The festival brought together officials, architects, technicians, teachers, researchers and creators in the fields of architectural construction, building-materials and designing research and scientific and educational institutions.

The participants presented more than 240 architectural designs for prize contest, at least 320 scientific papers and 20 architectural designing programs and multimedia conducive to developing the Juche-oriented architecture.

The festival was divided into a prize contest in architectural layout plans, a public presentation of scientific papers and a contest in architectural designing programs and multimedia, etc.

Drawing the attention of visitors were "Reverence", "Desire" and "Immortality", plans for erecting grand monuments and laying out areas around them, "Happiness", a design for forming a model dwelling house estate, and "Light", a design for laying out buildings powered by natural energy.

Visitors appreciated the designs that fully provide convenience of residents with various amenities and feature diverse architectural styles, modernization of their structure and optimization of building site as they ensure high formative and artistic levels of buildings.

"Study of architectural plan for a terrapin breeding farm", "Study of use of concrete shuttering in monolithic frame construction" and other papers and systems for supporting structural designing and providing information about urban infrastructure and other programs and multimedia were highly appreciated at the festival.