Queensland’s 2013 Darling Downs Regional Architecture Awards from the Australian Institute of Architects were announced on Friday, 15 March, at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. Twelve projects spanning the region from St George in the west to Springfield in the east were entered in the Awards, the projects include an aquatic centre, a bookshop and a hillside house, among others, entered in commercial, public, residential, small project and interior architecture categories.
The jury awarded four regional commendations and the William Hogden Building of the Year. On the jury were: jury coordinator Stephen Sims (Sims White Architects), Colin Davidson (CKD Architects), Max Brammer (Brammer Architects), Mark Damant (Woods Bagot) and Liam Proberts (bureau^proberts). Awarded projects will progress to the Queensland Architecture Awards, to be announced in Brisbane on 21 June. An exhibition of the entries will be on display at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery until 24 March.