page_title: Aga Khan Award for Architecture
section_title: Eleventh (2008–2010)
hierarchical_section_title: Aga Khan Award for Architecture / Award cycles / Eleventh (2008–2010)
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a view of the Wadi Hanifa in Riyadh on the King Fahd Road, driving northbound.
context_page_description: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is an architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.
  The award is associated with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.
context_section_description: The 2010 Award Presentation Ceremony was held at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. A total of 401 projects were nominated of which 19 were shortlisted.
  The Chairman's Award went to Oleg Grabar.
  The award recipients were:
  Wadi Hanifa Wetlands Project, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  Revitalisation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century architectural heritage of Tunis, Tunisia
  Research Centre and Museum, Madinat Al-Zahra, Cordoba, Spain, by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
  Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne, Turkey
  Bridge School, Xiashi, Fujian, China
caption: Wadi Hanifa
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