Spanish office wins WAF prize

摘要

Barcelona becomes the first host city to be awarded the festival's highest accolade, as the eight-storey Media-TIC building designed by Cloud 9 is named World Building of the Year Cloud 9's Media-TIC office scheme in the 'experimental district'of Barcelona has been crowned World Building of the Year at the 2011 World Architecture Festival {pictured). Described as a 'seed for an environmental revolution'by its Spanish architect Enric Ruiz-Geli, the eight-storey building beat 16 'built'finalists to win the highest accolade in global architecture, marking the first win for the festival's host city. UK-designed projects made up 18 per cent of the shortlist at this year's festival in Barcelona, but won only two out of 26 categories. Christophe Egret of shortlisted practice Studio Egret West rejected the idea that the UK's poor performance meant they were losing their edge.