In March, our international jury conferred at Toronto’s Hôtel Le Germain at Maple Leaf Square to narrow down 677 entries to a shortlist of 46 finalists. These included the 32 projects, products and concepts below that received Awards of Merit.
The panel consisted of architects Shirley Blumberg of Toronto’s Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg and Todd Saunders of Oslo’s Saunders Architecture, furniture designer Todd Bracher of New York’s Todd Bracher Studio, interior designer George Yabu of Yabu Pushelberg (based in Toronto and New York), New York landscape architect Ken Smith of Workshop, and visionary Milan-based manufacturer and designer Giulio Cappellini of Cappellini.
DESIGN
Furniture
Miniscule (left)
Designer: Cecilie Manz, Copenhagen
Manufacturer: Republic of Fritz Hansen
People’s Choice Winner: Street Football Seat Ball (right)
Studio: Fábrica, Guatemala City
Team: Ana Claudia González and Hubert Schoba
Interior Products
Chillida Rugs (left)
Designer: Nani Marquina, Barcelona
Manufacturer: Nanimarquina
Sento (right)
Design Firm: Angeletti Ruzza, Rieti, Italy
Team: Silvana Angeletti, with Daniele Ruzza
Manufacturer: Graff
Lighting
Aim (left)
Designers: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Paris
Manufacturer: Flos
DR700 Retrofit Bulb (right)
Designers: David O’Driscoll with Nathan Moffatt, Collingwood, Australia
Manufacturer: Brightgreen
Furniture Systems
People’s Choice Winner: Meccanica Kitchen
Design Firm: Démodé, Pordenone, Italy
Designer: Gabriele Centazzo
Manufacturer: Valcucine
ARCHITECTURE
Residential Architecture
OLS House, Stuttgart (left)
Firm: J. Mayer H. Architects, Berlin
Team: Jürgen Mayer H. and Marcus Blum, with Paul Angelier, Julian Blümle, Sebastian Finckh and Hugo Reis
People’s Choice Winner: D House, Brittany, France (right)
Firm: Lode Architecture, Paris
Team: Arnaud Lacoste and Jérôme Vinçon, with Guillaume Choplain, Hélène Gasnier and Stéphane Saltzmann
Casa Alta II, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico
Firm: AS/D Associación de Diseno, Tecamachalco, Mexico
Team: Paola Morales and Fernando Velasco, with Santiago García de Letona, Natalia Gomez, Piergianna Mazzocca and Fernando Polidura
Commercial Architecture Over 1,000 Square Metres
People’s Choice Winner: Soumaya Museum, Mexico City
Firm: FR-EE Fernando Romero Enterprise, Mexico City
Team: Fernando Romero, with Mauricio Ceballos
RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia (left)
Firm: Sean Godsell Architects, Melbourne
Team: Sean Godsell with Hayley Franklin
Barclays Arena, Brooklyn, New York (right)
Firm: SHoP Architects, New York
Team: Nadine Berger, Christopher Lee, Adam Modesitt and Ayumi Sugiyama of SHoP Architects, and John Cerone and Brian Sweeney of SHoP Construction
Commercial Architecture Under 1,000 Square Metres
Kindergarten, Samedan, Switzerland (above left)
Firm: Gredig Walser, Chur, Switzerland
Team: Joos Gredig and Peter Walser, with Lea Condrau
Boulevard Brewing Company, Cellar 1 Expansion, Kansas City, Missouri (below left)
Firm: El Dorado, Kansas City
Team: Josh Shelton, with Chris Burk, Brandon Froelich and Steve Salzer
Trail Center at Camp Prairie Schooner, Kansas City, Missouri (right)
Firm: El Dorado, Kansas City
Team: Douglas Stockman, with Sean Slattery
Landscape Architecture
Hariri Memorial Garden, Beirut (left)
Firm: Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture, Broumana, Lebanon
Team: Vladimir Djurovic, with Salim Kanaan and Rafi Karakashian
Troost Bridge, Kansas City, Missouri (right)
Firm: El Dorado, Kansas City
Team: David Dowell, with Chris Burk
Temporary Architecture
Swarms Pavilion, Kwangju, South Korea (left)
Firm: Nadaaa, Boston
Team: Nader Tehrani, with Sarah Dunbar and Ryan Murphy
Imagination Playground Exhibit, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (right)
Firm: Rockwell Group, New York
Team: David Rockwell and Barry Richards, with Lab at Rockwell Group
INTERIORS
Residential Interiors
People’s Choice Winner: Inhabitable Sculpture (left)
Firm: Inpho Architecture, Montreal
Designer: Jean-Maxime Labrecque
Ebell Loft, Long Beach, California (right)
Firm: Hong Kong Stunt Team, Santa Ana
Designer: Hing Yeung
Commercial Interiors
Shopbop Headquarters, New York (left)
Firm: SHoP Architects, New York
Designer: Kimberly J. Holden, Gregg A. Pasquarelli, Christopher R. Sharples, Coren D. Sharples and William Sharples
People’s Choice Winner: Momofuku Restaurant, Toronto (right)
Firm: The Design Agency, Toronto
Designer: Allen Chan and Anwar Mekhayech, with Matt Davis, Lorelei Lucas and Shady Wanis
CONCEPTS
National Music Centre of Canada, Calgary (left)
Firm: Allied Works Architecture, Portland, Oregon
Team: Brad Cloepfil, with Chelsea Grassinger, Dan Koch, Kyle Lommen and Daniel Richmond
Thonet Concept Bike (above right)
Designer: Andy Martin Studio, London, U.K.
Tensegrity Space Frame Light (below right)
Designer: Michal Maciej Bartosik, Toronto
A+ STUDENT WORK
Thalie (left)
Student: Julie Richoz, École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland
People’s Choice Winner: Essentials (right)
Team: Carl Emil Jacobsen and Daniel Kowal, Kolding School of Design, Denmark
X-Scape (left)
Team: Aaron Choi and Diego Valencia with Brett Berger, Christine Phu, Kim Stevenson and faculty member Philip Horton, Arizona State University
Food and Energy (above right)
Team: Arina Agieieva and Dmytro Zhuikov, Dessau Institute of Architecture
Václav Havel’s Monument (below right)
Designer: Libor Senekel, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
For images of all 46 finalists, visit v2com.biz
All winners and Awards of Merit are featured in the Annual Awards Issue, on newsstands June 17 in Canada, June 24 in the U.S. and July 4 worldwide.