Our third and final longlist of the AZ Awards 2026 program (following parts one and two published last week) recognizes entries in four special categories — Concepts, Environmental Leadership, Social Good, and our A+ Award for student work — that AZURE’s editors selected to move forward to the jury round. Best of luck to all our longlist nominees!

Concepts

Bishop McDowell: Tilt House, Purcells Cove Backlands, Canada

Batay-Csorba Architects: The Market, Mirvish Village, Toronto, Canada

PARTISANS: The Hearn, Toronto, Canada

XYLab: $2,500 Vernacular Home, Para Dash, Bangladesh

5468796 Architecture: Bond Redux, Winnipeg, Canada

the marc boutin architectural collaborative: Rossdale Power Plant Rehabilitation, Edmonton, Canada

CORNECELLI with Office In Search Of: Astruptunet Exhibition Center, Vassenden, Norway

Agence Spatiale: Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Canada

Studio VAARO and Gabriel Fain Architects: On the Courtyard: Learning from European Blocks

KANVA: Kina8at Cultural Centre, La Conception, Canada

KANVA: Platform-19: University of Ottawa Census Courtyard Revitalization, Ottawa, Canada

Environmental Leadership

XYLab: $2,500 Vernacular Home, Para Dash, Bangladesh 

Moriyama Teshima with Acton Ostry Architects: Limberlost Place, Toronto, Canada

Stantec Architecture: Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre, Winnipeg, Canada

Perkins&Will: Kaiser Borsari Hall, Bellingham, USA

Mohawk Group: Hero Rubber made with Nike Grind

Social Good

mcCallumSather and Smart Density: 1120 Ossington, Toronto, Canada

Design HARU: Universal Beach, Toronto, Canada

J.L. Richards & Associates: Biidaaban Kinoomaagegamik (Sagamok) School, Sagamok Anishnawbek, Canada 

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects: The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum, Šeduva, Lithuania

GLUCK+ Architecture: Julian H. Jr. Robertson CitySquash Center, New York, USA

WeatherstonBruer Associates: Mohawk Institute: A Site of National Conscience, Brantford, Canada

Michael Maltzan Architecture: 26 Point 2 Apartments, Long Beach, USA

Acre Architects: The Wellington, Saint John, Canada

Stantec Architecture: Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre, Winnipeg, Canada

ARCHITEM Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski architectes: Kwigw8mna “Our and Everyone’s House”, Sherbrooke, Canada

civiliti: Parc des Gorilles, Montreal, Canada

A+ Student Award

Thy Nguyen (University of Manitoba): Sponge by the Forks

Matthew Garrett (University of Kansas): Prairie Park Pavilion

David Dowell (Kansas State University): Framed Prairie: A Study in 2×4’s

Kexuan Shang (Rice University): Gare de la Rapée Recycling Hub

Mo Bayati (University of Toronto): Assemblies of Unloved Stones

Ricardo Espinoza (University of Waterloo): Caribbean Culture Commons

Chenyu Wen (Violet Wen) (Syracuse University): Memorial of Duality

Camila Lima, Maya Kerfoot, Melanie Roberts, Blake Klotz, and Jacob MacDougall (Dalhousie Architecture Students Association): Extraction

Jake Levy (Toronto Metropolitan University): Coral – Planetary Biodesign

Clay te Bokkel University of Waterloo School of Architecture F_RMlab): Crest

Alex Li (University of Waterloo): FL◇W

The AZ Awards 2026 is presented by Fisher & Paykel. Keilhauer is the EMERGING Category sponsor. Colombo Design America, Jeld-Wen, Scavolini, Vicostone and Landscape Forms are the Gala Sponsors.

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*v2com will provide one gift-certificate to all 31 winners of 2026 to distribute one Multi press kit (25 images) on v2com newswire; and a 50% Gift-Certificate to all 2026 AZ Award finalists.