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.

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.

Elevated on concrete piers, Gap Cove House is built to withstand New England storm surges and is filled with sustainable features, earning it the 2018 AZ Award of Merit for Environmental Leadership.

The Copenhagen International School, designed by C.F. Møller Architects, isn't just a place for academics - it's a solar power plant, covered in 12,000 photovoltaic panels. The project is a 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Commercial/Institutional Architecture Over 1,000 Square Metres.

On the eastern coast of New Zealand, Orongo Station is a sensitive, sustainable-minded and wonderfully ambitious project - and visitors might not even notice its existence. Take a look at the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Landscape Architecture.

In the Duke University Water Reclamation Pond, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects designed a five-hectare, multi-purpose project that reduced the school's reliance on potable water. The project won a 2018 AZ Award for Environmental Leadership.

Cila is a born performer. The contract-ready chair is highly adaptable: Five base options include everything from wooden legs to steel sled runners and aluminum swivels, while the durable plastic seat and back can be customized in one of five colourways or upholstered in a wide range of matching or contrasting fabrics. But it’s the […]

Marcio Kogan of São Paulo-based Studio MK27 successfully incorporated Indigenous pueblo topology for the master plan of a stark and stunning community occupying a city block in an upscale residential neighbourhood of Madrid. The intramural streetscapes of the 21-unit property are ungated and open to the public. Despite their austere appearance, things are surprisingly cozy. […]

Once an awkward, hemmed-in wedge of urban greenery that felt more forbidding than inviting, Berczy Park today is the main attraction of its thriving district. To the north, a barricade of spindly trees and brick retaining walls has been replaced by an ample sidewalk and a gently rising lawn criss-crossed by footpaths with sightlines into […]

While the move to a paperless office has its advantages, the need to jot notes on a whiteboard or explain ideas with a quick sketch isn’t going anywhere. Q! is a whiteboard for the smart office: Double-sided and highly mobile, its partition-like form can serve as a semi-permanent space divider or as the focal point […]