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.

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.

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’.

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 Central by 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

 

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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 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.

‘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’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.

‘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.’

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.’

 

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.

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.’

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 Build by 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.

Please see accompanying release for the full list of winners and commendations.

 

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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.

 

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.

‘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.

The Hayes & 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 Oribin Architect.

 

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 13^th 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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Australian Institute of Architects

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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.

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.’