Australia should be proud of its modernist houses, those beautifully elegant buildings constructed in the 30 years after World War Two. But according to Tim Ross, we’re tearing them down instead. In this year’s Griffin Lecture, presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, comedian and self-described ‘design nerd’ Tim Ross will declare his love for Australia’s modernist ...

Victorian architects have dominated the prestigious Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards 2018 in Melbourne tonight, winning six named awards as well as numerous national awards and commendations. This year’s winners displayed a commitment to sustainability, urban regeneration and social activation, with educational, public and residential architecture the big stand outs. There was also a ...

The design excellence of two major Sydney urban renewal projects has been recognised at the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards 2018. Announced in Melbourne tonight, the Darling Harbour Transformation by HASSELL/HASSELL + Populous won the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design, while the Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage was awarded to Joynton Avenue ...

A stunning residential project has won the People’s Choice Award at the Australian Institute of Architect’s 2018 National Architecture Awards. The home also received a National Award in the highly competitive Residential Architecture – Houses (New) category at a ceremony in Melbourne tonight. Cabbage Tree House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture, is set into a bushland setting ...

An iconic brutalist court building, an information centre made from recycled wharf wood and a luxury beachfront apartment complex were among the diverse Queensland winners at the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards. Five Queensland projects have been recognised as part of Australia’s premier architecture awards, which were announced in Melbourne tonight. The winners included: • National ...

Perth’s newest landmark, Optus Stadium, has won two awards at the coveted Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards 2018. Presented in Melbourne tonight, Optus Stadium by HASSELL COX HKS won the COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture and a National Award for Public Architecture. Described as ‘an immensely complex undertaking … to deliver a world-class sporting arena’, ...

Country, culture and custodianship are the key themes of Tasmania’s krakani lumi, which was awarded the Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture at tonight’s Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards 2018. The standing camp, which means ‘place of rest’, was designed by Hobart’s Taylor and Hinds Architects in conjunction with the Aboriginal Land Council ...

Sustainability and stunning interior architecture were key to several ACT projects being recognised at Australia’s most prestigious architecture awards in Melbourne tonight, the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards 2018. Synergy by BVN, which houses the CSIRO at Black Mountain, won a National Award for Sustainable Architecture for its naturally ventilated mixed mode scientific design ...

Up and coming practice leader Monique Woodward has been named the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 National Emerging Architect at the National Architecture Awards in Melbourne tonight. The Emerging Architect Prize, is Australia’s most prestigious prize awarded to future industry leaders and celebrates the work of an emerging architect making an exemplary contribution to architecture and ...

Plans to demolish award-winning Anzac Hall, as unveiled today by the Australian War Memorial, have been described as ‘deeply distressing’ by the Australian Institute of Architects. While fully supporting moves to honour and better tell the stories of Australia’s servicemen and women, National President Clare Cousins said the Institute was shocked at the lack of consultation ...

From the rugged Tasmanian coast to the soaring skyscrapers of Spring Street, the winners of this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have shown how a defined sense of place, commitment to sustainability and professional ingenuity continue to drive innovation and transformation in Australian architectural practice. The winners of 12 named awards, 20 national ...

As far as Australian architectural icons go, there is no building more symbolic of our nation than the Sydney Opera House, a work of art that captures the imagination of people the world over. On its 45th anniversary, the Australian Institute of Architects celebrates this magnificent feat of architecture, the tremendous role it has played in ...

  The refusal of many banks to approve construction loans for architect-administered contracts is anti-competitive and is imposing costs on consumers and small business, according to a submission to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. The joint submission by the Australian Institute of Architects (the Institute), ArchiTeam Cooperative and the ...

The Australian Institute of Architects has voiced its support for Sydney Opera House chief executive Louise Herron in upholding the policy of her organisation and opposing the use of the sails of the World Heritage listed Opera House in a manner contrary to that policy. ‘The management of the Opera House has a duty to the ...

   A cellar door built for a boutique winery in Orange, Montoro Wines, has taken out the top prize at this year’s prestigious Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Country Division Awards, the James Barnet Award. Designed by Orange-based practice Source Architects, the building was conceived as a broad platform where inside and outside bleed ...

27 September 2018 The Australian Institute of Architects welcomes the Victorian Government’s foresight in bringing Build-to-Rent to the state, a move which will help provide additional quality and affordable housing to residents into the future. ‘Build-to-Rent is about choice and will ensure our housing supply grows in line with Victoria’s exponential population growth,’ said Amy Muir, Victorian ...

In celebration of World Architecture Day, voting will open on Monday 1 October for the annual People’s Choice Award as part of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 National Architecture Awards. The People’s Choice Award gives members of the public the opportunity to select their favourite house from the 15 residential projects on the national jury’s ...

The Australian Institute of Architects has thrown its support behind a new report that underscores the urgency to better plan and design for Australia’s future growth and help ensure prosperity, sustainability and liveability. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities Building Up and Moving Out report articulates the need for Australia’s cities ...

The shortlist for the coveted Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards has been released, chosen from 975 projects across 14 categories nationally and abroad. Following the Chapter Architecture Awards announcements earlier this year, 203 projects were deemed eligible for national judging, with a shortlist of 69 announced today. Jury chair and Immediate Past President Richard Kirk ...

On behalf of the Australian Institute of Architects, Acting National President Richard Kirk has offered sincere condolences to family, friends and colleagues of Life Fellow Kerry Hill AO following his passing on Sunday 26 August 2018. ‘The profession will be deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kerry Hill. Kerry was one of Australia’s most ...

Public safety and the Australian building industry’s global reputation for quality will be jeopardised if better measures for compliance with the National Construction Code are not adopted promptly by all states and territories. On Friday 10 August, federal, state and territory ministers met for the Building Ministers’ Forum (BMF) to discuss their collective response to the ...

Masterplanning, safe and sustainable design, and tighter building regulation are needed if Melbourne is to remain one of the world’s most liveable cities, according to the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. After seven years in the top spot, Melbourne this year dropped to number two in The Economist’s sought-after world’s most liveable city ...

The Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Gold Medallist, Alec Tzannes, commences his national architecture speaking tour in Darwin on 16 August, with a conversation around the nature of architecture and its often-underestimated benefits for Australian cities and towns. Tzannes will explore themes that influence contemporary design thinking and language, the way we work, and the role ...

  More than a year since the Grenfell Tower fire in London that claimed 72 lives, the peak body for the architectural profession is calling on Australia’s building ministers to finally implement consistent, nationwide changes to improve safety and better protect people from the threat posed by poor compliance with building regulations. The Australian Institute of Architects ...

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2018 International Chapter Architecture Awards at a special ceremony officiated by Australian High Commissioner to Singapore Bruce Gosper on Friday 20 July. The Awards recognise projects located beyond Australia’s borders by members of the Australian Institute of Architects. From a field of 17 entries, the ...

Several of the state’s up and coming practices have dominated the 2018 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. This year’s winners were announced at a ceremony at Westland Nurseries in Seven Mile Beach, with 21 awards and commendations handed out from a record 43 entries, featuring everything from public amenities and office fit-outs to new and adapted housing ...

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the prestigious NSW Architecture Awards, including the first ever recipient of the NSW Architecture Medallion for ‘best in show’. Winning projects demonstrate design excellence, innovative thinking and among them are highly sensitive responses to the past as well as new visions of how we can ...

Congratulations to all winners in the 2018 Chapter Architecture Awards. Named Award and Award winners will now go into the running to be shortlisted for the National Architecture Awards to be held in Melbourne in November. Learn more about the list of awarded projects via the media releases for each Chapter below:  ACT International NSW NT QLD SA  Tas Vic WA  

Optus Stadium has been presented the most esteemed accolade, the George Temple Poole Award, at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 WA Architecture Awards. Designed as a joint venture by HASSELL, COX and HKS, the Stadium has been recognised as a city-defining architectural icon, offering a fan’s first experience for Western Australian sport and entertainment events. “The ...

Victoria’s leading architects have been honoured by the 2018 Victorian Architecture Awards, with education and public architecture projects dominating in multiple categories demonstrating their significance to the public realm. Across 14 categories, a total of 66 awards were given including named awards, architecture awards and commendations from the 108 shortlisted projects. The awards were announced at ...

30 June 2018 Every year the Australian Institute of Architects’ SA Architecture Awards sees projects of all budgets and sizes – in 2018 the projects with some of the most modest budgets, smallest footprints or most challenging parameters are architects’ own homes and workplaces. Even more impressive is that each of these entries have received commendations or ...

The Australian Federal Police’s leading-edge Forensics and Data Centre designed by HASSELL was awarded the ACT’s Territory’s top architectural architecture award at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 ACT Architecture Awards tonight. HASSELL was presented the prestigious Canberra Medallion by the Minister for Planning and Land Management, Mick Gentleman for the AFP facility. This project also ...

The Northern Territory’s best architecture has been celebrated at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 NT Architecture Awards held on Friday 22 June in Darwin. Named Award and Award winners now progress to the National Architecture Awards to be announced in Melbourne on Thursday 1 November.   Full list of winners: Commercial Architecture The Peter Dermoudy Award – Zuccoli Plaza ...

Communities need schools, health care and transport – but what about housing? The Australian Institute of Architects is pleased to see yesterday’s budget announcement includes spending on built infrastructure for health and education, as well as an undertaking to engage community on small projects, but asks ‘what about the housing for the people of NSW to ...

The winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ Queensland State Architecture Awards have been announced at the annual Awards night on Friday 8 June. Following an extensive Regional Architecture Awards program, 174 entries have been judged with 78 unique projects shortlisted for the state honours, some in multiple categories. The highlight from this year’s judging was the ...

Leaders of the profession, from esteemed practitioners to architectural students, have been honoured with the awarding of six national prizes from the Australian Institute of Architects, announced at the profession’s largest gathering, the 2018 National Architecture Conference. The highest honour, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, was awarded to Sydney practitioner Emeritus Professor Alec Tzannes ...

Sydney practitioner and Emeritus Professor Alec Tzannes AM LFRAIA has today been awarded Australian architecture’s highest honour, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal. Awarded since 1960, the Gold Medal recognises distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, produced work of great distinction resulting in the advancement of architecture or ...

This year’s juries for the 2018 NSW Architecture Awards have revealed their shortlist of 92 entries. The shortlist was developed following an intensive schedule of presentations followed by site visits to consider 206 entries received across 10 categories, with a notable increase in entries in the Residential and Interior Architecture categories. The winners in each category ...

Australia’s contribution to the world’s most influential collection of architecture and contemporary art has been revealed in Italy today at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Over 200 leading names in architecture and design gathered at the official opening of the Australian Pavilion to take in a tour of vast greenery and light before it opens to ...

  Victorian architect Clare Cousins was today inaugurated as the 79th National President of the Australian Institute of Architects at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Melbourne. As the Institute increases its advocacy activity in line with our new strategic plan, Cousins will continue to champion key Institute policies including affordable housing and sustainability. ‘I am passionate about ...

From a field of 174 entries, the jury for the Australian Institute of Architects’ Queensland Architecture Awards have shortlisted 76 entries from across the state. The Awards have been running for over 30 years and provide architects, their clients and the built environment community an opportunity to celebrate exemplary design across all scales. Forming part of the ...

9 May 2018 Last night’s Federal Budget included a mixed bag of initiatives with personal tax cuts, infrastructure investment and support for older Australians the biggest ticket items. Unlike last year when housing affordability formed the centrepiece, specific housing measures remained on the fringes this time around but still included some notable developments, said Australian Institute of ...

  Executive Director ACT and National Policy Advisor Leanne Hardwicke joined 260 representatives from peak bodies around Australia for the Federal Budget lockup on Tues May 8. Read the full bespoke budget de-brief for Institute members below.  Our media release is available to view here.   The Economy The Budget forecasts that global growth continues to improve, with widespread growth ...

The University of Newcastle’s NeW Space building in the epicentre of Newcastle has emerged with a swathe of honours from the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Newcastle Architecture Awards. The result of a successful collaboration between Melbourne practice Lyons and locally-based EJE Architecture, the building was recognised not only with the most prestigious award presented, the ...

More projects than ever before are competing for honours in this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards with the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter today revealing the list of 268 entries. Victorian Chapter President Amy Muir said the Institute was delighted at the strong response to the awards program which is without par in Australia. ‘We have received ...

The NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners in its revamped 2018 NSW Student Architecture Awards, recognising the best student work completed in the last year from the four accredited schools of architecture in NSW. Seven students from the universities of Newcastle, Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney received medals ...

The Australian Institute of Architects’ Dulux Study Tour winners have been announced this morning in Melbourne. The five winners from around Australia will embark on a 10-day tour of Europe and the United Kingdom in May this year visiting the cities of London, Berlin and Milan. Kim Bridgland (Edition Office, Victoria), Leah Gallagher (Kin Architects, Queensland), ...

The Australian Institute of Architects strongly supports the Victorian Government’s decision to call in Permit applications on 26 projects as a necessary step to ensure a crucial part of the city’s planning best serves community outcomes. Incoming Victorian Chapter President Amy Muir said the Government had made the right decision for the long-term sustainable development of ...

January 2018 Words: Vanessa Bird – Victorian Chapter President, Australian Institute of Architects The lack of due process in the Victorian Government’s decision to allow the demolition of the Yarra Building in Federation Square to make way for a new Apple flagship store doesn’t represent a best practice approach. A broader analysis of all the cultural and ...

The Australian Institute of Architects says there has been a lack of due process in the Victorian Government’s decision to allow the demolition of the Yarra Building in Federation Square and its replacement with a new Apple Flagship Store. Victorian Chapter President Vanessa Bird said the decision has caused great concern within the architectural profession and ...

The Australian Institute of Architects welcomes the Victorian Cladding Taskforce’s interim report and unreservedly supports the finding that: ‘The problem of widespread non-compliant cladding can be attributed to three factors: the supply and marketing of inappropriate building materials, a poor culture of compliance in the industry, and the failure of the regulatory system to deal ...

24 November 2017 The founding Architects Male Champions of Change group has today released its first progress report detailing the learnings and actions completed since its establishment and mapping out commitments for 2018 to improve gender equity in the profession.   Established in March 2015 by the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects, it is one ...

The Australian Institute of Architects has questioned the recent announcement by the NSW Government to demolish the Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park and the Olympic Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park to make way for new stadiums with similar spectator capacities. ‘The Sydney Football Stadium is barely 30 years old, while the Olympic Stadium is less ...

From the Pilbara to Darwin, the Daintree and a remote bay on Tasmania’s Bruny Island, the winners of this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards show that some of the most exceptional architectural contributions are coming increasingly from our regions. A greater number of emerging practices also featured among the 44 projects earning a ...

In celebration of World Architecture Day on Monday 2 October, voting has opened for the annual People’s Choice Award as part of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 National Architecture Awards. The People’s Choice Award gives members of the public the opportunity to select their favourite house from the 15 residential projects on the national jury’s ...

September 15, 2017 The competition for recognition as the best in Australian architecture has reached its most fierce with a record 983 entries being received across 14 categories in this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards, the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Following the Chapter Architecture Awards presentations earlier in the year, ...

  6 Sep, 2017 The Australian Institute of Architects fully supports all of the recommendations put forward by the Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into non-conforming building products in their interim report on aluminium composite cladding tabled today. National President Richard Kirk said the Institute shares the Committee’s view that the use of non-conforming and non-compliant building products ...

Message from the National President As specialist, highly-qualified, registered professionals, architects have specific obligations and duties when it comes to product specification and use in the built environment. Beyond the regulations imposed by government, the Institute’s members are also bound by a code of ethics, and by a duty to constantly improve our practices. This commitment ...

An Australian grassland will be brought to life inside the Australian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2018 with the successful proposal announced at events in Sydney and Melbourne tonight. Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, repair by Baracco+Wright Architects collaborating with artist Linda Tegg will see thousands of temperate grassland ...

The Australian Institute of Architects has welcomed the launch of the design policy Better Placed by NSW Planning Minister Anthony Roberts this morning. ‘New South Wales needs to continue to become a better place to live in’, the Institute’s NSW Chapter President Andrew Nimmo said today. ‘The new policy will help to deliver a higher quality of ...

The increasing presence of non-conforming products and materials is a matter of concern to the Institute and dealing with it requires a multi-faceted approach, with public safety coming first and foremost. The Institute has made a submission to the Senate Economics Reference Committee inquiry, outlining the important role that architects can play in mitigating risk in ...

The Australian Institute of Architects Foundation is delighted to welcome talented German architect Martin Ostermann as the next Droga Architect in Residence. Ostermann will be joined on the residency by designer Lena Kleinheinz, co -founder and director of their Berlin-based practice, Magma Architecture. Magma Architecture have earned international recognition for their innovative and award-winning designs, including ...

Winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 International Chapter Architecture Awards were announced in Singapore on Friday 14 July at a special ceremony attended by Australia’s High Commissioner to Singapore, His Excellency Bruce Gosper.   Full list of winners:   Commercial Architecture   Award – Amanemu by Kerry Hill Architects Amanemu by Kerry Hill Architects. Photo: Nacasa & Partners   Commendation – Oasia ...

With the need for 190,000 new dwellings in the next four years according to the Greater Sydney Commission, access to quality, affordable housing options could not be more important. It comes as no surprise that residential categories figured strongly in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 NSW Architecture Awards, announced at Luna Park on Saturday ...

The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects is pleased to congratulate the winners of the 2017 Victorian Architecture Awards, announced tonight (Friday 30 June 2017). Juries noted that ‘creating places for people’ was evident in all categories, showcasing architects’ ability to contribute to both the development of community and the public realm in a ...

From the small-scale residential renovation through to the large-scale public building, projects of all sizes that enrich our environments have been honoured at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 ACT Architecture Awards in Canberra on Saturday night. The ACT’s highest architecture honour, the Canberra Medallion, went to Constitution Avenue by NCA, JILA, Hill Thalis, SMEC and ...

The 2017 Tasmanian Architecture Awards winners have been announced at St David’s Cathedral. The work of twelve practices has been recognised from a field of 28 entries – a record number. This year’s entries ranged from innovative new homes to airports, bars, a child care centre and even a toilet block. Core Collective Architects took home ...

Willetton Senior High School has been bestowed with the highest accolade, the George Temple Poole Award, at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 WA Architecture Awards. Celebrating excellence in design and construction, the Awards were held on Friday, June 23, at Crown Towers II Ballroom. Designed by HASSELL, the High School has been commended on its ...

For the first time in Australia, The Pool: Architecture, Culture and Identity, Australia’s exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale, will be on display for local audiences in a special exhibit at NGV Australia in Melbourne. Beginning in August, the immersive exhibition will explore public space as a vital component to society using one of Australia’s greatest ...

A ‘much loved community facility’ and a home nestled deep in the Daintree are among winners in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 Queensland State Architecture Awards announced in Brisbane on Friday 23 June. The Sunshine Coast University Hospital, by Architectus Brisbane and HDR Rice Daubney as Sunshine Coast Architects, was lauded by the jury as ...

21 June The Australian Institute of Architects has welcomed reports today of support in the Coalition Party Room for the majority of recommendations made in the recently released Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market. National President, Richard Kirk, praised Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel and the panel for delivering a deeply considered ...

Congratulations to all the winners of the recently announced Chapter Architecture Awards. Check out the full list of winners for each Chapter below. Projects that receive Named Awards and Awards in their respective Chapter Architecture Awards programs will go into the running for honours at the National Architecture Awards to be presented in Canberra on ...

16 June, 2017 The Northern Territory’s best architecture has been celebrated at the 2017 NT Architecture Awards held on Friday 16 June in Darwin. Bullocky Point Education Precinct by MODE was the most awarded project of the night being lauded by the jury as a building that ‘is most assuredly a work of the Northern Territory’ and ...

10 June 2017 Wineries have made a big splash at the 2017 South Australian Architecture Awards held at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday 10 June. Penfolds Magill Estate by Denton Corker Marshall took out two Named Awards, the Keith Neighbour Award for Commercial Architecture and the Robert Dickson Award for Interior Architecture. Petaluma Cellar Door by Grieve ...

FRIDAY 2 JUNE The Australian Institute of Architects supports calls to strengthen the decision-making power of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. National President, Richard Kirk, said National Reconciliation Week provides an opportunity for all Australians to consider how we can close the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians and be ...

TUESDAY 9 MAY The Australian Institute of Architects wholeheartedly welcomes the Commonwealth Government’s housing affordability package released in tonight’s Federal Budget. National President Ken Maher said the Treasurer had been bold in his approach to tackling what is becoming an increasingly serious issue for Australians, but lamented the missed opportunity for the Government to notch up some ...

Federal Budget Briefing 9 May 2017 Executive Director ACT and National Policy Advisor Leanne Hardwicke last night joined 260 representatives from peak bodies around Australia for the Federal Budget lockup. Housing policy was the centrepiece with a wide-ranging package announced. Read the full bespoke budget de-brief prepared for Institute members here.   The Economy • The Budget forecasts that ...

6 May 2017 The profound contribution of Australia’s foremost architects and architectural students has been honoured with the awarding of prestigious national prizes from the Australian Institute of Architects at the National Architecture Conference at Sydney’s International Convention Centre today. The highest honour, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, was awarded to Peter Elliott AM recognising ...

6 May 2017 Described by his peers as ‘an architect of great distinction who has possibly affected more lives and contributed more to his city than most could dream of’, Peter Elliott AM has today been awarded Australian architecture’s highest honour, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal. Over a career spanning more than four decades, ...

SPEECH NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE:PRAXIS SYDNEY 5 MAY 2017 Jennifer Cunich Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Architects Good morning, I wanted to speak with you today about the changing face of your institute and your place in it. I am privileged to be the CEO of the Institute. It is a complex organisation with many sub-groupings, and to say that ...

With Australia’s population projected to almost double in the next 40 years, planning and shaping our cities so they remain liveable in the face of this growth is a priority.

The Australian Institute of Architects Foundation is delighted to welcome distinguished architect Dr Alberto Pérez-Gómez to Australia as part of the 2017 Droga Residency Program. Dr Pérez-Gómez holds the position of Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture, Founding Director of the post-professional MArch and PhD, History and Theory of Architecture Option, School ...

Eight projects are in the running for honours in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 Far North Queensland Regional Architecture Awards with results to be announced on Friday 12 May.

They are the women and men who design our cities, buildings and public spaces, shaping the built environment in which we live and work, and act out our daily lives. Architects can be powerful agents of change and from 4 to 6 May they will be converging on Sydney for the annual National Architecture Conference.

On 22 March, the Institute hosted a housing affordability briefing at Parliament House in Canberra to examine the issues of density, design and the challenges ahead. The Institute’s National Councillors and Executives joined more than fifty Members of Parliament, Senators and their Staff including Assistant Minister to the Treasurer, the Hon Michael Sukkar MP as ...

With submissions to the Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market closing last Friday, the Australian Institute of Architects is calling for governments to focus on the demand side of the energy equation, particularly in the built environment sector, as a more immediate and effective pathway to alleviate the current challenges ...

The Coomera Sports and Leisure Centre by BDA Architecture with Peddle Thorp Architects (Melbourne) has taken out the Building of the Year Award in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 Gold Coast/Northern Rivers Regional Architecture Awards. In awarding the project the jury noted that it ‘balances the functional requirements of the Commonwealth Games while leaving ...

Five outstanding emerging architects have been chosen from a competitive field of 117 entrants to participate in the Australian Institute of Architects’ tenth annual Dulux Study Tour. The winners will embark on a ten-day tour of Europe in May featuring destinations such as Barcelona, London and Prague. The jury, chaired by National President Prof Ken Maher, ...

Queensland architect Catherine Baudet has tonight been awarded the inaugural Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize for her outstanding support for women in the architectural profession spanning more than 30 years. Immediate Past President and Jury Chair, Jon Clements, said Catherine has played a pivotal role in bringing about the substantial progress now being ...