The Special Prize winners were announced earlier today during WAF Digital Edition 2021. The winners were selected from across the WAF Awards shortlist to shine a light on the projects that exhibit an outstanding use of Engineering, Colour, Natural Light, Certified Timber and building Visualisation, plus the best Small Project of the Year Prize. Specialist judging panels select projects from across the WAF Awards categories showcasing these exceptional architectural qualities.

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Winner: Rural house of the year 2021 Mazul Beachfront Villas are a residential development by Revolution in Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca.

The concept of the project was to create a set of simple and minimal houses that could provide a place for rest, wash, cook and enjoy the virgin landscape of the site, with no luxury elements but the nature outside.

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The winners of the Dezeen Awards 2021 architecture categories were announced today in a special show hosted by poet and broadcaster LionHeart and experiential designer and filmmaker Nelly Ben Hayoun. The 25-minute show revealed the winners of the 11 project categories before naming the winner of the best architecture project of the year.

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We are announcing the Dezeen Awards 2021 shortlists this week. Here are the 61 buildings shortlisted in the 12 architecture project categories.

All shortlisted architecture projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the Dezeen Awards website, where you can find an image and more information about the project...

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This 50-villa master plan unfolds on a three-hectare estate that focuses on creating naturally light and airy spaces. The architectural program includes a clubhouse with a pool, terrace, restaurant-bar and a beach club, as well as green areas distributed throughout the land. In order to highlight the natural quality as the maximum value of the project, the architecture is integrated in a discreet way by using suitable materials to meet the assigned budget.

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Revolution, Temporary Housing Pavilion For Healthcare Workers, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Squire & Partners, The Ark, Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, London, United Kingdom
Stanton Williams, Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children, London, United Kingdom
Ventura + Partners, Intensive Care Unit-Pedro Hispano Hospital, Matosinhos, Portugal
WTA Architecture and Design Studio, Emergency Quarantine Facility, Mega Manila, Phillipines

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Revolution, OceanFront Community, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Sergey Skuratov Architects, Tessinski, 1, Moscow, Russia
​studio razavi architecture, Maison d’Italie, Paris, France
Two Row Architect & KPMB Architects, A Resilient Duplex for Fort Severn First Nation, Fort Severn, Canada

Mazul Beachfront Villas are a residential development by Revolution in Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca.

The concept of the project was to create a set of simple and minimal houses that could provide a place for rest, wash, cook and enjoy the virgin landscape of the site, with no luxury elements but the nature outside.

The design was inspired by the existing natural stones of the site called Chicharron, which have unique texture and colour characteristics. The project also needed to be very low cost and resistant the extreme weather conditions. A space where the interior and the exterior coexist with one another.

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This project is located at Desierto de los Leones woods, in the west part of Mexico City. The terrain is surrounded by nature within the vast city.

Here we found great amount of trees, allowing a natural visual filter towards the highway and the near constructions. It is a private space, isolated of visual pollution and acoustic disturbance.

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The Project is located in the Los Leones Desert Forest in the West of Mexico City, in an area surrounded by nature within this megalopolis.

There are large trees on the land, which allows generating a visual filter towards the road and the neighboring buildings that are in the area. It is a private space isolated from the visual and sound pollution of the city.

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Revolution, multicultural and socially diverse group of architects, designers, thinkers and inventors seeking to develop new solutions to our continuing changing world. «As our society evolves so should our built environment, we have the possibility and responsibility to create the world of our dreams and adapt our cities, homes, workplace, public space and infrastructure to our way of living.» Office is based in Mexico City.

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Revolution, multicultural and socially diverse group of architects, designers, thinkers and inventors seeking to develop new solutions to our continuing changing world. «As our society evolves so should our built environment, we have the possibility and responsibility to create the world of our dreams and adapt our cities, homes, workplace, public space and infrastructure to our way of living.» Office is based in Mexico City.

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Mazul is a beachfront residential development in Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca.
The concept of the project was to create a set of simple and minimal houses that could provide a place for rest, wash, cook and enjoy the virgin landscape of the site, with no luxury elements but the outside nature.

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The The Temporary Housing Pavilion for Healthcare Workers is a non-profit emergency architecture project designed by Revolution with the aim of giving the Mexican Red Cross staff a comfortable and safe space where they can sleep and wash in their own place of work, thus avoiding returns home and exposing their families to the contagion of Covid-19.

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