Update: The winners have been announced! Click here to find out which projects took home prizes.
In March, our five jurors – planner and landscape ecologist Nina-Marie Lister of Plandform, interior designer Alessandro Munge of Studio Munge, industrial designer Theo Richardson of Rich Brilliant Willing, architect Nader Tehrani of NADAAA, and designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design – met, debated and narrowed down the spectacular number of international entries to 70 finalists. We are thrilled to present those that won over our discerning jury.
The winners from the list of finalists will be announced at our gala event, which will be held at Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works on June 23rd. All of the winners and finalists will be featured in our July / August issue, available on newsstands at the end of June.
Now it’s your turn to get involved! On April 6th we will be turning to you to vote for your favourite designs and projects during the popular People’s Choice.
The 2017 AZ AWARDS is presented by Audi, Cosentino, DXV, Keilhauer, and Rado, and is sponsored by TD Bank Group, Urban Capital and George Brown School of Design.
The AZ Awards Gala is sponsored by Alpi, Bauhaus and Euro-Line.
Residential Architecture – Single Family
Jean Verville Architecte: FAHOUSE, Quebec, Canada
Omar Gandhi Architect and Design Base 8: Rabbit Snare Gorge, Cape Breton, Canada
Palinda Kannangara Architects: Studio Dwelling, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
People’s Architecture Office: Mrs. Fan’s Plugin House, Beijing, China
Studio mk27: Jungle House, Guarujá, Brazil
Residential Architecture – Multi-Unit
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group: The Grove at Grand Bay, Miami, U.S.
FXFOWLE Architects: 35XV, New York, U.S.
Hiroyuki Ito Architects: Tatsumi Apartment House, Tokyo, Japan
MAD Architects: Huangshan Mountain Village, Huangshan, China
Commercial / Institutional Architecture Over 1,000 Square Metres
Atelier du Pont: Community of Municipalities Offices, Les Herbiers, France
Gimeno Guitart: Santa Maria Parish Center, Tarragona, Spain
Hariri Pontarini Architects: Bahá’í Temple of South America, Santiago, Chile
Henning Larsen Architects: Frederiksbjerg School, Aarhus, Denmark
Patkau Architects: Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
Steven Holl Architects: University of Iowa Visual Arts Building, Iowa City, U.S.
Commercial / Institutional Architecture Under 1,000 Square Metres
Anmahian Winton Architects: Gemma Observatory, New Hampshire, U.S.
Boda Architecture: Group 8 Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Suzhou Chapel, Suzhou, China
Recreational Architecture Under 1,000 Square Metres
Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects: 2015 Pan Am and Para Pan Am Legacy BMX Supercross Track, Toronto, Canada
The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative: John Fry Sports Park Pavilion, Edmonton, Canada
Matter Design and FR|SCH Projects: Five Fields Play Structure, Lexington, U.S.
Temporary / Demonstration Architecture
Matter Design: Microtherme, Boston, U.S.
People’s Architecture Office: People’s Canopy, Preston, U.K.
Landscape Architecture
Turenscape: Quzhou Luming Park, Quzhou, China
Victoria Taylor Landscape Architect: Public Laneway Puncture, Toronto, Canada
West 8: Governors Island Phase 2: The Hills, New York, U.S.
Residential Interiors
Audax with Pencil Design: Strata House, Toronto, Canada
Desai Chia Architecture: Photographer’s Loft, New York, U.S.
FM.X Interior Design: Returning Hut, Fujian, China
Commercial / Institutional Interiors
Assembly Design Studio: Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Pittsburgh, U.S.
Fieldevo Design Studio: NCTU Innovation Centre, Hsinchi, Taiwan
Hallucinate Design Office: Midwest Inland Port Financial Town, Xi’an, China
João Mendes Ribeiro Arquitecto: Claus Porto Flagship Store, Lisbon, Portugal
Maurice Mentjens: House of Smart, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: The HUB Performance and Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
Furniture Design
Coalesse: LessThanFive Chair designed by Michael Young
DDC: Sign Filo
Estúdio Ronald Sasson: Armchair Yori
Neal Aronowitz Design: Whorl Table
Republic of Fritz Hansen: Pair Chair designed by Benjamin Hubert
Furniture Systems
Keilhauer: Hangout Collection designed by EOOS
Teknion: Zones designed with PearsonLloyd
Lighting Fixtures
Brightgreen: Surface-Mounted Wall Light Collection
Davide Groppi: Infinito
Flos: Infra-Structure designed by Vincent Van Duysen
Lighting Installations
Castor Design: Particle Accelerator
Lichtvision (Lighting Design) and Random International (Concept): Swarm Study / IX
CannonDesign and NEUF architect(e)s: CHUM Passerelle
Interior Products
Agape: Dot Line designed by García Cumini
Wolf Gordon: Mae Engelgeer Collection
Young Projects: Pulled Plaster Panels
Architectural Products
Nemo Tile & Stone: Think Thin
Rimadesio: Soho Sliding Doors designed by Giuseppe Bavuso
Co.Studio: Andrew faucet for RVB
Concepts
Adamiczka Consulting: A Church for the Local Community, Wrocław, Poland
Belzberg Architects: Zacatecas, Mexico City, Mexico
Sanjay Puri Architects: Iskcon Temple, Ahmedabad, India
Experiential Graphic Design
Form:Media and Ekistics Planning & Design: Batoche National Historic Site, Batoche, Canada
Civiliti: Outremont Campus Viaduct, Montreal, Canada
Volume Inc: Bloomberg SF Tech Hub, San Francisco, U.S.
A+ Student Award
Caio Barboza and Sofia Blanco Santos, Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Aéreo
Tomas Broma, Wrocław University of Science and Technology: S’lowtecture: Housing Structure
Students of Design/Build LAB at Virginia Tech: Sharon Fields
Students of Kansas State University Design+Make Studio: Preston Outdoor Education Station
Mark Hemphill (Savannah College of Art and Design): Wiggle Theory
Social Good
Architem Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski Architectes: Renovation of Homeless Shelter Cafeteria, Café and Kitchen, Montreal, Canada
OPSYS, RVTR and Ecological Design Lab at Ryerson University: Extraction (commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta), Venice, Italy
People’s Architecture Office: Mrs. Fan’s Plugin House, Beijing, China
Environmental Leadership Award
Edward Ogosta Architecture: Hangar Office, Culver City, U.S.
MGA | Michael Green Architecture: T3, Minneapolis, U.S.