Launched by Azure in 2011, the AZ Awards are marking a major milestone – its 10th edition, coinciding with Azure magazine’s 35th anniversary.
All entries are evaluated by an international jury and each year more than 1,200 designs are submitted, from more than 47 countries. The 68 finalists in 20 categories epitomise excellence in innovation, aesthetics, creativity, and social and environmental responsibility.
In the next phase, the magazine will invite the public to vote for their favourites. The People’s Choice portal, where you can cast votes for your favourite finalists.
Both the finalists and the winners will be honoured at the AZ Awards Gala, scheduled to take place in Toronto in September.
See below some of this year’s finalists and get voting!
Single Family Resident: S-AR: Casa Cosmos, Oaxaca, Mexico BAAQ’: Casa Naila, Oaxaca, Mexico Ian Moore Architects: Redfern Warehouse, Sydney, Australia Jun Sang You / AtelierJun: The Boulder House, Seoul, South Korea D’Arcy Jones Architects: Double Header House, Victoria, BC, Canada Mork Ulnes Architects: Skigard Hytte, Kvitfjell, Norway
Residential Architecture Multi-Unit: L. McComber: Off Plaza, Montréal, Canada Summary: VDC, Vale de Cambra, Portugal
Commercial/Institutional Buildings Over 1,000 SqM: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Art Center, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China Lacime Architects: MOMA Lotus Resort, Chizhou City, Anhui Province, China LAN: Minimum-Security Area and Penitentiary Services for Integration and Probation, Nanterre, France Zaha Hadid Architects: Leeza SOHO, Beijing, China Oppenheim Architecture: Ayla Clubhouse & Golf Academy, Aqaba, Jordan
Commercial/Institutional Buildings Under 1,000 SqM: SUP Atelier: Indoor Playground (Doubling as Lecture Hall) of a Middle School, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, China Gh3*: Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool, Edmonton, Canada OV-A: Glass House for Lasvit, Nový Bor, Czech Republic
Adaptive Re-use: Atelier tao+c: Capsule Hotel in a Rural Library, Tonglu, Zhejiang Province, China Valerio Dewalt Train: Gordon Parks Arts Hall, Chicago, U.S. Coarchitecture | Atelier In Situ | Jacques Plante Architecte: Diamant Theater | Engraved in the Memory, Québec City, Canada MAD Architects: Hutong Bubble 218, Beijing, China
Temporary/Experiential Installations: Appareil Architecture: Le Dernier Petit Cochon, Les Jardins de Métis, Quebec, Canada, Studio Roosegaarde: Presence, Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands, DWA Design Studio: Caffè Populaire (for Lambert & Fils), Milan, Italy
Residential Interiors: AKB Architects: Lytton Park Residence, Toronto, Canada, Aspa: Apartment in Santa Catarina, Lisbon, Portugal, Johnson Chou: Shadow Box, Toronto, Canada
Landscape Architecture: decaArchitecture: Voronoi’s Corrals, Milos, Greece, Turenscape: Turning A Festering Scar into A Living Passage: Suzhou Zhenshan Park, Jiangsu Province, China, Effekt Architects: Forest Tower, Rønnede, Denmark
Commercial/Institutional Interiors: Atelier Alter Architects: No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil, Xiamen, China, Manea Kella: Casa Popeea Boutique Hotel, Brăila, Romania, Rockwell Group: Cedric’s at The Shed, New York City, U.S., Esrawe Studio: Japanese Restaurant, Mexico City, Mexico, Vermilion Zhou Design Group: Green Massage, Shanghai, China
Furniture Design: Nienkamper: Heartbeat by Karim Rashid, IBEBI: Tam Tam in collaboration with Studio Arter&Citton, Molteni & C: Surf Sofa by Yabu Pushelberg, Eric Haskins Design: Rammed Earth Chair
Lighting Installations: Licht Kunst Licht: National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Stacklab | Project: Temporary Lighting Installation 1, Toronto, Canada
Lighting Fixtures: Lambert & Fils: Sainte Collection in collaboration with Rachel Bussin, Vibia: Tube by Ichiro Iwasaki, Flos: Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic
Unbuilt Buildings: Lemay: Bellechasse Transport Centre, Moriyama & Teshima Architects: Honey Bee Research Centre
Interior Products: Carnegie: Xorel Knit, Coalesse: Nanimarquina Collection for Coalesse, Pair: Toast by Studio Hopkins
Social Good: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: MLK1101 Supportive Housing, Los Angeles, U.S., La SHED Architecture: A Modern Barn, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada, Whiteknee: Zig Zag Park, Bogota, Colombia, Studio Lotus: Krushi Bhawan, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
A+ Student Award: Shawn Dylan Johnston and Siqi Wang (Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto): Horizontal, Caroline Cox and Austin Corriher (North Carolina State University): KEF International Airport, Students of the Islamic Azad University of Najafabad (Prof. Hossein Moradi): Kooshk Pavilion, Connery Friesen (University of Manitoba): Re-Animating the Ruin
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