2024-04-27T16:59:54-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150173636/take-a-look-at-lochal-public-library-the-2019-world-building-of-the-year-and-other-world-architecture-festival-winners Alexander Walter 2019-12-06T19:44:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7c/7ca73fdf02ef82528dbc64733e2932d9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>And it's a wrap at the 2019 <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/14206/world-architecture-festival" target="_blank">World Architecture Festival</a> in Amsterdam. After three busy days of project presentations and jury deliberations, the annual global architecture industry event culminated in a glamorous gala dinner at the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam's former stock exchange building, where the winners of various category and other top awards were announced. <br></p> <p>The biggest anticipation of the night, of course, was reserved for the 2019 <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/510406/world-building-of-the-year" target="_blank">World Building of the Year</a> title which happened to stay within the Netherlands with the selection of <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/project/150118924/lochal-public-library/150118925" target="_blank">LocHal Public Library</a> in Tilburg and its design team <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/150118924/civic-architects" target="_blank">Civic architects</a> (lead architect), Braaksma &amp; Roos Architectenbureau, and <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/19631/inside-outside-petra-blaise" target="_blank">Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse</a>.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ed/ed530881d2cdc09f88031c5293cf795f.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ed/ed530881d2cdc09f88031c5293cf795f.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>World Building of the Year 2019: LocHal Public Library, Tilburg, the Netherlands by Civic architects (lead architect), Braaksma &amp; Roos Architectenbureau, Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse &copy; Ossip Architectuurfotografie</figcaption></figure><p>"LocHal was a former locomotive hangar dating from 1932, transformed into a...</p>