participants can submit their works under the 3 sub-categories: Realised, Designed, and Student. Participants should make sure to submit their projects that meet the conditions of each category.

Schedule of WA Awards 10+5+X

The WA Awards 10+5+X is typically organized as 3-4 cycles per year, in which each cycle covers roughly 3 months. Until the deadline, participants can submit their projects. The deadline for submissions for the 42nd Cycle is 24 October 2022.

The Voting period for the 42nd Cycle is scheduled to open approximately on 31 October 2022. Winners of the 42nd Cycle are scheduled to be announced around the end of November.

Please consult our How to Participate page to learn about the current cycle’s submission deadline.

The WA Awards Jury is composed of an exclusive group of invited architects, acclaimed critics, and WA Members

WA Awards entries are judged by two separate jury panels: WAC Honorary Members with earlier WA Award Winners. These two jury groups have the most weight in Voting. They determine the first 10 winning projects.

Nikos Fintikakis, the co-founder of SYNTHESIS AND RESEARCH, acclaimed Indonesian architect Budi Sukada, who is a senior lecturer at the University of Tarumanagara, artist and teacher Ruth Jacobson, Alhadeff Architects founder Giancarlo Alhadeff, Sanjay Puri, the founder of Sanjay Puri Architects, are among the WAC’s Honorary Members.

The second jury comprises WAC Members who are architects, interior designers, students, and academics. They determine the next 5 winning projects. To be able able to Vote for the projects, a WAC member must have at least 1 uploaded project that was uploaded a minimum of 1 month ago on his/her page.

World Architecture Community announces the Voting period on the WAC website, emails, and social media. Both judging procedures, WAC Members’ Voting, WAC’s Honorary Members, and earlier WA Award Winners Voting, are taking place simultaneously on the WA Awards 10+5+X Submissions page.

A collage of WA Awards award-winning posters so far

WA Awards 10+5+X offers a low pricing policy

Another important feature of the WA Awards is that it has very low entry prices.

We aim to balance the project participation to a great extent, considering limited categories in the competition.

That’s why we aim to make the WA Awards more accessible to middle-scale and small-scale architectural offices, to provide more visibility and increase participation by rewarding their work as well as large-scale offices. For this reason why we’ve kept submission entry fees at the same rate for 6 years.

When you pay per category/per Cycle in the competition, you do not need to pay any additional fees.

Find out more about WA Awards 10+5+X fees.

WA Awards Winners get a special WA Award Winner Poster and a digital WA Award Certificate

WA Awards Winners will receive a digital, special WA Award Winner Poster and a digital WA Award Certificate. They will be made available to the participants a few weeks after the winner’s announcement.