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AZURE is excited to reveal the finalists of the 2025 AZ Awards – 86 projects, products and concepts that won over our esteemed international jury. Inspiring approaches to adaptive re-use, urban revitalization and multi-unit housing made the list – so did elegant and refined homes, products and interiors. Practices from around the world, including Neri&Hu, OPEN Architecture, Studio MK27, 3XN and Fernanda Canales, join Canadian talents including LGA Architectural Partners, Patkau Architects, and MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects as contenders.
Congratulations to all the finalists – who now go on to the People’s Choice portion of the AZ Awards program. Everyone is welcome to vote for their favourites now! All winners and People’s Choice favourites will be announced at the AZ Awards 2025 gala in Toronto, on Thursday, June 19. This special evening will commemorate 15 years of the AZ Awards and 40 years of Azure magazine!
The EMERGING winners in the categories of Architecture, Design and Interiors will also be revealed at the Gala. The recipients of this inaugural accolade will be featured – alongside all other winners and finalists – in AZURE’s July/August 2025 issue, to be distributed at the event. Get your Gala tickets now!
2025 AZ Awards FINALISTS
Architecture – Adaptive Reuse
Architecture – Commercial/Institutional Buildings Over 1,000 Square Metres
Architecture – Commercial/Institutional Buildings Under 1,000 Square Metres
Architecture – Experiential Installations
Residential Architecture, Houses
Residential Architecture, Multi-Unit
Landscape Architecture
Urban Design – Built Developments
Urban Design – Masterplan Proposals
Urban Interventions & Infrastructure
Design – Architectural Products
Design – Furniture Systems & Collections
Design – Furniture, Single Piece
Design – Interior Products
Design – Light Fixtures
Experiential Graphic Design
Interiors – Health & Wellness
Interiors – Institutional
Interiors – Residential
Interiors – Retail & Hospitality
Interiors – Workspace
A+ Student Award
Concepts – Conceptual Projects, Ideas and Prototypes
Environmental Leadership
Social Good
Longlisted entries can be explored as follows:
Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
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.
About The AZ Awards
The AZ Awards is AZURE’s international architecture and design competition, recognizing excellence and innovation, and showcasing the world’s best projects, products and ideas.
Now in its 15th year, the competition has grown in impact and stature to become a significant international benchmark for excellence, attracting entries from some of the most highly innovative firms around the world.
The AZ Awards is a unique opportunity for architects, landscape architects, designers, urbanists, students, clients, and manufacturers to receive the international exposure and acknowledgement that their exceptional work deserves.
Awards.azuremagazine.com
About AZURE
AZURE Media is one of the world’s most influential multi-platform design and architecture media brands. Insatiably curious, highly creative and ever-evolving, AZURE reports on the latest in global architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, interiors and products design and provides a unique, multidisciplinary perspective on global currents, renowned design personalities and relevant industry innovations. AZURE is the go-to source of information, learning and inspiration for the A&D community and professional-level consumers alike.
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Finalists – A+ Student Award
Eduard Matarredona Gómez (ETSALS – Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura La Salle – Universitat Ramón Llull – Barcelona): Land Reclamation – Return to El Prat’s Origins
Mo Bayati and Zhiyuan Zhu (University of Toronto): Bahar Narenj
Mu Qu Jennifer Liu (Carleton University), Natalie Cole Bajet (University of Manitoba) and Nikki Elim Ng (University of Manitoba): tempo-
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Finalists – Architecture – Adaptive Reuse
Atelier Global Limited: Dialogue with Nature — Commune STORE, Houyuan Village, China
Skylab Architecture: Skylab HQ, Portland, OR, U.S.
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: The Yard | Dalian Cultural Center, Dalian, China
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Finalists – Architecture – Commercial/Institutional Buildings Over 1,000 Square Metres
Sordo Madaleno: Academia Atlas, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
3XN with Urbio AB: Forskaren, Stockholm, Sweden
OPEN Architecture: Sun Tower, Yantai, China
hcma architecture + design with PFS Studio: təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre, New Westminster, BC, Canada
NADAAA with HDR: University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture, Lincoln, NE, U.S.
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Finalists – Architecture – Commercial/Institutional Buildings Under 1,000 Square Metres
Studio Cadena with Field Operations: Domino Square Building, New York City, U.S.
Lateral Office and Verne Reimer Architecture: Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub, Iqualuit, Nunavut, Canada
Chen Suchart Studio: Los Milics Vineyard Tasting Room, Elgin, AZ, U.S.
Audax: Saint Catherine’s Chapel, Florence, Italy
Saunders Architecture with Alisberg Parker
Architects and Reed Hildebrand: Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, Maine, U.S.
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Finalists – Residential Architecture, Multi-Unit
LGA Architectural Partners: Ulster House, Toronto, Canada
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Isla Intersections Supportive Housing & Paseo, Los Angeles, U.S.
Marlon Blackwell Architects with D.I.R.T. studio and Studio Outside: PS1200, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.
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Finalists – Residential Architecture, Houses
Patkau Architects: Arbour House, Vancouver, Canada
Fernanda Canales: House 720 Degrees, Reserva Peñitas, Mexico
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: El Aleph Guesthouse, Port L’Hebert, NS, Canada
Leckie Studio Architecture + Design: Lantern House, Vancouver, Canada
Akb Architects: Sagamore North Cottage, Muskoka, ON, Canada
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Finalists – Architecture – Experiential Installations
L.E.FT Architects with Iheb Guermzi and Beya Othmani: Djerba Prototype 366, Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, KSA
line+studio: Sky Ring, Shaoxing, China
Good Urban Design (Nicole Nomsa Moyo): Pearl Jam, Miami Design District, U.S.
c+d studio: Garden for the Eyes, Shanghai, China
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Finalists – Concepts – Conceptual Projects, Ideas and Prototypes
CABN with B+H: Augusta Township CABN Community Development, Ontario, Canada
DWT Tiny House Team (Washington State University): DWT Tiny House, Seattle, U.S.
SvN Architects + Planners: Durham Meadoway Visioning Study, Ontario, Canada
Leckie Studio Architecture + Design: Tofino Fish Pier, BC, Canada
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Finalists – Design – Architectural Products
ZGF Architects with Levolux: Amazon HQ2: Butterfly Kinetic Shading System
Kast: Orme
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Finalists – Design – Interior Products
Müller Van Tol for HBF Textiles: Moments of Wander
Suzanne Tick for Luum Textiles: Garment Waste Platform Collection
Turf Design: Arcade
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Finalists – Design – Furniture, Single Piece
Arper: Catifa Carta
Ludovica+Roberto Palomba for Expormim: Obi
Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra: Mynt
Jumbo for Heller: Fortune Chair
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Finalists – Design – Furniture Systems & Collections
Antonio Citterio for Duravit: Aurena Collection
Lauren Goodman: Fresh Catch
Landscape Forms: Monterey
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Finalists – Design – Light Fixtures
Landscape Forms: Outline
Anony: Pola Collection
e-ggs for Miniforms: Rificolona
Federico Stefanovich for Ago Projects: Folia Collection
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Finalists – Experiential Graphic Design
Motive Inc with COL.architects, VANS Architects and Studio Tanbo: Kobe Port Tower, Japan
Motive Inc with Takenaka Corporation: Tanuki Noboru Building, Sapporo, Japan
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Finalists – Interiors – Institutional
Studio Empathy and Praxes: Assembled Void – Korean Cultural Center New York Library, U.S.
Vermilion Zhou Design Group: Bamboo Pavilion, Shanghai, China
KTGY: The Edes, Morgan Hill, U.S.
Cloud Ocean Design: Librairie Avant-Garde, Anhui, China
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: The Arena – Qiantan Cultural Center, Shanghai, China
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Finalists – Interiors – Residential
Superkül + Pencil Design: House on the Park, Toronto, Canada
Studio MK27: Village House, São Paulo, Brazil
MedinaManzano Architects: Unplanned Domestic
Prototype – PROT/USRBL/SE08, San Sebastián, Spain
Omar Gandhi Architects: Brar Residence, Toronto, Canada
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Finalists – Interiors – Health & Wellness
Studio Author: POUTx, Toronto, Canada
Atelier Échelle with Table Architecture: Clinique Monkland, Montreal, Canada
Reflect Architecture: Lumea, Toronto, Canada
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Finalists – Interiors – Retail & Hospitality
Futurestudio: Civil Works
Nivek Remas: ANIML Restaurant, Toronto, Canada
ONOAA STUDIO: SIGMA Space, Shanghai, China
Katata Yoshihito Design: Tojiro Knife Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sugarhouse: Cult Gaia Miami Flagship, U.S.
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Finalists – Interiors – Workspace
Obata Noblin Office: Crane Cove, San Francisco, U.S.
Shine-V Interior Design: Structured Narrative, Nanjing, China
FMA: GO HQ, Morelia, Mexico
Xiamen Fenggu Fashion: Deepmoss Office, Xiamen City, China
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Finalists – Landscape Architecture
Field Operations with Magnusson Klemencic Associates and EHDD: Presidio Tunnel Tops, San Francisco, U.S.
Stoss Landscape Urbanism: Triangle Park, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
Turenscape: Huaiyang Fuxi Cultural Park, Zhoukou, China
CCxA with gh3*: Love Park, Toronto, Canada
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Finalists – Urban Interventions & Infrastructure
Penzel Valier: Tramdepot Bern, Bern, Switzerland
The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative with Stanley Office of Architecture: Hall Street Pier, Nelson, BC, Canada
line+studio: Woven Passage to Cloudy Peaks, Shaoxing, China
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Finalists – Urban Design – Built Developments
STAR strategies + architecture with Bureau of Architecture, Research and Design: START Ivry, Paris, France
Hariri Pontarini Architects with BDP, Adamson Associates Architects, architects alliance, Wallman Architects, CCxA and Urban Strategies: The Well, Toronto, Canada
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Finalists – Urban Design – Masterplan Proposals
Stoss with Charles Waldheim Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Arnos Vale Resilient City Masterplan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Hawkins\Brown, Studio Egret West and SLA: Earls Court Masterplan, London, UK
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Finalists – Environmental Leadership
hcma architecture + design: təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre, New Westminster, BC, Canada
DWT Tiny House Team (Washington State University): DWT Tiny House, Seattle, U.S.
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Finalists – Social Good
Saunders Architecture with Alisberg Parker Architects: Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, Maine, U.S.
LGA Architectural Partners: Anduhyaun Women’s Shelter, Toronto, Canada
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