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OMA’s solution for navigating a labyrinthine building astride a busy thoroughfare? Staircases – and lots of them.

Original Douglas fir columns frame gallery-like vignettes in furniture retailer Avenue Road Vancouver, a rustic-chic B.C. outpost.

Italian tile is highly prized – and, as the 2018 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition proves, it’s ever-evolving, too. Here’s a glimpse at the winning projects.

Jacques Ferrier Architecture’s Water Park Aqualagon in Paris is light-filled, accessible and atypically elegant. 

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.

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.

The 2018 AZ Awards of Merit for Commercial/Institutional Architecture Over 1,000 Square Feet went to an architecture faculty’s expansion, a walled boutique hotel, a geometric women’s shelter and the mirrored extension of a library. 

Volume C, created by Marcio Kogan for São Paulo retailer Micasa, is a sculptural and flexible vessel – for displaying furniture, hosting events and more – defined by its exposed glulam-wood framing.

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.

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.