Awards
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News • News • 30 Jul 2024
Presenting winners of the 2024 AZ Awards
Celebrating achievements in architecture and design globally, the 14th edition of AZURE’s annual AZ Awards recently revealed 2024’s honorees.
AZURE, an award-winning magazine with a focus on contemporary architecture and design, received submissions from 42 countries. A distinguished international ten-member jury selected 69 finalists across a range of disciplines, from architecture, urban design, and landscape to lighting, furniture, and interiors. The jury members were: Piero Lissoni, Tosin Oshinowo, Evan Jerry, Jennifer Keesmaat, Wanda Dalla Costa, Hector Esrawé, Julie Bargmann, Shirley Blumberg, Sidhartha Talwar, and Alex Holloway.
The shortlisted submissions are celebrated across three classifications: Winner (sele... More
News • News • 10 Sep 2021
RIBA announces 54 winners of the 2021 National Award
The award started in 1966 and has since recognized the UK’s best new buildings. The Royal Institute of British Architects provides an insight into the prevailing theme’s from this year’s award winning projects.
The Institute notices sensitive restorations and adaptations like a 45-year-old furniture factory in Bath re-energised for art students and a major reconfiguration to transform the user experience of the MK Gallery. Investment in arts and culture is prevalent in the Aberdeen Art Gallery’s major redevelopment and a new facility for the English National Ballet. The RIBA celebrates state-of-the-art higher education facilities and schools like Kingston University Town House’s interlocking vertical volumes a... More
Project • By Spark Chicago • Offices
Leopardo
Leopardo’s Chicago office is a welcoming space that reflects this leading construction company’s craft, culture and dedication to excellence. Drawing inspiration from the materials Leopardo employees handle every day, new design elements highlight the early stages of a construction project. This work, which is not always visible in finished spaces, is brought to the forefront of the new environment, reminding employees to take pride in the process. More
Project • By BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group • Housing
Vancouver House
Vancouver House stands at the city’s main gateway, where the Granville Bridge — one of three major crossings linking downtown with Vancouver’s southern neighbourhoods — splits as it enters the downtown core. The resulting triangular parcels of land had long remained undeveloped. When developer Westbank commissioned BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group to design a residential tower for the site, the architects began by mapping its many constraints: street setbacks, a 30-metre buffer from the bridge, and protection of a neighbouring park from shadows. What remained was a narrow triangular plot — almost too small to build on.
BIG and Laurian Ghinitoiu
BIG and Laurian Ghinitoiu
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A 30-metre setba... More
Project • By Stuart Brown Photographic • Urban Green Spaces
Mill Lane, Leicester
Mill Lane is an area around De Montfort University in Leicester that was redeveloped from a vehicular street to a pedestrianised zone with planting and new street lighting. The contractor Danaher and Walsh who carried out the work commissioned me to photograph it for their website, brochures and award submissions. Since shooting, this project has won three awards, ProCon Leicester, a Leicestershire Joint Consultative Committee Craftsmanship Award and an RICS Infrastructure project award.The objective of the development was to create a relaxing environment around De Montfort University's city centre campus and their new Vijay Patel building. To capture the flora at it's peak, a summer shoot was necessary using dawn and dusk to show the effec... More