Our 2025 AZ Awards Gala at the Evergreen Brick Works marked a major milestone – as we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our international competition by fêting 26 winners and 60 finalists! These projects, interiors and products accomplish much more than formal and aesthetic achievement: They pair great design with ingenious problem solving. DWT Tiny House, which clinched our Environmental Leadership award, proposes a method for collecting and upcycling waste drywall into new building blocks for erecting much needed housing for Seattle. The winner in Built Urban Developments, START Ivry in Paris, might look like a quirky set of towers but its deeper aim is to turn the tables in favour of design-first procurement.

And then there’s Sponge Synergy by Turenscape: Once again the Beijing studio led by Kongjian Yu has conceived a landscape that’s both awesome (in the truest sense) and inventively resilient. To these and all of the standout winners of the 2025 AZ Awards – which include the Emerging winners, published separately – we raise a glass and extend a hearty congratulations!

ARCHITECTURE

BUILDINGS OVER 1,000 SQM

Winner: Sun Tower by OPEN Architecture, Yantai, China

People’s Choice: təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre by hcma architecture + design with PFS Studio, New Westminster, BC, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Forskaren by 3XN, Stockholm, Sweden

Academia Atlas by Sordo Madaleno, Zapopan, Mexico

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture by NADAAA with HDR, Lincoln, U.S.

BUILDINGS UNDER 1,000 SQM

Winner:Domino Square Building by Studio Cadena with Field Operations, Brooklyn, U.S.

People’s Choice (*it’s a tie*):

Saint Catherine’s Chapel by Audax, Florence, Italy

Tekαkαpimək Contact Station by Saunders Architecture with Alisberg Parker Architects and Reed Hilderbrand, Maine, U.S.

Awards of Merit:

Los Milics Vineyards Tasting Room by Chen Suchart Studio, Elgin, U.S.

Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub by Lateral Office with Verne Reimer Architecture, Iqaluit, Canada

HOUSES

Winner: House 720 Degrees by Fernanda Canales, Reserva Peñitas, Mexico

People’s Choice: Sagamore North Cottage by Akb Architects, Muskoka, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Lantern House by Leckie Studio Architecture + Design, Vancouver, Canada

Arbour House by Patkau Architects, Victoria, Canada

El Aleph Guesthouse by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Port L’Hebert, Canada

MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

Winner:Isla Intersections Supportive Housing & Paseo by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects with Holos Communities, Los Angeles, U.S.

People’s Choice: Ulster House by LGA Architectural Partners, Canada

Award of Merit: PS1200 by Marlon Blackwell Architects with D.I.R.T. studio, Fort Worth, U.S.

TEMPORARY AND EXPERIENTIAL INSTALLATIONS

Winner and People’s Choice:Sky Ring by Line+ Studio, Shaoxing, China

Awards of Merit:

Garden for the Eyes by c+d studio, Shanghai, China

Djerba: Prototype 366 by L.E.FT Architects with Iheb Guermazi and Beya Othmani

Pearl Jam by Good Urban Design, Miami, U.S.

ADAPTIVE RE-USE

Winner:Dialogue with Nature – Commune STORE by Atelier Global Limited, Houyuan Village, China

People’s Choices (*it’s a tie*):

Skylab HQ by Skylab Architecture, Portland, U.S.

The Yard | Dalian Cultural Center by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Dalian, China

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Winner: Sponge Synergy: Huaiyang Fuxi Cultural Park by Turenscape, Zhoukou, China

People’s Choice: Love Park by CCxA with GH3* and Arup, Toronto, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Triangle Park by Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Cambridge, U.S.

Presidio Tunnel Tops by Field Operations with Magnusson Klemencic Associates and EHDD, San Francisco, U.S.

DESIGN

SINGLE-PIECE FURNITURE

Winner:Mynt chair by Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra

People’s Choice: Fortune Chair by JUMBO Studios for Heller

Awards of Merit:

Catifa Carta Chair by Lievore Altherr Molina for Arper

Obi by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba for Expormim

FURNITURE SYSTEMS AND COLLECTIONS

Winner:Aurena by Antonio Citterio for Duravit

People’s Choice: Fresh Catch by Lauren Goodman

Award of Merit: Monterey by Landscape Forms

LIGHTING FIXTURES

Winner: Rificolona by E-ggs for Miniforms

People’s Choice: Folia Collection by Federico Stefanovich for AGO Projects

Awards of Merit:

Outline by Pete McDaniel for Landscape Forms

Pola Collection by Anony

INTERIOR PRODUCTS

Winner:Garment Waste Platform by Suzanne Tick for Luum Textiles

People’s Choice: Arcade by Blaque Studio for Turf Design

Award of Merit: Moments of Wander by Christiane Müller for HBF Textiles

ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS

Winner:Butterfly Kinetic Shading System by ZGF Architects and Levolux

People’s Choice: Orme by Kast

INTERIORS

RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS

Winner: Village House by Studio MK27, Porto Feliz, Brazil

People’s Choice: House on the Park by Superkül and Pencil Design, Toronto, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Unplanned Domestic Prototype: PROT/USRBL/SE08 by Medina Manzano Architects, San Sebastián, Spain

Brar Residence by Omar Gandhi Architects, Toronto, Canada

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Winner:Cult Gaia Miami Flagship by Sugarhouse, Miami, U.S.

People’s Choice: Civil Works by Futurestudio, Toronto, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Sigma Space by ONOAA Studio, Shanghai, China

Tojiro Knife Gallery by Katata Yoshihito Design, Tokyo, Japan

ANIML Steakhouse by Nivek Remas, Toronto, Canada

CLINICAL

Winner and People’s Choice:POUTx by Studio Author, Toronto, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Clinique Monkland by Atelier Échelle with Table Architecture, Montreal, Canada

Lumea by Reflect Architecture, Toronto, Canada

WORKSPACE

Winner:Deepmoss Office by Xiamen Fenggu Fashion, Xiamen, China

People’s Choice: GO HQ by FMA, Morelia, Mexico

Awards of Merit:

Crane Cove by ONO, San Francisco, U.S.

Structured Narrative by Shine-V Interior Design, Nanjing, China

INSTITUTIONAL

Winner:Bamboo Pavilion by Vermilion Zhou Design, Shanghai, China

People’s Choice: The Arena: Qiantan Cultural Center by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Shanghai, China

Awards of Merit:

Assembled Void – Korean Cultural Center New York Library by Studio Empathy and Praxes, New York, U.S.

The Edes by KTGY, Morgan Hill, U.S.

Librairie Avant-Garde by Cloud Ocean Design, Anhui, China

CONCEPTS

Winner and People’s Choice: Augusta Township CABN by CABN and B+H Architects, Augusta Township, Canada

Awards of Merit:

Tofino Fish Pier by Leckie Studio Architecture + Design, Tofino, Canada

DWT (Drywall Waste Technology) Tiny House by Washington State University, Seattle, U.S.

Durham Meadoway Visioning Study by SvN Architects + Planners, Durham Region, Canada

EXPERIENTIAL GRAPHIC DESIGN

Winner:Tanuki Noburu Building by Motive Inc, Sapporo, Japan

People’s Choice: Kobe Port Tower by Motive Inc., with COLarchitects, VANS Architects and Studio Tanbo, Kobe, Japan

URBAN DESIGN

BUILT DEVELOPMENTS

Winner and People’s Choice:START Ivry by STAR Strategies + Architecture, Paris, France

Award of Merit: The Well by Hariri Pontarini Architects with BDP, Adamson Associates Architects, architects-Alliance, Wallman Architects, CCxA and Urban Strategies, Toronto, Canada

MASTER PLAN PROPOSALS

Winner:Arnos Vale Resilient City Masterplan by Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Charles Waldheim Architecture

People’s Choice: Earls Court Masterplan by HawkinsBrown and Studio Egret and SLA, London, U.K.

INTERVENTIONS & INFRASTRUCTURE

Winner and People’s Choice:Hall Street Pier by MBAC with Stanley Office of Architecture

Award of Merit:

Tramdepot Bern by Penzel Valier, Bern, Switzerland

Woven Passage to Cloudy Peaks by Line+ Studio, Shaoxing China

A+ STUDENT AWARD

Winners (*it’s a tie!*):

Tempo- by Mu Qu Jennifer Liu (Carleton University), Natalie Cole Bajet and Nikki Elim Ng (University of Manitoba)

Land Reclamation: Return to El Prat’s Origins by Eduard Matarredona Gómez (l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull) with Laura Di Credico and Salvador Ferré

People’s Choice: Tempo- by Mu Qu Jennifer Liu (Carleton University), Natalie Cole Bajet and Nikki Elim Ng (University of Manitoba)

Award of Merit: Bahar Narenj by Mo Bayati and Zhiyuan Zhu (University of Toronto)

SOCIAL GOOD

Winner: Tekαkαpimək Contact Station by Saunders Architecture with Alisberg Parker Architects and Reed Hilderbrand, Maine, U.S.

People’s Choice: Anduhyaun Women’s Shelter by LGA Architectural Partners, Toronto, Canada

ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP

Winner and People’s Choice: DWT (Drywall Waste Technology) Tiny House by Washington State University, Seattle, U.S.

Award of Merit: təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre by hcma architecture + design with PFS Studio, New Westminster, BC, Canada

Congratulations to all!

The AZ Awards 2025 is presented by Keilhauer and Fisher & Paykel and sponsored by Colombo and Ligne Roset. The AZ Awards 2025 Gala Sponsors are Landscape Forms and Scavolini and Dark Tools. Gala partners are Castor Design, Forno Cultura, Tre Mari Bakery, Stratus Wines and Tahir Mahmood.

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