Results

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teknion’s Expansion Cityline, an office collection that evokes the daily ebb and flow of people through the workplace, is among the projects that have earned 2018 AZ Awards of Merit.

DevolutioN Park, in Xiamen, China, challenges developers to think differently. In an empty 90-square-metre apartment, Jiansong Tang created a rolling green oasis 27 storeys in the sky. The project is a 2018 AZ Awards winner for Temporary/Demonstration Architecture.