2014 Far North Queensland Regional Architecture Awards Results
Major Awards:
Eddie Oribin Award for Building of the Year
JCU Dental – Phillips Smith Conwell Architects
House of the Year
Stamp – Charles Wright Architects
Regional Project of the Year
Malanda Falls Visitor Centre – Charles Wright Architect
Enduring Architecture Prize
Mareeba Uniting Church – Eddie Oribin
People’s Choice Award
Mareeba Mazda & Mitsubishi – Clarke & Prince Architects
Regional Commendations:
- JCU Dental – Phillips Smith Conwell Architects
- Charles Wright Architects
- Malanda Falls Visitor Centre – Charles Wright Architect
- The Cairns Institute – Woods Bagot in collaboration with RPA Architects
- Clare Street Townhouse – Studio Mango
- William McCormack Place 2 – CA Architects & Cox Rayner Architects
- Mareeba Uniting Church – Eddie Oribin
Jury Citations:
Toowoomba Grammar School Cricket Pavilion Additions
(PDT Architects) The cricket pavilion is a much valued addition to the community spaces of the Toowoomba Grammar school. Carefully sited, the pavilion respects the current built form of the school and provides a great outlook over the cricket oval and the Toowoomba suburbs.
Bayview Pavilion
(John Petrie Architect) With a limited budget and a brief for a generous floor area, the architect has delivered a comfortable and unpretentious family home. This lightweight building uses the core principles of good tropical design and sits unashamedly proud and upright alongside the low set block box suburban vernacular of Cairns.
Multi – Purpose Hall
(Total Project Group) This economical portal frame structure taking cues from existing buildings sits well within St Rita’s School campus. The hall achieves great value for money as it provides amenity beyond the client brief in creating a multi-purpose facility for the school and wider community.
JCU Dental
(Phillips Smith Conwell Architects) JCU Dental flips the typical clinical arrangement by putting a positive experience for the client first and foremost. The spaces focus on the lush landscape through well placed and expansive shaded glazing. An interior palette uses a Fan Palm motif that creates wayfinding and visual interest for patients. This building sets a benchmark for this building type in the tropical regions.
The Cairns Institute
(Woods Bagot in collaboration with RPA Architects) This building is a result of the design competition for the university to create a memorable building as a symbol of its new direction. It takes an adventurous approach in plan, form and building fabric in responding to the local landscape and its important place in the developing campus master plan.
Clare Street Townhouse
(Studio Mango) Well-crafted and maximizing the use of a very small site, this compact upside down townhouse is an excellent alternative for densification and assists in maintaining the identity of a Cairns character suburb.
William McCormack Place
(CA Architects & Cox Rayner Architects) This is a well-considered response to a brief for flexible, sustainable office space in the Tropics. A move to combine the large open foyer with a meeting hub creates efficiency and invites the public into its cool depth. Passive Design couples with efficient, active energy and cooling systems to provide comfortable pleasant working environments.
AFL House
(S Gleeson Architects) This collection of buildings provides unique facility for housing young indigenous students while undertaking schooling away from home. The spaces and form provides an uplifting yet familiar environment for the students whilst helping to inspire them in their endeavours.
Mareeba Mazda & Mitsubishi
(Clarke & Prince Architects) Mareeba Mazda and Mitsubishi is a well-executed example of adaptive reuse of an existing building, transforming a derelict former bakery into attractive and highly functional commercial premises. The increased commercial success that this project has helped deliver to the business, stands testament to the thorough and effective contribution by the architects throughout the project.
Malanda Visitors Centre
(Charles Wright Architects) The simple and strong idea of directly linking the building to country has generated a unique form that is fitting for its role as a tourist catcher and a symbol of the Malanda landscape. The approach has helped such a building be realized from a challenging brief and delivery process.
Stamp House
(Charles Wright Architects) This house is an extraordinary response to a very personal and adventurous brief for a new type of tropical house in a remnant paddock in the rainforest. The concrete fabric chosen for permanence, robustness and thermal mass is placed on a man-made lake and shaped and patterned around its quirky personal spaces to somehow make its other worldly presence take its place in the world’s oldest and most pristine landscape.
Mareeba Uniting Church
(Eddie Oribin) This church is an exquisitely conceived and executed building that has a sense of completeness from its external brick and timber fabric to its bespoke furniture and religious elements. The building has a sense of enduring quality – and has endured – due to the skillful use of beautiful materials and details that are used sparingly yet are absolutely suited to their purpose.
