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Announcing the 60 designers and architects who have been chosen as finalists of Azure’s second annual AZ Awards.

Catherine Mosbach’s competition-winning scheme for Taichung Gateway Park on the former site of an airport will provide relief from the city heat.

The Warming Huts competition, now in its third year, invited winning architects from Drøbak in Norway, Liberec in the Czech Republic and New York — not to mention special guest Frank Gehry — to create innovative huts along Winnipeg’s Assiniboine river trail.

Brooklyn architecture firm Studio a+i has nabbed the top prize in a competition that called for proposals for a public park and memorial on a wedge of land in New York City’s West Village.

Best known for connecting nonprofits with designers and funding partners, the organization is seeking out ideas that will recharge and revitalize New York’s communities.

Of the 550 entries for this annual competition, the top 15 have been revealed. We look at three projects contending for the top spot – including one by Canadians Michal Prywata and Thiago Caires.

Last month, the AZ AWARDS jury weighed in. Now it’s your turn! Until Friday, May 6, vote for your favourite AZ AWARDS finalists in the People’s Choice Awards.

“Our design for the new parliament in Tirana, Albania, stands for the transparency of democracy,” says Wolf D. Prix, co-founder of the firm.

The Portuguese architect is recognized for his neo-Miesian architecture and surprising use of age-old materials.

Samantha Lynch of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the winner of this year’s Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners, a prestigious $34,000 annual award by the Canada Council for the Arts.