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2014 NSW 

ARCHITECTURE 

AWARDS

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2014 NSW 

ARCHITECTURE 

AWARDS 

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 

MESSAGE FROM BLUESCOPE 

PRINCIPAL CORPORATE PARTNER 

The entries for the 2014 NSW 

Architecture Awards reflect the 

broad range of architectural 

projects across New South 

Wales – from outstanding largescale 

public place-making to 

imaginative and cost-effective 

alterations and additions through 

to modest houses. Ninety-one 

projects were shortlisted from 

almost 200 entries and 60 

awards and commendations were 

made along with nine prizes. It is 

pleasing to see the juries’ spirit of 

generosity in acknowledging the 

good work of our peers. 

Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award 

In recognising the importance 

of alterations and additions as 

the life blood of small practices, 

the decision was taken this 

year to name the award for 

this category. Complementing 

the award for new houses 

named after the mid-century 

architect Leslie Wilkinson, the 

newly named alterations and 

additions award acknowledges 

the mid-century partnership of 

Hugh and Eva Buhrich. Each of 

them made separate but related 

contributions to architecture in 

NSW. The Hugh and Eva Buhrich 

Award for Alterations and 

Additions equally acknowledges 

the refined and crafted 

architecture of Hugh, as well 

as the sustained promotion of 

architecture undertaken by Eva. 

This talented couple qualified 

in Europe in the 1930s but 

emigrated to Australia from 

Hitler’s Germany. Eva Buhrich 

soon turned to writing to 

generate the family income. She 

made a career out of promoting 

modern architecture at a time 

when it was still difficult for 

women to find employment in 

architectural offices and when 

modern architecture was little 

understood. Frustrated by 

inequality in the profession, she 

turned to journalism instead, 

writing for the popular press 

and industry publications, 

including Building Ideas, which 

she was instrumental in setting 

up. Her work included a regular 

weekly column for The Sydney 

Morning Herald from 1957 to the 

late 1960s, Australian Women’s 

Weekly in the 1940s, Woman in 

the 1950s, House and Garden in 

the early 1960s, and Walkabout in 

the mid-1960s. 

Hugh undertook a number 

of unremittingly modernist 

alterations and additions to 

several Walter Burley Griffin 

houses. He built their first house 

Castlecrag (1947-52), designed 

together with Eva, including 

all the furniture and fittings. 

His best-known work, also 

self-built, is the State Heritage 

Register listed Buhrich House in 

Castlecrag, (1968-72). 

Jury system 

Our jury selection methods 

maintain a good balance 

between experience and fresh 

faces. New jurors stay on the jury 

register for a five-year period; 

after that they need to re-apply. 

The register is published on the 

Institute’s website to ensure 

transparency. 

With 3,500 NSW members 

there is no need for us to call on 

‘repeat’ appearances of jurors 

within a decade. To this end we 

are currently developing criteria 

to enshrine a broad diversity 

of member participation in the 

jury system, while also retaining 

some continuity and prior jury 

experience. 

My thanks to all jurors who have 

generously contributed their 

time and expertise to this year’s 

awards program. 

Award categories 

Discussion around the awards 

criteria occurs every year. It is 

important to note that jurors 

are required to wholly comply 

with the criteria but this does 

not inhibit a jury from adding its 

own flavour to its decisions. One 

of the major misconceptions in 

recent years is that the public 

category is exclusively for public 

buildings that are accessible 

to the public. This category, 

however, includes institutional 

buildings that can in fact be 

quite private. 

Another common misconception 

is that the interior category 

is exclusively for ‘separately 

commissioned’ interiors – 

whereas any interior, including 

those wholly integrated with 

the architecture in a single 

commission, are equally eligible. 

Unbuilt master plan projects are 

eligible in the urban category, 

and townhouses – as of this year 

–are eligible in both the houses 

and multiple housing category. 

Small projects is a category that 

does require a better definition to 

guide members, and is currently 

under review. 

There has been general 

acceptance by the profession 

both in NSW and nationally of the 

decision to remove the separate 

sustainability category and 

instead make the sustainability 

award available to projects 

entered into any category. It 

is good to see the increased 

number of sustainability awards 

presented this year, reflecting 

the profession’s increasing 

sophistication in applying 

sustainability principles to 

projects big and small. 

Engagement with the public 

The awards program remains 

our best annual opportunity to 

engage with the general public. 

There are two stages to this. 

The first is the presentation day 

process. As a fellow practitioner, 

I have been impressed by the 

quality and variety of work 

presented. It’s a pity so few 

members of the general public 

know about these presentations. 

One solution may be to find a 

new, more central venue for them. 

The back end of the awards 

program – publicising the awards 

themselves – is much easier to 

fix, and we have a readymade 

solution in the Architecture on 

Show program. Practices spend 

quite a bit of time and money to 

enter the awards. The return on 

that investment should include 

the opportunity for speaking 

engagements to the public and 

potential clients. 

Thank you to all practices 

who have submitted in this 

year’s awards program, and 

congratulations to the winners. 

Joe Agius 

NSW Chapter President 

We at BlueScope are eternally 

inspired by design that so elegantly 

endures the demands of our unique 

Australian environment. 

As Principal Corporate Partner, 

it is with great pleasure that we 

continue to support excellence in 

Australian architecture through 

the 2014 Australian Institute of 

Architects Awards program. 

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the Australian market. 

From BlueScope, congratulations to 

all the architects who have entered 

the awards program throughout the 

year, and especially to those who 

have had their work recognised as 

award winners. 

John Rosette 

National Business Development 

Manager Commercial & Innovation 

BlueScope 

Finally, there are signs of spring in 

the property industry! 

Not exactly a plethora of flowers 

per se, but new shoots and buds 

slowly emerging from the post-GFC 

winter. Affordability, sustainability, 

adaptability, modularisation, 

longevity, innovation, humanisation 

and efficiency appear to be the 

themes de jour. 

At BlueScope, we continue to be 

inspired by the timeless creativity 

of your designs, no matter what 

the season. We look forward to 

continuing to share ideas with you 

about how steel can be applied 

to optimise the value of the built 

environment for all. 

Here’s to a far better season for 

everyone: full of optimism, sunshine 

and bird song - and the hustle and 

bustle of a healthy, happy, busy 

industry. 

Danielle James 

Business Development Manager 

NSW/ACT Commercial & Innovation 

BlueScope 

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JURORS 

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PUBLIC 

ARCHITECTURE AND 

URBAN DESIGN 

1. Peter McGregor 

McGregor Westlake 

Architecture (Chair) 

2. Penny Fuller 

Silvester Fuller 

3. Stephen Varady 

Stephen Varady 

Associates 

COMMERCIAL 

AND INTERIOR 

ARCHITECTURE 

4. Steve Pearse 

DWP|SUTERS (Chair) 

5. Matthew Blain 

HASSELL 

6. Stephanie Smith 

Innovarchi Architects 

SUSTAINABLE 

ARCHITECTURE 

7. Tony Caro 

Tony Caro 


8. Virginia Kerridge 

Virginia Kerridge 

Architect 

9. Catherine Lassen 

University of New 

South Wales 



Architecture 

10. Lester Partridge 

AECOM 


DWP|SUTERS 

RESIDENTIAL 

ARCHITECTURE – 

HOUSES (NEW) AND 

(ALTERATIONS & 

ADDITIONS) 



Architect (Chair) 

11. Trish Croaker 

Fairfax Media 

12. Emili Fox 

Fox Johnston 

13. James Stockwell 

James Stockwell 

Architect 

RESIDENTIAL 

ARCHITECTURE – 

MULTIPLE HOUSING 

7. Tony Caro 

Tony Caro 


14. Philip Graus 

Cox Richardson 

15. Michael Zanardo 

Studio Zanardo 

SMALL PROJECT 

ARCHITECTURE 

AND HERITAGE 

(CONSERVATION 

AND CREATIVE 

ADAPTATION) 



South Wales (Chair) 

16. Mary Knaggs 

NSW Government 

Architect’s Office 

17. Philip Moore 

Melocco & Moore 

ENDURING 

ARCHITECTURE 

7. Tony Caro 

Tony Caro 




Architect 



South Wales 



Architecture 


DWP|SUTERS 

BLACKET PRIZE 

7. Tony Caro 

Tony Caro 


18. Sarah Aldridge 

NSW Country 

Division Committee 

Chair 



Architect 



South Wales 

19. Stuart Landrigan 

Newcastle Division 

Committee Chair 



Architecture 


DWP|SUTERS 

EMERGING 

ARCHITECT PRIZE 

(SPONSORED BY 

AWS) 

20. Jenna Rowe 

Terrior/DARCH 

Committee (Chair) 

21. Joe Agius 

Cox Richardson/ 

NSW Chapter 

President 

22. Andrew Burns 

Andrew Burns 

Architect/ 2013 

Emerging Architect 

Prize Recipient 

23. Joseph Loh 

SJB/DARCH 


24. Kellie Moore 

AWS 

MARION MAHONY 

GRIFFIN PRIZE 

25. Dr Judith 

O’Callaghan 


South Wales (Chair) 

26. Dr Noni Boyd 

NSW Chapter 

Heritage Officer 

27. Helen Lochhead 

2013 Marion 

Mahony Griffin Prize 

Recipient 

28. Dr Kirsten Orr 

University of 

Technology Sydney 

29. George Phillips 

Tanner Kibble 

Denton Architects 

ADRIAN ASHTON 

PRIZE FOR WRITING 

AND CRITICISM 

(SPONSORED BY 

BATES SMART) 

30. Shaun Carter 

Caterwilliamson 

Architects/NSW 

Chapter Editorial 

Committee Chair/ 

NSW Chapter 

Councillor (Chair) 

21. Joe Agius 

Cox Richardson/ 

NSW Chapter 

President 

11. Trish Croaker 

Fairfax Media 

31. Laura Harding 

Hill Thalis 

Architecture + 

Urban Projects/2013 

Adrian Ashton Prize 

Recipient 

32. Philip Vivian 

Bates Smart 

DAVID LINDNER 

PRIZE 

33. Robyn Lindner 

(Chair) 

23. Joseph Loh 

SJB/DARCH 


34. Peter Mould 

Emeritus 

Government 

Architect 

35. Nathan Etherington 

Scale 

Architecture/2013 

David Lindner Prize 

Recipient 

Public Architecture 6 

Urban Design 12 

Commercial Architecture 14 

Interior Architecture 17 

Sustainable Architecture 22 

Residential Architecture 

– Houses 27 


– Alterations & Additions 32 


– Multiple Housing 37 

Small Project Architecture 42 

Heritage – Conservation and 

Creative Adaptation 46 

Award for Enduring Architecture 50 

Colorbond® Award for 

Steel Architecture 52 

Blacket Prize 54 

NSW Premier’s Prize 55 

City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize 56 

NSW President’s Prize 58 

Emerging Architect Prize 58 

Marion Mahony Griffin Prize 59 

Adrian Ashton Prize for 

Writing and Criticism 59 

David Lindner Prize 60 

2014 NSW Graduate and 

Student Awards 61 

2014 NSW Architecture 

Award Entries 64 

2014 NSW Architecture 

Award Winners 76 

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AC 

PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE 

SULMAN MEDAL 

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. 

Prince Alfred Park + Pool Upgrade 

Neeson Murcutt Architects in association with City of Sydney 

Photography: Brett Boardman 

PLAN 

Jury citation 

The Prince Alfred Park Pool 

upgrade is an intelligent 

and carefully considered 

regeneration of a worn and 

neglected site at the edge 

of the city. It is a testament 

to a robust and respectful 

collaboration between the 

architects, the City of Sydney, 

and the many sub-consultants 

involved in the project. 

The final design, one of several 

iterations, reflects the client’s 

desire to favour parkland 

over built form. What might 

have been an architectural 

compromise is a model 

synthesis of landscape and 

architecture, art and urban 

design. 

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Two triangulated mounds, 

on either side of the pool, 

simultaneously connect and 

distinguish the pool from 

the park. Along Chalmers 

Street the primary mound of 

meadow grasses, cranks and 

folds over a 6 metre deep by 

120 metre long space that 

houses the pool facilities. 

Whilst the pool is largely 

hidden from the street, playful 

hints of the leisure space 

within can be read along and 

behind the mound. A body of 

palms announces the entry. 

The pool has been retained 

and upgraded, with a 

delightful suite of ‘follies’ 

designed to complement its 

use - a toddler shade and 

water play area, a “running” 

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PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

Rachel Neeson 

Nicholas Murcutt 

Jenny Hien 

Louise Holst 

Joseph Grech 

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Tamas Jones 

Isabelle Toland 

Amelia Holliday 

David Coleborne 

Sean Choo 

Anne Kristin Risnes 

Consultant Team: 

SDA PLAN Structures 

Structural 

0 10 Consultant 

30m 

Cardno 

0 10 PRINCE ALFRED 30m PARK Civil POOL Consultant 

Lighting, Art + 

CITY OF SYDNEY + NEESON MURCUTT ARCHITECTS Science PTY LTD 

Lighting Consultant 

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Fence Engineer 

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fence as sculpture, and 

a dense array of yellow 

umbrellas that open and close 

throughout the day, enlivening 

the site like performance art. 

The juxtaposition of built form 

and landscape, of privacy and 

openness, the use of natural 

light and air, the selection of 

materials, colour, graphics and 

planting, make this project a 

delight in every detail. 

Sue Barnsley 

Landscape Architect 

Frost Design 

Signage 

ACOR 

GTS Mechanical, 

Electrical, 

Hydraulic, Aquatic, 

Pool Structural, 

Earthworks, Security 

Tensys 


Surface Design 

Tiling/Façade 

Engineer 

CTI 

Corrosion/ 

Waterproofing 

Consultant 

Hydroplan 

Irrigation 

SESL 

Soil Scientist 

Earthscape 

Arborist 

GTA 

Traffic Consultant 

Sonia Van der Haar 

Chimney Artist 

John Oultram 

Heritage Consultant 

Construction Team 

John O’Shea 

Project Manager 

Design Manager 

Elizabeth Sandoval 

Senior Design 

Manager 

Lisa Dodd 

Specialist Design 

Manager 

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ARCHITECTURE AWARD 



Australian Plantbank 

BVN Donovan Hill 

Jury citation 

Commissioned by the Royal 

Botanical Gardens and Domain 

Trust, the project at Mt. Annan is 

a global centre for plant research 

and learning, and home to the 

largest seed bank in the Asia 

Pacific Region. Set at the edge 

of remnant and endangered 

Cumberland Forest, the siting, 

the layout and the materiality of 

the building are all conceived as a 

mediation of, and meditation on, 

its bushland setting. 

The building is deliberately both 

separate from, and reflective of, 

its bush environment. Visitors 

are drawn under the eastern 

wing through a low portal, into 

a courtyard that opens up to 

frame a view of the remnant 

Cumberland Forest. The eastern 

wing contains office and meeting 

rooms in an elongated open plan 

that maximises natural light and 

fresh air through a very successful 

mixed-mode air handling system. 

Photography: John Gollings 

The architectural promenade 

continues through the courtyard 

and into the western wing, where 

visitors witness the research 

program with labs visible thru 

glass screens. 

The deep wall and fenestration of 

both wings is a consistent series 

of vertical modulated panels. On 

the east façade the louvres are 

angled to catch the prevailing 

breezes, filter sunlight and create 

a strong rhythm across the length 

of the building. To the courtyard, 

polished stainless steel panels 

are alternated with glass louvres 

protected by fire proof mesh. The 

steel reflects the bush and reads 

as glass, the steel mesh and glass 

read as shadow. 

Australian Plantbank is a carefully 

composed and sensitively 

detailed building, bringing 

together the different uses of 

research and public education in 

a well-crafted whole. 

Cranbrook Junior School 

Tzannes Associates 

Jury citation 

The design of the new Cranbrook 

Junior School is underpinned by 

the adoption of the Reggio Emilia 

philosophy, which emphasises the 

importance of the environment as 

the “third teacher”. 

A complex program is made 

coherent and legible by a clear 

site layout and an adroit handling 

of scale. Laid out like a small 

town, the daily logistical issues of 

drop off and pick up have been 

integrated into a larger idea of a 

common courtyard around which 

the buildings are laid out. Places 

for key activities such as art and 

music are placed strategically. 

Like public buildings activating 

a square, they bring a different 

order and intensity to the spatial 

arrangements. 

The use of scale is central to 

the scheme. Reflective of both 

physical context and the stages of 

student life, scale is used to shape 

Photography: Simon Wood 

intimate architectural spaces as 

well as the primary massing of 

built form. From the siting of the 

more domestically scaled K-2 

classroom wing, which in section is 

carefully calibrated to the adjacent 

residential neighbourhood, 

through to the monumental 

colonnade addressing the 

expansive vista of the oval. 

There is a subtle layering and 

over lapping of circulation and 

threshold spaces, creating a 

spatial fluidity between inside 

and outside, order and free play, 

intimacy and grandeur. The 

classroom space is deliberately 

ambiguous, as teaching and 

learning permeate interior and 

exterior, programmed and nonprogrammed 

spaces alike. 

The Cranbrook Junior School is an 

important example of the benefits 

of a well-designed educational 

environment, and positions itself 

as a model for all schools. 

Jury citation 

The new club building, largely a 

gift from the club members to the 

general community, ensures and 

enshrines their life saving public 

service remains intrinsic to the 

beach and the swimming public. 

Set on one of Sydney’s most 

iconic locations the abstract and 

glittering qualities of this building 

evokes many associations. The 

form appears as if wrought by the 

surrounding landscape and honed 

by the wind; it is left a shell, shining 

in the sunlight and hedonism of 

the beach. 

When Charlie, a 93-year-old club 

member, says: “the architects 

are wizards, you walk in to the 

building, you’re in space, you look 

up out of the building, you’re 

looking at space” he touches on 

the building’s spatial fluidity, it’s 

ever-changing sculptural form 


North Bondi Surf Club 

Durbach Block Jaggers in association 

with Peter Colquhoun 

and the cinematic series of views 

through and from the building that 

frame and reframe views of the 

beach and its surrounds. 

The beach landscape is reflected 

literally through mirror reveals and 

metaphorically through the primary 

form of twinned wings held by the 

carved rooftop bay. A horizontal 

swathe cut through the shell forms 

a long loggia space. From inside 

the loggia forms a long and dark 

reveal framing the wide view to the 

horizon. From outside, a shadowed 

foil to the bright tiled shell, it holds 

the unfolding building form parallel 

to the site. 

The architects have shown 

a sensitive appreciation and 

understanding of the public and 

community significance of this 

building and its site. It is a rare 

example of a community building 

that is enduring, robust and 

contemporary. 

Jury citation 

This rich and complex project 

works at both the urban and 

architectural scale. It is rigorously 

delightful, historically felt and 

imaginatively forward thinking. 

A marginal school grounds site 

now provides a new library, 

classrooms and playground that 

forms the revitalised heart for 

the school. 

Architecturally, the building 

is composed of two distinct 

volumes. 

To the west, facing outwards 

to the street, a fine, narrow 

volume houses the services and 

circulation. At an urban scale, 

the traditional linear plan of the 

library doubles as a 60 metre 

long protective wall, a subtle, 

rich and sober façade, redefining 

the school’s presence to the 

street. A tectonic play of head 

and sill punctuates and knits 

the sobriety of the fenestrated 

Photography: Gerrit Fokkema 

OLMC Parramatta Janet Woods Building 


double ordered brickwork. The 

offices and circulation spine 

peek out to the street and park 

beyond. 

To the east, facing inwards to 

the now private schoolyard, a 

street-like colonnade containing 

a “retail” edge of canteen, 

classrooms and common rooms 

defines and activates the new 

playground. Above it, and 

supported by the colonnade, is a 

delightful double height volume 

of flowering vines that faces the 

library on the first level and the 

classrooms on the second. The 

new learning spaces, fully glazed 

on three sides, are suffused 

and saturated by the views and 

dappled light afforded by the 

ever-changing play of light and 

shade within the planted arcade. 

The school has been 

transformed, while its play and 

learning spaces have been 

redefined and extended into a 

rich reciprocal whole. 

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COMMENDATION 


COMMENDATION 

White Bay Cruise Terminal 

Johnson Pilton Walker 

Jury citation 

This project is a compelling model 

for the intelligent reuse of an 

existing building. Whilst the initial 

brief called for the whole site to 

be cleared, the architects saw 

an opportunity for the adaptive 

reuse of the massive gantry 

structure. The project’s deceptive 

simplicity, manifest in the grand 

draped roof and ceiling plane, 

belies a complexity of new and 

retained structure. 

Minimal intervention has seen 

the retention and reframing of 

the primary site elements – the 

sandstone cut escarpment, the 

broad wharf platform and the 

paired alignment of 1.2 metre 

deep rail girders – with enormous 

supporting stanchions. Every 

second pair of the stanchions 

supports a new 55 metre long 

truss, a spline curved 457 

diameter Circular Hollow Section 

(CHS) is suspended at varying 

heights. The curved CHS acts 

Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Owen Zhu Photography: Brett Boardman 

as a purlin, from which the deep 

profile Aramax ceiling appears 

to levitate, undulating over the 

expansive column free space 

below. In program and spatial 

scale, the terminal is similar to 

an airport typology, whilst also 

richly imbued with the history of 

the site. Direct, simple detailing 

completes the aesthetic. 

With this bold adaptive 

reuse approach, objectives 

of sustainability and heritage 

excel. The maritime and 

industrial history is showcased 

for both tourists and locals 

alike. A neglected site has been 

revitalised with public access 

and the breadth and scale of 

the project befits the spatial and 

historic grandeur of this postindustrial 

landscape. 

The White Bay Cruise Terminal 

re-presents Sydney’s maritime 

history and marks a fresh new 

chapter in the evolving use of the 

place. 

The Wayside Chapel 

Environa Studio 

Jury citation 

The expansion of The Wayside 

Chapel has created a subtle 

ensemble of infill and urban 

grain, providing a new civic 

frontage to the street. Expanding 

over three lots, the project has 

a clear horizontal and vertical 

organisational strategy that 

positions the chapel as the 

spiritual and physical heart of 

the project. A double height 

perforated screen broadcasts the 

scale of the chapel to the street, 

whilst mediating an internal calm 

from its bustle. 

To the east of the Chapel, an 

existing corner building has been 

simply refurbished for an opshop, 

offices and youth centre. 

The latter cleverly has a private 

address from the laneway. These 

two buildings are aligned and 

setback to address a busy “public 

forecourt” creating a threshold 

space to the street and lane. To 

the west of the Chapel a third, 

new building is set forward and 

picks up on the alignment, scale 

and material of the street. It too 

opens out to and frames the 

forecourt. 

The ground and the first floor 

spaces are sensibly the most public 

spaces, with the op-shop and a 

cafe activating the forecourt and 

street. The upper, more private 

floors provide services and offices. 

A roof terrace and garden caps the 

project with an extensive kitchen 

garden which feeds the commercial 

grade kitchen located a level below 

– providing a further sustaining 

narrative to the building and its 

occupants. 

The architect is to be commended 

for his persistence in manoeuvring 

the project through a long and 

difficult process. The carefully 

planned long life, loose fit approach 

to internal spaces, claddings and 

finishes ensures that this important 

project has the flexibility to grow 

and change over time. 

UTS Great Hall and Balcony Room 

DRAW 

Jury citation 

Initially part of a limited 

competition for the interior fitout 

of the Great Hall at UTS, this 

project has been greatly enriched 

by the architect’s imaginative 

extension of the brief to include 

(and transform) an adjacent 

neglected terrace as part of the 

project - the Balcony Room. 

The architects have connected 

the primary interior space of the 

university, the Great Hall, to the 

significant outdoor space, the 

Alumini Green. The Balcony Room 

is simultaneously a lens through 

which the Hall is witnessed from 

the Green and a threshold space, 

from which the Hall opens out 

(visually) to the Green. 

What might have been simply 

a clever and appropriately 

technological driven interior fitout, 

breathing new life into the 

“brutalist” interior, is now one of a 

series of symbiotic spaces at the 

heart of the university. What was 

once insular and hermetic is now 

connected and more complex; each 

space is enriched by its relationship 

to the other. The sculptural 

theatrics of the hall’s interior fitout 

are made more intense when 

approached from the new threshold 

space of the Balcony Room. In 

turn the high space and carefully 

calibrated bays and screens of the 

Balcony Room allow for intimacy 

and provide a pause between the 

larger spaces of the Hall and the 

Alumini Green beyond. 

The graduation ceremony is also 

transformed. Following the new 

trajectory set up by these spaces 

the ritual is given greater meaning, 

fostering a richer dialogue between 

the university and its students. 

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URBAN DESIGN 

LLOYD REES AWARD 

S T R E E T 

R A I L W A Y 

SITE SECTION 

0 10 30m 

Prince Alfred Park + Pool Upgrade 

Neeson Murcutt Architects in association with City of Sydney 


Jury citation 

The Prince Alfred Park + Pool 

Upgrade is a rare synthesis of art 

and landscape, urban design and 

architecture. All are intertwined to 

transform a tired and neglected 

space into a reinvigorated 

playground and park. 

A series of thoughtful 

interventions across the 7.5 

hectare breadth of the park has 

ensured its pastoral scale is fully 

realised. Subtle tweaks to the 

Victorian era pathways provide 

strategic connections to the 

surrounding street and bicycle 

network; the cultivation of play, 

sport and fitness facilities along 

these paths ensures a vibrant life 

along them. The armature of the 

blue see-saw lights is a wonder of 

play that provides a characterful 

thread though the park. 

The pool is the main star in this 

theatrical ensemble of sport 

courts and picnic tables, palm 

plantings and meadow grasses, 

playgrounds and see-saw lights. 

Both source and borrower of all, 

the pool is the iconic muse of 

this place. Yet in a rare reversal 

of architectural orthodoxy, it 

too bows down to the scale and 

primacy of the parkland space. 

Shaped between twinned folded 

planes of grass and meadow, the 

pool’s geometry is reconciled 

with the park and street and 

embedded like an earthwork into 

the place. From the street, the 

scale and pre-eminence of the 

park is manifest, as a crooked 

grass plane cast over the built 

form in an overarching elevation. 

The reinvigorated everyday life of 

the place, affectionately known as 

“Redfern Beach”, is a testament 

to a true collaboration between 

the client, the architects and 

landscape architects. 


This award for excellence in the design of 

the public domain commemorates SITE the artist SECTION 

Lloyd Rees. Rees, although not an urban 

designer or architect, was well known as 

he taught drawing to many architecture 

students in Sydney. 

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PRINCE ALFRED PARK POOL 

PROJECT TEAM Tensys 

CITY OF SYDNEY + NEESON MURCUTT ARCHITECTS PTY LTD 

Practice Team: 


Rachel Neeson Surface DRAWING Design NO 04 

Nicholas Murcutt Tiling/Façade 

Jenny Hien 

Engineer 

Louise Holst 

CTI 

Joseph Grech 

Corrosion/ 

Tamas Jones 

Waterproofing 

Isabelle Toland Consultant 



Hydroplan 

Sean Choo 

Irrgigation 



SDA Structures 

Structural Consultant 

Cardno 

Civil Consultant 

Lighting, Art + 

Science 


Sue Barnsley 


Frost Design 

Signage 

ACOR 


Electrical, 

Hydraulic, Aquatic, 

Pool Structural, 

Earthworks, Security 

SESL 


Earthscape 

Arborist 

GTA 




John Oultram 


Construction Team: 

John O’Shea 



Senior Design 

Manager 

Lisa Dodd 


Manager 

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COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE 

SIR ARTHUR G. STEPHENSON AWARD 

8 Chifley Square 

Lippmann Partnership/Rogers 

Stirk Harbour & Partners 

Jury citation 

This is a building that makes its 

mark clearly and unambiguously 

within the Sydney skyline. 

The outcome of a two-stage 

development application, a global 

financial crisis, and the inevitable 

balancing and renegotiation 

which occurs between budgets, 

tenants and approving agencies, 

the development achieves a 

remarkable impact upon the 

city’s skyline and workplace 

environment. 

The building’s legibility in 

program, construction and 

prefabricated components brings 

a unique language to Sydney. 

Crafted to a scale which demands 

clear vision, control and close 

involvement with the trades and 

methods of delivery, the three 

main façades are both exuberant 

and controlled. The bold use of 

colour adds a new dimension to 

the corporate office block. 

The building’s real innovation is 

in the shared interior floor spaces 

that are connected though their 

atria to views, light and sunshine. 

Born out of the necessity to 

deliver a floor plate area that met 

industry workplace demands but 

which could not be delivered in 

one single level because of site 

constraints, the result allows visual 

connectivity across multiple levels 

internally and its representation 

in the external façade adds to the 

memory of its unique form. 

Its construction materials and 

methodology point to a new 

wave of prefabrication and 

demountability that is set to 

expand within our construction 

future. 

The building has achieved a 6 

Star Green Star rating, delivering 

both energy back to the grid and 

reusing the city’s waste; in this 

aspect it is an active participant 

within our city environment. 

This is no static humble occupier 

of space and is to be applauded 

for its bold initiatives. 


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. 

PROJECT TEAM 


Tim O’Sullivan 

Project Architect 

Ed Lippmann 

Design Architect 

Ivan Harbour 


Andrew Partridge 


Kate Humphries 



Arup 



Electrical Consultant 

Mechanical Consultant 

Hydraulic Consultant 


Environmental 

Consultant 


Mirvac 

Builder 

Simon Healy 


Domenic Callinan 

Construction Manager 

Mirvac 

Developer 

Image: Brett Boardman 

WEST ELEVATION 

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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE 

JOHN VERGE AWARD 

Lune de Sang Sheds 

CHROFI 



QANTAS Headquarters Redevelopment 

Architectus 

Jury citation 

Poetic sophistication in delivery 

of the client’s brief and its 

relationship to the site are the 

key attributes of this grand but 

humble pair of buildings. 

The brief was to provide 

protective space for work 

and equipment on this site of 

forest regeneration. A project 

that will reach maturity in 200 

to 300 years could have had 

any number of conceptual 

approaches. That the architects 

referenced great monuments 

such as the Pyramids, often 

only remaining as ruins and the 

significant materials that support 

these places, is a testament to 

their imagination and to the 

client’s patronage of his vision. 

Both buildings, very different 

in outcome, but utilising similar 

materials of stone, concrete and 

timber, seem perfectly balanced 

in their sitting and spatial 

arrangement – constructed art 

for machines and for the working 

of timber. They are robust in their 

detailing yet delicate in their 

proportions. 

The rigidity of the sparse use of 

materials is continued through to 

the joinery and concrete used for 

wash basins, demonstrating an 

innovative and artful resolution to 

pragmatic needs. 

The buildings are carefully 

considered from approach, within 

and from above, as they are 

viewed effectively in the round 

across the property and in their 

early years, until tree maturity, 

from the valleys and ridges. 

Humble in the performance of 

their duties, the buildings are an 

inspiring addition to this place 

where many generations will 

be welcomed and community 

involvement encouraged. 

Jury citation 

A new internal street unites five 

tired buildings and gives Qantas 

a branded destination with one 

front door for staff and clients. 

The outcome to this two-stage 

design competition has delivered 

a balance of sophisticated 

palette, restrained urbanity and 

exuberance through geometric 

intrusion. 

It is this balance of elements, the 

flexibility of the ground plane 

and the angled intrusions of the 

stairs and bridge that are the 

insertion and stitching success. 

Inviting people to move through 

and up into the various levels. 

The slick curved element of the 

lecture hall on the corner of 

the street breaks the continuity 

of the wall and reflects light, 

activating the restrained palette. 

The addition of breakout areas 

at the stair landings invites 

staff into the internal street and 

enhances the transition between 

inside and out. 

The overall atmosphere 

created by the architecture, 

the programmed activities and 

the engagement of light and 

landscape builds a unified and 

intelligent brand for the client 

and staff. 

The project demonstrates how 

a simple idea of linking existing 

tired buildings, when done with 

skill, can deliver far more than 

just programmed fulfillment. 

The result creates a front door 

for a major business icon in a 

sensitive, refined manner. 

Sydney Commonwealth Parliament Offices 

Architectus + Ingenhoven 

Photography: Tyrone Branigan 

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JOHN VERGE AWARD (CONT.) 




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. 

LEVEL 19 

Jury citation 

Designing within the 

building they co-authored, 

Architectus and Ingenhoven 

have delivered a supremely 

detailed and comprehensive 

workplace for Commonwealth 

Government Parliamentarians. 

Over three floors, the new 

offices, media reception 

rooms and workplaces for 

a cohort of permanent staff 

and visiting parliamentarians 

have been seamlessly 

integrated within the curves 

and sinuous forms of 1 Bligh 

Street, Sydney. 

The curving plan and 

reception pods interspersed 

around the circulation 

areas mean that the whole 

space is seldom seen at one 

time. This revealing of the 

space means it never feels 

completely empty even when 

most of the occupants are 

away. This continuous flow 

of space also increases the 

likelihood chance encounters 

between ministers and staff, 

thus encouraging greater 

interaction. 

The space planning, the 

optimisation of light and 

views, and the detailing and 

selection of materials have 

resulted in a finely crafted, 

sophisticated response 

where every aspect has 

been considered. The jury 

was particularly impressed 

with the incorporation of 

the specific aspects of the 

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brief within the outcome. 

Security and acoustics have 

been integrated without 

compromising the key 

concepts of the architects’ 

vision. 

Artwork has been carefully 

and skillfully included in 

a controlled and elegant 

manner and is integrated 

within the built fabric. The 

purpose designed and built 

joinery and the palette of 

materials provide the right 

combination of warmth and 

surprise. 

This is an example of a 

highly skilled team delivering 

a comprehensive design 

solution to achieve the most 

from the brief. 

PROJECT TEAM 


Simon Zou 


Mark Curzon 

Design Architect and 

Principal 

Martin Reuter 

Partner 

Justin Phillips 

Associate Director 

Neil Haddrill 

Team Member 

Dominica Watt 

Team Member 

Hernan Jerez 

BIM Technician 

Ryan Townsend 

Team Member 

Stephen Matthews 

Team Member 

Gary Cheung 

Team Member 

Bibiana Zapf 

Team Member 

Jun Teraoka 

Team Member 


Enstruct 


Arup 


Mechanical 

Consultant 



Services Consultant 

Communications 

Consultant 

Fire Engineering, 

Acoustic, Risk & 

Security 

Cundall 

Environmental 

Consultant 

Ingenhoven 

Architects 

Partner 

Blackett Maquire & 

Goldsmith 

PCA 

Arup/Codarra & 

Goldsmith 

Security/ICT 

Morris Goding 

Access Consulting 

Accessibility 

Maria Sigutina 

Art Consultant 

Chris Fox; Jonathan 

Jones; Damian Butler 

Artist 


Schiavello 

Constructions (NSW) 

Builder 

Davis Langdon (An 

AECOM Company) 


Ansarada 

Those Architects 

Jury citation 

A single floor workplace in a 

heritage building at The Rocks 

surprises and delights. 

The new technology company 

with a global clientele briefed 

the architects to create a 

sophisticated and minimal 

response. The outcome is exactly 

that – but it is far from simple. 

The arrival at the lobby stair 

to a simple black paneled wall 

with a bright door handle hints 

at the intelligent environment 

beyond. The generous open plan 

is achieved through carefully 

crafted joinery, flexible walls and 

building elements and the use 

of contracting timber inserts for 

platforms and backdrops. The 

darker recessive background 

provides a perfect balance of 

contrast and warmth. 


The space is considered from 

every element and requirement 

of the brief. The team’s inventive 

interpretation of the client’s 

business methods in the peg 

wall creating a sense of art and 

work, the raising of the platforms 

to conceal services protecting 

heritage fabric, and the lowering 

of seats to give the visitors 

a harbour view reinforce the 

comprehensive design solution. 

The enthusiasm and skill of the 

architects in developing the 

lighting and detailed furniture 

design – even to the pool table – 

are testament to their craft and 

architecture. 

This is a striking controlled design 

solution for a new workplace. 

Jury citation 

The Garangula Gallery located 

in rural New South Wales near 

Harden challenges the traditional 

notion of the white box gallery. 

The art work, largely indigenous, 

has been the inspiration for the 

material and color palette of 

the interior. The clients brief – to 

create both a gallery and a place 

for community celebration and 

functions – has been skillfully 

interpreted by the architects. 

The choice of dark wall colours 

allows the vibrancy and pattern 

inherent in the art to perform 

within the spaces. The structured 

procession of the arrival, the 

management of light and the 

drama of the exhibition space 

upon opening the large panelled 

gallery door, reinforce the viewing 

of an exhibition as an event. 

The space once entered is calm, 

arranged with varying sized 


Garangula Gallery 

Fender Katsalidis Mirams Architects 

galleries and subtle breaks to allow 

natural light and views. 

Large elements of the walls rotate 

to create a magnificent dining hall, 

with the smaller galleries in the 

rear now allowing service from the 

carefully positioned back of house 

space. This extends the functionality 

and versatility of the whole building 

whilst not expanding its footprint. 

The external walls and windows 

are screened by steel and timber 

operable elements incorporating 

specifically commissioned sculpture. 

These elements shield the internal 

spaces and provide a filigree of 

pattern light into the more open 

gallery and verandah wings. 

Material selection, systems and 

fittings are all part of a sustainable 

objective for the site and the 

recycled timber with soft, warm 

colours of the rammed earth and 

concrete wall elements add to the 

protective and tactile experience. 

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COMMENDATION 

Herbert Smith Freehills Workplace 


Photography: John Gollings Photography: Ross Honeysett Photography: Brett Boardman 

Point Piper Apartment 

CO-AP (Architects) 

Virgin Australia Sydney Lounge 

Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects 

Jury citation 

The revolution in workplace 

design has extended to even the 

most conservative of professions, 

challenging the notions of space 

entitlement, collaborative work 

and new technologies. 

Within the new ANZ Building 

at the new end of town, this 

transformation of one of the 

largest legal offices has been 

delivered with the right balance 

of exploration, innovation and 

pragmatism. The mix of materials 

and detail resolution create a 

warm, sophistication which has 

delivered the clients brief while 

pushing their comfort zone, a 

strategy for which they are now 

appreciative. 

Thirteen floors of connected 

space is the central organiser 

of the public lobby area where 

visitors, clients and staff mix 

vertically. The building’s planning, 

which meant a lift arrival lobby 

removed from the key harbour 

view, has been handled with skill 

in the creation of a light sinuous 

space luxuriously detailed with 

stone, white curved glass, timber 

ceilings and a framed harbour 

view. 

The workplace is organised 

around “demountable” minimal 

glass partner offices which 

are designed to be almost 

completely open or closed 

with acoustic separation when 

required. 

The result demonstrates how 

the architect, when working with 

a client who wishes to explore 

new directions, can create a 

memorable workplace which 

breaks old patterns and sets new 

levels of excellence. 

Jury citation 

This mid-size two-bedroom 

harbourside apartment with 

views has been converted from 

the traditional rectangular 

room arrangement to a space 

captivated, illuminated and 

animated by water, sky and light. 

Walls and materials fold and 

curve – capably handling the 

pragmatic needs of services and 

old, shared chimney stacks – to 

bend light and reflect views from 

the contiguous living, dining 

and kitchen areas to the everchanging 

harbour. 

Simple elegant curtain systems 

reinforce the singular nature 

of the living space but allow 

for change throughout day 

and night, offering privacy and 

reducing glare. 

The architects have delivered 

a modern, comfortable home 

which challenges the notions of 

spatial separation by creating a 

free flow of space. 

The essence of the site, the 

natural outlook, is captured 

and the integrity of the original 

building is respected in the 

palette of materials selected. The 

variations from living, dining and 

kitchen are subtle and tactile. 

Jury citation 

The new Virgin Australia Lounge 

at Sydney Airport provides a 

functional space for the busy 

traveller while also considering 

the emotional needs of the 

sometimes harrowed commuter. 

The architects have created 

a calmness which belies the 

activities within the space. 

Careful space planning 

allows for direct, purposeful 

movement while the positioning 

of technology and layered 

glass screens facilitates subtle 

access to information without 

overwhelming the traveller with 

technology. The colour scheme 

is a skilful interpretation of the 

Virgin brand, slightly modified 

to create a softer interior 

environment. 

The overarching motif of the 

leaf gives directionality, is fluid 

in nature and delivers a strong 

recognisable image for the floor, 

ceiling and furnishings. Changes 

in the materiality and colour 

of the ceiling motif suggest 

changes in the functionality of 

the space directly associated 

with it. 

This design is a good example 

of how the architect’s role in 

designing can create so much 

more than simply fulfilling the 

functional brief. 

The motif has been so successful 

that it is now part of Virgin’s 

marketing and brand rollout to 

new terminals. 

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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE 

MILO DUNPHY AWARD 



Photography: Owen Zhu 

LEVEL 1 

VISITOR SERVICES 'SPIRITUAL CENTRE' OFFICES + VISITOR SERVICES 

COMMUNITY 

SERVICES CENTRE 

PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

FOYER 

Hilary Whattam 

"OP" SHOP 


Tone Wheeler 


CAFE 

FOYER 

Jan O’Connor 

Interiors, Director 


Partridge Partners 

PUBLIC FACILITIES 

(Stage 1) 

RECYCLING 

Structural 

CENTRE 

Consultant 

Watermans 

(Stage 2) 

CHAPEL 

Structural 

Consultant 

Knox Advanced 

Engineering 


LEVEL 1 PLAN 

Knox Advanced 

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Engineering 

the wayside chapel 

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Mechanical 

Jury citation 

conditioning and other 

However what makes this 

Consultant 

complex building services. building stand out has been 

J&M Group 

Hydraulic 

Encompassing the true nature The design team has 

the additional emphasis on 

Consultant 

of sustainability, The Wayside focussed on developing a less mainstream aspects of 

Sue Barnsley Design 

Chapel clearly demonstrates building that is designed to sustainability. These include 

Landscape 

the concept of doing more last for over 100 years, and providing a green roof to grow Consultant 

with less through a number to facilitate future churn by fruit and vegetable crops for 

Wilkinson Murray 

of simple strategies. Not providing a loose-fit, lowimpact 

fitout. 

of colours and materials to 

the onsite café and the use 

Acoustic Consultant 

only does the facility address 

EMF Griffiths 

the social needs of the 

influence occupant mood and Environmental 

disadvantaged; the design 

team has also approached 

sustainability from a concept 

of minimalism and simplicity. 

wellbeing – all based on solid 

research. 

Consultant 

Itc Group 

Fire Engineering 

MDA Australia 

Quantity Surveying 

Accessibility 

Solutions 

Access Consultant 

Passive environmental design 

through the use of natural 

ventilation, thermal mass, 

night flushing, and simple 

ceiling fans has minimised 

the requirement for air 

H U G H E S S T R E E T 

ENTRY GARDEN 

Solar hot water collectors for 

domestic hot water and space 

heating provide an effective 

and uncomplicated approach 

to maintaining thermal 

comfort for occupants for 

most of the year. Onsite 

generation of electricity 

through PV demonstrates an 

effective method to further 

reduce carbon emissions. 

PUBLIC COURTYARD 

O R W E L L L A N E 

The jury was impressed by 

the holistic approach of the 

designers who have delivered 

a simple and effective low 

energy, passive building 

design with longevity while 

also recognising the varied 

needs of its occupants. 


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 in terms of their sustainability and are 

eligible for this award which commemorates 

Milo Dunphy’s longstanding commitment to 

conserving the environment. 

Blackett Maguire + 

Goldsmith 

Private Certifying 

Authority 

AWS 

Glazing Consultant 

NBRS & P 


Boxall Surveyors 

Building Surveyor 


Kell & Rigby 

(Stage 1) 

Builder 

Fugen 

(Stage 2) 

Builder 

Skope 

(Stage 3 – on going) 

Builder 

EPM Projects 


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Alexandria Courtyard House 

Matthew Pullinger Architect 

Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: John Gollings Photography: Brett Boardman 




Outpost 742713 9 

Drew Heath Architects 



Jury citation 

This house uses the device of 

the courtyard to define the 

architecture and for sustainable 

benefit. There are three 

courtyards: the first is the entry 

courtyard to the street; the 

second is between the living 

and dining areas; and the third 

is between the dining and study 

areas and the guest area at the 

rear. 

Dividing the house in this way 

allows it to achieve maximum 

benefits from cross ventilation 

and access to sun and light. The 

courtyard spaces also allow the 

house to be well connected with 

the outdoors. 

Operable timber screens 

moderate the access to sun and 

light. Rooms have been designed 

to be easily subdivided enabling 

them to be heated separately. 

The house also harvests 

rainwater and solar energy. 

The project provides an effective 

passive response for a house in 

an urban setting, demonstrating 

that sustainability begins 

at home. It encourages the 

occupants to live a life of less 

with reduced space, volume, 

domestic appliances and fittings. 

Jury citation 

This building at Mt. Annan is laid 

out with the primary circulation 

arcing around a courtyard to 

the north. A clever and crisply 

detailed deep wall system allows 

for sun-shading and ventilation. 

All-weather operability is 

facilitated in both the public 

areas and offices. The shallow 

plan depth ensures good cross 

ventilation. The mixed mode 

facilitates less reliance on the 

mechanical plant, resulting in 

significantly reduced energy 

consumption. A discrete lighting 

system signals the current status 

of the system to users, giving 

the workings legibility and 

transparency. 

A thermal labyrinth has been 

installed under the east wing 

reducing the HVAC load and 

extending the value of natural 

ventilation, particularly during 

summer when fresh air, precooled 

overnight, circulates and 

expels warm air. The system is 

designed to reduce the peaks 

and troughs of extreme ambient 

weather by capturing either the 

heat of the day or the cool of 

the night and retaining it in the 

surrounding concrete, earth and 

rock beds of the constructed 

labyrinth. The prediction for the 

assisted warming or cooling of 

the building is up to 7.5 degrees 

centigrade. 

Thus far, the sustainable 

objectives of the project are 

being excelled. 

Jury citation 

Off-the-grid, this project 

generates all its own power with 

solar panels; a small gas heater 

provides hot water. It collects 

rainwater in tanks from a 180 

square metre roof. The waste 

management system is an onsite 

aerated toilet system. This 

is a self-sufficient, fully serviced 

building that sleeps six in roughly 

40 internal square metres and 

has been achieved within a 

modest budget. 

The robust structure utilises 

prefabricated, slightly modified 

steel shipping containers. 

All are placed under a single 

roof, creating a series of open 

veranda-like passageways; 

minimal intervention informs 

the desire for habitable 

protection. Natural ventilation 

and camp-fires are imagined 

as a framework. Consciously 

rough detail, re-use and an 

attitude of ‘making-do’ pervades 

all arrangements. Direct and 

elemental, a lack of preciousness 

organises an experience that 

is an extension of camping. 

This sense of a camp prevails, 

extending to the potential re-use, 

removal, or remodelling of the 

building elements. 

Materials are deliberately local, 

durability is a priority and waste 

is minimised. The structure is 

economical in terms of its steel 

section dimensions and cost 

of assembly. Plywood interiors 

to the ‘cabins’ are conceived 

maximising the utility of standard 

sheets and finding fortuitous 

detail in off-cuts. Extremely 

inexpensive and largely selfreliant, 

this almost ‘off the shelf’ 

building suggests sustainability 

as an architectural criterion in 

thought-provoking ways. 

Jury citation 

The terminal was a Green Star 

project under a pilot tool and 

is deserving of a Sustainable 

Architecture Award on a number 

of levels. 

Firstly it is a compelling model 

for the intelligent reuse of an 

existing building. Whilst the initial 

brief called for the whole site to 

be cleared, the architects saw 

an opportunity for the adaptive 

reuse of the massive gantry 

structure. Minimal intervention 

has seen the retention of the 

35 paired stanchions and the 

approximately 300 metre long 

dual crane gantry. The scale and 

bold simplicity of the structure 

is extraordinary. Primary site 

elements such as the sandstone 

cut escarpment and the extensive 

broad wharf platform have also 

been retained. Direct, simple 

detailing of new elements 


The design idea for a fabric-like 

suspended roof and ceiling, visible 

also from above, meant that a 

clear uncluttered roof and ceiling 

plane was essential. An innovative 

ventilation lantern, extruded along 

the length of the roof, has meant 

that the need for an extensive 

plant, normally required for such 

a large exhibition space, has been 

avoided. 

The high ceiling, a product in 

part of the scale of the retained 

stanchions, has also meant an 

abundance of natural light. The 

large room is airy and bright. The 

long life, loose fit of the design also 

facilitates the space for functions 

and events, breathing new life and 

additional use into the place. 

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COMMENDATION 

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (NEW) 

WILKINSON AWARD 


Photography: Ben Guthrie 


Lippmann Partnership/Rogers Stirk 

Harbour & Partners 

Jury citation 

The building achieves a 6 

Star Green Star – Office 

Design v2 Certified Rating, 

representing ‘World Leadership’ 

in environmentally sustainable 

design; it is also committed to 

achieving a NABERS 5* +60% 

Energy Rating. 

This has been achieved by the 

incorporation of a gas-fired, roofmounted 

trigeneration plant, 

blackwater treatment system, 

chilled beam ceilings, T-5 and 

LED lighting and the use of low 

embodied energy materials and 

construction techniques, only 32 

car spaces as well as 130 bicycle 

spaces with supporting change 

room and facilities. 



prefabricated components 

is also shaped by the atria 

of each of the three storey 

office villages and the shading 

systems, which give the building 

a unique expression in the city’s 

streetscape. 

These passive design elements 

allow light penetration into the 

workplace and, together with 

motorised blind systems, provide 

managed solar protection for the 

interiors. 

The building delivers energy 

back to the grid and reuses 

its own waste as well as the 

city’s through the blackwater 

treatment plant, clearly 

demonstrating it is an active 

participant in the creation of a 

sustainable city environment. 

Yatte Yattah House 


Jury citation 

This simple house overlooking 

the Budawangs seeks a minimal 

impact on the environment. This 

was a request from the client 

that has been carried through 

the design of the house, from the 

siting to take advantage of the 

sun, views and breezes to the 

robust nature of its construction. 

The house has been designed 

predominantly one room wide, 

with the long side facing north, 

providing breezes and good solar 

access. A concrete floor provides 

good thermal mass for winter 

months. 

A 110,000 litre water tank 

collects roof water, and all waste 

water is recycled for garden use. 

The design also includes a small 

orchard and well as vegetable 

and herb garden, emphasising 

the client’s interest in sustainable 

living. Local materials were used 

in the construction by a local 

builder. Solar tubes provide 

heated water, and photovoltaic 

panels provide 6.5 kW of power 

per day. 

In awarding this house for its 

sustainable design qualities, it 

should also be noted that the 

client also deserves an award. 

Without a client prepared to 

commission this type of house 

and one also prepared to have 

the commitment to proceed 

with such sustainable measures, 

this type of project would not 

possible. 

Griffith House 

Popov Bass Architects 

Photography: Sharrin Rees 

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WILKINSON AWARD (CONT.) 



SECTION 

2 3 4 

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Jury citation 

On an unremarkable site in 

the flat plains of Griffith sits 

this courtyard house that fits 

remarkably well in its context. 

The planning for the house is 

calm and rational; the overriding 

sense within the house is of 

tranquillity. 

There is a delightful sequence of 

spaces as you progress through 

the house. The use of light 

throughout is masterful, and this 

is even more greatly appreciated 

when the house as “art gallery” is 

recognised. There is an intimate 

relationship to the artwork 

throughout, producing a further 

sense of wellbeing to the internal 

environment. 

Courtyard spaces provide direct 

and indirect light, and tall light 

scoops allow diffuse light deeper 

into the house. The brilliant light 

in this region has been handled 

with great sensitivity and the 

light levels throughout the 

project are complimentary to the 

artwork as well as providing a 

pleasant atmosphere. 

Thermally the house works 

exceptionally well with all the 

primary spaces facing north 

and thermal mass achieved 

through the concrete and 

masonry structure. Solar panels 

provide hydronic heating and 

photovoltaic cells provide 

a supplement to electricity. 

350,000 litres of water is stored 

on site. 

The close relationship between 

the house and its artwork 

continues through to the outside 

spaces with views from each 

space looking to artworks within 

the landscape. This enhances the 

sense of relationship to the site 

and the whole success of the 

house. 

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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. 

PROJECT TEAM 


Alex Popov 

Brian Bass 

Miriam Green 

Matthew Ritchard 

Aya Maceda 

Leigh Woodley 

Christina Lucic 


Simpson Design 

Associates 


Xeros Kendall 

Consulting Engineers 



Forlico Builders 

Builder 

Dogtrot House 

Dunn & Hillam Architects 

Jury citation 

The creation of buildings that 

embody “everything you need 

and nothing you don’t” is an 

honourable one; the pursuit of 

buildings that simultaneously 

evoke joy and delight even 

more so. How refreshing to visit 

Dogtrot House; a simple, refined 

building on the far south coast 

that successfully achieves both. 

Located in a somnolent hamlet on 

the south coast, this is a dwelling 

that responds powerfully to its 

site, its location and to a very 

clear client brief. 

Designed for a family of 

committed campers, the request 

was for a building that captured 

everything they loved about 

camping without the end of 

holiday pack up: a permanent, 

civilised campsite. 

The architect’s response offers an 

uncomplicated picture of life as it 

Photography: Kilian O’Sullivan 

was in coastal Australia – and how 

it could be again. Simple layout, 

materials and living; small budget 

and footprint. 

Two modest pavilions – one 

public, one private – are joined 

by a covered open breezeway or 

‘dog trot’ corridor. To the south, 

an uncomplicated sleeping and 

bathing pavilion. To the north, a 

pavilion embracing lagoon views 

and light, and a protected kitchen 

balanced by a large public indoor/ 

outdoor room for gathering 

and enjoying life in the most 

uninhibited way. The public nature 

of this space invokes an admiring 

sense of community mindedness, 

and an all too uncommon act of 

generosity. 

Most joyfully, movement between 

spaces involves, in every instance, 

connection with the outdoors, with 

landscape and nature, and notions 

of refuge and prospect – to be 

gloriously immersed in old-style, 

relaxed coastal holiday living. 

Hunters Hill House 

Arkhefield 

Jury citation 

It is a rare and splendid 

thing when a lovely, tranquil, 

landscape space is enhanced by 

placing a building in the middle 

of it! Such is the effect of the 

wall-less living room of this 

house. 

The jury found the work to 

be spatially and materially 

exceptional. Broad land 

dimensions were answered by 

broad room composition and 

vertical landscape was answered 

by vertical room composition, 

so that the building and its 

surrounds work as one. 

The palette of materials exhibits 

restraint and command of 

their possibilities, structurally 

and texturally. The work is 

responsive to energy use and 

user comfort with good passive 

solar orientation and landscape 

replacement, reflecting the role 

of architects in the imperative to 

Photography: Angus Martin 

reduce demand on resources. 

The jury found this house to be 

exemplary in many ways. The 

Sydney climate enables an inside/ 

outside existence; air movement 

is highly desirable. It also requires 

ability to lock down in winter 

and trap warmth. The sculptural 

assembly of this house makes 

these primary functional aspects 

enriching and satisfying. 

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ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION 

Invisible House 

Peter Stutchbury Architecture 

Photography: Michael Nicholson 

K House 

Chenchow Little 


Ozone House 

Matt Elkan Architects 

Photography: Simon Whitbread 

House Maher 

Tribe Studio Architects 

Photography: Katherine Lu 

Jury citation 

This house encourages you to 

just be. To breathe, slow down, 

and settle fireside with good 

company. Perched on the side 

of a ridge with uninterrupted 

views of the Megalong Valley, 

Invisible House reveals a rare 

appreciation of the delicate 

balance between landscape 

and shelter, the natural and 

man-made. Located almost four 

hours west of Sydney, it sits and 

responds to the most majestic of 

country – wild, ancient, big-sky 

territory – being neither dwarfed 

by nor in competition with its 

setting. Rather, it simply belongs. 

It feels of the land, with respect, 

authenticity, ease and rawness in 

keeping with rural Australia. 

Responding to a site both 

uniquely beautiful and viciously 

savage, the building has been 

tucked under the brow of a hill, 

offering maximum protection, 

glorious views, and enhancing 

a sense of ‘invisibility’ upon 

approach. This is both pragmatic 

and generous, allowing the 

breathtaking nature of country 

to lead. 

First impressions are of the most 

extraordinary roof, cantilevering 

four metres west in a series of 

undulations. Balancing this, a 

four-metre tapered cantilever 

reaches east, interrupted by a 

series of mild steel boxes – light 

scoops and bedroom eyries 

speaking of flight and freedom. 

A wide gallery stretches 

protectively along the house’s 

western edge, balancing its 

openness and exposure on three 

sides and acting as an internal 

way-finder. 

A simple palette of materials 

speaks honestly of refined, 

yet robust hardiness. This 

house embraces the Australian 

landscape with joy, and just the 

right, fine balance. 

Jury citation 

This house presents a striking 

challenge to the suburban 

context of Vaucluse in its robust 

and unassuming street presence. 

Designed as a permeable volume 

within a carefully modulated 

outer skin, it provides both 

privacy and seclusion as well as 

an outlook to adjoining gardens. 

The project’s significant move is 

to provide a level of openness 

between this outer skin and 

outside by inserting an elongated 

courtyard along the northern 

side of the living area. This 

feeling of porosity is further 

enhanced by a series of mirrored 

panels – creating an unexpected 

spatial generosity and a blurring 

of boundaries. 

Upper and lower spaces 

interconnect in a playful manner 

with walls opening and closing 

to reveal service spaces and 

storage nooks. Interior materials 

are texturally rich as well as 

uncompromising in detail, 

providing spatial delight at every 

turn. 

This project is both adventurous 

and resolute in many ways. 

The result is a beautifully 

accomplished and confident 

building – a good testament to 

an adventurous architect and 

visionary client. 

Jury citation 

Ozone House speaks powerfully 

and persuasively of the pleasures 

and values of unpretentious living, 

of the charm of family homes 

shaped by a simple ambition, 

modest size and humble nature. 

Located on Sydney’s northern 

beaches, it responds with great 

care and consideration to a three 

part brief: to respect and engage 

with the heavily vegetated site; to 

create a place for gathering; and 

to deliver a space no larger than 

required to serve the family’s needs. 

Hidden from the street up a 

long battle-axe driveway, first 

impressions are of a treehouse 

quietly floating - respectfully and 

fluidly flowing around magnificent 

towering angophoras, tracking 

sunlight through daytime hours 

and permanent district views. 

In an unequivocal gesture of 

openness and welcome, visitors 

are delivered through a northern 

deck into the very heart of the 

house, a kitchen-dining bridge. 

This fluidly connects the living 

spaces to the east, and the 

bedrooms and bathrooms to 

the west. Connection to, and 

views of, the garden and outdoor 

spaces permeate all interiors. 

Bedrooms are small to ensure 

gravitation outdoors or into 

shared spaces. Materials are 

simple, beautifully detailed and 

highly evocative. 

This house reflects its occupants’ 

lives and history in a gentle, 

unadorned way. In particular, 

their appreciation of Japanese 

culture, of camping, and subtropical 

architecture is reflected 

in the building’s modest scale 

and minimalist sensibility. 

This house is a great example of 

good design promoting positive 

environmental, social and 

cultural outcomes in a suburban 

context. 

Jury citation 

This house is a remarkable 

achievement in the composition 

of domestic spaces with light 

and form. 

It is a stimulating synthesis of 

streetscape and archetypal house 

form delivered in an intelligent 

and striking way. It is a very 

considered and resolved work, 

the result of a close relationship 

between architect and client, as 

well as a very specific brief. 

A play of scale and form unfold 

within the extrusion of the 

building exterior, transforming it 

into dynamic reflections on the 

form at diminishing scales that 

suit various domestic purposes. 

These layers of the onion are 

enhanced by shards of light and 

views to the landscape. This is an 

abstract and stimulating house. 

The texture of recycled brick 

and timber flooring is enhanced 

by monochrome planes and 

apertures. The recycled brick 

façade is banded with a form 

of physical ‘graphic slip’, having 

the visual effect of blurring 

or pixelating the façade. The 

external canopies are punched 

out to emit light to the pool, 

which is then reflected back into 

the rooms and highlights key 

points like entry – a lively play 

of light and shade occurring 

throughout the day. 

The house has a refreshing 

clarity about it that results from 

the architect’s considerable 

sculptural ability. 

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RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS) 

HUGH AND EVA BUHRICH AWARD 


This newly established named award 

recognises the importance of alterations 

and additions especially for small practices 

and is named in acknowledgment of the 

mid-century partnership of Hugh and 

Eva Buhrich and their contribution to the 

profession. 

SECTION 

0 1 2m 

PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

John Choi 

Project Director 

Jerome Cateaux 

Project Leader 

Felix Rasch 

Project Team 

Fraser Mudge 

Project Team 

Consultant Team 

DW Knox and 

Partners 

Structural 

Consultant 

QS Plus 

Cost Consultant 

Construction Team 

Cedar Creek 

Constructions 

Builder 

Tony Kenway 

Site Manager 

Lickiss Fabrications 

Operable Doors 

Men Joinery 

Joinery 

Stone House 

CHROFI 


Jury citation 

0 1 

2 

The project is a succinct 

transformation of a small 

dwelling, clarifying and 

enhancing it. 

Existing solid basalt walls of 

Bobcat-sized stone flank this 

humble ridge top hut. The 

protective and monumental 

façade is answered by the 

architects directly through an 

operable façade that is bold, 

functional and complimentary. 

Detail of the reworking of the 

replaced façade is climatically 

sensible and treated to 

complement the oxidizing 

biotite of the basalt walls. 

A series of spaces of varying 

sizes retain the sense of a pared 

back humility of raw materials. 

The subtractions and new 

façade seem to complete the 

hut as an, until now, unfinished 

work. The one-room thick house 

has extensive outlook to the 

West and this is made practical 

and enjoyable by the layered 

façade proposition. The existing 

canvas of concrete floor and 

timber ceiling are completed to 

envelope a new distilled plan. 

A less confident practice may 

have exchanged period fixtures, 

but the previous work is kept 

down to the door knobs. The 

reality of this is the comfort of 

familiarity and an embrace of 

the new. 

The project has been designed 

as a guest house and like many 

of this typology it has lessons 

for residential architecture in 

the richness of its humble, well 

lit, textural spaces which are 

conducive to closeness and 

conversation for those lucky 

enough to stay here. 

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Photography: Richard Glover 

Photography: Brigid Arnott 

Photography: Anthony Browell 

A Balmain Pair 

Benn & Penna Architecture 

Birchgrove House 

Candalepas Associates 

Piebenga-Franklyn Residence 

David Boyle Architect 

Tamarama Semi-D 

David Langston-Jones 

Jury citation 

Envisaged as an ‘intergenerational 

house’, this project 

is an innovative response to a 

sensitive brief – that of providing 

practical and livable spaces for 

the architects extended family as 

well as for themselves. Designed 

as three separate dwellings 

within two semi-detached 

cottages, the major achievement 

here has been the architect’s 

ability to create a surprising 

generosity of space and volume 

within a relatively compact form. 

A new wedge-shaped rear 

volume spans both cottages and 

reads as a sensitively considered 

extension to the existing roof. 

This modulated volume captures 

a northerly aspect and city 

skyline vistas as well as providing 

much needed upper level 

bedroom and study spaces. A 

new intervention into the existing 

façades is similarly understated 

yet considered – playfully 

respecting the story of the old 

cottage whilst bringing light and 

sensibility to the spaces within. 

Internally, double height volumes 

over the ground floor living 

and dining areas create an 

active and purposeful dialogue 

between levels. The illusion of 

a much larger space is further 

accentuated by the connection 

to contemplative landscaped 

outdoor spaces. 

Materials are quiet and refined; 

spaces are generous and 

thought-provoking. The result 

is a highly sophisticated and 

detailed project carefully crafted 

for its local context. It is an 

inspiring example of “less is 

more”, of hidden delight as well 

as a poignant reminder of the 

surprising beauty of modest 

spaces. 

Jury citation 

This project is a sensitive and 

intuitive response to an original 

terrace house typology in 

Birchgrove. Benefitting from 

both an extended side garden 

to the south and a small garden 

overlooking harbour views to the 

north, the house offers an intimate 

and unusual level of engagement 

with its neighbours. Rather than 

closing itself off to the street, a 

new north facing rear addition 

has been designed that embraces 

both aspects in a resolute and 

uncompromising way. 

This addition – spanning the entire 

width of the block – breathes 

new life into the previously tired 

building and sits confidently 

above the rock escarpment. 

Carefully grafted onto the rear of 

the existing house, the integrity 

of the original building remains 

intact with any new intervention 

added in a respectful and elegant 

manner. New openings are 

reinterpreted by way of sliding 

and fixed panels – framing both 

street and water vistas and 

creating an integral relationship 

with the landscape. 

Materials are robust, textural and 

considered, creating a richness 

in palette and detail throughout. 

The house is uplifting and 

delightful in many ways – clearly 

the result of a harmonious 

relationship between client, 

architect and builder. 

Jury citation 

This project involved the 

demolition of the rear of a 

semi-detached house and the 

construction of a new two-storey 

pavilion with a distinct wedge 

carved out of the volume to 

allow the penetration of northern 

sun as well as an additional 

outside space on the ground 

floor level. A linear skylight on 

the upper level allows diffuse 

light to penetrate through a 

void to the lower level. There is 

an emphasis on flexibility in the 

house, with large sliding doors 

allowing a variety of uses. 

The rear garden has been treated 

as a sloping amphitheatre 

complete with trampoline and 

chook pen along with plentiful 

vegetable gardens close to the 

kitchen. Passive cross ventilation 

is achieved through operable 

windows throughout, allowing 

the sea breezes to pass through 

the house. 

This is an example of the core 

idea of a design being generated 

by the restrictions of the site. 

The gesture of the wedge is the 

sculptural driver. The limited 

usable area has been maximised; 

a collection of creative and highly 

usable areas has been provided 

and the resultant building is 

joyful and filled with light. 

Jury citation 

This modest project rethinks 

the amount of space needed 

for city living by a single or 

couple. With an eight-storey 

apartment building as an 

immediate neighbour, ideas of 

privacy governed the thinking in 

the living area. Yet the result is 

a delightful space that is quite 

introspective but which still 

allows a great connection to the 

personal garden that it opens 

onto. It demonstrates the joy 

in small spaces that have been 

carefully thought through so that 

no centimetre is wasted. 

Materials are modest. The use 

of galvanised iron and concrete 

in the internal spaces helps to 

relate the inside and outside 

spaces to each other. Whilst 

using inexpensive materials, the 

interiors have the perception of 

a grander scale than the usual 

domestic space and the detailing 

is sophisticated and thoughtful. 

Through careful detailing and 

clever placement of fixtures for 

the basic functions of life, David 

Langston-Jones has created a 

gem near an inner city beach. 

The design has a reverence for 

space and serves as a reminder 

that houses in Australia are, on 

average, much larger than they 

need to be. 

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COMMENDATION 

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING 

AARON BOLOT AWARD 

3X2 House 

Panovscott 


Light Cannon House 

Carterwilliamson Architects 


Jury citation 

3X2 House is an inspiring example 

of architectural creativity and 

ingenuity in the face of challenging 

constraints – a reminder that “big 

moment” joyous architecture 

is achievable despite, or even 

in response to, small, exigent 

budgets. 

Like so many alterations and 

additions, the project involves the 

reinvigoration of the front half of 

an existing terrace and replaces 

the rear with a new structure. 

From the street, the change is 

almost invisible, deftly contained 

to negate any disruption 

or distraction to a heritage 

streetscape. 

Single-storey, simple and linear, 

the original house is quietly 

refreshed to accommodate a 

young family of four. Comfortable, 

unpretentious and robust, the 

spaces speak gently of the house’s 

history, with new life layered rather 

than imposed on the building’s 

original fabric. 

These new/old spaces offer a 

surprisingly balanced counterpoint 

to the rear addition. Shunted 

off the axial alignment, and past 

a new discreet bathroom, a 

large and delightful communal 

space is revealed. Light-filled, 

this combined kitchen/dining/ 

play space elegantly reinterprets 

the lean timber construction 

techniques of the front half. Living 

is designed around the perimeter; 

window seats encourage half-in, 

half-out habitation. 

Fanned by towering gums, from 

the rear this structure offers 

the most extraordinary sense 

of complementary verticality – 

presenting as a deeply evocative 

two-storey timber and glass box 

evoking the tea-houses of Kyoto, 

of the owners’ journeys and 

aesthetics, and of sculpture and 

nature. 

Jury citation 

This is a clever, successful re-think 

of the most beneficial ways of 

introducing light into dark, southfacing 

buildings and a sense 

of liberation and freedom into 

small, landlocked terraces. The 

brief was simple and inspiring 

– to fill a diminutive Annandale 

home with joy and light. Central 

to this was the need to create a 

kitchen/dining space for family 

and friends to gather, share and 

celebrate. 

Eschewing the obvious and 

predictable, the architect has 

adopted a response far more 

invigorating, playful and creative 

– in keeping with the clients 

themselves. Unsympathetic 

additions have been removed and 

a light-filled fluid, single-storey 

eating and dining space created. 

Sitting lightly and finely balanced 

across this space is the building’s 

new defining feature. Two tall, 

asymmetrical and sculpted 

roof forms or ‘light cannons’ 

yawn and stretch delicately up 

over a five-metre neighbouring 

wall, effectively and delightfully 

drawing northern light down into 

the heart of the plan and taking 

the occupants’ gaze and spirits 

skywards. 

In an act of sociable generosity, 

the roof’s low southern profile 

maintains available light to the 

neighbour’s windows. By their 

very unevenness, the cannons 

define and differentiate kitchen 

from dining area, providing 

a sense of unique spaces, of 

grandeur and significance as 

well as light and ventilation. An 

existing breezeway displaced by 

the footprint of the addition has 

been re-imagined as a tranquil 

moss garden at the intersection 

of old and new. Designed for 

two doctors of chemistry, this 

is an alteration and addition 

successfully employing a touch of 

alchemy. 

Gantry 

Bates Smart 


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AARON BOLOT AWARD 



Photography: Sharrin Rees 

Photography: Peter Bennetts 

SECTION 

0 5 10m 

Coast 

SJB 

UNSW Kensington Colleges 

Bates Smart 

Jury citation 

effective materials – carefully courtyard. This has been 


Jury citation 

provide a view to the sea whilst Jury citation 

singular design idea to invest 

composed by an assured 

skillfully integrated without loss Single and multiple housing were 

screening neighbours. This 

its broad elevations with human 

formerly included in the separate 

Gantry is an exemplary response creative hand. 

of liveliness to the street. 

Coast is the first new apartment subtle and refined strategy is an Student accommodation is a scale. Alternate floors have 

Wilkinson Award introduced in the 

to the challenge of designing a 

1960s; however, initially only one building 

building in North Bondi for a inventive and welcome contrast distinct type of multiple housing, opposed serrated plans, resulting 

large urban renewal project with The project responds well to its Gantry is an exemplary 

– either a single residence or multiple 

number of years. Its context is to the small punched windows responding to the common in strong sculptural plasticity 

significant site, environmental 

and cost constraints. Located 

on a busy arterial corridor, the 

site has a surrounding context 

varied contexts, ranging from 

five and six storey buildings on 

Denison Street and Parramatta 

Road, to two storey and attic 

demonstration of the 

singular contribution good 

architects can bring to citymaking 

within a commercial 

housing complexes – received the award 

per year, hence the introduction of the 

Aaron Bolot Award. 

the ubiquitous red-brick walk 

up and older buildings that have 

been gentrified over time. It 

responds to this context in an 

commonly used between closely 

spaced buildings. 

Like many eastern suburbs 

needs of a diverse demographic 

of occupants. 


to the façades. Windows are 

scattered in an offset pattern 

that adds vibrancy and variety. 

Each college is given its own 

of low-scale terrace housing and terraces skillfully inserted behind framework; particularly how PROJECT TEAM Consultant 

understated way, with quiet but apartment buildings sited 

create an ensemble of 

identity by a graphic patterning 

pre-war factories, and includes the restored gabled façades of this can be amplified when 


Lighting 

confidently composed façades on a hill, the building base is communities for over 900 

of brightly coloured glazed 

significant heritage fabric. 

the former Fowlerware factory they are engaged for the entire Guy Lake 

Consultant 

that beautifully modulate the articulated, and integrates a students. Four of the five 

bricks interspersed through a 

on Australia Street. 

development process. 

Basil Richardson 


transition from inside to outside. double garage door opening as colleges are new and organised light clinker brick base. 

Beyond this, the project is 

Gert Halbgebauer 

Consultant 

well as the main building entry. around central courtyards, each 

a model for market-driven 

It demonstrates that an 

Mary Omar 

Services 

Justin Cawley 

Consultant 

A restrained palette of timber, The building section has been with communal kitchens and Bates Smart is known for its 

residential development in 

agreeable transition from public 

render, glass and marble is used. cleverly configured to reduce the living spaces. Balconies are careful, restrained and beautifully 

Brady Gibbons Acor Consultants 

contemporary inner urban 

to private space can be achieved 

Damien Maddell Civil Consultant 

The deep side façades create height of the base and create shared by groups of four suites. executed work, and this project is 

Sydney. Urban fit, site planning, with a ‘built to boundary’ 

Josh Shin 

a sequence of framed diagonal an agreeable human scale at Communal roof terraces provide no exception. These qualities sit 

Aspect Studios 

re-use of existing fabric, building solution, in contrast to many 

Daniel Cheng Landscape 

views from within. Reminiscent street level. The street wall is broad views over Randwick easily with Goldstein College and 

modulation and communal contemporary apartment 

Felicity Stewart Consultant 

of the work of Viennese architect predominantly timber, subtly Racecourse to the city. 

the strong landscape character 

spaces have all been expertly developments. 

Damien Abicic 

Louisa Greenwell 

Otto Cserhalmi 

Adolf Loos, the building’s simple enlivened with thoughtful detail 

of this part of the campus. 

handled. The terraces and 

Lee Zheng 

Heritage 

and unadorned exterior encases and landscape. 

The buildings are well connected Avoiding fashion and excess, this 

apartment types are highly An innovative storm-water 

Allan Lamb Construction 

a rich and more adorned private 

to the surrounding campus, project will stand the test of time. 

varied, comfortably satisfy plenum between the basement 

Consultant 

Team 

interior. This is expressed in Coast sits at the luxury end of and have resolved the site’s 

Residential Flat Design Code car park and ground slab allows 

Team 

Parkview 

the deep and wide chamfered the multiple housing market steep level changes and public 

guidelines, and are pleasurable overland flow to run below the 

Construction 

façade elements, where the spectrum but never loses sight interface on High Street with 

AECOM 

Builder 

living space. The building 

ground level across this lowlying 

Structural 

patterned, white marble reveal of the basics of good apartment great skill. The architecture is 

forms and façades have been 

produced with modest, cost site, thereby avoiding a 

raised ground level or sunken 

Consultant 

Electrical 

linings flood soft natural light 

into the building’s interior and 

design. 

restrained, but also rich and 

elegant. The project relies on a 

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COMMENDATION 


COMMENDATION 




Photography: Adrian Boddy 

Attica Newtown 


Imperial 

Stanisic Architects 

One Central Park 

PTW Architects + Atelier Jean Nouvel 

Washington Park_Meridian & Monte 

Turner 

Jury citation 

This thrifty and inventive project 

gives new life to an under-utilised 

warehouse in the main street 

of Erskineville. Keeping the art 

deco perimeter wall largely 

intact, a small-scale supermarket 

activates the ground floor. 

Above, two storeys of residential 

accommodation are contained 

within a large new gambrel roof. 

This clever barn-like volume 

presents a handsome timber 

screen gable to the neighbouring 

park and reduces the building’s 

bulk when viewed longitudinally 

from the street. The relationship of 

the old and new elements have a 

subtle interplay where they meet 

at the parapet line, producing 

a pleasing visual tension with 

concrete infilling between the 

original saw-tooth roof profile. 

The design of compartmentalised 

residential units above an open 

plan supermarket is handled 

adeptly. A crafted timber door on 

the secondary street frontage 

signifies the residential address. 

Inside, open stairs lead to a 

common circulation spine 

that runs the full length of the 

building, open to the sky. This 

surprising and delightful open-air 

corridor is where the strength 

and ingenuity of the scheme lies. 

Pot plants, doormats and shoes 

provide colour at front doors, 

and bicycles hang from racks on 

the walls. These signs of human 

occupation show that this is a 

“street in the sky” that actually 

delivers on its promise. 

Internally, the units have 

straightforward interiors but are 

spatially enriched by mezzanines 

and linear skylights that draw the 

eye upward. 

Candalepas Associates have 

delivered a project exhibiting 

significant architectural skill and 

content within a very limited 

budget. 

Jury citation 

Imperial by Stanisic Architects 

clearly demonstrates the benefits 

that intelligent design and a 

clear strategy can bring to a 

difficult inner city project. The 

site is highly compromised: 

long, awkwardly-shaped, 

overshadowed and south-facing, 

with very little available street 

frontage. Envelope controls 

further impose a steep solar 

access plane to retain sun to the 

nearby Belmore Park. Working 

within these constraints, the 

resolution of the building form 

is remarkably skilful, displaying 

both proficiency in planning and a 

volumetric clarity. 

The building’s façades are 

unapologetically contemporary, 

but sit well with their streetscape 

context. The lowest floors of 

the building, which contain 

commercial space, set a new 

height datum for Campbell Street. 

At the ground level, an 

appropriately scaled two-storey 

portal leads to a pedestrian link 

that slices diagonally through 

the site. An accessible gradient 

and a clear line-of-sight up to 

the lane make this connection 

a particularly successful 

contribution to the public domain; 

evidenced by the high level of 

patronage it receives. 

The project was designed as 

serviced apartments as there 

was no possibility of achieving 

the solar access required for a 

standard residential development. 

Nonetheless, two very large 

light-wells provide ample daylight 

for short-stay visitors as well as 

offering interesting city and sky 

views. The floor plan is complex 

with many different unit types; 

however, most units are relatively 

wide and shallow, lending them 

the feeling of spaciousness as 

well as providing good natural 

ventilation. 

Jury citation 

This project challenges orthodox 

models of contemporary high 

density living in Australia. The most 

significant areas of innovation lie 

in its ambitious environmental 

agenda. Onsite tri-generation and 

black water re-cycling contribute 

to the sustainable urban renewal of 

this very large and important site. 

One Central Park is the densest 

and tallest apartment complex 

within the overall development, 

and is comprised of two residential 

towers astride a shopping mall. 

The project’s most distinctive 

design features are its living, green 

façades and the cantilevered solar 

array and heliostat reflecting light 

into the mall below. These are 

bold and imaginative architectural 

features that are new to multiple 

housing projects in this country. 

The façades are particularly well 

handled with their heavily draped 

living, green elements; their 

viability will be essential to the 

long-term perception and success 

of this project. 

The two buildings are very 

dense, with deep, commercial 

size floor-plates offering up to 

19 apartments on a typical floor. 

This challenges current residential 

amenity standards in NSW. The 

plan is segmented by deep, 

narrow vertical slots intended to 

provide cross ventilation, and has 

many narrow apartments. This 

raises a bigger question currently 

facing Sydney developers: the 

balancing and trade-offs that 

inevitably arise between amenity 

and affordability. 

The jury was engaged by both the 

inventive and challenging aspects 

of the project and believes this 

skillful work proposes a different 

housing paradigm for the city and 

its development community to 

reflect upon. 

Jury citation 

As many of the mid-century 

public housing estates in Sydney 

reach the end of their useful 

lives, their revitalisation at much 

higher densities is becoming 

more common. In this context, 

Washington Park_Meridian 

& Monte by Turner will be an 

excellent benchmark by which 

to judge the success of future 

regeneration projects. As the first 

stage of a larger master plan, 

the paired Meridian and Monte 

buildings provide a quantum 

of new social housing stock, 

potentially accommodating those 

tenants that will be displaced 

through later construction stages 

for market housing. 

The public domain and 

landscape at the perimeter of the 

development is of high quality, 

making a positive framework for 

the master plan. The distinction 

between public and private 

space is made clear with the 

communal courtyard between 

the buildings defined by a level 

change and fencing. The central 

vegetable garden with seating 

and lighting is a highlight, 

providing a community focus as 

well as a green outlook from the 

apartments. 

The architectural resolution of 

the buildings makes the most 

of a very prescriptive brief from 

the government client. Many 

small design decisions and 

innovations improve the project. 

Wide corridors with light and air 

incorporate splashes of colour 

sensibly through signage and 

ceiling planes where it can be 

easily maintained. Recessed 

balconies provide room-like 

qualities lending extra space 

to the unit and providing sun 

protection. Bands of face and 

painted brick are used externally 

for longevity, but are made to 

wander between varying window 

head and sill heights, giving play 

to the façades. 

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SMALL PROJECT 

ROBERT WOODWARD AWARD 


The Small Project Architecture Award 

was named in 2013 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. 

Foley Park Amenities 

Stanic Harding 


SECTION 

FOLEY PARK AMENITIES SECTION A 

2014021914 

1:20 

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Jury citation 

Thoughtfully detailed, this 

public amenities block is in 

the northern corner of Foley 

Park, Glebe. Sited to address 

surveillance and amenity 

concerns, the freestanding 

structure allows the public to 

circulate around and through 

the building in multiple ways. 

Discreet and deceptively 

complex, the brick and 

timber structure belies 

the built material research 

informing the design. Dark, 

well-proportioned bricks are 

supported in a stacked bond 

on a steel frame, hovering 

50mm above the ground. A 

standard brick toilet block 

is invoked but also subtly 

subverted by practical 

improvements. The floating 

wall detail allows for better 

natural ventilation and easier 

cleaning and maintenance. 

A slatted, open-ended area 

with basins provides a place 

to wash and rest but offers 

minimal shelter, discouraging 

extended occupation. This 

light breezeway is private 

enough but also offers casual 

surveillance from and to the 

park. Its material and screens 

are situated in deliberate 

contrast to the secure brick 

cubicles. Ironbark used for 

the slats has been treated to 

minimize leaching; exposed 

horizontal edges with capped 

zinc sections anticipate 

weathering. 

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Within each cubicle, a robust, 

trafficable, polycarbonate 

sheet roof provides a 

surprisingly day-lit room. 

High quality, naturally 

weathering, material and 

functional components are 

conceived and constructed 

for long-term performance 

in a demanding environment, 

mindful of robust use and 

heavy maintenance. Refined 

detailing and an elegant 

rigour give this extremely 

simple, small brick block 

and screened porch an 

architectural intensity. 

PROJECT TEAM 


Andrew Stanic 

Design architect 

Peter Christensen 

Project Coordinator 




Lighting, Art & 

Science 


David Buckle & 

Associates 


Aspect Studios 

Landscape 

Consultant 

Acor 

Environmental 

Consultant 

BDA Consultants 


Mersonn 

Planning Consultant 

Tom Miskovich & 

Associates 

BCA Consultant 

Access Associates 

Sydney 


Deuce Design 

Signage Consultant 

Hydroplan 

Irrigation Consultant 

JK Geotechnics 

Geotechnical 

Consultant 

Urbis 



Growthbuilt 

Builder 

Michael Woolley, City 

of Sydney 


Lianna Augustis, 

Growthbuilt 

Construction 

Manager 

Matthew Gribben, 

City of Sydney 


Marcio Teixeira, 

Growthbuilt 

Foreman 

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SMALL PROJECT 


SMALL PROJECT 

COMMENDATION 

Photography: Anthony Browell 


Photography: Murray Fredericks 

Photography: Shantanu Starick 

Balmain Apartment 

Durbach Block Jaggers 

The Garden Project 

Welsh + Major Architects 

Somersby Pavilion 

Matthew Woodward Architecture 

The Pod 

Takt | Studio for Architecture 

Jury citation 

A homage to Le Corbusier is 

unexpectedly located in the 

small domestic interior of a 

prosaic Balmain apartment 

block. Compactly organised 

with overlapping uses, 

elegantly detailed and precisely 

constructed, the result is a 

modest, refined retreat. 

Living and sleeping are divided 

into two rooms, though not 

completely, with each of these 

areas also split into tight rear 

services and open arrangements. 

All manner of interconnections 

between these functions are 

imagined and facilitated, each 

area of imagined life deliberately 

blurred with others. 

Subtle, studied adjustments to 

the apparent heights of essential 

elements and the use of extended 

and reflected sight lines carefully 

create spaciousness with 

structured complexity. 

Attention has also been given 

to creating variety within a 

restrained, yet pleasurable, 

material and colour palette. An 

unobtrusive built background 

offers richness in parallel with the 

detail of daily life. 

Doubled columns are 

proportioned and articulated 

as a delicate device. Clever use 

of other minimally dimensioned 

components contributes to the 

sense of a generous environment. 

Strict economy here provides a 

measure for the experience of 

spatial luxury. 

This apparently simple project is 

small, yet calm, and surprisingly 

dense. It offers a subtle lightness 

with discreet architectural depth. 

Jury citation 

This project provides an unlikely 

oasis on a busy thoroughfare 

in an inner-west suburb. The 

Garden Project offers an 

unexpectedly layered retreat 

nestled at the bottom of an 

equally surprising landscape. 

A late Victorian home opens 

to a gently sloping backyard 

with a number of varied, 

mature, distinctive trees; an 

elaborate garden bookended 

by this project. Multiple uses 

are layered in a double pavilion 

divided by simple services. 

Suggested occupations are as 

guest or spare bedroom, living 

space, garage, workshop and 

entertaining area – all plausible in 

this open-ended situation. 

Folded concrete forms the 

pavilion roof, suggesting 

a constructed, almost 

cantilevered, canopy. A 

secondary steel structure 

allows walls and windows 

to slip away and facilitates 

layered interconnections to the 

exterior. Seamless thresholds 

between interior and garden 

spaces increase the sense of 

permeability. Off-form concrete, 

tiles and timber are folded over 

each other within the building, 

echoing the layered freedom of 

adjacent planted surfaces. 

This closely coordinated 

architecture and landscape 

are convincingly intertwined. 

Both built and natural elements 

create this modest retreat. Yet 

unexpected privacy, a lush 

landscape, an almost outside 

bath, and the best backyard 

barbeques all seem, suddenly, 

simultaneously possible. 

Jury citation 

A glass pavilion on the edge of 

a natural dam, remote from the 

main residence, provides a place 

from which to experience the 

beautifully established gardens 

and luxurious landscape of this 

rural property. 

Two rectangular prisms, one 

glass and one clad in sandstone, 

form a small structure. The 

enclosed stone clad core 

contains a bathroom, kitchen 

area, internal and external 

storage as well as service 

equipment. A composite steel 

and concrete slab volume, 

with glass walls and ephemeral 

curtains, intersects this 

apparently solid mass. Two 

glass “rooms” oriented to the 

landscape are thus created, each 

with services and storage as a 

solid “back” wall. The smaller 

glazed area locates the pavilion 

entrance and possible guestroom 

within. It is situated to suggest 

a connection with grounded, 

external low stonewalls, also 

creating a protected sitting 

room when the bed is folded 

away. Glazing and curtains 

slide to the other side of the 

enclosure, where a major volume 

cantilevers dramatically over 

the lilies in the spring-fed dam. 

This space offers multiple living 

arrangements as well as a spa, 

reached by removing timber 

panels in the floor. 

Materials have been selected, 

detailed and constructed in 

a manner well-aligned with 

the stated functional, visual 

and architectural hierarchy. 

Compact solidity and an elegant 

spaciousness are clearly posed 

and well related. Layered uses 

provide varied relationships with 

the remarkable surrounds. 

Jury citation 

This simple pavilion addition 

to a cottage in Woonona, 

demonstrates a strong 

architectural ambition within 

a framework of extreme 

economy. Apparent throughout 

is a productive, collaborative 

relationship between the client 

and architect. 

Oriented as a perpendicular 

linear extension to the original 

cottage, The Pod is characterised 

by a series of expressed 

hardwood portal frames. As 

repeated elements parallel to 

the existing house, their spacing 

describes added programs. 

Private sleeping and bathroom 

areas have tighter dimensions 

closer to the house; more 

expansive proportions align with 

the living areas at the far end. 

An external rhythm of portals 

registers all added rooms. Each 

of the frames was hand burnt 

and sealed, the colour imagined 

by the architects as a metaphor 

for the coal seams of the area. 

Northern glazing is located 

along an embedded walkway 

directing the outlook toward the 

distant escarpment, a striking 

feature of the local landscape. 

A partially glazed roof to this 

circulation extends the opening 

and its orientation to the sky, 

emphasising the repetitive dark 

frames. 

Cost and durability have 

informed all material choices and 

details. Sun shading to the north 

is from core-ten steel off cuts – a 

nod to local industry. Plywood 

elements have optimised the 

use of standard sheet sizes 

in a playful, robust fashion. A 

kitchen splashback constructed 

in Lego bricks is a delightful, 

collaborative client effort and 

provides unexpected colour 

within a broadly natural range of 

built materials. 

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HERITAGE 

GREENWAY AWARD 


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. 

Eternity Playhouse 

Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects 

(Creative Adaptation) 


ETERNITY PLAYHOUSE 

TONKIN ZULAIKHA GREER 

SECTION 

Jury citation 

A skilful refurbishment and 

adaptation of the heritage 

listed 1887 Burton Street 

Tabernacle; this project is a 

sympathetic, clever conversion 

of the original church into a 

contemporary performance 

space for the Darlinghurst 

Theatre Company. 

Building on careful external 

conservation by the Sydney 

City Council in 2009, this 

re-conception compactly 

reconfigures the church 

volume as a new stepped 

theatre. 200 seats slope 

toward a platform centred 

on the original Victorian 

arched façade and niche with 

baptismal font; conserved 

architectural elements now 

set future stages. Inclined 

above the new entrance and 

cafe stepping directly down 

NV 

from Burton Street, this raked 

seating also provides a ceiling 

above a more informal theatre 

space. 

Systems supporting 

contemporary theatrical use 

are technically ambitious and 

sympathetically employed. 

Natural light through restored 

windows allows the original 

architecture to be legible and 

used when desired, with a full 

blackout also possible. New 

mechanical and structural 

elements are handled with 

precision and economy; a 

delicate steel structure allows 

the conserved timber ceiling 

to be visible through a new 

fine mesh lighting ‘grid.’ 

Once the church in which 

Arthur Stace heard a sermon 

in 1930, inspiring him to chalk 

‘Eternity’ on Sydney’s streets, 

this new theatre’s name in 

0 1 2 3 4 5m 

light is also connected with 

Sydney’s 2000 celebrations, 

a symbol written for the new 

LONG SECTION 

millennium. Through use, 

location and community 

connections, the building 

resonates with multiple 

histories embedded in 

architecture. Ambitiously 

re-imagined as a playhouse, 

this project respectfully 

conserves both the building 

and its cultural associations, 

providing historical awareness 

together with convincing, 

new life. 

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PROJECT TEAM 


Peter Tonkin 

Director 

Julie Mackenzie 

Jeremy Hughes 

Roger O’Sullivan 

Alison Osborne 

Christian Williams 

Bettina Siegmund 

Nazia Kachwalla 

Grant Sandler 

Tamarind Taylor 


Simpson Design 

Associates 


Wood & Grieve 

Engineers 


Mechanical 

Consultant 



Environmental 

Consultant 

Tony Youlden 

Theatre Consultant 

Cini Little 

Kitchen Consultant 

SMEC 

HAZMAT 

GRS reports 

BCA Consultant 

Varga Traffic 

Planning 

Traffic Engineer 

Acoustic Studio 


Accessibility 

Solutions 


Glendinning Minot & 

Associates 

Town Planner 

Marshmallow 

Signage Consultant 


Kane Constructions 

Builder 


Council 


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HERITAGE (CREATIVE ADAPTATION) 

COMMENDATION 

HERITAGE (CONSERVATION) 





COMMENDATION 

Paramount Pictures Building 

Fox Johnston 

Jury citation 

An imaginative and sympathetic 

restoration and reorganisation of 

Paramount House, originally built as 

a cinema and commercial building 

in 1940, has carefully conserved a 

well-designed building. Extending 

its urban presence, new insertions 

also strengthen an important 

contribution to the local street, 

unexpectedly complementing 

the office spaces and their broad 

commercial context. 

To satisfy pragmatic access 

requirements the building’s 

circulation was reconfigured with a 

new generous opening through a 

former unremarkable rear loading 

dock. Doubling the entrance space 

and creating a new central light 

court eased pressure on the original 

restored entry stairwell and has 

allowed for a fresh, program driven 

reorientation. An excellent cafe, 

bike shop and gallery provide a 

new and vibrant street presence. 

The building now invites public 


use. An intimate bar and small 

cinema, accessed via the new 

glazed entrance, extend the range 

of public facilities. The cinema is 

housed in the building’s original 

screening room, providing a 

tangible reminder of its historical 

use. 

Paramount Pictures’ commercial 

offices, promotion and 

distribution centre in Sydney 

was originally designed by 

architects Herbert, Wilson & Prior. 

Restoration of this Art Deco 

building has been completed with 

a responsible but light touch. 

Respect has been shown for the 

materials, details and architectural 

priorities while avoiding 

preciousness. An open-ended 

attitude, a clearly supportive 

client and collaborative 

relationship between all parties is 

evident. This project is a careful 

balance of historical conservation 

aligned with a commercial, yet 

publicly minded, contemporary 

adaptation. 

Jury citation 

The elaborately designed former 

No. 4 Police Station at 127-129 

George Street is one of colonial 

architect James Barnet’s finest 

small-scale buildings. The George 

Street frontage uses the quirky 

conceit of a Palladian Water 

Gate, whilst the cells behind were 

arranged with robust symmetry. 

The project is impressive in 

the way the heritage building 

has been given clear priority, 

leaving much of its original 

detailing intact, complete with 

the brooding themes of law and 

justice. The current environment 

retains the character of a police 

‘lock-up.’ Above the lofty entrance 

arch are Queen Victoria’s initials 

with a lion’s head, the symbol 

of British justice, designed as 

the keystone with a policeman’s 

truncheon in its mouth. 


Former Police Station, 

127-129 George St, The Rocks 

Welsh + Major Architects with 

Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority 

Many of the interventions are 

reversible, allowing heritage value 

to be sustained. New services, 

in the challenging location of 

the small masonry cells, have 

been particularly well executed. 

A refined new addition to the 

rear lane, Nurses Walk (in an 

area previously compromised 

by allotment changes), provides 

improved access and a precise steel 

and glass contrast to the original 

masonry building. Clever use of 

natural light washes the solid rear 

façade of the cellblock. Elegantly 

detailed, restrained new elements 

and materials offer new functions 

yet do not compete with Barnet’s 

work. This is an intelligent project 

in accordance with the Australian 

ICOMOS 2013 Burra Charter: 

“changing as much as necessary 

but as little as possible”. 

Jury citation 

This award celebrates the 

admirable work of the NSW 

Office of Environment and 

Heritage in embracing its 

exceptional collection of 

historic cultural heritage sites. 

Yarrangobilly Valley is one of 

the most beautiful limestone 

karst landscapes in Australia, 

situated on the northern edge of 

Kosciuszko National Park. 

The valley was developed for 

public visits by the government 

tourist bureau from 1879 onwards. 

Caves House was constructed 

in an Arts & Craft style by the 

NSW Government Architect’s 

Office in 1901; this particular 

two-storey wing was constructed 

in 1917 to cope with increased 

visitor numbers. The facility was 

closed in 1966 but since 2005 

has been undergoing an upgrade; 

conservation and adaptation of 

the 1917 wing was completed in 

2013. 

Photography: Murray Van Deer Veer 

Yarrangobilly Caves House 1917 Wing 

Architectural Projects 

Guided by a thorough 

conservation management plan, 

these works have been carried 

out with a vigorous commitment 

to authentic detail and with 

discrete insertion of contemporary 

amenities and sustainable 

services. New hydronic heating, 

a blackwater system, stormwater 

harvesting, co-generation plant 

and a full sprinkler system have all 

been installed. Large plant items 

were located in the basement; 

however, installation of pipes and 

cables throughout the entirely 

timber-framed building has been 

skilfully achieved with minimal 

material intervention. 

This wing now offers 11 bedrooms 

and guest facilities including an 

elegantly restored main lounge. 

The project thoughtfully conserves 

an important element in Australia’s 

history, allowing it to meet 

contemporary accommodation 

demands subtly, conscientiously 

and sustainably. 

Jury citation 

This project involved the 

conservation and reuse of 

the nationally significant 

1813 Female Orphan School 

at Rydalmere, the oldest 

three-storey brick building in 

Australia. It provides exhibition 

spaces and meeting rooms 

for the University of Western 

Sydney’s Parramatta Campus 

and the wider community. Four 

stages of careful conservation 

work, begun in 2002, were 

completed in 2013. The building 

now houses a variety of multipurpose 

spaces including a new 

home for the Whitlam Institute 

and Margaret Whitlam Galleries. 

The careful repair, conservation 

and necessay re-construction 

of original façades involved 

extensive research and detailed 

documentation together with 

close monitoring during the 

construction phase. Fragile 

fabric was repaired and a 


Female Orphan School, UWS Parramatta 

Tanner Kibble Denton Architects 

number of the building’s former 

lives has been interpreted in the 

interiors. 

The outstanding landscaped 

setting of the former Female 

Orphan School has also been 

retained and celebrated. 

Preservation of all phases of the 

building’s history captures in 

palimpsest its 200-year life and 

varied use. 

Respecting and conserving 

cultural, social, environmental 

and architectural values, this 

project continues the status of 

conservation and adaptation 

as a critical form of sustainable 

design. One of the most 

important surviving structures 

from the earliest period of 

European settlement in Australia 

has been revitalised, ensuring 

that this significant building can 

be used and appreciated for 

years to come. 

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AWARD FOR ENDURING ARCHITECTURE 

Jury citation 

Ian McKay and Philip Cox 

(architects in association) 

received the 1965 Sulman Medal 

and the Blacket Award for their 

design of the CB Alexander 

College at Tocal, a Presbyterian 

Agricultural College which is now 

managed by the Department 

of Primary Industries as an 

agricultural training centre. 

To create a residential 

community, the design fused the 

traditional elements of collegiate 

architecture – the cloister, 

the great hall, the chapel and 

refectory – with motifs drawn 

from Asian architecture. Central 

to the complex is the sculptural 

chapel, the spire of which can be 

seen from the surrounding area. 

A series of paved courtyards 

separate the halls from the 

residential wings, creating areas 

for the students to gather. The 

influence of Asian traditions 

is evident in the detailing, 

particularly the sequence of 

paved courtyards, the floating 

roofs and exposed rafters. 

The dual-purpose main hall 

and the chapel are frequently 

used by the local community 

for exhibitions and events. The 

college principal’s appreciation 

of the design concept and 

construction techniques has 

ensured that the buildings 

continue to be both appreciated 

and immaculately maintained. 

Tocal survives in its entirety. The 

principal spaces, the purposedesigned 

furniture and the 

art works all survive today, 

having been carefully repaired 

and maintained or seamlessly 

extended. 


Following on from similar awards in America, 

England and New Zealand, the 25 Year 

Award was renamed the Award for Enduring 

Architecture with past winners including the 

Sydney Opera House. 

PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

Andre Ceprinski 


Site Architect 

Philip Cox 


Ian McKay 


JV Architect 

Alan Ray 

Architect 

Adrian Boss 

Architect 


Mckay, Cox & 

Prof. F.S. Shaw, 

University of NSW in 

Association 

Structural 

Consultant 

Norman and 

Addicoat 


Norman and 

Addicoat 

Mechanical 

Consultant 

Taylor, Thompson 

and Whitting 

Hydraulic 

Consultant 

Thompson and Walk 



Gardener 

Constructions 

Builder 

CB Alexander College, Tocal 

Ian McKay and Phillip Cox, architects in association 

Photography: Max Dupain 

Underlying this remarkable work 

of environmentally responsive 

architecture are the principles 

of sustainability, evident in the 

choice of the same palette of 

materials typically utilised in 

the hand-built rural vernacular 

of the Hunter Valley in the 

19th century. The use of locally 

produced bricks and hand-adzed 

hardwoods has helped to ensure 

the continuation of local building 

traditions. 

Photography: Max Dupain 

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COLORBOND ® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE 

WINNER 

COLORBOND ® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE 

COMMENDATION 



Jury citation 

As the architect Paul van 

Ratingen tells the story, “The 

brief’s proposition was that 

the whole site be cleared, but 

on our first visit here we were 

captivated by the 1960s gantry 

structure. It’s exceptionally 

powerful and very beautiful in its 

weathered state.” 

Aside from the compelling 

aesthetics, the sheer scale and 

bold simplicity of the retained 

structure is extraordinary. 

Minimal intervention has 

seen the retention of the 35 

paired stanchions and the 

approximately 300 metre long 

dual crane gantry. Direct, simple 

detailing of new elements 


The project required the 

demolition of the cargo 

shed’s roof structure and wall 

cladding, leaving only the 

trussed staunchions and crane 

rail beam to support the new 

free-form roof. Every second 

pair of the staunchions supports 

a new 50 metre long twin SHS/ 

RHS truss. From these trusses 

are suspended 457CHS curved 

purlins at approximately 11m 

centres. These purlins are curved 

to shape the drape of the roof 

and ceiling plane, which appears 

to hover over the large 

column-free space below. 

Like Rossi’s urban artefact, this 

massive steel structure, whilst 

allowing the facilitation of new 

uses over time still speaks 

eloquently of its industrial 

maritime history and more 

broadly of Sydney’s origins as a 

port city. It is a befitting landing 

point for the thousands of 

visitors who arrive in Sydney by 

ship and who’s first views of the 

city are from its harbour. 

PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

Mathew Howard 

Gareth Jenkins 

Zoe Jenkins 

Supinder Matharu 

Natalie Minasian 

James Polyhron 

Daniel Upton 

Brendan Murray 


Paul van Ratingen 


Graeme Dix 


Andrew Christie 


Adam Robilliard 


David Baker 



Barry Young, TTW 


Dean Genner, TTW 


Steffen, TTW 

Schuetze 


Nicky Barry, TTW 


Stephen Brain, TTW 


Hyder 


Environmental 

Consultant 

Engineered Fire & 

Safety Solutions 

Fire Engineer 



The COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture is given to a project 

which utilises steel in an innovative and creative manner. 

Stuart Boyce, 

BCA Logic 

BCA consultant 


AW Edwards 

Builder 

Jury citation 



Lippmann Partnership/Rogers Stirk 

Harbour & Partners 

The use of steel in 8 Chifley 

Square is central to the building’s 

success and identity. 



prefabricated components 

brings a unique language to 

Sydney. The steel elements of 

frame and brace, in tension and 

compression, are crafted to a city 

scale and finished to describe the 

forces at play. 

The exuberance of the building 

belies the mass and forces of 

gravity that are at work. 

The building’s construction 

materials and methodology point 

to a new wave of prefabrication 

and demountability that is set to 

expand within our construction 

future. 

Steel is inherent in the building’s 

success and its unique identity 

within the city street and skyline. 

Jury citation 

Taronga Zoo’s Lemur Forest 

Adventure is an experientially rich 

project, which brings together 

play, education, interpretation and 

animal care. Celebrating Taronga 

Zoo’s remarkable location and 

harbour orientation, the project 

responds to the drama of the 

site’s natural theatre form, which 

occupies the place of the former 

seal pool. 

The project fuses two distinct 

components; a Forest Walk for 

zoo visitors and the Lemur Walk 

Through and Night Quarters. The 

Forest Walk, primarily a children’s 

play space, includes a promenade 

of tightly organised architectural 

and play structures, each immersed 

in their own distinct landscape. The 

entry is marked by a well-scaled 

circular roof canopy and a series 

of tightly spaced polychrome steel 

poles. Within the Forest, the main 

structure includes an elevated 

viewing platform, sun shading and 


Lemur Forest Adventure 

Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects 

various play elements. Access 

to the structure is across a 

suspension rope bridge over the 

shallow water-play stream. The 

light, lofty structure sits above the 

gathering space as an observation 

outpost. 

The use of steel is manifold. 

Primary structural elements are 

finished in a sober bridge grey, 

connecting this playful promenade 

to the larger steel armature that 

is threaded through the zoo’s 

primary circulation routes. These 

steel elements are minimally and 

elegantly detailed. In contrast, the 

more celebratory, playful placing 

of the polychrome poles creates 

a localised richness within the 

site. Steel is also manifest in the 

use of fine stainless steel mesh, 

creating a safe but minimal sense 

of enclosure. 

Much thought has gone into 

this very complex program 

of structures, spaces and 

experiences. 

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BLACKET PRIZE 

NSW PREMIER’S PRIZE 


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. 


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. 


Fender Katsalidis Mirams Architects 

Jury citation 

Garangula Gallery was 

designed for a private client 

and is located in Harden in 

the South West Slopes region. 

The building responds to its 

location, exhibited through 

its consideration of both 

the local topography and 

the harsh outback climate. 

Its slightly elevated position 

allows the gallery to sit within 

its native landscape, whilst 

connecting to the wider area 

through the use of carefully 

integrated sculptures and 

controlled views. The building 

is further anchored to its 

location by the use of earth 

and stone quarried from the 

site in its construction. 

A restrained yet rich palette 

of materials brings warmth 

and texture to the building. 

Artworks integrated into the 

fabric of the exterior embed 

references to region and 

memory. The five galleries, 

representing time, place, 

artist, material and meaning, 

are clearly articulated on 

the exterior, ensuring the 

legibility of the building 

prior to entering. The spatial 

organisation of the arrival 

sequence subtly prepares the 

visitor for the drama of the 

interior. The architect used 


the potentially conflicting 

requirements of the brief – for 

a combined gallery and event 

space – to reconsider the 

ubiquitous white box gallery 

interior. The bold choice of 

charcoal grey as the interior 

wall colour enhances the 

vibrancy of the Aboriginal 

pieces on display. 

Garangula Gallery is 

an exemplary project 

demonstrating a clear 

concept, an understanding 

of place, and the successful 

integration of art, architecture 

and landscape. 

PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

Gideon Reiss 


Martin Dudasko 


Robert Mirams 


Andre Braun 

Documentation 

Anna Moldt 

Documentation 

Craig Chand 

Documentation 

Jackson Cranfield 

Documentation 

Kurt Schilling 

Documentation 

Pablo Villarino 

Documentation 

Peter Epple 

Documentation 

Stacey Bark 

Documentation 

Steve Gartsky 

Documentation 


Robert Bird Group 

Structural 

Consultant 

Robert Bird Group 


Arup 

Hydraulic 

Consultant 

Tract Consultants 

Landscape 

Consultant 



Fender Katsalidis 

Mirams Architect 

Interior Designer 

Cardno 

Façade and Pivot 

Wall Structure 

Emerystudio 

Signage 

There 

Timber Screen 

Graphic 

Waterforms and 

DCG Design 

Water Feature 

Design 

Margo Neale 

Art Curator 

Electrolight 

Lighting Consultants 

(Sculptures) 

Jonathan Jones 

Building Art 


Manteena 

Builder 

Kirk Staniland 


Lou Agnello 

Construction 

Manager 

Rod Mitto 


The Boilerhouse 

Tanner Kibble Denton Architects 

Jury citation 

Traditionally this prize is 

awarded to an architect 

or an architectural project 

that has contributed to the 

advancement of architecture in 

New South Wales. 

Located in the Parramatta 

campus of University 

of Western Sydney, The 

Boilerhouse by Tanner 

Kibble Denton Architects 

acknowledges and celebrates 

the past, engages with 

students of today and provides 

facilities that will be at the 

centre of campus life for many 

years to come. 

The campus is a significant 

and historic place and has 

been continuously used as a 

public institution since 1813. 

The Boilerhouse, located at 

the centre of the campus, lay 

in ruins for over 10 years and 

despite the iconic chimney, 

was not central to campus life. 

This project creates a new 

student centre for the 

university by reusing and 

enlivening the existing 

heritage site. 

The 1894 Boilerhouse has lost 

none of its ‘raw’ industrial 

aesthetic. The liveliness 

and popularity of the new 


facilities is a testament to 

the architect’s foresight in 

recognising the potential of 

the original building fabric. 

Much of the original industrial 

equipment including coal fired 

boilers were removed and 

transformed into four separate 

artworks – giving a playful 

interpretation to the original 

industrial activity. 

This is an intelligent and 

thoughtful reuse of an existing 

site and fabric to create a 

dynamic and contemporary 

place for students in Sydney’s 

heartland. It celebrates our 

past and builds on this legacy 

for future generations. 

PROJECT TEAM 

Project Team: 

Angelo Casado 


Alex Kibble 


Daelynn Loh 

Marta Eyles 

Courtney Ryan 

Vanessa Holtham 

Mardi Christian 


Mott Macdonald 

Structural 

Consultant 


Kuttner Collins 



Mechanical 

Consultant 

Mott Macdonald 

Hydraulic 

Consultant 

Taylor Brammer 

Landscape 

Architects 

Landscape 

Consultant 

Tanner Kibble 

Denton Architects 

Interior Designer 

Heritage consultant 

Vipac 


RLB 




Consultant 

Spatchurst 

Graphic Design 

Group DLA 

Building surveyor 


Gledhill 

Constructions 

Builder 

University of 

Western Sydney 

Capital Works and 

Facilities 


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CITY OF SYDNEY LORD MAYOR’S PRIZE 


Photography: Owen Zhu 

Prince Alfred Park 

+ Pool Upgrade 

Neeson Murcutt 

Architects in 

association with 




Jury citation 

In this, its second year, the City 

of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize for 

excellence in the public domain is 

shared by two projects. Both have 

beautifully transformed degraded 

buildings and spaces, and both 

contribute to the evolution of a 

more sustainable city. 

The Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross 

by Environa Studio has been a 

15-year labour of love for Tone 

Wheeler – working with the charity 

to provide a new home that strikes 

the right balance between public 

and private spaces, materials and 

expression. 

It is sustainable in many ways, 

from its green roof providing 

food for the low-energy kitchen, 

to its lighting, heating and loose 

fit allowing for future flexibility. It 

blends spaces across a three-part 

building with a “spiritual centre” 

of open public spaces at ground 

level. The architecture follows the 

Chapel’s own precepts of providing 

social service, in the best spirit, at 

the lowest cost. 

Prince Alfred Park + Pool Upgrade, 

although commissioned by the City, 

demands recognition of the success 

of Neeson Murcutt Architects and 

Sue Barnsley in transforming the 

public domain. 

They have created an active and 

passive recreation space, folding 

the pool into the landscape, 

revealing the park’s Victorian 

genesis, while adding the playful 

elements of yellow umbrellas, a 

playground and coloured 

tri-generation chimneys. It sets a 

benchmark in sustainability, from its 

green roof and meadow habitats, to 

natural ventilation and stormwater 

harvesting, and is a wonderful 

memorial to the late Nick Murcutt. 

Established 2013 The City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize was 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. 

THE WAYSIDE CHAPEL 

PROJECT TEAM 

Practice team: 

Hilary Whattam 


Tone Wheeler 


Director, Principal 

Architect 

Jan O’Connor 

Interiors, Director 



(Stage 1) 

Structural 

Consultant 

Watermans 

(Stage 2) 

Structural 

Consultant 

Knox Advanced 

Engineering 

Electrical 

Consultant 

Mechanical 

Consultant 

J&M Group 


Sue Barnsley Design 

Landscape 

Consultant 

Wilkinson Murray 


EMF Griffiths 

Environmental 

Consultant 

Itc Group P/L 

Fire Engineering 

MDA Australia 

Quantity Surveying 

Accessibility 

Solutions 


Blackett Maguire + 

Goldsmith 

Private Certifying 

Authority 

AWS 

Glazing consultant 

NBRS & P 


Boxall Surveyors 

Building Surveyor 


Kell & Rigby 

(Stage 1) 

Builder 

Fugen 

(Stage 2) 

Builder 

Skope 

(Stage 3 – on going) 

Builder 

EPM Projects 


PRINCE ALFRED PARK 

+ POOL UPGRADE 

PROJECT TEAM 

Practice team: 

Rachel Neeson 

Nicholas Murcutt 

Jenny Hien 

Louise Holst 

Joseph Grech 

Tamas Jones 

Isabelle Toland 



Sean Choo 



SDA Structures 

Structural 

Consultant 

Cardno 


Lighting, Art + Science 



Sue Barnsley 


Frost Design 

Signage 

ACOR 


Electrical, Hydraulic, 

Aquatic, Pool 

Structural, Earthworks, 

Security 

Tensys 


Surface Design 

Tiling/Façade Engineer 

CTI 

Corrosion/ 

Waterproofing 

Consultant 

Hydroplan 

Irrigation 

SESL 


Earthscape 

Arborist 

GTA 




John Oultram 



John O’Shea 




Senior Design 

Manager 

Lisa Dodd 


Manager 

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NSW PRESIDENT’S PRIZE 

EMERGING ARCHITECT PRIZE 

SPONSORED BY AWS 

MARION MAHONY 

GRIFFIN PRIZE 

ADRIAN ASHTON PRIZE FOR 

WRITING AND CRITICISM 

SPONSORED BY 

BATES SMART 

Steve Kennedy 

Kennedy Associates 

Architects 

The NSW President’s Prize this 

year acknowledges an individual 

who, while running a highly 

successful and award-winning 

practice, has made a sustained 

contribution to the betterment 

of the profession in NSW over an 

extended period of time. 

Steve Kennedy’s voluntary work 

for the profession includes many 

undertakings which directly 

– and practically – assist all 

architects working in NSW. He 

was instrumental in establishing 

the practice networks in the 

early 1990s to connect smaller 

practices throughout the Sydney 

metropolitan area – networks 

that continue today. He created 

the Continuing Professional 

Development program for the 

NSW Chapter in 2004, running 

it continuously until 2012. 

He helped found the Sydney 

Architecture Festival in 2009 and 

was active in nurturing it over a 

number of years. 

He has been a productive 

Chapter Councillor for ten 

years, a chair or member of the 

Education and CPD Committees 

in NSW and nationally, amongst 

many other voluntary roles. 

Steve has taught architecture 

and urban design at Sydney 

University, University of 

Technology Sydney and the 

University of New South Wales 

and has been a member of 

numerous government working 

groups, advisory boards, as well 

as design review panels. 

Currently engaged in negotiating 

better contractual terms 

and procurement methods 

for the profession with the 

NSW Government through 

the Association of Consulting 

Architects - work which is being 

undertaken in conjunction with 

the NSW Chapter; Steve is a 

board member of the Australian 

Construction Industry Forum 

and a director of The Australian 

Council of Built Environment 

Design Professions. 

Steve Kennedy has quietly and 

unassumingly contributed a lot 

without accolade. His energy and 

leadership have had a lasting 

impact on the integrity of the 

profession. 


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. 

Shaun Carter 

Carterwilliamson 

Architects 

The Emerging Architect Prize 

recognises an individual emerging 

architect or an architectural 

collaboration’s contribution to 

architectural practice, education, 

design excellence and community 

involvement which advances the 

profession’s role in the public 

arena. 

Shaun Carter’s notable 

achievements and contributions 

to the architectural profession 

are considered an outstanding 

exemplar of a professional 

deserving of this prize. 

Established in 2004, Shaun’s 

practice Carterwilliamson 

Architects provides ongoing 

education, notably through 

inter-office tutelage and critique. 

In addition to many years of 

tutoring and course coordination 

within NSW universities, Shaun 

employs a dialogue of education 

and guidance within the studio 

model of his practice. 

Shaun is an active contributor 

to the evolving architectural 

discourse through his roles in 

the NSW Chapter; notably as 

a Chapter Councillor and Chair 

of the Editorial Committee as 

well as a committee member 

of the Gender Equity and CPD 

Committees. In addition, Shaun’s 

contributions to architectural 

culture expand beyond his 

involvement in practice and 

education; through his role as 

co-convenor of the Inner West 

Architects Network, and his 

involvement in the curated model 

exhibition “Model Practice” for the 

2013 Sydney Architecture Festival. 

The excellence of Shaun’s work 

has been recognised through 

a number of awards programs 

including the NSW Architecture 

Awards, with Cowshed House 

awarded both an 2013 NSW 

Residential Architecture – 

Houses (Alteration & Additions) 

Award and a Sustainable 

Architecture Award. 

Shaun is an excellent 

ambassador for advancement 

of the architectural profession 

within the public arena. He 

engages with architectural 

discourse on a multifaceted 

level, and the jury looks forward 

to following his progress as an 

emerging architect. 


This 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. 

Bridget Smyth 


Bridget Smyth is a distinguished 

recipient of this year’s Prize 

and is outstanding for her 

commitment to improving cities 

as places for people. This is 

demonstrated not only through 

her public projects but also in 

her collaborative approach to 

facilitating countless strategies, 

master plans and programs 

focused on urban transformation. 

Bridget’s approach to art, 

architecture and urban design 

are in sympathy with the vision 

of Marion Mahony Griffin in 

many ways. Importantly she 

has involved herself in a broad 

range of cultural, educational 

and professional activities that 

extend beyond her professional 

practice. 

A few years after completing 

her architecture degree at 

the University of Melbourne, 

Bridget took up the position 

of Senior Urban Designer at 

Wallace Floyd Associates in 

Boston. There she worked 

on the Central Artery/Tunnel 

Project – a major city-building 

and transport infrastructure 

project. She also undertook a 

Master in Design Studies (Urban 

Design) at Harvard University, 

graduating in 1992 and returned 

to Australia to take on the role 

of Director, Urban Design for the 

Olympic Coordination Authority. 

There she commissioned and 

directed the design of Olympic 

venues and the public domain of 

Olympic Park. 

Bridget has been Design 

Director for the City of Sydney 

since 2001, providing strong 

leadership in the transformation 

of Sydney and the shaping of 

the city’s sustainable future. 

In particular she has been one 

of the key drivers behind the 

promotion of public art as a 

major enhancement of the urban 

environment. 


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. 

Janne Ryan 

ABC Radio 

National’s By Design 

The medium of radio presents 

intriguing possibilities and 

challenges for architecture in 

a culture suffused with visual 

media. 

Janne Ryan has been a producer 

of ABC Radio’s By Design 

program since 2005 and has 

been crucial in shaping its 

exploration of the role that 

design and architecture play 

in both reflecting and shaping 

culture. 

Of particular interest to the jury 

is a series of interviews that 

Janne has conducted ‘In the 

Field’, where she invites us to 

visit a diverse range of public 

and private buildings and spaces. 

Staging her discussions with 

architects walking through their 

realised projects, she builds 

an evocative narrative that 

communicates the complex 

atmosphere and sensibility of the 

spaces they encounter. 

Janne consciously exploits the 

medium of radio, asking her 

listeners to actively imagine the 

architectural qualities of space, 

as opposed to being passive 

absorbers of the visual imagery 

so prevalent in other forms of 

architectural media. 

Her engagement with the owners 

and designers of these spaces 

is rich and optimistic, but also 

pointed. Her gently forensic 

questioning of the real day-today 

use, practicality and physical 

experience of spaces allows 

listeners to consider, not only 

how architecture looks or feels, 

but the deeper questions of how 

it works, how it came to be and 

its broader relevance to culture 

and society. 

The jury acknowledges Janne’s 

tireless efforts, both behind-thescenes 

and in the foreground 

of the By Design program. 

Her ongoing work provokes 

listeners to question the role 

of architecture in shaping their 

lives, their cities and their society 

– a most powerful form of 

architectural advocacy. 

Estabished 1986 

This 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 

2014 NEW SOUTH WALES GRADUATE & STUDENT AWARDS 

Ben Wollen 

The jury unanimously agreed 

on Ben as this year’s recipient. 

His submission was considered 

highly relevant to the future 

of NSW communities in the 

bush and its focus – on using 

architectural solutions to improve 

community resilience to bushfire 

– in keeping with the objectives 

of the Prize. It is anticipated 

that the outcomes of the work 

will provide an opportunity for 

debate within the architectural 

profession and the broader 

community. 

The 2014 NSW Graduate and 

Student Awards were announced 

by the Australian Institute of 

Architects NSW Chapter on 

Friday 30 May. The jury for this 

year’s Awards comprised Alex 

Kibble, Tanner Kibble Denton 

Architects (jury chair); Joe Agius, 

NSW Chapter President/Cox 

Richardson; Dr Diego Ramirez- 

Lovering, Monash University; 

Matt Allen, Bates Smart; Michael 

Wiener, Mirvac Design and 

engineer, Mark Smith. 

BANGLADESHI 

ARCHITECTS 

IN AUSTRALIA 

TRAVEL BURSARY 

SCHOLARSHIP 

PTW 125 GRADUATE 

TALENT PRIZE 

A travel bursary scholarship for a graduating student whose entry for 

the NSW Design Medal exhibits and explores an interest in some of 

the issues confronting Bangladesh including urban planning, social 

and political concerns, water management or urban agriculture and 

food supply. 

Felix Saw 

University of New South Wales 

A special anniversary prize to acknowledge professionalism in project 

delivery, reflective of PTW’s values and aspirations. 

Public and the Space Between 

Jonathan Capparelli University of Technology Sydney 

Anh Nguyen 

University of Technology Sydney 

Jordan Soriot 


Ben Wollen is the worthy 

recipient of this year’s Prize 

for his submission entitled 

Conflicts on the periphery – an 

investigation into the urban 

renewal of post-bushfire affected 

areas. This research seeks to 

offer insight into the current 

approach to the urban renewal 

of bushfire-affected areas and 

offer a starting point for possible 

alternatives which approach the 

issue from beyond a building 

level to a community one. An 

examination of the rebuilding of 

the Winmalee community will 

provide a real-time case study 

for this research. 

The proposal will be featured at 

an exhibition to coincide with 

this year’s Sydney Architecture 

Festival and the outcomes of 

Ben’s research will be published 

in the 2015 Summer edition of 

Architecture Bulletin. 


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 development of 

architectural design and theory. 

FIRST DEGREE 

BACHELOR GRADUATE 

OF THE YEAR PRIZE 

SPONSORED BY 

CRONE PARTNERS 

AND FJMT 

MASTERS GRADUATE 

OF THE YEAR 

SPONSORED BY 

CRONE PARTNERS 

AND FJMT 

This prize is awarded to the most outstanding student in Design and 

Professional Studies graduating from a Bachelors program. 

Scott Terry 

University of Newcastle 

Sharryn Ann Bowman University of Sydney 

Georgia Forbes-Smith University of New South Wales 

David Hristoforidis University of Technology Sydney 

This prize is awarded to the most outstanding student in Design and 

Professional Studies graduating from a Masters program. 

Poppy Bevan 


Hang Po Boris To University of New South Wales 

Chloe Rayfield 

University of Sydney 

Joshua Harrex 


CONSTRUCTION AND 

PRACTICE PRIZE 

SPONSORED BY 

LEND LEASE DESIGN 

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. 

Sacha Parkinson 


Wade Stewart Cogle University of New South Wales 

Shayne Jewell 


Joel Glynn 


HISTORY AND THEORY 

AWARD 

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. 

Jasmine Richardson University of Newcastle 

Maria Kathleena Vazques University of New South Wales 

Justin Cawley 


Christina Deluchi 


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2014 NEW SOUTH WALES GRADUATE & STUDENT AWARDS 

NSW DESIGN MEDAL 

SPONSORED BY MIRVAC DESIGN 

NSW FIRST DEGREE 

DESIGN PRIZE SPONSORED BY BATES SMART 

STRUCTURAL INNOVATION 

IN ARCHITECTURE PRIZE 

DIGITAL INNOVATION IN 

ARCHITECTURE PRIZE 

SPONSORED BY NSW GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT’S OFFICE 

The Stoma: Herb Bank 

Felix Saw, University of 

New South Wales 

Flinders Street Station 

Nicolas Cheuk Hang Wong, 


Concrete Anamnesis 

James Moulder and Andrew Nicolle, 


UTS Forum – The Future Library 

Oliver Bennett and Michael Fitzgerald, 


Jury citation 

This project inserts a new Herb 

Bank into the commercial 

activities of Cabramatta. Through 

a careful and rigorous analysis 

of the socio-spatial implications 

of the Vietnamese diaspora into 

this cultural enclave, the project 

proposes a variety of programs 

with significant cultural and social 

connections to both integrate and 

extend the urban fabric and the 

population that it serves. 

The scheme, conceptualised as 

a series of programmatic and 

building fragments connected 

by a meandering promenade, 

creates new meaningful spaces 

for cultural, religious, commercial 

and leisure activities. In doing so, 

the latent potential of the existing 

disjointed public and commercial 

domains are given structure and 

meaning. 

The jury was particularly 

impressed with the proposal’s 

ability to clearly articulate and 

contribute to its difficult urban 

context without resorting to 

heroic, imposing responses. While 

modest in scale and architectural 

language, the project develops 

a deeply transformative 

architecture that enables and 

embraces the potential for 

social, cultural and economic 

improvement and change. The 

project is highly commendable 

for its ability to deftly tackle 

the messy, complicated and 

multi-layered urban fabric 

that increasingly characterises 

contemporary cities. 

Jury citation 

This project proposes the 

Flinders Street Station in 

Melbourne as the site for an 

inventive and engaging program 

of public spaces and buildings. 

The thorough brief analysis sets 

the framework for more detailed 

architectural exploration of a 

museum of contemporary art 

and cycling as components of 

a much larger precinct. The 

inclusion of an active cycle track 

is striking yet playful and is 

used to great advantage in the 

architectural resolution of the 

built elements of the scheme. 

The presentation of the ideas 

in the project is clear, and 

the principles expressed at 

the outset are evident in the 

detailed design. The largescale 

model is well crafted, 

complementing simple yet very 

effective diagrams and images. 

This project demonstrates 

a mature understanding of 

architectural design that is 

founded on clear ideas and 

research, resulting in a strong 

and identifiable presence on the 

Yarra River. 

Jury citation 

Concrete Anamnesis explores 

the use of damaged shipping 

and freight containers and the 

application of a sustainable spray 

concrete, as a prefabricated 

structural and form making 

system. A contemporary beach 

house has been elegantly 

developed to contrast a fluid and 

textured interior with a rugged 

exterior of juxtaposed forms. 

This project impressed the jury in 

the way it transcends the typical 

container housing studies of 

repetition and module to explore 

a recognisable object in an 

innovative and unfamiliar way. The 

sculptural quality of the distorted 

containers, otherwise destined 

for the scrapheap, is celebrated 

and enhanced by the application 

of a lightweight concrete layer 

that will unify the structure and 

provide a protective and thermal 

performance layer. 

The project demonstrates a 

harmonious dialogue between 

the structure, its function and 

architectural form. It is to be 

commended for its clear attitude 

to sustainability, in particular 

material use and embodied 

energy. 

Jury citation 

The Future Library project 

explores emerging digital 

processes as the catalyst for a 

new form of architecture. Through 

the use of algorithmic workflows 

as design and form generators, 

the project recasts traditional 

notions of spatial distribution, 

ornament and program, and 

proposes a process-driven 

methodology which is flexible, 

reflexive and information rich. 

Through this process, the 

programmatic elements of the 

proposed building, a new library, 

are re-conceptualised as a new 

and dynamic network of nested 

functions. 

The jury was impressed with the 

exploration and development 

of digital processes, tools and 

techniques that can be applied 

to any number of building 

typologies and contexts. 

Within a quickly changing 

landscape of architectural 

production as a result of digitally 

enabled processes for design 

and construction, The Future 

Library mounts convincing and 

powerful arguments which add 

to the growing debate. The 

project is able to articulate a small 

contribution within the body of 

existing knowledge, inching closer 

toward a paradigm shift in the 

discipline. 

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URBAN DESIGN 

1 



Architecture Award; 

Architecture Award 

– Sustainable 

Architecture 

Image: John Gollings 

2 

Carrington Recreation 

Centre 

Jackson Teece 

Image: Sharrin Rees 

3 

Chris O’Brien Lifehouse 

HDR | Rice Daubney 


4 

Concord Medical 

Education Centre 

DWP | SUTERS (Melb) 

Image: Hans Schlupp 

5 

Cranbrook Junior 

School 



Image: Simon Wood 

6 



Mirams Architects 

Blacket Prize 


7 

Joan Freeman Centre 

Tanner Kibble Denton 

Architects 

Image: Michael Nicholson 

8 


Hill Thalis Architecture 

+ Urban Projects 

Commendation – 


Steel Architecture 


9 

Museum of 

Contemporary Art 

Redevelopment 

Architect Marshall 

in association with 

Government Architect’s 

Office 

Image: Sam Marshall 

10 

NeuRA 

Cox Richardson 


11 

Newcastle Museum 

Francis-Jones Morehen 

Thorp (fjmt) 


12 

Newington College 

Sesquicentenary Project 

Budden Nangle Michael 

Hudson Architects 

Image: Anthony Fretwell 

13 

Newtown Interchange 

Caldis Cook Group in 

association with the 

NSW Government 

Architect’s Office 

Image: Ross Thornton 

14 

North Bondi Surf Life 

Saving Club 


in association with Peter 

Colquhoun 


Image: Anthony Browell 

15 

OLMC Parramatta Janet 

Woods Building 



Image: Gerrit Fokkema 

16 

Pemulwuy Community 

Facilities 

Melocco & Moore 


17 

Prince Alfred Park + 

Pool Upgrade 


Architects in association 

with City of Sydney 

Sulman Medal; City of 

Sydney Lord Mayor’s 

Prize 


18 

Royal Randwick 

Racecourse 

Redevelopment 

Fitzpatrick+Partners 

(Base Building) and 

Woods Bagot (Interiors) 

Image: Tanja Milbourne 

19 

Singleton Battle 

Simulation Centre 

Sinclair Knight Merz 


20 

St Barnabas Church 


Thorp (fjmt) 


21 

The University of 

Sydney Centre for 

Carbon Water and Food 

DWP | SUTERS (Melb) 

Image: Hans Schlupp 

22 



Commendation; Milo 

Dunphy Award; City of 

Sydney Lord Mayor’s 

Prize 

Image: Owen Zhu 

23 

Tyree Energy 

Technologies Building 


Thorp (fjmt) 


24 

UTS Great Hall and 

Balcony Room 

DRAW 

Commendation 


25 

UTS Multi-Purpose 

Sports Hall 

PTW Architects 

Image: Brian Steele 

26 

UWS College 

Baker Kavanagh 

Architects 


27 

White Bay Cruise 

Terminal 


Architecture Award; 



Architecture; 




28 

Windsong Pavilion 

Clinton Murray & 

Nicholas Byrne 

Architects in association 

Image: Robert Tacheci 

1 2 13 

14 

3 4 

5 6 

7 8 

9 10 

11 12 

15 

18 

20 

23 

26 

16 

19 

21 22 

24 

27 

28 

17 

25 

1 

Prince Alfred Park + 

Pool Upgrade 


Architects in 

association with City 

of Sydney 

Lloyd Rees Award 


2 


Racecourse 

Redevelopment 


Image: Eric Sierins 

3 

Spring Street Seating 

Waverley Council in 

conjunction with Drew 

Heath Architects 


4 

Tamarama Kiosk and 

Beach Amenities 

Lahz Nimmo Architects 


5 

The Northern Beaches 

Storage Project at 

Brookvale NSW 

Tim Williams Architects 

Image: Tim Williams 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

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ENTRIES 


1 

5 Murray Rose Avenue 

Turner 


2 


Lippmann Partnership/ 

Rogers Stirk Harbour & 

Partners 

Sir Arthur G. 

Stephenson Award; 

Commendation 


Architecture; 

Commendation - 




3 

Coca Cola Amatil 

Technical Facility 

Lippmann Partnership 

Image: Willem Rethmeier 

4 

Eclipse Parramatta 


Image: Tanya Milbourne 

5 


CHROFI 



6 

Ozanam Industries 

Stanmore 

DTB Architects 

Image: Atish Ghantwal 

7 

Paramount Pictures 

Building 

Fox Johnston / Barton 

and McCarthy 

Image: Phu Tangfor 

8 

Qantas Headquarters 

Redevelopment 

Architectus 



9 

Sydney Data Centre 

Greenbox Architecture 

Image: Fretwell 

Photography 

10 

Tamarama Kiosk and 

Beach Amenities 

Lahz Nimmo Architects 


11 

WesTrac Newcastle 

Service Centre & 

Training Institute 

EJE Architecture 

Image: Steve Back 

3 

5 

7 

10 

8 

11 

6 

9 

1 

Ansarada 




3 

Carrington Recreation 

Centre 

Jackson Teece 


5 

Coast 

SJB 

Image: Katie Kaars 

6 

Corrs Chambers 

Westgarth 

Bates Smart 

Image: Shannon McGrath 

7 

Eyewear Youwear Store 


Image: Richard Glover 

8 



Mirams Architects 



9 

Greenland Display Suite 

PTW/LAVA 

Image: Brett Broadman 

10 

Herbert Smith Freehills 

Workplace 




11 

in2ski 

Ian Moore Architects 

Image: Daniel Mayne 

12 

Jackson Teece Sydney 

Office 

Jackson Teece 


1 2 

2 

Bellevue Hill Residence 



13 

Macquarie Theatre 

Refurbishment 

Lahz Nimmo Architects 1 

2 

and Wilson Architects in 

association 

Image: Anthony Fretwell 

14 


Smart Design Studio 

4 

& Koichi Takada 

Claremont House 

Architects both in 

Tanner Kibble Denton association with PTW 

4 Architects 

5 


Image: Justin Alexander 

15 




Image: Ross Honeysett 

16 


Woods Bagot 

Image: Trevor Mein 

17 

St Barnabas Church 


Thorp (fjmt) 


18 

Sydney Commonwealth 

Parliament Offices 

Architectus + 

Ingenhoven 

John Verge Award 

Image: Tyrone Branigan 

19 

Tyree Energy 

Technologies Building 


Thorp (fjmt) 


20 

Virgin Australia Sydney 

Lounge 

Tonkin Zulaikha Greer 

Architects 

Commendation 


8 

11 

15 

12 

18 19 20 

6 

9 

16 

3 

13 

17 

4 

7 

10 

14 

66 67

ENTRIES 

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – HOUSES (NEW) 

1 

Alexandria Courtyard 

House 

Matthew Pullinger 

Architect 



Architecture 


2 

Balmoral Residence 



3 

Belgrave St Residence 

Form Follows Function 

Image: Marcus Clinton 

Photography 

4 

Block House Pearl 

Beach 

Porebski Architects 

Image: Conor Quinn 

5 

Clareville House 

Terroir 


6 

Cliff Top House 

Luigi Rosselli Architects 

Image: Edward Birch 

7 

Clifftop House 

ASSEMBLAGE - Peter 

Chivers in association 

with Teknemodus 

Image: Peter Chivers 

8 

Cooper Park House 

Tobias Partners 


9 

Cooper Residence 

CKDS Architecture 

Image: Damien Furey 

Photography 

10 

Dogtrot House 

Dunn & Hillam 

Architects 


Image: Kilian O’Sullivan 

11 

Gallery House 

Domenic Alvaro 

Image: Trevor Mein 

12 

Garden House 

Pearse Architects 


13 



Wilkinson Award 


14 

High Country House 


Image: Edward Birch 

15 

House Maher 


Commendation 

Image: Katherine Lu 

16 

House On The Ridge 

Alwill Design 

Image: Jason Loucas 

17 


Arkhefield 


Image: Angus Martin 

18 

Invisible House 

Peter Stutchbury 

Architecture 



19 

K House 




20 

Mountainside House 

Hill Thalis Architecture + 

Urban Projects 


21 

New Residence: The 

Junction 

EJE Architecture 

Image: Andy Warren 

22 

Ozone House 

Matt Elkan Architect 


Image: Simon Whitbread 

23 

Pittwater House 

Andrew Burges 

Architects 

Image: Peter Bennetts 

24 

Plywood House 

Andrew Burges 

Architects 


25 

Pretty Beach House 

Caryn McCarthy 

Architect 


26 

Seaforth House 


Architects 


27 

The Whale Bone House 

Flourish Architectural 

Services 

Image: Charles Anderson 

28 

Upper Orara House 

Utz Sanby Architects 

Image: Marian Riabic 

29 

Waverley Residence 

Anderson Architecture 

Image: Nick Bowers 

30 

Wentworth House 

MHN Design Union 


31 

Whale Watchers 

Timothy Moon 

Architects 

Image: Timothy Moon 

32 



Commendation 


Architecture 

Image: Ben Guthrie 

1 

4 

7 

10 

8 

2 

5 

11 

9 

3 

6 

12 13 

28 

29 

30 

14 15 

16 

31 

32 

68 69 

17 

19 

22 

25 

20 

26 

18 

23 

27 

24 

21

ENTRIES 

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS) 

1 

3x2 House 

Panovscott 

Commendation 


12 

Gill Additions 

CKDS Architecture 

Image: Damien Furey 

Photograph 

23 

Skylight House 

Andrew Burges 

Architects 

Image: PeterBennetts 

2 

68 Birchgrove Rd 

Balmain 

Daniel Boddam 

Architecture and 

Interior Design 

Image: Kelly Geddes 

3 


Benn & Penna 

Architecture 



4 

Bellevue Hill Residence 



5 




Image: Mark Syke 

6 

Breuer House 

Marra + Yeh Architects 


7 

Byron Hinterland 

Residence 


Image: Saul Goodwin 

8 

C+T House 

Dunn & Hillam 

Architects 

Image: Kilian O’Sullivan 

9 

Copacabana House 


Architects 


10 

Cosgriff House 

Christopher Polly 

Architect 


11 

Cossington House 

Jorge Hrdina Architects 

Image: Brigid Arnott 

13 

Glebe House 

Nobbs Radford 

Architects 

Image: Murray Fredericks 

14 

House Boone Murray 



15 

House Bruce Alexander 


Image: Katerine Lu 

16 

House Chapple 



17 

House on Captain 

Piper’s Road 

Kieran McInerney 

Architect 


18 



Architects 

Commendation 


19 

Mosman House 


Architects 

Image: Lachlan Rowe 

20 

Newtown House 

Hungerford+Edmunds 


Photography 

21 

Piebenga-Franklyn 

Residence 



Image: Brigid Arnott 

22 

Pool Pavilion 



24 

Southern Highlands 

House 

Benn & Penna 

Architecture 

Image: Tom Ferguson 

25 

Stone House 

CHROFI 

Hugh and Eva Buhrich 

Award 


26 




Image: Anthony Browell 

27 

Tempe House 

Eoghan Lewis 

Architects 

Image: Eoghan Lewis 

28 

Terrace Australis 

Barrett Pinet 

Architecture 

Image: Roger Barret 

29 


Welsh + Major 

Architects 


30 

The Upside Down Back 

to Front House 


Architects 

Image: Geoff Beatty 

1 

2 

3 

17 

4 

5 

6 

19 

20 

7 

8 

9 

22 

23 

10 

11 

25 

12 13 

28 

29 

30 

14 

15 

16 

18 

26 

24 

21 

27 

70 71

ENTRIES 

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - MULTIPLE HOUSING 

ENTRIES 

SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE 

1 


Benn & Penna 

Architecture 


2 

Alora Apartments 

Turner 


3 

Apex Apartments 

Turner 


4 

Aria 

MHN Design Union 


5 



Commendation 

Image: Mark Syke 

6 

Austin 

Smart Design Studio 


7 

Coast 

SJB 


Image: Katie Kaars 

8 

Dulwich Hill Terrace 

Houses 

Redshift Architecture 

& Art 


9 

Eliza Apartments 

Tony Owen Partners 


10 

Gantry 

Bates Smart 

Aaron Bolot Award 


11 

Glebe St Apartments 

Jackson Teece 


12 

Iglu Chatswood 

Bates Smart 


13 

Imperial 


Commendation 


14 


PTW Architects + 

Atelier Jean Nouvel 

Commendation 


15 

Stella Apartments 


Image: Gerrit Fokkema 

16 

The Pottery - Mashman 

Avenue Kingsgrove 

KANNFINCH 


17 

UNSW Kensington 

Colleges 

Bates Smart 



18 

Washington Park_ 

Meridian & Monte 

Turner 

Commendation 

Image: Adrian Boddy 

1 

AGL Lakeside Pavilion 


Architects 


2 




Image: Anthony Browel 

3 

Bridge House Newtown 

Anderson Architecture 

Image: Nick Bower 

4 

Dorsal Wing - Town Hall 

House 

Richard Goodwin 

Image: Paul Patterson 


5 



Robert Woodward 

Award 


8 9 10 

Welsh + Major 

7 

8 

9 

6 

Architects 

Foveaux Street Cafe Architecture Award 

Louise Nettleton 


Architects 

Image: LNA 

7 

Greenland Display Suite 

PTW/LAVA 


11 12 13 

Image: Shantanu Starick 10 

11 

12 

8 

Lachlan Macquarie 

Room 


Image: Noni Hann 

14 15 

16 

9 

Llankelly Place Lights 


Architecture 

Image: Kyal Sheehan 

13 

14 

10 

Maxim Workplace 

SDA - Space | Design | 

Architecture 

Image: Edward Highton 

11 





Architecture 


1 2 3 

12 

Seaforth Kitchen 

Garden 

Scale Architecture 


1 

2 

3 

13 


Matthew Woodward 

Architecture 

Commendation 

Image: Murray Frederick 

4 5 6 7 

4 

5 

6 

14 

Southern Highlands 

House 

Benn & Penna 

Architecture 

Image: Tom Ferguson 

15 


16 

The Pod 

Takt | Studio for 

Architecture 

Commendation 

17 18 

15 

16 

72 73

ENTRIES 


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HERITAGE (CREATIVE ADAPTATION) 

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1 

Te Waari 

Clive Lucas Stapleton 

and Partners 

Image: Eric Sierins 

2 

Yarrangobilly Caves 

House 1917 Wing 


Architecture 

Award - Heritage 

(Conservation) 

Image: GaryOReilly 

1 

2 

1 

Ansarada 



2 

Birchgrove Residence 

Daniel Boddam 

Architecture and 

Interior Design 

Image: Kelly Geddes 

3 

Eternity Playhouse 


Architects 

Greenway Award 


4 

Female Orphan School, 

UWS Parramatta 


Architects 

Commendation 

– Heritage 


Image: Lachlan Rowe 

5 

Former Police Station, 

127-129 George St, The 

Rocks 

Welsh + Major 

Architects with Sydney 

Harbour Foreshore 

Authority 

Architecture 

Award – Heritage 



9 



Architects 

NSW Premier’s Prize 


10 

White Bay Cruise 

Terminal 

JPW 

Image: Ethan Rohloff 

1 

4 

2 

5 

3 

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Parliament Offices 

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Virgin Australia Sydney 

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House Maher 


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