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9 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The entries for the 2015 awards • Unbuilt master plan projects introduced in collaboration with reflect the broad range of are eligible in the urban the International Association of architectural projects across New category. One entry was Lighting Designers (IALD) and is South Wales – from outstanding received this year; the Institute sponsored by Erco. large-scale public place-making will be encouraging more through to imaginative and entries in future years. Marion Mahony Griffin Prize cost-effective alterations and We are also very pleased to additions to modest houses. 79 • Acknowledging the announce Bespoke as a new projects were shortlisted from inventiveness of short- sponsor of the NSW Awards, 171 entries, a success rate of 46%. term ‘pop up’ architecture supporting the Marion Mahony 53 awards and commendations in recent years, the small Griffin Prize which recognises have been made, meaning that project category now includes the work of a female architect in nearly a third of entries received transient architecture; projects the profession. Bespoke join us an accolade in the program, and that may not be visited by at an exciting time for the Prize detailed in this official awards juries because they have and we welcome their support publication. I am pleased to see been dismantled prior to the in promoting the work of the the juries are maintaining a spirit period of the judging process. recipient this year and into the of generosity in acknowledging The category also includes future. the good work of our peers. temporary work such as exhibition design, set design or Gender equity There has been progress on a installations. This is an area of Institute activity number of fronts in this year’s where I’ve been pleased to awards program: Education category observe considerable investment One of the most important of time and energy by member • One of the major decisions taken this year was practices. One of my first actions misconceptions in recent years to create an awards category as incoming President was to is that the public architecture for education buildings entirely help launch the NSW Champions category is exclusively for separate from the public of Change program alongside public buildings that are architecture category. A new the Gender Equity Taskforce, Sex accessible to the public. named award for NSW - the Discrimination Commissioner Institutional buildings that can William E. Kemp Award - has also Elizabeth Broderick, Arup CEO in fact be quite private are, been created for this category. Peter Bailey and Parlour’s Dr however, still eligible. There This change acknowledges the Naomi Stead and Justine Clark in were a number of entries for increase in the number and March. ‘private’ buildings in public quality of entries for educational institutions this year, indicating buildings over recent years. It At the end of April our facilitator that the right message also recognises the unique user Dr Jess Murphy and I hosted the is getting through to the requirements of educational first meeting of the program. profession. institutions, including the It was a very good start. Nine separation of common areas interesting men from medium to • Another common from spaces specifically for staff large practices told a variety of misconception is that the or students, and the challenges stories about their journeys along interior category is exclusively these pose for the architect. the road to gender equity in their for ‘separately commissioned’ practices and in their dealings interiors – whereas any Lighting prize with professional colleagues. I interior, including those The IALD Lighting Prize is a was struck by the honesty of wholly integrated with the new award created to celebrate their stories and the strength of architecture in a single the UNESCO International Year their desire to be an effective commission, is equally eligible. of Light 2015, by promoting champion. I am confident that The range of entries in this lighting design in the built the camaraderie developed category indicates that this environment, and collaboration at that meeting will lead to broad definition of eligibility is between architects and substantial progress in the years now better understood. lighting designers. It has been ahead. 10 MESSAGE FROM BLUESCOPE PRINCIPAL CORPORATE PARTNER
Higher quality apartment design over 100 participants. It differs The team at BlueScope are research project from the previous program continually motivated by building This exciting project, instigated in that mentors and mentees design that creates a sense of by the Institute, brings together are now usually separated in place and connects us with our key architects and experienced age by only five to 10 years, unique environment. researchers from three meaning participants can relate universities. It is all very well to each other more easily and We are thrilled to be in our 30th for those in the know to talk understand what career steps are year as Principal Corporate eloquently about the beneficial next within their reach. It is also Partner and proud to support the impact of good design on the mentee-led; the mentee driving advancement and excellence in lives of apartment dwellers; the agenda and goal-setting, Australian Architecture through what we need after 13 years of making it easier for the mentor the 2015 Australian Institute of apartment buildings regulated by to provide support and a broader Architects Awards programme. SEPP 65 is hard data to back up perspective. Thanks to Monica the rhetoric. Edwards and Laura Meyer as the At BlueScope, in conjunction energetic drivers of the program, with our industry leading brands, If we can match qualitative with excellent professional help we continue to look forward to research with quantitative from Annette Gray of Growth sharing our ideas on innovative data we will be able to define Leadership Solutions. steel products that can optimise ‘amenity’ with metrics based on the value and sustainability of information from the real world Chapter Council on the road your creative designs. of existing apartments. The effect The first of our out-of-town on community attitudes towards Chapter Council meetings From BlueScope, congratulations the construction industry could was hosted by the Inner West to the architects who have be profound. The research Architects’ Network in early designed or executed buildings potentially could underpin the May. This was a great evening of high merit, produced work of next review of SEPP 65 and also that gave the networks the great distinction or endowed the support changes to Australian opportunity to ask questions profession of architecture in a Standards, the BCA, and even and engage their Council and distinguished manner. every LEP & DCP in NSW. President in conversation on what they see as the Institute’s The available evidence suggests priorities, and ideas to strengthen that well-designed apartments the relationship between the can improve the quality of life of Networks and the Institute. The their inhabitants, and may lower next of these meetings will be costs to the government and hosted by Hassell, followed by the community through reduced the Country Division Bathurst Rob du Toit mental and physical health costs. conference in September. National Specification Manager We need to be able to quantify this improvement and measure the cost savings.
This in turn will make it easier for business and government to compete in the international Shaun Carter market place for highly skilled NSW Chapter President labour, providing New South Wales with social, economic and competitive advantages.
Mentoring program The revived program was launched in early May with 11 JURORS
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PUBLIC 13. Fenella Kernebone 6. Tim O’Sullivan ADRIAN ASHTON Public Architecture 14 ARCHITECTURE, TV/Radio Presenter Lippmann PRIZE FOR WRITING EDUCATIONAL and Cultural Partnership AND CRITICISM Educational Architecture 18 ARCHITECTURE AND Producer 8. Ellen Woolley (SPONSORED BY URBAN DESIGN Ellen Woolley BATES SMART) Urban Design 22 RESIDENTIAL Architects 1. Kiong Lee 29. Andrew Nimmo ARCHITECTURE – 9. Peter Smith JPW (Chair) Lahz Nimmo Commercial Architecture 26 MULTIPLE HOUSING Smith & Tzannes 2. Anita Panov Architects/NSW 10. Jean Rice Panovscott 9. Peter Smith Chapter Editorial Interior Architecture 29 Jean Rice Architect 3. Peter Tonkin Smith & Tzannes Committee Chair 20. David Holm Tonkin Zulaikha (Chair) (Chair) Sustainable Architecture 32 Cox Architecture/ Greer Architects 14. Jad Silvester Newcastle Awards 30. Janne Ryan Silvester Fuller Ideas Curator/2014 Residential Architecture Jury Chair COMMERCIAL 15. Angelo Korsanos Adrian Ashton Prize – Houses 37 AND INTERIOR Redshift Recipient Architecture & Art EMERGING ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECT PRIZE 22. Shaun Carter Residential Architecture 4. Leone Lorrimer (SPONSORED BY Carterwilliamson – Alterations & Additions 41 SMALL PROJECT Architects/NSW dwp | suters ARCHITECTURE AWS) (Chair) Chapter President Residential Architecture AND HERITAGE 21. Tim Hastwell 31. Philip Vivian – Multiple Housing 45 5. Georgina Wilson (CONSERVATION JDH Architects/ Georgina Wilson Bates Smart AND CREATIVE DARCH Committee Architect ADAPTATION) Co-Chair (Chair) Small Project Architecture 50 6. Tim O’Sullivan DAVID LINDNER 22. Shaun Carter Lippmann 10. Jean Rice PRIZE Carterwilliamson Heritage – Conservation and Partnership Jean Rice Architect Architects/NSW 32. Robyn Lindner Creative Adaptation 54 (Chair) (Chair) 16. Carol Marra Chapter President/ SUSTAINABLE 2014 Emerging 22. Shaun Carter Award for Enduring Architecture 59 ARCHITECTURE Marra + Yeh Carterwilliamson Architects Architect Prize 7. Anthony Nolan Architects/NSW Colorbond® Award for Steel Architecture 61 17. George Phillips Recipient Kennedy Associates Chapter President Tanner Kibble 23. Andrew Burns Architects (Chair) Andrew Burns 33. Peter Mould Blacket Prize 64 Denton Architects Emeritus 1. Kiong Lee Architect/2013 Government JPW Emerging Architect NSW Premier’s Prize 65 ENDURING Architect 6. Tim O’Sullivan Prize Recipient ARCHITECTURE 34. Ksenia Totoeva Lippmann 24. Murray Chaloner City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize 66 Lahz Nimmo Partnership 18. Hector Abrahams AWS Hector Abrahams Architects/DARCH 8. Ellen Woolley IALD Lighting Prize 67 Ellen Woolley Architects (Chair) MARION MAHONY Committee Co-Chair 1. Kiong Lee 35. Ben Wollen Architects GRIFFIN PRIZE NSW President’s Prize 68 9. Peter Smith JPW (SPONSORED BY Architect/ 4. Leone Lorrimer Environmental Smith & Tzannes BESPOKE) Emerging Architect Prize 68 10. Jean Rice dwp | suters Scientist/2014 David 25. Callantha Brigham Jean Rice Architect 11. Fergus Scott Lindner Prize Fergus Scott Parramatta City Recipient Marion Mahony Griffin Prize 69 RESIDENTIAL Architects Council/NSW ARCHITECTURE – 9. Peter Smith Chapter Council IALD LIGHTING PRIZE Adrian Ashton Prize for HOUSES (NEW) AND Smith & Tzannes (Chair) (SPONSORED BY Writing and Criticism 69 (ALTERATIONS & 10. Jean Rice 26. Bridget Smyth ERCO) Jean Rice Architect City of Sydney/2014 David Lindner Prize 70 ADDITIONS) Marion Mahony 36. Mark Elliott Point of View 11. Fergus Scott Griffin Prize BLACKET PRIZE (Chair) 2015 NSW Graduate and Fergus Scott Recipient 37. Tim Carr Student Awards 71 Architects (Chair) 19. Sarah Aldridge 27. Judith O’Callaghan Arup 8. Ellen Woolley SPACEstudio/ UNSW Australia NSW Country 38. Brian Bass 2015 NSW Architecture Ellen Woolley 28. Ray Brown Popov Bass Award Entries 74 Architects Division Committee Architectus 12. Matthew Gribben (Chair) Architects Matthew Gribben 1. Kiong Lee 39. Nathan Wilson- 2015 NSW Architecture Award Winners 86 Architecture JPW Rynell ERCO Lighting 13 PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE SULMAN MEDAL
Photography: John Gollings Westmead Millennium Institute BVN
14 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.
PROJECT TEAM Consultant Team: Practice Team: Capital Insight Ian Goodbury Project Manager Project Architect Abigroup and Jon Jacka Cockram Project Architect Builder Julian Ashton Arup Project Principal Services Engineers Bill Dowzer Taylor Thomson Design Review Witting Principal Structural Engineers Rose Jimenez Steve Paul Architect - user Partnership group ldr Hydraulic Engineers Namaste Burrell WT Partnership Quantity Surveyors 1 2 5 Site Architect Andrew Metcalf Design Review Construction Team: Ali Bounds Abigroup and Project Team Cockram Builder The Westmead Millennium integrate the huge array of underpins the enduring Frank Bruss Institute brings together engineering required now quality of this building, which Project Team staff from six sites across the and into the future, and many offers a beguiling sense of Catherine Skinner Westmead Hospital campus; of the spaces now set up as wellbeing. A mix of natural Project Team facilitating a regrouping of offices can become labs as materials, quality concrete Will Blake divergent research groups this use expands. and light-reflecting white Architect & BIM within a singular place of calm surfaces create a focused Leader engagement. From within, this logic brings working ambience. Generous clarity to a complex, multi- proportioning elevates the A strong sense of logic functional brief. Access mundane and a quiet strength drives the ordering and thus to light and views to the emerges through the skilful expression of the building. outside are provided equally execution of many parts It strikes an impressive from within and through within the whole. presence along Hawkesbury laboratories, offices and Road, almost formidable at communal spaces. This This is a project where every the suburban edge of the transparency also facilitates aspect has been considered. campus. Despite this sense a layered understanding of The sensitivity and deftness of calm resolution, it is a the building’s use, promoting of this consideration has flexible and even unfinished interaction and connectivity transformed the building’s building, which ensures its between researchers and logic into an uplifting and continued use and adaptation engaging the visitor. inspiring environment for over many years as its shape collaboration and research. and occupants may change. BVN’s well considered palette Generous service zones of materials and details 15 PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION
Photography: John Gollings Photography: Christian Mushenko St Barnabas Church Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)
There are few contemporary The tight site has not constrained The Bankstown Library and which are to be commended spaces for worship that convey the architecture; one sits well with Knowledge Centre is a 21st here. In particular the analysis an appropriate sense of the the other, reaching out with a century library with all the public of demolished materials and spiritual with architectural variety of public and semi-public dignity of the grand reading their re-working into the project distinction and a contemporary connections. There is a successful rooms of the past, creating a represents not only an embodied stance. This project, replacing a balance between prescribed community hub for the city’s civic energy saving, but also underpins historic church destroyed by fire, space, and space which is able precinct. A transparent addition a story of evolving community succeeds in this task; made in this to be appropriated by the to the precast concrete of the identity. case even more difficult by the congregation or offered for public 1970’s Bankstown Town Hall, the tight site wedged between taller use. Library contains a sequence of The success of innovative and heritage-listed buildings and one public areas contained within lively sun shading is seen both of Sydney’s busiest streets. A major success is the soft wash a single ‘great room’. From the outside and in, where it effectively of daylight into the interiors large atrium to the intimacy of modulates daylight to the tall Uniting a wide array of functions of the church and its narthex, the stacks and reading nooks, interior. A lithe and colourful riff for a diverse congregation, the where a tall cross is sculpted in here the reader can be alone or on the geometry of adjacent project provides not only the light, forming a sign to the street together, but always a part of the precast panels, the façade screen church and its generous and beyond. Often humble materials collective. effectively bestows a new identity evocative narthex, but also a are detailed and executed with to the Centre. landscaped courtyard and a rigour. Generosity comes from the The architect’s decision to civic stair to the side street. tall soaring forms of the church adaptively re-use a substantial Teaching, office and meeting and the narthex, and the sculpted portion of the original Town Hall rooms on the lower level offer voids connecting these spaces is at the heart of a significant additional and more intimate to the lounge foyer below, where number of sustainable design spaces for congregation. These one hopes the collection of comfy initiatives. However whilst energy level changes are used to full old sofas will grow. and water saving measures advantage to define the different are increasingly required of uses, and provide privacy and our buildings as a baseline, it is security where needed. the ‘place’-specific measures
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Photography: Michael Nicholson Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre HASSELL
Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre setting to create a positive (SCCC) is a comprehensive healing environment. cancer treatment facility consisting of a day facility cancer The chemotherapy treatment centre and accommodation ‘hall’ occupies an elevated for patients and carers. The position with a vantage across centre stands on its own within the Shoalhaven River. Natural a picturesque landscape setting timber linings give warmth to the adjacent to the Shoalhaven space, while expanses of glass District Memorial Hospital. to the river and low dividing HASSELL has used this siting to partitions allow both solitude great advantage in creating an and solidarity between patients. exemplary patient environment, The relaxed informal character which recognises the role of the is carried through in its detailing built environment in promoting and materiality, and legible within healing. the hospital grounds without requiring the extensive signage The architects have pulled which so often compromise apart the functional diagram similar facilities. and conventional notions of efficiency to breathe life into Despite a modest budget and its the Centre; providing better challenge to conventional models, access to natural light and a the project has created a dignified connection to nature throughout and human environment, where the building. Individual treatment the best quality care available and consultation spaces are set to clients, carers and staff is around a central courtyard, and delivered in a way that should be sited to take advantage of the a model for future developments. views and engage the bushland 17 EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WILLIAM E KEMP AWARD
Photography: Anthony Browell UTS Science Faculty, Building 7 Durbach Block Jaggers Architects & BVN Architecture
18 Established 2013 This award is named after William Edmund Kemp who in 1880 was appointed to the newly created position of Architect for Public Schools in NSW. Many of the high quality schools and technical colleges he designed across the state are still in use today. The award is given for excellence in the design of educational facilities, including those for preschool, primary, secondary or tertiary education and research.
PROJECT TEAM Steve Watson & Practice Team: Partners PCA & BCA Neil Durbach Design Director Morris Goding Accessibility Camilla Block Consulting Design Director Accessibility David Jaggers Consultant Design Director Lymesmith Stefan Heim Polychromy Practice Director Colour Consultant Abbie Galvin Taylor Thomson Principal Whiting Level 6 Plan (Typical) 0 25m 1:500 Paul Pannell Structural Practice Director Consultant Erin Field Steensen Varming Electrical Consultant Deborah Hodge Steensen Varming Sarah Kirkham Mechanical Xiaoxiao Cai Consultant Alex Holman Arup UTS Science Faculty, Building the main lounge and café the main teaching laboratory Elena Bonanni Hydraulic 7 is an inventive take on a spaces provides a generous with up to 300 students Consultant Kristin Neise masterplan envelope that sheltered edge to Alumni engaged with complex and Aspect Studios Erika Halim protects and preserves Green. Bespoke light fittings, high level demonstrative Landscape winter sunlight onto Alumni inventive in their reference experiments is unequalled; Manny Prouzos Consultant Green - a new collegiate to the building’s function, its clear functionality not Ian James Steensen Varming heart for the campus. The add lightness and humour to overpowering its carefully Michael Janeke Lighting Consultant building’s billowing external the main circulation routes, modulated volume and light. Benjamin Chew Davis Langdon/ form, despite all that it gives, their early-industrial aesthetic Aecom Laura Robinson Cost Consultant gets more back from this recalling the works of Le Crafted by human hand and Valentine Steisel generous response to the Corbusier. mind, this is a humanist and site’s restrictions, while inside, tactile building; of surfaces Construction Team: the various research, teaching To meet the brief within you touch, hug or sit upon; Consultant Team: Richard Crookes and office spaces are linked the envelope, the building of spaces which foster Surface Design & Constructions Kingston Building Builder by a spatially rich circulation incorporates much of its the individual within the Group system. program underground. larger community; and of Savills Project Facade Consultant Management Manipulated daylight experiences that seamlessly Arup Project Manager A deliberate dispersal of penetrates deep into the entwine the interior Fire Consultant functions at ground level building, gently washing these experience through space, Steensen Varming spreads activity across the subterranean spaces through material, furniture and lighting. Greenstar & ESD long site. Teaching spaces look colourful shafts and slots, JBA Urban Planning out to Thomas Street, while often lined with reflective tiles. Planner the colonnade connecting The drama and excitement of 19 EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Ross Honeysett Photography: John Gollings Camperdown Childcare Charles Perkins Centre CO-AP (Architects) Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) + Building Studio (architects in association)
Camperdown Childcare creates a opened to allow daylight - and rain - This innovative union of medical and one for the sweeping drama of warm and engaging learning and into the space, whilst in other areas social research disciplines is targeting the atrium. On entering below care facility within the surprising the roof is retained in its original the contemporary issues of obesity, the sculptural void, one feels truly environs of a former industrial form to provide the prescribed diabetes and heart disease. Housing connected with this large and warehouse. Aptly harmonious, the protection from sun exposure. This labs, teaching and office spaces, a sophisticated ‘organism’, expressed interplay between scale, shelter measured variation in enclosure lecture theatre and a treatment clinic, by the blood colours and graphics and material allows a space where presents an intriguing blurring of the building has a clear demarcation of the bounding wall. The six-level a child’s ability for imagination and internal and external spaces. of functions and a robust grid, void is defined by the curves of discovery is nurtured. adaptable to the rapid developments beautifully-built white-finished Innovative detailing employs a in current research needs. cascading stairs and balconies, A series of child-scaled ‘houses’ simple palette of robustly finished washed in daylight from the roof. line the southern wall, this façade timbers which bring both warmth The sculpted sandstone northern The atrium succeeds as a place stepping outwards towards the rear and economy to the construction, façade, with its array of deep, to unite researchers and students, of the warehouse to accommodate allowing for site assembly of timber vertically-articulated reveals, relates staff and patients. the varying functions for different joinery as well as its potential to the scale of Parramatta Road ages of children. A low ceiling to disassembly and re-use. and the similarly bluff elevations of Throughout the building, scale these spaces provides enclosure the adjoining St John’s College by and program are reinterpreted and protection, with openings to This is a delightful example of William Wardell. The south façade for the human user, with vistas temper light, warmth and noise as an environment for learning. The is less formal, an open composition to the surrounding landscapes, required, as well as being a strong subtle inclusion of elemental shapes of metal and glazing, whilst the excellent daylight and frequent datum within the warehouse and platonic forms conjure the ends celebrate their extruded breakout spaces linked by the structure. playspaces of Aldo van Eyck. As a forms with extended blades and interconnecting stair. The high-tech whole however, this is the making curved volumes housing stairs and ‘super lab’, a teaching space for These playrooms look onto a of a building which in its nature plant services. 300 students, celebrates the entire combined open circulation and could be momentary, as it could be program as a massive engine- communal play area or ‘public enduring. The four-square and often house of future-focussed learning. street’, portions of which have been enclosed elevations do not prepare 20 EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION
Photography: Simon Whitbread Photography: John Gollings Cameraygal (formerly Dunbar building) Sustainable Buildings Research Centre NSW Government Architect’s Office (SBRC) University of Wollongong COX Richardson
The Cameraygal building was double height entry and connecting The SBRC is a celebration of From the outset, the architects designed in 1967 by the NSW spaces above. The entrance has sustainability in construction. A have responded to site with a Government Architect’s Office in been turned from the street to its ‘bricolage building’ designed to building form that maximises the Brutalist style, and functioned new address facing the College prototype a range of sustainable passive opportunities: insulation as a science laboratory block for Green, becoming its focal point; building technologies, design and shade for solar control; mass UTS until the 1980’s. and new forecourt terraced seating strategies and materials, the for thermal comfort; orientation, form an extension to the welcoming fabric of the building is itself a height and depth for effective The building’s re-invention as a open-plan spaces on the ground site for integrated research. As natural ventilation and daylighting. centre for learning and innovation floor. an armature for experimentation This is supported by active for TAFE has revitalised an and research, the hand crafted systems designed for ‘plug and introverted space to one with Existing precast sun-shades and playful layering of recycled play’ connections to experimental connections to outside, and have been removed to increase materials is a delightful foil to technologies, allowing researchers between spaces, generating a permeability and create balconies. the equally visible and precise to modify operations and new sense of community. The New vertical sun blades, that suit technologies of research which interactions. new building fabric has changed their orientation, allow the original create their own patterns and the internal experience to one modular structure to be exposed, textures within the form. Situated on the edge of celebrating natural light, cross whilst retaining the strong contrast Wollongong, the building flow ventilation, transparency, of light and shadow intended in the The building is designed to embraces its wider context of flexibility and technology. At its original design. achieve certification under the escarpment and ocean. With net- core is the idea of recycling a Living Building Challenge. By positive water and energy usage, disused structure as part of the Humanising and refreshing acknowledging challenges of and surrounded by edible gardens educational process. in approach and outcome, social responsibility and equity, and rich habitats which signal Cameraygal is a case study in real this framework explores a more opportunities for the broader As a building resurrected, the sustainability, where the embodied holistic approach to the nature Campus, the SBRC points to its new intervention responds to the energy of the original structure is of sustainability than simply purpose of fostering knowledge old in its robust and pragmatic given a genuinely useful new life. considerations of resources and as well as changing behaviour on nature. Concise cuts create a energy use. sustainability. 21 URBAN DESIGN LLOYD REES AWARD
Photography: Ian Hobbs Wollongong City Centre and Crown Street Mall Renewal NSW Government Architect’s Office in association with McGregor Westlake Architecture
22 Established 1979 This award for excellence in the design of the public domain commemorates the artist Lloyd Rees. Rees, although not an urban designer or architect, was well known as he taught drawing to many architecture students in Sydney.
PROJECT TEAM Urban Tree Practice Team: Management Arborist, Judith Fritche Horticulturalist Project Architect McGregor Westlake Barbara Schaffer Urban design, Public Design Team art Helen Lochhead Alluvium Design Team Water Sensitive Libby Gallagher Urban Design Design Team Accessibility Peter Mcgregor Solutions NSW Design Team Access Consultant Saneia Norton SESL Australia Luke Wolstencroft Soil Science MEL Consultants Consultant Team: Wind Tunnelling Northrop Kayder Civil consultant Programming of decorative lantern Haron Robson movements Electrical Consultant Government Architect’s Office Construction Team: This is one of a series of longer interrupt the continuity visible, but their results will Landscape Lahey Constructions Consultant Builder integrated projects aimed of the street. support the future of the at creating a centre in mall: well-resolved systems Haron Robson Wollongong City Lighting Consultant Council Wollongong that ‘supports Simple and elegant paving to recirculate water, the Project Manager an active city life’. At the distinguishes the place, deep and specialised soil Wilde and Woollard Cost Consultant NSW Public Works historic heart of the city, it enlivened at night by an array pits for trees beneath a links the railway station with of subtly-changing lights. A pavement designed for full the ocean, in a gentle sweep twin avenue of spotted gum vehicular traffic, and the smart of space that had suffered as trees provide shade and a consolidation of services for a cluttered and dysfunctional distinctive landmark quality, future maintenance. 1980s ‘mall’. whilst the space either side is articulated by subtle variations The Mall renewal By careful design process the in paving and the swelling of demonstrates how absence project amply succeeds in volume at gathering nodes. A and restraint give more, and its aims, providing a flexible suite of urban design elements how the removal of existing and durable place for people creates rhythm and order for elements can facilitate new which stretches 360m all; details of these - like the urban functions alongside through the city. Painstakingly cantilevered seats - reveal a everyday city life. considered detail and finishes, spirit of quirky but appropriate without wilful display, create innovation. strong linear and cross connections, and a variety Many of the project’s strategic of functional spaces that no design initiatives are not 23 URBAN DESIGN ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Brett Boardman The GPT Group’s Wollongong Central Tamarama Kiosk and Beach Amenities HDR Rice Daubney Lahz Nimmo Architects
This is an exemplary project allow choice and free movement This project demonstrates the depot on the site of the old representing the new role of when passing through. A power of considered urban kiosk against the northern cliff. shopping centres as active focus on natural materials and design in the siting and scaling Establishing a new hub to the players in the life of the city. Not commissioned artworks enliven of buildings to form successful south side away from vehicular segregated and contained, they the main focal spaces, with a public space, in solving conflicts, traffic has also allowed the face outwards and connect the strong point of reference to local and opening up new connections. coastal walk to realign and streets and squares of the city. identity and place-making. follow the beach promenade, The brief for this project removing the previous dirt track Wollongong Central presents Wollongong Central has occupied was to replace the existing that used to bisect the park. The a richly layered sequence of new territory in the city’s retail dilapidated Tamarama Kiosk new Tamarama Kiosk sits back planning, commercial and formal precinct, the first intervention and also provide new service quietly against the sandstone decisions combined with clarity at the beginning of the as yet areas to accommodate Council escarpment; the vista of the to enhance civic life now and into ungentrified traditional high maintenance, lifeguards beach and ocean framed by the the future. The stitching together street. As a catalyst for further and Tamarama Surf Club headland to remain as the lasting of networks between public development and fine grain requirements. Despite deep view. and privately owned space, the revitalisation along the adjacent community affection the old kiosk extension of activated uses into streets and laneways, it will and outdoor cafe was poorly The material palette of the evening as an interface to the continue to impact upon the city’s located, in shade by mid-winter predominantly precast concrete street, and the provision for future transformation as a vibrant and and constrained by conflicts and recycled Australian growth on and around the site, dense urban centre. between a service road and the hardwoods has weathered well, are all products of this approach. public path network. taking on the patina of the coast. The green space of the park, with As a continuation of the public Lahz Nimmo Architects used its new focus and structure, is domain, its internal ‘street’ is this opportunity to strategically both delightful and well used. The naturally lit and provides visual restructure the open space, new kiosk and service building connections to the retail spaces relocating the new kiosk and have quickly become part of above and below. The multi- services building to the southern the fabric of the place – both level centre is however designed side of the park with access Tamarama’s unique landscape not to direct the visitor, but to to more sun, and tucking the and it’s beach culture. 24 URBAN DESIGN COMMENDATION
Photography: Brett Boardman Chatswood Transport Interchange COX Richardson and DesignInc Joint Venture
This complex mixed use project the active retail experience - a case study of the potential of seamlessly connects with Transport Oriented Development adjoining bus interchanges and - achieves the restructuring of the street network, reaching up a whole city precinct. It forms to access the towers above, and a new civic spine that unites activated by the flow of people transport, retail and genuine and new public areas on every urban places with the existing level. By untangling pathways, street and open space network. making visual connections and being suitably finished, the main In combination with the spaces do not feel mall-like or redevelopment of the railway privatised. station, the project includes a major retail mall and towers This major civic transport and of residential and commercial shopping node, with its mix space, which are arranged of durable finishes and good to maximise sunlight and daylight, feels urban, dense, connectivity. Its scope was large and exciting. It awaits its next enough to enable the resolution phase, where the city takes of the complex levels and over at its fringes leading to the circulation patterns at the heart invigoration of laneways, and the of what has become a new major settling-in of its residential use. city, and unite the previously severed halves of Victoria Avenue, Chatswood’s historic main street.
Described by the architects as a ‘permeable urban catalyst’, 25 COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE SIR ARTHUR G. STEPHENSON AWARD
Photography: Peter Bennetts 50 Martin Place JPW
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2 1 Established 1979 Named for one of the founding partners of the firm of Stephenson and Turner, Sir 8 Arthur G. Stephenson, this award is given for the design of an outstanding commercial KEY building. 1. Banking Chamber 2. Grand Hall 3. Atrium 4. Northern Lightwell 5. Roof Terrace 6. Colonnade PROJECT TEAM Clive Wilkinson 7. Meeting Rooms Architects 7 8. Safety Deposit Vault Practice Team: Interior Designer 5 Paul van Ratingen 6 Scale 0 2.5 5 10M 1:500 @ A4 Project Director Arup Acoustic Consultant Matthew Morel Project Associate Acoustic Logic Acoustic Consultant Peter Blome Project Associate Arup Services Consultant 4 3 Richard Johnson MBM Matteo Salval Cost Consultant Walter Brindle Surface Design Brent Alexander Facade Engineer Mark Rostron NDY Gareth Jenkins Vertical Transportation Natalie Minasian One Group Davide Galli Accessibility Michelle Vassiliou TKDA 2 1 Brendan Murray Heritage Consultant Sisi Wang Steve Watson & 8 Yi-Jan Lien Partners Building Surveyor KEY Tomek Archer 1. BankingPaolo Chamber Strracchi 2. Grand Hall 3. Atrium Construction Team: 4. Northern Lightwell 5. Roof Terrace Brookfield Multiplex 6. ColonnadeConsultant Team: 7. Meeting Rooms Builder 8. SafetyTTW Deposit VaultTaylor Macquarie Bank’s decision the original banking chamber, Resting lightly on the masonry Thomson Whitting Savills Scale 0 2.5 5 10M Project Manager to purchase 50 Martin Place visitors now rise through a base, a sculptural glass dome 1:500 @Structural A4 became the impetus for the central void directly to the has been added to house Consultant renewal of one of the city’s rooftop in a glass lift that a suite of lounges, meeting BVN Donovan Hill most significant heritage offers views into the work and function rooms over Interior Designer buildings. The project areas of the bank. two floors. Discreet from establishes a new benchmark street level, the dome is a for sustainable design through More dramatic interventions prominent statement from building re-use, achieving a have brought the building up the surrounding towers. 6-star Greenstar rating. to Macquarie’s demanding Appearing original at a workplace standards. The distance and contemporary The new works touch lightly central void has been widened up close, the dome echoes on the most important by 50% and a bold orange the original building’s heritage areas of the building. stair has been inserted to symmetry and order. Technical The insertion of glass lifts and link the floors. A full fresh challenges of the design, bridges minimise invasive air system with underfloor engineering, acoustics, audio security measures and a supply and chilled beams has visual and lighting are resolved disused heritage staircase has also enabled higher custom with seemingly effortless been recommissioned as a fire ceilings. style through research, escape. From their arrival into collaboration and prototyping. 27 COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Simon Grimes TransGrid Headquarters The GPT Group’s Wollongong Central Bates Smart HDR Rice Daubney
The most challenging sites The architectural form is Wollongong Central is a changing daylight and mixed require great discipline to achieve expressed as a series of testament to the value of long- mode ventilation. Surprisingly a simple, elegant solution. seemingly random, stacked term vision and a willingness delicate patterns are cut into or The TransGrid Headquarters volumes of varying heights which to challenge the status quo. It formed out of robust materials represents the transformation mediate between the context’s turns the traditional shopping like steel and concrete, and of vital city infrastructure into a diverse scales. Finely resolved centre inside out to actively human scale and warmth are well resolved, restrained building façade detailing, punctuated engage with the community, established through the use of that creates value for its owners, with horizontal and vertical setting up a framework for the tactile materials, colour, humour occupiers and the city. shading, establish a balancing future development of a dense and integrated artwork. counterpoint to the extroverted urban community, which includes The site sits on a pivotal junction Gehry-designed UTS building residents, students, retailers, The external walls of the food along the Ultimo Pedestrian located diagonally opposite. office workers and visitors. court are part operable and part Network. The existing building lined with cosy booths which was provided for a commercial Internally, the integrated fit-out The conceptual framework overhang and engage with the office to be constructed above for TransGrid achieves a high for the design expanded well street below. The adjacent major it, but contemporary commercial quality workplace that brings beyond the plot boundaries to highway has also been reclaimed design has evolved well beyond together the disparate office redefine the civic axes, revitalise and turned into an eat street. the planned central building. A and engineering groups into an adjacent streets and laneways, new rule book was required to effective, flexible and walkable and provide impetus for the The client demanded local expand the footprint, establish working environment. A naturally restoration of neighbouring steel with local manufacture a side core and provide for ventilated balcony provides precincts. and secured the best of local inter floor connecting stairs. A access to an outdoor break space providers. As a result the building collaborative approach achieved in its centre, and the base building The building fabric adjusts to the is far more than a shopping an innovative structural and and fit-out achieved 5 & 6 Green time and the seasons, creating centre; it is the catalyst for the services solution to achieve these Star Ratings. an environment that responds revitalisation of a community. objectives, allow for an extra floor, to its context. The undulating The design, detailing, decoration and to activate the pedestrian forms of the soaring five-storey and construction establish a streetscape with external glass internal timber street evoke the new quality expectation for this lifts, lobby, artwork and cafés. multi level site, with constantly important regional city. 28 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE JOHN VERGE AWARD
Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)
Photography: Christian Mushenko
29 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE JOHN VERGE AWARD
Established 2007 Named for the English-trained architect John Verge, who arrived in the colony of Sydney in the early 1830s, this award is given for excellence in interior architecture.
PROJECT TEAM Acoustic Studio Practice Team: Acoustic Consultant Simon Barr Arup Project Architect Facade + Fire Engineering Laura Valentine Project Architect Accessibility Solutions Annis Lee Accessibility Project Architect Group DLA Karina Kerr BCA Consultant Project Architect
Katherine Tracey Construction Team: Project Architect WATPAC Builder Consultant Team: Taylor Thomson Whitting Structural Consultant Steensen Varming Mechanical Consultant 0 5 10 20m Warren Smith & Plan: Ground level Partners Hydraulic Consultant
The Bankstown Library Joinery is constructed from over 3 levels, a 300 seat and Knowledge Centre is warm salvaged timbers, theatre, IT labs, conference a benchmark example of interior spaces are light, facilities, community meeting determination, underpinned elegant and tailored to rooms, scented reading by outstanding design. their purpose, and furniture garden, a new cafe and From the initial rejection settings are varied – their landscaped public domain is of a brief which called popularity and level of continuously evolving. The for the demolition of the use a testament to the integration of new and old existing building, through appropriateness of their is seamless, and the hybrid the dedication of staff who design. Every aspect of the design approach has not only salvaged heritage ceiling design is crafted, including given new life to a threatened panels and hand sanded custom lighting, signage asset but authenticity to the them, to the active hub of and joinery elements, and new. local residents utilising a wide the central green wall is range of internal settings, the visible signboard of a this project is an example of sustainable solution that goes redemptive design. beyond rating systems. It is at once civic and human scale; The conceptual framework accessible across generations provides clarity in both the and cultures. interior architectural solution, and to the expansion of a The program that currently classic modern building. incorporates a new library 30 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION
Photography: John Gollings Photography: Andrew Chung St Barnabas Church Charles Perkins Centre Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) + Building Studio (architects in association)
St Barnabas Church was rebuilt are robust enough to withstand Inside the Charles Perkins Centre, superlab utilise state of the art after a destructive fire. Today, them. The multi-function space the energy of the sinuous white technology to optimise teaching a new building is the heart of below provides a supervised ribbons of the stair and balcony and learning outcomes. The an inner-city community. The play area, but also converts to a balustrades is a dynamic symbol building also houses a ground clarity of form, quality of light function space with commercial for this world-leading research floor clinic where research is and material elegance channel kitchen for wedding receptions and education hub. The focus applied to health outcomes, spirituality, which is the essence or community meetings. The on interdisciplinary research in linking the research centre to the of worship. suite of other spaces at the lower areas of obesity, diabetes and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The level includes amenities, rehearsal cardiovascular disease underpins upper provides a casual meeting Dedication is required to achieve space for musicians, offices and the concept of walkability around place for all staff, with an outlook simplicity. Integrated into this community meeting rooms. these organic forms in the main over the leafy campus. strong architectural concept atrium space. This space is the is a full range of engineering If the number of people coming centrepiece for the seamless The powerful interior architecture disciplines. The arrival foyer and and going in a church space at integration of the different of the main atrium, whilst it worship space is conditioned with 9am on a Monday morning is any disciplines accommodated in provides the inevitable hero shot only tempered air and lit mainly measure of the success, then St state of the art laboratories, for this impressive organisation, by natural light. The resolution of Barnabas Church is a model. Not visible behind glazed screens is not the full story. The success the functional program allows the only has this building achieved a and in open write-up areas. of the Charles Perkins Centre’s worship space to be utilised for carefully crafted meditative space, Collaborative hubs distributed interior architecture also meetings, dinners and concerts, it has also delivered a highly around the atrium showcase incorporates meticulous, world when the space is a container for flexible building that minimised design that is warm, human and leading laboratory design, finely human communities in action. capital cost and ongoing tailored. detailed collaborative spaces, operational cost. It has rebuilt a and the types of social spaces Children are a carefully rapidly expanding community in Students access the building in demand from the broader considered asset to the the heart of the city. through the main atrium, university community. community, and they engage with inspiring and engaging. Student the forms of the church which lounges, teaching spaces and the 31 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE MILO DUNPHY AWARD
Photography: John Gollings Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) - University of Wollongong COX Richardson
32 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE MILO DUNPHY AWARD
Established 1996 The previous environment and energy awards have become the Milo Dunphy Award for sustainable architecture. There is no longer a single category for this award as all entries into the NSW Architecture Awards are now judged in terms of their sustainability and are eligible for this award which commemorates Milo Dunphy’s longstanding commitment to conserving the environment.
PROJECT TEAM Consultant Team: Practice Team: TLB Engineers Michael Bradburn Structural Project Architect Consultant Joe Agius TLB Engineers Design Director Civil Consultant Andy Marlow Taylor Brammer Landscape Andrew Noonan Consultant Anna Brown COX Richardson Andrew Hosking Architect Tony Lam Cundall ESD Consultant
Construction Team: Lend Lease Builder
The SBRC demonstrates a Passive solutions include micro-grid distribution system, holistic and integrated design optimisation of the building rainwater capture storage and approach to sustainability, envelope & solar control to treatment, and a blackwater SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS RESEARCH CENTRE (SBRC) which has resultedSUSTAINABLE in a BUILDINGSensureUNIVERSITY RESEARCH effective OF CENTRE WOLLONGONG daylight (SBRC) treatment system. building that incorporates a andUNIVERSITY natural ventilation, OF WOLLONGONG range of passive initiatives maximising insulation and Social and economic supplemented by active activatedSUSTAINABLE thermal BUILDINGS mass, and RESEARCH dividends CENTRE (SBRC) for the project systems, which together the careful reuse of reclaimedUNIVERSITY have OF WOLLONGONG been demonstrated by create a number of important construction materials. additional employment in social end economic Illawarra, and the creation of dividends. Active systems have been workspaces that are healthy designed for ‘plug and and inspiring. Display and The building has been play’ to allow experimental training areas provide a designed to achieve technologies to connect location for events, meetings certification with the Living to building services, and and training. The selection Building Challenge, arguably researchers to modify of materials are also socially the worlds most stringent operations and monitor responsible and directed to environmental rating tool occupant response. These local economies, and the that applies to buildings. systems include ground campus’s operational costs The building seeks to be sourced heat exchangers have been reduced. water, energy and carbon connected to an in- neutral; beautiful, inspiring slab hydronic system, a and educational; socially 160kW photovoltaic array, responsible and equitable; 5kW building integrated nontoxic and healthy. photovoltaic thermal system, 33 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Simon Whitbread Photography: Brigid Arnott Cameraygal (formerly Dunbar building) Polychrome NSW Government Architect’s Office David Boyle Architect
This project demonstrates energy demand. Lighting is This project demonstrates internal layouts of the units have the architectural potential of efficient, sensored and zoned. an approach to sustainability been skillfully reorganized to recycling a disused structure The production and use of that explores the potential for improve availability of light and and in showcasing sustainability energy, water use and recycling adaptive reuse as a fundamental ventilation to the living areas, initiatives through increased are all monitored and publicly design strategy. The early and to facilitate direct natural public awareness and education. displayed at the new entry foyer. decision to retain the existing cross-ventilation and improved fabric and to make changes only aspect. The new building is in stark A large photovoltaic panel where necessary to improve the contrast to its earlier and non- array located on the roof and existing design is a hallmark of The existing building is around sustainable form as cast in façade are displayed as an this scheme. 50 years old and the upgrade collective memory. Modeling, educational tool, as well as will extend the life cycle of ESD reporting and analysis were generating renewable power The existing footprint has this building with improved utilized throughout the design for the building. The design been retained, and the amount amenity for its occupants, to process to maximise the existing features recycled and recyclable of permeable landscape has the streetscape and to the thermal mass and reduce energy materials, low emissions finishes been increased, with open community. demands, with high performance and sustainably sourced natural space around the building glazing complementing the products in paints, carpets, made available for use by better utilised sun-shading linoleum, vitrified tiles, eco blinds, the occupants. Landscaping devices. PET pinboards, forest timbers and external works have also and eco wool fabrics, among been carefully redesigned to An innovative building others. encourage social interaction with management system engages the community. and educates occupants with From a social and economic a green-to-red warning light perspective, TAFE NSW is The majority of the red textured system, indicating the possibility showcasing sustainable initiatives brickwork and roof have of using natural ventilation when as a key factor in the educational been retained. Windows have external conditions allow. User process. been updated with higher controlled comfort and transient performance replacements zones significantly reduce the within the same openings. The 34 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Christian Mushenko Photography: Owen Zhu Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre Nikki Maloneys Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Drew Heath Architects
This new hybrid public building The new internal timber floor This house represents an As an approach to building explores the sustainability finishes are composed of over approach to sustainability it is a typology that could be potential of salvage and reuse of 95% salvaged material and that explores the architectural explored by other willing and materials from the existing Town the precast concrete facade, potential of recycling, reassembly committed architectural and Hall building on site. structural timber, stainless and repurposing of materials multidisciplinary practices in the steel joinery and feature fibre- from both the existing building pursuit of sustainability. High quality materials salvaged glass ceiling systems were also located on the site, and from for construction include salvaged and reused. other projects. It is a building that celebrates Australian hardwood timbers the simple enjoyment of the (Tallowwood, Tasmanian Oak, The new building also has a ‘Waste’ products in various states weather’s elements, rather North Queensland Kauri and strong focus on indoor air quality of decay - refined to peeling than setting up a myriad of Blackbutt), precast concrete and comfort, with the inclusion - have been appropriately conditioned environments to facade panels, aluminium roof of a green wall, displacement placed and celebrated in a living find comfort, and sets the scene sheeting and stainless steel air conditioning, and high experiment that is manifest in for a healthy way to live that is, joinery. performance insulated and the building’s outcome. Floors literally, refreshingly sustainable. shaded facade systems. were used as paneling, framing Decisions regarding demolition for benchtops, roof shingles as and retention of elements were The building prioritises passive paneling, brickwork as brickwork, made to minimise unnecessary systems, supported by onsite with the sum being literally more removal or waste, and strategies generation of renewable energy, than the parts. developed to ensure utilization recycled water use, efficient of salvage and ‘found’ materials design, and sustainable material This is a house that also has all from the existing building. This applications and specification. of the basics in place, with a reuse of existing materials The building also utilizes a small footprint, solar hot water, honours the sites history and high performance building natural ventilation, low VOC reconnects the community with management system, provides finishes and an engagement with this previously utilitarian space. new public transport access landscape that is blurred to be facilities, and the clean up of shared with the public realm. contaminated soils. 35 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE COMMENDATION
Photography: Brett Boardman 50 Martin Place JPW
This project explores the efficient air-conditioning system, potential of refurbishing a with full fresh air through a significant but neglected raised access floor with chilled heritage building, demonstrating beams; a first for Australian the latent value of such buildings, commercial property. Fresh air and the economic viability drawn across the workfloors of a sustainable approach to is exhausted over open atrium commercial development. edges and through the new roof. The enlarged atrium As Australia’s largest 6-star delivers 55% more natural light Greenstar heritage building, the to the office areas, and atrium project also demonstrates that stairs and bridges encourage renewal of heritage buildings interaction, collaboration and a can match new buildings in socially engaging workplace. A sustainability standards. collaborative process delivered a holistic design solution to the The building re-use included rooftop addition, which uses extensive internal rationalisation over 30% less steel than a typical and the construction of a three structure. storey rooftop addition. These changes have reinvigorated the 50 Martin Place has high cultural, building and re-validated its social and economic significance continuing utility as a commercial for Sydney. This refurbishment headquarters in one of Australia’s broadens this significance as it most prestigious financial establishes a new benchmark addresses. for sustainable design through successful building re-use. Active systems within the building include a highly 36 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (NEW) WILKINSON AWARD
Photography: Michael Nicholson Light House Peter Stutchbury Architecture
37 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (NEW) WILKINSON AWARD
0 1 2 5m p e t e r s t u t c h b u r y a r c h i t e c t u r e e l e v a t i o n e a s t
Established 1964 The jury was unanimous in their The expected singular framed The Wilkinson Award was introduced to decision to award Light House view is replaced by multiple recognise exemplary domestic architecture the 2015 Wilkinson Award. It openings around the entire and named for the Emeritus Professor of is a remarkable and exquisite perimeter and in the roof plane. Architecture at the University of Sydney, Leslie outcome on a tight, complex site With a constrained and refined Wilkinson. Wilkinson had won the Sulman - the edge of a cliff, 80 metres palette, the interiors are warm Medal twice – in 1934 for a residential design and in 1942 for a suburban church. above the sea, with all but its and intimate, and interior ancient eastern side surrounded detailing reflect humanity and by suburbia. tactility. It demonstrates an PROJECT TEAM Consultant Team: experienced hand and a deep Practice Team: Professor Max Irvine The house sits within a context understanding of the holistic John Bohane Structural Consultant that despite having a spectacular intent. The refined and unrefined Project Architect JCL Development outlook, is exposed and are juxtaposed in unexpected Peter Stutchbury Solutions inhospitable. This is countered and refreshing ways, and the Design Architect Hydraulic Consultant by its beguilingly simple design assembly of elemental and tough Max Irvine CAB Consulting, diagram, which responds by exterior layers is responsive to Structural Engineer Craig Burton Landscape Consultant separating an undulating outer the highly erosive environment. David Watson shell of modular vertical precast Builder planks from an operable inner This home is poetic and Construction Team: skin. This gives the appearance investigative, and a delight to David Watson of a singular form, but it is experience. The design responses Building reactive to localised and specific nurture animated spaces on all Builder conditions around its perimeter. scales, through carefully tuned The shell attenuates the climate veils of contrasting weights; a and shields the neighbours, full spectrum of outlooks. It is a with precise focus on the home of beauty and grace. extraordinary landscape. This makes opportunities for external inhabitation in accordance with time and weather.
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Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Brett Boardman Balmoral House Nikki Maloneys Clinton Murray + Polly Harbison Drew Heath Architects
This house engages remarkably with private above. The building’s Nikki Maloneys’ is one of the sanctum and another room of the with its surroundings, being central space contains a gallery most refreshing approaches house. at once both intensely public which offers a counterpoint to to new houses seen this year. and intensely private. Built on a the expected, austere museum Celebrating and conveying the The protective roof forms defer sloping Sydney harbour site, it space; instead offering an inviting memory of a former worker’s to the angles of the sun, allowing presents as a striking concrete finished interior and low ceilings. cottage that once occupied entry of light deep into the house sculpture to the street. As the The main living room offers the site, the house is entirely and visual connections with house lifts away from the site, respite and retreat, as a private new, yet crafted and inspired by the surrounding built context, it frames a sculpture garden and comfortable sanctuary of what was there before. In the including framed views of nearby where significant artworks are warm timber, carpet and soft architects own words, this house church spires. This is a home positioned across the landscape. penetrating light. The architects is the ‘remaking’ of a cottage, crafted with great care, which Past this the eye is drawn through have understood the question of where 30% of the building adopts a liberated informality bushland reserve of angophora “what is ‘home’ and for whom”. matter has been recycled. It focused on the richness of daily trees to the blue ocean horizon is an example of successful life. It is a home that genuinely of Balmoral Beach, and the iconic Rigorous in resolution and and sensitive integration of explores craftsmanship as an Grotto Point Lighthouse. Looking consistent on many levels, architecture and building - an inseparable part of the process of back to the street from the pool Balmoral House chooses a palette approach that welcomes life, architecture. offers another rich framed view, of severe constraint. Contrary decay, and rebirth. where the house itself is the to the density of its material exhibit’s stage curtain. The effect form, it allows a rich pause in an Inside, the plan is spatially is dramatic and extraordinary. unyielding street alignment; an and tectonically unguarded open window that is generous and relaxed, and it is both The joy of art is integral to the and dignified. unassuming and generous to house’s design, and the owners’ the street. The house assumes desire to share both their a c-shape by following three collection and their view with the boundaries of the site. In doing street is embedded into the form. so it creates its own nurturing A hierarchy in section places environment, with a protected public function on the ground, garden that feels like an inner 39 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (NEW) COMMENDATION
Photography: Michael Nicholson Photography: Brett Boardman Garden House Alexandria Courtyard House Tzannes Associates Matthew Pullinger Architect
Well calibrated to its location, plan divided into two generously Rigorously challenging and the upper level and the home’s this substantial home exploits its proportioned wings, creating reinterpreting the terrace single bathroom. Private spaces unusually shaped site to present dramatic garden rooms of both house typology, Alexa-ndria are minimised in order to a modest face to the street. informal and formal living space. Courtyard House presents a increase the family’s collective Boomerang in plan, it’s design A self-contained additional living useful prototype for replication; shared zones. The house’s easy prioritises outlook to landscape, quarter is located in the “elbow” providing contemporary living connection to the street is both for the house’s inhabitants of the ground floor, catering for spaces within the envelope further celebrated by the lack and its multiple surrounding shared living. of its adjoining street profile. of off street parking. Instead neighbours. It assumes the volume and screened bicycle storage is Private spaces upstairs including alignments of its traditional provided under the overhanging Positioned along a bend in a tree- smaller children’s rooms are northern neighbour, but instead edge of the floor slab. lined street, the responsive siting offset by a dramatic main of a generic masonry street has allowed for the development bedroom and bathroom, with a facade, this new home is With a palette of exposed of a large private northern garden continuous band of large sliding designed to be in chorus with its concrete, aluminium, plywood that visually combines with its windows opening on three sides. urban environment, where the and glass, this house is disciplined neighbour for the benefit of both. The clearly articulated diagram needs of the inhabitants are not in its materials and construction. At street level, this gap allows is an intelligent and publically prioritised over its neighbours. It is a classic modernist response passers by the benefit of reading generous response to an unusual to separated material junctions, the distant terrain, whilst also site condition. The front yard is an extension with a vivid red screen wall in inviting them in. of the streetscape and on the house’s centre providing a approach there is an effect moment of counterpoint. Entering from the street through of translucency, with no solid a garden gate, one moves cross-walls on ground level. The This house is a committed and along the edge of the building, presence of landscape pervades successful exploration and protected by a tall, upswept with a rhythm of garden, room, reinvention of an established roof that captures the north sun courtyard, room - right to the typology in the context of and brings the garden into the back of the site - defining the temperate climate, and is a interior. The design is focused on ground floor layout. The diagram remarkable achievement of maximising light, with the ground continues with bedrooms on efficient and ordered planning. 40 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS) HUGH AND EVA BUHRICH AWARD
Orama Smart Design Studio
Photography: Sharrin Rees 41 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS) HUGH AND EVA BUHRICH AWARD
Established 2014 This recently named award recognises the importance of alterations and additions in residential work, 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.
PROJECT TEAM Basix Practice Team: Efficient Living Lucy Bedbrook Building Certificates Project Architect Australia Certifier William Smart Design Architect Tropman and Tropman Anita Panov Heritage Consultant Project Team Geometra Building Surveyor Consultant Team: Istruct Construction Team: Structural Anthony Alexious Consultant Builder Will Dangar Design George Alexious Landscape Project Manager Consultant John Sussanna GSA Planning Concrete Contractor Planner QS Plus Orama is a stately Victorian one enters an impressive and monumental mass of the Quantity Surveyor villa in Sydney’s Woollahra, dramatically vertical concrete concrete addition are joined whose elegant facade space - a double height family in a refined manner and each presented to the street is room and kitchen. Carefully component has integrity. They balanced by a substantial positioned openings draw stand together successfully, concrete pavilion fused natural light from the sides neither overwhelmed by the to the rear, extending the and above. The rooms open material or the spatial contrast proportions of the existing onto generous terraced of the other. Orama is an home. The transformation gardens which connect back expertly realised project that between the old and the to the original home, whose communicates a state of calm new is seamless. Meticulous form is now embraced and throughout. restoration of the original allowed to ‘breathe’. villa, while also allowing for new material layers and The new pavilion, that only joinery, combined with robust presents subtle cues from the detailing throughout the street, successfully interprets interior spaces, have created a the masonry nature of the suite of inviting rooms. original. The silky flawlessness of the concrete is highlighted The progression from the by the indentations of a original building to the meticulous formwork pattern, pavilion is hinged by a which carry through to the calm intermediary space, interior. allowing for a brief pause that articulates the transition from The rendered formality the old to the new. From here of the existing home and 42 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS) ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Brigid Arnott Photography: DL Photography Walter Street Terrace Courtyard House St Peters David Boyle Architect Reg Lark Architect
Spatially generous, this project light overhead, and imbues a It’s hard to be gutsy when you’re warehouse box and inserting resolves the basic limitations of a protective warmth to the interior. surrounded by a theatrical urban a glass plane, admitting an highly restrained site with great context of warehouses, graffiti, abundance of light within. A skill, care and character. Set in a Sawn recycled hardwood is car wrecks and a junkyard. It’s ‘verandah’ mezzanine within the row of one-storey brick terraces, used for a structural screen wall, a light industrial setting that box provides the home’s single with its northern boundary along with smooth softwood could give a sense of decay and bedroom, and a workspace flanked by a ten-metre high for handles and other tactile disorder, but this unusual home overlooks the main living area. brick wall, Walter Street Terrace elements. The full northern side offers a moment of tranquillity A sunken, curved media room is literally stands in the shadows. of the upper level bedroom is and light. inserted into the ground plane Its search for light has articulated operable and has a porosity that while finally a galley kitchen ‘wall’ the volumes and spaces of its makes the space feel generous, Strength comes from its cuts from the house’s interior to redesign. whilst also allowing additional execution, with minimal moves the courtyard. light into the entry underneath. giving maximum effect. Behind A minimal palette of largely a brick façade the architect has The approach to room types is recycled materials is well This is an intimate and restorative created a luminous hidden world, idiosyncratic, which is highlighted balanced against the heaviness interior on a challenging site, one which strings together the by top lit or windowless spaces, of the brick and the adjoining which has been cohesively and desire of its owners to live, work, including the bedroom and structures. Newly introduced intelligently resolved. play and rest within its triangular media room. It’s a home that north facing sky light and space. is uncompromising whilst also increased internal volume being appropriately relaxed and contributes to a series of Eschewing a conventional cohesive. well-scaled, comfortable and subdivision of rooms, Courtyard interlinked spaces – where the House profits from its most existing and the new are adeptly abundant commodity - space considered. In the main living - with an open arrangement room, the datum line between focused around its courtyard and surfaces of brick wall and white dramatic suspended fireplace. Its ceiling plane emphasises the primary move is incisive, literally cutting out the top corner of the 43 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS) COMMENDATION
Photography: Daniel Mayne Howe Allan House Ian Moore Architects
Built in the early 20th century, this is also complementary, matching north shore bungalow has been the textures and colours of extensively reworked to open the original home, but with up the north facing rear. Existing contemporary details. compromises in circulation have been reinvented to create a fluid Often in an addition, there is an transition from old to new, while intentional articulation between the rooms in the original house the new and existing work – have also been reconfigured to whether in planning, materials, or suit the various needs of the differences in scale. This is not the clients and their children as they case here. This house feels unified grow older. and the result is an unassuming home on a medium scale that An experienced hand guides gives a sense of harmonious ease. the gentle transition between It would be a pleasure to occupy. the original and the new, complementing what is so lovely about the existing bungalow with the rational and egalitarian addition. The new pavilion, while taller than the original, recedes respectfully when viewed from the street. Intelligent placement of openings allow cross flow and ample natural light in the modest addition, which contains the main living and dining downstairs, and children’s bedrooms in the upper level. The use of materials 44 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING AARON BOLOT AWARD
Photography: Brett Boardman Studios 54 Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
45 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING AARON BOLOT AWARD
Established 2009 Single and multiple housing were formerly included in the separate Wilkinson Award introduced in the 1960s; however, initially only one building – either a single residence or multiple housing complexes – received the award per year, hence the introduction of the Aaron Bolot Award.
PROJECT TEAM ARIM Consulting Practice Team: Mechanical Consultant Philip Thalis Design Architect Viscona Services Consultant Laura Harding Project Team Paul Aramini Project Team John Oultram Consultant Team: Heritage and Design Trinium Group Heritage Consultant Developer Paul Bekker Construction Team: Engineering Design Trinium Group Buro Builder Structural Consultant
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This project redevelops a A second unorthodox strategy extraordinary perseverance in remnant inner city site of only separates the open lift lobby, confining to the lane frontage 126 square metres - sandwiched located off the main balcony the necessary but prosaic fire between an apartment building at the building’s face, from the and service areas that can often to its north and a narrow service fire stair which is located at dominate such projects. lane to its south - into a mixed the extreme rear. Homecoming use building incorporating four is celebrated by each unit’s Hill Thalis quoted Manuel de one bedroom units. individual lift lobbies and each Sola-Morales by stating that, floor’s distinctive colouring “Size is not scale and some Hill Thalis have employed a within the otherwise neutral time small projects can say big deceptively simple plan which but textured white frame of the things”. This project makes a unexpectedly locates services building. clear statement about urban (the lift and other ancillary living and neighbourliness spaces) to the more open In an urban analysis, the beyond code compliance. It is southern lane alignment instead building relates to another at exemplary in demonstrating the of the open plan areas. This its northern alignment, while relevance of remnant sites within strategy facilitates abundant the service tower marks the an urban context. light and air to all rooms, termination of two lanes. A including bathrooms and shop and the building’s main kitchens lobby compellingly address Waterloo Street, demonstrating 46 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Brigid Arnott CASBA Polychrome Billard Leece Partnership + SJB Architects David Boyle Architect in association with BKH Interiors
This project has mastered what open onto expansive terraces A genuine game-changer. Tucked and consequent identity. is a challenging but increasingly and maximise both daylight down a local street in Sydney’s common development type – the access and privacy. Skilful design Newtown we find a small multi- The architect has been skilful in mixed use development. Set in separates the commercial and residential conversion with large carrying out minimal but decisive a part of Sydney that has seen retail such that maximum privacy implications. changes to relocate sleeping spaces significant change in the past is afforded, and from above the to the rear, thereby creating larger 15 years it is built in the context apartments are largely oblivious Faced with possible total demolition open plan living areas connected of existing warehouses, café, to the busy retail environment of the existing building, here the to new side and front gardens, showroom and new apartments, below. Extensive planting on the architect was able to see beyond which improve cross ventilation but successfully manages these rooftop of commercial spaces the massing and aesthetic of the and capture the northern aspect. often conflicting land uses provide a pleasant outlook for building. With a light touch, the External spaces have been without compromise. the residents above as well as architect has introduced a series landscaped to encourage street acoustic separation. of small interventions and layer of interaction with the community and At ground level the public detailed refinement not present in dissolve some of the boundaries domain is reinforced by a The project’s success has been the original building. between public and private. meaningful cross-site pedestrian driven by a strong directive The result is a joyful response which link focused around a central and partnership between client, gives a second life to a prolific The reconfiguration and overlay of courtyard, while retail and architect and interior designers. Australian housing typology. detail simultaneously introduces commercial uses transition the a practicality and playfulness site and manage a significant The rough and tactile materiality Littered amongst Australian cities rarely seen in contemporary change in level and flood is both consistent with the theme lies the neglected 1960’s & 70’s multi-residential projects. All this restrictions. and strongly evokes the heritage red textured brick unit block. This for a fraction of the cost of a total of the site and its post industrial typology is generally considered to rebuild, and all work was carried The residential apartments above context. be of little architectural merit due out as exempt or complying have been located to maximise to its scale, negative streetscape development. It’s a refreshing amenity; their generous width impacts, unused open space and reminder of what is possible when allows for large living spaces that use of a singular building material thinking creatively. 47 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING COMMENDATION
Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Brett Boardman DHA Lindfield - Tubbs View + Hamilton Corner Finlayson Street Bates Smart Candalepas Associates
Part of a masterplanned courtyard. The layouts of the In what could have resulted in a The plan is decisive. Living rooms development within a former townhouses provide extensive blunt, deep-form plan, resulting are prioritised to the leafy northern university campus, these two storage, and the simple plans and from the site’s permissible density outlook, while bedrooms find precincts present different management of external spaces and limited height, Candalepas their logical placement typically site constraints and have been make the living areas seem and Associates have organised within the eastern, western and tailored to meet different deceptively large. this apartment building as a pair of southern facades. Eastern and demographics. interconnected ’T’s, whose wings western walls are serrated to The architectural expression make way for trees retained on- maximise daylight and are intrinsic Tubbs View is a series of of both buildings provide site and generate a varied outlook to the building’s character. They apartment buildings that environmental control to the from the building. also serve to manipulate outlook successfully manage difficult interior spaces and considers the towards the leafy setting (for site typology. They have been long terms impacts of further A compelling aspect of this the apparent exclusivity of each sited on an existing car park residents such as maintenance. project is its clearly identifiable unit), by blinkering peripheral site, defined by radiating character. The palette of materials views. Homecoming is enhanced sandstone walls and cuttings. Central to the success of this - borrowed unashamedly from with generous, day-lit lobbies The buildings are positioned to project is the establishment the context - is restricted to the that create a transition from the follow existing contours, with a of simple, straight forward essential; concrete for structure, raw exterior to soft tones of the network of paths and communal apartment layouts and a clear brick for cladding. A simple metal interior. gardens connecting their site strategy that works with the balustrade retains openness entrances. Orientated towards opportunities and constraints towards the leafy outlook, whilst The overall composition is the leafy bushland outlook, the of the site. A simple palette of timber screens control privacy reminiscent of the Sydney School development is defined by simple, materials responds appropriately to the street. Yet, there is careful buildings that punctuate the straightforward dual aspect plans to the bushland setting and but understated consideration of northern suburbs. This project that provide excellent amenity. provides a low maintenance each face of the building and its exemplifies the architect’s environment. These are buildings interfaces. The raw naturalistic dedication to the cause of creating Hamilton Corner is a two storey that will age gracefully. character of the exterior is carried beautiful crafted buildings. building containing a mix of through to the subdued lobby townhouses and apartments areas which, despite their length, organised around a central retain their openness to the street. 48 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING COMMENDATION
Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Katherine Lu/ Brett Boardman Pelican Street The Kensington Candalepas Associates Fox Johnston
At Pelican Street the architect sites; screening some for the This development presents a expression of the facades has has demonstrated a capability, benefit of distant views for clear and simple strategy of been greatly influenced by the understanding and sensitivity inhabitants. maximising internal amenity site’s environmental aspects. The towards an established residential through the siting and massing breezeways, sliding sun shades market. There is present an The building skin is articulated of the development. Located and balconies create a cohesive identifiable recognition of the following further consideration adjacent a busy road the response to the localized design opportunities open to the of privacy and light in the plan. orientatation living of spaces environment. With a splash of architect working hand-in-hand The subtraction of some facade away from the road and towards colour, this has created a highly with accepted, tried and proven components to the north admit the north provides exceptional articulated facade with a depth of industry standards and building light to the units in winter and amenity to the apartments. patterning and shading. processes. give a rationality to the facade’s variation. Many subtle plays of Permeable walkways and This project exemplifies how Fundamental to the project light result from core pursuits breezeways are located to the a site specific strategy can success is the amenity embodied in the plan, which enhance street frontage, connecting significantly enhance the amenity in the plan. All units enjoy an the inhabitants experiences the apartments and providing of residents and stand the test of orientation to the north-east and of light, privacy and quietness a buffer to the busy street. development constraints in a tight east which allows living spaces from within the development. A unique internal layout and development market. to optimise solar access. The Overlaid and working with section through the building composition in plan enables the planning and massing enables cross ventilation to amenity to adjacent properties fundamentals are moments of all apartments, elevating the by seeking a departure from fine detail, articulation and colour bedroom spaces within the units the street-wall forms at its key accents, that further elevate the without impacting on acoustics or intersection. The interiors, in-turn,experience for both residents and privacy. are shaped by a planning strategypassers-by. focused on light, ventilation Splaying the grid has enabled and efficiency, balanced by all north facing apartments an approach to privacy and to also obtain views towards orientation which both frames Centennial Park between and masks views of the adjacent adjoining developments. The 49 SMALL PROJECT ROBERT WOODWARD AWARD
Photography: Shantanu Starick Copper House Takt | Studio for Architecture
50 Established 2013
1 Bed 1 The Small Project Architecture Award 2 Bed 2 was named in 2013 to honour architect 3 Bath Robert Woodward AM whose career was 4 Laundry 5 Bay window significantly altered after winning the 6 Kitchen Institutes’ Civic Design Award in 1964 for the 7 Living & Dining El Alamein Memorial Fountain in Kings Cross. 8 Courtyard ‘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.
PROJECT TEAM Construction Team: Practice Team: Mark Loader from Brent Dunn Bricon Builder 5 6 7 Project Architect Katharina Hendel Green Friends Project Designer Landscapes Landscape Designer 8
2 3 4 Consultant Team: Partridge Partners 1 Structural Consultant
This small, sixty square metre The site’s topography is enabled quick construction house is in the rear yard of accommodated by dividing and unifies the design. In an existing residence on a the house into three small addition to its distinctive steeply sloping headland structures stepping up the butterfly roof forms, the site in Coogee, replacing an hill, transforming a difficult house is distinguished earlier fibro dwelling in poor site condition into an through its structural condition and which was built advantage through the use of expression internally over the side boundary. individual butterfly roofs over and externally and well each pavilion, with highlight conceived and executed Accommodating two windows to maximise access details. Materials are chosen bedrooms, bathroom and to sun and views. Existing for beauty and durability living space, the building hedges, fences and retaining including copper wall is an inventive response to walls which enclose the site cladding, canvas wall panels constrained site conditions are concealed, achieving internally, waxed concrete and the client’s requirement privacy without compromise floor and timber joinery. for a small residence to light or outlook. Space with multiple future uses, for storage and amenity is including a granny flat, visitor maximised through the use of accommodation or possible half-height spaces between permanent home. The brief pavilions. was for a retreat with spaces that are rich, tactile and light, The house is designed on and that feel both private and a 600mm grid to suit its coastal. materials. The carefully detailed exposed steel frame 51 SMALL PROJECT SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION
Photography: Geoff Ambler Photography: Peter Bennetts Sydney Opera House Recording Studio Bresic Whitney, Hunters Hill Scott Carver Chenchow Little
Deftly working within the confines Jørn Utzon and Peter Hall in the The brief for this small office with almost deferential sensitivity, of Sydney’s most famous building crafting of the Sydney Opera interior in Hunters Hill for the real exposing the pre-existing ceilings Scott Carver have created a space House. estate agent Bresic Whitney called and services. rich in material qualities despite for an open plan arrangement a very rigorous technically driven Original fabric has been of 15 to 20 staff and, unusually, The jewel-like quality of the brief. Sensitive planning organises revealed as punctuations in the for the display of the agency’s spaces is created through the a series of acoustically isolated composition, giving a sense of contemporary art collection. use of luxurious materials which areas which remain visually linked history and continuity. Exquisite include American Oak timber via internal windows and a high detailing reveals the character The programme has been flooring perfectly matched with level mezzanine. of each material with craft and creatively interpreted by the wall panelling, folded and care readily apparent. Being Chenchow Little as a miniature perforated brass screens and Upon arrival one is greeted by completely internal the spaces townscape within the building’s bronze mirror, and enhanced by spaces dark and rich in material have no relationship to the unremarkable shell, a strategy lighting and well crafted details. texture, creating an atmosphere outside, yet provide a serene and which provides a framework for The beautifully crafted wall panels of intense concentration highly delightful environment in which the arrangement of meeting are folded out at the top creating appropriate to the nature of to work. rooms, office spaces, reception a sense of enclosure as well work that takes place in these and supporting amenities. The as creating a space behind for recording studios. awkward geometry and low service reticulation. The materials ceilings of the existing office space are self finishing and chosen for Within the studios themselves are skillfully accommodated and durability and long life. acoustic timber panelling is spatial qualities enhanced through layered on every vertical and imaginative interior planning, An inventive approach to an office horizontal surface, projecting where irregular circulation spaces interior programme, the success a strong individual identity are envisaged as streets and of the project is achieved through for these new spaces while meeting rooms as small houses its conception as a cityscape immediately eliciting a memory of within the interior ‘city’. rigorously applied to its spatial the Opera House’s much grander planning, detailing and execution. performance halls and subtly Interiors are sleeved within the acknowledging the hand of both enclosing office tenancy shell 52 SMALL PROJECT COMMENDATION
Photography: Roger D’Souza Photography: Peter Bennetts Tempe House AGL Lakeside Pavilion Eoghan Lewis Architects Kennedy Associates Architects
This project exhibits restraint and a private courtyard garden by Set within the vast grounds of imagination in equal measures, the addition of a new art studio the Australian Botanic Garden taking care to preserve and at the rear. Detailing the entire at Mount Annan this building enhance the best aspects of the studio in translucent panelling traces its siting to the tradition of existing 1910’s sandstone cottage, allows it to be turned into a giant 18th century English Landscape while inserting additions that lantern at night. Gardens, set up as a ‘folly’ atop connect house to garden and a hill, clearly visible on approach. uplift everyday habitation. Unlike This project is beautifully By doing so the building sets up the more common strategy considered in a multitude of a clear relationship of prospect of extending towards the rear, small details, a collection of and refuge - providing shelter the architect instead chose to careful interventions that has from the elements without and place the addition to the side given dramatic effect despite framed views and vistas of the of the existing cottage, taking adding up to no more than 40 parklands from within, allowing advantage of the full width of sqm of additional area. visitors to pause and process the block and creating new living the magnitude of the landscape areas that are both connected beyond. with, but clearly distinct from the old cottage. While the cottage The project has achieved a retains its well defined and simple but expressive detailing intimate rooms, new areas open in the tradition of the agricultural both outwards to the garden and vernacular, showcasing its upwards to the sky, bringing light construction in a straightforward and animating the interiors in yet considered manner despite myriad ways throughout the day. clear time and cost constraints. It provides a welcoming public What had previously been an space for both large and small inaccessible back yard devoid of gatherings with minimal use of privacy has been reconnected materials and embellishment, yet to the house and turned into creates a robust sense of place. 53 HERITAGE GREENWAY AWARD
Photography: Images for Business The Abbey, Johnston Street, Annandale Design 5 - Architects
54 Established 1975 An award for the conservation of historic buildings – the Greenway Award commemorates the work of the transported convict Francis Greenway, the first architect to be commissioned to design buildings for the fledgling colony of New South Wales. This category now includes adaptive re-use projects that involve alterations and additions to heritage buildings.
PROJECT TEAM Construction Team: Practice Team: A & DR Illes (Sydney) Alan Croker Builder (Stage 1) Principal Aranac Robert Gasparini Builder Project Architect (Stages 2 & 3)
2 2 STAIR BRIDGE SECTION (Stage 1 - Main Combined Roofing Scale: 1:50 House) Solutions Letizia Coppo-Jones Specialist Roofer Project Architect Dasreef (Stages 2 & 3 - Stonemason Stables & Kitchen Jinhua Dong Wing) Stonemason 1 STAIR BRIDGE ELEVATION Lian Wong Stonemason Scale: 1:50 Project Architect Ian Thomson (Assistant Architect, Specialist Joiner Stages 2 & 3 - 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 2m (Stages 1 & 3) This remarkable house built introducing new elements The project demonstrates an Stables & Kitchen Wing) Wayne Mavin for and by John Young to accommodate modern uncompromising dedication Specialist Joiner c1892 is an iconic example of residential requirements. to quality of design, (South Porch) Arts and Crafts design and Structural stabilisation workmanship and durability. Consultant Team: Aranac (James detailing, including purpose measures are clearly It conserves the significance Mott Macdonald Edmonds) designed furniture - some of discernable as modern but do of the place, promotes craft Australia Specialist Joiner which remains intact. Sadly not detract from the original tradition, and highlights the Structural Consultant (Stages 2 & 3) neglected in the 20th century, fabric. benefits of a sustainable long- (Stage 1) Notley Engineering its recent conservation shows term view, enlivening the place Partridge Structural Services an extraordinary commitment New work cleverly links and both for the current owners Structural Consultant Metalworkers (Stages 2 & 3) (Stages 2 & 3) by both the architects and provides access to spaces and future generations. owners over more than four previously poorly integrated. Dangar Group EF Service Landscape Metalworkers years, and demonstrates that Original materials are carefully Consultant (Stages 2 & 3) conservation is a continuing preserved including some A & C Inhof Heritage Decorative and ongoing process. elaborate painted decoration Conservation of Glass - revealed through ‘windows’ Early Interior Paint Metalworkers (Mesh Guided by a conservation in some spaces and exposed Finishes (Stage 1) Screens) management plan, the in others. Recycled existing Karen Akers Steel Design design carefully conserves materials and salvaged Interior Colours & Metalworkers (Steel and structurally stabilises building elements are reused Furnishings Doors - Stage 3) elements such as the stair wherever possible. High levels Urbis Heritage Decorative connecting the wings and of craftsmanship are evident Historical Research Glass the first and ground floor throughout and especially in (CMP) with Design 5 Stained Glass colonnades. The works pay the work to complex elements Architects Gino Vinciguerra homage to the history of the such as stained glass and Specialist Tiler building by retaining layers stonework. of development whilst subtly 55 HERITAGE (CREATIVE ADAPTATION) HERITAGE (CREATIVE ADAPTATION) ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION
Photography: John Gollings Photography: John Gollings Irving Street Brewery Legion House Tzannes Associates Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)
The Irving Street Brewery project equipment into an element that is Originally constructed on Significant interiors have been combines highly efficient and both architectural and sculptural, Castlereagh Street in 1902 by the retained in the redevelopment of progressive power generation giving it identity and meaning YWCA, Legion House derived the building, including the original technology, to deliver gas within the larger development. historical and social significance main hall at the rear and some of generated electricity plus hot and from its use as a women’s the small bedrooms on the upper cold water within a heritage context The conceptual simplicity of hostel and outreach service for levels. An upper storey addition in an exemplary manner. Located this undertaking belies the sixty years. This project for the is expressed in contemporary in the heart of the new Central complexity of its execution which adaptive reuse of the four-storey materials which relate Legion Park development this project involved integrating heritage, building transforms Legion House to the broader Liberty provides a direct link between the technical, services and façade House for contemporary office Place development. site’s former history and use as the detailing into a cohesive whole. and retail use. Carlton Brewery, and its present This project demonstrates the New services have been installed redevelopment into a mixed-use adaptability of historic structures Considered as part of the Liberty throughout and the redeveloped community. The smokestack has to contemporary use, even for Place development, an adjoining building aspires to achieve a been carefully conserved and highly technical and demanding building has been demolished zero-carbon footprint through serves as exhaust for the new tri- functions; conserving not just the to create a pedestrian laneway the use of biomass gasification generation plant which sits below physical structures but also their which reveals the brick side to convert paper briquettes into the site. memory, and reimagining them elevation. A new glass enclosed gas which, when operational, will into a more sustainable future. lift and stair located on the enable disconnection the building The project exhibits a direct laneway elevation provides a from the electricity grid. industrial approach to form making new entrance to the office floors. and detailing, taking cues from the Heritage conservation works This project demonstrates accretion and layering of changes in include the external fabric and the creative adaptation of the the former Old Boiler House, atop some internal spaces and the historic building to contemporary which now sits a new cooling plant. reconstruction of the ground uses, having regard for both Shrouded in perforated zinc mesh floor facade, previously lost to for its heritage significance and the resulting form of the cooling unsympathetic alteration. sustainability objectives. tower enclosure lifts the ordinary and primarily functional plant 56 HERITAGE (CREATIVE ADAPTATION) HERITAGE (CREATIVE ADAPTATION) COMMENDATION COMMENDATION
Photography: Katherine Lu Photography: Simon Whitbread House McBeath Cameraygal (formerly Dunbar building) Tribe Studio Architects NSW Government Architect’s Office
Comprising a narrow two-storey bridging new and historic This five storey concrete The original concrete frame with 19th century terrace, occupying interiors and varying changes framed building in the Brutalist its large spans and light and a site with a relatively wide in level to make efficient use of style was designed in 1967, shade pattern has been repaired frontage in a side street in small spaces. as North Sydney Technical and exposed. The upper part of McMahons Point, this adaptive College Science Block by the the northwest façade has new re-use project cleverly makes At the rear of the house the NSW Government Architect’s vertical sun-shading, replacing use of the adjoining space refurbished courtyard garden Branch; project architect Mark the original panels which remain previously occupied by a - lowered to the level of the Zatorski, and documented by on the lower storeys. On the garage. Contemporary in its new kitchen and family room - Collard Clarke and Jackson. The southeast deteriorated panels expression, the two-storey provides a private retreat from precast concrete shell featured were removed to let in light and addition is sensitive not only to the adjoining laneway. recognizable horizontal brise- balconies and windows added, the original house but also in its soleils, unfortunately unsuited to whilst those intact panels retained acknowledgment of the broader This project demonstrates a the orientation and since affected create an abstract pattern on the streetscape context. skilled and experienced re- by concrete cancer. facade. working of traditional 19th The original dwelling retains century terrace typology, The brief was for a centre for Internally false ceilings were its external appearance to the creatively extended externally learning and innovation, as removed and carefully coordinated street but is entirely re-worked and adapted internally to the Institute’s new ‘Southern services installed, now exposed internally, including alteration accommodate contemporary Gateway’. The original south against the high quality finish of of its circulation and principal living requirements and amenity. entrance has been replaced by a the original concrete. U-shaped entry. The narrow space between new double height entry on the structural glass panels in interior the addition and original house opposite side, fronting the college partitions reflect original panels in is imaginatively conceived as a green, and a new forecourt the fire stairs. dramatic double-height volume, created by removing internal incorporating a new entrance walls, extends the ground floor’s Though there are extensive at ground floor and bridge open plan interior. This creates changes, the outcome of this link at first floor. The interiors an exciting and multi functional considered adaptive reuse retains are deceptively simple in their space well utilised and related to the character of the original and expression and detail, confidently the rest of the campus. gives it a new life. 57 HERITAGE (CONSERVATION) HERITAGE (CONSERVATION) ARCHITECTURE AWARD COMMENDATION
Photography: Eric Sierens Photography: Tasman Storey Bronte House, Restoration & Management Melrose House Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners Tropman & Tropman Architects
Given to Waverly Council in 1948 undertaken in 1981, 1983 and 2014 Melrose House was designed the foundations and by stitching after lobbying by the Institute, – the latter after the expiry of a 25 by architect Byera Hadley in cracks in the brickwork. Bronte House and its landscaped year lease. A skilled gardener has the late 1890s as substantial grounds have been progressively maintained the significant garden out of town residence, before Former ‘modernisation’ works conserved and guided by a now during recent construction works. becoming amalgamated into had removed details and over- revised Conservation Management a commercial enterprise called sheeted interior walls. Guided by Plan. It is a rare surviving late Works to the villa included Grantham Poultry Stud. After a Conservation Management Plan, Colonial period Regency style replacement of the slate roofing WW1 it became a model poultry Tropman & Tropman carefully villa, built in c.1845 for Robert and (including substantial white ant farm, Grantham Estate, for removed the intrusive linings and Georgiana Lowe and designed by repairs to the roof frame) and all training returned soldiers. The recovered and restored joinery Colonial Architect, Mortimer Lewis. of the unpainted timber fencing, state heritage listed property at discovered in the process. The as well as complete exterior and Seven Hills is now public parkland, major rooms have been conserved, In an innovative management interior repairs and repainting owned by Blacktown City Council. including the original kauri pine arrangement it has been leased using traditional lime wash. Sub- The development and restoration floor, hardware, joinery, ceilings, as a residence, thus restoring its soil drainage and adjustment brief was for rental for community marble fireplaces and pressed original use. Lease conditions of ground levels adjacent to purposes, with a preference for paper dados all carefully repaired require the place to be open the building, an overhaul of art galleries or restaurant facilities by skilled craftspeople. The fire to the public occasionally, and door and window joinery and to suit a variety of users. damaged ceiling of ‘The Nursery’ tenant alterations are controlled hardware, repair of tessellated was revealed and its lining with by requirements for owners’ tiling, renewal of top courses on Melrose House is a grand children’s wall paper preserved. The consent and the development stone chimneys and repairs to the polychrome brick residence, but external crossed timber verandah application process. A cyclic dining room bay window joinery had suffered extensive damage railing was reconstructed based maintenance schedule and council were also undertaken; all using caused by the reactive clay on photographs. The brick beehive inspections also ensure ongoing skilled craftsmen and traditional soils. Structural stabilisation well was repaired and reused, and management of key elements methods. These works have was achieved without invasive the grounds and circular driveway such as roofs and drainage. Major prepared the property for a new engineering by the use of a plastic have also been restored. external conservation works were long-term ‘repairing lease’. ‘skirt’ to stabilise the soil adjacent 58 AWARD FOR ENDURING ARCHITECTURE
Photography: Jean Rice Buhrich House II Hugh Buhrich
59 AWARD FOR ENDURING ARCHITECTURE
This exquisite house at forming a delightful interplay of Established 2003 Castlecrag is a seminal work of light and landscape. Following on from similar awards in America, England and New Zealand, the 25 Hugh and Eva Buhrich. Year Award was renamed the Award for Enduring Architecture with past winners The design directly expresses including the Sydney Opera House. Trained in Germany, they arrived its materials: concrete with as refugees in Australia in 1939, carefully chosen aggregates, the but it was 1948 before they cantilevered spiral stair, warm PROJECT TEAM completed their first home in timbers, rich rockface sandstone, Practice Team: Castlecrag. This second family plywood and leather chairs, the Hugh Buhrich home, tucked into the sandstone red moulded fibreglass bathroom Project Architect cliff face at Sugarloaf Point, was and a wall tapestry made by Clive Buhrich designed and built by Hugh from Hugh. Minor alterations are Project Architect: 1968 to 1972. He lived here until respectful and complementary. Stage 2 alterations his death in 2004 and family Experiencing this home in its members still live in this, now setting is a unique pleasure - full internationally recognised, house. of light and warmth, joy, and beauty. It is a complete design, meticulously detailed from structure to furniture, as shown in drawings held by the State Library of NSW. Uncompromisingly modern, with extraordinary floating concrete panels and cantilevers, this house has a handmade quality displaying a consummate mastery of, and love for, materials and the site.
The small, modest house feels spacious and expansive, inviting the landscape inside. The design pushed structural limits with concrete seeming to defy gravity. The simple north-east edge of glass sliding doors is dramatised by the low sloping ceiling and narrow open balcony perched over the glistening water below. Creativity meets practicality in the wave shaped ceiling of steam bent cedar, reclaiming the space between trusses for the required ceiling heights in the elevated kitchen and dining spaces and
Buhrich House / 375 Edinburgh Rd Castlecrag Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Clive & Neil Buhrich
60 COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE WINNER
50 Martin Place JPW
Photography: Brett Boardman
61 COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE WINNER
50 MARTIN PLACE South Elevation Established 2007 The COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture is given to a project which utilises steel in an innovative and creative manner.
PROJECT TEAM Clive Wilkinson Practice Team: Architects Interior Designer Paul van Ratingen Project Director Arup Acoustic Consultant Matthew Morel Project Associate Acoustic Logic Acoustic Consultant Peter Blome Project Associate Arup Services Consultant Richard Johnson MBM Matteo Salval Cost Consultant Walter Brindle Surface Design Brent Alexander Facade Engineer Mark Rostron NDY Gareth Jenkins Vertical Transportation Natalie Minasian One Group Davide Galli Accessibility Michelle Vassiliou Brendan Murray
Sisi Wang TKDA Yi-Jan Lien Heritage Consultant Tomek Archer Steve Watson & Paolo Strracchi Partners Building Surveyor
Consultant Team: Construction Team: TTW Taylor Thomson Research for the rejuvenation employed both physical while the steel remains Brookfield Multiplex Scale Whitting0 2.5 5 10M of the Beaux-Arts 50 Martin and CAD modelling, and exposed, supporting an 1:500 @ A4 Structural Consultant Builder Place identified a significant documentation incorporated equally crafted glass cladding. BVN Donovan Hill Savills tradition of steel and glass the ASI AESS Guide. The Interior Designer Project Manager domes, confirming steel as arched and domed form A fine and light steel structure an appropriate material in capitalises on the strength of fabricated sections is an which to construct a major of steel, minimising and expressed and celebrated contemporary addition atop efficiently resolving loads. feature of the 50 Martin Place this significant heritage Tri-columns collect groups of rooftop addition, and one building. Steel also offered tapering trapezoidal rafters, of its central and significant visual and structural lightness, transferring the loads to the architectural characteristics. and the potential to celebrate existing structure, whilst the craft of fabrication and eliminating primary and connections. secondary members. Quality control within a fast timeframe A collaborative and holistic was achieved through visual design process produced mock-ups, shop drawing a highly efficient structural workshops, workshop design that uses 30% less fabrication locally and onsite steel than a conventional connections. Intumescent design. The design process protection ensures fire safety 62 COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE COMMENDATION
Photography: Brett Boardman The GPT Group’s Wollongong Central HDR Rice Daubney
Constructed in the home of ease of construction and material Australian steel, it might seem use. It is also the first large scale an obvious choice of material use of a new innovative Low- for the GPT Group’s Wollongong Glare Coated (LGC) deckform, Central, but the pressure to get which reduces visual and it right is perhaps greater than orientation impairment caused if constructed elsewhere. From by glare, and reduces heat and its use of steel decking to aid UV radiation, mading it safer and in speed of construction to the more comfortable for workers on animated ‘iron-oxide’ finished site. blades of the Keira Street facade, steel has allowed for an Notched steel blades create a impressive structure to be placed highly animated facade which on what was a difficult building changes depending on the angle site in terms of materials access of approach. This streetscape of and public interaction. jagged forms is evocative of the Illawarra escarpment, becoming Almost all of the steel used in all more open and transparent its various form comes from the as visitors are drawn into the nearby Port Kembla steelworks. internal streets within. This is an This accomplishment is testament exemplary project that recognises of the close collaboration the integral role of shopping and partnership between the centres to urban life and the architects and design team, importance of being connected construction team and supplier. to place and city. This project relied on composite steel formwork to save on time,
63 BLACKET PRIZE
Established 1984 This Prize was introduced specifically for buildings erected in country New South Wales and was named for the 19th century architect Edmund Blacket whose picturesque Gothic Revival style churches can still be found in many country towns.
PROJECT TEAM Judith Fritsch and Practice Team: Luke Wolstencroft - GAO Cathy Kubany Landscape Project Architect Consultant Dillon Kombumerrie Christy Barnes - Program Manager GAO Michael Mossman Interior Designer Community Liaison Stephen Wardrop - Tasuli Gango Housing NSW Architecture Team Cost Consultant Teresa Mack Consultant Team: Kitchen Consultant Darko Lafciski - Sean Moore - MBC GAO BCA Consultant Structural Consultant Construction Team: George Sabbouh - Boulus GAO Constructions, Electrical Consultant Armidale San Mai - GAO Builder Mechanical Lance Bright - Photography: Brett Boardman Consultant Housing NSW, NSW Aboriginal Child and Family Centre Gunnedah Christine Tamworth Scantlebury - GAO Project Manager NSW Government Architect’s Office Hydraulic Consultant
This project is an example of There is an innate and familiar materials palette how thoughtful architecture understanding in this project to more than the sum of its can have a meaningful that the care and education parts. impact beyond its build form. of our children should be The Aboriginal Child and safe and responsible, but also In line with the building’s Family Centre in Gunnedah varied and fun. This need for social consciousness is its offers much more than just adventure, exploration and consideration of climate and a place for the safe care of outdoor stimulation is evident sensitivity to the environment. its community’s children. Its throughout the building and The architects’ understanding brief addresses the broader in its interactions with the of and response to climate needs of the local community, landscape and wider context. informs the orientation and indigenous cultural issues and planning of the building, and environmental sustainability, The building is simple adds texture and richness to including providing local and modest, befitting its its elevations. indigenous employment location in a low density opportunities and skills residential area. The careful The Aboriginal Child and development, all within a selection and use of materials Family Centre Gunnedah is a genuinely modest budget. demonstrates how sensitive worthy winner of this year’s design can elevate a simple Blacket Prize. 64 NSW PREMIER’S PRIZE
Established 1997 This Prize is awarded by the NSW Premier from a shortlist of projects selected by the NSW Government Architect which are of benefit to the people of NSW - whether they be educational, cultural, transport or accommodation facilities.
PROJECT TEAM Ecological Practice Team: Environmental Consultant Luke Johnson Rider Levett Peter Monckton Bucknall, Luke Benson Abrahams Sardelich Rebecca Heald Cost Consultant Nicola Bertrand Johnstaff, Jessica Tan and Alex Nicholas Elias Belcastro Gioia Murray Programming John Morris Consultant Bradley Le NDY, Ian Hanna Lift Consultant Kathy Roberts ACOR, Gordon Anne Lucas Newel Fire Consultant Consultant Team: Rider Levett Health Infrastructure Bucknall, Luke NSW, Troy Harvey Sardelich Developer Quantity Surveyor Photography: Michael Nicholson Taylor Thomson McKenzie Group, Whitting, Paul Vanessa Batty Yannoulatos Building Surveyor Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre Civil Consultant HASSELL Norman Disney& Construction Team: Young, Shane Lipman, David Blazley The Shoalhaven Cancer Care With only a modest budget, to modulate the internal Moffat, Aaron Curtis Electrical Consultant Builder Centre (SCCC) establishes the project seeks to provide environment including heating, AECOM, David a new model of care for the humanity, dignity and the cooling and sunlight. Johnstaff, Alex O’Neil Belcastro, Jessica treatment of cancer patients best quality care available for Mechanical Tan through a suite of buildings clients, carers and staff. This project is commended Consultant Project Manager combining clinical care for its contemporary ‘patient ACOR, Mike Smith Health Infrastructure within a relaxed, informal The Centre engages with the focussed’ design philosophy, Hydraulic NSW environment. The new centre landscape to create a positive resulting in greater comfort in Consultant Developer combines a day facility healing environment. The a less stressful environment. NDY, Gariel Cheung SESIAHS(South East cancer centre with patient building and its individual Lighting Consultant Sydney Illawarra and carer accommodation. treatment and consultation NDY, Renzo Arango Area Heath Service) Based on the philosophy spaces are sited to take Acoustic Consultant Owner that the quality of the patient advantage of the views, environment, including providing distraction and access to natural light and respite to patients and staff. a connection with nature, Facilities are designed to have a direct correlation operate and adjust to both with patient recovery, there high and low occupancy, is an ‘Architecture of Hope’ and sensible passive design embodied in the design. measures are incorporated 65 CITY OF SYDNEY LORD MAYOR’S PRIZE
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.
PROJECT TEAM JBA Urban Planning Practice team: Planner Neil Durbach Steve Watson & Design Director Partners PCA & BCA Camilla Block Design Director Morris Goding Accessibility David Jaggers Consulting Design Director Accessibility Stefan Heim Consultant Practice Director Lymesmith Paul Pannell Polychromy Practice Director Colour Consultant Abbie Galvin Taylor Thomson Principal Whiting Structural Erin Field Consultant Deborah Hodge Steensen Varming Electrical Consultant Sarah Kirkham Steensen Varming Xiaoxiao Cai Mechanical Alex Holman Consultant
Photography: Darren Bradley Elena Bonanni Arup Kristin Neise Hydraulic Consultant Erika Halim Aspect Studios UTS Science Faculty, Building 7 Landscape Durbach Block Jaggers Architects & BVN Architecture Manny Prouzos Consultant Ian James Steensen Varming Michael Janeke Lighting Consultant The 2015 winner of the Lord Mayor’s The Science building’s curved Reflected light and colour charge Benjamin Chew Davis Langdon/ Prize is the University of Technology and billowing façade softens its these spaces with mystery and Laura Robinson Aecom Cost might. Consultant Sydney, through the integration of appearance and maximises natural Valentine Steisel a number of public domain works light to the public space. including Alumni Green with the The building achieves a harmony Construction Team: Consultant Team: UTS Science Faculty, Building 7, by Over-scaled volumes, canting walls, with the adjacent green space. Richard Crookes Durbach Block Jaggers Architects strategic skylights and reflective It has a 5 Star Green rating and Surface Design & Constructions Kingston Building and BVN Architecture. surfaces all open up the building, includes innovative air-conditioning, Builder Group and light the route from the Alumni a green roof providing insulation, Facade Consultant Savills Project As part of a strong urban master Green colonnade to the student and uses a high amount of recycled Management Arup Project Manager plan for the campus, the UTS spaces below ground. materials. Fire Consultant Science Faculty Building 7 weaves Steensen Varming together the built form needed The building contains a range of UTS occupies a unique space as Greenstar & ESD by students and teachers with the specialist research facilities, clinical a university immersed in a city- open space of the Alumni Green teaching spaces and Australia’s centre landscape. As this building and surrounding streetscape. The largest undergraduate science and those surrounding it evolve university is unique in being spread teaching space - a two-hundred and grow, there will be continued across public streets, and has seat Super Lab. These purposeful opportunities to improve the public brought quality architecture to a spaces are well connected above domain and create a noteworthy strong guiding master plan. and below ground to student open space for students, visitors commons and meeting spaces. and Sydneysiders alike. 66 IALD LIGHTING PRIZE SPONSORED BY ERCO
Established 2015 Awarded for excellence and innovation in lighting the built environment, this Prize is supported by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and promotes collaboration between architects and lighting designers.
PROJECT TEAM David Hart Practice Team: Scott Gould Stephen Auld Tony Rastrick Project Architect
Susanne Pini Consultant Team: Design Architect Electrolight Kylie Soltani Lighting Consultant Ciaran Durney Enstruct Stefano Cottini Structural Hugh Irving Consultant Sandra Stewart JMD Design Landscape John Peachey Consultant Lionel Kettler Hyder Stephan Langella Services Consultant Graham Reynolds Simon Grimes Construction Team: Photography: Rohan Venn Robert Byrne Hansen Yuncken Builder The GPT Group’s Wollongong Central Jason Roberts HDR Rice Daubney and Electrolight Graham Steer
In this large commercial been strategically locating glare of similar commercial building, lighting has been within architectural details to spaces. used with great skill to assist illuminate form and not just with the creation of a diversity the floor. The choice of lighting is of spaces and scales both considerate of both budget intimate and grand. Deviating The use of linear light and long term maintenance from prescribed solutions, the sources in the central mall and operation, with a 100% lighting strategy displays a area effectively speaks the LED lighting solution and the detailed coordination between language of the architecture, use of sensors and switching light and architecture, and whilst delivering a shifting arrangements to maximise the both natural and artificial light level throughout the use of natural daylight and lighting is used to enhance the day that teeters on the verge minimise usage after hours. building’s complex materiality of not quite enough and the and structure. In an evolving perfect amount. The success of this project’s interior space, unique lighting lighting strategy is owed to solutions have been created By night, subtle lighting a collective vision born out for individual areas whilst details integrated into the of effective collaboration maintaining a consistent external facade sing as between lighting and language throughout. a major element of the architectural design teams, architectural statement, and and is a worthy winner of the Conventional downlighting thoughtful internal lighting inaugural IALD Lighting Prize. has been minimised and choices emit a welcoming instead luminaries have glow; a contrast to the usual 67 EMERGING ARCHITECT PRIZE NSW PRESIDENT’S PRIZE SPONSORED BY AWS
In addition to undertaking a demonstrating a commitment Masters in Architecture and to the professional development Urban Design at the Columbia of the next generation of Graduate School in New York, architects; a knowledge that is Helen has won a number of critical to the effectiveness of the travelling scholarships and profession as it evolves into the fellowships, including most future. Brendan has also actively recently at the Graduate School engaged with the NSW and of Design at Harvard University. ACT Chapters both as a SONA These have enabled her to representative and a member assess which characteristics of several chapter committees of exemplary international including DARCH and the Large projects could be of benefit Practice Committee. Helen Lochhead to Australia, in particular how Brendan Murray cities are dealing with issues Brendan’s activities within JPW Architect and of sustainability and climate JPW have clearly enhanced both the Urbanist change. individual and the practice. The Brendan Murray is the recipient jury noted that his pursuit of The President’s Prize this year Helen has consistently of the 2015 NSW Emerging such activities and recognition acknowledges an individual maintained a high profile in the Architect Prize. Brendan of his practice whilst working who has made a long term profession. She has served on demonstrates a well-rounded in large-practice, showed a and substantial contribution competition juries, design panels and sophisticated professional true drive and commitment to to public architecture, and the and now holds the position of approach, evidenced through development of the profession. design of the landscape and Deputy Government Architect his successful participation and Brendan Murray is a fine example urban environments across NSW. and Adjunct Professor at the leadership of a range of projects of professionalism and a fitting Deputy Government Architect, University of Sydney. She is within the practice of Johnson recipient of the 2015 NSW educator, mentor, National recognised as a champion not Pilton Walker, where he has Emerging Architect Prize. Councilor, research leader, critical only of women architects but practiced for the past 10 years. thinker and collaborator, Helen also of quiet achievers, and acts Of note, the award winning Lochhead is recognized for her as an informal mentor to her National Worker’s Memorial in Established 2011 selfless dedication to design younger colleagues. Canberra, Audi Headquarters This prize recognises an emerging quality; a goal she pursues with and White Bay Cruise Terminal architect or architectural an extraordinary focus. This and earlier awards from the in Sydney display Brendan’s collaboration’s contribution to Institute, the Australian Institute versatility, executing projects architectural practice, education, Through her roles with the of Landscape Architects and the of commemorative, commercial design excellence and community Sydney Cove Authority (later National Association of Women and cultural importance at involvement that advances the profession’s standing in the public SHFA), Sydney City Council, in Construction, recognise her a recognized standard of arena. the Olympic Co-ordination role as a leader and a visionary; excellence. Beyond design Authority and more recently a tireless campaigner for the excellence, these projects with the Government Architect’s conscious design of quality and have been delivered against Office, Helen Lochhead has been sustainable urban environments. a background of diverse and involved with master planning NSW is certainly a better place complex procurement methods, town centres, institutional and for Helen’s work. further adding to Brendan’s education precincts, new high professional knowledge. density residential precincts and Olympic Park. Helen believes Established 1984 Brendan has returned this that all levels of government This prize is awarded at the discretion knowledge to the profession should lead by example, and of the NSW Chapter President and is through his various roles as a consistently promotes design given to an individual who has made tutor in professional practice excellence to clients who may a substantial contribution to the subjects at the University not always see the value of good profession of architecture. of Technology, Sydney, design.
68 ADRIAN ASHTON PRIZE FOR MARION MAHONY GRIFFIN PRIZE SPONSORED BY SPONSORED BY BESPOKE WRITING AND CRITICISM BATES SMART
contribution to the profession In raising the issue of gender has had a significant influence equity within the profession, on both the practice and in 2014 Parlour launched the discourse of architecture. She ‘Parlour Guides to Equitable has been continuously active Practice’ at the National in promoting architecture to a Architecture Conference in Perth, wider audience and has through in association with the Australian many different forums shown her Institute of Architects and ability to build dialogue among researchers from the University different constituencies. As an of Melbourne and University of editor Justine has demonstrated Queensland. Parlour continues strong support for emerging to build its program of advocacy contributors and architectural through on-going research, on- Justine Clark practices; as well as seeking Parlour line surveys and new initiatives. to give voice and advocate for Architectural editor, social justice and gender equity Since its launch in 2012 at the Parlour is many people, but writer and critic issues. The jury specifically National Architecture Conference it requires the energy and acknowledged the personal in Brisbane, Parlour has been a dedication of a particular few. In The jury were unanimous in sacrifice and drive required for relentless and rigorous advocate awarding the 2015 Adrian Ashton awarding Justine Clark the Justine to sustain her ongoing for gender equity within the Award for Architecture in the 2015 Marion Mahony Griffin involvement with national profession of architecture. Media to Parlour, we honour the Prize. Justine is an independent feminist initiatives in the practice work of Justine Clark, as curator architectural editor, writer, and profession of architecture, as Based in the successful research and editor, with support from researcher, curator and an independent contributor to a project ‘Equity and Diversity co-editors Naomi Stead, Karen convener. She graduated in collaborative research team. in the Australian Architecture Burns, Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, Julie Architecture from the University Profession: Women, Work and Willis, Amanda Roan and Gill of Auckland and has a Masters Leadership’ (2011–2014), the Matthewson. of Architecture (by research) Established 1998 Parlour organisation is much from the Victoria University of Named for the pioneering woman more than just a website. It has Wellington. Amongst various architect, Marion Mahony Griffin, this filled a gap in our architectural Estabished 1986 current roles Justine is the editor prize was established to acknowledge culture that most in the This prize was first introduced in a distinctive body of work by a female 1986 as a biennial award, but is now of the website Parlour: women, architect, be it for their contribution profession did not even realise equity, and architecture; is a existed. awarded yearly. Adrian Ashton was to: architectural education; journalism; a past president of the Institute and senior research fellow at the research; theory; professional practice; founding member of the National University of Melbourne and or built architectural work. Collecting hard data, collating Trust in NSW; however, it is his role as is a member of the Victorian original research, and curating the first editor of the NSW Chapter’s Design Review Panel. Justine a culture of discussion, Parlour ‘Architecture Bulletin’ that this prize was also an active member in has assembled an exemplary commemorates. the ARC research project ‘Equity database. In the fine tradition of and Diversity in the Australian open source, Parlour is sharing Architecture Profession: Women, its knowledge and findings Work and Leadership (2011– with anyone who will listen. The 2014)’ and is a former editor of influence of Parlour stretches Architecture Australia where her beyond the architecture work encompassed the curating, profession, as it has become commissioning and production a model for gender equity of 66 issues. discussions and research around the world. Parlour is in fact the Justine shares many personal benchmark, which others are qualities with this prize’s now trying to emulate. namesake. Her ongoing participation and ever-evolving
69 DAVID LINDNER PRIZE
Andrew Daly and Kevin Liu TYP-TOP Architecture
The David Lindner Prize aims will explore options for design to encourage new research on and development that enables architecture in the public realm. such industrial and historical It is awarded to an emerging sites to co- exist, by seeking architect in honour of the late hybridization and multiple use David Lindner, and recognises over the simplicity and uniformity submissions that generate ideas which so often pervades large for solving real challenges facing scale residential developments. our cities, and which contribute to the profession as well as the The project will run as an in- broader community. office project at TYP-TOP Architecture and will also engage The jury is pleased to announce more broadly with university that the 2015 David Lindner Prize students via a working design has been awarded to Andrew studio. Daly and Kevin Liu of TYP- TOP Architecture for their joint The proposal will be featured in submission entitled ‘Something both an exhibition and talk later Fishy: Sydney’s Fish Markets & in the year, and outcomes of this Towards a Model of a Productive research (submitted January Hybrid City’. 2015) will be published in the NSW Architecture Bulletin. The proposal is seen as a direct reaction to ongoing trends in Sydney’s development where Established 2013 significant historical and This prize is named in memory of industrial sites are under pressure the architect David Lindner who due to increasing land values disappeared whilst travelling in Iran in and prime waterfront locations. 1997. Initiated by David Lindner’s family Using the Sydney Fish Markets as a means to honour his memory, this prize aims to encourage emerging as an exemplar, the research architects to contribute to the growth, innovation and development of architectural design and theory.
70 2015 NEW SOUTH WALES GRADUATE & STUDENT AWARDS
Awarded to the most outstanding Graduate from the Masters program The 2015 NSW Graduate and MASTERS GRADUATE of each NSW School of Architecture. Student Awards winners were OF THE YEAR announced by the Australian Philippa Marston University of New South Wales Institute of Architects NSW SPONSORED BY Noel Yaxley University of Newcastle Chapter on Friday 29 May. CRONE PARTNERS Jennifer McMaster University of Sydney The jury for this year’s Awards AND FJMT Michael Ford University of Technology Sydney comprised
Alex Kibble, Tanner Kibble FIRST DEGREE Awarded to the most outstanding student graduating from the first Denton Architects (Jury Chair) BACHELOR GRADUATE degree Bachelor program of each NSW School of Architecture. Michael Wiener, Mirvac Design OF THE YEAR Nailah Masagos University of New South Wales Jake Kellow University of Newcastle Kathlyn Loseby, Turner. SPONSORED BY Sukrit Sukasam University of Sydney CRONE PARTNERS Lucas MacMillan University of Technology Sydney AND FJMT Shaun Carter, NSW Chapter President/Carterwilliamson Architects CONSTRUCTION AND Awarded to the student who receives the highest aggregate marks Dr Alexandra Brown, Griffith in the discipline areas of Construction and Practice of each NSW University PRACTICE School of Architecture. Menglan Li University of New South Wales Matthew Allen, Bates Smart SPONSORED BY LEND LEASE DESIGN Rebecca Evans University of Newcastle Karl Dela Torre University of Sydney Graham Jones, Lend Lease Jeffrey Baikie University of Technology Sydney Peter Macdonald, Arup HISTORY AND THEORY Awarded to the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the disciplines of History and Theory of each NSW School of Architecture. Sarah Sim University of New South Wales Timothy Burke University of Newcastle Rida Khan University of Sydney Adrian Taylor University of Technology Sydney
71 2015 NEW SOUTH WALES GRADUATE & STUDENT AWARDS NSW DESIGN NSW FIRST DEGREE MEDAL DESIGN AWARD SPONSORED BY MIRVAC DESIGN SPONSORED BY BATES SMART
Museum Of Architecture|Utzon Archive Tidal Jennifer McMaster & Jonathon Donnelly Alexander Galego University of Sydney University of New South Wales
The Museum of Architecture and and base walls and enclosure, This project proposes an A beautifully crafted sectional Utzon Archive is an accomplished all covered by a translucent inhabited bridge at South timber model demonstrates response to a complex veil that result in an open and West Rocks back beach. Its an understanding of timber architectural brief that presents approachable public building. primary function as a local construction detailing architecture as both content The siting and entry to the pedestrian link is enhanced by and of Juhani Pallasmaa’s and artefact. It is a project that building along the Ultimo Goods the addition of carefully selected ecological functionalist view engages with the public through Line enhances the public nature supplementary uses including a of architecture. The project is its urban responsiveness and of the new museum and would café, pool and amenities. clearly designed to respond to through the clarity of organisation provide a positive influence to the the local environment and to and idea. development of this significant The scheme is conceived as a enhance the human experience. urban renewal project. series of distinct programmatic Conceptually, the new gallery moments along an architectural The jury was particularly spaces present a clear diagram The jury was impressed that promenade. In a careful impressed to see a complex of organisation that allows the this team of Jennifer McMaster exploration of the experiential sequence of architectural spaces visitor to appreciate the work of and Jonathan Donnelly, through qualities of architecture, the integrated into such a seemingly Jørn Utzon through the collection working together, have produced project goes beyond the status simple structure. The project and display of the archive a work with great clarity that quo to develop a series of demonstrates an understanding material held in separate NSW is more than just a conceptual unique spaces which can be of architecture which is greater archives, and through the physical framework. It is an impressive occupied in different ways. Each than the sum of its parts. representation of his ideas in the work which avoids a simplistic space explores different levels Structure, form, program and building itself. approach that just uses a collage of enclosure, offering spaces of spatial experience have been of Utzon’s motifs, but rather refuge and others of complete integrated into a proposal of The concept expresses powerful generates a building that has its exposure to wind and sun. subtle elegance. architectural ideas of podium own unique identity. 72 2015 NEW SOUTH WALES GRADUATE & STUDENT AWARDS NSW FIRST DEGREE STRUCTURAL INNOVATION DIGITAL INNOVATION IN DESIGN AWARD IN ARCHITECTURE AWARD ARCHITECTURE AWARD SPONSORED BY BATES SMART SPONSORED BY TURNER.
Triaxial Pavilion Field Embassy Max Hu, Harry Henshaw-Hill & Hongkai Yuan Victor Martinez-Contreras University of Sydney University of Technology, Sydney
The Triaxial Pavilion is a techniques. The next step is via a With the possible exception of idea, Victor has utilized a variety of modular structure created number of digital tools where the parliament houses, few building digital tools, each chosen carefully by the combination of three final structure is parametrically typologies are so imbued with as part of a rigorous exploration hyperbolic shapes. The structure form-found using software the evocation of cultural spirit of the possibilities that live within makes use of a pure structurally including Weaverbird, Karamba, (both as evidenced in the past the brief’s inherent contradictions. efficient form to generate an Grasshopper and Rhinoceros. and projected into the future) The brief is interpreted through a interesting, practical and modular The final step was the creation as the modern embassy. It is a conceptual gradation of electric architectural form. The structure of a large scale plywood model building type inherently fusing fields (representative of layers could be used to create shade of the shapes joined together to the intangible with the pragmatic, of high security) interacting with and interest in parks and other form the pavilion. the conceptual with the prosaic magnetic fields (signifying public public meeting places. and the future with the past. The spaces and functions). Interactions The design process is interesting contemporary embassy must represented as metadata become The proposal is innovative in as there has been innovation at provide a framework for the the genesis of form within Rhino its journey to create the final each stage of the process. That machinations of diplomacy, cultural software. 3d printing facilitates a structure. The team started by is, the design has evolved as a interaction and commerce. It must process of analysis, interpretation, investigating structural forms result of each of the steps to project a confident, welcoming, modulation and iteration, which with physical models, stretching the final structure. Even in the open countenance while being one lead to refinement in the tectonics fabric to create a variety of final stage the team introduced of the most overtly and covertly of the eventual building form. The hyper shapes. After selecting a a ribbed construction with gaps secure environments possible. By final digital presentation illustrates preferred shape the team then in the fabric to play with the its very nature it must be many a clear relationship between the constructed a full-size model introduction of light to the form. things to many people. built form and its generative of the shape, experimenting electromagnetic fields. with materials and construction In coalescing this inherent complexity into a clear conceptual 73 ENTRIES PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
1 8 Bankstown Library and St Barnabas Church Knowledge Centre Francis-Jones Morehen Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Thorp (fjmt) Image: John Gollings Image: Christian Mushenko
9 2 Sydney Adventist 1 2 Coffs Harbour Justice Hospital : LW Clark Precinct Tower PTW Architects MBMO architects Image: Adrian Boddy Image: Brett Boardman
3 10 Ettalong Café University of Technology CKDS Architecture (UTS) Haberfield 3 4 Rowing Club Image: Damien Furey HASSELL Image: Brett Boardman 4 Lemur Forest Adventure 11 Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Westmead Millennium Institute Image: Brett Boardman BVN 5 6 Image: John Gollings 5 MA Noble, Don Bradman and Dally Messenger Stands COX Architecture Image: Hamilton Lunnd
7 8 6 Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre HASSELL Image: Mike Chorley
7 South West Rail Link 9 10 - Edmondson Park / Leppington Station HASSELL in association with GHD Image: Simon Wood
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1 8 15 Brigidine College St Ives NSW Aboriginal Child UWS College New - Anita Murray Centre and Family Centre Educational Facility for Performing Arts and Gunnedah BKA Architecture Sciences NSW Government Image: Brett Boardman Fulton Trotter Architect’s Office Architects Image: Brett Boardman Image: Justin Mackintosh 16 1 2 3 Wallace Wurth 9 Redevelopment 2 O’Regan Arts & Cultural Lahz Nimmo Architects Cameraygal (formerly Common and Wilson Architects in Dunbar building) Brewster Hjorth Association NSW Government Architects Image: Brett Boardman Architect’s Office Image: Tyrone Branigan Image: Simon Whitbread
10 4 5 6 3 Sister Marie Centre Camperdown Childcare Schreiber Hamilton CO-AP (Architects) Architecture Image: Ross Honeysett Image: Murray McKean
4 11 Charles Perkins Centre Sustainable Buildings Research Centre Francis-Jones Morehen 7 8 Thorp (fjmt) + Building (SBRC) - University of Studio (architects in Wollongong association) COX Richardson Image: John Gollings Image: John Gollings
5 12 Childrens Medical UNE Tablelands Clinical Research Institute School Building 9 10 Redevelopment Stage 1 James Cubitt Architects Conrad Gargett Ancher Image: Roger D’Souza Mortlock Woolley Image: Brett Boardman 13 University of Western 6 Sydney Kingswood Nan Tien Institute and Campus Library Cultural Centre Allen Jack+Cottier 13 Woods Bagot Image: Michael Nicholson 11 12 Image: Peter Bennetts
14 7 UTS Science Faculty, Biomedical Sciences Building 7 Office Accomodation Durbach Block Jaggers Woods Bagot Architects & BVN Image: Peter Bennetts Architecture Image: Peter Bennetts 14 15 16
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1 7 1 Chatswood Transport Wollongong City Centre 50 Martin Place Interchange and Crown Street Mall JPW Renewal COX Richardson and Image: Peter Bennetts DesignInc Joint Venture NSW Government Image: John Gollings Architect’s Office Image: Ian Hobbs 2 Australia Post StarTrack 2 House – Sydney 1 2 Llankelly Place Lights Carr Architecture McGregor Westlake Image: Earl Carter Architecture in association with Conybeare Morrison 3 Image: Kyal Sheehan Club Maitland City Terroir 3 Image: Brett Boardman 1 2 3 4 Sydney Light Rail HASSELL 4 Image: HASSELL / East Village Transport for NSW Turner Image: Tom Ferguson 4 Tamarama Kiosk and Beach Amenities 5 3 5 Lahz Nimmo Architects Irving Street Brewery Image: Brett Boardman Tzannes Associates Image: John Gollings
5 The GPT Group’s 6 Wollongong Central Riverside Park Office HDR Rice Daubney Tower Image: Simon Grimes dwp | suters 4 5 Image: Richard Glover 6
6 UNSW Biomedical 7 Sciences Precinct, Sydney Adventist Hospital: (Lowy Cancer Research Multi Deck Car Park Centre, Redevelopment MBMO Architects of Michael Birt Gardens, Image: Brett Boardman and Wallace Wurth Building for UNSW 6 7 7 Medicine) 8 Lahz Nimmo Architects The GPT Group’s in association with Wollongong Central Wilson Architects Image: Brett Boardman HDR Rice Daubney Image: Brett Boardman
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1 8 16 ANZ Tower Foyer HASSELL Sydney Studio The Man Cave Francis-Jones Morehen HASSELL Allen Jack+Cottier Thorp (fjmt) Image: Nicole Engald Image: Allen Jack+Cottier Image: John Gollings
9 17 2 International Lodge The Professor Marie Archie Rose Distilling Apartment Bashir Centre 1 2 3 Co. Ian Moore Architects Peckvonhartel and Acme & Co. Image: Iain D. MacKenzie Silver Thomas Hanley Image: Murray Fredericks Image: Tyrone Branigan
10 3 Qantas Campus 18 Artbank HASSELL University of Western Sydney Kingswood Aileen Sage Architects Image: Nicole England Campus Library Image: Tom Ferguson 4 5 6 7 Allen Jack+Cottier 11 Image: Michael Nicholson 4 St Barnabas Church Balmoral House Francis-Jones Morehen 19 Interiors Thorp (fjmt) Wallace Wurth Clinton Murray + Polly Image: John Gollings Harbison + Ralph Redevelopment Rembel Lahz Nimmo Architects Image: Brett Boardman 12 and Wilson Architects in 8 9 10 STUDIO Association Image: Brett Boardman 5 Allen Jack+Cottier Image: AJ+C Photography Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre Francis-Jones Morehen 13 Thorp (fjmt) Sydney Adventist Image: Christian Mushenko Hospital: LW Clark Tower Interiors 11 12 13
6 MBMO architects Image: Brett Boardman Cameraygal (formerly Dunbar building) NSW Government 14 Architect’s Office The GPT Group’s Image: Simon Whitbread Wollongong Central HDR Rice Daubney 7 Image: Brett Boardman 14 15 16 Charles Perkins Centre Francis-Jones Morehen 15 Thorp (fjmt) + Building The Horizon Apartment Studio (architects in association) Maria Danos with MA Image: John Gollings Architects Image: Shannon McGrath
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1 9 17 Alexandria Courtyard Garden House Light House House Tzannes Associates Peter Stutchbury Matthew Pullinger Image: Michael Nicholson Architecture Architect Image: Peter Stutchbury Image: Brett Boardman 10 General Manager’s 18 2 Residence Lighthouse B 1 2 3 Balmoral House Chrofi Beach Architects Clinton Murray + Polly Image: Brett Boardman Image: David Taylor Harbison Image: Brett Boardman 11 19 Greenwich House Naremburn House 3 Barbara Bagot Bijl Architecture Block House Pearl Architecture Image: Katherine Lu Beach Image: Richard Wearne 4 5 6 Porebski Architects Image: Connor Quinn 20 12 Ned’s Beachouse Griffin House 4 EDH Group David Selden Design Image: David Maltby Chilworth-Bush-House Image: Sharrin Rees D+C Consortium Image: Siva 21 Thanabalasingham 7 8 9 13 Nikki Maloneys High Country House Drew Heath Architects 5 Luigi Rosselli Architects Image: Owen Zhu Cliffbrook House Image: Edward Birch
Rolf Ockert Design 22 Image: Rolf Ockert 14 Pacific House House Bellevue Hill Casey Brown 6 MASQ architecture Architecture 10 11 12 Cooper Park House Image: Alan Smuskowitz Image: Carly Martin Tobias Partners Image: Justin Alexander 15 23 House for Bob and Seaforth House 7 Susan Sandberg Schoffel Courtyard House Austin McFarland Architects Architects Image: Michael Sandberg Aileen Sage Architects Image: Alec M Hamilton Image: Tom Ferguson 13 14
16 8 Hunter Valley Cronulla House Farmhouse Reg Lark Architect Schreiber Hamilton Image: DL Photography Architecture Image: Murray McKean
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1 9 17 Barrenjoey House Inner City Warehouse Pigeon Shed Casey Brown Allen Jack+Cottier MCK Architects Architecture Image: Castle+Beatty Image: Jeffrey Simpson Image: Simon Whitbread
10 18 2 Kensington House Roseville Residence 1 2 3 Bellevue Hill Residence Virginia Kerridge nkt architecture Tzannes Associates Architect Image: Rowan Turner Image: Michael Nicholson Image: Michael Nicholson
19 3 11 Salgo Kitching House Byron Hinterland Little Reef House Sam Crawford Residence Richard Cole Architects Tzannes Associates Architecture Image: Brett Boardman and Bosanquet Foley Image: Simon Wood 4 5 6 Architects Image: Saul Goodwin 20 12 Spiegel Haus Loggia in Arcadia 4 Carterwilliamson Luigi Rosselli Architects Architects Courtyard House St Image: Edward Birch Image: Brett Boardman Peters Reg Lark Architect Image: DL Photography 13 21 7 8 9 Mirimar House Tempe House
5 Rolf Ockert Design Eoghan Lewis Image: Sharrin Rees Architects Darlinghurst Rooftop Image: Roger D’Souza CO-AP (Architects) Image: Ross Honeysett 14 Mosman House 22 Alexander & CO. Walter Street Terrace 6 10 11 Image: Murray Fredericks David Boyle Architect Hopetoun Avenue, Image: Brigid Arnott Vaucluse B.E Architecture 15 Image: Peter Clarke Orama 23 Smart Design Studio Whale Watching House 7 Image: Sharrin Rees Dunn & Hillam Architects House Boone Murray Image: Kilian O’Sullivan Tribe Studio Architects 16 12 13 Image: Peter Bennetts Paddington House PIDCOCK - Architecture 8 + Sustainability Image: Michael Wee Howe Allan House Ian Moore Architects Image: Daniel Mayne
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1 9 18 145 McEvoy Street Finlayson Street The Kensington Turner Candalepas Associates Fox Johnston Image: Tom Ferguson Image: Brett Boardman Image: Katherine Lu/ Brett Boardman
2 10 19 Cargo Lane Terraces Marrickville Apartments The Quay 1 2 3 PBD Architects Candalepas Associates Image: Neil Fielon Image: Brett Boardman WMK Architecture Image: Jerry Wu
3 11 20 Carleton Estate Metro Residences Development Chatswood Viking by Crown Kennedy Associates COX Richardson MHN Design Union Architects Image: John Gollings Image: John Gollings Image: Brett Boardman 4 5 6 7
12 21 4 Park Lane Yandiah CASBA JPW Beattie Co. Billard Leece Image: Brett Boardman Image: Barry Slade Partnership + SJB Architects in association with BKH Interiors 13 8 9 10 11 Image: Brett Boardman Pelican Street Candalepas Associates 5 Image: Brett Boardman DHA Lindfield - Tubbs View + Hamilton Corner 14 Bates Smart Platinum: Light + Images: Brett Boardman Shadow Turner 12 13 14 15 6 Image: Tom Ferguson Dominion Group GSA 15 Image: Tyrone Branigan Polychrome David Boyle Architect 7 Image: Brigid Arnott East Village Turner 16 16 17 18 Image: Tom Ferguson Studios 54 Hill Thalis Architecture + 8 Urban Projects Image: Aaron Murray/ Eton Alexander Rink Stanisic Architects Image: Richard Glover 17 Sydney Central Student 19 20 21 Accommodation Group GSA Image: Tyrone Branigan 82 ENTRIES ENTRIES RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - MULTIPLE HOUSING SMALL PROJECT
1 8 16 A Fine Possession: De-Form Wall Sydney Opera House Jewellery and Identity Bijl Architecture Recording Studio exhibition, Museum Image: Michael Ford Scott Carver of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, NSW Image: Geoff Ambler Christina Carayanides 9 architect and the EN House 17 Museum of Applied Arts Derive Architecture & Telstra Discovery Store 1 2 3 and Sciences, Sydney, Design NSW Crone Partners Image: Alexander Image: Marinco Image: Katherine Lu McIntyre Kojdanovski 18 10 2 Tempe House Horizon Apartment AGL Lakeside Pavilion Eoghan Lewis Stephen Collier Kennedy Associates Architects Architects Architects Image: Roger D’Souza 4 5 6 Image: Peter Bennetts Image: Peter Bennetts 19 11 3 Tent House House Bruce Alexander Alfalfa House Peter Stutchbury Tribe Studio Architects Dunn & Hillam Architecture Architects Image: Katherine Lu Image: Michael Image: Cath Muscat Nicholson 7 8 9 10 12 4 International Lodge 20 Apartment Black River Fitout The Man Cave Ian Moore Architects Wisden Architects Allen Jack+Cottier Image: Iain D. Image: Adrian Boddy Image: Castle+Beatty MacKenzie
5 13 Bresic Whitney, Hunters 11 12 13 Mordeo Bistro and Bar Hill MBMO Architects Chenchow Little Image: Tyrone Branigan Image: Peter Bennetts
14 6 Reformatory Caffeine Coast Totems Laboratory Carterwilliamson Louise Nettleton Architects Architects 14 15 16 17 Image: Brett Boardman Image: Richard Glover
7 15 Copper House Sydney Ferry Wharves Takt | Studio for Group GSA Architecture Image: Brett Boardman Image: Shantanu Starick 18 19 20
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1 6 Bronte House, Cameraygal (formerly Restoration & Dunbar building) Management NSW Government Clive Lucas Stapleton & Architect’s Office Partners Image: Simon Whitbread Image: Eric Sierens
1 7 6 2 Carleton Estate George Street Development Gatehouse - Parramatta Kennedy Associates Park Architects NSW Government Image: Brett Boardman Architect’s Office Image: Rob Tuckwell 8 2 7 8 3 House McBeath Loggia in Arcadia Tribe Studio Architects Image: Katherine Lu Luigi Rosselli Architects Image: Justin Alexander 9 4 Irving Street Brewery The Abbey, Johnston Tzannes Associates Image: John Gollings Street, Annandale 3 9 10 Design 5 - Architects Image: Images for Business 10 Legion House 5 Francis-Jones Morehen Melrose House Thorp (fjmt) Image: John Gollings Tropman & Tropman Architects Image: Tasman Storey 4 11 11 Orama Smart Design Studio Image: Sharrin Rees
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