WAFX 2024 Prize: Eight Future Projects Tackling Global Issues

Gasometer by Mei architects and planners, Peter Bastian Architekten - Photo by the architects, courtesy of World Architecture Festival.

The World Architecture Festival announced the winners of the WAFX 2024 Prize. We selected seven human-based projects, including a gasometer turned into a green residential tower and a stacked vertical neighbourhood.

Border walls’ architecture from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Border Walls - View of Spanish-Moroccoan fence in Melilla

Trump’s wall and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) splitting the Korean peninsula in two… These border walls are just the tip of a global iceberg. Archipanic explores protectionist and divisive constructions across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.