Emap, a Business-to-Business media group (from their web­site), hosts the first World Archi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val in Barcelona. Archi­tects are invited to put their build­ings up for com­pe­ti­tion (entry fee a smack­ing 950€), and among the exhib­ited projects the best will be awarded. The inter­est­ing jury (to name a few: Will Alsop, Cecil Bal­mond, Stefan Behnisch, Richard Bur­dett, Luis M. Man­silla, Richard Meier, Sir Peter Cook, Neil Denari, Norman Foster, Mas­si­m­il­iano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Michel Rojkind, Michael Sorkin, Francine Houben, Robert Stern, Christoph Ingen­hoven, Charles Jencks) might redeem the commercial/artificial flair the event exudes. We’ll keep our final judge­ment to our­selves until we know more about the event.