National Office Canberra has relocated to 2a Mugga Way, Red Hill in Canberra.
Our Red Hill premises has long been home to the ACT Chapter and is now also shared by our finance, events and CEO teams.
This move represents a significant cost saving for the Institute at a time of fiscal constraint, and one that helps us continue to support the profession and deliver ongoing services to members.
Email addresses remain unchanged. Please contact reception on 02 6121 2000 if you have any queries.
RISK 2015 is only a fortnight a way. If you haven’t already registered for the main conference, or any of the myriad fringe events, time is running out. We have already had over 1000 tickets sold which is fantastic, so act now so you don’t miss out.
The conference offers a chance to recharge your professional batteries, gain insight and inspiration and socialise with colleagues and friends. The full program is now online.
In policy news, the competitions review panel, led by Ian Harper, has delivered its final report to the Australian government. The Competition Policy Review Final Report makes 56 recommendations for reforms across three key themes: competition policy, laws and institutions.
There are four key issues of interest to the Institute: Intellectual Property Review, Regulation Review, Planning and Zoning and Government Procurement. We are currently assessing the implications of this report for the profession.
A few months ago we sought expressions of interest from members to apply to represent the Institute on the Australian Building Codes Board’s Building Codes Committee. I am pleased to report that we have appointed Dr George Zillante, Professor of Architecture at the University of Adelaide to the role for an initial two-year term.
The winner of the NORD Architecture Drawing prize has been announced. Brad Mitchell, a student architect from Techne Architecture and Interior Design taking out the competition with his drawing ‘Gathering thoughts, layer and fluctuate in memory’.
“Gathering thoughts, layer and fluctuate in memory and new encounters. Jorn Utzon’s legacy provides a cross hatched environment of a Danish and Australian architectural relationship. Utzon strived for contrast. “The difference in character of the two components forming the building, the massive and imposing base, and the light and graceful shells on top of it…” However the tensions in the architecture provide a graceful connection to site, harbour and water. Clouds, of water, cycle as ocean and as vapour, but are the same in components. Utzon’s cities, Copenhagen and Sydney, are connected to and by water.
The drawing was created digitally using hand drawn elements that were layered and folded into a form. Pattern hatches were added to strengthen the relationship to Utzon’s architecture.”
– Brad Mitchell
Jury Citation – Shaun Carter
“Sydney is a city located on water. Copenhagen too. Both are sailing cities. Utzon’s love of sailing was widely known. The sight of a sail under load vividly reminds us of the sails of the Opera House. All angles offset by the organic curve of natural forces.
Mitchell’s ephemeral “clouds” floating above water is a delightfully evocative image of infinite responses. Clouds and water, elements as common as they are fundamental, remind us that we are each bound by the same finite earth. Distant but connected.
We find Mitchell’s work dances beautifully between the joy and playfulness of whimsy and the strength of a single image that sits in the imagination like a persistent friend, inviting our curiosity. This is what we seek in a drawing. Compelling us to look for answers and finding great satisfaction in what we think is our “knowing”, irrespective of whether this is truly Mitchell’s intent.
This is the power of singular drawing to conjure up numerous responses, but instantly linking the disparate ideas of Sydney, Copenhagen, and our shared loves and common bonds, and the architecture and the people that has inextricably links us forever. This is what the competition was about, and Mitchell’s beautiful work is a great example of this.”
– Jury members Shaun Carter (President NSW Chapter) Carterwiliamson Architects Sydney & Edmund Capon, Chair of the Foundation, and who was Director of the Art Gallery of NSW for 33 years
The winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2013 ACT Architecture Awards have been revealed tonight, Saturday 22 June, at the National Arboretum.
The territory’s highest honour, the Canberra Medallion, was awarded to a commercial building ‘exemplifying common sense architectural solution and good design with an underwritten commitment to creating complementary public space within the realm of related agency buildings’.
2 & 4 National Circuit Precinct by Fender Katsalidis. Image by John Gollings
Fender Katsalidis received the prestigious award for 2 & 4 National Circuit Precinct.
‘A clear and sensitive introduction of new commercial architecture into the heritage-listed former patents office and a brown field site that creates a comfortable and inviting space consistent with the aim of increasing urban density around the parliamentary triangle,’ stated the jury.
The project was also recognised with the Sir John Overall Award for Urban Design.
The venue of the 2013 ACT Architecture Awards, Village Centre – National Arboretum Canberra by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer was recognised by the jury with the Romaldo Giugola Award for Public Architecture.
‘Through the application of distinctive materials and a curvilinear form that displays subtle empathy with surrounding landforms, the architects have ensured that the National Arboretum will become one of Canberra’s most notable iconic buildings.’
Village Centre – National Arboretum by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer. Image by Brett Boardman
A house that ‘is elegant, beautifully detailed and bespoke’ has taken out the top residential architecture – houses award.
Produced by a father and son team of owner, architect and builder, Knobel House by Anthony Knobel Architect received the Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture and the ACT Sustainability Award.
‘The close quarters to the neighbours on all four boundaries is forgotten in this beautiful and remarkably private home,’ the jury reflected.
The W Hayward Morris Award for Interior Architecture and the InLite Light in Architecture Prize were awarded to St Mary Mackillop College Chapel by Collins Caddaye Architects for ‘an absolute transformation from a dark and internal space, to a naturally-lit and beautiful place for inquiry and contemplation’.
St Mary Mackillop College Chapel by Collins Caddaye Architects. Image by Stefan Postles
Canberra College Performing Arts Centre by BVN Donovan Hill received the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture and Gallery House by Philip Leeson Architects took home the Art in Architecture Prize.
Full list of winning projects:
Art in Architecture Prize
Winner – Gallery House by Philip Leeson Architects
BCA Certifiers Mervyn Willoughby-Thomas Renovation Award
Winner – Dickson House by Marcus Graham Architect
Commendation – Roberts House by Dennis Formiatti Architect
Canberra Medallion
Winner – 2 &4 National Circuit Precinct by Fender Katsalidis
COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture
Award – Canberra College Performing Arts Centre by BVN Donovan Hill
Commercial Architecture
Award – EAST Hotel by Cox Architecture
Award – 4 National Circuit Precinct by Fender Katsalidis
Education Prize
Winner – St Joseph’s Early Childhood Learning Centre by Paul Barnett Design Group
Enduring Architecture
Award – Parliament House by Mitchell Giurgola and Thorp 1988
Heritage Architecture
Award – 2 National Circuit by Fender Katsalidis
InLite Light in Architecture Prize
Winner – St Mary Mackillop College Chapel by Collins Caddaye Architects
Interior Architecture
W Hayward Morris Award for Interior Architecture – St Mary Mackillop College Chapel by Collins Caddaye Architects
Award – 2 National Circuit by Fender Katsalidis
Award – EAST Hotel by Cox Architecture
Public Architecture
Romaldo Giugola Award for Public Architecture – Village Centre – National Arboretum Canberra by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
Award – Canberra College Performing Arts Centre by BVN Donovan Hill
Award – St Clare’s College Trade Training Centre by Collins Caddaye Architects
Award – The Australian National University ‘National Computational Infrastructure Facility’ by METIER3 Pty Ltd
Residential Architecture – Houses
Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture – Houses – Knobel House by Anthony Knobel Architect
Award – Gallery House by Philip Leeson Architects
Commendation – Rodway House by TT Architecture
Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Commendation – Bridge Point by Colin Stewart Architects
Small Project Architecture
Named Award – Roberts House by Dennis Formiatti Architect
Commendation – Krawarree House by Strine Design
Commendation – O’Connor Additions by Allan Spira Architect
Sustainable Architecture
ACT Sustainability Award – Knobel House by Anthony Knobel Architect
Urban Design
Sir John Overall Award for Urban Design – 2 &4 National Circuit Precinct by Fender Katsalidis
Award – Manuka Oval Sport Lighting by Cox Architecture
Award – The Realm Precinct by Colin Stewart Architects
Projects that received a Named Award or an Architecture Award now progress to the 2013 National Architecture Awards to be announced in Sydney on 7 November.
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National Media and Communications Officer
Australian Institute of Architects
P. + 61 (3) 8620 3813
alexandra.cato@architecture.com.au
The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession, representing almost 12,000 members across Australia and overseas. The Institute actively works to improve the quality of our built environment by promoting quality, responsible and sustainable design. Learn more about the Institute, log on to www.architecture.com.au.
David Clarke, Principal of Clarke Keller Architecture, has been announced as the recipient of the 2013 President’s Medal at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2013 ACT Architecture Awards tonight, Saturday 22 June, at the National Arboretum.
‘It is with great pleasure that I award the 2013 President’s Medal to the optimistic, witty and Renaissance “man for all seasons”, David Clarke,’ ACT Chapter President, Tony Trobe said.
‘David brings passion, energy and wit to the chapter in his roles as Chair of the Practice and CPD Committee and member of Chapter Council, and drives our dialogue with the government’s procurement services almost single-handedly.
‘He represents all that you could hope for in a chapter member. He is the oil in the machine. The President’s Medal is about recognising individuals and there is no more appropriate recipient.’
The 2013 Clem Cummings Medal was awarded to Ian Wood-Bradley, Urban Development Strategy and Policy Advisor in the Office of the Coordinator General within the ACT Government.
Awarded in recognition of the contributions non-architects make to the field of architecture and the public interest, the 2013 Medal has been presented to a ‘passionate advocate for design and place-making’.
‘Ian is a natural and valuable ally to the architectural profession, a Trojan horse within the structure of local planning,’ Mr Trobe said.
Founding Director of Jigsaw Housing, Andrew Verri, has received the ACT Emerging Architect Prize.
‘Andrew’s commitment to smaller, smarter, sustainable homes is providing significant leadership within the architectural profession and the residential construction industry more broadly,’ the jury noted.
Aliki George has been awarded the 2012 ACT Chapter Student Medallion for attaining the highest grade point average over the five years of her architectural education at the University of Canberra.
The 2012 recipient of the John Redmond Prize, awarded for the highest achievement during the first three years of architectural studies, is Alexander Gorecki.
Sarah Herbert is the 2012 recipient of the Institute’s Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn Graduate Prize. The prize is awarded for attaining the highest grade point average over the two years of the Master of Architecture course at the University of Canberra.
Three students were recognised in the Cox Architecture Student Design Prize, established to engage students in the profession through submission of an architecture designed project completed in their previous year of study at the University of Canberra.
Melanie Schonfeld received the top prize for her project, Spatial Resonance – Piano Museum.
Commendations for the Cox Architecture Student Design Prize were awarded to Alexander Gorecki for Lodge on the Lake and Sarah Herbert for Piano Museum.
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For media enquiries contact:
Alexandra Cato
National Media and Communications Officer
Australian Institute of Architects
P. + 61 (3) 8620 3813
alexandra.cato@architecture.com.au
The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession, representing almost 12,000 members across Australia and overseas. The Institute actively works to improve the quality of our built environment by promoting quality, responsible and sustainable design. Learn more about the Institute, log on to www.architecture.com.au.
