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In the future, Canadian skylines will look very, very different. From the nation’s tallest building to Inuit cultural centres in Newfoundland to starchitect-designed towers in the West, Azure’s editors have selected 10 new Canadian buildings to keep tabs on.

The Copenhagen International School, designed by C.F. Møller Architects, isn’t just a place for academics – it’s a solar power plant, covered in 12,000 photovoltaic panels. The project is a 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Commercial/Institutional Architecture Over 1,000 Square Metres.

On the eastern coast of New Zealand, Orongo Station is a sensitive, sustainable-minded and wonderfully ambitious project – and visitors might not even notice its existence. Take a look at the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Landscape Architecture.

They’re smart, adaptable and future-forward. Springboard’s Q!, Lievore Altherr’s Cila, and Shim-Sutcliffe Architects’ Mantis are the recipients of the 2018 AZ Awards of Merit in the Furniture category.

Four very different projects – an unconventional ski cabin, a legacy house updated with contemporary gestures, a dwelling mimicking mountains and a surreal-meets-orderly intervention – are the recipients of 2018 AZ Awards of Merit in the Residential Architecture: Single Family category.

El Califa is a taquería that takes cues from the shape, and infinite manifestations, of the humble taco. The Esrawe Studio project is a 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Commercial/Institutional Interiors.

In the Duke University Water Reclamation Pond, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects designed a five-hectare, multi-purpose project that reduced the school’s reliance on potable water. The project won a 2018 AZ Award for Environmental Leadership.

An affordable-housing project for displaced farmers in China, and a stark and stunning city block in Madrid both impressed our jury, which granted each the 2018 AZ Award of Merit in Multi-Unit Residential Architecture.

The 2017 AZ Award of Merit in the Experiential Graphic Design category goes to a football centre reimagined as a perspective-shifting interactive history book.

Nestled among the pine trees of Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Entrepinos clusters six thoughtfully crafted volumes around a patio. Along with Big House, Little House, the Taller Héctor Barroso project is a winner of the 2018 AZ Awards in Residential Architecture: Single Family.