Announcing: The Finalists of the 2025 AZ Awards

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 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

• 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

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.

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. 

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 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Design – Architectural Products

• ZGF Architects with Levolux: Amazon HQ2: Butterfly Kinetic Shading System
• Kast: Orme 

Design – Furniture Systems & Collections

• Antonio Citterio for Duravit: Aurena Collection
• Lauren Goodman: Fresh Catch
• Landscape Forms: Monterey 

Design – Furniture, Single Piece

• Arper: Catifa Carta
• Ludovica+Roberto Palomba for Expormim: Obi
• Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra: Mynt
• Jumbo for Heller: Fortune Chair

Design – Interior Products

• Müller Van Tol for HBF Textiles: Moments of Wander
• Suzanne Tick for Luum Textiles: Garment Waste Platform Collection
• Turf Design: Arcade 

Design – Light Fixtures

• Landscape Forms: Outline
• Anony: Pola Collection
• e-ggs for Miniforms: Rificolona
• Federico Stefanovich for Ago Projects: Folia Collection

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 

Interiors – Health & Wellness

• Studio Author: POUTx, Toronto, Canada
• Atelier Échelle with Table Architecture: Clinique Monkland, Montreal, Canada
• Reflect Architecture: Lumea, Toronto, Canada

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 

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 

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.

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

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-

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 

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.

Social Good

• Saunders Architecture with Alisberg Parker Architects: Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, Maine, U.S.
• LGA Architectural Partners: Anduhyaun Women’s Shelter, Toronto, Canada

Longlisted entries can be explored as follows:

Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Design and Interiors
Special Categories.

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 Dark Tools, Landscape Forms and Scavolini.

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.

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