AZ Awards 2019: Scenes from the Gala

Mingling at the Brick Works. Centre: interior designer Arfa Akhtar

Step and repeat with Cara McBride and Sandra Rizkalla

Gala guests were treated to cocktails crafted at the Ceragres counter

Designers Scot Laughton and Arriz Hassam enjoying the fine weather in the garden

Ryan Sarros, Vladimir Radutny and Fanny Hothan of Chicago’s Vladimir Radutny Architects, which picked up both an AZ Award and the People’s Choice for their Michigan Loft interior

Interior designer Amanda Radji, left, and guest

Philip Eeles, Cosentino’s Regional Director of Sales and Distribution for Canada, with spouse Eva. Cosentino is an AZ Awards sponsor.

All the way from Peru, Galia Fuertes and Gladys Lapeyre represented LLATAS, nominated in the Social Good category

Roya Aghighi, a finalist in the A+ Student Award category for her Biogarmentry project

Simona Taroni, of Klaus by Nienkamper, with Marisa Simunovic and artist Cindy Blazevic

Guest seated on AZ Awards presenting sponsor Keilhauer’s newly released Lull chair

Architect Paul Raff (centre) was a 2019 AZ Awards finalist in the Commercial/Institutional Interiors category for Atmospheric Lens

Chia-yi Chua (right), Honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Singapore, at 2019 AZ Awards sponsor Farrow & Ball’s installation

Design journalist Eric Mutrie and DesignTO’s Robyn Wilcox

Nanelda Priftaj, Senior Designer at Scavolini Toronto, with designer Juri Iaboni and their daughter

Umbra’s Matt Carr – a 2019 AZ Awards juror, and the designer of this year’s trophy – and designer Joyce Lo, in front of the wood fencing installation by LeuWebb Projects

Ashley Rumsey of Toronto interiors firm Mason Studio

Luke and Alexandra Chang-Hunter representing Turf Design Studio, 2019 AZ Awards winners in Environmental Leadership for the Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project

Jill Malek, New York wallpaper maven and 2019 AZ Awards nominee in the Interior Products category

Kirt Martin, Chief Creative Officer at Landscape Forms – a 2019 AZ Awards presenting sponsor – with spouse Becky and daughter Sydney

Jose Alfonso Quiñones Rios of Mexico’s BAAQ, the firm behind Lirio 7, a People’s Choice winning finalist in the Multi-Unit Residential Buildings category

Paddy Harrington of Frontier Studio, creators of the visuals for the 2019 AZ Awards ceremony

Belgian designer Leo Aerts (right) won a People’s Choice nod in Furniture Design for Angelo M

The Harvest bench was the heart of Landscape Forms’ installation at the 2019 AZ Awards gala

Mingling in the courtyard at presenting sponsor Ceragres’ installation

Dinner and drinks in the CRH gallery at the Evergreen Brick Works

Kelsey Chang and Tessa Bain of Design Within Reach, a 2019 AZ Awards sponsor

Designers Fraser Greenberg, Christian Lo, Deborah Wang and Dragan Vuko

Artist Bruno Billio

Francesco Farina, CEO at 2019 AZ Awards Gala Sponsor Scavolini USA, with Azure publisher Sergio Sgaramella

Spotted in the centre: Shauna Levy of Ministry

Gala guests Maria and Jennifer Li

MC Jessica Allen, of CTV’s The Social, set an irreverent tone for the evening

Guest of Honour, American landscape legend Martha Schwartz, takes the stage to address climate emergency – and our collective obligation to turn it around

The team from Public Work claim their People’s Choice win for The Bentway from Kirt Martin of Landscape Forms

Ana Rita Morais, Chair of the School of Design at George Brown College – a 2019 AZ Awards sponsor – presents the trophy to our A+ Student Award winner Liyang Zhang

Mazyar Mortazavi, CEO and President of TAS – a 2019 AZ Awards sponsor – presenting the trophy to COOKFOX Architects partner Pam Campbell, winner in the Social Good category for Neeson Cripps Academy

London-based Johannes Schafelner of Zaha Hadid Architects accepts the AZ Award from Keilhauer’s Edwin Ocampo for the firm’s 520 West 28th residential building in New York

Alberto Pomello Lualdi  – a 2019 AZ Awards sponsor   – presents Montreal architect Jean-Maxime Labrecque with an AZ Award for his Infinite Buildings project

Winning trio: TK Justin Ng (Junior Designer at ALA Architects, winner for Helsinki Central Library Oodi), Liyang Zhang (A+ Student Award winner for Geographies of Urban Filth) and Max Schramp (representing Open Architecture, winner for U.C.C.A. Dune Art Museum)

Moriyama & Teshima team members, winners in the Unbuilt Buildings category for the Arbour, a tall-wood building proposed for George Brown College

Superkul’s Will Elsworthy, Pooya Baktash of Partisans and Lauren Abrahams of Public Work

Gala guests Dana Bronikova, Dayna Fucarino, Yolanda Senik and Chinny S.

Design mavens Lisa Barnes (IDS Toronto), Arethea Harris (Velux), Katia Varricchio (IDS Toronto) and Karen Kang (IDS National Director)

Dancing the night away after the awards presentation

Signing the work of artist Fritz Banschat’s interpretation of La Gioconda on Cosentino’s new Dekton Slim