On June 22 at Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works, the international architecture and design community gathered for the eighth annual AZ Awards. The winners were revealed amid a celebration of innovation and excellence.

The pool. The terrace. The balcony. The rooftop. Whichever your preferred environment, summertime is best spent outside – and here is a curated selection of new, notable and minimalist outdoor products that can elevate open-air spaces.

Whether they’re resplendent second homes or a reaffirmation of the time-tested dockside experience, these contemporary Canadian cottages elevate a summer tradition.

Wow! The Morpheus Hotel in Macau’s City of Dreams is complete and jaw-dropping. It’s both a feat of engineering and a sign of one gaming mecca’s huge wealth.

At the southern tip of Miami Beach, Oppenheim Architecture designed Forte dei Marmi, an fine-dining establishment inspired by the food and architecture of northern Tuscany.

This spring has seen a number of new design showrooms launched around the globe. Here are just a handful of our favourite new spaces, from such brands as Molteni, Jan Kath and Cassina.

Dynamic streets, outdoor comfort zones, tall timber buildings, digital electricity and more. We stepped inside Sidewalk Labs’ newly opened prototyping space to find out what the future of Toronto’s most anticipated (and not quite green-lit) development might look like.

Design Canada, a new documentary from the team behind Helvetica, introduces us to the graphic designers behind the nation’s most iconic logos.