Press Kit | no. 809-31
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Announcing the Winners of the 2020 AZ Awards
AZURE
In a landmark year, AZURE celebrates the winners and finalists of the 10th annual AZ Awards.
The first-ever virtual AZ Awards Gala featured inspiring special appearances by All-Star guests and the 20 winners of the AZ Awards 2020, participating from their homes and offices around the world. The local and international architecture world came together in a big way!
On Friday, September 18, AZURE took to the world wide web and social media platforms to reveal the 20 winners of the 2020 AZ Awards. These standouts in categories as varied as product design, architecture, landscape architecture, concepts, and student work represent the very best work being created today. They include a spiraling tower that rises above the forest floor in Denmark, a public swimming pool sanitized by natural processes (no chlorine!), and an ethereal light fixture that seems to disappear when switched off. The winners were awarded a unique trophy designed by Luca Nichetto, one of this year’s AZ Awards jurors, made of glass blown in his native Venice.
The four other jurors were: Canadian architect Omar Gandhi, designer Stephanie Davidson of Davidson Rafailidis, architect Marion Weiss of New York’s Weiss/Manfredi, and Los Angeles landscape architect Mia Lehrer. They selected the 20 AZ Awards Winners and 48 Awards of Merit, chosen from 1,241 entries from 47 countries.
In the unusual year that has been 2020, jurors met remotely and across various time zones. For the gala, the requisite physical distancing was maintained without sacrificing the style and fun of previous years. The virtual gala featured special appearances by 10 All-Stars from around the world, including Karim Rashid, Yves Béhar, Martha Schwartz, and Nader Tehrani, who shared their words of congratulations and inspiration. There was even a signature cocktail fashioned by none other than Yabu Pushelberg!
AZURE thanks all the friends, supporters, and viewers who made tonight a success – and congratulates all the winners and finalists of the 10th annual AZ Awards. In a landmark year, AZURE celebrates the winners and finalists of the 10th annual AZ Awards.
The 2020 AZ Awards Gala is now available for viewing on AZURE’s Youtube and Facebook channels.
The 2020 AZ Awards is presented by JennAir, Keilhauer, and Landscape Forms and sponsored by Cosentino and Great Gulf.
The 2020 AZ Awards Gala sponsors are Dark Tools, George Brown School of Design, Improve, and Scavolini.
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Winner in Architecture, Buildings Over 1,000 Square Metres
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
Very High-resolution image : 19.69 x 17.02 @ 300dpi ~ 6.2 MB
Winner in Architecture, Buildings Under 1,000 Square Metres
Gh3* architecture: Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool, Edmonton, Canada
High-resolution image : 13.33 x 7.56 @ 300dpi ~ 7 MB
Winner in Architecture, Single-Family Houses
Mork-Ulnes Architects: Skigard Hytte, Kvitfjell, Norway
High-resolution image : 9.0 x 11.25 @ 300dpi ~ 840 KB
Winner and People's Choice in Architecture, Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
Summary: VDC, Vale de Cambra, Portugal
Very High-resolution image : 18.21 x 17.95 @ 300dpi ~ 13 MB
Winner in Architecture, Temporary and Experiential Installations
Lambert & Fils with DWA Design Studio: Caffè Populaire, Milan, Italy
Very High-resolution image : 24.53 x 16.37 @ 300dpi ~ 12 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Architecture, Adaptive Re-Use
Atelier tao+c: Capsule Hotel in a Rural Library, Qinglongwu, China
High-resolution image : 13.33 x 9.98 @ 300dpi ~ 6 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Landscape Architecture
EFFEKT Architects: Forest Tower, Rønnede, Denmark
High-resolution image : 12.5 x 8.33 @ 300dpi ~ 6.4 MB
Winner in Furniture Design
Molteni&C: Surf Sofa by Yabu Pushelberg
Medium-resolution image : 5.33 x 3.55 @ 300dpi ~ 95 KB
Winner and People's Choice in Design, Furniture Systems and Collections
Fantoni with Gensler: Atelier
High-resolution image : 11.0 x 8.5 @ 300dpi ~ 2.8 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Design, Lighting Fixtures
Flos: Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic
Very High-resolution image : 18.83 x 13.45 @ 300dpi ~ 10 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Design, Lighting Installations
Stacklab: Temporary Tyvek Lighting Installation at Stackt Market, Toronto, Canada
Very High-resolution image : 19.52 x 13.01 @ 300dpi ~ 11 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Design, Interior Products
Pair: Toast by Studio Hopkins
Very High-resolution image : 22.4 x 14.93 @ 300dpi ~ 20 MB
Winner in Design, Architectural Products
Tarkett North America: iD Mixonomi
Medium-resolution image : 10.0 x 10.39 @ 300dpi ~ 6.2 MB
Winner in Commercial and Institutional Interiors
Manea Kella: Casa Popeea, Brăila, Romania
Low-resolution image : 4.88 x 3.25 @ 300dpi ~ 190 KB
Winner in Residential Interiors
Johnson Chou: ShadowBox, Toronto, Canada
Very High-resolution image : 14.17 x 17.0 @ 300dpi ~ 2.4 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Concepts, Ideas and Prototypes
EFFEKT Architects: The Urban Village Project
High-resolution image : 13.33 x 7.18 @ 300dpi ~ 7.5 MB
Winner in Concepts, Unbuilt Buildings
Moriyama & Teshima Architects: Honey Bee Research Centre at the University of Guelph
Very High-resolution image : 20.0 x 8.0 @ 300dpi ~ 4.7 MB
Winner of the A+ Student Award
Connery Friesen (University of Manitoba): In the Spirit of Shibui: Re-Animating the Ruins of Fukushima
Very High-resolution image : 24.0 x 12.0 @ 300dpi ~ 28 MB
Winner in Environmental Leadership
Dorte Mandrup: The Wadden Sea Centre, Ribe, Denmark
High-resolution image : 11.67 x 5.61 @ 300dpi ~ 4.4 MB
Winner and People's Choice in Social Good
Studio Lotus: Krushi Bhawan, Bhubaneswar, India
Medium-resolution image : 10.0 x 6.67 @ 300dpi ~ 6.3 MB
Medium-resolution image : 5.33 x 4.0 @ 300dpi ~ 640 KB
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