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The 2023 AZ Awards is now open for entries!

2023-01-17T12:05:00-05:00

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Make 2023 the year for global recognition of your work! Submit your best work to the 13th edition of AZURE's annual competition and show the world what you have accomplished!

If you are a long-time reader or follower of AZURE, you know that every new year AZURE presents a new edition of the AZ Awards, a unique opportunity for architecture and design professionals and A&D students to showcase their work to the world and receive global recognition.

This year is no different and promises to be more exciting than ever:

There is a new Design Category –> Tech Products! It includes Wearables, gadgets, smart-home, and other technological design products
There is the return of the much anticipated in-person AZ Awards Gala! Winners and shortlisted projects of the year will be celebrated at the Gala in Toronto in June in the company of local and international industry professionals.

The 2023 AZ Awards is accepting entries into its eight major categor...

World Architecture Festival Awards reveals 2022 shortlist

2022-07-14T14:11:00-04:00

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has just unveiled the annual shortlist of new projects for this year's return to an in-person competition.

Competing under the theme of Together, the 420 total projects will vie for the live-judged festival’s 43 category prizes and culminating World Building, Future Project, Interior, and Landscape of the Year awards at the three-day event, which kicks off in Lisbon on November 30th. A new International Building Beauty Prize has been added for the 2022 cycle as well.

This year’s expanded shortlist includes projects from Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, MVRDV, and a host of other large international firms, in addition to a number of lesser-known and small projects hailing from countries like Portugal, Thailand, Finland, and Malaysia.

WAF Program Director Paul Finch said: “The number and quality of entries this year has been very encouraging, and we are looking forward to meeting in-person to carry out category judging," referencing th...

The 2022 AZ Awards is now open for entries!

2022-01-12T18:49:00-05:00

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The 2022 AZ Awards is now accepting entries into its eight major categories, from architecture, landscapes and urban design to interiors, product design and the A+ Award for best student work. It welcomes submissions until February 25 and – as ever – promises to attract entries from some of the most forward-thinking firms from all corners of the globe. Enter here!

AZURE’s annual awards program continues to grow in size, scope and momentum and is internationally recognized for its influence in the global design and architecture spheres. The AZ Awards is a significant benchmark for excellence, and is a unique opportunity for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, students, clients and manufacturers, to receive the international exposure and acknowledgement that their exceptional work deserves.

In 2021, the program received 1,200 entries from 57 countries, from which the jury awarded 22 standout winners and 50 Awards ...

View images of the best new interior projects from the World Festival of Interiors: Inside 2021 shortlist

2021-07-26T19:49:00-04:00

The World Festival of Interiors (Inside 2021) is the sister festival to the renowned World Architecture Festival. As media partners of the WAF 2021 Awards, Archinect showcased a selection of shortlisted projects for this year's World Architecture Festival awards program. According to the World Festival of Interiors, "this year's shortlist consists of over 100 of the very best designed interior projects by some of the world's foremost design and architecture firms across more than 20 countries."

Covering 11 categories ranging from hotels, workplaces, homes, and restaurants, all shortlisted projects and design teams will "go on to compete in the live-judging in front of a panel of industry experts and an audience of their peers at the festival in Lisbon," explains the Festival.

Clockwise from top left: Ya Space! By PIG Design; A Train Station As An Epoch by Faber Group; Smart Design Studio by Smart Design Studio; Opus by Zaha Hadid Architects. Images courtesy of INSIDE Shortlist 202...

View the best new buildings and landscapes in this year's World Architecture Festival Awards shortlist

2021-07-21T16:48:00-04:00

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) announced its 2021 shortlist highlighting the best buildings and landscapes that have been completed around the world between 2019–2021. Recognized as the world's most extensive architectural awards program, this year's shortlist consists of 200 projects selected from 732 entries from 55 countries.

The theme for the 2021 edition of the festival is Resetting the City: Greening, Health, and Urbanism, and the awards attracted submissions across 20 completed buildings and landscape categories; an "increase of 44% in submissions from 2019's edition of the festival."

Clockwise: Al Hosn Masterplan by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi; Eden by Heatherwick Studio; Chinese Culture Exhibition Center by Qingdao Tengyuan Design; Majara Residency by ZAV Architects. Images courtesy of WAF

According to WAF: "The architects and designers behind each shortlisted project will compete for category prizes live at WAF in December. Presentations of the short...

Sou Fujimoto, BIG, Studio V Architecture, and 3deluxe among category winners of 2021 WAFX Awards

2021-07-06T21:07:00-04:00

The World Architecture Festival Awards (WAFX Award) has announced 12 project initiatives that aim to address "some of the world’s most pressing challenges." The 2021 awards program celebrates project proposals from across the world tackling today’s global issues, ranging from pandemic control and the climate emergency to social equity, cultural identity, aging populations, and food supply.

The Festival shares: "The WAFX Award winners are all selected from entries to the Future Projects category in the WAF Awards Program, for their ambition and scope. This year’s category winners include a fast installation modular hospital for epidemic prevention, a floating eco-campus off Manhattan Island, a grand prototype smart transportation city from Bjarke Ingles and Toyota, a zero-carbon office development in central London, the world's first high-rise data center in Shanghai, and a new eco-tourism typology at Cagbalete Island, Philippines."

The overall WAFX winner will be announced at the 20...

With an All-New Urban Design Category, the AZ Awards Kicks Off a New Decade. Now’s the Time to Submit your Best Work.

2021-01-14T13:19:00-05:00

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The AZ Awards has been recognizing excellence in design and architecture across the world for over a decade now. Since AZURE debuted the AZ Awards in 2011, the program has grown in size, scope, and momentum to be internationally recognized for its influence in the global design and architecture spheres. The 2021 edition of the AZ Awards adds the completely new category of Urban Design, encouraging developers to submit their projects.

The awards program welcomes submissions until February 25 and promises to attract entries from some of the most forward-thinking firms from all corners of the globe.

2020 Winner - Studio Lotus: Krushi Bhawan, Bhubaneswar, India / Winner and People's Choice – Social Good

In 2020 – the AZ Awards’ 10th anniversary – the program received projects from over 1,200 architects, landscape architects, product designers, interior designers, students, and manufacturers from 47 countries. Out of that unprecedented number, the ...

2020 NOMA Conference opens virtually to the largest conference audience yet, gathering socially motivated architects, designers, and allied professionals

2020-10-15T14:51:00-04:00

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In a year challenged with COVID-19, a recession, and social awakening, NOMA experienced record membership, partnership and sponsorship support.

The 48th Annual National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference opened on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, with an online audience of more than 1,500 registrants, making it the largest NOMA conference gathering ever. The virtual conference surpasses the record-breaking attendance of over 1,200 at last year’s NOMA Brooklyn conference. In an unprecedented year due to COVID-19, a resulting recession and social unrest, the conference will bring together architects, designers, academics, urban planners, community developers, artists, and students to champion and discuss how to shift the issues of our current structures to more equitable systems through architecture during the online conference, Oct. 14-17, 2020.

“When faced with the difficult question ...