In 2025, the AZ Awards turns 15! To kick off the celebration, we’re launching our awards program early, with our Call for Entries beginning in November. This means that entrants have more time to put together their submissions – and well ahead of the hectic holiday season. Stay tuned for more details!

NEW CATEGORIES

We’re also introducing new categories, including our first-ever EMERGING awards. This new segment of the AZ Awards will celebrate a body of work in each of our four main categories – Design, Landscape, Architecture and Interiors – that reflects the AZ Awards’ criteria of aesthetics, function, creativity and social and environmental responsibility. Details will be made available closer to our Call for Entries.

LONGLIST EXPOSURE

For the 15th anniversary, we will also create more exposure for entrants. Each year, the AZ Awards receives about a thousand submissions from around the world. The AZURE editorial team reviews the submissions in a multi-day series of sessions with local A&D experts to select a longlist, which is then presented to our official jury. This time around, Azure will publish the longlist selected by the editorial team and local experts online.

JURYING AND REVEAL

The official jury deliberates in March – and, as always, Azure will then publish its shortlist of finalists online. These shortlisted finalists will then compete in the People’s Choice segment. And as happens every year, the AZ Awards Winners and the People’s Choice favourites will be announced at our annual gala and in the July/August print edition of Azure as well as on our AZ Awards website. 

KEY DATES

• November 11 – ​Open for entries
• January 31 – ​Early bird deadline
• February 21 – Submissions close
• April 17 – Finalists announced
• April 17 – May 11 – People’s choice voting
• June 2025 – 15th Anniversary AZ Awards Gala

The 2025 AZ Awards is sponsored by Ligne Roset.