2015 Sunshine Coast Regional Architecture Awards Results

Major Awards

Gabriel Poole Award for Building of the Year
HOUSE IN NOOSA– MORQ


Regional Project of the Year
Lake Weyba Duplex – Robinson Architects

Regional Commendations

  • Ridgeway at Sunrise – Push

  • Lake Weyba Duplex – Robinson Architects

  • Bells Reach Sales/Vision Centre and Café – Sparks Architects

  • Noosa Flexible Learning Centre – Fulton Trotter Architects

  • The University of the Sunshine Coast Collaborative Futures Building – HASSELL

  • Noosa House – John Burgess Architects

  • HOUSE IN NOOSA – MORQ

Jury Citations


Ridgeway at Sunrise
(Push) This addition creates a new central covered outdoor living room that is protected from the elements while still maintaining a visual connection to the street.  The house has a lovely relaxed sensibility and immediately feels like a classic beach house.


Lake Weyba Duplex
(Robinson Architects) Lake Weyba Duplex presents a successful solution to what can be a challenging building type. The design utilises its corner site to provide two residences that enjoy a feeling of separation and privacy.  The spaces within the building are characterized by natural light, ventilation and a strong connection to the outside.  Externally a refined palette of materials presents an attractive and engaging building to the street.


Bells Reach Sales/Vision Centre and Cafe
(Sparks Architects) Bells Reach Sales/Vision Centre and Café is a prefabricated modular building that exhibits a high degree of resolution with regard to constructability, planning and detail and represents a departure from a known typology of the standard sales centre. Elements such as the translucent fabric roof, the quality well considered finishes and external screening treatments contribute to an overall sense of joy and delight.


Kingaroy State High School Flying Start Project
(Biscoe Wilson Architects) In their proposition for a new year 7 classroom building at Kingaroy state high school Biscoe Wilson architects explored creative alternatives to the prescribed double loaded corridor plan. Their ‘c’ shaped plan arrangement provided improved classroom orientation and natural ventilation culminating in a common use courtyard full of both opportunity and refuge.


St Stephen’s Hospital
(Conrad Gargett) This building has been designed around a series of key orienting axis that aid the users to navigate their journey through the building.  The use of comforting materials internally and the inclusion of natural light, give the interiors a feeling of warmth and security.  The exterior of the building has been designed to sit easily within the surrounding residential neighbourhood.


M2 House
(Biscoe Wilson Architects) Located on an elevated and constrained site at Sunshine Beach and successfully balanced the conflicting requirements of sensational south and eastern views and climatic orientation. The final design developed from the constraints of building on the existing house footings and the needs of the brief to create a beachside escape for an extended family.


Noosa Flexible Learning Centre
(Fulton Trotter Architects) This building offers to  disadvantaged secondary students a learning environment distinctly informal and non-institutional. A loose sequence of buildings strung together by a raised timber platform weaving through a pre-existing natural landscape offers a natural alternative to prescribed hierarchical learning.


Resources Building  University of the Sunshine Coast
(Deicke Richards) Located on the prominent corner site of the USC represents a gesture by the university to engage and interface with the future Sippy Downs town centre. It provides a marker for one of the universities key entry points and purposefully addresses both street frontages creating a legible pragmatic entry and floor plan.


The University of the Sunshine Coast Collaborative Futures Building
(HASSELL) This building is a vibrant new campus building which promotes social engagement and Student activation in a learning landscape. It progresses multiple concepts previously developed in earlier outstanding projects at the university and through early workshopping and challenged and developed new concepts and opportunities and has resulted in a popular and elegant structure.


Moffat Beach House
(Sprout Architects) Located on a prominent corner headland site is a well-crafted holiday home for an extended family. The vertical planning approach over three levels addressed site gradient and successfully distributes the building programme. A central void space over the living room provides visual connectivity within the building and to the magnificent coastal views beyond.


Noosa House
(John Burgess Architects) Located above the high dunes fronting Sunshine beach this substantial residence captures the expanse of the north, eastern and southern views along the coast whilst providing a discreet but sleek street frontage. The simple plan “H” shaped plan provides clarity to the flow between spaces providing views to and from various parts of the home across the private central courtyard and the simple but stylish finishes compliment the sense of luxury.


House in Noosa
(MORQ) A sublime response to site and place, this cliff side house overlooking Laguna bay weaves its way narrowly between protected mature vegetation.

Materiality, detail and execution poetically fuse the house to site becoming at one with it.

Internally the spatial experience is one of serenity, calm and delightful restraint.