In addition to presenting the AZ Award winners, Azure also recognized 47 brilliant projects, products and concepts with Awards of Merit in its fifth annual AZ Awards.
From an eco hotel set on a bluff in Sri Lanka to furniture constructed from 11 sheets of recyclable hardwood, and a snow-melting bus shelter, the 47 Award of Merit winners are ingenious and elegant. Along with the 19 winners, these works were celebrated at Azure’s gala on Friday night.
From 720 entries that came in from all over the world, 66 finalists were selected by our jury, made up of architect Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics (New York, US), architect Brendan MacFarlane of Jakob + MacFarlane (Paris, France), designer Anwar Mekhayech of the Design Agency (Toronto, Canada), landscape architect Janet Rosenberg of Janet Rosenberg & Studio (Toronto, Canada) and designer Philippe Malouin (London, UK). Here are the 47 Awards of Merit:
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – SINGLE FAMILY
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Flynn Mews House, Dublin, Ireland
GLUCK+: Tower House, Upstate New York, USA
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTI-UNIT
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Formosa1140, West Hollywood, USA
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes and ZAS Architects: River City Phase 1, Toronto, Canada
Studio MK27: Vertical Itaim, São Paulo, Brazil
COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OVER 1,000 SQUARE METRES
Henning Larsen Architects: Moesgaard Museum, Højbjerg, Denmark
MAD Architects: China Wood Sculpture Museum, Harbin, China
Maki & Associates and Moriyama & Teshima Architects: Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Palinda Kannangara: Hotel by the Waterfalls, Ramboda, Sri Lanka
Saunders Architecture: Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland, Canada
COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE UNDER 1,000 SQUARE METRES
Chrofi: Lune de Sang Sheds, Northern New South Wales, Australia
SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov: Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin, Germany
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
3LHD: Mulini Beach, Rovinj, Croatia
The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative: Poppy Plaza, Calgary, Canada
Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture: Metamorphous, Vancouver, Canada
TEMPORARY/DEMONSTRATION ARCHITECTURE
Warren Techentin Architecture: La Cage aux Folles, Los Angeles, USA
RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS
Architetto Pierluigi Piu: Sardinia House, Cagliari, Italy
Atelier Moderno: Le 205, Montreal, Canada
i29 Interior Architects: Culture 01/Room on the Roof, Amsterdam, Netherlands
COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL INTERIORS
Landini Associates: T2 Headquarters, Melbourne, Australia
Levenbetts: Cornell University Sibley Hall, Ithaca, USA
Superkül: Steelcase WorkLife, Toronto, Canada
FURNITURE DESIGN
Arper: Zinta, by Lievore Altherr Molina
Lee Eun Kyoung: Free Hug
Keilhauer: Aesync, by EOOS
FURNITURE SYSTEMS
BuzziSpace: BuzziPicNic, by Alain Gilles
LIGHTING FIXTURES
Love, Ana: Traveller, by Ana Tevšić
Andlight: Slab Series, by Lukas Peet
Flos: OK Lamp, by Konstantin Grcic
LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS
Licht Kunst Licht: LWL Museum for Art and Culture
INTERIOR PRODUCTS
Interface: Human Nature, by David Oakey Designs
MPFXDesign: Oli the Olive Bowl, by Miguel Pinto Félix
Submaterial: Figure No. 1 and 2, by David Hamlin
CONCEPTS/PROTOTYPES
AECOM: Chicago Loop BRT Station
RUFproject: 11 Sheets of Plywood
Choi + Shine Architects: The Bit Light
STUDENT A+ AWARD
Anthony Ko (Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK): Institution of Un-Natural Fictions
Benny Kwok (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada): Salt Siida Nomadic Hostel
Sofia Ceylan, Katharina Laekamp and Leonie Otten (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany): Memory of the Arctic
Marta López Rubio (Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain):The Archaeological Machine
Students of Virginia Tech design/buildLAB (Blacksburg, USA): Sharon Fieldhouse
SOCIAL GOOD AWARD
Richard Kroeker Design: Rasesa Music and Dance Space, Mochudi, Botswana
A.gor.a Architects: Medical Training Center Campus, Mae Sot, Thailand
Saunders Architecture: Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland, Canada
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
Fireclay Tile: CRT Glass Tile
Sofia Ceylan, Katharina Laekamp and Leonie Otten: Memory of the Arctic
DIALOG and Perkins+Will: University of Calgary Energy Environment Experiential Learning, Canada
