On Wednesday 3 July, 250 student delegates will converge on Newcastle for Nexus, the Australian and New Zealand Student Architecture Congress, for three days of discussion and activity designed to challenge and shape the future of the profession and our cities.
The largest student gathering in the architecture calendar, Nexus 2013 has been coordinated by Creative Directors Rianda Barnes, Thomas Marshall and Joe Larkings, graduate and final year students of the Master of Architecture at the University of Newcastle.
‘Our congress is based on the premise that sprawl, globalisation and the digital age have changed the way we engage with the city; that 20th century models no longer address the world in which we live in.
‘Nexus is an opportunity to reflect on our ideas of the city, experiment with the urban condition and imagine viable alternatives for what the city may come to mean,’ the Creative Team said.
Presenting at the event are 24 local, interstate and international speakers, including practice directors, government consultants, architectural critics and journalists.
Speakers include:
Chloe Beevers (Local Government NSW, Sydney)
Jan van Schaik (Minifie van Schaik Architects, Melbourne)
Kerry and Lindsay Clare (Clare Design, Sydney)
Lindsay Johnston (University of Newcastle, Newcastle)
Annabelle Pegrum (Pegrum Judd, Canberra)
Peter Tonkin (TZG, Sydney)
Magela Geraldo Pereiera (Government of the Federal District, Brazil)
Marcel Acosta (National Capital Planning Commission, USA)
David Gordon (Queen’s University, Canada)
Timothy Moore (Sibling, Melbourne)
Hedwig Heinsman (DUS Architects, the Netherlands)
Philippa Tumubweinee (Izuba in Africa Architects, South Africa)
Doina Petrescu & Constnatin Petcu (AAA Architects, France)
Ian Athfield (Athfield Architects, New Zealand)
Ingrid Richards & Adrian Spence (Richards and Spence, Brisbane)
Clare Cousins (Clare Cousins Architects, Melbourne)
Richard Francis-Jones (FJMT, Sydney)
Marcus Westbury (Renew Australia, Melbourne)
Rory Hyde (Rory Hyde Projects, Melbourne)
Stuart Harrison (Harrison and White, Melbourne)
Melonie Bayl-Smith (BIJL Architecture, Sydney)
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.
A celebration of Urban Design in Australia has seen three projects take out their respective categories in the 2013 Australia Award for Urban Design (AAUD).
The ambitious plan to link the Canberra CBD with the city’s iconic lake, Brisbane’s new Northern Busway (Windsor to Kedron) and the upgrade of two Sydney laneways have become the nation’s best urban design projects for 2013. A revitalisation project in Central Dandenong in Victoria received a Commendation.
The AAUD winners were announced at a gala dinner at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on Tuesday 25 June, with Ross Solly from ABC Canberra playing host. AAUD is Australia’s premier award for excellence in urban design and is hosted each year by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) and supported by the Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Consult Australia, Green Building Council of Australia, Property Council of Australia and the Urban Design Forum.
The 2013 winners are:
– Delivered Outcome – large scale: Northern Busway (Windsor to Kedron) by: Tract Consultants, PBAJV, Thiess John Holland, Transport and Main Roads, Cottee Parker Architects, Bligh Tanner, Hydroplan, Dotdash and Holistic Trees.
– Delivered Outcome – large scale Commendation: Revitalising Central Dandenong: Lonsdale Street Redevelopment by: TCL in collaboration with BKK.
– Delivered Outcome, small scale: Sydney Laneway Upgrades – central precinct (Ash Street & Angel Place) and Chinatown by: Aspect Studios with the City of Sydney Council.
– Policies Programs and Concepts, large scale: Linking Canberra City to the Lake by: ACT Office of the Coordinator General, Hill Thalis, SMEC Australia PTY LTD, MacroPlan Dimasi, JILA and Tania Parkes Consulting.
– Policies Programs and Concepts- small scale: No winner was awarded in this category.
A youth centre in Waterloo, an upgrade to the Art Gallery of New South Wales forecourt, an intergalactic inner-city centre for storytelling and the city’s biggest and brightest new urban precinct are just some of the community focused projects which have won major honours at this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Architecture Awards.
Held at the historic Jones Bay Wharf on Thursday 27 June, a total of twenty-seven awards, eight prizes and fourteen commendations were presented in recognition of the best in architecture across the state.
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp’s (fjmt) Darling Quarter, an urban and commercial project, led the field of winners taking out several major awards: the Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design, the Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture, the Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture and the inaugural City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize.
Darling Quarter by Francis Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with ASPECT Studios and Lend Lease. Image by Florian Groehn.
While primarily home to offices of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Urban Design jury noted that Darling Quarter is also a major urban revitalisation project for Daring Harbour. For the jury, the project sets ‘a new benchmark in intelligent place making’ by transforming the public domain through delivering a series of defined public spaces including a pedestrian linkage from the city, a generous public promenade and parkland, and a dynamic playground for the young and old alike.
In presenting the Milo Dunphy Award, the Sustainable Architecture jury said ‘while its sustainability credentials as a commercial building are strong in isolation; as a precinct, it is transformative’. In addition, the Commercial Architecture jury noted that ‘Darling Quarter precinct represents the potential for change in the behaviour of how people work’.
In awarding her inaugural prize, City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the project ‘revives the quarter with urbanity, flair and credibility, and provides an exemplary integration of work and recreation spaces’.
The Institute’s most prestigious honour, the Sulman Medal for Public Architecture, went to Collins and Turner (with City of Sydney) for the Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre – home to WEAVE (Working to Educate, Advocate, Voice and Empower), a local association supporting Waterloo’s youth. In awarding the medal, the jury said they had chosen the centre for its ‘exemplary convergence of public leadership, community initiative and design talent’. The project also received an Architecture Award for Sustainable Architecture.
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre by Collins and Turner (with City of Sydney). Image by Richard Glover.
The ‘remarkable and understated’ Art Gallery of New South Wales Forecourt Upgrade by Johnson Pilton Walker was chosen by the Small Project Architecture jury to receive the Robert Woodward Award for its combination of ‘discrete landscape adjustments with a sculptural ramp to resolve the longstanding problem of providing equitable access’ to the Gallery.
The NSW Premier’s Prize went to Martian Embassy by LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) – the new home for not-for-profit creative writing centre, the Sydney Story Factory – for demonstrating ‘how it is possible to create more with less’ while still providing a space that inspires and engages ‘the next generation of creative writers and thinkers’.
BVN Donovan Hill received the John Verge Award for Interior Architecture for the The Kinghorn Cancer Centre – ‘a work of remarkable control’ which ‘has brought warmth and a sense of humanity into a research environment’; while the Gowings and State Theatre Buildings Restoration and Hotel Conversion by Woodhead and Graham Brooks and Associates, Sydney – ‘a remarkable achievement in conservation, refurbishment and adaptive reuse’ – was presented with the Greenway Award for Heritage.
Noted by the jury as ‘a jewel within the city skyline’, the AMP Building Sydney Cove by PTW Architects was recognised as a ‘remarkable building, a valuable piece of city making, and an exceptional and generous gift to the character of the city’ with its presentation of the Award for Enduring Architecture.
Candalepas Associates’ beachside apartments at 29-35 Prince Street Cronulla saw them receive the Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing for an ‘incredible project that pays careful attention to its context, is well planned and exquisitely detailed’.
Tír na nÓg by Drew Heath Architects. Image by Brett Boardman.
The other worldliness of Drew Heath Architects’ Tír na nÓg, with its ‘multiple levels, overlapping spaces and lush vegetation’ made it a unanimous choice by the jury for the Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture. The jury noting that ‘its excellence resides in its eccentricity as much as in its cohesion. Boundaries are blurred; inside to outside, public to private, old to new, grown to made – an Otherworld’.
An appropriation of an existing shell of an old urban cowshed in Sydney’s inner-west, Cowshed House by Carterwilliamson Architects also won an Architecture Award in the Residential Architecture – Houses category as well as Sustainable Architecture Award and a commendation under the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture category.
This year’s COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture went to Iglu Centralby Bates Smart – a multiple housing complex for students in inner-city Sydney which was also presented with an Architecture Award in the Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing category.
BVN Donovan Hill received the Blacket Prize for Regional Architecture for Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub – a new teaching and research facility at Wagga Wagga which the jury commended for creating ‘a model in planning, design and environmental performance for rural Australian campuses’.
Sydney-based architect Andrew Burns was named the recipient of this year’s Emerging Architect Prize with the jury recognising his role as ‘an excellent ambassador for the advancement of the architectural profession within the public arena both locally and internationally’.
Other prize recipients this year were: Sean O’Toole from UrbanGrowth NSW – recipient of the NSW President’s Prize; Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority’s Helen Lochhead – recipient of the Marion Mahony Griffin Prize which acknowledges a female architect for a distinctive body of architectural work; architectural critic Laura Harding – recipient of the Adrian Ashton Prize for Writing and Criticism; and Nathan Etherington of Scale Architecture and the University of Sydney – recipient of the inaugural David Lindner Prize which aims to encourage new research on architecture in the public realm.
This year, over 170 entries were received from across New South Wales, with the named award and architecture award winners now progressing to the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards to be announced on Thursday 7 November 2013 at the Sydney Opera House.
Full list of winners:
Public Architecture
Sulman Medal Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre – Collins and Turner with City of Sydney
Commendation Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment – Architect Marshall in association with the
Government Architect’s Office
Urban Design
Lloyd Rees Award Darling Quarter –Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease
Architecture Award Pitt Street Mall Public Domain Upgrade – Tony Caro Architecture
Commercial Architecture
Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award Darling Quarter – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)
Interior Architecture
John Verge Award The Kinghorn Cancer Centre – BVN Donovan Hill
Architecture Award Lilyfield Warehouse– Virginia Kerridge Architect
Commendations 85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby & Entry – John Wardle Architects and Westfield Design and Construction Woods Bagot Sydney Studio – Woods Bagot
Sustainable Architecture
Milo Dunphy Award Darling Quarter –Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios, Lend Lease, E.G.O. Group and Davenport Campbell
Sustainable Architecture cont… Architecture Awards Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre –Collins and Turner with City of Sydney Cowshed House – Carterwilliamson Architects
Residential Architecture – Houses
Wilkinson Award Tír na nÓg – Drew Heath Architects
(Alterations & Additions)
ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS
Architecture Awards Cowshed House– Carterwilliamson Architects Balmain House – Fox Johnston
Commendations Bellevue Hill Residence – Tzannes Associates Lavender Bay Boatshed – Stephen Collier Architects
NEW
Architecture Awards St Albans House – Rory Brooks Architects Flipped House – Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects Stewart House – Chenchow Little Architects Gordons Bay Residence – Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Commendation Angophora House – Richard Cole Architecture
Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Aaron Bolot Award 29–35 Prince Street Cronulla –Candalepas Associates
Architecture Awards Iglu Central – Bates Smart Silk Apartments – Tony Caro Architecture Telopea Social Housing – Turner
Commendations Little Bay – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) The Majestic – Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
Small Project Architecture
Robert Woodward Award Art Gallery of NSW Forecourt Upgrade – Johnson Pilton Walker
Architecture Award Yurong Public Amenities – Government Architect’s Office
Small Project Architecture cont…
Commendations Cook Park Amenities – Fox Johnston Martian Embassy – LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) Crescent House – Andrew Burns Architect
Heritage
Greenway Award Gowings and State Theatre Buildings Restoration and Hotel Conversion – Woodhead and Graham Brooks and Associates, Sydney
(Creative Adaptation)
CREATIVE ADAPTATION
Commendations The Majestic – Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Lavender Bay Boatshed – Stephen Collier Architects
CONSERVATION
Architecture Awards Hyde Park Barracks – Reconstruction of Gate Lodge Domes –Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners Conservation of the Convict Superintendent’s House Cockatoo Island –Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
Award For Enduring Architecture
The AMP Building Sydney Cove – PTW Architects
COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture
Iglu Central –Bates Smart
Commendation Cowshed House –Carterwilliamson Architects
Blacket Prize
Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub– BVN Donovan Hill
NSW Premier’s Prize
Martian Embassy – LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)
City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize
Darling Quarter –Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease
NSW President’s Prize
Sean O’Toole – UrbanGrowth NSW
Emerging Architect Prize
Andrew Burns – Andrew Burns Architect
Sponsored by Geberit
Marion Mahony Griffin Prize
Helen Lochhead –Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
Adrian Ashton Prize For Writing And Criticism
Laura Harding – Architecture Australia/Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
Sponsored by Bates Smart
David Lindner Prize
Nathan Etherington – Scale Architecture/University of Sydney
Click here for 2013 NSW Architecture Awards’ jury citations.
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For media enquiries contact:
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NSW Media & Communications
Australian Institute of Architects
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The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession, representing more than 11,000 members across Australia and overseas. The Institute actively works to improve the quality of our built environment by promoting quality, responsible and sustainable design.
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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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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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.
Forty-two entries from a field of 240 have been honoured in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2013 Victorian Architecture Awards at a special presentation evening tonight.
The state’s top award of the night, the Victorian Architecture Medal was awarded to RMIT Design Hub by Sean Godsell Architects in association with Peddle Thorp Architects for its expression of the purity of an architectural idea in an elegant and harmonised composition’.
RMIT Design Hub by Sean Godsell Architects in association with Peddle Thorp Architects. Image by Earl Carter
‘RMIT Design Hub adds great value to the diversity of Melbourne’s proud reputation in fostering strong and individualistic design,’ the jury proclaimed.
Home to RMIT’s diverse range of design research and post graduate education, the Design Hub was also awarded two Named Awards by the juries, the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture and the top public architecture honour, the William Wardell Award for Public Architecture.
In total, 11 Named Awards, 20 Architecture Awards and 21 Commendations were presented on the night in addition to the prestigious Victorian Architecture Medal, Melbourne Prize, Regional Prize and the Bates Smart Awards for Architecture in the Media.
Sean Godsell Architects was also awarded the highest accolade in the Residential Architecture – Houses category, the Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture with Edward Street House.
Edward Street House by Sean Godsell Architects. Image by Earl Carter
‘The property has been sliced and divided into exquisitely proportioned interior and garden spaces. Each extends into the other, creating a seamless amenity and high degree of privacy and transparency. As poetic as it is rational, this house is beautifully robust,’ the jury reflected.
A sensitive redevelopment of one of Melbourne’s unique heritage performance venues, Hamer Hall by ARM Architecture was praised by the Interior Architecture jury for ‘skilfully accentuating the heritage qualities of the building while at the same time creating a stunning landmark addition to the Yarra River precinct’.
Hamer Hall by ARM Architecture. Image by David Simmonds
Hamer Hall’s revitalisation was recognised with the Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture and the John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture.
The restrained strategy to use bronze to express the new works offers legibility between old and new fabric and reflects the original architect’s (Sir Roy Grounds) approach to an enduring materiality. This skifully resolved civic architecture respects the legacy of Grounds’ raw exterior and John Truscott’s plush interior for future generations,’ the Heritage jury said.
The Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture went to the Crown Mahogany Room Expansion by Bates Smart.
Crown Mahogany Room Expansion by Bates Smart. Image by John Gollings
‘We were impressed by the commitment and rigour shown by both client and architect in creating an internationally leading venue. Elaborately detailed and meticulously executed, the over-scaled corrugations in the city facade curate views into the heart of the interior while allowing casino patrons spectacular views of the Melbourne skyline,’ noted the Commercial Architecture jury.
The Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture was selected from the entire field of entries and was awarded to Crofthouse by James Stockwell Architect.
‘Quite early in the assessment process a single project emerged from the crowd to announce itself with a clear voice above all others. Subsequently, throughout a rigorous process, that project remained to become a unanimous, clear leader and as fresh as the new day. At the heart of the brief and throughout design and construction, Crofthouse presented new design ideas which offered a more sustainable future for the planet.’
Crofthouse by James Stockwell Architect. Image by James Archibald
McIntyre Drive Social Housing, Altona by MGS Architects received the Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing.
‘Social sustainability has been deeply considered by the architects, resulting in a non-institutional response that provides an exemplar for social housing and homes for many clearly happy residents.’
The Melbourne Prize and Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design were bestowed on BKK/TCL Partnership for Revitalising Central Dandenong, Lonsdale St Redevelopment.
‘The urban details, planting, pocket parks, plazas and re-found street life make it an urban design exemplar. The Dandenong project is a very fine model, widely applicable for transformational urban renewal strategy throughout Australia.’
McIntyre Drive Social Housing, Altona by MGS Architects. Image by Trevor MeinRevitalising Central Dandenong, Lonsdale St Redevelopment. Image by John Gollings
Rebuilt following the 2009 bushfires, the Marysville 16 Hour Police Station by Kerstin Thompson Architects forms part of the re-establishment of the town centre, ‘The Marysville Heart’ and was the recipient of the 2013 Regional Prize.
‘The combination of mature composition, clever planning and geometry, along with a soaring spirit, make this building a wonderful addition to a town that deserves great architecture.
Marysville 16 Hour Police Station by Kerstin Thompson Architects. Image by Trevor Mein
Nest Architects’ Seventh Heaven project is the fitout of seven student rooms on a new level seven, within the existing roof space of a Romberg Boyd student residential tower at Ormond College, University of Melbourne and received the Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture.
‘This is a student garret, designer style and a worthy recipient of the inaugural Kevin Borland Award for small building works.’
Seventh Heaven by Nest Architecture. Image by Jesse Marlow
The Enduring Architecture Award was presented to ICI House 1958 (now Orica House) by Bates Smart & McCutcheon.
Two projects were awarded a National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media, Dream Buildby ABC TV and Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture by Rory Hyde. Justine Clark received a State Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for Parlour: women, architecture, equity.
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.
The Australian Institute of Architects is the peak body for the architectural profession, representing more than 11,000 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
Thirty-five of the state’s most inspiring and leading architectural projects were honoured at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2013 Queensland Architecture Awards tonight at the award-winning Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Translational Research Institute by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill (Architects in Association). Image by Christopher Frederick Jones
The Translational Research Institute in Brisbane by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill (Architects in Association) received the top honour on the night, the F.D.G Stanley Award for Public Architecture, along with the G.H.M. Addison Award for Interior Architecture.
The laboratory and research facility features a series of interconnected spaces around a central communal garden to deliver respite to the research community from the intensity of the work inside.
‘A great sense of generosity and enjoyability is ingrained into every aspect of this laboratory building. It offers lavishly-crafted spaces across a range of scales that redefine not only the cramped campus in which it is located, but also the laboratory building typology itself.
‘Unique and intelligent lighting design, timber detailing and a complete approach to entire space have resulted in a set of interior experiences that will provide the users with multiple opportunities for workplace and social collaborations,’ the jury reflected.
The Robin Dods Award for Residential Architecture – Houses was awarded to James Russell Architect for Bisley Place House. A home that celebrates place, environment and community, Bisley Place House also represents a new style of living that allows the home to be opened up to the street front encouraging engagement between inhabitants and their neighbours beyond.
Bisley Place House by James Russell Architect. Image by Toby Scott
‘A reconsideration of the notion of public interface in an established brick veneer residential suburb has led the development of an exciting typology. The exploration of blurred interfaces between exterior and interior informed the delightful ‘u’ shaped plan with open rooms allowing a connection of yards from front, via central court, to rear.’
The ‘exemplary new landmark tower’, One One One Eagle Street by Cox Rayner Architects topped the commercial architecture category, winning the Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture.
Responding to a challenging program and site, Constance Street Affordable Housing also by Cox Rayner Architects was rewarded with the Job & Froud Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing and the Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture.
‘The apartments are well planned and provide a high level of amenity while the communal spaces respond to the user requirements and create a variety of unpretentious, comfortable spaces,’ said the jury.
TheHayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture was awarded to Far North Queensland architects, Charles Wright Architects for a ‘deceptively simple alteration and addition’, Re-Newell.
‘The client’s brief has been cleverly interpreted by the architect and his team to create an almost perfect beachside retreat with a variety of space types. Using robust, ordinary materials, they have exceeded any reasonable expectations required of this type of architecture.’
Finding Country Exhibition, 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, a ‘provocative and thought provoking endeavour’ by Kevin O’Brien Architects in association with the Finding Country Collective and Venti di Cultura received the Karl Langer Award for Urban Design.
‘This phenomenally attested, beautifully presented theoretical urban experiment brings a simple, humanist and indigenous inclusion to the idea of urban form.’
Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law by Architectus in association with Guymer Bailey Architects was presented the Art & Architecture Prize and Cooroy Library by Brewster Hjorth Architects received the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture.
Heritage Architecture’s top award, the Don Roderick Award for Heritage Architecture went to the Cairns Foreshore Redevelopment by CA Architects & Cox Rayner Architects in association with O’Neill Architecture.
The Enduring Architecture Award for a building of outstanding merit over 25 years of age has been awarded to Oribin House + Studio by EH OribinArchitect.
Full list of winning projects:
Art & Architecture Prize
Winner – Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law by Architectus in association with Guymer Bailey Architects
Commendation – BCEC on Grey Street by Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation – Caneland Central Shopping Centre by Lend Lease Design
COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture
Winner – Cooroy Library by Brewster Hjorth Architects
Commercial Architecture
Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture – One One One Eagle Street by Cox Rayner Architects
Award – Circa CT1 by Arkhefield
Award – Wesley House by Fulton Trotter Architects in association with Architectus
Commendation – Retail Store and Offices Lockhart River by Kevin O’Brien Architects in association with Project Services
Enduring Architecture Award
Winner – Oribin House + Studio by E.H. Oribin Architect
Heritage Architecture
Don Roderick Award for Heritage – Cairns Foreshore Redevelopment by CA Architects & Cox Rayner Architects in association with O’Neill Architecture
Interior Architecture
G.H.M. Addison Award for Interior Architecture – Translational Research Institute by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill (Architects in Association)
Award – Energex Newstead Riverpark Workplace by BVN Donovan Hill in association with Cox Rayner
Award – One One One Eagle Street by Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation – Gadens Lawyers by HASSELL
Commendation – Caneland Central Shopping Centre by Lend Lease Design
Public Architecture
F.D.G. Stanley Award for Public Architecture – Translational Research Institute by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill (Architects in Association)
Award – Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law by Architectus in association with Guymer Bailey Architects
Award – Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum by Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation – TYTO Cultural Precinct by lahznimmo architects + architects north
Commendation – Somerset Civic Centre by ThomsonAdsett
Commendation – Health Clinic CQU by Reddog Architects Pty Ltd
Residential Architecture – Houses
Robin Dods Award for Residential Architecture – Houses – Bisley Place House by James Russell Architect
Award – Glass House by Charles Wright Architects
Award – Taringa House by Loucas Zahos Architects
Commendation – Yaroomba House by Majstorovic Architecture
Commendation – Chelmer House by Bligh Graham Architects
Commendation – One Wybelenna by Shaun Lockyer Architects
Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Job & Froud Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing – Constance Street Affordable Housing by Cox Rayner Architects
Award – Binna Burra Sky Lodges by dm2architecture pty ltd
Commendation – Charles Street Residences by Studio Mango
Commendation – The Village at Coorparoo by S3
Small Project Architecture
Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture – Re-Newell by Charles Wright Architects
Award – Keperra House by A-CH (Atelier Chen Hung)
Award – West End Ferry Terminal by Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation – New Farm Studio by Bligh Graham Architects
Sustainable Architecture
Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture – Constance Street Affordable Housing by Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation – Cooroy Library by Brewster Hjorth Architects
Commendation – Translational Research Institute by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill (Architects in Association)
Urban Design
Karl Langer Award for Urban Design – Finding Country Exhibition 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 by Kevin O’Brien Architects in association with the Finding Country Collective and Venti di Cultura
Award – Soul by DBI Design
Award – Flinders Street Revitalisation by Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation – SW1 South Bank by Cox Rayner Architects in association with several architects on individual buildings including bureau^proberts, Allen Jack & Cottier, JMA Architects and Haysom 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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Peter Willmott has been recognised with the President’s Prize at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2013 Tasmanian Architecture Awards that took place on Saturday 15 June.
‘Peter is known for the subtlety of his designs and his unique perspective, both as an architect and teacher,’ Tasmanian President Andrew Williamson commented.
‘Colleagues say it was this approach combined with a rigorous process of research and exploration that influenced Peter’s works, among them the design for the refurbishment of City Hall in the mid-1970s and the Hobart Police Citizens and Youth Club extension in the 1980s, along with a rich variety of smaller projects.’
The Emerging Architects Prize has been awarded to Peta Heffernan, Director of Liminal Studio for her ‘active involvement in the Australian Institute of Architects, not only through the donation of her time to organising events, but also through participation on Chapter Council and other committees. Furthermore, she is actively involved in the wider arts community; her work with various arts groups and her role on the Tasmanian Creative Industries Council help to actively promote the value of design and a culture of design thinking’.
Edwina Hughes received the SWT Blythe Student Prize for her Wilkinsons Point Bath House project which is an ‘evocative and sublime form that offers great sensory breadth once within and submerged.’
Adrian Evans has been recognised with the Sir James Irwin President’s Prize at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2013 South Australian Architecture Awards announced on Friday 14 June.
‘This year I have chosen to award an individual who I believe has not only made outstanding contributions to architecture in South Australia but also exemplifies many of the qualities that define an architect,’ South Australian President Steve Grieve commented.
‘He has continued to contribute to and support architectural education as a visiting lecturer and tutor at both Adelaide University and the University of South Australia and since 2002 he has been leading his own practice JPE through thick and thin.
‘It has not always been the easiest road – architecture is a tough profession – and throughout his career he has been true to his values and true to his unswerving passion for design and the pursuit of excellence.
‘In the last decade his built legacy has continued to grow through projects such as the Margaret Tobin Mental Health Centre at Flinders University and the Wave and Edge Office and Apartments Development at the southern end of King William Street.’
The Emerging Architects Prize has been awarded to Alex Hall of Hassell SA for his ‘dedication and enthusiasm towards the profession of architecture and design, as well as his involvement and achievements within professional, educational and community groups,’ the jury noted.
‘Among other leading examples, Alex has demonstrated his contribution to architecture through leadership within his role as project Architect at HASSELL, and through his active involvement in developing HASSELL’s young designers. Alex has made contributions to research and the education of Architecture through his engagement with The University of South Australia and Adelaide University architecture schools, as both studio educator and guest lecturer.
‘Alex is currently involved with the Australian Institute of Architects – SA chapter as a chapter councillor and has a strong focus on newer members to the profession. He was also previously a member of the editorial team for PLACE magazine.’
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The election clock will quickly tick to zero and Australia’s 44th Parliament will soon be constituted.
Rather than embroil BEMP in political jockeying, its organisers have decided to focus on the future and engage with the nation’s next parliament.
This will maximise your opportunity to speak to Australia’s latest next crop of political leaders about powerful strategies for boosting productivity, raising community dividends and nurturing sustainability.
The 2013 Australia Award for Urban Design (AAUD) gala event will proceed as planned on 25 June.
The Design Awards will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Ross Solly, ABC Canberra, will host the evening, which will include a three-course dinner and a private showing of the galleries.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by BEMP’s rescheduling and will soon contact you with a new date.
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