2013 ACT Architecture Awards
Twenty projects were recognized by the Australian Institute of Architects on Saturday 22 June, at the 2013 ACT Architecture Awards. Two major new civic projects were honoured in the centenary year for...
View Article2013 Australia Award for Urban Design
The 2013 Australia Awards for Urban Design (AAUD) were announced on 25 June at a dinner at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.Three projects were voted Australia’s best urban design for 2013: the...
View Article2013 NSW Architecture Awards: Emerging Architect Prize
While the emergence of Andrew Burns has been seemingly rapid and spectacular; this belies a gestation in private practice of some six years and, prior to that, the development of strongfoundations...
View Article2013 NSW Architecture Awards: NSW President’s Prize
Within the context of a new Planning Act for New South Wales, and a development‐focused Metro Strategy for Sydney, there will be an urgent need in coming years for greater urban renewal and infill...
View Article2013 NSW Architecture Awards: Adrian Ashton Prize
“We embrace ease and eschew risk at our peril.”1 Written in the closing lines of Laura Harding’s review of extensions to the National Gallery of Australia, these words could just as well form the...
View Article2013 NSW Architecture Awards: David Lindner Prize
The David Lindner Prize aims to encourage new research on architecture in the public realm and is awarded for a submission that proposes ideas for solving the real challenges facing our cities and that...
View Article2013 NSW Architecture Awards: Marion Mahony Griffin Prize
This year’s jury was privileged to receive nominations from a superb group of women architects, all of whom fulfilled the requirements of this prize. The jury has selected Helen Lochhead to receive the...
View Article2013 NSW Architecture Awards
Community-oriented projects took the top honours at the 2013 New South Wales Architecture Awards, presented by the Australian Institute of Architects on 27 June at Sydney’s historic Jones Bay Wharf....
View ArticleAustralian and New Zealand projects shortlisted in WAF awards
The shortlist for the 2013 INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors awards was announced alongside the 2013 World Architecture Festival (WAF) awards shortlist on 3 July in London.More than thirty Australian...
View ArticleAustralian and New Zealand projects shortlisted in INSIDE: World Festival of...
The shortlist for the 2013 INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors awards was announced alongside the 2013 World Architecture Festival (WAF) awards shortlist on 3 July in London.Fifteen projects by...
View Article2013 WA Architecture Awards
Collaborations were king at the 2013 Western Australian Architecture Awards, from the Australian Institute of Architects, announced on Friday 5 July, at the Perth Concert Hall. Perth Arena by ARM...
View ArticleDaylight Design Awards
Entries are now open for the Dr Albert Dressler Daylight Design Awards. Now in its second year, the awards from the IES lighting society Victoria / Tasmania Chapter, celebrate the use of daylight in...
View Article2013 Jørn Utzon Award shortlist announced
Spanning the globe from Russia to New Zealand, six projects have been shortlisted for the 2013 Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture: among them – an art gallery in Japan’s snow country,...
View Article2013 VIVID winners
The 2013 VIVID competition for new Australian design talent has been judged at Furnitex, at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Finalists and winning designs will be on display until 21 July. Winners...
View Article2013 Houses Awards: High Commendations
Undercroft Beach House (NSW) – Neeson Murcutt Architects Operable Facade Pittwater (NSW) – Andrew Burges Architects Stewart House (NSW) – Chenchow Little Architects House in a Warehouse (Vic) –...
View Article2013 Houses Awards: Sustainability
Sustainability can be assessed at many levels but essentially, unless it underpins the design as a whole, it simply becomes an “add-on.” The prefabricated and flexible Mihaus is in the tradition of...
View Article2013 Houses Awards: Outdoor
The provision, placement and detailing of the outdoor spaces in this Sydney warehouse conversion are integral to the project. A set of garden pockets orient and inform each room within the house and...
View Article2013 Houses Awards: Heritage
Of the many challenges of residential design, working within the constraints of an existing building rates as a major one for many designers and prospective owners. When the existing building has a...
View Article2013 Houses Awards: Apartment, Unit or Townhouse
This apartment refurbishment is located in a historically significant building that was originally built as a wool store in 1882. The building was converted into a car park and motor museum in the late...
View Article2013 Houses Awards: Alteration and Addition over 200m2
This adaption of a disused warehouse resourcefully exploits the potential of the existing fabric to create a unique home with a sophisticated interplay of internal and external domestic space. The...
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