Shortlist for the 2015 LEAF Awards

The LEAF Awards are back with a new shortlist! Every year, LEAF International highlights exemplary projects in various categories from the international architecture and design community. With thirteen categories for 2015, the LEAF Awards celebrates the work of the international community of architects. For starters, Moshe Safdie was announced as the 2015 recipient of the LEAF Awards Lifetime Achievement of the Year.

The LEAF Awards Dinner Gala and awards ceremony will take place at the Populous-designed Emirates Stadium in London on October 16.

Jury members for this year include:

• Alan Crawford - Founder, Crawford Partnership Architects
• Valerie Evans - Director, Architecture, Atkins Global
• Adrian Gainer - Regional Leader, Science and Technology, HOK
• Firas Hnoosh - Director, BDP - Božana Komljenović – Associate, Zaha Hadid Architects
• Lukasz Platkowski - Tall Buildings Practice Area Leader, Principal, Gensler
• Heinz Richardson - Director, Jestico + Whiles
• Jim Rimelspach - Principal and Founder, Wilson Associates
• Peter Shaw – Global Board Director, Aedas / RHWL

Check out a few project photos and the full shortlist below.

Mixed-Use Building of the Year

• WSP ARCHITECTS, Xindi Center, Hefei - Anhui, China
• Kavellaris Urban Design KUD, 2 Girls Building - Melbourne, Australia
• Kris Lin Interior Design, City Crossing - Rizhao, China
• nps tchoban voss GmbH & Co. KG in collaboration with ABP Pechtold Architekten Berlin

Residential Building of the Year - Single Occupancy

• Architect Robby Cantarutti, Riverside Cabin, Firmano - Premariacco (UD), Italy
• Studio mk27, Txai house, Itacaré – Bahia, Brazil
• Studio Arthur Casas, Casa AL - Rio De Janeiro, RJ
• ONG&ONG, 66MRN-House – Singapore

Residential Building of the Year - Multiple Occupancy

• Studio mk27, V_Itaim - São Paulo, SP. Brazil
• WSP ARCHITECTS, Courtyard Villa Hefei - Anhui, China
• Archi5, Saint Denis Dwellings - Saint Denis, France
• CAAT Architecture studio, Kahrizak Residential - Tehran, Iran

International Interior Design Award of the Year

• INNOCAD, HQ ÖBB, HQ ÖBB
• Rockwell Group, Station House - 701 2nd Street NE Washington DC
• Nikken Space Design Ltd, Equinix OS1 IBX Data Centre - Osaka, Japan
• Carlo Berarducci Architecture, Zen Sushi Restaurant - Rome, Italy
• Ajax Law Ling Kit and Virginia Lung, One Plus Partnership (Hong Kong) Limited Exploded - Wuhan, China
• Kris Lin Interior Design, Secret Garden - Changzhou, China
• Taiwan DaE International Design Career, Zi Garden/Tangquan Tea Club - Huizhou, China

Commercial Building of the Year

• Studio Arthur Casas, Saraiva Bookstore - Rio De Janeiro - RJ
• LAN Architecture, Euravenir Tower - Lille, France
• Tabanlioglu Architects, Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanlioglu, Selcuk Ecza Headquarters - Istanbul, Turkey
• Tabanlioglu Architects, Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanlioglu, Zorlu Levent Office - Istanbul, Turkey
• Arup Associates, Believe in Better Building - London, UK

Hospitality Building of the Year

• Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co. Ltd, Ribbon Chapel - Hiroshima, Japan
• H&P Architects, Cheering Restaurant, No. 2 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hoan Kiem district - Hanoi, Vietnam

Refurbishment of the Year

• ONG&ONG, House At Neil Road - Singapore
• Tongji Architectural Design and Reasearch Institute, TJAD Office Building,1230
• Siping road - Shanghai, China
• Nikken Space Design Ltd, ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hiroshima Chapel, Hiroshimashi Hiroshima, Japan
• WILMOTTE & ASSOCIÉS, Versailles Richaud - Versailles, France
• TP Bennett, Sea Containers House - London, UK
• CoCo architecture, Desangles House - Bouzic, France

Public Building of the Year

• Aedas, Greenland Hongqiao World Center Gallery - Shanghai , PRC
• Luis Vidal + Architects, The Queen’s Terminal - London, UK
• UArchitects - Misak Terzibasiyan & Emile van Vugt, School‘t Hofke
• Koudenhovenseweg Zuid - Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Archi5, Louise Michel & Louis Aragon high schools - Gisors, France
• Tabanlioglu Architects, Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanlioglu, Dakar Congress Center - Istanbul, Turkey
• Steven Holl Architects, Seona Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art - Glasgow, UK

Best Sustainable Development of the Year

• Kaunitz Yeung Architecture, Wanarn Clinic - Wanarn, Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Western Australia
• nA Nakayama Architects and Makoto Nakayama, HIGO, Sapporo - Hokkaido, Japan
• Penoyre & Prasad, Wimbledon College of Art - Wimbledon, London
• Henning Larsen Architects, Campus Kolding, SDU University of Southern Denmark - Kolding, Denmark

Best Future Building of the Year - Drawing Board

• Sanjay Puri Architects, Reservoir - Rajasthan, India
• Sanjay Puri Architects, The Village - Alibaug, India
• 3TI Progetti Spa - 3TI LAB Srl, Civic Centre - Villacidro, Italy
• New North Zealand Hospital, New North Zealand Hospital - Hillerød, Denmark

Best Future Building of the Year - Under Construction

• Andrew Bromberg of Aedas, The West Kowloon Terminus under the Hong Kong
• Section of the Express Rail Link project
• Battersea Power Station Development Co., Battersea Power Station - Nine Eims, London
• MAD Architects, Harbin Cultural island - Harbin, China

Urban Design of the Year

• Gustafson Porter LLP, Marina One - Singapore
• ENOTA, Promenada Velenje - Slovenia
• Henning Larsen Architects, Vinge Train Station – Vinge. Municipality of Frederikssund, Denmark

Best Façade Design and Engineering of the Year

• Loguer Design, Mexican Pavilion - Milan, Italy
• SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL, INC, JTI Building - Geneva, Switzerland
• Logon Architecture, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai

Developer of the Year

• Battersea Power Station Development Co., Battersea Power Station - Nine Eims, London FINE
• Hefei Shengtong Real Estate Co Ltd with WSP Architects, Courtyard Villa - Hefei, Anhui, China
• SUMMA Construction with Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat
• Tabanlioglu, Dakar Congress Center - Istanbul, Turkey
• OVG Real Estate with PLP Architecture, The Edge - Amsterdam, Netherlands