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A group of people walk and gather in a grassy urban park with stone paths, featured on the cover of AZURE magazine promoting the AZ Awards 2026.
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Summer 2026

A group of people walk and gather in a grassy urban park with stone paths, featured on the cover of AZURE magazine promoting the AZ Awards 2026.
#316
Summer 2026

The June/July/August 2026 edition of AZURE is dedicated to our 16th annual AZ Awards — and also features the best of Milan, the New Museum’s expansion, the latest in building envelope systems and more!

The AZ Awards issue packs much more than our winners and finalists — though they certainly take pride of place. (And you can read all about them on our dedicated AZ Awards site.)

Turning to an unlikely source for inspiration – the craft of flower pressing – the Subtle Impressions collection of carpet tiles features an artful mix of watercolour-like patterns, vibrant colours and unique textures thanks to a yarn technique that combines three threads of different weight. 

The palette was derived by blending hundreds of flower petals, stems and leaves to create pigments that were then extracted and transferred to cloth, with the outlines and shadows creating scale and contrast, before being digitally rendered on the carpeting. The resulting patterns are artful and organic, with gradation effects allowing for customization of colour and saturation to create transition through spaces. 

Comprised of three nature-inspired motifs (Floraculture, Perennial and Pressed) in a wide range of soothing colour combinations, the collection is intended to enhance wellbeing in a built environment and can be installed as offset, monolithIc, brick, herringbone, ashlar or staggered.

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