Designed by Moriyama & Teshima and Acton Ostry, "The Arbour" is the ambitious tall-wood building that took the prize in Best in Concepts: Unbuilt Buildings.

The Sincretismo collection, by EWE Studio of Mexico City, brings pre-Columbian traditions into the contemporary home. Each piece is a sculptural object. The Partera stool, a sturdy U-shaped seat on a shell-like base, is carved from a single chunk of wood or stone. The Partera chair, made of burnt wood, is modelled on a Mexican […]

Inspired by the work of Angelo Mangiarotti, well-known for his seamless concrete architecture, Belgian designer Leo Aerts has carved this table entirely out of marble. Contrary to its appearance, however, Angelo M is in fact two parts rather than a single monolith, comprising a top with a bevelled bottom edge and a conical base with […]

The superterrestrial design of this 40-unit residential development made it an instant Winnipeg landmark that locals have dubbed “the Spaceship.” The hometown architects elevated 62M’s doughnut-shaped three-storey structure on 20 slender concrete columns, creating the illusion that it is hovering over its one- and two-storey neighbours. A concrete core provides additional stability and contains the […]

A nine-storey building housing nine turnkey restaurants - designed in Tokyo by Key Operations - earned a 2018 AZ Award of Merit in Architecture: Commercial/Institutional Under 1,000 Square Metres.

Impeccable architecture meets an urgent cause in Toronto's Casey House, a modernization of Canada's first standalone care centre for patients with HIV/AIDS. The Hariri Pontarini project won the 2018 AZ Award for Social Good.

Cities are largely designed around the flow of traffic. The modular Expansion Cityline office system evokes a comparable daily ebb and flow through collaborative spaces, mixed-use areas and adjustable-height private workstations. Like any good city, Expansion Cityline is configured according to its infrastructure – in this case a structural spine called “the beam,” which also […]

The ultimate testament to beautifully resolved design occurs when spectators simply gape and ask “How?” Highwire’s form consists of nothing more than individually weighted, double-sided discs strung on cables, which are in turn pulled taut. The result looks a little bit like a glowing yo-yo frozen mid-trick – a perfect laser-cut Plexiglas circle illuminated by […]

With Big Space, Little Space, Buffalo architecture firm Davidson Rafailidis repurposed a 1920s garage into a home filled with fluid spaces, surprising skylights and additional outdoor spaces. The live-work space is a 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Single Family Residential Architecture.

With Tangible Formations, a student team from the University of Stuttgart created a building block made of woodchips packed into clear plastic bags that empowers people to construct by hand.