Outstanding designs featured in Azure's summer issue

Azure, the design magazine, features the best architecture and design in its July/August issue, including what the jury in its recently-announced AZ Awards determined to be the best residential building, called Linear House, on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. The project was handled by Patkau Architects of Vancouver. The issue, which spotlights the finalists and winners of the awards in many different categories such as furniture, lighting, residential space, is on newsstands on Monday.

“Linear House is such a ­beautiful, strong, clear piece of architecture," wrote juror Glenn Pushelberg. "Very simple and very muscular, sitting on the landscape. It is incredible.”