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AZURE Learning: Introducing Our Continuing Education Platform
Throughout its 40-year history, AZURE has been a venue for learning. In 1985, the first print editions brought Canadian designers into a global conversation, with dispatches from around the world put...
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In Burnaby, a Community Arena Brings People Together
“Despite the longstanding status of hockey as “Canada’s game” and all its attendant history, little attention has been paid to the buildings necessary to hockey and its evolution,” writes hockey...
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Q&A: Shirley Blumberg and Marianne McKenna on Their 2025 RAIC Gold Medal Win
Few women have had as much influence on Canadian architecture as Shirley Blumberg and Marianne McKenna. As founding partners of KPMB Architects, McKenna and Blumberg broke boundaries. At the time,...
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Concrete Amsterdam Brings a Hint of Manhattan to a Dutch Mall
Steve Madden is ubiquitous. Named for its legendary — and controversial — New York-born founder, the brand is a profoundly global presence, boasting a plethora of brick and mortar locations that...
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5 Products to Give Your Kitchen a Spring Refresh
Spring marks the season of new beginnings, so it’s no surprise that this is often the time when people start planning their next home improvement project. With Easter and Passover on the horizon,...
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Xinú Conjures a Luscious Haven in the Heart of Mexico City
Like wine and coffee, fragrance is an expression of the terroir. Every scent, however delicate or bold, emerges from the landscape, with flowers, fruits, leaves and roots all imbued with hints of the...
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In Montreal, Inclusive Housing for Young Adults with Autism
For individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and intellectual disabilities (ID), the world can be a sensory deluge. The significantly heightened or reduced sensitivity to stimuli that typically...
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Salone del Mobile 2025 Recap: Highlights from Our Camera Roll
It’s par for the course to return from Milan‘s Salone del Mobile feeling incredibly inspired, but also a little bit puffy and crumpled — even if you were smart enough to limit yourself to just a...
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Announcing: The Finalists of the AZ Awards 2025
We’re excited to share the AZ Awards 2025 finalists – 86 projects, products and concepts that won over our esteemed international jury. Inspiring approaches to adaptive re-use, urban revitalization...
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Jonathan Crinion: An Appreciation
If a single design springs to mind at the mention of Jonathan Crinion, odds are very good that it’s the Gazelle chair. As graceful as its namesake, it has expressively loopy arms and slightly splayed...
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10 Eco-Conscious Product Designs Making an Impact
When it comes to sustainability, individuals often feel a sense of personal duty to make eco-conscious choices, whether it be taking transit to work instead of driving or reducing their consumption of...
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ICFF Returns to New York on May 18-20
Every May, New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) briefly transforms Manhattan’s Javits Center into a global hub of design. Returning for its 2025 edition on May 18-20, New York’s...
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Seattle’s Expanded Aquarium Bridges City and Water
From Elliot Bay and Puget Sound to Lake Washington, Duwamish Waterway, Green Lake and Lake Union, Seattle is shaped by water. Yet, the Pacific metropolis is also a city profoundly shaped by — and...
View Article40 Years of Azure: 2020 to 2025
“What kind of future do we want to create together?” That was the question we posed in 2020, when we were looking forward to a new decade on the occasion of our 35th anniversary. That future is now –...
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40 Years of Azure: (More) Insights from Human/Nature
Our inaugural Human/Nature conference, which took place in October 2024, provided a spectrum of multidisciplinary talks on how design can help mitigate climate change. We had many immediate takeaways...
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40 Years of Azure: 2025 and Beyond
An incomplete manifesto of sorts, the culmination of our 40th anniversary journal looks forward to the barriers that architects, urbanists and designers of all disciplines must confront in the years...
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Julian King’s New York Home Marries Old and New
New Yorkers often need to look beyond the city limits to find a place that’s suitable for a growing family. For architect Julian King and his wife, this meant plotting a circle around Manhattan and...
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How Great Lakes Cities Are Transforming Dump Sites into Thriving Landscapes
Twenty-four kilometres from Chicago’s downtown waterfront and iconic Navy Pier Ferris wheel, there is a little-known toxic waste dump. Located in the Southeast Side neighbourhood that once hosted the...
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In Indonesia, a Heritage Home Is Reborn as a Civic Stage
Three years ago we were strangers. In 2022, the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction convened emerging practitioners from around the world for a four-day charette in Zurich, later inviting...
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A.I. in Architecture: The Shape of Design to Come?
A.I. is everywhere: summarizing our emails before we open them, augmenting our Google searches, filling our social media feeds with fake videos that seem uncannily real. For the architecture...
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