{"id":1149,"date":"2012-11-05T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/international.architecture.com.au\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2016-11-09T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:24:03","slug":"australian-architects-take-on-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/australian-architects-take-on-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian architects take on the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Australian architecture firms have taken on the world and triumphed at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards winning eight out of thirty-three categories.<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, Melbourne<\/strong> by <strong>Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart <\/strong>took out the Completed Building \u2013 Health category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin no.38, Singapore<\/strong> by <strong>Kerry Hill Architects<\/strong> has won the Completed Building \u2013 Housing category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common Ground, Sydney<\/strong> by <strong>HASSELL<\/strong> received a High Commendation in the Completed Building \u2013 Housing category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Darling Quarter, Sydney<\/strong> by <strong>Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT)<\/strong> was awarded the top prize in the Completed Building \u2013 Offices category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Shearer\u2019s Quarters, Tasmania<\/strong> by <strong>John Wardle Architects<\/strong> won the \u2018World\u2019s Best Villa\u2019 Award in the Completed Building \u2013 Villa category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perry Park, Sydney<\/strong> by <strong>HASSELL<\/strong> won the Future Projects \u2013 Competition Entries category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Man-Built Dongqian Lake Concept Design, China<\/strong> by <strong>HASSELL<\/strong> took top honours in the Future Projects \u2013 Experimental category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tianjin Binhai New District, China<\/strong> by <strong>HASSELL<\/strong>received the \u2018World\u2019s Best Future Infrastructure Project\u2019 Award in the Future Projects \u2013 Infrastructure category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Institute CEO David Parken congratulated all winning, commended and shortlisted projects and commented that \u2018it is wonderful to see this worldwide recognition of Australian Architects for their design talent across such a broad range of building types and locations\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018The challenge to do more with less while incorporating sustainable design principles is a universal one which I believe has been successfully addressed by the Australian winners.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Shortlisted in 24 of the 33 categories, Australia was well represented at WAF, the world\u2019s largest festival dedicated to celebrating and sharing architectural excellence from across the globe, being held in Singapore this week (3-5 October).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thirty-two Australian-based firms were shortlisted for the 2012 WAF Awards. Of the 301 shortlisted entries from around the world, a staggering 50 were by Australian-based firms, highlighting Australia\u2019s exceptional presence on the world architecture stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In celebration of this immense Australian talent, the Australian Institute of Architects in collaboration with Creative Agent, <a href=\"http:\/\/international.architecture.com.au\/a-series\/\">Lindy Johnson and Filmmaker, Alex Chomicz have produced two unique short films<\/a>.\u00a0The films were launched at a special event hosted by the Institute in Singapore on Thursday 4 October. In addition to acknowledging the WAF short listed architects, the event recognise the finalists in the 2012 Australian Architecture Awards International Category, of which the winner will be announced at the Institute\u2019s 2012 National Awards, taking place in Perth on 1 November. The finalists include<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Institute would like to thank sponsors SPACE and moooi for their generous support in celebrating Australian architecture abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With a spotlight on the southern hemisphere, the selection of WAF short listed architects share their passion, energy and fresh approach in the two short films revealing how climatic and cultural similarities make them leaders in sustainable design in the thriving Asia Pacific marketplace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018I think one of the key attributes that we can bring to the rest of the world and to Asia is the fact that we are leaders in sustainable design and we\u2019ve actually got proven experience in that\u2019 \u2013Ninotschka Titchkosky, BVN Architecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018We\u2019ve got a free spirit that allows us to merge ideas from very many sectors and bring it all together\u2026look at the cultures deeply and intimately because we relate to them on a very personal level and then cause change through that collaboration\u2019\u2013Nik Karalis, Woods Bagot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018The influences come from all sorts of places and if you look at the individual architects working in Australia they\u2019re all different. Everybody here is virtually an immigrant&#8230;if they\u2019re not an immigrant, they\u2019re a son or a daughter or a granddaughter of an immigrant\u2019 \u2013 Nonda Katsalidis, Fender Katsalidis Architect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian architecture firms have taken on the world and triumphed at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards winning eight out of thirty-three categories. The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, Melbourne by Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart took out the Completed Building \u2013 Health category. Martin no.38, Singapore by Kerry Hill Architects has won the Completed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/australian-architects-take-on-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian architects take on the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-posts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}