Australian Architecture features prominently in the shortlist for the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona this November.

Last year three Australian projects won awards in what is becoming a global architecture competition.

This year, 25 Australian projects from 15 practices have been short-listed, out of the 144 projects in 17 categories of completed building.

BVN Architecture has five projects on the list: houses on Stradbroke Island, The Ivy in Brisbane, the Brain and Mind Research Institute at The University of Sydney, National Australia Bank’s The Academy and VicUrban’s workplace in The Goods Shed North in Melbourne.

BVN national director James Grose said the shortlist was a confidence booster for Australian architects. “For some time now Australian architecture has been defined on the world stage by its derivation from the unique landscape,” he said.

“As urban projects become more prominent, Australian design is incrementally making our cicites equal to anywhere in the world.”

Australia leads the interiors category with six of the nine shortlisted projects, including ANZ Centre in Melbourne by HASSELL, Hilton South Wharf in Melbourne by Woods Bagot and NH Architecture, One Shelley Street by Clive Wilkinson Architects and Woods Bagot, and the City of Sydney’s Surry Hills Library and Community Centre by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp.

FJMT also made the completed buildings shortlist for education with its law library and teaching complex at Sydney Uni, along with Candelapas Associates for All Saints Primary School and McBride Charles Ryan for Fitzroy High School.

In the house category, aside from BVN, local hopefuls include 401 St Kilda Road by Elenberg Fraser and a home by Chenchow Little.

Others on the shortlist where Lyon House museum by Lyons Australia, the Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct and the Epping-to-Chatswood Rail Link by HASSELL, the Marina Point Yacht Club by Cox Rayner Architects, the Paddington Reservoir Gardens by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and the Ipswich Justice Precinct by Cox Rayner and ABM Architects.