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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.

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. 

Instead of tearing down an abandoned grain silo, COBE used the landmark to create a 17-storey residential project in Copenhagen that places social sustainability – and expressively angled balconies – at its core.

An inventive water-distilling device, a community-focused guest house and a hostel providing in-patient treatment to Indigenous Australians prove that design can be a powerful agent for social change. Here are the recipients of the 2018 AZ Awards of Merit in the Social Good category.

These dramatic unbuilt concepts, one a neo-brutalist condo development in Calgary and the other an ascetic residence New Orleans, won two 2018 AZ Awards of Merit for their originality.

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.

Elevated on concrete piers, Gap Cove House is built to withstand New England storm surges and is filled with sustainable features, earning it the 2018 AZ Award of Merit for Environmental Leadership.

The Axyl Chair, designed by Benjamin Hubert and manufactured by Allermuir, is stackable and built on inverted, Y-shaped legs. Better yet: it was engineered to ensure that its footprint would be as minimal as possible.

Patrick Norquet’s Pure Paper Color takes paper, available in flat sheets or gently embossed in a number of patterns, and transforms it into a building material. The Ober product is the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Architectural/Interior Products.