Announcing the AZ Awards of Merit for 2015

From an eco hotel set on a bluff in Sri Lanka to furniture constructed from 11 sheets of recyclable hardwood, and a snow-melting bus shelter, the 47 Award of Merit winners are ingenious and elegant. Along with the 19 winners, these works were celebrated at Azure’s gala on Friday night.

From 720 entries that came in from all over the world, 66 finalists were selected by our jury, made up of architect Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics (New York, US), architect Brendan MacFarlane of Jakob + MacFarlane (Paris, France), designer Anwar Mekhayech of the Design Agency (Toronto, Canada), landscape architect Janet Rosenberg of Janet Rosenberg & Studio (Toronto, Canada) and designer Philippe Malouin (London, UK). Here are the 47 Awards of Merit:

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – SINGLE FAMILY

Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Flynn Mews House, Dublin, Ireland

 

GLUCK+: Tower House, Upstate New York, USA

 

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTI-UNIT

Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Formosa1140, West Hollywood, USA

 

Saucier + Perrotte Architectes and ZAS Architects: River City Phase 1, Toronto, Canada

 

Studio MK27: Vertical Itaim, São Paulo, Brazil

 

COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OVER 1,000 SQUARE METRES

Henning Larsen Architects: Moesgaard Museum, Højbjerg, Denmark

 

MAD Architects: China Wood Sculpture Museum, Harbin, China

 

Maki & Associates and Moriyama & Teshima Architects: Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada

 

Palinda Kannangara: Hotel by the Waterfalls, Ramboda, Sri Lanka

 

Saunders Architecture: Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland, Canada

 

COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE UNDER 1,000 SQUARE METRES

Chrofi: Lune de Sang Sheds, Northern New South Wales, Australia

 

SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov: Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin, Germany

 

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

3LHD: Mulini Beach, Rovinj, Croatia

 

The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative: Poppy Plaza, Calgary, Canada

 

Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture: Metamorphous, Vancouver, Canada

 

TEMPORARY/DEMONSTRATION ARCHITECTURE

Warren Techentin Architecture: La Cage aux Folles, Los Angeles, USA

 

RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS

Architetto Pierluigi Piu: Sardinia House, Cagliari, Italy

 

Atelier Moderno: Le 205, Montreal, Canada

 

i29 Interior Architects: Culture 01/Room on the Roof, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL INTERIORS

Landini Associates: T2 Headquarters, Melbourne, Australia

 

Levenbetts: Cornell University Sibley Hall, Ithaca, USA

 

Superkül: Steelcase WorkLife, Toronto, Canada

 

FURNITURE DESIGN

Arper: Zinta, by Lievore Altherr Molina

 

Lee Eun Kyoung: Free Hug

 

Keilhauer: Aesync, by EOOS

 

FURNITURE SYSTEMS

BuzziSpace: BuzziPicNic, by Alain Gilles

 

LIGHTING FIXTURES

Love, Ana: Traveller, by Ana Tevšić

 

Andlight: Slab Series, by Lukas Peet

 

Flos: OK Lamp, by Konstantin Grcic

 

LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS

Licht Kunst Licht: LWL Museum for Art and Culture

 

INTERIOR PRODUCTS

Interface: Human Nature, by David Oakey Designs

 

MPFXDesign: Oli the Olive Bowl, by Miguel Pinto Félix

 

Submaterial: Figure No. 1 and 2, by David Hamlin

 

CONCEPTS/PROTOTYPES

AECOM: Chicago Loop BRT Station

 

RUFproject: 11 Sheets of Plywood

 

Choi + Shine Architects: The Bit Light

 

STUDENT A⁺ AWARD

Anthony Ko (Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK): Institution of Un-Natural Fictions

 

Benny Kwok (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada): Salt Siida Nomadic Hostel

 

Sofia Ceylan, Katharina Laekamp and Leonie Otten (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany): Memory of the Arctic

 

Marta López Rubio (Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain):The Archaeological Machine

 

Students of Virginia Tech design/buildLAB (Blacksburg, USA): Sharon Fieldhouse

 

SOCIAL GOOD AWARD

Richard Kroeker Design: Rasesa Music and Dance Space, Mochudi, Botswana

 

A.gor.a Architects: Medical Training Center Campus, Mae Sot, Thailand

 

Saunders Architecture: Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland, Canada

 

ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

Fireclay Tile: CRT Glass Tile

 

Sofia Ceylan, Katharina Laekamp and Leonie Otten: Memory of the Arctic

 

DIALOG and Perkins+Will: University of Calgary Energy Environment Experiential Learning, Canada