Results

Public Square, an FXCollaborative project, imagines an interlocking tile system that could reclaim space formerly occupied by vehicles – it earned a 2018 AZ Award of Merit in the Ideas/Prototypes category.

Neri&Hu Design and Research Office’s Immersion Bathtub and Casali’s Cocoon Lounge have earned 2018 AZ Awards of Merit in the Architectural/Interiors Products category.

Lemay’s renovation of Montreal’s Saint Joseph Oratory includes improvements to visitor facilities, a monumental new bell tower and a refurbished museum. Contemporary yet sensitive, the project was named the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Unbuilt Buildings.

A nine-storey building housing nine turnkey restaurants – designed in Tokyo by Key Operations – earned a 2018 AZ Award of Merit in Architecture: Commercial/Institutional Under 1,000 Square Metres.

Located in a refurbished armory, Loft Panzerhalle features a ribbon-like mezzanine and a theatrical floating staircase – and it’s a visionary architectonic masterpiece. The Smartvoll project is the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Residential Interiors.

Rios Clementi Hale Studios’ ROW DTLA, a Los Angeles project that combines structured wayfinding, signed landmarks and colourful accents, is effortlessly excellent – which is why it won the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Experiential Graphic Design.

The Bentway, a concept developed by Public Works and Greenberg Consultants, aims to transform the area beneath a Toronto expressway into a 1.75-kilometre public park, filled with amphitheatres, playgrounds, bike paths, playgrounds and markets. It’s the 2018 AZ Awards Winner in the Ideas/Prototypes category.

An immersive chandelier made from fuchsia flagging tape and a resplendent Montreal rainbow installation, two AZ Awards of Merit recipients in Temporary/Demonstration Architecture, prove that projects don’t need to be permanent to have a lasting impact.

A contemplative museum court, a dramatic remake of an Edwardian department store and a brick atrium-turned-coworking space took home 2018 AZ Awards of Merit in the Interiors Commercial/Institutional category.

On Friday, June 22, Azure announced the winners of the eighth annual AZ Awards, and celebrated all of the finalists in one fabulous night at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto.