Colourful depictions of whales, bicycles and spacecraft adorn the Hong Kong tech hub’s common areas.

Which projects would you like to showcase to the world next year? The 9th edition of AZURE’s AZ Awards kicks off on January 2, 2019, and there’s no better time than the present to start your entry process. 

Canada is as sprawling as it is diverse, so capturing the architectural zeitgeist is no small feat. But Azure’s editors are up for the task. Here – from Calgary’s library of the future to a new Indigenous student centre at Toronto’s Seneca College – is the best Canadian architecture of 2018.

Finnish architecture practise JKMM adds sinuous domed light wells to a bold new plaza to draw daylight into Amos Rex, a below-grade art museum.

Montreal’s Ménard Dworkind Architecture & Design plants a giant coral-coloured formation in a Griffintown beauty salon.

The editors of Azure have compiled their favourite interior design projects of the year and narrowed it down to a list of 10 spaces in Rome, Montreal, Tel Aviv and the Netherlands, among other locales. Here are our picks for the best interiors of the year.

The Pharos wing at Australia’s Mona museum is a bewildering series of luminous installations designed to keep visitors in the dark.

From addressing urban densification to creating an unobtrusive landmark in a rural setting, each of the red-hot residential projects featured in the January/February 2019 issue of Azure challenges the status quo and offers design-forward ways of living today.