The news is in: The 2022 AZ Awards jury has selected 70 finalists from around the world. In a year when design thinking that reimagines our cities is needed more than ever, we have major contenders in three urban design sub-categories: overall visions, infrastructure and interventions. These finalists join other ingenious submissions in areas as varied as design, landscape architecture and concepts. As always, we also have Environmental Leadership and Social Good categories – both featuring stellar standouts.

Adjudicating through a remote deliberation process, our jurors – Alison Brooks, Drew Sinclair, Gabriele Chiave, Garth Roberts, Lauren Stimson, Ma Yansong, Primo Orpilla, Róisín Lafferty, Siamak Hariri and Tao Zhang – were impressed by the range of problem-solving and inspiring designs in this year’s submissions.

The 2022 AZ Awards winners will be revealed online in an exclusive showcase on June 24. Ahead of the awards announcement, our People’s Choice portal is now open, giving you a chance to support your favourite finalists. Vote via our People’s Choice portal by May 20!

HW-Studio Arquitectos: The Hill in Front of the Glen, Morelia, Mexico

Clayton Korte: Hill Country Wine Cave, Texas Hill Country, U.S.

Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Singapore Residence, Singapore

Omar Gandhi Architect: OG House, Halifax, Canada

Atelier Pierre Thibault: La Maison du Cap, Saint-Joachim, Canada

La Shed Architecture: Maison Saint-Charles, Montreal, Canada

Tsukagoshi Miyashita Sekkei: Apartment S, Tokyo, Japan

Breathe: Nightingale Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

NADAAA: MIT Site 4, Cambridge, U.S.

Modern Office of Design + Architecture (MODA): Grow, Calgary, Canada

arrova | atelier rojo-vergara: Loft A, Pamplona, Spain

Diamond Schmitt: The Drake Hotel Modern Wing, Toronto, Canada

CO Adaptive Architecture: Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater, Brooklyn, U.S.

UAD-ACRC: Xu Wei Art Museum and Green Vine Square, Shaoxing City, China

Michael Maltzan Architecture: Quamajuq, the Inuit Art Centre, Winnipeg, Canada

Kohn Shnier and ERA Architects in association: University College Revitalization, Toronto, Canada

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter: House of Grain, Hjørring, Denmark

gh3*: Stormwater Facility, Toronto, Canada

BUZZ/Büro Ziyu Zhuang: The Chamber Church, Qingdao, China

Atelier Duyi Han: Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment, Changzhou, China

HWKN: Shape Tomorrow, Berlin, Germany

Lauren Goodman: Providence Project

SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop: PLA

HansonLA: The Louis Handle

The Miller Hull Partnership: Matt’s Place, Spokane, U.S.

August Green: Bethesda Medical Center, Cap Haitien, Haiti

Temporary Office: Common Sky, London, U.K.

Fantini: Sailing by Yabu Pushelberg

Baril and Maison Marie Saint Pierre: Marie

Cosmographies: Glyph by Marie Guyodo

Nienkamper: VOX LCS Table

Landscape Forms: Take-Out by Rodrigo Torres

De La Espada: Petit Chair by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Arper: Kata by Altherr Désile Park

Stackabl: Configurable Design by Jeffrey Forrest

Extremis: AMAi by Dirk Wynants

Teknion: Routes by Pearson Lloyd

Fisher & Paykel: Combination Steam Oven

Camira: Quest

Davide Groppi: Anima

Flos: Wireline by Formafantasma

GPI Design: Bay Street Bridge, Toronto, Canada

Dérive Art Agency: Pulse Topology (Public Art Project) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Toronto, Canada

Motive: Totetsu Training Institute, Ibaraki, Japan

MJMA Architecture & Design: Centennial College Downsview Centre for Aerospace and Aviation, Toronto, Canada

Da Bureau: Osteria Betulla, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Peng & Partners: LINFORNI Retail Store, Chengdu, China

Roarc Renew: Into_the force, Shanghai, China

Kohn Shnier and ERA Architects in association: University College Revitalization, Toronto, Canada

Alain Carle Architecte: NORM house, Baie-d’Urfé, Canada

i29: Canal House, Amsterdam, Netherlands

La Shed Architecture: Les Passerelles, Montreal, Canada

Turenscape: A Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City, Nanchang, China

Change Studio: Courtyard under Mount Qingcheng, Dujiangyan, China

OJB: Meadow + Forest: Restoring Habitats, Dearborn, U.S.

Zaha Hadid Architects: Eleftheria Square, Nicosia, Cyprus

Omar Gandhi Architect: Peggy’s Cove Infrastructure Improvement Strategy, Peggy’s Cove, Canada

LUO Studio: Timber Bridge in Gulou Waterfront, Jiangmen City, China

Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker: Experience Chute, Quebec City, Canada

Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates: Tintagel Castle Footbridge, Cornwall, U.K.

Henriquez Partners Architects: Mirvish Village, Toronto, Canada

SvN Architects + Planners: A New Approach to Transit-Oriented Communities

Shree Kale and Anna Fritz (Rice University): CAP-18

Vincent Chuang and Zihao Wei (University of Waterloo): Filling Pieces – Hall’s Lane Creative Studios, Kitchener, Canada

Sabina Blasiotti (Bartlett School of Architecture): The Village Inside the Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui, Japan

Turenscape: Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City, Nanchang, China

August Green: Bethesda Medical Center, Cap Haitien, Haiti

Studio PHH Architecture: La Reference, Ganthier, Haiti

Insitu Project: House of Dreams, Zhoushan Village, China

Ke Sun: Mitto

The 2022 AZ Awards is presented by Caesarstone, Keilhauer and Landscape Forms.

Sponsors of the Winners Reveal are Scavolini, Dark Tools and George Brown School of Design.

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