Winners of the 2017 AZ Awards

This year's AZ Awards drew 813 submissions (about the same as last year) that were narrowed down to 70 finalists. From those, the jury* selected the twenty winners in three categories (Architecture, Interiors, and Design) with four other prizes: the Experiential Graphic Design Award, the Environmental Leadership Award, the Social Good Award, and the A+ Student Award. The list is below with some projects highlighted with images; visit Azure's website to see images of all the winners and the lists of the finalists for each award.

*The 2017 AZ Awards jury: planner and landscape ecologist Nina-Marie Lister, interior designer Alessandro Munge, industrial designer Theo Richardson, architect Nader Tehrani, and multidisciplinary designer Michael Vanderbyl.

Best Residential Architecture, Single Family
Jean Verville Architecte: FAHOUSE, Eastern Townships, Canada

​Best Residential Architecture, Multi-Unit
Hiroyuki Ito Architects: Tatsumi Apartment House, Tokyo, Japan

Best Architecture Over 1,000 Square Metres
Patkau Architects: Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada

Best Architecture Under 1,000 Square Metres
​Anmahian Winton Architects: Gemma Observatory, Central New Hampshire, U.S.

Best Recreational Architecture
Matter Design and FR|SCH Projects: Five Fields Play Structure, Lexington, U.S.

Best Temporary & Demonstration Architecture
People’s Architecture Office: People’s Canopy, Preston, U.K.

Best Landscape Architecture
Turenscape: Quzhou Luming Park, Quzhou City, China

Unbuilt Concept
Adamiczka Consulting: A Church for the Local Community, Wrocław, Poland

Best Residential Interior
Desai Chia Architecture: Photographer’s Loft, New York, U.S.
 
Best Institutional & Commercial Interior
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: The HUB Performance and Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

Best Furniture Design
Republic of Fritz Hansen: Pair Chair, by Benjamin Hubert
 
Best Furniture System
Keilhauer: Hangout Collection, by EOOS
 
Best Lighting Fixtures
Flos: Infra-Structure, by Vincent Van Duysen

Best Lighting Installations
CannonDesign and NEUF Architect(e)s: CHUM Passerelle, Montreal, Canada
 
Best Interior Products
Young Projects: Pulled Plaster Panels
 
Best Architectural Products
Rimadesio: Soho Doors, by Giuseppe Bavuso

Experiential Graphic Design
Volume: Bloomberg SF Tech Hub, San Francisco, U.S.
 
Environmental Leadership
Michael Green Architecture: T3 Minneapolis, Minneapolis, U.S.
 
Social Good
OPSYS: Extraction, Venice, Italy 
 
A+ Student Award
Students of Kansas State University: Preston Outdoor Education Station, Cottonwood Falls, U.S.