Winners of the 2016 AZ Awards

John Hill

1. July 2016

AZ Awards trophy designed by Omer Arbel and hand-cast by Bocci (Photo: Azure Magazine)

On June 17 at Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works, Azure Magazine revealed the 18 winners of its 6th annual AZ Awards.

This year's AZ Awards drew 826 submissions — from designers, architects and manufacturers, as well as students — that were narrowed down to 66 finalists. From those, the jury* selected the 18 winners in four categories (Architecture, Interior, Design, and Concept) with three other prizes: Student A+ Award, Social Good Award, Environmental Leadership Award. The list is below with some projects highlighted with images; visit Azure's website to see images of all the winners.

*The 2016 AZ Awards jury: Architect Chris Wilkinson of WilkinsonEyre (London, U.K.), interior designer Anna Simone of Cecconi Simone (Toronto, Canada), landscape architect Thomas L. Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (Charlottesville, U.S.), architect John Tong of +tongtong (Toronto, Canada), and Omer Arbel of Bocci (Vancouver, Canada).

ARCHITECTURE WINNERS

Best Architecture Over 1,000 Square Meters
Pancorbo + De Villar + Chacón + Martin Robles: Vegas Altas Congress Centre and Auditorium, Villanueva de la Serena, Spain

Best Architecture Under 1,000 Square Meters
Shim-Sutcliffe Architects: Wong Dai Sin Temple, Toronto, Canada

Best Residential Architecture
Tropical Space: Termitary House, Da Nang, Vietnam

Best Temporary Architecture
Lateral Office and CS Design: Impulse, Montreal, Canada

Best Landscape Architecture
Aldayjover Architecture and Landscape: Aranzadi Park, Pamplona, Spain

Pancorbo + De Villar + Chacón + Martin Robles: Vegas Altas Congress Centre and Auditorium, Villanueva de la Serena, Spain (Photo: Jesús Granada)

INTERIOR WINNERS

Best Residential Interior
Studio MK27: SP-Penthouse, São Paulo, Brazil

Best Commercial Interior
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Comme Moi, Shanghai, China

Studio MK27: SP-Penthouse, São Paulo, Brazil (Photo: Courtesy of Studio MK27)

DESIGN WINNERS

Best Architectural Product
Anyway Doors: Pivoting Room Divider, by Koen Dries and Rudi Dries, with Marieke Cools

Best Furniture Design
Moss & Lam: W1 Tables

Best Furniture System
Rimadesio: Cover Freestanding, by Giuseppe Bavuso

Best Lighting Fixture
Davide Groppi: Fosbury

Best Lighting Installation
Partisans: Gweilo Light

Best Interior Product
Agape: Ell sink, by Benedini Associati, Diego Cisi and Andrés Jost

CONCEPT WINNERS

Best Unbuilt Concept
Sanjay Puri Architects: Reservoir

Best Concept Prototype
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Enough House

Rimadesio: Cover Freestanding, by Giuseppe Bavuso (Photo: Courtesy of Rimadesio)

Sanjay Puri Architects: Reservoir (Image: Courtesy of Sanjay Puri)

STUDENT A+ AWARD
Jurgis Gecys (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria): Curonian Spit

SOCIAL GOOD AWARD
Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects: Walumba Elders Centre, Warmun, Australia

ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
ZGF Architects: Stanford University Central Energy Facility, Palo Alto, U.S.