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In a landmark year, AZURE celebrates the winners and finalists of the 10th annual AZ Awards. The first-ever virtual AZ Awards Gala featured inspiring special appearances by All-Star guests and the 20 winners of the AZ Awards 2020, participating from their homes and offices around the world. The local and international architecture world came together in a big way!

These standouts in categories as varied as product design, architecture, landscape architecture, concepts and student work represent the very best work being created today. They include a spiraling tower that rises above the forest floor in Denmark, a public swimming pool sanitized by natural processes (no chlorine!) and an ethereal light fixture that seems to disappear when switched off. The winners were awarded a unique trophy designed by Luca Nichetto, one of this year’s AZ Awards jurors, made of glass blown in his native Venice.

Jurors were: Canadian architect Omar Gandhi, designer Stephanie Davidson of Davidson Rafailidis, architect Marion Weiss of New York’s Weiss/Manfredi and Los Angeles landscape architect Mia Lehrer. They selected the 20 AZ Awards Winners and 48 Awards of Merit, chosen from 1,241 entries from 47 countries.

Below is a selection of category winners and their projects.

Winner in Buildings Under 1,000 Square Meters: Gh3* architecture

Winner in Single-Family Houses: Mork Ulnes Architects

Winner in Multi-Unit Residential Buildings: Summary

Winner in Adaptive Re-Use: Atelier tao+c

Winner in Landscape Architecture: EFFEKT Architects

Winner in Ideas and Prototypes: EFFEKT Architects

Winner in Unbuilt Buildings: Moriyama & Teshima Architects

Environmental Leadership Winner: Dorte Mandrup

Social Good Winner: Studio Lotus

A+ Student Award Winner: Connery Friesen from University of Manitoba

In the unusual year that has been 2020, jurors met remotely and across various time zones. For the gala, the requisite physical distancing was maintained without sacrificing the style and fun of previous years. The virtual gala featured special appearances by 10 All-Stars from around the world, including Karim Rashid, Yves Béhar, Martha Schwartz and Nader Tehrani, who shared their words of congratulations and inspiration.

To learn more about all the winner projects and the awards click here.