WAF 2025 Winners — Architectural Intensity and Interior Calm Define This Year’s Standouts

The 2025 edition of the World Architecture Festival spotlighted two projects that, despite their distinct contexts, share a deep commitment to spatial clarity, material honesty, and experiential impact. 2025’s World Building of the Year and World Interior of the Year demonstrate how architecture can shape community life and emotional well-being through disciplined design thinking. The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre, Spain Fernando Menis’s Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre in La Laguna rises from a neglected neighbourhood as a compact urban anchor—one that combines civic purpose with sculptural force. Shaped by a sixteen-year, community-driven construction process the project’s phased […]