The residential Interlace Building has been crowned Building of the Year by the World Architecture Festival. What do you think? Comment below.
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The bizarre 'vertical village' in Singapore that has been named World Building of the Year and could spell the end for generic tower blocks
-Interlace building, in Singapore, was crowned the World Building of the Year today at the World Architecture Festival
-It's a network of horizontal apartment blocks stacked in hexagonal arrangements around eight external courtyards
-Design by OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren was praised as 'blazing a trail with an example of bold, contemporary thinking'
-Most housing in the city is provided by unsightly tower blocks, but the Interlace works with its surrounding nature
THE DAILY MAIL
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OMA and Ole Scheeren's Interlace Named World Building of the Year 2015.
OMA and Buro Ole Scheeren's vertical village in Singapore, The Interlace has been named the World Building of the Year 2015 at culmination of the World Architecture Festival (WAF). Celebrated for being "an example of bold, contemporary architectural thinking," as WAF Director Paul Finch described, the project is eighth building to ever win the illustrious award. It is considered to be a "radical new approach to contemporary living in a tropical environment."
ARCH DAILY
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This Singapore apartment complex was just voted the best new building in the world.
One of the most prestigious prizes in architecture has just been awarded to a housing complex in Singapore.
The judges at the World Architecture Festival 2015, which ran from November 4 to 6, has bestowed its top honor, the World Building of the Year Award, upon an apartment complex known as The Interlace. Designed by the Dutch-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the building was an entry in the housing category, where it was also recognized as the top entry.
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