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AZ Awards 2019
A site-specific installation
of wood fencing, designed
for the event by LeuWebb
Projects, creates a scrim in
the former brick factory.LEFT: Galia Fuertes and
Gladys Lapeyre represent
L L ATAS, the Peruvian firm
behind Leandra Ortega’s
Human Settlement Social
Housing, a finalist in the
Social Good category.ABOVE: Kirt Martin of
Landscape Forms presents
the Public Work team
with the People’s Choice
award in the Landscape
Architecture category for
its Bentway project.ABOVE: The 2019 AZ Awards
trophy, designed by
Matt Carr, features laser-
etched agamographic
letters, which morph from
an A to a Z depending on
the viewing angle.As spring turned to summer this past June,
a crowd of over 500 – from as far away as
Mexico, Belgium and Peru – gathered at the
Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, where they
joined Azure in celebrating the 20 winners
(and 48 Award of Merit recipients) of the ninth
annual AZ Awards.
Representing the very best in international
design, architecture and landscape architec-
ture this year was a diverse group of projects,
including a Chinese art museum built into
a sand dune, an inflatable reimagining of
construction hoarding and an Infinity Mirror–
esque art installation in a residential base-
ment. Each of the 2019 winners took home
a sculptural trophy of zigzagging steel,
designed by Umbra’s Matt Carr and etched
with agamographic letters.
The crowd was treated to an evening of
drinks, food – and food for thought, as this
year’s guest of honour, landscape architect
Martha Schwartz, delivered an inspiring
speech on climate change.
awards.azuremagazine.com
Scenes from
the Gala
WITH MORE THAN 500 ATTENDEES MIXING AND MINGLING AT
TORONTO’S EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS, THE NINTH ANNUAL
AZ AWARDS GALA WAS A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
PHOTOGRAPHS _Mauricio Calero, Lelania Little, Arash Moallemi and Elena Zaralieva