Recently, AZ Award announced the 2022 winners list, including 70 shortlisted and winning works in 24 categories including architecture, landscape architecture, design, and student works. Founded in 2011 to recognize excellence and innovation in architecture and design, and to recognize the best projects, products and concepts in the world, the AZ Award has now become an important international benchmark for excellence in the design world, attracting the most Innovative entries.
OG House
Today, will be presented in the Architecture category, the final results of six subdivisions including Adaptive Redevelopment, Multi-Unit Residential Buildings, Buildings Under 1000sqm, Buildings Over 1000sqm, Temporary and Experiential Installations, and Detached Houses winner. These buildings use design methods to reinterpret the hot issues and design trends that should be most concerned about in architecture today.
Adaptive Re-Use
The Mercury Store — Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater
CO Adaptive Architecture has preserved the original building structure of the 1180-square-meter metal foundry in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal District, placing the original character of the 1902 building front and center while serving as an adaptive reuse project part of a heavy industrial complex into a Mercury store, a performing arts theater and a rehearsal space. The end result resembles a contemporary revival of a classic that retains the soul of the original structure, reaffirming its enduring relevance.
The Mercury Store — Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater
Iconic elements such as the building's masonry shell and double A-frame roof trusses remain, but they are now connected by cross-laminated timber floors and glulam beams and columns. Externally, new aluminium cladding links the art venue with the industrial character of the area. And reconfigure the layout of the building from a highly compartmentalized interior to an expansive environment. By removing half of the ground floor, the designers sank the main performance space below ground level, creating a particularly striking double-height area. For added flexibility, floor-to-ceiling accordion doors allow to divide this bright area into two soundproofed rooms. And, at the rear of this lower level, generous stair seating introduces a casual social hub.
The Mercury Store — Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater
MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BULIDINGS
Grow
Grow offers a variety of housing types to suit a diverse range of occupants, from one-bedroom apartments to two-storey townhouses. Modern Office of Design Architecture (MODA) discussed with the client a creative social approach, cultural and environmental sustainability, three goals that were cleverly combined throughout the project.
GROW
MODA unearths potential cost-saving measures, allowing it to reinvest in the creation of more imaginative buildings. Based on the slope of the plot, in response to the 6m elevation change from the southwest corner to the northeast corner, MODA decided to tuck the car park behind a row of ground floor units and into the slope, thus reducing the amount of expensive excavation required. This move simultaneously allows it to push the rear unit upwards, creating a terraced effect that democratizes light and views within the unit.
GROW
By stitching together the different roof levels, the firm has innovated a sloping, accessible "social landscape" that redefines what a comfortable space can be. Almost three-quarters of the western red cedar roof was converted into a working urban farm, offsetting the heat island effect and increasing biodiversity in the area. The result is a vibrant gathering space for a variety of tenants, from families to students to empty nesters. It is this diversity that is crucial to developing places and beginnings of communities, MODA explained. Ma Yansong, AZ Awards 2022 judge, said: "This is an ingenious project that integrates nature into the architecture to form a harmonious unity."
GROW
Buildings Under 1,000SqM
House of Grain
At Grain House, celebrating Danish agricultural traditions and food culture becomes almost a spiritual experience. The Grain House, a new 600-square-meter project designed by Norwegian firm Reiulf Ramstad Architects, replaces an existing farm and bakery on the same site. This community center, communal facility and educational center features a bakery, boutique and café, reviving the importance of grains in human civilization.
House of Grain
The architects tried to respect the old traditional dwellings in the design and eschew the most modern industrial buildings for food production facilities. They turned to the region's "rich landscape, folk culture and agricultural heritage" to guide their design, a terracotta interpretation of Jutland's weather-beaten barn, whose symmetrical L-shaped plan is flexible enough to allow for a wide range of functions and activities. Two soaring light wells at either end of the building structure become bakers' kilns and imbue the teaching and exhibition spaces within with an ethereal quality and a sense of grandeur. At the intersection of the two wings of the cultural facility, a central bread oven is anchored in the communal spaces, which are clad in monochrome wood. "The striking combination of wood, brick craftsmanship and warm natural materials delivers on the promise of the building's sculptural silhouette," said AZ Awards 2022 judge Alison Brooks.
House of Grain
Combining a courtyard area with a patio overlooking an expansive golden wheat field, theHouse of Grainreimagines the ordinary farmhouse vernacular with extraordinary specificity and demonstrates that country architecture can be as contemporary as urban architecture. A beautiful destination building that incorporates the client's mission to connect people to where their food comes from, helping them rediscover the missing link between sustainable food production and modern lifestyles.
House of Grain
Buildings Over 1000SqM
Qaumajuq Inuit Arts Centre
The Qaumajuq Inuit Arts Centre, designed by Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan and Canadian studio Cibinel Architecture, was inspired by Maltzan's trip to Nunavut - a new wing of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Dedicated to the work of honoring the Inuit. Marzan's scheme design includes a sculpted granite façade that rests on a luminous glass podium. At the center of the atrium is an art-filled three-story vault visible through curved glass. The main exhibition space has a mix of convex and concave walls, all under circular skylights that channel natural light. The building, with its curvaceous and monumental form, evokes the snowdrifts, ice floes and rolling terrain of the north.
Qaumajuq Inuit Arts Centre
Single-Family Houses
OG House
Architect Omar Gandhi created his dream home while paying homage to the surrounding city. Entrance to the residence and studio is through the rear of the building, and a courtyard converted from a garage is clad in buff brick. A flight of stairs leads to the kitchen and dining area, which is completely wrapped in white oak panelling. Whitewashed woodwork extends the length of the space, bringing together the fireplace and ample storage. Most extraordinary are the light wells at the other end of the vertically carved out home; from the bedrooms on the third floor, the living area can be seen all the way. Meanwhile, skylights in the upper bathrooms capture and disperse the sound of rain and changes in natural light, bringing the East Coast climate phenomenon throughout the interior.
In the beginning, Gandhi wanted to build a fascinating residence, but as his business grew, it outgrew the studio. So Gandhi decided to refocus the place's focus on the role of local communities, such as homeless shelters. In more than one respect, this is a residence that elevates its surroundings, infusing the fabric of the city into the soul of the house.
OG House
Temporary and Experiential Installations
Shape Tomorrow
New York-based design firm HWKN has put together a fantastic and whimsical exhibition at Berlin's Aedes Architecture Forum, showcasing a metropolis in miniature, using nine 5m-tall towers to depict a range of different building typologies. Some of these have similarities to past HWKN projects, such as 25 Kent in New York and Die Macherei in Munich.
Shape Tomorrow
Each downscaled building has been given a personal name that echoes its inherent character: Blake is an extroverted skyscraper with an inviting public market at its base, while Skyler is a multi-generational building designed to support multiple generations. Cultivate residential buildings. A captivating light emanates from the depths of each tower, accentuating the playful futuristic, crisp white exhibition design. A mirror-covered wall reflects the room's clean three-by-three grid arrangement, creating an even wider skyline. "Shape Tomorrow conveys to most people something incomprehensible about occupant empathy and abstract concepts like space and building type. It's a great piece of work that can interact on multiple levels." Primo Orpilla, AZ Awards 2022 judge.
Shape Tomorrow
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