Winners of the 2016 AZ Awards

John Hill
1. luglio 2016
AZ Awards trophy designed by Omer Arbel and hand-cast by Bocci (Photo: Azure Magazine)

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.

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