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Three ZHA projects win World Architecutre Community (WA) Awards

The Chengdu Science Fiction Museum and the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre, together with the Masarycka mixed-use building in Prague have been named ‘Jury winners’ of the 2024 World Architecture Community (WA) Awards. Now in their 48th cycle, the World Architecture Community Awards recognise remarkable projects that inspire contemporary architectural discourse.

The Chengdu Science Fiction Museum and Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre were also named the ‘People’s Choice’ of the 2024 WA Awards, selected through the votes of the community members.

WA Award Winners

Masaryčka’s design integrates with Czech Railways’ reconstruction of Masaryk Railway Station, establishing a dialogue with the urbanism of Prague’s Old Town, known as ‘the city of 100 spires’. Defined by circulation routes giving access to new civic spaces and vital upgrade to an important transport hub, Masaryčka is located adjacent to the historic railway station on a derelict site that had stood abandoned for several decades. Transforming the existing car park on Havlíčkova Boulevard into new public square, creating a welcoming gateway to the city for suburban & domestic rail services and passengers using the planned airport rail link.

Designed as a creative hub within one of the world’s most dynamic regions, the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre is at the heart of Zhuhai’s Jinwan district. Integrating three distinct cultural institutions for the city (a Performing Arts Centre with a 1200-seat Grand Theatre and a 500-seat Black Box theatre; a Science Centre; and an Art Museum) each venue within the centre incorporates unique characteristics, yet all are united by formal and structural logic. Echoing the wing structures of the many migratory birds species that fly in formation over southern China, the latticed steel canopies sheltering each venue are configured through repetition, symmetry and scale variation.

Integrating with the natural landscapes surrounding Jingrong Lake, the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum’s design defines nodes of activity connected by pedestrian routes that extend from the city and adjacent metro station through the surrounding parkland into the heart of the building; creating a journey of discovery that weaves between indoor and outdoor plazas at multiple levels to link the museum’s exhibition galleries, educational facilities, cafes and other amenities.