Azure Magazine

How do you design for democracy? This was the key question for Team Urbis, a consortium led by Nordic Office of Architecture (and including Haptic Architects, Scenario, and i-d. Interiørarkitektur & Design), when they won the competition to transform Oslo’s New Government Qu...

One of the biggest surprises at NeoCon 2026 (especially for me, on my first visit to the expo in over a decade) was what office manufacturers were not showing: casegoods and desking systems. With a few notable and impressive exceptions (here’s looking at you, Nienkämper), the focus was on communal areas anchored by soft seating that has evolved from “resimerc...

Atelier HA’s reno of an apartment in the Saint-Cloud neighbourhood of Paris is a stylistically forward-thinking space that is nevertheless rich with history. First, there is the firm’s relationship to the home’s owner: a repeat client of Atelier HA who had hired the experimental ...

At IDS Vancouver and Design Vancouver Festival, bright new ideas and novel forms captured the imagination and signalled a rising wave of West Coast talent. We round up a dozen that deserve a closer look, from both familiar studios and emerging t...

Los Angeles. The endlessly sunny but increasingly hard-pressed home of Hollywood and health-food fads — still singed by last year’s wildfires and ICE raids, but also on a fresh high from hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup and now gearing up to welcome the 2027 Super Bowl and the 2028 Olympics in rapid succession — has a new claim to fame: It is in the midst ...