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2013 NSW
ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
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ARCHITECTURE
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President’s message
I am pleased to take over the
Presidential reins from Matthew
Pullinger, who achieved so much during
his two-year term as President. He
started with a clear goal advocating for
design quality in the built environment.
The Chapter reflected this mission
at every opportunity, particularly in
repeated submissions to the Planning
System Review and in meetings with
the Planning Minister. He has much to
be proud of. I only hope that in my two
years at the helm I can build on his work
and be as productive.
As usual this year’s awards program
gives us all good reason to be proud of
our profession and our commitment
to design quality, despite a wobbly
economic environment and a flat
development market. This is our most
important celebration of the culture of
design in NSW. The multiple jury system
continues to work well, improving the
quality and rigour of deliberations,
as well as entailing a more realistic
workload for the participating jurors
than the previous single jury system.
This year 72 projects were visited
around the state, representing 42 per
cent of all the projects entered.
For the 2013 NSW Architecture Awards
ceremony, we are pleased to stage this
in a significant building – the Jones Bay
Wharf – that is part of the city’s built
and maritime heritage, over the harbour
from last year’s venue at Luna Park.
There are two particularly important
innovations in this year’s awards. One
is the splitting of the heritage category
to recognise the complementary
but different skills required for the
conservation and creative adaptation
of important buildings. The other is the
inaugural City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s
Prize to recognise the contribution of
architects to the public realm in the city.
The City has become an exemplary
client for our members; this is reflected
in the number of awards won by the
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council’s architectural projects during
Clover Moore’s term as Lord Mayor.
We welcome this new prize, instigated
by Matthew, which reinforces the
commitment of the City and the
Institute to both design quality and to
the importance of the public domain in
a civilised and lively city.
I am finalising arrangements with the
City for the introduction of a two-stage
streamlined procurement process
that will mean architects are not overburdened with unnecessarily onerous
tendering procedures. Another initiative
we are pursuing with the City is the
digitising of the Institute’s extensive
archive of information about key
architects and their Sydney buildings
which will help to make architectural
information more accessible to the
profession and the public. This is the
first step in the development of our
Patrons program. A new program
which will bring together and fund all
the Chapter’s cultural and research
activities.
Planning reform
I attended the Minister’s launch of the
NSW Government planning White
Paper and draft bills in April and was MC
for the forum the Institute presented to
members a few weeks later.
There is much that is good about
the new planning system: the focus
on strategic planning involving the
community; the hierarchy of plans
from state to local level. But there is
also much else that needs to be more
clearly articulated, particularly how
heritage listing and management will
work and the apparent absence of a
clear overarching commitment to
design quality. The Built Environment
Committee and I will be taking up these
and other issues with the Department
as well as making a submission in
the normal way. As well as this, the
Built Environment Committee is also
preparing the Institute’s submission on
the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy.
Public domain
Members may have noted the media’s
renewed interest in the Institute’s
views following my comments on the
latest development in the Barangaroo
saga a few weeks ago. Our consistent
position on this and other contentious
development proposals is to focus
on proper planning processes and
particularly the definition and defence
of the public domain. Governments
must maintain and defend the public
interest on public land.
Curated publications
It is important that the Institute
continues to articulate and advocate
its position on other issues of
importance to our profession, the
built environment and community.
I propose to do this through a series
of curated publications, the initial
edition of which is titled ‘More with
Less’ – showcasing the creative work of
architects in small residential projects
with limited budgets. These will be
short, snappy idea pieces that we will
upload to the website, distribute to the
public at Architecture on Show events,
as well as to local government and the
media.
Country and Newcastle
I recently attended the Country
Division seminar in Kiama and the
Newcastle Division Awards. I am keen
to forge better connections between
the Country and Newcastle divisions
and the Chapter.
This is already proving to be a very busy
first year. I look forward to working with
you in the months ahead.
Joe Agius
NSW Chapter President
Message from BlueScope Steel
Principal Corporate Partner
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with great pleasure that we continue
to support excellence in Australian
architecture through the 2013
Australian Institute of Architects
Awards program.
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Congratulations to all architects who
have entered into the Institute’s Awards
programs throughout the year, and
especially to those who have had their
work recognised as award winners.
BlueScope Steel is proud to be able to
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magnificent programs again this year.
John Rosette
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efficient building design; cool roofing;
Green Star; LCA; Chain of Custody;
ABW; durability; risk minimisation; and
lifetime cost of ownership.
I look forward to continuing to
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Danielle James
Business Development Manager
NSW/ACT (C&I)
BlueScope Steel
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Jurors
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Commercial and
Interior Architecture
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Jury Chair
Paul van Ratingen
Johnson Pilton Walker
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Tina Engelen
CO-AP (Architects)
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Guy Lake
Bates Smart
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Peter Mould
Emeritus Government
Architect
Public Architecture and
Urban Design
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Jury Chair
Helen Lochhead
Sydney Harbour Foreshore
Authority (SHFA)
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Bertram Beissel
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
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Dale Jones-Evans
Dale Jones-Evans
Architecture
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Chris Procter
Principal Architect, Places
Victoria/Director, Project
Architecture
Residential Architecture
- Houses
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Jury Chair
Sam Crawford
Sam Crawford Architects
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Fenella Kernebone
ABC Broadcaster
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Heidi Pronk
Mackenzie Pronk Architects
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Adam Russell
DRAW
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Residential Architecture –
Multiple Housing
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Jury Chair
Adam Haddow
SJB Architects
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Stephanie Smith
Innovarchi
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Marcus Trimble
Bennett & Trimble
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Josephine Wing
NSW Department of
Planning and Infrastructure
Small Project and
Heritage Architecture
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Jury Chair
Darlene van der Breggen
NSW Government
Architects Office
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Matthew Chan
Scale Architecture
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Ian Kelly
Heritage expert and
former Heritage Manager,
Authority
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Eva-Marie Prineas
Architect Prineas
Enduring Architecture
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Jury Chair
Adam Haddow
SJB Architects
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Paul van Ratingen
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Helen Lochhead
Authority (SHFA)
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Sam Crawford
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NSW Government
Architect’s Office
Sustainability expert
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Matthew Jessup
Flux Consultants
Blacket Prize
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Jury Chair
Adam Haddow
SJB Architects
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Sarah Aldridge
NSW Country Division
Committee Chair
1
Paul van Ratingen
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Helen Lochhead
Authority (SHFA)
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Sam Crawford
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NSW Government
Architect’s Office
2013 Emerging Architect
Prize
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Jury Chair
Joe Agius
Cox Richardson/ NSW
Chapter President
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Penny Fuller
Silvester Fuller/2012
Emerging Architect Prize
recipient
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Joseph Loh
SJB Architects/DARCH
Committee Chair
Marion Mahony Griffin
Prize
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Jury Chair
Emili Fox
Fox Johnston/ NSW Chapter
Councillor
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Julie Cracknell
Cracknell & Lonergan
Architects/2012 Marion
Mahony Griffin Prize
recipient
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Louise Nettleton
Louise Nettleton Architects/
NSW Chapter Councillor
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Rod Simpson
University of Sydney
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Noni Boyd
NSW Chapter Heritage
Officer
Public Architecture 6
Urban Design 9
Commercial Architecture 12
Interior Architecture 14
Sustainable Architecture 18
Residential Architecture – Houses and Alterations & Additions
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Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing 28
Small Project Architecture 33
Heritage – Conservation and Creative Adaptation
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Adrian Ashton Prize for
Writing and Criticism
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Jury Chair
Shaun Carter
Carterwilliamson
Architects/ NSW Chapter
Editorial Committee Chair/
NSW Chapter Councillor
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Fenella Kernebone
ABC Broadcaster
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David Neustein
Other Architects/
2012 Adrian Ashton Prize
recipient
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Joe Agius
Cox Richardson/ NSW
Chapter President
Award for Enduring Architecture 41
Colorbond® Award for Steel Architecture 43
Blacket Prize 45
NSW Premier’s Prize 46
City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize
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NSW President’s Prize 48
Emerging Architect Prize 48
Marion Mahony Griffin Prize 49
Adrian Ashton Prize for Writing and Criticism
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David Lindner Prize
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2013 NSW Graduate and Student Awards 52
2013 NSW Architecture Award Entries 56
2013 NSW Architecture Award Winners
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David Lindner Prize
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Jury Chair
Robyn Lindner
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Rod Simpson
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Joe Agius
Cox Richardson/NSW
Chapter President
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Joseph Loh
SJB Architects/DARCH
Committee Chair
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Public Architecture
Sulman Medal
Photography: Richard Glover
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre
Collins and Turner with City of Sydney
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PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Penny Collins Project Architect
Huw Turner
Design Architect
Sam Carroll
Project Manager
Lucy Humphrey
Markus Bruenjes
Chris Thomas
Manager of Design
Narelle Naumcevski
Design Manager
Marcia Morley
Design Manager
Consultant Team:
ARUP Structural Consultant
Steensen Varming Electrical Consultant
Whipps Wood Hydraulic Consultant
Terragram Landscape Consultant
Steensen Varming Lighting Consultant
Team Catalyst Environmental Consultant
Jury citation
The new Waterloo Youth Family
Community Centre is the home
of WEAVE (Working to Educate,
Advocate, Voice and Empower), a
grassroots association supporting
the neighbourhood’s children and
adolescents since 1976. WEAVE’s
staff initially operated out of the boot
of a car, then from a public toilet
block on the site, before the City of
Sydney commissioned this iconic
and welcoming counselling facility.
The slab and walls of the original
amenities block remain in Collins
and Turner’s design of the new
centre. Four concrete corner bays
were added to support an accessible
green roof, and a central courtyard
was incised providing sunlight,
natural ventilation and space to
gather for an open-air meeting.
The building is sheathed and
crowned by a star-shaped steel
trellis structure overgrown with
vines that provides both shade and
protection against vandalism. The
roof terrace more than doubles the
usable area and can be accessed
as a flexible alternative setting for
activities.
Over time, as the climbing plants
shroud the steel structure, its
appearance of a tree crown will
keep growing stronger and wilder to
finally merge with the surrounding
landscaped beams that envelop the
base of the edifice. This growing
process invites a relationship in
which the building and its inhabitants
become a part of the land.
exemplary convergence of public
leadership, community initiative
and design talent. Collins and
Turner have expanded the design
brief into a masterful pictorial
narrative about protection, intimacy
and belonging. WEAVE’S new home
is a humble but resounding victory
achieved with commitment and
imagination.
Wilde and Wollard Cost Consultant
Construction Team:
Projectcorp Australia Builder
Established 1932
The Sulman Medal was
named for the English-trained
architect John Sulman who
had been working in NSW
since the 188Os. Sulman was
a passionate advocate of town
planning and the Medal, which
commemorates his work, was
initially awarded to a building
of exceptional merit that
contributed to the streetscape.
The Jury has selected the Waterloo
Youth Family Community Centre
for the Sulman Medal as an
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Public Architecture
Commendation
Photography: Brett Boardman
Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment
Architect Marshall in association with the
Government Architect’s Office
Jury citation
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Redevelopment at Circular Quay
represents much of what is valuable
in public architecture, namely the
making of our public realm and a
framework for public life.
The new wing and the refurbished
existing building have changed our
experience of West Circular Quay
and George Street. At last we see the
waters of Sydney Cove from George
Street through a lobby animated with
retail, a new gallery and circulation for
the new wing. The foyer negotiates
the challenging level change and adds
a new pedestrian passage through The
Rocks to a quayside art court.
The new wing, a play on the ‘white
box’ typical of museum syntax, is a
series of articulated boxes pushed and
pulled by the complexities of the brief
and the site: the underground colonial
docks, the neighbouring police
building and the original museum. It
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impressed the jury that prime space
in the new wing is given to public
and education functions rather than
revenue-generation. Access for
tenants and private revenue-raising
rooms is separate and less evident
than the welcoming public entrance.
These are special virtues of the MCA
that occur because the architect has
creatively engaged with the client to
create an open, inviting and accessible
building.
The jury debated the details of the
project and the relationship between
old and new, however there was
overall agreement that the ambition to
transform the MCA from an internally
focussed institution into one that
engages and enlivens the precinct
has been achieved through the drive
of the client and the deft hand of the
architect. The brief has been brought
to life while creating an iconographic
statement. The jury commends this
achievement.
Urban Design
Lloyd Rees Award
Photography: John Gollings
Darling Quarter
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease
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Urban Design
Lloyd Rees Award (cont.)
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
(fjmt)
Architect
ASPECT Studios
Landscape Architect
Lend Lease
Developer
Consultant Team:
E.G.O. Group; Davenport
Campbell
Interior Designer
Arup
Structural Engineer, ESD
consultant and Mechanical
Services Consultant
Aurecon
Electrical Services
Consultant
Warren Smith and Partners
Hydraulic Services
Consultant and Fire Services
Lend Lease
Quantity Surveyor
Defire
Fire Engineering
Speirs + Major, Lend Lease,
Ramus
Lighting Design
Jury citation
Darling Harbour is one of the most
popular public places in Australia.
The addition of Darling Quarter, a
major urban revitalisation project,
has done more to cement this in
the minds of visitors than any other
single project in recent times.
It has transformed the public
domain of Darling Harbour
through its seamless integration of
programming, architecture, urban
and landscape design in a way that
imbues it with a sense of quality and
permanence.
Darling Quarter is where the built
form at western edge of the city
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meets the open space of Tumbalong
Park. Creating a new address to the
city, the development is split at its
centre to open up a welcome street
level link from Darling Harbour to
the city centre. On the park side, the
curvilinear forms of the buildings
and adjoining promenade have
been prescribed by the park and the
natural pedestrian desire line to the
waterfront.
by a children’s theatre, and an
elevated terrace lined with cafes and
restaurants. The place is activated
day and night with lighting to the
playground and an interactive digital
media façade that enlivens the
space and creates an ever-changing
backdrop. It is a place for everyone –
for city workers at lunchtime and in
the evenings for families, the young
and old, visitors and locals.
The resultant public realm delivers
a series of defined public spaces,
including a new threshold and
pedestrian link from the city, a
generous promenade, parkland
and a dynamic playground. The
public realm is further activated
Recognising the role of government,
developer and the project team, the
jury has awarded Darling Quarter
the Lloyd Rees Award for setting a
new benchmark in intelligent place
making.
WATERFORMS
Water Features Designer
Robert Bird
Civil Engineer
Deuce Design
Interpretation/Wayfinding
Construction Team:
Lend Lease
Builder, Project Manager
Established 1979
This award for excellence in
the design of the public domain
commemorates the artist Lloyd
Rees. Rees, although not an
urban designer or architect,
was well known as he taught
drawing to many architecture
students in Sydney.
Urban Design
Architecture Award
Pitt Street Mall Public Domain Upgrade
Tony Caro Architecture
Jury citation
The Pitt Street Mall Public Domain
Upgrade is functional and yet poetic.
Through their simplicity, clarity and
understatement each element of the
project – the carpet of paving, the
bespoke furniture and hardware, the
placement of trees to shade seats
and intelligent lighting – combine to
equal more than the sum of the parts.
The paving is more than practical. A
former crest along the centre of the
Mall has been regraded to a trough
with a single centreline drain that
catches the water and echoes the
historic tank stream in its alignment
and detail. The seats are elegant in
form and detail. They are arranged to
accommodate incidental perching or
planned meetings and are carefully
placed out of the way of pedestrian
movement, while the fine catenaries
of lights above adjust to neighbouring
ambient light levels or special events.
The restrained aesthetic language is
designed to be elegant, robust and
timeless. It is a refreshing change
from the mall designs of the 80s.
Here, less is more and the result is
calm and smart.
It is smart because it enables the
rapid movement of people between
the retail clutter.
It is calm - some will look at this
work and award and ask ‘But what
has the designer done?’ because it
feels just right.
The jury felt that the subliminal
presence of the design works
perfectly for this frenzied
environment.
The jury awards and acknowledges
the project team and the committed
patronage of the City of Sydney to
ensure design excellence flourishes
in the city’s public domain.
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Commercial Architecture
Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Richard Francis-Jones
Design Director
Construction Team:
Lend Lease
Developer, Builder, Project
Manager
Jeff Morehen
Project Director
Established 1979
Johnathan Redman
Principal
Sean McPeake
Senior Associate
Adam Guernier
Peter Russell
Sahar Koohi
Martin Hallen
Stephen Pratt
Soenke Dethlefsen
David Haseler
Annis Lee
Karina Kerr
Simon Lee
Samuel Faigan
Gareth Morgan
Ian Brumby
Joey Cheng
Prudence Ho
Consultant Team:
ASPECT Studios
Landscape Architect
Campbell
Interior Designer
Arup
Consultant, Mechanical
Services Consultant
Aurecon
Electrical Services
Consultant
Hydraulic Services
Lend Lease
Quantity Surveyor
Defire
Fire Engineering
Darling Quarter
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)
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Named for one of the founding
partners of the firm of
Stephenson and Turner,
Sir Arthur G. Stephenson,
this award is given for the
design of an outstanding
commercial building.
Jury citation
Darling Quarter precinct represents
the potential for change in the
behaviour of how people work.
Design initiatives focus on the
occupants’ well-being and on
providing a connected and inspired
workplace that also incorporates the
broader public realm.
Purpose built for a major Australian
bank; this human scale, low rise,
6 Star Green Star Rated campusstyle office belies its vast 68,000
square metre building program. The
curved and stepped forms define
and embrace a new city park and
reconnect a revitalised south end of
Darling Harbour to the city.
Active building edges of retail, cafes,
bars and restaurants define and
overlook a major new children’s
playground, youth theatre, and a
community green with blankets and
deckchairs for locals, city workers
and tourists. This quality public
realm provides an extension to the
workplace and has enabled the
provision of a significantly reduced
building entry lobby which primarily
acts as a ‘security threshold’.
A central day lit atrium visually
integrates and connects the multifloor workplace through a series
of cantilevered stairs, bridges and
expressed glass lifts. The staggered
height of the east and west wings
creates a rooftop external terrace,
breaking the scale of the 10 storey
atrium to a comfortable proportion.
Internal automated timber slats
make a virtually clear glazed western
façade possible. With a clear and
open view into the office floors from
the public domain, it reinforces
an impression of ‘transparency
and openness’ that is promoted by
contemporary banking practice. In
the evening the façade transforms
into an interactive light display that
the public can control via smart
phones or on-site consoles.
In isolation this is a strong
commercial building; as an integral
part of this new precinct, it is
exceptional.
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John Verge Award
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre
BVN Donovan Hill
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PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
James Grose
Principal
Mark Greene
Project Director
Ian Goodbury
Laboratory and Medical
Jury citation
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre is a
building for research and medical
treatment that houses clinicians,
clinical researchers and biomedical
scientists. The design ambition
was to engender collaboration
between these groups to encourage
social interaction and information
exchange.
The design logic is clear with the
main functions stacked vertically and
the location of service cores to each
end of the building as the primary
organising principle. The southern
core provides discrete servicing for
laboratories, while the more relaxed
and public northern core has been
opened up as a sun-drenched atrium.
This contiguous internal space has
lifts, bridges and stairs and projecting
meeting rooms located to encourage
the exchange of culture and
information across the diverse user
groups. Together with a full height
in situ artwork they give form to this
dramatic eight storey space.
Materials have been carefully
considered and the use of timber
throughout the building has brought
warmth and a sense of humanity into
a research environment that is often
sterile. Timber has been placed at
points of human contact: doors; door
frames; lift surrounds; and furniture.
The potentially harsh external
screening is surprisingly subtle when
viewed from inside and the spaces
are crafted to provide outlook and joy
to the users.
This is a work of remarkable control;
its simplicity belies the technical
challenges it resolved. Working
with stringent clinical conditions, it
manages to bring warmth and strict
environmental control into balance.
Through the careful crafting of
materials and spatial relationships,
it manages to create an exciting yet
humane environment and a suite of
interiors of outstanding quality.
Julian Ashton
Isabell Beck
Irina Belova
Oskar Booth
Rob Burton
Peter Clarke
Barry Dineen
Joe Fiumedinisi
Janene Fowlstone
Rose Jimenez
Greg Knight
Judy Lee
Daniel Londono
Angie McKay
Rodrigo do Mello
Domino Risch
Stefan Strigl
Construction Team:
Capital Insight
Project Manager
Richard Crookes Construction Contractor
Established 2007
Named for the English-trained
architect John Verge, who
arrived in the colony of Sydney
in the early 1830s, this award is
given for excellence in interior
architecture.
Consultant Team:
SCP
Structural Consultant
Arup
Electrical Consultant ,
Mechanical Consultant,
Hydraulic Consultant, Fire
Consultant, Façade
Wilkinson Murray
Acoustic Consultant
Urbis
Town Planning
360 Degrees
Landscape Architect
WT Partnership
Quantity Surveyor
BVN Donovan Hill
Signage
Heggies
Reflectivity/Wind Consultant
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Architecture Award
Commendation
Photography: Michael Nicholson
Lilyfield Warehouse
Virginia Kerridge Architect
Jury citation
This adaptation of an existing two
storey brick warehouse into a liveable
family home provides a new identity
for the building while sustainably
retaining a historical trace of the
neighbourhood.
The interiors offer a restrained
expression through the use of
weathered and robust materials,
carefully crafted to create a sense of
permanence without overt luxury.
The detailing throughout, from
the front entry gate through to the
children’s bathroom, conveys a sense
of industrial heritage.
Working with the rhythm of the
original structure, a successful
balance has been achieved between
the new domestically scaled spaces
and the existing warehouse volumes.
Tiered sunken courtyards have been
opened to the elements by removing
part of the saw-tooth roof and its
glazing. These new penetrations
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offer glimpses and connections to
rooms above or below and allow the
building to breathe.
Although wholly confined within the
original warehouse walls, the new
home, through its courtyards and
balconies, connects with the spaces
and the greenery of the residential
neighbourhood beyond.
The interior architecture and
materiality of the building impart
a sense of drama and simplicity
that invites and excites while still
conveying the essence of a happy
home.
85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby & Entry
John Wardle Architects and Westfield Design
and Construction
Jury citation
With a premium placed on ground
floor retail space the brief called for
a ‘sky lobby’ to be located four levels
above the street. In interpreting this
unconventional requirement the
architects have created a dramatic
arrival experience that, through its
rich spatial sequence and materiality,
manages to maintain a strong
legibility of address.
The entry is through a tall and
elegantly proportioned ground
floor foyer. The walls are lined with
profiled timber battens that extend
up into the sky lobby to become
a powerful defining element in
the interior of the building. The
meticulously detailed timber lining,
that appears both seamless and
varied, effectively reinforces the
verticality of the space.
Shuttle lifts open into an expansive
and light-filled sky lobby inhabited
by a series of finely detailed pods
wrapped in the same timber that act
as concierge desk, cafe and seating. A
carefully positioned void connected
to the retail spaces below enriches
the spatial experience. The material
palette of sculpted timber cladding,
polished marble floors, bronze
column cladding and leather seating
achieves a sense of luxury and
prestige befitting of the building’s
high profile tenants.
The skilful integration of architecture
and engineering is evident in
the tree columns, which have a
strong sculptural presence in the
space and effectively provide both
structural bracing to the tower and
transfer tower columns to a wider
retail grid. Lighting and signage
are beautifully integrated into the
fabric of the interior, showing a close
collaboration between the architect
and the consultant team.
Commendation
Photography: Mein Photo (Trevor Mein)
Woods Bagot Sydney Studio
Woods Bagot
Jury citation
The design of architects’ offices is
always a fraught exercise. It requires
balancing the need to brand and
market the office with the creation of
a good working environment for staff
and clients.
Woods Bagot’s Sydney Studio
attempts this and more. They have
taken a 1980s post-modern building
and, in the process of upgrading
their offices spaces within it, have
also given the building a new
identity through a contemporary
lobby upgrade. They have created
the ambience of a traditionally
peripheral city office studio within
the heart of the CBD, providing a
model for the reuse and adaptation
of often overlooked second-tier CBD
buildings.
The interior has been stripped back
to reveal the existing structure,
services are exposed and finishes
have been kept simple. This process
of subtraction allows the grittiness
of the base condition to contrast
with the more precise insertions of
the fit-out.
Planning is made flexible by the use
of moveable and adaptable fit-out
components, and although these
are derivative of a commercially
available system, they serve their
function of ordering the space. The
use of timber in these elements
and the furniture contrasts with
the predominantly black and white
scheme, adding richness and
warmth.
This is a robust and adaptable
work environment with its
loose-fit philosophy and limited
palette resulting in an interesting
and liveable environment and
presenting a model for the
appropriate reinvigoration of
mediocre commercial buildings.
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Sustainable Architecture
Milo Dunphy Award
Darling Quarter
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios, Lend Lease, E.G.O. Group and
Davenport Campbell
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PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
(fjmt)
Architect
ASPECT Studios
Landscape Architect
Lend Lease
Developer
Consultant Team:
Campbell
Interior Designer
Arup
Consultant and Mechanical
Services Consultant
Aurecon
Electrical Services
Consultant
Hydraulic Services
Lend Lease
Quantity Surveyor
Defire
Fire Engineering
Ramus
Lighting Design
Jury citation
With a shared government, private
sector and corporate vision, Darling
Quarter establishes a benchmark for
the creation of new sustainable urban
precincts.
Its Green Building Council of
Australia (GBCA) credentials
include: 6 Star Green Star - Office
Design v2 rating; 5 Star Green Star
- Office Design Interiors v1.1 rating;
and the first building to achieve a 6
Star Green Star - Office As Built v3.
Energy use and savings are conveyed
back to the workplace through the
BMS and a media wall in the lobby
so that the occupants understand
how the building works and how it is
being used.
While the list of passive and active
design features is extensive, this
award recognises the project’s
transformation of an under-used
urban area to a thriving destination
for locals, city workers and tourists,
and its potential to change the
behaviour of how people work.
a series of cantilevered stairs,
bridges and expressed glass lifts.
Ground floor cafes and restaurants,
a major new children’s playground,
and a community green extend the
traditional workplace as an enabling,
supportive, human and inspiring
place to work.
Purpose-built for a major Australian
bank, this human scale, low rise
campus-style office belies its vast
68,000 square metre building
program. Central to the brief is
a contemporary workplace that
reinforces people, innovation and
sustainability. A central atrium
acts as the symbolic heart of the
workplace, visually integrating
the multi levels and serving as the
primary connective element through
While its sustainability credentials
as a commercial building are strong
in isolation; as a precinct, it is
transformative.
Waterforms
Robert Bird
Civil Engineer
Deuce Design
Construction Team:
Lend Lease Builder
Project Manager
Established 1996
The previous environment and
energy awards have become
the Milo Dunphy Award for
sustainable architecture.
There is no longer a single
category for this award as
all entries into the NSW
Architecture Awards are now
judged on their sustainability
and are eligible for this award
which commemorates Milo
Dunphy’s longstanding
commitment to conserving the
environment.
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Architecture Award
Architecture Award
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre
Cowshed House
Carterwilliamson Architects
Jury citation
Jury citation
The refurbished building is designed
to be robust, low maintenance
and long lasting, and has a low
environmental impact due to the
minimal use of natural resources and
passive systems.
The building is a refurbishment of
an existing facility and has been
planned to maintain where possible
the existing wall and slab structures.
Internally, comfort conditions are
passively controlled using natural
cross ventilation, exposed thermal
mass, and an insulated building
envelope shaded by the canopy
structure and climbing plants.
The new courtyard brings daylight
and breezes into the depths of the
building, minimising the reliance
on artificial lighting, and replacing
the original air conditioning units
with opening windows and fresh air.
Ceiling fans amplify air movement on
still days.
The building also incorporates
recycled materials including
reclaimed timber for joinery, and a
wooden block courtyard floor made
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from reclaimed city power poles;
concrete and pavers that utilise a
high percentage of recycled material
and fly ash for cement and aggregate
replacement; and reclaimed roofing
slate crushed as mulch for planting
beds.
Rainwater is collected in an
underground tank adjacent to the
structure for use in the irrigation of
the plants.
The steel canopy structure has been
designed as an interlocking but
self-supported element, allowing its
future demounting and relocation.
Herbs and edible plants are
included in the mix of plant species
incorporated in the roof terrace,
and gardening programs have been
introduced for the young people as
part of their rehabilitation programs.
As architects, one of the most critical
contributions we can make towards
a sustainable built environment is
the design of ‘fit’ buildings: buildings
that are not big, but ‘big enough’ and
flexible enough to accommodate
changing lifestyles. Buildings that
minimise spatial, material and energy
waste. Cowshed House embodies
this philosophy. It is modest in size
but spatially and conceptually rich;
creatively employing a refined, yet
raw and robust palette of materials.
A family of four is comfortably
accommodated in a floor area of 120
square metres and a site area of 150
square metres.
Environmental sustainability: the
house operates passively, anchored
by the protected thermal mass of
the concrete slab on the ground and
sheltered by high masonry walls.
The building orients itself around
the north-facing courtyard, which
provides ample opportunity to take
in daylight and air. Where possible
the existing building fabric has
been retained, and where masonry
reconstruction was necessary it was
completed in recycled bricks.
Social sustainability: the sensitive
adaptive re-use of the existing cowshed
preserves a moment in the all but
forgotten pastoral history of this
rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood.
The two-storey element hard to the
corner is a strong urban response
that marks the corner as a distinctive
landmark in an urban streetscape.
Economic sustainability: the design
and construction of this building were
achieved on a remarkably tight budget.
In response, the building has been left
‘raw’, eliminating the cost of expensive
linings and finishes. The concrete slabs
were polished as flooring, recycled
bricks left as face for the internal walls,
and the timber structure and electrical
cables exposed. Oiled timber doors
and windows along with corrugated
cladding complete the simple, refined
palette.
The jury was impressed by the
architect’s ability to create spaces that
are at once expansive and compact,
inventive and highly liveable. Cowshed
House by Carterwilliamson Architects
is a fine exemplar of the sustainability
of limit and restraint.
Residential Architecture – Houses
Wilkinson Award
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Drew Heath
Design Architect
Ross Langdon
Consultant Team:
Andrew Simpson
Colin Brady Heritage Consultant
Construction Team:
Drew Heath
Builder
Gerard Murphy
Carpenter
Established 1964
The Wilkinson Award was
introduced to recognise
exemplary domestic
architecture and named for
the Emeritus Professor of
Architecture at the University
of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson.
Wilkinson had won the
Sulman Medal twice – in 1934
for a residential design and in
1942 for a suburban church.
Tír na nÓg
Drew Heath Architects
(Alterations & Additions)
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Residential Architecture – Houses
Wilkinson Award (cont.)
Jury citation
The jurors were unanimous in their
selection of Tír na nÓg for the 2013
Wilkinson Award.
The architect’s stated ambition
was to create a built Tír na nÓg
– an Otherworld, inspired by the
overgrown ruins of Angkor Wat.
Tír na nÓg is indeed the embodiment
of an archetypal ‘ruin’ - multiple
levels, overlapping spaces and lush
vegetation create a synthesis of
building and landscape. The home
also stands as a visceral prototype
for a new way of living, immersing its
occupants in Sydney’s temperate yet
vigorous environment.
The heart of the building is the
courtyard, a landscaped space,
nestled between the existing fourroom cottage and a new living ‘box’.
The main bathroom takes up an
undercroft adjacent to the courtyard,
while layered platforms, including a
bridge, seat, table and step, welcome
the surrounding vegetation.
The new ‘box’ stacks living areas over
kitchen and dining areas, and acts
something like a mechanical lung
to be operated by the inhabitants.
Walls and windows open, allowing
sun and breeze inside, while vines are
encouraged to grow over the building
and filter air and light, further
breaking down the distinction
between inside and outside.
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Each detail re-thinks and re-crafts
the familiar. Almost every fitting is
bespoke and inventive, every nook
explored anew. The project is a
public offering to its three street
frontages – part pocket park, part
framework for a living sculpture and
part ruin.
Tír na nÓg is refined yet
experimental. 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.
Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)
Architecture Award
Architecture Award
Cowshed House
Balmain House
Fox Johnston
Jury citation
Jury citation
Cowshed House is a remarkable
example of limit and restraint. A
small site, modest budget, simple
needs, singular form, efficient
planning, unfussy detailing and raw
materiality work together to produce
an exemplary home.
Appropriating the existing shell of an
old urban cowshed, the plan frames
a garden courtyard to the north and
lets slip a pocket of green to the
south. Living rooms and ground floor
bedrooms engage these green spaces,
while a lofty mezzanine bedroom
overlooks the street, a large jacaranda
tree and the broader urban context.
The key formal move, an articulated
sloping roof, does away with the
jacaranda-clogged gutters of the
former shed while addressing
the sunlight needs of southern
neighbours. The sculpted zincalume
roof form triggers an undulating
ribbon of clerestory windows
that capture light and breeze, and
generate the building’s emblematic
street address and lantern-like
qualities.
Detailing and materiality are direct
and refreshing. Conduit cut into the
old brick wall is expressed. Cabling
and mounting for overhead lighting
is suspended in an off-the-shelf
galvanised electrical tray. Engineered
timbers and galvanised nail plates are
all exposed. The raw structural slab is
cut and polished.
The house is clearly the result of
a fruitful creative collaboration
between architect, builder and
client. The jury was impressed
by the architect’s ability to create
spaces that are at once expansive
and compact, plain and embellished,
inventive and highly liveable.
Balmain House by Fox Johnston
is a delightful derivation of the
competing needs of a young family,
a tortured angular site, the interests
of 14 neighbouring properties, and
an infamous local council. The jury
was impressed by the dexterity with
which the architect managed these
forces to create an inventive and
comfortable family home.
Timber cladding and lining, concrete,
and ample natural light, are sculpted
into a warm sequence of organic
volumes and crystalline shapes.
Formally and spatially, the design is
both sensual and sensible. It casually
makes all the right moves, impressing
the neighbours while seducing its
occupants.
owner, to house three simple
bedrooms and a bathroom opening
on to a courtyard. A new addition
contains the living spaces and a
kitchen with a study, bedroom and
ensuite recluse above.
The circulation system unites
the old with the new as it passes
between bedrooms, then warps and
expands through the living spaces.
This journey terminates at the
most generous space on the site, an
elevated garden room in the dappled
shade of a large gum, with distant
views to Anzac Bridge.
The project represents a skillful
negotiation of the constraints of a
tight urban site, turning limitations
into opportunities with dexterity and
delight.
The project begins with the
reinvention of an existing timber
cottage, brick skinned by a previous
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Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)
Commendation
Commendation
Bellevue Hill Residence
Tzannes Associates
Jury citation
Bellevue Hill Residence as
reimagined by Tzannes Associates
explores the existing potential
of a distinctive, perhaps even
iconic, 1960s Frank Fox house. It
embraces its eccentricities and deftly
resolves its many compromises
and shortcomings to create a home
suitable for 21st century living.
The original building was a local
landmark on its street corner. Its
circular form responded well to the
site geometry, vegetation and urban
context, while its bulk and scale were
appropriately unimposing. It made
a positive contribution to the public
domain. The architects and the
owners of the house wisely, and yet
at considerable cost, chose to work
with the existing building fabric,
resolving the functional brief within
its envelope and respecting its midcentury character.
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Photography: Peter Bennetts
Lavender Bay Boatshed
Stephen Collier Architects
Additional spaces are provided
within the present envelope and
with due regard to its mid-century
character, yet accommodating the
modern lifestyle of its occupants
with provision for a range of engaging
spatial experiences.
The jury felt the architect and client,
in collaboration with their builder,
are to be commended on the finely
detailed and crafted conservation
and adaptation of a challenging and
idiosyncratic 1960s building – one
of many buildings of this period
which may not enjoy legislative
heritage protection but are worthy of
preservation.
Jury citation
Lavender Bay Boatshed tells the
story of an extraordinary site, an
enlightened client, a frail building,
impossible geometries, and a
protracted approvals process;
all adeptly negotiated by the
architect to create a delightful living
environment.
On the living room level, exposed
and stiffened rafters, and a new
skylight revealing views to the Sydney
Harbour Bridge, celebrate and
amplify the awkwardness inherent in
the geometry of the existing building.
Existing materials are exposed and
celebrated alongside new refined
detailing and sensuous finishes.
New materials subtly respond to
the building’s industrial maritime
heritage.
The lower level of the building, an
otherwise dark and cavernous space
carved out of the escarpment and the
under-croft of the original boatshed,
is transformed by introduced
daylight. A glazed void at the rear
of the building miraculously shares
light between the upper level living
space and two bathrooms below.
Daylight from the waterside windows
is transmitted deep into the building
through lustrous surface finishes,
and a glass floor-panel over the tidal
zone admits ever-changing sparkles
of light into the front bedroom.
Playful, interlocking spaces and
adaptable planning on the lower
ground floor allow alternative
configurations to suit future
occupants.
The jury commends Stephen Collier
Architects for revealing to the client
the possibilities of a very challenging
building through the skilful
resolution of complex geometries,
artful manipulation of light, and
patient negotiation with zealous
authorities.
Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
Architecture Award
Architecture Award
Photography: Michael Nicholson
St Albans House
Rory Brooks Architects
Jury citation
Set amongst the treetops high above
Wollombi Rd, St Albans House rests
comfortably against the hillside.
Hugging the contours of the site, this
rural retreat was conceived as two
distinct pavilions - one for sleeping,
the other for living and entertaining,
separated by the primary entry, set
ajar between the two.
The architect’s nimble planning
and material restraint has produced
an economic house of rich spatial
pleasure. A consistent palette of
vertical timber cladding, concrete
plinths and full-height glazing
resonates with the hues of the
adjacent bushland, without
dominating it.
Elegant timber batten screens and
glazed doors seamlessly slide away
within double insulated stud walls
to provide various configurations for
shading, cross ventilation and strong
visual and physical connections to
the site.
Photography: Willem Rethmeier
Flipped House
Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects
The scale and proportion of interior
spaces, the quality of light and the
understated timber volumes all
made a strong impression on the jury.
Beautifully proportioned and placed
openings work in concert with the
form of the house to generate a
remarkable sense of composure.
St Albans House expertly creates a
warm interior, while engaging with
the qualities of its setting.
Jury citation
Flipped House is a distinctive
family home that mediates between
the exposed Sydney skyline and
an exquisite and intimate garden
topography. A rich sequence of
warm, personalised spaces evolves
over three levels and regularly bursts
out into either the garden or the view.
Cubic and curvaceous geometries are
in constant interplay and repeatedly
offer human scaled moments of
both exuberance and respite. An
idiosyncratic landscape of succulent
planting, snaking off-form concrete
walls and a breeze block screen give
shape to discrete outdoor rooms and
an inviting pool. Warm surfaces of
sandstone and beautifully detailed
timber complete the material palette.
garden into a layered interplay with
the house. Subtle shifts in the timbre
of the building, from the acoustically
muted den to the lively sound of
falling water by the pool, add drama
to this dwelling. The deft crafting of
the more pragmatic spaces such as
bedrooms and an open drying court
completes a building that must be
joyous to inhabit.
The redeeming qualities of the
original 1960s building are referenced
in the new spaces and reflect a
remarkable working relationship
with the client. The architect’s
strategy to ‘flip’ the mass upstairs and
reduce the building’s footprint opens
up the ground plane and invites the
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Architecture Award
Architecture Award
Stewart House
Chenchow Little Architects
Gordons Bay Residence
Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Jury citation
Jury citation
Stewart House has a unique sense of
strength and singularity of purpose
arising from the client’s brief, site
constraints and a clear conceptual
framework.
Unlike neighbouring properties,
its modest, low-set street presence
follows the fall of the land to the rear
through a central promenade. Four
independent bed and bathroom
‘suites’ are set symmetrically along
this circulation spine. A separate
garden court adjoins each suite,
providing natural light and privacy.
Beyond the bedrooms the central
spine drops to meet an open living
space. This space in turn opens onto
a lush landscaped exterior with
pool, and bush land beyond. The
generous volume and vertical scale
of this spatial sequence belies the
residential nature of the project.
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Photography: Robert Walsh
The grand order of brick walls and
free-span steel beams provides an
innovative, refined and expressive
response to living and landscape.
The architect has addressed the
constraint of building in a bushfire
flame zone with a form and
materiality that is both robust and
invigorating.
Gordon’s Bay Residence is an elegant
house of grand proportions, resulting
from of a limited design competition
held by insightful clients.
A restrained and sophisticated
front elevation in an unremarkable
built context hints at the excellence
within. Upon entry, the house
opens up in scale as the site falls
dramatically towards the bay and
ocean beyond. A triple-height
staircase links the three levels of the
home, constantly re-engaging with
the exquisite natural context. An
over-scaled pivot entry door extends
access to this view as an offering to
anyone on the street.
A north facing courtyard operates
successfully as a planning device
around which discrete rooms
and a clear circulation system are
arranged. The building envelope
and openings are well configured
to capture daylight, control privacy
and provide shelter from prevailing
north-easterly winds, while passive
and active systems combine to
temper environmental conditions
within the house.
Operable cedar screens control heat,
glare and privacy and bring human
scale and dynamism to the otherwise
assertive eastern elevation; skylights
sensitively direct natural light in to
the deepest parts of the house.
Despite an extensive use of barefaced concrete, the architect has
managed to bring an unexpected
lightness and warmth to an otherwise
monumentally proportioned home.
Commendation
Photography: Simon Wood
Angophora House
Richard Cole Architecture
Jury citation
Built for the architect’s parents,
Angophora House is fully accessible
and designed for ‘ageing in place’.
A carefully crafted response to the
site, this is a meticulously detailed
home that hugs a rugged sandstone
cliff over a series of outward looking
platforms.
The natural stone cliff face is partially
revealed inside the home, imbuing
an otherwise exquisitely mannered
interior with mysterious cave-like
qualities. On the south-facing side of
the home, insulated wall panels house
double glazed windows that in turn
contain retractable black-out blinds.
These walls can be stacked away,
providing a novel façade solution that
transforms a series of cosseted rooms
into a generous and open balcony
perched in the tree-tops.
A singular roof plane tucks below
the limbs of carefully retained
angophoras and draws winter sun
into the heart of the home. Cohesive
detailing pervades, from the primary
structure through to the diminishing
scales of fenestration, joinery
and furniture. There is a perfect
resonance between the garden space
and the lower scale spaces of the
house itself.
Angophora House is the hallmark
of a caring relationship between
architect and client, and stands as
an impeccably designed container
for the life and possessions of its
occupants.
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Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Aaron Bolot Award
Photography:Brett Boardman
29-35 Prince Street Cronulla
Candalepas Associates
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Jury citation
This is an incredible project that pays
careful attention to its context, is well
planned, exquisitely detailed, and
plays with the typology of beach side
apartments while resisting a ‘glazing
at all expenses’ approach.
There is beauty, delight and surprise
in this project. Small celebrations
capture light and ventilation
between the individual building
parts, while beachside holiday
references of tramping over sand
dunes on boardwalks are evoked.
Narrow, cool entry portals create
an understated presence within the
streetscape, reflecting the simplicity
and casual nature of the local beach
environment. One cannot help but
smile in happiness at the joy invested
in this building by the architect
for those who will use it over their
lifetimes.
Material richness plays an important
role in elevating the dwellings
to the luxury residential market.
Combining warm timbers, bronze
detailing, robust concrete and
sandstone panels, Candalepas
Associates have delivered a layered
building with depth and intrigue. The
internal planning of the dwellings
is thoughtful, straightforward and
specific – capturing, creating and
framing views while providing
a variety of experiences for the
inhabitants to enjoy.
PROJECT TEAM
This project acknowledges the harsh
surrounding marine environment,
cleverly employing it to wear the
building into a comfortable patina,
further anchoring it within its local
context.
Practice team:
Angelo Candalepas Design Architect, Director
David Mitchell
Project Architect
Most importantly, this building
is complex without being
complicated, and simple without
being simplistic. There is richness
in both the individual experience
and the architectural investigations
undertaken in this building which is
welcome and refreshing.
John Wilkin
Project Architect
Evan Pearson
Project Architect
Consultant Team:
Taylor Thomson Whitting Structural Consultant
Jones Nicholson Consulting Electrical Consultant ,
Mechanical Consultant
Whipps Wood Consulting Hydraulic Consultant
Renzo Tonin & Associates Acoustic Consultant
Construction Team:
Kane Constructions Builder Established 2009
Single and multiple housing
were formerly included
in the separate Wilkinson
Award introduced in the
1960s; however, initially
only one building – either a
single residence or multiple
housing complexes – received
the award per year, hence the
introduction of the Aaron Bolot
Award.
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Architecture Award
Architecture Award
Iglu Central
Bates Smart
Jury citation
Iglu Central is a remarkable project
that leverages the limitations of
its program to deliver a joyous and
delightful living environment and
surrounding urban realm. In a harsh
and changing street environment
this project learns from, and
draws on, older built fabric while
proposing a contemporary response
to city making.
The building is both private and
reserved while offering energy and
engagement to the surrounding
streets. An internal courtyard on the
south side of the building provides
a cool and quiet atmosphere while
pushing the active communal
student spaces to the street edge.
Students are offered remarkable
spaces to study, sleep, engage and
party. In a part of the city where
remarkable street level relationships
are rarely achieved, this is an
exceptional outcome.
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Silk Apartments
Externally the building employs a
rigid geometric steel screen, with
the weeping rusted patina giving
the building grain and texture.
Occasionally perforated, this rain
screen gives the building character
while hiding the multitude of
services needed in such an intense
and dense program.
Internally the perforated screen
creates privacy for bathrooms,
bedrooms and living rooms, while the
punched geometry is extended across
plywood panels, lending the interior a
similar level of warmth and intrigue as
the external building façade.
This project, delivered within a
tight economic context, excels at
leveraging its limitations to achieve
a remarkable and memorable
outcome. Within an emerging
market of short-term housing, this
building suggests a delightful future.
Jury citation
Silk Apartments deliver remarkable
internal amenity through careful
planning and simple elegant
architectural expression. The
building is well considered and
pursues a number of clever planning
initiatives to enhance the living
experience – deep inset balconies
achieve protected external living
environments while pushing living
rooms to the building’s edge,
engaging occupants with the view.
Externally the building is robust and
simple. To the south the building
addresses the broader urban realm of
Anzac Bridge through the bold use of
colour, heralding the western entry
to the CBD. The north, east and west
façades are structured around strong
vertical gaps driven into the building
form which act to reduce the overall
bulk and scale – giving the tower a
slighter and more elegant form than
the floor plan would suggest.
Folded screens are employed
across the balcony edges, reducing
the northern heat load. They are
simple and effective, offering a light,
beautiful layer to the building both
internally and externally.
Entries to the building address
both the public water edge and the
more private hill-side of the site.
Both are intimate and personal with
the popular hill-side entry cleverly
mediating the immense scale of
the tower and that of the individual
pedestrian to achieve a calm, easy
and homely environment.
This building has been delivered by
a practice that understands postoccupancy issues. Details have been
designed to enable easy ongoing use
and maintenance – often overlooked
in multiple housing projects.
Commendation
Architecture Award
Photography: Ethan Rohloff
Telopea Social Housing
Turner
Jury citation
Creating a future vision amongst
dilapidated 1930s modernist
experiments is no easy task. Telopea
Social Housing is an excellent step
towards achieving high quality
and equitable housing for the
community. Overall it sets a positive
new direction for the renewal of this
Social Housing precinct, employing
simple approaches to improve the
living environments of the residents.
The western building in the
Shortland block has achieved some
exceptional outcomes and is most
noteworthy. Its clever plan and
generous corridors, with windows
at both ends, provide high quality
common areas that are naturally lit
and ventilated. By arranging eight
units on each typical level, this
apartment building feels more like
elevated cluster housing.
Internally, each level has a
differentiated sense of identity that
Little Bay
combines with clearly emphasised
thresholds at the apartment
entries to create an uplifting arrival
experience for residents and their
visitors. The integration of robust
materials and colour into the
interiors of common spaces assists
wayfinding and enhances the sense
of differentiation yet cohesion within
the building. A communal room
within the building is an excellent
facility for residents to meet,
socialise and entertain outside their
private domain.
Face brick and metal cladding
have been arranged and detailed
to achieve a strong external
presence while retaining a distinctly
residential feel. Overall this building
demonstrates the quality and delight
that can be achieved in a social
housing project and sets a new
benchmark to aspire to.
Jury citation
Two Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
(fjmt) apartment buildings at
Little Bay combine to form a new
gateway to an old place. Together
they collaborate to create an
urban realm within a distinctly
suburban context ensuring this new
community is delivered a communal
heart and focus. A simple urban
diagram pinches the street space
to create a sense of drama at the
site entry while a sleight of hand,
shifts the building mass to offer a
new public space upon crossing
the threshold. Creating a sense of
activity and energy is not an easy
outcome to achieve where density
levels are low and occupation
patterns align with traditional
residential neighbourhoods. This
project, through a small mixed
use offering, delivers a welcome
injection of communal engagement
opportunities.
Beyond this urban gesture,
the apartments are simple and
efficient. They capture views and
create useable and flexible living
environments. The buildings employ
details where they are most needed
and simplify the architectural
expression where they are least
required. Vertical external screens
extend the feeling of space within
the dwellings while maintaining a
level of privacy that meshes with the
expansive view.
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Commendation
The Majestic
Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
Jury citation
A brave practice agreed to this
commission. Transforming a
large single volume building into
many small living environments is
tough. Combined with an added
‘over layer’ of heritage fabric,
it is almost unthinkable in an
environment where commercial
pressure undoubtedly weighed in
the direction of demolition. Yet
this project manages to retain, in
an almost ‘ruinous’ form, parts of
the original building from each of
its defining decades, enabling an
understanding not only of its original
role within the community but its
subsequent layers of use.
Clever planning has seen dwellings
fitted within complex volumes
while simple strategies have allowed
the original building detail to be
understood. New balcony enclosures
are thrust into the surrounding
laneway space, enlivening the public
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domain below while extending the
internal living spaces and maximising
light penetration to the deep plans
required of the adaptive reuse
approach.
New retail spaces at ground level
employ the original cinema lobbies
for entries, while the apartment
entry is discretely located within
the original fire escape. This project
delivers a new layer to the urban
fabric of its neighbourhood while
injecting much needed smaller
housing options.
Small Project Architecture
Robert Woodward Award
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Richard Johnson
Design Architect
Graeme Dix
Design Architect
Chris Thorp
Consultant Team:
Taylor Thomson Whitting
Structural Consultant,
Civic Consultant, Traffic
Consultant
Bylett Associates
Cost Consultant
Accessibility Solutions
Access Consultant
Brett Boardman
Photographer
Michael Bogle
Heritage Consultant
Construction Team:
Jason de Bruin
Project Manager
Phil Johnstone
Construction Manager
Ozpave
Civil Contractor
Berczi Copper
Bronze Fabricator
ACD Group
Steel Fabricator
Established 1997
In 2013, the former Small
Project Architecture Award
was renamed to honour
architect Robert Woodward
AM whose career was
significantly altered after
winning the Institutes’ Civic
Design Award in 1964 for
the El Alamein Memorial
Fountain in Kings Cross.
‘Small’ refers to the scale of the
project rather than the budget
and there are no restrictions
on the entries provided that the
work has been built.
Art Gallery of NSW Forecourt Upgrade
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Robert Woodward Award (cont.)
Jury citation
This remarkable and understated
project combines discrete landscape
adjustments with a sculptural ramp
to resolve the longstanding problem
of providing equitable access to the
Art Gallery of NSW.
The new ramp, which allows
visitors to bypass the stairs up to the
entry portico, is the most striking
‘intervention’ to Walter Liberty
Vernon’s majestic Art Gallery
entrance. The architects have met
the challenge with a solution that
sits respectfully within the original
fabric but which is bold enough in
concept and rigorous enough in
execution to be worthy of such a
significant public space.
The resolution is a strong
counterpoint to the Gallery’s solid
and symmetrical entry. The ramp’s
precise placement and curvature
cleverly disguises its necessary
length, minimises its visual and
footprint impact, and allows the
ramp to widen into generous
openings at each end. Details such as
inclined balusters and panel jointing
accentuate this dynamic form.
A truss structure concealed
within the bronze cladding of the
inner balustrade gives the ramp
a surprising weightlessness, and
contrasts with the open outer
balustrade to further reduce the bulk
of the structure. This simplicity of
form, combined with the refined
detailing, results in the restrained
elegance of the ramp.
The design aligns itself with the
world of contemporary art – a
successful strategy in the context
of Vernon’s classicism. It is an
organic, unambiguously modern and
confident addition to the existing
frontage.
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Architecture Award
Commendation
Photography: Simon Whitbread
Yurong Public Amenities
Cook Park Amenities
Fox Johnston
Jury citation
Jury citation
In the design of a replacement
amenities block in the Royal Botanic
Gardens, the architects have
‘deconstructed’ the functional brief
into its component parts to create a
facility that seamlessly blends with
the gardens and allows its users to
experience the harbour and Sydney
Opera House beyond.
This seemingly straightforward
pavilion contains complex contrasts
– grounded but transparent, heavy
and lightweight, open and private.
Cubicle areas are contained within
dark textured concrete walls to
provide privacy but are flooded with
natural light streaming through a
lightweight floating roof. Communal
hand wash facilities and a generous
waiting area are in an ‘outdoor room’
that overlooks one of Sydney’s most
picturesque foreshores. An elongated
concrete hand wash ‘trough’ frames
the panorama.
The use of materials is restrained,
but each choice has a clear logic and
the overall palette is balanced and
complementary to the garden setting.
Materials are strategically selected to
be robust, warm, tactile or textured,
with great care and consideration
given to their assembly. Detailing of
this quality is quite unexpected in a
building of this type.
The jury admired the materiality,
delicate detail and transparency of
the structure. The use of natural light
and the connection to the garden and
foreshore setting through materials
and thoughtful planning is the great
success of this building.
Commissioned by local government,
this suite of amenities buildings is
commended for the strength and
clarity of architectural language that
unifies the structures and creates
striking and singular presence in a
challenging urban park landscape.
Cook Park is a narrow, extended park
on the western edge of Botany Bay –
with a dusty and noisy arterial road
along one edge, beach foreshore of
Botany Bay on the other, and a busy
port and airport beyond. The council
brief was to develop a model for safe,
robust and functional amenities
buildings that better reflected its
vision for the public domain and
could be rolled out across the
municipality.
A potentially ungainly assemblage of
showers, lunch rooms, services and
stormwater tanks has been wrapped
and enfolded within an expressive
skin of mostly vertical timbers. This
simple technique generates strong
vertical expression, punctuated by
a play of rounded and soft corners
into elegantly sculpted forms that
sit well in this in-between landscape
of beach, pine trees, car parks and
highway verges.
The first three buildings are
prototypes. One is a conversion and
two are new designs – each with
different functional add-ons to the
basic public toilet brief.
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Commendation
Commendation
Photography: Peter Murphy
Martian Embassy
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)
Crescent House
Andrew Burns Architect
Jury citation
Jury citation
As part of a highly collaborative
initiative involving the Sydney Story
Factory, LAVA’s Martian Embassy is
a creative writing centre primarily for
the marginalised youth of Sydney.
This project strongly demonstrates
that innovative architectural design
can be achieved in spite of limited
budgets and resources.
The Martian Embassy project
transforms a difficult, dark elongated
space, by inserting a sinuous
geometry that merges the Embassy,
writing school and shop programs
into a single, continuous interior
form. The structure consists of more
than 1000 unique CNC cut plywood
‘jigsaw pieces’. These are assembled
into sectional ribs that vary along
its entire length, conforming to the
corresponding spatial program.
The project demonstrates the
importance of architectural
innovation in the collaborative
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process of place making. Built
largely on good will, constructed
with the help of volunteers’ hands,
and making use of donated time
and material, the Martian Embassy
has been lovingly adopted by
the community it builds around
itself. The project underscores the
significance of creativity in youth
development with the architecture
playing a key role – adding to the
sense of wonder and imagination for
its young visitors.
The Martian Embassy’s success is
embedded in its ambition to create
a one-of-a-kind cultural venue. It
achieves this despite the highly
restrictive budget and difficult site,
showing both the resourcefulness
and generosity of its design team.
Crescent House is the first rendition
of the Sherman Contemporary
Art Foundation’s (SCAF) ‘Fugitive
Structures’ programme. Following
on from the Serpentine Gallery
pavilion in London and MOMA’s
PS1 Young Architecture Program,
SCAF’s initiative is an invitation-only
competition platform directed to
emerging and mid-career architects.
Designed as a temporary structure
of blackened timber, the pavilion
lies in SCAF’s Zen garden. It blurs
the boundary between art object and
architecture, skilfully negotiating its
role within the art institution, while
resolving the highly specific context
of the site – the rose apple hedge, the
white pebbles of the Zen garden and
the inner suburban context of SCAF.
The architecture creates a sense of
ambiguity, appearing as a singular
object in the landscape, but with a
multiplicity of spatial elements that
frame, recompose, and shift the
focus of the visitor’s gaze.
Upon careful examination, the
restrained use of material is handled
with a deep sense of thought, as
we see subtle variations between
charred and stained; rough and
smooth; sharp and blunt. The play
of light on the pierced metal screen
animates the pavilion’s material
language, and constantly shifts the
boundary between internal and
external surfaces.
The project distils a big set of ideas
into a concise format – clearly
demonstrating that the scale of
ambition of this small project is not
constrained by its modest footprint.
Heritage
Greenway Award
Gowings and State Theatre Buildings Restoration and Hotel Conversion
Woodhead and Graham Brooks and Associates, Sydney
(Creative Adaptation)
Jury citation
This project is a remarkable
achievement in the conservation,
refurbishment and adaptive reuse
of two adjacent heritage listed
buildings – the Gowings and State
Theatre Buildings – that have been
combined and significantly adapted
to house a new city hotel.
It knits together two buildings
of distinctive early 20th century
styles: the State Theatre (1929)
by architects Henry White and
John Eberson is in an inter-war
Gothic Skyscraper style, originally
designed as a theatre and vertical
shopping complex. The Gowings
building (1912, later renovated in
1929) by Crawford H. Mackellar
is in an inter-war Commercial
Palazzo style and was originally
designed for retail and commercial
office use. Although the two
structures are combined into one,
the unique spatial integrity and
heritage character of each have been
maintained.
Presented with a set of highly
technical challenges, such as
differing floor heights and dissimilar
construction systems, the design
team handled issues of structural
connectivity, interior design
and heritage conservation with
the highest degree of skill and
thoughtfulness.
This conversion befits the original
buildings’ scale and form, while
preserving the important internal
spatial character and heritage spaces.
The Gowings and State Theatre
Buildings restoration and hotel
conversion breathes new life into the
site, enhancing the public domain
by adding a vital new contemporary
program to the city’s heart.
From the careful integration of
building systems, to the curation
of site specific installation art, the
project team thoroughly considered
each element of the heritage fabric
for preservation, reuse or adaptation.
The architects have navigated a
complex design process in a manner
that still recounts the vibrant past
of the buildings, yet in an utterly
contemporary manner.
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Heritage
Greenway Award (cont.)
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Juliette Churchill
Project Architect
Jonathon Bryant
Graham Brooks and Associates
Heritage Consultant
Tony Murace
Project Leader
Graeme Mackenzie
Project Leader
Gerrie Lykourezos
Documentation
Lucy King
Documentation
Consultant Team:
Enstruct Group
Waterman Group
Electrical Consultant,
Mechanical Consultant,
Hydraulic Consultant
Waterman Group
Mechanical Consultant
Waterman Group
Hydraulic Consultant
Nic Graham + Associates
Interior Designer
Indyk Architects.
Interior Designer
Woodhead
Master Architect
Philip Chun & Associates
Fire Engineer & BCA
JBA Planning Consultants
Planning
Arup
Façade Engineer & Acoustic
Engineer
Retail Architecture
Advanced Building Approvals
PCA
Sangster Design Group
Food & Beverage
Ongarato
Graphic Design
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Graham Brooks and Associates
Heritage Consultant
Construction Team:
Built
Builder, Construction
Manager
Amalgamated Holdings
Project Manager, Developer
Established 1975
An award for the conservation
of historic buildings –
the Greenway Award
commemorates the work of the
transported convict Francis
Greenway, the first architect
to be commissioned to design
buildings for the fledgling
colony of New South Wales.
This category now includes
adaptive re-use projects
that involve alterations and
additions to heritage buildings.
Heritage (Creative Adaptation)
Commendation
Commendation
Photography: Peter Bennett
The Majestic
Jury citation
Jury citation
Finding a suitable use for the heritage
listed Majestic Theatre was always
going to be a major challenge. The
building had laid dormant for
more than a decade; many similar
buildings have simply been gutted
and turned into characterless
commercial spaces, with little
evidence of their past uses.
The Majestic Theatre, one of many
designed by prominent theatre
architects Kaberry and Chard,
opened in 1921 and has since
maintained a civic presence on the
Petersham shopping strip. Modified
as a cinema in 1953, the auditorium
was levelled in 1979 for use as a roller
skating rink, and later as a social club.
The ground floor commercial spaces
and the three levels of apartments
above have been sensitively designed
to fit within the original building
envelope. The exposed roof trusses
and remnant auditorium ceiling
details are neatly incorporated in the
upper apartments. Taking advantage
of the extended property line on the
western side, the architects have
punched openings through the big
blank side wall to create balconies of
a scale and detail that complement
the original design.
The theatre façade and rear elevation
have been carefully detailed to
conserve and highlight their original
details. Significant interior elements
have been skilfully incorporated into
the new internal layout. Although
no longer directly connected to the
upper level apartments, the foyer
remains largely intact, awaiting a
suitable tenant. The relocation of
movable heritage elements into the
spacious public areas at each end of
the apartments reflects the building’s
previous functions and further
enhances the interpretation of the
building’s history.
This project successfully inserts
contemporary residential living
into a large redundant theatre,
while retaining and revealing the
significant elements and character
of its former uses.
This conversion of one of the few
remnants of Lavender Bay’s 19th
century working waterfront employs
a range of discrete and thoughtful
architectural strategies to remake a
former shipwright’s workshop into
a home without compromising its
essentially utilitarian character.
Perched on a steep and tapered
site, the irregular plan and profile of
a simple shed generates dramatic
internal spaces which have been
revealed on the upper levels that
frame views of the bay beyond. A
massive skylight inserted into the
wall and roof on the southern face
allows views to the harbour.
New interventions are sleek, well
detailed and contemporary and
clearly distinguishable from the
rusticity of the original structure,
which is most evident inside
the building. The framed timber
structure and corrugated wall and
ceiling linings are largely intact, and
where these have been removed the
‘absence’ is clearly expressed.
This adaptation has captured and
preserved the building’s original
character and in particular its strong
functional relationship with the
waterfront.
Inventive techniques are used to
capture and direct natural light
down to the lower level. Here, the
relationship with the waterfront
is more tangible – water reflecting
light onto the ceilings and tidal
movements that can be seen through
the glass floor over the former
slipway.
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Heritage (Conservation)
Architecture Award
Architecture Award
Photography: Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners
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
Jury citation
Jury citation
The reconstruction of two shingled
gate lodge domes at Hyde Park
Barracks would appear to be
a relatively simple task, but in
fact required significant archival
and archaeological research and
technical knowledge.
The gate lodges were built in 1817-19
on the western walls of the Hyde
Park Barracks, but the domes were
removed at some point between 1857
and 1866.
With little known of the original
construction details of the domes
the architects, in accordance with
the Burra Charter, have based their
design and documentation on careful
research of archival photographs,
studies of other extant Greenway
domes and the piecing together of 14
original timbers, removed from the
gate lodge in 1983 but serendipitously
found under the veranda of the
adjacent Mint building in 2001.
The reconstruction has used
authentic materials and includes the
original timbers, which have been
spliced into their original locations.
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Photography: Stephen Fabling
The decision to opt for a partial
interpretative reconstruction of one
of the two gate lodges, rather than
a total reconstruction, enables the
public to understand and appreciate
the structural detailing of the
domes. During construction, the
architects also provided public talks
and demonstrations to explain the
conservation process.
The project achieves more than just
the reconstruction of two shingled
domes; it reinstates a key element in
the overall architectural composition
of Hyde Park Barracks, and enhances
the colonial streetscape at the
southern end of Macquarie Street. It
is a fitting means to commemorate
the bicentenary of Macquarie’s
governorship.
The reconstruction of the two gate
lodge domes at Hyde Park Barracks
serves as a fine example for other
small-scale conservation projects.
The conservation of the Convict
Superintendent’s House on
Cockatoo Island has been an exercise
in removing layers of unsympathetic
alterations and additions to reveal
the house as it appeared in the mid19th century.
Cockatoo Island is one of 11 sites in
the Australia Convict Sites World
Heritage listing. The Convict
Superintendent’s House is one of
the island’s most significant convictera structures. This significance
has guided the decisions on the
building’s conservation and
interpretation as a mid-19th century
marine villa.
The original house was constructed
in 1841, extended in 1844 and then
further enlarged and re-oriented to
face the harbour in 1859-60 to better
suit the domestic requirements of
the superintendent at that time. Over
the past century, as the activities
on Cockatoo Island changed, the
building experienced numerous
unsympathetic additions and
alterations, concealing its historical
and aesthetic significance.
The project has emphasised
the removal of unsympathetic
alterations and additions, and the
repair of original fabric rather than
replacement. New work has been
restricted to the minimum necessary
to make the building publicly
accessible. The grounds were
landscaped to further enhance the
setting of the house.
Now open to the public for
inspection and available for
events and functions, the
Convict Superintendent’s
House demonstrates the diligent
conservation and interpretation of a
key building on this World Heritage
listed site.
Award For Enduring Architecture
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Graham M. Thorp
Project Director
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
Air Conditioning Supervision
Tony Klarich
Site Architect
Howard Post & Associates,
New York
Kitchen Planning
Consultants
Kahn and Jacobs, New York
Consulting Architects
M. Kodaras, New York
Sound Isolation Consultants
Keith Steele
Chief Architect
Mrs A.L. Lawrence
Auditorium Acoustic
Consultants
Bob Mugden
Design Architect
Consultant Team:
Rankine & Hill
Structural Engineers
John R. Wallis & Associates
Mechanical (part) &
Electrical Engineers
Slocum & Fuller
(New York & Sydney)
Engineer (Air Conditioning),
Reference Mechanical and
Electrical Engineers
Rider Hunt & Partners
Quantity Surveyors
Gerald Lewers
Amenities Wall Tiles Design
Tom Bass
Sculpture on West Wall
Gerald Lewers
Fountain Lobby
Michael Santry
Abstract/Mosaics
Donald Johnston
Interior Design (Board &
Head Office Executive)
George Connor
Traffic Analysis
Construction Team:
Concrete Constructions
Commonwealth Experimental
Building Station, Ryde
Constructional & Testing
Advice
Established 2003
Following on from similar
awards in America, England
and New Zealand, the 25 Year
Award was recently renamed
the Award for Enduring
Architecture Award with past
winners including the Sydney
Opera House.
Photography: David Moore
The AMP Building Sydney Cove
PTW Architects
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Award For Enduring Architecture (cont.)
Photography: David Moore
Jury citation
AMP headquarters, at Alfred Street
Circular Quay, is a remarkable
and outstanding example of an
international style, curtain wall
office building. Its simple curved
building form and fine building
articulation elevate it above much of
the banal city making that followed
its construction.
As the first building to breach the
150 feet building height limit it
was not spared controversy; 12
months of debate ensued between
the City of Sydney and the State
Government before approval was
granted. Thankfully this building set
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a remarkable agenda for the future of
towers in this city. Its graceful curve
and public domain offering are both
generous and subtle.
work space; use of harbour water
to service ducted air conditioning;
an automatic document conveyor
system; and a telephone exchange.
This building is imbedded in
the histories and memories of
Sydneysiders, many of whom have
personal memories of the day they
went to the top and viewed the
world below.
Now dwarfed by surrounding
development, the AMP Tower sits
as a jewel within the city skyline,
a welcome address to the ferry
terminals below and the harbour
beyond. This is a remarkable building,
a valuable piece of city making, and an
exceptional and generous gift to the
character of the city.
The building was innovative for its
time employing: open plan office
floors; high quality staff amenities to
foster more effective work practices;
an urban plaza for the public; high
speed passenger lifts; an elevated
floor resulting in highly flexible
COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture
PROJECT TEAM
Jury citation
Practice team:
Guy Lake
Natalie Lane-Rose
Sylvia Vasak
Tonie Maclennan
Bianca Heinemann
This remarkable project relies on
the use of steel to achieve the core
of its architectural expression. The
panelised weeping Core10 façade
gives the building a calm and ordered
expression within a chaotic urban
environment.
Consultant Team:
TTW
Structural Engineer
EMF Griffiths
Mechanical & Electrical
JBA Planning
Planning Consultant
Pyramid Pacific
Project Management
Steve Watson and Partners
BCA
WT Partnership
Quantity Surveyor
Acoustic Logic
Acoustics
ASPECT Studios
Landscape Architect
EWFW
Hydraulic
Point of View
Lighting Design
Construction Team:
Grindley Construction
Dunsteel
COR-TEN Façade Contractor
The flexibility of the cladding system
has enabled the architects to achieve
an ordered and simple expression
to a building typology which is
programmatically demanding and
services intense. Multiple housing
projects are not renowned for their
use of steel beyond the quintessential
custom orb roof sheeting profile
employed by northern Australian
lower scale campus-style housing.
Here the use of the material, both
in solid and perforated form, acts
as a rain screen to a hard working
simplistic box behind.
It is exciting and delightful to see
steel extended in such a creative
and expressive manner to deliver a
remarkable addition to the fabric of
the city. Fundamentally this material
use gives the building personality
and expression while allowing it to
age and weather, delivering a richer
building over time.
Established 2007
The COLORBOND® Steel
Award is given to a project
which utilises steel in an
innovative and creative
manner.
Iglu Central
Bates Smart
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COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture
Commendation
Cowshed House
Jury citation
A small site, modest budget, simple
needs, singular form, efficient
planning, unfussy detailing and raw
brick and galvanised steel materiality
work in symphony to produce an
exemplary home.
Appropriating the existing shell of an
old urban cowshed, the plan frames
a garden courtyard to the north and
lets slip a pocket of green to the
south. Living rooms and ground floor
bedrooms engage these green spaces
while a lofty mezzanine bedroom
overlooks the street, a jacarandashaded courtyard and the broader
urban context.
The key formal move, an articulated
sloping roof of custom-orb
zincalume, does away with the
jacaranda clogged gutters of
the former shed and addresses
the sunlight needs of southern
neighbours. This sculpted roof form
triggers an undulating ribbon of
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custom-orb zincalume wall cladding
and clerestory windows that capture
light and breeze, and generate the
building’s emblematic street address.
The raw materiality, exemplified
by zincalume roofing and cladding,
are integral to the expression of the
project.
Blacket Prize
PROJECT TEAM
Consultant Team:
Practice team:
Abbie Galvin
Principal
Umow Lai
Electrical Consultant,
Mechanical Consultant, ICT,
ESD Specialist
Julian Ashton
Project Director
Peter Titmuss
Project Director
WSP Lincoln Scott
Hydraulic Consultant,
Fire Engineer
Conor Larkins
Project Architect
JPW
Landscape Consultant
Isabell Beck
Architect
Arup
Acoustic Consultant
Daniel Londono
Architect
TTW
Structural & Civil Consultant,
Traffic Consultant
Shane Leydon
Architect
Ben Chew
Architect
Aaron Vumbaca
Project Team
Fiona Young
Education Specialist
Premier Engineering Services
Dangerous Goods
WT Partnership
Quantity Surveyor
Blackett Maguire & Goldsmith
BCA Consultant
Morris Goding
Accessibility
Steve Watson & Partners
PCA Consultants
Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub
BVN Donovan Hill
Jury citation
The National Life Sciences Hub
(NaLSH) is a new teaching and
research facility for the life sciences
at Charles Sturt University’s Wagga
Wagga campus.
In a typical rural campus setting
that is characterised by its lack of
planning and disparate array of
buildings, the National Life Sciences
Hub, in response, brings structure,
legibility and a new collegiate
sensibility to the campus.
The building is organised as an ‘L’
shape in plan and is sited to define
and terminate a new avenue in the
precinct. Marking the entry is the
principal gathering space: a grand
over-scaled verandah linking internal
and external spaces. Importantly, this
element is scaled both to the building
and to the wider science precinct.
The verandah and foyer form a nexus
between research and teaching
functions, supporting interaction
between schools, researchers and
students. The two wings house
student teaching and research
laboratories which are folded around
the entry foyer.
The project’s four functional strands
can be read in the articulated roof
form. Roof heights are modulated to
accommodate linear rooftop plant
and skylights along the circulation
spines of the building.
an environmental target of a 5 Star
Green Star Rating. Given the high
proportion of laboratories with
strict climatic controls, this target
represents Australian excellence in
environmental performance for a
building of this type.
The jury pays tribute to the client and
project team for exceeding the brief
to create a high quality educational
establishment that satisfies the
aspirations of the individual school
and the wider university. It is a
model in planning, design and
environmental performance for rural
Australian campuses.
Construction Team:
Savills
Project Manager
Joss Construction
Main Contractor
Established 1984
This Prize was introduced
specifically for buildings erected
in country New South Wales
and was named for the 19th
century architect Edmund
Blacket whose picturesque
Gothic Revival style churches
can still be found in many
country towns.
The use of red, recycled clay
brickwork builds on a history of
masonry construction in the Wagga
Wagga region. The project achieves
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NSW Premier’s Prize
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Chris Bosse
Project Architect,
Design Architect,
Project Manager
Consultant Team:
Will O’Rourke
Design Consultant
The Glue Society
Concept Developer
Berents Project Management
Project Manager
ARUP
Multi-disciplinary Engineers
Construction Team:
Redwood Projects
Builder
Established 1997
This prize is awarded by the
NSW Premier from a shortlist
of projects selected by the NSW
Government Architect which
are of benefit to the people
of NSW - whether they be
educational, cultural, transport
or accommodation facilities.
Photography: Brett Broadman
Martian Embassy
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)
Jury citation
LAVA’s Martian Embassy is the new
home for the Sydney Story Factory, a
not-for-profit creative writing centre
for marginalised young people in
Sydney.
The new shopfront ‘drop in’ centre
at 176 Redfern Street, Redfern is
designed to awaken creativity in kids
of all ages. The Martian Embassy
attracts young people who have had
difficulty in engaging with traditional
learning and creative writing pursuits.
This is an asset for the whole
community, to have a generation of
imaginative, articulate and engaged
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people with their own place to learn
and interact with one another.
plywood ribs is brought to life by ‘red
planet’ light and sound projections.
The design fires up the engines
of imagination. For inspiration,
LAVA travelled back to some of the
great stories - ‘Moby Dick’, H. G.
Wells’ ‘Time Machine’ and ‘2001: A
Space Odyssey’ by Stanley Kubrick.
Today passersby cannot resist
entering to explore and embark on
an ‘intergalactic journey’ from the
embassy at the street entrance, into
the shop full of red planet traveller
essentials, and then to the writing
classes at the back of the facility. A
total immersive space of oscillating
Visitors of all ages are stopped in
their tracks, trying to work out what
it looks like. Is it a whale? A time
tunnel? The centre’s director Cath
Keenan said: ‘Students feel it is their
special space. The design has played
a crucial role in our core mission –
enhancing young people’s creativity’.
The design and realisation of the
Martian Embassy was only made
possible through the pro-bono
work of the many people. This is
an inspiring example of innovative
design through prefabrication,
sustainability, using local resources,
customisation, and community
participation. The project has
demonstrated how it is possible to
create more with less. Better design
and amenities, with less material,
less energy footprint, and less cost.
And most importantly, how to
inspire and engage with the next
generation of creative writers and
thinkers.
City Of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
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Architect
ASPECT Studios
Landscape Architect
Lend Lease
Developer
Consultant Team:
Campbell
Interior Designer
Arup
Consultant and Mechanical
Services Consultant
Aurecon
Electrical Services
Consultant
Hydraulic Services
Lend Lease
Quantity Surveyor
Defire
Fire Engineering
Ramus
Lighting Design
Photography: Florian Groehn
Darling Quarter
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease
Jury citation
The winner of the inaugural City of
Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize is Darling
Quarter by Francis-Jones Morehen
Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and
Lend Lease.
The prize has been established to
recognise a project that improves
the quality of our public domain
through architectural or urban
design excellence, and it may be for,
or include public art. The inaugural
winner amply fulfils this criteria.
It revives the quarter with urbanity,
flair and credibility, and provides an
exemplary integration of work and
recreation spaces, hard surfaces and
green space, and active and passive
uses. Underpinned by a new activitybased campus for the Commonwealth
Bank, Darling Quarter is a model of
sustainability, with tri-generation,
black water treatment and energy
saving systems.
Its achievements in sustainability
are matched by its urban design
achievements and its contribution to
urban vitality. It integrates commercial
offices and open space at a very human
scale, with its six-storey height and
roof profile allowing winter sunshine
into the public spaces, making them a
welcome gathering place year-round.
At night, fixed and interactive lighting
combines public art with extended
operating hours for the retail, cafes
and restaurants. The development
provides licensed and unlicensed
seating as well as a promenade, public
seating areas, parkland and the most
wonderful children’s play area. This
generous 4000 square metre play area
and youth theatre provides for active
play, mental play and water play, and is
a meeting place for carers, parents and
grandparents.
Waterforms
Robert Bird
Civil Engineer
Deuce Design
Construction Team:
Lend Lease
Builder, Project Manager
Established 2013
The City of Sydney Lord
Mayor’s Prize has been
established to recognise a project
that improves the quality of
the public domain through
architectural or urban design
excellence and may be for, or
include, public art.
Darling Quarter is a most welcome
addition to the city.
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NSW President’s Prize
Sean O’Toole
UrbanGrowth NSW
Within the context of a new Planning
Act for New South Wales, and
a development-focused Metro
Strategy for Sydney, there will be
an urgent need in coming years for
greater urban renewal and infill
development. Successful future urban
renewal must balance and integrate
quality public domain, urban design
and architecture with community
aspirations and greater density.
In selecting the recipient of the
2013 NSW President’s Prize, the
leadership of Sean O’Toole at
UrbanGrowth NSW (formerly
Landcom) has been exemplary over
the past 18 years in delivering quality
urban renewal. Sean’s leadership
is collaborative and inclusive,
empowering those around him. He
has been a strong and pragmatic
advocate, understanding the
fundamental importance of quality
urban design and architecture in
urban renewal.
He has led UrbanGrowth NSW
in demonstrating the value of
investment in quality public domain
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as a key to successful urban renewal.
He has shown that government can
champion the public realm and lead
the delivery of city improvements.
Under Sean, UrbanGrowth NSW,
has achieved this in partnership
with design professionals,
developers and the community. In
its partnerships with developers it
has shared the development risk,
so it has had a real stake in success.
Landmark projects such as Victoria
Park, Rouse Hill Town Centre,
Prince Henry at Little Bay, and those
upcoming for Green Square and the
Newcastle CBD demonstrate quality
urban renewal and place making.
Common ingredients in this
successful approach have been
engagement with the community as
well as local and state governments,
the introduction of comprehensive
on-the-ground sustainability
measures, and most importantly,
design excellence.
Sean is taking his well-deserved
retirement this year, having dedicated
his entire productive career to the
public sector. He has consistently
made the wider public interest central
to his strategic decision-making. The
practical legacy of his approach is
an array of projects that have made a
significant qualitative difference to
the delivery of urban renewal in New
South Wales.
Established 1984
This prize is awarded at the discretion of the NSW
Chapter President and is given to an individual
who has made a substantial contribution to the
profession of architecture.
Andrew Burns
Andrew Burns
Architect
While the emergence of Andrew
Burns has been seemingly rapid and
spectacular; this belies a gestation
in private practice of some six years
and, prior to that, the development
of strong foundations working for
leading practices over a 10 year period.
Australia House opened just over
one year ago in the Niigata Prefecture
north of Tokyo. Secured through
an open international competition
which asked for a compact structure
of no more than 130 square metres,
it reveals a level of maturity which
Andrew explains simply as ‘an
understanding of what I can do and
what I can’t do, and acting within
those perimeters’.
Australia House exhibits simplicity
of form and striking directness.
Based on triangular geometries in
plan and section, it is responsive
to its site, and subtly references
the Australian vernacular as
well as the Japanese landscape.
Crescent House, also secured
through a competition process
for the Sherman Contemporary
Art Foundation, sits within the
Foundation’s courtyard. It is both art
object and architecture, comprising
the intersection of two arcs, framing
and transforming the surrounding
landscape. Andrew’s other recent
work includes a collaboration with
Sarah Eberle in the design of an
urban park for the 2012 London
Festival of Architecture, and Karinya
House, north of Sydney – again
exhibiting a similar restraint and
engagement with the landscape.
Encouragingly, Andrew anticipates
his future practice as being focused
on projects that have a public element
and a ‘socially restorative quality’. He
cites both student and social housing
as areas of particular interest.
Andrew is an excellent ambassador
for the advancement of the
architectural profession within
the public arena both locally and
internationally. We keenly anticipate
his considered and thoughtful future
contributions.
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Established 2011
The Emerging Architects Prize recognises
an emerging architect or architectural
collaboration’s contribution to architectural
practice, education, design excellence and
community involvement that advances the
profession’s standing in the public arena.
Marion Mahony Griffin Prize
Adrian Ashton Prize
For Writing And Criticism
Prior to accepting a secondment
as the Director of Strategic
Developments at SHFA, Helen had
attained the position of Assistant
Government Architect in the
(GAO), a position she has held since
2007. In this role she championed
the promotion of women architects
within the GAO, and has played
an important role in mentoring
graduates. She has taught at three
of Sydney’s universities and is
currently an Adjunct Professor at the
University of Sydney.
Helen Lochhead
Sydney Harbour
Foreshore Authority
This year’s jury was privileged to
receive nominations from a superb
group of women architects, all of
whom fulfilled the requirements of
this prize. The jury has selected Helen
Lochhead to receive the Marion
Mahony Griffin Prize this year.
Helen is currently the Director
of Strategic Developments at
the Sydney Harbour Foreshore
Authority (SHFA). She has over 20
years of involvement in the design of
the public realm in Australia. Helen
has worked tirelessly to achieve
design excellence in the public
sector working on architectural,
urban design and landscape design
projects. Through her role on
committees, design review panels
and competition juries, and from
within local council and state
government agencies, she has
worked determinedly, managing to
extricate herself from procedural
inertia and the daily difficulties of
working in a bureaucracy to make
design quality and sustainability
important considerations in major
capital works projects.
One of the considerations in
giving this prize is that the work
be in sympathy with the work
of Marion Mahony Griffin. The
Griffins often worked at a master
planning level, seeking to achieve
social improvements by creating
a new form of suburbia that was
more responsive to the landscape
and topography than the standard
colonial street grid. Working at the
master planning level is a key theme
throughout Helen’s work, thus we
consider her to be well deserving of
the Marion Mahony Griffin Prize.
Established 1998
Named for the pioneering woman architect,
Marion Mahony Griffin, this prize, was
established to acknowledge a distinctive body
of work by a female architect, be it for their
contribution to: architectural education;
journalism; research; theory; professional
practice; or built architectural work.
Laura Harding
Architecture Australia/
Hill Thalis
Architecture + Urban
Projects
We embrace ease and eschew risk at
our peril.1
Written in the closing lines of Laura
Harding’s review of extensions to
the National Gallery of Australia,
these words could just as well form
the personal motto of their author.
Faced with the task of reviewing a
contentious public project, amidst
the swirl of competing agendas,
and to a strict word count, it must
have been tempting to polemicise
or simplify the story – but this is
not how Laura writes. Her articles
take a far riskier position. Walking
a tightrope, or better, multiple
tightropes, she paces out in erudite
and concise phrases the spider-like
narrative strands interwoven through
the architectural project. Ultimately,
we are not just offered the critic’s
informed judgement but insight into
the many possible angles from which
judgement could be made. This
makes for educational, entertaining,
and deeply satisfying reading.
A Contributing Editor to
‘Architecture Australia’ since
2006, Laura regularly writes for
the publication and its online
counterpart, ‘ArchitectureAU’. She
has also contributed to ‘Architecture
Review Australia’, ‘Landscape
Architecture Australia’, ‘Monument
Magazine’, and ‘Houses Magazine’.
Despite her considerable acumen as
a critic, Laura is primarily engaged
in architectural practice. She is
a key contributor to the work of
Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban
Projects, where she has worked
since 1996.
Over the past year there has been
lively debate about the state and
purpose of architectural criticism.
If we are to invite public interest in
architecture, we must transcend
the mystification of practice that
makes architecture seem the selfish
product of a singular creator. Laura
Harding’s writing, as exemplified in
her National Gallery review, expands
the narrative by bringing to light the
contingencies, compromises and
generosities embodied in practice.
1. Harding, L. ‘Extending the NGA’. Architecture
Australia. January/February 2011.
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Established 1986
The Adrian Ashton prize was first introduced in
1986 as a biennial award, but is now awarded
yearly. Adrian Ashton was a past president of the
Institute and founding member of the National
Trust in NSW; however, it is his role as the
first editor of the NSW Chapter’s ‘Architecture
Bulletin’ that this prize commemorates.
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David Lindner Prize
The prize will support research
to analyse the complex area of
Sydney surrounding the Alexandra
Canal in its present state, in order
to suggest possible directions for
future development and the role
that architects might play in this
development. An attractive feature
of the submission is the engagement
of students, as future architects, in
thinking about wider urban issues.
Nathan Etherington
Scale Architecture/
The David Lindner Prize aims
to encourage new research on
architecture in the public realm and
is awarded for a submission that
proposes ideas for solving the real
challenges facing our cities and that
contributes to professional and
broader community debate.
The jury is delighted to name Nathan
Etherington (Scale Architecture/
University of Sydney) the inaugural
winner for his submission entitled
‘Do not disturb. Toxic Urbanism and
the Alexandra Canal’. This research
builds build on investigations
currently being developed in the
Masters Graduation Design Studio
at the University of Sydney, where
Nathan teaches.
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The jury unanimously agreed that
Nathan was a worthy recipient for
the inaugural David Lindner Prize.
The proposal will be featured in
an exhibition during the Sydney
Architecture Festival in October.
Results of this research, due to be
submitted in January 2014, will be
subsequently published in the NSW
Chapter’s ‘Architecture Bulletin’.
Established 2013
This prize is named in memory of the architect
David Lindner who disappeared whilst travelling
in Iran in 1997. Initiated by David Lindner’s
family as a means to honour his memory, this
prize aims to encourage emerging architects
to contribute to the growth, innovation and
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NSW Design Medal
Joint Winners
The Iron Blow
Anthony Parsons
University of Newcastle
The Iron Blow by Anthony Parsons
is a fearless leap into an alien world on our world.
Using multimedia presentation
reminiscent of the futurists and
constructivists – consisting of
drawings, digital imagery, film clips
and an exquisite maquette – he takes
us into a man-degraded landscape
that could be on another planet in
preparation for the eventual journey
that humankind must make.
The arrangement and scale of
spaces as well as the materiality
and time-related decay create an
environment that, once mastered,
will enable people to break the
emotional link with Earth and
venture forth.
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Platform 870: An alternative theatre
Manus Leung
University of New South Wales
Time, decay and beautiful
desolation are constant themes and
companions - all part of a training
exercise.
The project is dark but extremely
bold and strangely optimistic in its
raw beauty.
The jury was impressed by Manus
Leung’s alternative theatre, which
deftly engages temporal metaphor
and sensitive adaptation, to
re-present aspects of Cockatoo
Island’s fabric.
This evocative presentation
transformed Cockatoo Island’s
robust harbour topography
and familiar industrial fabric
into a dramatic and grounded
yet ephemeral performing arts
stage. The familiar industrial/arts
transformation is offered a fresh
interpretation via Leung’s sensitive
insertion of an elegant new circular
form suspended delicately above
the chasm of the Sutherland dock.
The concentric layers of the
new spatial rotunda assemble
spectators, actors and storytellers
alike, suspended above water and
nestled amidst the robust adjacent
rectilinear warehouses transformed
respectively into front and back of
house. The hovering rotunda echoes
the suspension of disbelief inherent
in the contract between audience
and actor, as the eternal circular
horizon of the theatre; suspended,
exposed and harbourside –
beautifully delivers drama from the
outset.
NSW First Degree
Design Prize
Structural Innovation
in Architecture Prize
Steamworks
Angus Vinden
Ribb Catalan
Collaboration of 13 students
University of Technology Sydney
Steamworks is set in an urban infill
site within inner-city Newcastle.
Through rigorous analysis, the
proposal investigates a number of
issues, including the constraints of
existing context and grain, designing
for denser urban fabric and
connections to the wider city.
The jury was impressed by its
bold agenda, blurring boundaries
by altering the way people see
and use the space and its use of
strong organisational and planning
strategies. The ideas are carried
through to the specification of
appropriate materials.
The project’s program of an urban
spa and associated facilities such
as saunas, hot and cool chambers
and a gym are carefully considered
across several floors of purposeful
experiential sequence.
The final scheme is beautifully
drawn to affectively evoke the
atmospheric qualities of an innercity spa.
Collaboration between students
Philena Au Yeung, Hani Bafail,
Francesco Bianchini, Timothy
Cheung, Sonni Chung, Domenico
Ciccio, Laura Hinds, James
Lauman, Natalie Ma, Sandra
Mendonca, Amelia Pang,
Jordan Soriot, Aaron Yeoh and
instructors Phillipe Block,
Melonie Bayl-Smith, Dave Pigram.
At first glance this beautiful
arching, curving form of slender
legs and fanning body looks like
it is attempting to climb the cold
wall of a UTS warehouse. This
structure appears organic and
anthropomorphic. To realise this
work with masonry blocks and
mortar is an impressive resolution
and understanding of material
capacity and structural ability.
Reminiscent of Gaudi’s parabolic
curvilinear structural forms, Ribb
Catalan pushes one’s structural
understanding of tensile brittle
ceramics. The team’s use of rigorous
computer modelling – to analyse,
iterate and optimise the direction
of load to maintain the structure
in its safe limits of compression
and tension – is a clear display of
structural innovation. To allow this
structural expression in a playful,
almost Brett Whiteley-esque
freedom of line is exemplary.
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Digital Innovation in
Architecture Prize
Hanging Luminality
Jonathan Fernandes and James Ye-Won Lee
This project represents a unique
design response using digital
techniques that cross over
between art, architecture and
robotics. Designed in response to
a brief from the Sydney Festival
to create a performance space for
the summer of 2012, the project
– which references the kinetic
sculptural work of Reuben Margolin
– sought to challenge the potential
of architecture as a “temporal,
dynamic system capable of being
assembled and disassembled within
a few days”.
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Through the design and installation
of a segmented ceiling plane, which
is linked to a series of sensors and
height-adjustable rigging supported
from an overarching structural truss
system, Hanging Luminality can
adapt its form to suit the density or
flow of occupants, the performance
type, or to follow a prescribed series
of instructions through which the
spatial and volumetric proportions
of the space are adjusted. One
could imagine interaction with
the work of Andrew Benjamin
through the ability for this system to
dynamically modify the occupants’
perception of volume through the
fluid manipulation of surfaces.
The parametric computational
techniques utilised to evolve the
temporal and mechanical aspects
of the design establish not only the
sensory operation of the system
but also the assessment of various
construction compositions.
The final execution of the work
to the level of full-size mockup demonstrates the rigorous
application of these techniques
from concept to assembly.
2013 New South Wales Graduate
& Student Awards Jury
Shaun Carter (Jury Chair), Joe Agius ,
Angelique Edmonds, Emili Fox,
Steven Donaghey, Michael Weiner,
Jana Somasundaram.
2013 New South Wales University Awards & Prizes
History And
Theory Award
Construction
And Practice
Prize
First Degree
Graduate Of
The Year Prize
Masters
Graduate Of
The Year Prize
A prize for the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the
discipline areas of History and Theory in the three years of the Master of
Architecture degree.
Jemima Manton
Sophie Bock
Dominic Warland
Jonathon Gregory Evans
A prize for the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the
discipline areas of Construction and Practice in the three years of the Bachelor
of Architecture Degree.
Christopher Mullaney
Amy Beech-Allen
Angus McLaren
Jay Alexander Griffin
This prize awarded to the most outstanding student in Design and
Professional Studies graduating from a Bachelors program.
Hamish Cox
Eugene Kirkwood
Marguerite Farmakis
Benjamin Peake
This prize awarded to the most outstanding student in Design and
Professional Studies graduating from a Masters program.
Christopher Mullaney
Madeleine Rowe
Marinel Dator
Christopher Bamborough
55
Entries
Public Architecture
1
Blacktown Clinical School
McConnel Smith & Johnson
Image: Richard Glover
2
Charles Sturt University
National Life Sciences Hub
BVN Donovan Hill
Blacket Prize
Image: John Gollings
3
Charlestown Medical Centre
Schreiber Hamilton
Architecture
Image: Kevin Schreiber
4
Concord Medical
Education Centre Suters Architects
Image: Hans Schlupp
5
Cranbrook Junior School
Tzannes Associates
Image: Simon Wood
6
CSU Community
Health Facility Brewster Hjorth Architects
Image: Mark James
7
Hunter Medical
Research Institute
SKM-S2F and Denton
Corker Marshall - architects
in association.
8
Ingham Health
Research Institute
McConnel Smith & Johnson
9
Lycee Condorcet
Gymnasium
Integrated Design Group
Image: David Ha
10
Mill Hill Early
Education Centre
Baker Kavanagh Architects
Image: Neil Fenelon
11
Morris Iemma Indoor
Sports Centre
McPhee Architects
Image: Sharrin Rees
12
Museum of Contemporary
Art Redevelopment
Architect Marshall
in association with
Government Architect’s
Office
Commendation
Image: Brett Boardman
13
NeuRA
Cox Richardson Architects
and Planners
14
Newcastle Museum
Francis-Jones Morehen
Thorp (fjmt)
15
Newington College
Sesquicentenary Project
Budden Nangle Michael
Hudson
Image: Anthony Fretwell
16
Newtown Interchange
Caldis Cook Group in
association with the NSW
Office
Image: Ross Thornton
21
The Star Event Centre
Fitzpatrick + Partners
Image: Tania Milbourne
1
2
22
The University of Sydney
Centre for Carbon,
Water and Food
Suters Architects
Image: Hans Schlup
23
The Wayside Chapel
Environa Studio
4
3
Image: Owen Zhu
24
UTS Great Hall and
Balcony Room
DRAW
25
UTS Multi-Purpose
Sports Hall
PTW Architects
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Image: Brian Steele
26
Waterloo Youth Family
Community Centre
Collins and Turner with
City of Sydney
Sulman Medal;
Architecture Award –
17
Ourimbah Information
Resource Common Extension
Webber Architects
Image: Adrian Boddy
18
Redfern Jarjum College
Architects
Image: Peter Lonergan
19
St James’ Primary School,
Muswellbrook
Webber Architects
Image: Josh Marshal
56
20
BVN Donovan Hill
14
15
16
Entries
Urban Design
1
18 College Street
Scott Carver
Image: Geoff Ambler
18
17
19
2
Darling Quarter
Thorp (fjmt) with ASPECT
Studios and Lend Lease
Lloyd Rees Award;
Milo Dunphy Award;
City of Sydney Lord
Mayor’s Prize
1
2
20
3
Newtown Interchange
Caldis Cook Group in
association with the
NSW Government
Architect’s office
21
4
3
Image: Ross Thornton
22
4
Pitt Street Mall Public
Domain Upgrade
Architecture Award
23
Image: Tony Caro
5
6
5
Railway Park Auburn
MWA
Image: Kyal Sheehan
24
25
6
The Former Coal Loader
Hassell
Image: Simon Wood
7
7
Walla Mulla Park
Chris Elliott Architects
with Terragram
26
57
Entries
1
11 Joynton Avenue
CHROFI
Image: Simon Whitbread
2
5 Murray Rose Avenue
Turner
1
2
3
85 Castlereagh St
John Wardle Architects
and Westfield Design and
Construction
4
Brisans Motorcycle
Showroom
Suters Architects
3
4
Image: Andy Warren
5
Danks and Bourke
Tony Owen Partners
6
Darling Quarter
Thorp (fjmt)
Sir Arthur G. Stephenson
Award
6
5
7
Eclipse Tower
Fitzpatrick + Partners
Image: Tanja Milbourn
8
Gladesville Bridge Marina
7
8
9
9
Kingston HQ
Suters Architects
Image: Andy Warren
10
Sydney Eye Specialist Centre
Kingsford
Georgina Wilson Architect
Image: Murray Fredericks
11
The Darling
Cox Richardson Architects
and Planners
58
10
11
Entries
1
85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby &
Entry
John Wardle Architects
and Westfield Design and
Construction
Commendation
11
Museum of Contemporary Art
Redevelopment
Architect Marshall
in association with
Office
2
Allen and Overy
BVN Donovan Hill
12
Point Piper Residence
Daniel Boddam
Image: Terrence Chin
3
Bresic Whitney Office Fitout
13
Seacliff House
Image: John Golling
4
Clayton Utz, Sydney
Bates Smart
14
BVN Donovan Hill
John Verge Award
5
Darling Quarter
Thorp (fjmt), E.G.O. Group
and Davenport Campbell
6
Easts Legends Lounge
Cullinan Ivanov Partnership
Image: Giles Westley
7
Madeleine Blanchfield
Architects
Image: Felix Forest
8
Harbour Rocks Hotel
SJB Interiors
Image: Tom Evangelidis
9
Lilyfield Warehouse
Architecture Award
1
2
3
4
6
5
15
The University of Sydney
Fisher Library and Learning
Network
Suters Architects
7
8
9
16
UoW UniCentre
Brewster Hjorth Architects
Image: Christian Mushenko
17
UTS Great Hall and Balcony
Room
DRAW
11
10
12
18
Woods Bagot
Commendation
Image: Trevor Mein
13
14
15
16
Image: Michael Nicholson
10
Martian Embassy
LAVA (Laboratory for
Visionary Architecture)
Image: Brett Broadman
17
18
59
Entries
Residential Architecture - Houses (Alterations & Additions)
1
25 The Crescent
DB + Balagna Architects
11
Freshwater Semi
David Boyle Architect
Image: Diego Balagn
Image: Brigid Arnott
2
A House With Tiles On It
Welsh + Major
12
G+T House
Marsh Cashman Koolloos
Architects
Image: Ben Hosking
3
Balmain Archive
Innovarchi
4
Balmain House
Fox Johnston
Architecture Award
5
Tzannes Associates
Commendation
6
Chauvel House
Mary Ellen Hudson
Architects
13
Glebe House
Design 5 - Architects
Image: Pohio Adams Architects
10
Elliott Ripper House
Christopher Polly Architect
2
3
5
4
6
15
Commendation
Image: Peter Bennetts
16
Lilyfield Warehouse
17
Northbridge House
Sandberg Schoffel
Architects
9
Double Bay House
Pohio Adams Architects
1
7
Cosgriff House
Christopher Polly Architect
Image: Geoff Beatty
23
Tír na nÓg
Wilkinson Award
14
House on Captain
Piper’s Road
Kieran McInerney Architect
Image: Michael Nicholso
8
Cowshed House
Residential Architecture
Houses (Alterations &
Additions);
Sustainable Architecture;
Commendation –
COLORBOND® Award for
Steel Architecture
Image: Stephen Antonopoulo
Image: Grant Harvey
60
22
The Upside-Down Back-ToFront House
7
8
10
9
11
Image: Alex Nikulin
18
Oatley Road Residence,
Paddington
Georgina Wilson Architect
12
13
15
14
19
Ryrie House Studio Schelp
Image: VMark Design
20
Shutter House
Louise Nettleton Architects
16
17
18
21
Tenandry
Mury Architects
Image: Ben Guthrie
20
21
22
23
19
Entries
Residential Architecture - Houses (New)
1
Angophora House
Commendation
Image: Simon Wood
2
Austinmer Beach House
Alexander Symes Architect
in association with G + V
Architecture
Image: Nicholas Watt
3
Ayana - Lighthouse Road
House, Byron Bay
Corben Architects
Image: Saul Goodwin
4
Bantry Bay House
MacCormick Simonian
Architects + MacCormick &
Associates Architects
Image: Huw Lambert
5
Bellevue Hill House
David Edelman Architects
Image: Brian Steele
6
Bondi House
Andrew Burges Architects
11
Gallery House
Domenic Alvaro
Image: Meinphoto
12
Madeleine Blanchfield
Architects
Architecture Award
1
3
2
Image: Felix Forest
13
Helen St House
Jodie Dixon Architect
Image: Murray McKea
14
Hewlett House
MPR Design Group
4
5
7
8
6
15
Hunter Valley House
James Stockwell Architect
Image: Patrick Bingham Hall
16
Invisible House
Peter Stutchbury
Architecture
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7
Bronte House
Tobias Partners
Image: Justin Alexander
9
10
11
8
Coalcliff House
Indyk Architects
9
Five Dock House
Utz-Sanby Architects
Image: Marian Riabic
12
13
14
10
Flipped House
Marsh Cashman Koolloos
Architects
Architecture Award
Image: Willem Rethmeier
15
16
61
Entries
Residential Architecture - Houses (New) (Cont.)
17
Jamberoo Farm House
Casey Brown Architecture
Image: Patrick Bingham Hall
18
Lagoon House Matt Elkan Architect
Image: Simon Whitbread
19
Link House
Renato D’Ettorre Architects
20
Keir Residence
True North Architects
21
King Residence
David Boyle Architect
22
Macmasters Beach House
Neeson Murcutt Architects
23
Merewether 4
Webber Architects
Image: Michael Kai
24
Northern Beaches House
Tobias Partners
26
Russ & Diana’s House Cracknell & Lonergan
Architects
Image: Mark Callahan
27
Shellbank Avenue House
Corben Architects
Image: Steve Back
18
17
19
28
Shelly Beach House
Nathan Lester Architecture
29
St Albans House
Architecture Award
21
20
22
23
30
Stewart House
Architecture Award
31
Waverley Residence
Anderson Architecture
25
24
26
Image: Simon Anderson
32
Yatte Yattah House
Tzannes Associates
Image: Ben Guthrie
25
Palm Beach House
Shahe Simonian (Zanazan)
28
29
Image: Trevor Mein
31
62
32
30
27
Entries
Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing
1
18 College Street
Scott Carver
Image: GeoffAmbler
2
29-35 Prince Street, Cronulla
Aaron Bolot Award
3
Apex Apartments
Turner
4
Benelong Crescent
Luigi Rosselli Architects
5
Eden Art Wall
Tony Owen Partners
6
ESQ Bronte
Image: Neil Fenelo
7
Grand Central Apartments
EJE Architecture
Image: EJE
8
Iglu Central
Bates Smart
Architecture Award
9
Imperial
Stanisic Architects
11
Robert Menzies Student
Accommodation
Allen Jack+Cottier
Architects
Image: Nic Bailey
12
Silk Apartments
Architecture Award
1
2
3
4
13
Turner
Architecture Award
Image: Ethan Rohloff
14
The Majestic
Hill Thalis Architecture +
Urban Projects
Commendation
5
6
7
15
UWS Bankstown Student
Housing
8
9
11
10
Image: Neil Fenelon
16
VSQ2
Image: Steve Bac
17
YVES Apartments
JAA Studio Architecture +
Urbanism
12
13
14
15
10
Little Bay
Thorp (fjmt)
Commendation
16
17
63
Entries
1
Always was always will be
Architects
Image: Paul Patterson
2
Art Gallery of NSW
Forecourt Upgrade
3
Blaxland Riverside
Playground Kiosk
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer with
JMD Design and Sydney
Olympic Park Authority
4
Brisbane Street House
Alexander &CO.
5
Casa Delle Lune
Timothy Moon Architects
Image: Timothy Moon
6
Cook Park Amenities
Fox Johnston
Commendation
7
Crescent House
Commendation
8
Eileen O’Connor Centre
Allen Jack+Cottier
Architects
Image: Nic Bailey
9
Grid
11
Hyland House
12
Laman Street Residence
Space Design Architecture
Image: Edward Highton
Space Design
1
2
Image: Clive Lucas Stapleton
Partners
64
4
13
Martian Embassy
LAVA (Laboratory for
Visionary Architecture)
Commendation
Image: Peter Murphy
14
Rose Bay Marina Gangway
and Service Pedestals
Allen Jack+Cottier
Architects
5
6
7
8
Image: Nic Bailey
15
Science House
Welsh + Major
Image: Welsh Major
16
Tamarama Semi-D
David Langston-Jones
9
10
11
Image: Anthony Browell
17
The Room
Malcolm Carver
18
Tilba Pavillion
Tobias Partners
13
14
19
Office
Architecture Award
Image: SimonWhitbread
17
16
10
Hyde Park Barracks Reconstruction of Gate
Lodge Domes
Clive Lucas Stapleton
& Partners
3
18
19
15
12
Entries
Heritage (Creative Adaptation)
Entries
Heritage (Conservation)
1
Botanica Heritage Precinct –
The Gallery
Allen Jack+Cottier
Architects
1
Conservation of the
House, Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour Federation
Trust
Architecture Award
Image: Nic Bailey
2
Former Paramount Studios
Building
Fox Johnston and Urbis
Image: Stephen Fabling
1
2
2
Great Hall, University
of Sydney
OCP Architects
Image: Simon Wood
3
Glebe Town Hall
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
3
Harbour Rocks Hotel
SJB Interiors
4
3
Image: Tom Evangelidi
3
4
Restoration and
Rejuvenation of George
Bradman House, Bowral
Clive Lucas Stapleton &
Partners
Image: Simon Wood
5
Commendation
2
Image: Csilla Cserhalmi
4
Gowings and State Theatre
Buildings Restoration and
Hotel Conversion, Sydney
Woodhead and Graham
Brooks & Associates
Greenway Award
1
Image: Clive Lucas Stapleton
Partners
5
Taree Courthouse Suters Architects
5
Image: Peter Bennett
4
Image: Russell McFarland
6
Science House
Welsh + Major
7
Shutter House
Louise Nettleton Architects
6
5
8
The Former Coal Loader
Hassell
Image: Simon Woo
9
The Majestic
Hill Thalis Architecture +
Urban Projects
Commendation
7
8
9
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Collins and Turner with
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Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment
Architect Marshall in
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Lloyd Rees Award
Darling Quarter
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with
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Pitt Street Mall Public
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Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award
Darling Quarter
John Verge Award
BVN Donovan Hill
Architecture Award
Lilyfield Warehouse
Commendation
85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby & Entry
John Wardle Architects and Westfield
Design and Construction
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Woods Bagot
Milo Dunphy Award
Darling Quarter
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with
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Cowshed House
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Houses
Wilkinson Award
Tír na nÓg
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Architecture Award
Cowshed House
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Balmain House
Fox Johnston
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Tzannes Associates
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New
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St Albans House
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Flipped House
Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects
Architecture Award
Stewart House
Architecture Award
Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
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Angophora House
Residential Architecture Multiple Housing
Aaron Bolot Award
29-35 Prince Street Cronulla
Architecture Award
Iglu Central
Bates Smart
Architecture Award
Silk Apartments
Architecture Award
Turner
Commendation
Little Bay
Commendation
The Majestic
Art Gallery of NSW Forecourt Upgrade
Architecture Award
COLORBOND® Award for
Steel Architecture
Iglu Central
Bates Smart
Commendation
Cowshed House
Blacket Prize
Charles Sturt University
National Life Sciences Hub
BVN Donovan Hill
NSW Premier’s Prize
Commendation
Cook Park Amenities
Fox Johnston
Martian Embassy
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary
Architecture)
Commendation
Martian Embassy
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary
Architecture)
City of Sydney
Lord Mayor’s Prize
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Crescent House
Heritage
Greenway Award
Gowings and State Theatre Buildings
Restoration and Hotel Conversion
Woodhead and Graham Brooks and
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Commendation
The Majestic
Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban
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CONSERVATION
Architecture Award
Hyde Park Barracks - Reconstruction of Gate
Lodge Domes
Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners
Architecture Award
Conservation of the
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Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
Award For Enduring Architecture
The AMP Building Sydney Cove
PTW Architects
Darling Quarter
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NSW President’s Prize
Sean O’Toole
UrbanGrowth NSW
Andrew Burns
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Helen Lochhead
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
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