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WAF 2024 Reveals Jury, Relaunches GROHE Water Prize

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Here’s a look at WAF 2024’s jury, a briefer on this year’s GROHE Water Prize, and a 20% discount code to celebrate Kanto’s fourth consecutive partnership with the World Architecture Festival
  • March 25, 2024

Design Arena: Global Interior Design Competitions You Can Join this 2024

  • Events, Interior Design
Five interior design competitions to help you step outside of your comfort zone, share your work, and broaden your industry knowledge and network
  • March 14, 2024

Storied Walls: Intramuros Now in UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites

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The walled city’s colonial urban plan and fortifications and six more cultural and natural sites made it to the Philippines’ recently updated UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
  • March 11, 2024

Gallery in the Green: Your Guide to Art in the Park 2024

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Art in the Park returns to Jaime Velasquez Park in Makati City on March 17, 2024, with special exhibitions by Filipino artists Demi Padua, Pepe Delfin, and Clarence Chun
  • February 28, 2024

Design Arena: More Global Architecture Competitions You Can Join this 2024

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Here are five more architecture competitions you can join to hone your design thinking skills, connect with peers from around the world, and find the confidence to step into the global stage
  • February 23, 2024

Building Forever: Tim and Marianne Wong of POLYGON

  • Architecture, Voices
POLYGON: Human-Centered Space Design co-principals Tim and Marianne Wong share that running a practice and going through life together means occasionally switching roles
  • February 14, 2024
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