Search AZ Awards ...
Awards By Category
Azure AZ Awards of Merit Interiors 01
Azure AZ Awards of Merit Residential Interiors 02

The brief: transform an apartment to make it feel like an art gallery, so austere that the owner’s guests would find it unflinchingly cold. Architect Jean-Maxime Labrecque met this ostentatious challenge by gutting the 74-square-metre space to its original concrete shell, and devising a sophisticated raw aluminum system measuring 4.5 by 7.5 metres and equipped with sliding doors attached only at the top. This supports multi-functional modules, including a bed, a generous closet, kitchen cabinetry and seating. The bathroom, finished entirely in black tile, is housed in an old concrete vault. ­

inpho.ws

People’s Choice: Residential
Inhabitable Sculpture

Inhabitable Sculpture in Montreal, by Inpho Architecture; and Ebell Loft in Long Beach, California, by Hong Kong Stunt Team.

Explore more Award Winners

2014
Award of MeritResidential
Location
Freundorf, Austria
Firm
Project A01 Architects, Austria and Germany
Team
Andreas Schmitzer with Eleonora Gallenzi and Judith Schafelner
2023
People’s ChoiceResidential
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Firm
Estudio Vilablanch, Spain
2014
Award of MeritResidential
Location
Toronto, Ontario
Firm
Drew Mandel Architects, Toronto