Our third and final longlist of the AZ Awards 2026 program (following parts and published last week) recognizes entries in four special categories — Concepts, Environmental Leadership, Social Good, and our A+ Award for student work — that AZURE’s editors selected to move forward to the jury round. Best of luck to all our longlist nominees!
Concepts
Bishop McDowell: Tilt House, Purcells Cove Backlands, Canada
Batay-Csorba Architects: The Market, Mirvish Village, Toronto, Canada
PARTISANS: The Hearn, Toronto, Canada
XYLab: $2,500 Vernacular Home, Para Dash, Bangladesh
5468796 Architecture: Bond Redux, Winnipeg, Canada
the marc boutin architectural collaborative: Rossdale Power Plant Rehabilitation, Edmonton, Canada
Cornecelli: Astruptunet Exhibition Center, Vassenden, Norway
Agence Spatiale: Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Canada
Studio VAARO and Gabriel Fain Architects: On the Courtyard: Learning from European Blocks
KANVA: Kina8at Cultural Centre, La Conception, Canada
KANVA: Platform-19: University of Ottawa Census Courtyard Revitalization, Ottawa, Canada
Environmental Leadership
XYLab: $2,500 Vernacular Home, Para Dash, Bangladesh
Moriyama Teshima with Acton Ostry Architects: Limberlost Place, Toronto, Canada
Stantec Architecture: Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
Perkins&Will: Kaiser Borsari Hall, Bellingham, USA
Mohawk Group: Hero Rubber made with Nike Grind
Social Good
mcCallumSather and Smart Density: 1120 Ossington, Toronto, Canada
Design HARU: Universal Beach, Toronto, Canada
J.L. Richards & Associates: Biidaaban Kinoomaagegamik (Sagamok) School, Sagamok Anishnawbek, Canada
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects: The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum, Šeduva, Lithuania
GLUCK+ Architecture: Julian H. Jr. Robertson CitySquash Center, New York, USA
WeatherstonBruer Associates: Mohawk Institute: A Site of National Conscience, Brantford, Canada
Michael Maltzan Architecture: 26 Point 2 Apartments, Long Beach, USA
Acre Architects: The Wellington, Saint John, Canada
Stantec Architecture: Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
ARCHITEM Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski architectes: Kwigw8mna “Our and Everyone’s House”, Sherbrooke, Canada
civiliti: Parc des Gorilles, Montreal, Canada
A+ Student Award
Thy Nguyen (University of Manitoba): Sponge by the Forks
Matthew Garrett (University of Kansas): Prairie Park Pavilion
David Dowell (Kansas State University): Framed Prairie: A Study in 2×4’s
Kexuan Shang (Rice University): Gare de la Rapée Recycling Hub
Mo Bayati (University of Toronto): Assemblies of Unloved Stones
Ricardo Espinoza (University of Waterloo): Caribbean Culture Commons
Chenyu Wen (Violet Wen) (Syracuse University): Memorial of Duality
Blake Klotz and Jacob MacDougall (Dalhousie Architecture Students Association): Extraction
Jake Levy (Toronto Metropolitan University): Coral – Planetary Biodesign
Clay te Bokkel University of Waterloo School of Architecture F_RMlab): Crest
Alex Li (University of Waterloo): FL◇W
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