2013 Nsw Architecture Awards

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2013 NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARDS Pri Co Published since 1944, Architecture Bulletin is the journal of the Australian Institute of Architects, NSW Chapter (ACN 000 023 012). Published five times a year – ISSN 0729 08714. 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Graduate & Student Awards Supporters and Sponsors 2013 NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARDS President’s message I am pleased to take over the Presidential reins from Matthew Pullinger, who achieved so much during his two-year term as President. He started with a clear goal advocating for design quality in the built environment. The Chapter reflected this mission at every opportunity, particularly in repeated submissions to the Planning System Review and in meetings with the Planning Minister. He has much to be proud of. I only hope that in my two years at the helm I can build on his work and be as productive. As usual this year’s awards program gives us all good reason to be proud of our profession and our commitment to design quality, despite a wobbly economic environment and a flat development market. This is our most important celebration of the culture of design in NSW. The multiple jury system continues to work well, improving the quality and rigour of deliberations, as well as entailing a more realistic workload for the participating jurors than the previous single jury system. This year 72 projects were visited around the state, representing 42 per cent of all the projects entered. For the 2013 NSW Architecture Awards ceremony, we are pleased to stage this in a significant building – the Jones Bay Wharf – that is part of the city’s built and maritime heritage, over the harbour from last year’s venue at Luna Park. There are two particularly important innovations in this year’s awards. One is the splitting of the heritage category to recognise the complementary but different skills required for the conservation and creative adaptation of important buildings. The other is the inaugural City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize to recognise the contribution of architects to the public realm in the city. The City has become an exemplary client for our members; this is reflected in the number of awards won by the 2 council’s architectural projects during Clover Moore’s term as Lord Mayor. We welcome this new prize, instigated by Matthew, which reinforces the commitment of the City and the Institute to both design quality and to the importance of the public domain in a civilised and lively city. I am finalising arrangements with the City for the introduction of a two-stage streamlined procurement process that will mean architects are not overburdened with unnecessarily onerous tendering procedures. Another initiative we are pursuing with the City is the digitising of the Institute’s extensive archive of information about key architects and their Sydney buildings which will help to make architectural information more accessible to the profession and the public. This is the first step in the development of our Patrons program. A new program which will bring together and fund all the Chapter’s cultural and research activities. Planning reform I attended the Minister’s launch of the NSW Government planning White Paper and draft bills in April and was MC for the forum the Institute presented to members a few weeks later. There is much that is good about the new planning system: the focus on strategic planning involving the community; the hierarchy of plans from state to local level. But there is also much else that needs to be more clearly articulated, particularly how heritage listing and management will work and the apparent absence of a clear overarching commitment to design quality. The Built Environment Committee and I will be taking up these and other issues with the Department as well as making a submission in the normal way. As well as this, the Built Environment Committee is also preparing the Institute’s submission on the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy. Public domain Members may have noted the media’s renewed interest in the Institute’s views following my comments on the latest development in the Barangaroo saga a few weeks ago. Our consistent position on this and other contentious development proposals is to focus on proper planning processes and particularly the definition and defence of the public domain. Governments must maintain and defend the public interest on public land. Curated publications It is important that the Institute continues to articulate and advocate its position on other issues of importance to our profession, the built environment and community. I propose to do this through a series of curated publications, the initial edition of which is titled ‘More with Less’ – showcasing the creative work of architects in small residential projects with limited budgets. These will be short, snappy idea pieces that we will upload to the website, distribute to the public at Architecture on Show events, as well as to local government and the media. Country and Newcastle I recently attended the Country Division seminar in Kiama and the Newcastle Division Awards. I am keen to forge better connections between the Country and Newcastle divisions and the Chapter. This is already proving to be a very busy first year. I look forward to working with you in the months ahead. Joe Agius NSW Chapter President Message from BlueScope Steel Principal Corporate Partner As Principal Corporate Partner, it is with great pleasure that we continue to support excellence in Australian architecture through the 2013 Australian Institute of Architects Awards program. Our industry leading brands, ZINCALUME® steel, COLORBOND® steel and GALVASPAN® steel continue to play a key role in Australian architecture, design and build. The attributes that have built these brands, including world class quality, durability, and technical support continue to deliver superior high performance to meet the needs of the Australian market. Congratulations to all architects who have entered into the Institute’s Awards programs throughout the year, and especially to those who have had their work recognised as award winners. BlueScope Steel is proud to be able to assist the Institute in delivering these magnificent programs again this year. John Rosette National Business Development Manager C&I BlueScope Steel It has been a pleasure to meet many of you over the last three years. Thank you for welcoming me into your offices to present on topics such as Steel & Sustainability, COLORBOND® Coolmax Steel, Thermatech, www.steelselect.com, Custom Colours, On Line Warranties and Next Generation ZINCALUME® Steel. Despite the current market conditions in all but a few niche sectors of the property industry, it always inspires me to take part in conversations with you on a wide range of positive, forwardlooking topics such as: thermally efficient building design; cool roofing; Green Star; LCA; Chain of Custody; ABW; durability; risk minimisation; and lifetime cost of ownership. I look forward to continuing to receive your inquiries regarding the application of steel in your projects. I am contactable on 0459 801 116 and [email protected] Danielle James Business Development Manager NSW/ACT (C&I) BlueScope Steel 3 Jurors 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 31 32 33 28 29 30 Commercial and Interior Architecture 1 Jury Chair Paul van Ratingen Johnson Pilton Walker 2 Tina Engelen CO-AP (Architects) 3 Guy Lake Bates Smart 4 Peter Mould Emeritus Government Architect Public Architecture and Urban Design 5 Jury Chair Helen Lochhead Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) 6 Bertram Beissel Ateliers Jean Nouvel 7 Dale Jones-Evans Dale Jones-Evans Architecture 8 Chris Procter Principal Architect, Places Victoria/Director, Project Architecture Residential Architecture - Houses 9 Jury Chair Sam Crawford Sam Crawford Architects 10 Fenella Kernebone ABC Broadcaster 11 Heidi Pronk Mackenzie Pronk Architects 12 Adam Russell DRAW Contents Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing 13 Jury Chair Adam Haddow SJB Architects 14 Stephanie Smith Innovarchi 15 Marcus Trimble Bennett & Trimble 16 Josephine Wing NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure Small Project and Heritage Architecture 17 Jury Chair Darlene van der Breggen NSW Government Architects Office 18 Matthew Chan Scale Architecture 19 Ian Kelly Heritage expert and former Heritage Manager, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority 20 Eva-Marie Prineas Architect Prineas Enduring Architecture 13 Jury Chair Adam Haddow SJB Architects 1 Paul van Ratingen Johnson Pilton Walker 5 Helen Lochhead Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) 9 Sam Crawford Sam Crawford Architects 17 Darlene van der Breggen NSW Government Architect’s Office Sustainability expert 21 Matthew Jessup Flux Consultants Blacket Prize 13 Jury Chair Adam Haddow SJB Architects 22 Sarah Aldridge NSW Country Division Committee Chair 1 Paul van Ratingen Johnson Pilton Walker 5 Helen Lochhead Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) 9 Sam Crawford Sam Crawford Architects 17 Darlene van der Breggen NSW Government Architect’s Office 2013 Emerging Architect Prize 23 Jury Chair Joe Agius Cox Richardson/ NSW Chapter President 24 Penny Fuller Silvester Fuller/2012 Emerging Architect Prize recipient 25 Joseph Loh SJB Architects/DARCH Committee Chair Marion Mahony Griffin Prize 26 Jury Chair Emili Fox Fox Johnston/ NSW Chapter Councillor 27 Julie Cracknell Cracknell & Lonergan Architects/2012 Marion Mahony Griffin Prize recipient 28 Louise Nettleton Louise Nettleton Architects/ NSW Chapter Councillor 29 Rod Simpson University of Sydney 30 Noni Boyd NSW Chapter Heritage Officer Public Architecture 6 Urban Design 9 Commercial Architecture 12 Interior Architecture 14 Sustainable Architecture 18 Residential Architecture – Houses and Alterations & Additions 21 Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing 28 Small Project Architecture 33 Heritage – Conservation and Creative Adaptation 37 Adrian Ashton Prize for Writing and Criticism 31 Jury Chair Shaun Carter Carterwilliamson Architects/ NSW Chapter Editorial Committee Chair/ NSW Chapter Councillor 10 Fenella Kernebone ABC Broadcaster 32 David Neustein Other Architects/ 2012 Adrian Ashton Prize recipient 23 Joe Agius Cox Richardson/ NSW Chapter President Award for Enduring Architecture 41 Colorbond® Award for Steel Architecture 43 Blacket Prize 45 NSW Premier’s Prize 46 City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize 47 NSW President’s Prize 48 Emerging Architect Prize 48 Marion Mahony Griffin Prize 49 Adrian Ashton Prize for Writing and Criticism 49 David Lindner Prize 50 2013 NSW Graduate and Student Awards 52 2013 NSW Architecture Award Entries 56 2013 NSW Architecture Award Winners 68 David Lindner Prize 33 Jury Chair Robyn Lindner 29 Rod Simpson University of Sydney 23 Joe Agius Cox Richardson/NSW Chapter President 25 Joseph Loh SJB Architects/DARCH Committee Chair 5 Public Architecture Sulman Medal Photography: Richard Glover Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre Collins and Turner with City of Sydney 6 PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Penny Collins Project Architect Huw Turner Design Architect Sam Carroll Project Manager Lucy Humphrey Markus Bruenjes Chris Thomas Manager of Design Narelle Naumcevski Design Manager Marcia Morley Design Manager Consultant Team: ARUP Structural Consultant Steensen Varming Electrical Consultant Whipps Wood Hydraulic Consultant Terragram Landscape Consultant Steensen Varming Lighting Consultant Photography: Richard Glover Team Catalyst Environmental Consultant Jury citation The new Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre is the home of WEAVE (Working to Educate, Advocate, Voice and Empower), a grassroots association supporting the neighbourhood’s children and adolescents since 1976. WEAVE’s staff initially operated out of the boot of a car, then from a public toilet block on the site, before the City of Sydney commissioned this iconic and welcoming counselling facility. The slab and walls of the original amenities block remain in Collins and Turner’s design of the new centre. Four concrete corner bays were added to support an accessible green roof, and a central courtyard was incised providing sunlight, natural ventilation and space to gather for an open-air meeting. The building is sheathed and crowned by a star-shaped steel trellis structure overgrown with vines that provides both shade and protection against vandalism. The roof terrace more than doubles the usable area and can be accessed as a flexible alternative setting for activities. Over time, as the climbing plants shroud the steel structure, its appearance of a tree crown will keep growing stronger and wilder to finally merge with the surrounding landscaped beams that envelop the base of the edifice. This growing process invites a relationship in which the building and its inhabitants become a part of the land. exemplary convergence of public leadership, community initiative and design talent. Collins and Turner have expanded the design brief into a masterful pictorial narrative about protection, intimacy and belonging. WEAVE’S new home is a humble but resounding victory achieved with commitment and imagination. Wilde and Wollard Cost Consultant Construction Team: Projectcorp Australia Builder Established 1932 The Sulman Medal was named for the English-trained architect John Sulman who had been working in NSW since the 188Os. Sulman was a passionate advocate of town planning and the Medal, which commemorates his work, was initially awarded to a building of exceptional merit that contributed to the streetscape. The Jury has selected the Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre for the Sulman Medal as an 7 Public Architecture Commendation Photography: Brett Boardman Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment Architect Marshall in association with the Government Architect’s Office Jury citation The Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment at Circular Quay represents much of what is valuable in public architecture, namely the making of our public realm and a framework for public life. The new wing and the refurbished existing building have changed our experience of West Circular Quay and George Street. At last we see the waters of Sydney Cove from George Street through a lobby animated with retail, a new gallery and circulation for the new wing. The foyer negotiates the challenging level change and adds a new pedestrian passage through The Rocks to a quayside art court. The new wing, a play on the ‘white box’ typical of museum syntax, is a series of articulated boxes pushed and pulled by the complexities of the brief and the site: the underground colonial docks, the neighbouring police building and the original museum. It 8 impressed the jury that prime space in the new wing is given to public and education functions rather than revenue-generation. Access for tenants and private revenue-raising rooms is separate and less evident than the welcoming public entrance. These are special virtues of the MCA that occur because the architect has creatively engaged with the client to create an open, inviting and accessible building. The jury debated the details of the project and the relationship between old and new, however there was overall agreement that the ambition to transform the MCA from an internally focussed institution into one that engages and enlivens the precinct has been achieved through the drive of the client and the deft hand of the architect. The brief has been brought to life while creating an iconographic statement. The jury commends this achievement. Urban Design Lloyd Rees Award Photography: John Gollings Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease 9 Urban Design Lloyd Rees Award (cont.) PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Architect ASPECT Studios Landscape Architect Lend Lease Developer Consultant Team: E.G.O. Group; Davenport Campbell Interior Designer Arup Structural Engineer, ESD consultant and Mechanical Services Consultant Aurecon Electrical Services Consultant Warren Smith and Partners Hydraulic Services Consultant and Fire Services Lend Lease Quantity Surveyor Defire Fire Engineering Speirs + Major, Lend Lease, Ramus Lighting Design Photography: John Gollings Jury citation Darling Harbour is one of the most popular public places in Australia. The addition of Darling Quarter, a major urban revitalisation project, has done more to cement this in the minds of visitors than any other single project in recent times. It has transformed the public domain of Darling Harbour through its seamless integration of programming, architecture, urban and landscape design in a way that imbues it with a sense of quality and permanence. Darling Quarter is where the built form at western edge of the city 10 meets the open space of Tumbalong Park. Creating a new address to the city, the development is split at its centre to open up a welcome street level link from Darling Harbour to the city centre. On the park side, the curvilinear forms of the buildings and adjoining promenade have been prescribed by the park and the natural pedestrian desire line to the waterfront. by a children’s theatre, and an elevated terrace lined with cafes and restaurants. The place is activated day and night with lighting to the playground and an interactive digital media façade that enlivens the space and creates an ever-changing backdrop. It is a place for everyone – for city workers at lunchtime and in the evenings for families, the young and old, visitors and locals. The resultant public realm delivers a series of defined public spaces, including a new threshold and pedestrian link from the city, a generous promenade, parkland and a dynamic playground. The public realm is further activated Recognising the role of government, developer and the project team, the jury has awarded Darling Quarter the Lloyd Rees Award for setting a new benchmark in intelligent place making. WATERFORMS Water Features Designer Robert Bird Civil Engineer Deuce Design Interpretation/Wayfinding Construction Team: Lend Lease Builder, Project Manager Established 1979 This award for excellence in the design of the public domain commemorates the artist Lloyd Rees. Rees, although not an urban designer or architect, was well known as he taught drawing to many architecture students in Sydney. Urban Design Architecture Award Photography: Brett Boardman Pitt Street Mall Public Domain Upgrade Tony Caro Architecture Jury citation The Pitt Street Mall Public Domain Upgrade is functional and yet poetic. Through their simplicity, clarity and understatement each element of the project – the carpet of paving, the bespoke furniture and hardware, the placement of trees to shade seats and intelligent lighting – combine to equal more than the sum of the parts. The paving is more than practical. A former crest along the centre of the Mall has been regraded to a trough with a single centreline drain that catches the water and echoes the historic tank stream in its alignment and detail. The seats are elegant in form and detail. They are arranged to accommodate incidental perching or planned meetings and are carefully placed out of the way of pedestrian movement, while the fine catenaries of lights above adjust to neighbouring ambient light levels or special events. The restrained aesthetic language is designed to be elegant, robust and timeless. It is a refreshing change from the mall designs of the 80s. Here, less is more and the result is calm and smart. It is smart because it enables the rapid movement of people between the retail clutter. It is calm - some will look at this work and award and ask ‘But what has the designer done?’ because it feels just right. The jury felt that the subliminal presence of the design works perfectly for this frenzied environment. The jury awards and acknowledges the project team and the committed patronage of the City of Sydney to ensure design excellence flourishes in the city’s public domain. 11 Commercial Architecture Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Richard Francis-Jones Design Director Construction Team: Lend Lease Developer, Builder, Project Manager Jeff Morehen Project Director Established 1979 Johnathan Redman Principal Sean McPeake Senior Associate Adam Guernier Peter Russell Sahar Koohi Martin Hallen Stephen Pratt Soenke Dethlefsen David Haseler Annis Lee Karina Kerr Simon Lee Samuel Faigan Gareth Morgan Ian Brumby Joey Cheng Prudence Ho Consultant Team: ASPECT Studios Landscape Architect E.G.O. Group; Davenport Campbell Interior Designer Arup Structural Engineer, ESD Consultant, Mechanical Services Consultant Aurecon Electrical Services Consultant Warren Smith and Partners Hydraulic Services Consultant and Fire Services Lend Lease Quantity Surveyor Defire Fire Engineering Photography: John Gollings Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) 12 Named for one of the founding partners of the firm of Stephenson and Turner, Sir Arthur G. Stephenson, this award is given for the design of an outstanding commercial building. Photography: John Gollings Jury citation Darling Quarter precinct represents the potential for change in the behaviour of how people work. Design initiatives focus on the occupants’ well-being and on providing a connected and inspired workplace that also incorporates the broader public realm. Purpose built for a major Australian bank; this human scale, low rise, 6 Star Green Star Rated campusstyle office belies its vast 68,000 square metre building program. The curved and stepped forms define and embrace a new city park and reconnect a revitalised south end of Darling Harbour to the city. Active building edges of retail, cafes, bars and restaurants define and overlook a major new children’s playground, youth theatre, and a community green with blankets and deckchairs for locals, city workers and tourists. This quality public realm provides an extension to the workplace and has enabled the provision of a significantly reduced building entry lobby which primarily acts as a ‘security threshold’. A central day lit atrium visually integrates and connects the multifloor workplace through a series of cantilevered stairs, bridges and expressed glass lifts. The staggered height of the east and west wings creates a rooftop external terrace, breaking the scale of the 10 storey atrium to a comfortable proportion. Internal automated timber slats make a virtually clear glazed western façade possible. With a clear and open view into the office floors from the public domain, it reinforces an impression of ‘transparency and openness’ that is promoted by contemporary banking practice. In the evening the façade transforms into an interactive light display that the public can control via smart phones or on-site consoles. In isolation this is a strong commercial building; as an integral part of this new precinct, it is exceptional. 13 Interior Architecture John Verge Award Photography: John Gollings The Kinghorn Cancer Centre BVN Donovan Hill 14 PROJECT TEAM Practice team: James Grose Principal Mark Greene Project Director Ian Goodbury Laboratory and Medical Photography: John Gollings Jury citation The Kinghorn Cancer Centre is a building for research and medical treatment that houses clinicians, clinical researchers and biomedical scientists. The design ambition was to engender collaboration between these groups to encourage social interaction and information exchange. The design logic is clear with the main functions stacked vertically and the location of service cores to each end of the building as the primary organising principle. The southern core provides discrete servicing for laboratories, while the more relaxed and public northern core has been opened up as a sun-drenched atrium. This contiguous internal space has lifts, bridges and stairs and projecting meeting rooms located to encourage the exchange of culture and information across the diverse user groups. Together with a full height in situ artwork they give form to this dramatic eight storey space. Materials have been carefully considered and the use of timber throughout the building has brought warmth and a sense of humanity into a research environment that is often sterile. Timber has been placed at points of human contact: doors; door frames; lift surrounds; and furniture. The potentially harsh external screening is surprisingly subtle when viewed from inside and the spaces are crafted to provide outlook and joy to the users. This is a work of remarkable control; its simplicity belies the technical challenges it resolved. Working with stringent clinical conditions, it manages to bring warmth and strict environmental control into balance. Through the careful crafting of materials and spatial relationships, it manages to create an exciting yet humane environment and a suite of interiors of outstanding quality. Julian Ashton Isabell Beck Irina Belova Oskar Booth Rob Burton Peter Clarke Barry Dineen Joe Fiumedinisi Janene Fowlstone Rose Jimenez Greg Knight Judy Lee Daniel Londono Angie McKay Rodrigo do Mello Domino Risch Stefan Strigl Construction Team: Capital Insight Project Manager Richard Crookes Construction Contractor Established 2007 Named for the English-trained architect John Verge, who arrived in the colony of Sydney in the early 1830s, this award is given for excellence in interior architecture. Consultant Team: SCP Structural Consultant Arup Electrical Consultant , Mechanical Consultant, Hydraulic Consultant, Fire Consultant, Façade Wilkinson Murray Acoustic Consultant Urbis Town Planning 360 Degrees Landscape Architect WT Partnership Quantity Surveyor BVN Donovan Hill Signage Heggies Reflectivity/Wind Consultant 15 Interior Architecture Architecture Award Commendation Photography: Michael Nicholson Lilyfield Warehouse Virginia Kerridge Architect Jury citation This adaptation of an existing two storey brick warehouse into a liveable family home provides a new identity for the building while sustainably retaining a historical trace of the neighbourhood. The interiors offer a restrained expression through the use of weathered and robust materials, carefully crafted to create a sense of permanence without overt luxury. The detailing throughout, from the front entry gate through to the children’s bathroom, conveys a sense of industrial heritage. Working with the rhythm of the original structure, a successful balance has been achieved between the new domestically scaled spaces and the existing warehouse volumes. Tiered sunken courtyards have been opened to the elements by removing part of the saw-tooth roof and its glazing. These new penetrations 16 offer glimpses and connections to rooms above or below and allow the building to breathe. Although wholly confined within the original warehouse walls, the new home, through its courtyards and balconies, connects with the spaces and the greenery of the residential neighbourhood beyond. The interior architecture and materiality of the building impart a sense of drama and simplicity that invites and excites while still conveying the essence of a happy home. Photography: John Gollings 85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby & Entry John Wardle Architects and Westfield Design and Construction Jury citation With a premium placed on ground floor retail space the brief called for a ‘sky lobby’ to be located four levels above the street. In interpreting this unconventional requirement the architects have created a dramatic arrival experience that, through its rich spatial sequence and materiality, manages to maintain a strong legibility of address. The entry is through a tall and elegantly proportioned ground floor foyer. The walls are lined with profiled timber battens that extend up into the sky lobby to become a powerful defining element in the interior of the building. The meticulously detailed timber lining, that appears both seamless and varied, effectively reinforces the verticality of the space. Shuttle lifts open into an expansive and light-filled sky lobby inhabited by a series of finely detailed pods wrapped in the same timber that act as concierge desk, cafe and seating. A carefully positioned void connected to the retail spaces below enriches the spatial experience. The material palette of sculpted timber cladding, polished marble floors, bronze column cladding and leather seating achieves a sense of luxury and prestige befitting of the building’s high profile tenants. The skilful integration of architecture and engineering is evident in the tree columns, which have a strong sculptural presence in the space and effectively provide both structural bracing to the tower and transfer tower columns to a wider retail grid. Lighting and signage are beautifully integrated into the fabric of the interior, showing a close collaboration between the architect and the consultant team. Interior Architecture Commendation Photography: Mein Photo (Trevor Mein) Woods Bagot Sydney Studio Woods Bagot Jury citation The design of architects’ offices is always a fraught exercise. It requires balancing the need to brand and market the office with the creation of a good working environment for staff and clients. Woods Bagot’s Sydney Studio attempts this and more. They have taken a 1980s post-modern building and, in the process of upgrading their offices spaces within it, have also given the building a new identity through a contemporary lobby upgrade. They have created the ambience of a traditionally peripheral city office studio within the heart of the CBD, providing a model for the reuse and adaptation of often overlooked second-tier CBD buildings. The interior has been stripped back to reveal the existing structure, services are exposed and finishes have been kept simple. This process of subtraction allows the grittiness of the base condition to contrast with the more precise insertions of the fit-out. Planning is made flexible by the use of moveable and adaptable fit-out components, and although these are derivative of a commercially available system, they serve their function of ordering the space. The use of timber in these elements and the furniture contrasts with the predominantly black and white scheme, adding richness and warmth. This is a robust and adaptable work environment with its loose-fit philosophy and limited palette resulting in an interesting and liveable environment and presenting a model for the appropriate reinvigoration of mediocre commercial buildings. 17 Sustainable Architecture Milo Dunphy Award Photography: John Gollings Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios, Lend Lease, E.G.O. Group and Davenport Campbell 18 PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Architect ASPECT Studios Landscape Architect Lend Lease Developer Consultant Team: E.G.O. Group; Davenport Campbell Interior Designer Arup Structural Engineer, ESD Consultant and Mechanical Services Consultant Aurecon Electrical Services Consultant Warren Smith and Partners Hydraulic Services Consultant and Fire Services Lend Lease Quantity Surveyor Defire Fire Engineering Speirs + Major, Lend Lease, Ramus Lighting Design Photography: John Gollings Jury citation With a shared government, private sector and corporate vision, Darling Quarter establishes a benchmark for the creation of new sustainable urban precincts. Its Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) credentials include: 6 Star Green Star - Office Design v2 rating; 5 Star Green Star - Office Design Interiors v1.1 rating; and the first building to achieve a 6 Star Green Star - Office As Built v3. Energy use and savings are conveyed back to the workplace through the BMS and a media wall in the lobby so that the occupants understand how the building works and how it is being used. While the list of passive and active design features is extensive, this award recognises the project’s transformation of an under-used urban area to a thriving destination for locals, city workers and tourists, and its potential to change the behaviour of how people work. a series of cantilevered stairs, bridges and expressed glass lifts. Ground floor cafes and restaurants, a major new children’s playground, and a community green extend the traditional workplace as an enabling, supportive, human and inspiring place to work. Purpose-built for a major Australian bank, this human scale, low rise campus-style office belies its vast 68,000 square metre building program. Central to the brief is a contemporary workplace that reinforces people, innovation and sustainability. A central atrium acts as the symbolic heart of the workplace, visually integrating the multi levels and serving as the primary connective element through While its sustainability credentials as a commercial building are strong in isolation; as a precinct, it is transformative. Waterforms Water Features Designer Robert Bird Civil Engineer Deuce Design Interpretation/Wayfinding Construction Team: Lend Lease Builder Project Manager Established 1996 The previous environment and energy awards have become the Milo Dunphy Award for sustainable architecture. There is no longer a single category for this award as all entries into the NSW Architecture Awards are now judged on their sustainability and are eligible for this award which commemorates Milo Dunphy’s longstanding commitment to conserving the environment. 19 Sustainable Architecture Architecture Award Architecture Award Photography: Richard Glover Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre Collins and Turner with City of Sydney Cowshed House Carterwilliamson Architects Jury citation Jury citation The refurbished building is designed to be robust, low maintenance and long lasting, and has a low environmental impact due to the minimal use of natural resources and passive systems. The building is a refurbishment of an existing facility and has been planned to maintain where possible the existing wall and slab structures. Internally, comfort conditions are passively controlled using natural cross ventilation, exposed thermal mass, and an insulated building envelope shaded by the canopy structure and climbing plants. The new courtyard brings daylight and breezes into the depths of the building, minimising the reliance on artificial lighting, and replacing the original air conditioning units with opening windows and fresh air. Ceiling fans amplify air movement on still days. The building also incorporates recycled materials including reclaimed timber for joinery, and a wooden block courtyard floor made 20 Photography: Brett Boardman from reclaimed city power poles; concrete and pavers that utilise a high percentage of recycled material and fly ash for cement and aggregate replacement; and reclaimed roofing slate crushed as mulch for planting beds. Rainwater is collected in an underground tank adjacent to the structure for use in the irrigation of the plants. The steel canopy structure has been designed as an interlocking but self-supported element, allowing its future demounting and relocation. Herbs and edible plants are included in the mix of plant species incorporated in the roof terrace, and gardening programs have been introduced for the young people as part of their rehabilitation programs. As architects, one of the most critical contributions we can make towards a sustainable built environment is the design of ‘fit’ buildings: buildings that are not big, but ‘big enough’ and flexible enough to accommodate changing lifestyles. Buildings that minimise spatial, material and energy waste. Cowshed House embodies this philosophy. It is modest in size but spatially and conceptually rich; creatively employing a refined, yet raw and robust palette of materials. A family of four is comfortably accommodated in a floor area of 120 square metres and a site area of 150 square metres. Environmental sustainability: the house operates passively, anchored by the protected thermal mass of the concrete slab on the ground and sheltered by high masonry walls. The building orients itself around the north-facing courtyard, which provides ample opportunity to take in daylight and air. Where possible the existing building fabric has been retained, and where masonry reconstruction was necessary it was completed in recycled bricks. Social sustainability: the sensitive adaptive re-use of the existing cowshed preserves a moment in the all but forgotten pastoral history of this rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. The two-storey element hard to the corner is a strong urban response that marks the corner as a distinctive landmark in an urban streetscape. Economic sustainability: the design and construction of this building were achieved on a remarkably tight budget. In response, the building has been left ‘raw’, eliminating the cost of expensive linings and finishes. The concrete slabs were polished as flooring, recycled bricks left as face for the internal walls, and the timber structure and electrical cables exposed. Oiled timber doors and windows along with corrugated cladding complete the simple, refined palette. The jury was impressed by the architect’s ability to create spaces that are at once expansive and compact, inventive and highly liveable. Cowshed House by Carterwilliamson Architects is a fine exemplar of the sustainability of limit and restraint. Residential Architecture – Houses Wilkinson Award PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Drew Heath Design Architect Ross Langdon Consultant Team: Andrew Simpson Structural Consultant Colin Brady Heritage Consultant Construction Team: Drew Heath Builder Gerard Murphy Carpenter Established 1964 The Wilkinson Award was introduced to recognise exemplary domestic architecture and named for the Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson. Wilkinson had won the Sulman Medal twice – in 1934 for a residential design and in 1942 for a suburban church. Photography: Brett Boardman Tír na nÓg Drew Heath Architects (Alterations & Additions) 21 Residential Architecture – Houses Wilkinson Award (cont.) Jury citation The jurors were unanimous in their selection of Tír na nÓg for the 2013 Wilkinson Award. The architect’s stated ambition was to create a built Tír na nÓg – an Otherworld, inspired by the overgrown ruins of Angkor Wat. Tír na nÓg is indeed the embodiment of an archetypal ‘ruin’ - multiple levels, overlapping spaces and lush vegetation create a synthesis of building and landscape. The home also stands as a visceral prototype for a new way of living, immersing its occupants in Sydney’s temperate yet vigorous environment. The heart of the building is the courtyard, a landscaped space, nestled between the existing fourroom cottage and a new living ‘box’. The main bathroom takes up an undercroft adjacent to the courtyard, while layered platforms, including a bridge, seat, table and step, welcome the surrounding vegetation. The new ‘box’ stacks living areas over kitchen and dining areas, and acts something like a mechanical lung to be operated by the inhabitants. Walls and windows open, allowing sun and breeze inside, while vines are encouraged to grow over the building and filter air and light, further breaking down the distinction between inside and outside. Photography: Brett Boardman 22 Each detail re-thinks and re-crafts the familiar. Almost every fitting is bespoke and inventive, every nook explored anew. The project is a public offering to its three street frontages – part pocket park, part framework for a living sculpture and part ruin. Tír na nÓg is refined yet experimental. Its excellence resides in its eccentricity as much as in its cohesion. Boundaries are blurred; inside to outside, public to private, old to new, grown to made – an Otherworld. Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions) Architecture Award Architecture Award Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Brett Boardman Cowshed House Carterwilliamson Architects Balmain House Fox Johnston Jury citation Jury citation Cowshed House is a remarkable example of limit and restraint. A small site, modest budget, simple needs, singular form, efficient planning, unfussy detailing and raw materiality work together to produce an exemplary home. Appropriating the existing shell of an old urban cowshed, the plan frames a garden courtyard to the north and lets slip a pocket of green to the south. Living rooms and ground floor bedrooms engage these green spaces, while a lofty mezzanine bedroom overlooks the street, a large jacaranda tree and the broader urban context. The key formal move, an articulated sloping roof, does away with the jacaranda-clogged gutters of the former shed while addressing the sunlight needs of southern neighbours. The sculpted zincalume roof form triggers an undulating ribbon of clerestory windows that capture light and breeze, and generate the building’s emblematic street address and lantern-like qualities. Detailing and materiality are direct and refreshing. Conduit cut into the old brick wall is expressed. Cabling and mounting for overhead lighting is suspended in an off-the-shelf galvanised electrical tray. Engineered timbers and galvanised nail plates are all exposed. The raw structural slab is cut and polished. The house is clearly the result of a fruitful creative collaboration between architect, builder and client. The jury was impressed by the architect’s ability to create spaces that are at once expansive and compact, plain and embellished, inventive and highly liveable. Balmain House by Fox Johnston is a delightful derivation of the competing needs of a young family, a tortured angular site, the interests of 14 neighbouring properties, and an infamous local council. The jury was impressed by the dexterity with which the architect managed these forces to create an inventive and comfortable family home. Timber cladding and lining, concrete, and ample natural light, are sculpted into a warm sequence of organic volumes and crystalline shapes. Formally and spatially, the design is both sensual and sensible. It casually makes all the right moves, impressing the neighbours while seducing its occupants. owner, to house three simple bedrooms and a bathroom opening on to a courtyard. A new addition contains the living spaces and a kitchen with a study, bedroom and ensuite recluse above. The circulation system unites the old with the new as it passes between bedrooms, then warps and expands through the living spaces. This journey terminates at the most generous space on the site, an elevated garden room in the dappled shade of a large gum, with distant views to Anzac Bridge. The project represents a skillful negotiation of the constraints of a tight urban site, turning limitations into opportunities with dexterity and delight. The project begins with the reinvention of an existing timber cottage, brick skinned by a previous 23 Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions) Commendation Commendation Photography: Brett Boardman Bellevue Hill Residence Tzannes Associates Jury citation Bellevue Hill Residence as reimagined by Tzannes Associates explores the existing potential of a distinctive, perhaps even iconic, 1960s Frank Fox house. It embraces its eccentricities and deftly resolves its many compromises and shortcomings to create a home suitable for 21st century living. The original building was a local landmark on its street corner. Its circular form responded well to the site geometry, vegetation and urban context, while its bulk and scale were appropriately unimposing. It made a positive contribution to the public domain. The architects and the owners of the house wisely, and yet at considerable cost, chose to work with the existing building fabric, resolving the functional brief within its envelope and respecting its midcentury character. 24 Photography: Peter Bennetts Lavender Bay Boatshed Stephen Collier Architects Additional spaces are provided within the present envelope and with due regard to its mid-century character, yet accommodating the modern lifestyle of its occupants with provision for a range of engaging spatial experiences. The jury felt the architect and client, in collaboration with their builder, are to be commended on the finely detailed and crafted conservation and adaptation of a challenging and idiosyncratic 1960s building – one of many buildings of this period which may not enjoy legislative heritage protection but are worthy of preservation. Jury citation Lavender Bay Boatshed tells the story of an extraordinary site, an enlightened client, a frail building, impossible geometries, and a protracted approvals process; all adeptly negotiated by the architect to create a delightful living environment. On the living room level, exposed and stiffened rafters, and a new skylight revealing views to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, celebrate and amplify the awkwardness inherent in the geometry of the existing building. Existing materials are exposed and celebrated alongside new refined detailing and sensuous finishes. New materials subtly respond to the building’s industrial maritime heritage. The lower level of the building, an otherwise dark and cavernous space carved out of the escarpment and the under-croft of the original boatshed, is transformed by introduced daylight. A glazed void at the rear of the building miraculously shares light between the upper level living space and two bathrooms below. Daylight from the waterside windows is transmitted deep into the building through lustrous surface finishes, and a glass floor-panel over the tidal zone admits ever-changing sparkles of light into the front bedroom. Playful, interlocking spaces and adaptable planning on the lower ground floor allow alternative configurations to suit future occupants. The jury commends Stephen Collier Architects for revealing to the client the possibilities of a very challenging building through the skilful resolution of complex geometries, artful manipulation of light, and patient negotiation with zealous authorities. Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Architecture Award Architecture Award Photography: Michael Nicholson St Albans House Rory Brooks Architects Jury citation Set amongst the treetops high above Wollombi Rd, St Albans House rests comfortably against the hillside. Hugging the contours of the site, this rural retreat was conceived as two distinct pavilions - one for sleeping, the other for living and entertaining, separated by the primary entry, set ajar between the two. The architect’s nimble planning and material restraint has produced an economic house of rich spatial pleasure. A consistent palette of vertical timber cladding, concrete plinths and full-height glazing resonates with the hues of the adjacent bushland, without dominating it. Elegant timber batten screens and glazed doors seamlessly slide away within double insulated stud walls to provide various configurations for shading, cross ventilation and strong visual and physical connections to the site. Photography: Willem Rethmeier Flipped House Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects The scale and proportion of interior spaces, the quality of light and the understated timber volumes all made a strong impression on the jury. Beautifully proportioned and placed openings work in concert with the form of the house to generate a remarkable sense of composure. St Albans House expertly creates a warm interior, while engaging with the qualities of its setting. Jury citation Flipped House is a distinctive family home that mediates between the exposed Sydney skyline and an exquisite and intimate garden topography. A rich sequence of warm, personalised spaces evolves over three levels and regularly bursts out into either the garden or the view. Cubic and curvaceous geometries are in constant interplay and repeatedly offer human scaled moments of both exuberance and respite. An idiosyncratic landscape of succulent planting, snaking off-form concrete walls and a breeze block screen give shape to discrete outdoor rooms and an inviting pool. Warm surfaces of sandstone and beautifully detailed timber complete the material palette. garden into a layered interplay with the house. Subtle shifts in the timbre of the building, from the acoustically muted den to the lively sound of falling water by the pool, add drama to this dwelling. The deft crafting of the more pragmatic spaces such as bedrooms and an open drying court completes a building that must be joyous to inhabit. The redeeming qualities of the original 1960s building are referenced in the new spaces and reflect a remarkable working relationship with the client. The architect’s strategy to ‘flip’ the mass upstairs and reduce the building’s footprint opens up the ground plane and invites the 25 Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Architecture Award Architecture Award Photography: John Gollings Stewart House Chenchow Little Architects Gordons Bay Residence Madeleine Blanchfield Architects Jury citation Jury citation Stewart House has a unique sense of strength and singularity of purpose arising from the client’s brief, site constraints and a clear conceptual framework. Unlike neighbouring properties, its modest, low-set street presence follows the fall of the land to the rear through a central promenade. Four independent bed and bathroom ‘suites’ are set symmetrically along this circulation spine. A separate garden court adjoins each suite, providing natural light and privacy. Beyond the bedrooms the central spine drops to meet an open living space. This space in turn opens onto a lush landscaped exterior with pool, and bush land beyond. The generous volume and vertical scale of this spatial sequence belies the residential nature of the project. 26 Photography: Robert Walsh The grand order of brick walls and free-span steel beams provides an innovative, refined and expressive response to living and landscape. The architect has addressed the constraint of building in a bushfire flame zone with a form and materiality that is both robust and invigorating. Gordon’s Bay Residence is an elegant house of grand proportions, resulting from of a limited design competition held by insightful clients. A restrained and sophisticated front elevation in an unremarkable built context hints at the excellence within. Upon entry, the house opens up in scale as the site falls dramatically towards the bay and ocean beyond. A triple-height staircase links the three levels of the home, constantly re-engaging with the exquisite natural context. An over-scaled pivot entry door extends access to this view as an offering to anyone on the street. A north facing courtyard operates successfully as a planning device around which discrete rooms and a clear circulation system are arranged. The building envelope and openings are well configured to capture daylight, control privacy and provide shelter from prevailing north-easterly winds, while passive and active systems combine to temper environmental conditions within the house. Operable cedar screens control heat, glare and privacy and bring human scale and dynamism to the otherwise assertive eastern elevation; skylights sensitively direct natural light in to the deepest parts of the house. Despite an extensive use of barefaced concrete, the architect has managed to bring an unexpected lightness and warmth to an otherwise monumentally proportioned home. Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Commendation Photography: Simon Wood Angophora House Richard Cole Architecture Jury citation Built for the architect’s parents, Angophora House is fully accessible and designed for ‘ageing in place’. A carefully crafted response to the site, this is a meticulously detailed home that hugs a rugged sandstone cliff over a series of outward looking platforms. The natural stone cliff face is partially revealed inside the home, imbuing an otherwise exquisitely mannered interior with mysterious cave-like qualities. On the south-facing side of the home, insulated wall panels house double glazed windows that in turn contain retractable black-out blinds. These walls can be stacked away, providing a novel façade solution that transforms a series of cosseted rooms into a generous and open balcony perched in the tree-tops. A singular roof plane tucks below the limbs of carefully retained angophoras and draws winter sun into the heart of the home. Cohesive detailing pervades, from the primary structure through to the diminishing scales of fenestration, joinery and furniture. There is a perfect resonance between the garden space and the lower scale spaces of the house itself. Angophora House is the hallmark of a caring relationship between architect and client, and stands as an impeccably designed container for the life and possessions of its occupants. 27 Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Aaron Bolot Award Photography:Brett Boardman 29-35 Prince Street Cronulla Candalepas Associates 28 Jury citation This is an incredible project that pays careful attention to its context, is well planned, exquisitely detailed, and plays with the typology of beach side apartments while resisting a ‘glazing at all expenses’ approach. There is beauty, delight and surprise in this project. Small celebrations capture light and ventilation between the individual building parts, while beachside holiday references of tramping over sand dunes on boardwalks are evoked. Narrow, cool entry portals create an understated presence within the streetscape, reflecting the simplicity and casual nature of the local beach environment. One cannot help but smile in happiness at the joy invested in this building by the architect for those who will use it over their lifetimes. Material richness plays an important role in elevating the dwellings to the luxury residential market. Combining warm timbers, bronze detailing, robust concrete and sandstone panels, Candalepas Associates have delivered a layered building with depth and intrigue. The internal planning of the dwellings is thoughtful, straightforward and specific – capturing, creating and framing views while providing a variety of experiences for the inhabitants to enjoy. PROJECT TEAM This project acknowledges the harsh surrounding marine environment, cleverly employing it to wear the building into a comfortable patina, further anchoring it within its local context. Practice team: Angelo Candalepas Design Architect, Director David Mitchell Project Architect Most importantly, this building is complex without being complicated, and simple without being simplistic. There is richness in both the individual experience and the architectural investigations undertaken in this building which is welcome and refreshing. John Wilkin Project Architect Evan Pearson Project Architect Consultant Team: Taylor Thomson Whitting Structural Consultant Jones Nicholson Consulting Electrical Consultant , Mechanical Consultant Whipps Wood Consulting Hydraulic Consultant Renzo Tonin & Associates Acoustic Consultant Construction Team: Kane Constructions Builder Established 2009 Photography: Brett Boardman 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. 29 Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Architecture Award Architecture Award Photography: Richard Glover Iglu Central Bates Smart Jury citation Iglu Central is a remarkable project that leverages the limitations of its program to deliver a joyous and delightful living environment and surrounding urban realm. In a harsh and changing street environment this project learns from, and draws on, older built fabric while proposing a contemporary response to city making. The building is both private and reserved while offering energy and engagement to the surrounding streets. An internal courtyard on the south side of the building provides a cool and quiet atmosphere while pushing the active communal student spaces to the street edge. Students are offered remarkable spaces to study, sleep, engage and party. In a part of the city where remarkable street level relationships are rarely achieved, this is an exceptional outcome. 30 Photography: Brett Boardman Silk Apartments Tony Caro Architecture Externally the building employs a rigid geometric steel screen, with the weeping rusted patina giving the building grain and texture. Occasionally perforated, this rain screen gives the building character while hiding the multitude of services needed in such an intense and dense program. Internally the perforated screen creates privacy for bathrooms, bedrooms and living rooms, while the punched geometry is extended across plywood panels, lending the interior a similar level of warmth and intrigue as the external building façade. This project, delivered within a tight economic context, excels at leveraging its limitations to achieve a remarkable and memorable outcome. Within an emerging market of short-term housing, this building suggests a delightful future. Jury citation Silk Apartments deliver remarkable internal amenity through careful planning and simple elegant architectural expression. The building is well considered and pursues a number of clever planning initiatives to enhance the living experience – deep inset balconies achieve protected external living environments while pushing living rooms to the building’s edge, engaging occupants with the view. Externally the building is robust and simple. To the south the building addresses the broader urban realm of Anzac Bridge through the bold use of colour, heralding the western entry to the CBD. The north, east and west façades are structured around strong vertical gaps driven into the building form which act to reduce the overall bulk and scale – giving the tower a slighter and more elegant form than the floor plan would suggest. Folded screens are employed across the balcony edges, reducing the northern heat load. They are simple and effective, offering a light, beautiful layer to the building both internally and externally. Entries to the building address both the public water edge and the more private hill-side of the site. Both are intimate and personal with the popular hill-side entry cleverly mediating the immense scale of the tower and that of the individual pedestrian to achieve a calm, easy and homely environment. This building has been delivered by a practice that understands postoccupancy issues. Details have been designed to enable easy ongoing use and maintenance – often overlooked in multiple housing projects. Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Commendation Architecture Award Photography: Ethan Rohloff Telopea Social Housing Turner Jury citation Creating a future vision amongst dilapidated 1930s modernist experiments is no easy task. Telopea Social Housing is an excellent step towards achieving high quality and equitable housing for the community. Overall it sets a positive new direction for the renewal of this Social Housing precinct, employing simple approaches to improve the living environments of the residents. The western building in the Shortland block has achieved some exceptional outcomes and is most noteworthy. Its clever plan and generous corridors, with windows at both ends, provide high quality common areas that are naturally lit and ventilated. By arranging eight units on each typical level, this apartment building feels more like elevated cluster housing. Internally, each level has a differentiated sense of identity that Photography: John Gollings Little Bay Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) combines with clearly emphasised thresholds at the apartment entries to create an uplifting arrival experience for residents and their visitors. The integration of robust materials and colour into the interiors of common spaces assists wayfinding and enhances the sense of differentiation yet cohesion within the building. A communal room within the building is an excellent facility for residents to meet, socialise and entertain outside their private domain. Face brick and metal cladding have been arranged and detailed to achieve a strong external presence while retaining a distinctly residential feel. Overall this building demonstrates the quality and delight that can be achieved in a social housing project and sets a new benchmark to aspire to. Jury citation Two Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) apartment buildings at Little Bay combine to form a new gateway to an old place. Together they collaborate to create an urban realm within a distinctly suburban context ensuring this new community is delivered a communal heart and focus. A simple urban diagram pinches the street space to create a sense of drama at the site entry while a sleight of hand, shifts the building mass to offer a new public space upon crossing the threshold. Creating a sense of activity and energy is not an easy outcome to achieve where density levels are low and occupation patterns align with traditional residential neighbourhoods. This project, through a small mixed use offering, delivers a welcome injection of communal engagement opportunities. Beyond this urban gesture, the apartments are simple and efficient. They capture views and create useable and flexible living environments. The buildings employ details where they are most needed and simplify the architectural expression where they are least required. Vertical external screens extend the feeling of space within the dwellings while maintaining a level of privacy that meshes with the expansive view. 31 Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Commendation Photography: Brett Boardman The Majestic Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Jury citation A brave practice agreed to this commission. Transforming a large single volume building into many small living environments is tough. Combined with an added ‘over layer’ of heritage fabric, it is almost unthinkable in an environment where commercial pressure undoubtedly weighed in the direction of demolition. Yet this project manages to retain, in an almost ‘ruinous’ form, parts of the original building from each of its defining decades, enabling an understanding not only of its original role within the community but its subsequent layers of use. Clever planning has seen dwellings fitted within complex volumes while simple strategies have allowed the original building detail to be understood. New balcony enclosures are thrust into the surrounding laneway space, enlivening the public 32 domain below while extending the internal living spaces and maximising light penetration to the deep plans required of the adaptive reuse approach. New retail spaces at ground level employ the original cinema lobbies for entries, while the apartment entry is discretely located within the original fire escape. This project delivers a new layer to the urban fabric of its neighbourhood while injecting much needed smaller housing options. Small Project Architecture Robert Woodward Award PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Richard Johnson Design Architect Graeme Dix Design Architect Chris Thorp Consultant Team: Taylor Thomson Whitting Structural Consultant, Civic Consultant, Traffic Consultant Bylett Associates Cost Consultant Accessibility Solutions Access Consultant Brett Boardman Photographer Michael Bogle Heritage Consultant Construction Team: Jason de Bruin Project Manager Phil Johnstone Construction Manager Ozpave Civil Contractor Berczi Copper Bronze Fabricator ACD Group Steel Fabricator Established 1997 Photography: Brett Boardman In 2013, the former Small Project Architecture Award was renamed to honour architect Robert Woodward AM whose career was significantly altered after winning the Institutes’ Civic Design Award in 1964 for the El Alamein Memorial Fountain in Kings Cross. ‘Small’ refers to the scale of the project rather than the budget and there are no restrictions on the entries provided that the work has been built. Art Gallery of NSW Forecourt Upgrade Johnson Pilton Walker 33 Small Project Architecture Robert Woodward Award (cont.) Jury citation This remarkable and understated project combines discrete landscape adjustments with a sculptural ramp to resolve the longstanding problem of providing equitable access to the Art Gallery of NSW. The new ramp, which allows visitors to bypass the stairs up to the entry portico, is the most striking ‘intervention’ to Walter Liberty Vernon’s majestic Art Gallery entrance. The architects have met the challenge with a solution that sits respectfully within the original fabric but which is bold enough in concept and rigorous enough in execution to be worthy of such a significant public space. The resolution is a strong counterpoint to the Gallery’s solid and symmetrical entry. The ramp’s precise placement and curvature cleverly disguises its necessary length, minimises its visual and footprint impact, and allows the ramp to widen into generous openings at each end. Details such as inclined balusters and panel jointing accentuate this dynamic form. A truss structure concealed within the bronze cladding of the inner balustrade gives the ramp a surprising weightlessness, and contrasts with the open outer balustrade to further reduce the bulk of the structure. This simplicity of form, combined with the refined detailing, results in the restrained elegance of the ramp. The design aligns itself with the world of contemporary art – a successful strategy in the context of Vernon’s classicism. It is an organic, unambiguously modern and confident addition to the existing frontage. Photography: Brett Boardman 34 Small Project Architecture Architecture Award Commendation Photography: Simon Whitbread Photography: Brett Boardman Yurong Public Amenities Government Architect’s Office Cook Park Amenities Fox Johnston Jury citation Jury citation In the design of a replacement amenities block in the Royal Botanic Gardens, the architects have ‘deconstructed’ the functional brief into its component parts to create a facility that seamlessly blends with the gardens and allows its users to experience the harbour and Sydney Opera House beyond. This seemingly straightforward pavilion contains complex contrasts – grounded but transparent, heavy and lightweight, open and private. Cubicle areas are contained within dark textured concrete walls to provide privacy but are flooded with natural light streaming through a lightweight floating roof. Communal hand wash facilities and a generous waiting area are in an ‘outdoor room’ that overlooks one of Sydney’s most picturesque foreshores. An elongated concrete hand wash ‘trough’ frames the panorama. The use of materials is restrained, but each choice has a clear logic and the overall palette is balanced and complementary to the garden setting. Materials are strategically selected to be robust, warm, tactile or textured, with great care and consideration given to their assembly. Detailing of this quality is quite unexpected in a building of this type. The jury admired the materiality, delicate detail and transparency of the structure. The use of natural light and the connection to the garden and foreshore setting through materials and thoughtful planning is the great success of this building. Commissioned by local government, this suite of amenities buildings is commended for the strength and clarity of architectural language that unifies the structures and creates striking and singular presence in a challenging urban park landscape. Cook Park is a narrow, extended park on the western edge of Botany Bay – with a dusty and noisy arterial road along one edge, beach foreshore of Botany Bay on the other, and a busy port and airport beyond. The council brief was to develop a model for safe, robust and functional amenities buildings that better reflected its vision for the public domain and could be rolled out across the municipality. A potentially ungainly assemblage of showers, lunch rooms, services and stormwater tanks has been wrapped and enfolded within an expressive skin of mostly vertical timbers. This simple technique generates strong vertical expression, punctuated by a play of rounded and soft corners into elegantly sculpted forms that sit well in this in-between landscape of beach, pine trees, car parks and highway verges. The first three buildings are prototypes. One is a conversion and two are new designs – each with different functional add-ons to the basic public toilet brief. 35 Small Project Architecture Commendation Commendation Photography: Peter Murphy Martian Embassy LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) Crescent House Andrew Burns Architect Jury citation Jury citation As part of a highly collaborative initiative involving the Sydney Story Factory, LAVA’s Martian Embassy is a creative writing centre primarily for the marginalised youth of Sydney. This project strongly demonstrates that innovative architectural design can be achieved in spite of limited budgets and resources. The Martian Embassy project transforms a difficult, dark elongated space, by inserting a sinuous geometry that merges the Embassy, writing school and shop programs into a single, continuous interior form. The structure consists of more than 1000 unique CNC cut plywood ‘jigsaw pieces’. These are assembled into sectional ribs that vary along its entire length, conforming to the corresponding spatial program. The project demonstrates the importance of architectural innovation in the collaborative 36 Photography: Brett Boardman process of place making. Built largely on good will, constructed with the help of volunteers’ hands, and making use of donated time and material, the Martian Embassy has been lovingly adopted by the community it builds around itself. The project underscores the significance of creativity in youth development with the architecture playing a key role – adding to the sense of wonder and imagination for its young visitors. The Martian Embassy’s success is embedded in its ambition to create a one-of-a-kind cultural venue. It achieves this despite the highly restrictive budget and difficult site, showing both the resourcefulness and generosity of its design team. Crescent House is the first rendition of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s (SCAF) ‘Fugitive Structures’ programme. Following on from the Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London and MOMA’s PS1 Young Architecture Program, SCAF’s initiative is an invitation-only competition platform directed to emerging and mid-career architects. Designed as a temporary structure of blackened timber, the pavilion lies in SCAF’s Zen garden. It blurs the boundary between art object and architecture, skilfully negotiating its role within the art institution, while resolving the highly specific context of the site – the rose apple hedge, the white pebbles of the Zen garden and the inner suburban context of SCAF. The architecture creates a sense of ambiguity, appearing as a singular object in the landscape, but with a multiplicity of spatial elements that frame, recompose, and shift the focus of the visitor’s gaze. Upon careful examination, the restrained use of material is handled with a deep sense of thought, as we see subtle variations between charred and stained; rough and smooth; sharp and blunt. The play of light on the pierced metal screen animates the pavilion’s material language, and constantly shifts the boundary between internal and external surfaces. The project distils a big set of ideas into a concise format – clearly demonstrating that the scale of ambition of this small project is not constrained by its modest footprint. Heritage Greenway Award Photography: Simon Wood Gowings and State Theatre Buildings Restoration and Hotel Conversion Woodhead and Graham Brooks and Associates, Sydney (Creative Adaptation) Jury citation This project is a remarkable achievement in the conservation, refurbishment and adaptive reuse of two adjacent heritage listed buildings – the Gowings and State Theatre Buildings – that have been combined and significantly adapted to house a new city hotel. It knits together two buildings of distinctive early 20th century styles: the State Theatre (1929) by architects Henry White and John Eberson is in an inter-war Gothic Skyscraper style, originally designed as a theatre and vertical shopping complex. The Gowings building (1912, later renovated in 1929) by Crawford H. Mackellar is in an inter-war Commercial Palazzo style and was originally designed for retail and commercial office use. Although the two structures are combined into one, the unique spatial integrity and heritage character of each have been maintained. Presented with a set of highly technical challenges, such as differing floor heights and dissimilar construction systems, the design team handled issues of structural connectivity, interior design and heritage conservation with the highest degree of skill and thoughtfulness. This conversion befits the original buildings’ scale and form, while preserving the important internal spatial character and heritage spaces. The Gowings and State Theatre Buildings restoration and hotel conversion breathes new life into the site, enhancing the public domain by adding a vital new contemporary program to the city’s heart. From the careful integration of building systems, to the curation of site specific installation art, the project team thoroughly considered each element of the heritage fabric for preservation, reuse or adaptation. The architects have navigated a complex design process in a manner that still recounts the vibrant past of the buildings, yet in an utterly contemporary manner. 37 Heritage Greenway Award (cont.) PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Juliette Churchill Project Architect Jonathon Bryant Graham Brooks and Associates Heritage Consultant Tony Murace Project Leader Graeme Mackenzie Project Leader Gerrie Lykourezos Documentation Lucy King Documentation Consultant Team: Enstruct Group Structural Consultant Waterman Group Electrical Consultant, Mechanical Consultant, Hydraulic Consultant Waterman Group Mechanical Consultant Waterman Group Hydraulic Consultant Nic Graham + Associates Interior Designer Indyk Architects. Interior Designer Woodhead Master Architect Philip Chun & Associates Fire Engineer & BCA Photography: Simon Wood JBA Planning Consultants Planning Arup Façade Engineer & Acoustic Engineer Candalepas Associates Retail Architecture Advanced Building Approvals PCA Sangster Design Group Food & Beverage Ongarato Graphic Design 38 Graham Brooks and Associates Heritage Consultant Construction Team: Built Builder, Construction Manager Amalgamated Holdings Project Manager, Developer Established 1975 An award for the conservation of historic buildings – the Greenway Award commemorates the work of the transported convict Francis Greenway, the first architect to be commissioned to design buildings for the fledgling colony of New South Wales. This category now includes adaptive re-use projects that involve alterations and additions to heritage buildings. Heritage (Creative Adaptation) Commendation Commendation Photography: Brett Boardman Photography: Peter Bennett The Majestic Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Lavender Bay Boatshed Stephen Collier Architects Jury citation Jury citation Finding a suitable use for the heritage listed Majestic Theatre was always going to be a major challenge. The building had laid dormant for more than a decade; many similar buildings have simply been gutted and turned into characterless commercial spaces, with little evidence of their past uses. The Majestic Theatre, one of many designed by prominent theatre architects Kaberry and Chard, opened in 1921 and has since maintained a civic presence on the Petersham shopping strip. Modified as a cinema in 1953, the auditorium was levelled in 1979 for use as a roller skating rink, and later as a social club. The ground floor commercial spaces and the three levels of apartments above have been sensitively designed to fit within the original building envelope. The exposed roof trusses and remnant auditorium ceiling details are neatly incorporated in the upper apartments. Taking advantage of the extended property line on the western side, the architects have punched openings through the big blank side wall to create balconies of a scale and detail that complement the original design. The theatre façade and rear elevation have been carefully detailed to conserve and highlight their original details. Significant interior elements have been skilfully incorporated into the new internal layout. Although no longer directly connected to the upper level apartments, the foyer remains largely intact, awaiting a suitable tenant. The relocation of movable heritage elements into the spacious public areas at each end of the apartments reflects the building’s previous functions and further enhances the interpretation of the building’s history. This project successfully inserts contemporary residential living into a large redundant theatre, while retaining and revealing the significant elements and character of its former uses. This conversion of one of the few remnants of Lavender Bay’s 19th century working waterfront employs a range of discrete and thoughtful architectural strategies to remake a former shipwright’s workshop into a home without compromising its essentially utilitarian character. Perched on a steep and tapered site, the irregular plan and profile of a simple shed generates dramatic internal spaces which have been revealed on the upper levels that frame views of the bay beyond. A massive skylight inserted into the wall and roof on the southern face allows views to the harbour. New interventions are sleek, well detailed and contemporary and clearly distinguishable from the rusticity of the original structure, which is most evident inside the building. The framed timber structure and corrugated wall and ceiling linings are largely intact, and where these have been removed the ‘absence’ is clearly expressed. This adaptation has captured and preserved the building’s original character and in particular its strong functional relationship with the waterfront. Inventive techniques are used to capture and direct natural light down to the lower level. Here, the relationship with the waterfront is more tangible – water reflecting light onto the ceilings and tidal movements that can be seen through the glass floor over the former slipway. 39 Heritage (Conservation) Architecture Award Architecture Award Photography: Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners Hyde Park Barracks - Reconstruction of Gate Lodge Domes Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners Conservation of the Convict Superintendent’s House Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Jury citation Jury citation The reconstruction of two shingled gate lodge domes at Hyde Park Barracks would appear to be a relatively simple task, but in fact required significant archival and archaeological research and technical knowledge. The gate lodges were built in 1817-19 on the western walls of the Hyde Park Barracks, but the domes were removed at some point between 1857 and 1866. With little known of the original construction details of the domes the architects, in accordance with the Burra Charter, have based their design and documentation on careful research of archival photographs, studies of other extant Greenway domes and the piecing together of 14 original timbers, removed from the gate lodge in 1983 but serendipitously found under the veranda of the adjacent Mint building in 2001. The reconstruction has used authentic materials and includes the original timbers, which have been spliced into their original locations. 40 Photography: Stephen Fabling The decision to opt for a partial interpretative reconstruction of one of the two gate lodges, rather than a total reconstruction, enables the public to understand and appreciate the structural detailing of the domes. During construction, the architects also provided public talks and demonstrations to explain the conservation process. The project achieves more than just the reconstruction of two shingled domes; it reinstates a key element in the overall architectural composition of Hyde Park Barracks, and enhances the colonial streetscape at the southern end of Macquarie Street. It is a fitting means to commemorate the bicentenary of Macquarie’s governorship. The reconstruction of the two gate lodge domes at Hyde Park Barracks serves as a fine example for other small-scale conservation projects. The conservation of the Convict Superintendent’s House on Cockatoo Island has been an exercise in removing layers of unsympathetic alterations and additions to reveal the house as it appeared in the mid19th century. Cockatoo Island is one of 11 sites in the Australia Convict Sites World Heritage listing. The Convict Superintendent’s House is one of the island’s most significant convictera structures. This significance has guided the decisions on the building’s conservation and interpretation as a mid-19th century marine villa. The original house was constructed in 1841, extended in 1844 and then further enlarged and re-oriented to face the harbour in 1859-60 to better suit the domestic requirements of the superintendent at that time. Over the past century, as the activities on Cockatoo Island changed, the building experienced numerous unsympathetic additions and alterations, concealing its historical and aesthetic significance. The project has emphasised the removal of unsympathetic alterations and additions, and the repair of original fabric rather than replacement. New work has been restricted to the minimum necessary to make the building publicly accessible. The grounds were landscaped to further enhance the setting of the house. Now open to the public for inspection and available for events and functions, the Convict Superintendent’s House demonstrates the diligent conservation and interpretation of a key building on this World Heritage listed site. Award For Enduring Architecture PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Graham M. Thorp Project Director Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Air Conditioning Supervision Tony Klarich Site Architect Howard Post & Associates, New York Kitchen Planning Consultants Kahn and Jacobs, New York Consulting Architects M. Kodaras, New York Sound Isolation Consultants Keith Steele Chief Architect Mrs A.L. Lawrence Auditorium Acoustic Consultants Bob Mugden Design Architect Consultant Team: Rankine & Hill Structural Engineers John R. Wallis & Associates Mechanical (part) & Electrical Engineers Slocum & Fuller (New York & Sydney) Engineer (Air Conditioning), Reference Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Rider Hunt & Partners Quantity Surveyors Gerald Lewers Amenities Wall Tiles Design Tom Bass Sculpture on West Wall Gerald Lewers Fountain Lobby Michael Santry Abstract/Mosaics Donald Johnston Interior Design (Board & Head Office Executive) George Connor Traffic Analysis Construction Team: Concrete Constructions Construction Manager Commonwealth Experimental Building Station, Ryde Constructional & Testing Advice Established 2003 Following on from similar awards in America, England and New Zealand, the 25 Year Award was recently renamed the Award for Enduring Architecture Award with past winners including the Sydney Opera House. Photography: David Moore The AMP Building Sydney Cove PTW Architects 41 Award For Enduring Architecture (cont.) Photography: David Moore Jury citation AMP headquarters, at Alfred Street Circular Quay, is a remarkable and outstanding example of an international style, curtain wall office building. Its simple curved building form and fine building articulation elevate it above much of the banal city making that followed its construction. As the first building to breach the 150 feet building height limit it was not spared controversy; 12 months of debate ensued between the City of Sydney and the State Government before approval was granted. Thankfully this building set 42 a remarkable agenda for the future of towers in this city. Its graceful curve and public domain offering are both generous and subtle. work space; use of harbour water to service ducted air conditioning; an automatic document conveyor system; and a telephone exchange. This building is imbedded in the histories and memories of Sydneysiders, many of whom have personal memories of the day they went to the top and viewed the world below. Now dwarfed by surrounding development, the AMP Tower sits as a jewel within the city skyline, a welcome address to the ferry terminals below and the harbour beyond. This is a remarkable building, a valuable piece of city making, and an exceptional and generous gift to the character of the city. The building was innovative for its time employing: open plan office floors; high quality staff amenities to foster more effective work practices; an urban plaza for the public; high speed passenger lifts; an elevated floor resulting in highly flexible COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture PROJECT TEAM Jury citation Practice team: Guy Lake Natalie Lane-Rose Sylvia Vasak Tonie Maclennan Bianca Heinemann This remarkable project relies on the use of steel to achieve the core of its architectural expression. The panelised weeping Core10 façade gives the building a calm and ordered expression within a chaotic urban environment. Consultant Team: TTW Structural Engineer EMF Griffiths Mechanical & Electrical JBA Planning Planning Consultant Pyramid Pacific Project Management Steve Watson and Partners BCA WT Partnership Quantity Surveyor Acoustic Logic Acoustics ASPECT Studios Landscape Architect EWFW Hydraulic Point of View Lighting Design Construction Team: Grindley Construction Construction Manager Dunsteel COR-TEN Façade Contractor The flexibility of the cladding system has enabled the architects to achieve an ordered and simple expression to a building typology which is programmatically demanding and services intense. Multiple housing projects are not renowned for their use of steel beyond the quintessential custom orb roof sheeting profile employed by northern Australian lower scale campus-style housing. Here the use of the material, both in solid and perforated form, acts as a rain screen to a hard working simplistic box behind. It is exciting and delightful to see steel extended in such a creative and expressive manner to deliver a remarkable addition to the fabric of the city. Fundamentally this material use gives the building personality and expression while allowing it to age and weather, delivering a richer building over time. Established 2007 The COLORBOND® Steel Award is given to a project which utilises steel in an innovative and creative manner. Photography: Richard Glover Iglu Central Bates Smart 43 COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture Commendation Photography: Brett Boardman Cowshed House Carterwilliamson Architects Jury citation A small site, modest budget, simple needs, singular form, efficient planning, unfussy detailing and raw brick and galvanised steel materiality work in symphony to produce an exemplary home. Appropriating the existing shell of an old urban cowshed, the plan frames a garden courtyard to the north and lets slip a pocket of green to the south. Living rooms and ground floor bedrooms engage these green spaces while a lofty mezzanine bedroom overlooks the street, a jacarandashaded courtyard and the broader urban context. The key formal move, an articulated sloping roof of custom-orb zincalume, does away with the jacaranda clogged gutters of the former shed and addresses the sunlight needs of southern neighbours. This sculpted roof form triggers an undulating ribbon of 44 custom-orb zincalume wall cladding and clerestory windows that capture light and breeze, and generate the building’s emblematic street address. The raw materiality, exemplified by zincalume roofing and cladding, are integral to the expression of the project. Blacket Prize PROJECT TEAM Consultant Team: Practice team: Abbie Galvin Principal Umow Lai Electrical Consultant, Mechanical Consultant, ICT, ESD Specialist Julian Ashton Project Director Peter Titmuss Project Director WSP Lincoln Scott Hydraulic Consultant, Fire Engineer Conor Larkins Project Architect JPW Landscape Consultant Isabell Beck Architect Arup Acoustic Consultant Daniel Londono Architect TTW Structural & Civil Consultant, Traffic Consultant Shane Leydon Architect Ben Chew Architect Aaron Vumbaca Project Team Fiona Young Education Specialist Premier Engineering Services Dangerous Goods WT Partnership Quantity Surveyor Blackett Maguire & Goldsmith BCA Consultant Morris Goding Accessibility Steve Watson & Partners PCA Consultants Photography: John Gollings Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub BVN Donovan Hill Jury citation The National Life Sciences Hub (NaLSH) is a new teaching and research facility for the life sciences at Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga campus. In a typical rural campus setting that is characterised by its lack of planning and disparate array of buildings, the National Life Sciences Hub, in response, brings structure, legibility and a new collegiate sensibility to the campus. The building is organised as an ‘L’ shape in plan and is sited to define and terminate a new avenue in the precinct. Marking the entry is the principal gathering space: a grand over-scaled verandah linking internal and external spaces. Importantly, this element is scaled both to the building and to the wider science precinct. The verandah and foyer form a nexus between research and teaching functions, supporting interaction between schools, researchers and students. The two wings house student teaching and research laboratories which are folded around the entry foyer. The project’s four functional strands can be read in the articulated roof form. Roof heights are modulated to accommodate linear rooftop plant and skylights along the circulation spines of the building. an environmental target of a 5 Star Green Star Rating. Given the high proportion of laboratories with strict climatic controls, this target represents Australian excellence in environmental performance for a building of this type. The jury pays tribute to the client and project team for exceeding the brief to create a high quality educational establishment that satisfies the aspirations of the individual school and the wider university. It is a model in planning, design and environmental performance for rural Australian campuses. Construction Team: Savills Project Manager Joss Construction Main Contractor Established 1984 This Prize was introduced specifically for buildings erected in country New South Wales and was named for the 19th century architect Edmund Blacket whose picturesque Gothic Revival style churches can still be found in many country towns. The use of red, recycled clay brickwork builds on a history of masonry construction in the Wagga Wagga region. The project achieves 45 NSW Premier’s Prize PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Chris Bosse Project Architect, Design Architect, Project Manager Consultant Team: Will O’Rourke Design Consultant The Glue Society Concept Developer Berents Project Management Project Manager ARUP Multi-disciplinary Engineers Construction Team: Redwood Projects Builder Established 1997 This prize is awarded by the NSW Premier from a shortlist of projects selected by the NSW Government Architect which are of benefit to the people of NSW - whether they be educational, cultural, transport or accommodation facilities. Photography: Brett Broadman Martian Embassy LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) Jury citation LAVA’s Martian Embassy is the new home for the Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit creative writing centre for marginalised young people in Sydney. The new shopfront ‘drop in’ centre at 176 Redfern Street, Redfern is designed to awaken creativity in kids of all ages. The Martian Embassy attracts young people who have had difficulty in engaging with traditional learning and creative writing pursuits. This is an asset for the whole community, to have a generation of imaginative, articulate and engaged 46 people with their own place to learn and interact with one another. plywood ribs is brought to life by ‘red planet’ light and sound projections. The design fires up the engines of imagination. For inspiration, LAVA travelled back to some of the great stories - ‘Moby Dick’, H. G. Wells’ ‘Time Machine’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ by Stanley Kubrick. Today passersby cannot resist entering to explore and embark on an ‘intergalactic journey’ from the embassy at the street entrance, into the shop full of red planet traveller essentials, and then to the writing classes at the back of the facility. A total immersive space of oscillating Visitors of all ages are stopped in their tracks, trying to work out what it looks like. Is it a whale? A time tunnel? The centre’s director Cath Keenan said: ‘Students feel it is their special space. The design has played a crucial role in our core mission – enhancing young people’s creativity’. The design and realisation of the Martian Embassy was only made possible through the pro-bono work of the many people. This is an inspiring example of innovative design through prefabrication, sustainability, using local resources, customisation, and community participation. The project has demonstrated how it is possible to create more with less. Better design and amenities, with less material, less energy footprint, and less cost. And most importantly, how to inspire and engage with the next generation of creative writers and thinkers. City Of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize PROJECT TEAM Practice team: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Architect ASPECT Studios Landscape Architect Lend Lease Developer Consultant Team: E.G.O. Group; Davenport Campbell Interior Designer Arup Structural Engineer, ESD Consultant and Mechanical Services Consultant Aurecon Electrical Services Consultant Warren Smith and Partners Hydraulic Services Consultant and Fire Services Lend Lease Quantity Surveyor Defire Fire Engineering Speirs + Major, Lend Lease, Ramus Lighting Design Photography: Florian Groehn Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease Jury citation The winner of the inaugural City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize is Darling Quarter by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease. The prize has been established to recognise a project that improves the quality of our public domain through architectural or urban design excellence, and it may be for, or include public art. The inaugural winner amply fulfils this criteria. It revives the quarter with urbanity, flair and credibility, and provides an exemplary integration of work and recreation spaces, hard surfaces and green space, and active and passive uses. Underpinned by a new activitybased campus for the Commonwealth Bank, Darling Quarter is a model of sustainability, with tri-generation, black water treatment and energy saving systems. Its achievements in sustainability are matched by its urban design achievements and its contribution to urban vitality. It integrates commercial offices and open space at a very human scale, with its six-storey height and roof profile allowing winter sunshine into the public spaces, making them a welcome gathering place year-round. At night, fixed and interactive lighting combines public art with extended operating hours for the retail, cafes and restaurants. The development provides licensed and unlicensed seating as well as a promenade, public seating areas, parkland and the most wonderful children’s play area. This generous 4000 square metre play area and youth theatre provides for active play, mental play and water play, and is a meeting place for carers, parents and grandparents. Waterforms Water Features Designer Robert Bird Civil Engineer Deuce Design Interpretation/Wayfinding Construction Team: Lend Lease Builder, Project Manager Established 2013 The City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize has been established to recognise a project that improves the quality of the public domain through architectural or urban design excellence and may be for, or include, public art. Darling Quarter is a most welcome addition to the city. 47 NSW President’s Prize Sean O’Toole UrbanGrowth NSW Within the context of a new Planning Act for New South Wales, and a development-focused Metro Strategy for Sydney, there will be an urgent need in coming years for greater urban renewal and infill development. Successful future urban renewal must balance and integrate quality public domain, urban design and architecture with community aspirations and greater density. In selecting the recipient of the 2013 NSW President’s Prize, the leadership of Sean O’Toole at UrbanGrowth NSW (formerly Landcom) has been exemplary over the past 18 years in delivering quality urban renewal. Sean’s leadership is collaborative and inclusive, empowering those around him. He has been a strong and pragmatic advocate, understanding the fundamental importance of quality urban design and architecture in urban renewal. He has led UrbanGrowth NSW in demonstrating the value of investment in quality public domain 48 as a key to successful urban renewal. He has shown that government can champion the public realm and lead the delivery of city improvements. Under Sean, UrbanGrowth NSW, has achieved this in partnership with design professionals, developers and the community. In its partnerships with developers it has shared the development risk, so it has had a real stake in success. Landmark projects such as Victoria Park, Rouse Hill Town Centre, Prince Henry at Little Bay, and those upcoming for Green Square and the Newcastle CBD demonstrate quality urban renewal and place making. Common ingredients in this successful approach have been engagement with the community as well as local and state governments, the introduction of comprehensive on-the-ground sustainability measures, and most importantly, design excellence. Sean is taking his well-deserved retirement this year, having dedicated his entire productive career to the public sector. He has consistently made the wider public interest central to his strategic decision-making. The practical legacy of his approach is an array of projects that have made a significant qualitative difference to the delivery of urban renewal in New South Wales. Established 1984 This prize is awarded at the discretion of the NSW Chapter President and is given to an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the profession of architecture. Emerging Architect Prize Andrew Burns Andrew Burns Architect While the emergence of Andrew Burns has been seemingly rapid and spectacular; this belies a gestation in private practice of some six years and, prior to that, the development of strong foundations working for leading practices over a 10 year period. Australia House opened just over one year ago in the Niigata Prefecture north of Tokyo. Secured through an open international competition which asked for a compact structure of no more than 130 square metres, it reveals a level of maturity which Andrew explains simply as ‘an understanding of what I can do and what I can’t do, and acting within those perimeters’. Australia House exhibits simplicity of form and striking directness. Based on triangular geometries in plan and section, it is responsive to its site, and subtly references the Australian vernacular as well as the Japanese landscape. Crescent House, also secured through a competition process for the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, sits within the Foundation’s courtyard. It is both art object and architecture, comprising the intersection of two arcs, framing and transforming the surrounding landscape. Andrew’s other recent work includes a collaboration with Sarah Eberle in the design of an urban park for the 2012 London Festival of Architecture, and Karinya House, north of Sydney – again exhibiting a similar restraint and engagement with the landscape. Encouragingly, Andrew anticipates his future practice as being focused on projects that have a public element and a ‘socially restorative quality’. He cites both student and social housing as areas of particular interest. Andrew is an excellent ambassador for the advancement of the architectural profession within the public arena both locally and internationally. We keenly anticipate his considered and thoughtful future contributions. SPONSORED BY GEBERIT Established 2011 The Emerging Architects Prize recognises an emerging architect or architectural collaboration’s contribution to architectural practice, education, design excellence and community involvement that advances the profession’s standing in the public arena. Marion Mahony Griffin Prize Adrian Ashton Prize For Writing And Criticism Prior to accepting a secondment as the Director of Strategic Developments at SHFA, Helen had attained the position of Assistant Government Architect in the Government Architect’s Office (GAO), a position she has held since 2007. In this role she championed the promotion of women architects within the GAO, and has played an important role in mentoring graduates. She has taught at three of Sydney’s universities and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney. Helen Lochhead Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority This year’s jury was privileged to receive nominations from a superb group of women architects, all of whom fulfilled the requirements of this prize. The jury has selected Helen Lochhead to receive the Marion Mahony Griffin Prize this year. Helen is currently the Director of Strategic Developments at the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA). She has over 20 years of involvement in the design of the public realm in Australia. Helen has worked tirelessly to achieve design excellence in the public sector working on architectural, urban design and landscape design projects. Through her role on committees, design review panels and competition juries, and from within local council and state government agencies, she has worked determinedly, managing to extricate herself from procedural inertia and the daily difficulties of working in a bureaucracy to make design quality and sustainability important considerations in major capital works projects. One of the considerations in giving this prize is that the work be in sympathy with the work of Marion Mahony Griffin. The Griffins often worked at a master planning level, seeking to achieve social improvements by creating a new form of suburbia that was more responsive to the landscape and topography than the standard colonial street grid. Working at the master planning level is a key theme throughout Helen’s work, thus we consider her to be well deserving of the Marion Mahony Griffin Prize. Established 1998 Named for the pioneering woman architect, Marion Mahony Griffin, this prize, was established to acknowledge a distinctive body of work by a female architect, be it for their contribution to: architectural education; journalism; research; theory; professional practice; or built architectural work. Laura Harding Architecture Australia/ Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects We embrace ease and eschew risk at our peril.1 Written in the closing lines of Laura Harding’s review of extensions to the National Gallery of Australia, these words could just as well form the personal motto of their author. Faced with the task of reviewing a contentious public project, amidst the swirl of competing agendas, and to a strict word count, it must have been tempting to polemicise or simplify the story – but this is not how Laura writes. Her articles take a far riskier position. Walking a tightrope, or better, multiple tightropes, she paces out in erudite and concise phrases the spider-like narrative strands interwoven through the architectural project. Ultimately, we are not just offered the critic’s informed judgement but insight into the many possible angles from which judgement could be made. This makes for educational, entertaining, and deeply satisfying reading. A Contributing Editor to ‘Architecture Australia’ since 2006, Laura regularly writes for the publication and its online counterpart, ‘ArchitectureAU’. She has also contributed to ‘Architecture Review Australia’, ‘Landscape Architecture Australia’, ‘Monument Magazine’, and ‘Houses Magazine’. Despite her considerable acumen as a critic, Laura is primarily engaged in architectural practice. She is a key contributor to the work of Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, where she has worked since 1996. Over the past year there has been lively debate about the state and purpose of architectural criticism. If we are to invite public interest in architecture, we must transcend the mystification of practice that makes architecture seem the selfish product of a singular creator. Laura Harding’s writing, as exemplified in her National Gallery review, expands the narrative by bringing to light the contingencies, compromises and generosities embodied in practice. 1. Harding, L. ‘Extending the NGA’. Architecture Australia. January/February 2011. SPONSORED BY BATES SMART Established 1986 The Adrian Ashton prize was first introduced in 1986 as a biennial award, but is now awarded yearly. Adrian Ashton was a past president of the Institute and founding member of the National Trust in NSW; however, it is his role as the first editor of the NSW Chapter’s ‘Architecture Bulletin’ that this prize commemorates. 49 David Lindner Prize The prize will support research to analyse the complex area of Sydney surrounding the Alexandra Canal in its present state, in order to suggest possible directions for future development and the role that architects might play in this development. An attractive feature of the submission is the engagement of students, as future architects, in thinking about wider urban issues. Nathan Etherington Scale Architecture/ University of Sydney The David Lindner Prize aims to encourage new research on architecture in the public realm and is awarded for a submission that proposes ideas for solving the real challenges facing our cities and that contributes to professional and broader community debate. The jury is delighted to name Nathan Etherington (Scale Architecture/ University of Sydney) the inaugural winner for his submission entitled ‘Do not disturb. Toxic Urbanism and the Alexandra Canal’. This research builds build on investigations currently being developed in the Masters Graduation Design Studio at the University of Sydney, where Nathan teaches. 50 The jury unanimously agreed that Nathan was a worthy recipient for the inaugural David Lindner Prize. The proposal will be featured in an exhibition during the Sydney Architecture Festival in October. Results of this research, due to be submitted in January 2014, will be subsequently published in the NSW Chapter’s ‘Architecture Bulletin’. Established 2013 This prize is named in memory of the architect David Lindner who disappeared whilst travelling in Iran in 1997. 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The arrangement and scale of spaces as well as the materiality and time-related decay create an environment that, once mastered, will enable people to break the emotional link with Earth and venture forth. 52 Platform 870: An alternative theatre Manus Leung University of New South Wales Time, decay and beautiful desolation are constant themes and companions - all part of a training exercise. The project is dark but extremely bold and strangely optimistic in its raw beauty. The jury was impressed by Manus Leung’s alternative theatre, which deftly engages temporal metaphor and sensitive adaptation, to re-present aspects of Cockatoo Island’s fabric. This evocative presentation transformed Cockatoo Island’s robust harbour topography and familiar industrial fabric into a dramatic and grounded yet ephemeral performing arts stage. The familiar industrial/arts transformation is offered a fresh interpretation via Leung’s sensitive insertion of an elegant new circular form suspended delicately above the chasm of the Sutherland dock. The concentric layers of the new spatial rotunda assemble spectators, actors and storytellers alike, suspended above water and nestled amidst the robust adjacent rectilinear warehouses transformed respectively into front and back of house. The hovering rotunda echoes the suspension of disbelief inherent in the contract between audience and actor, as the eternal circular horizon of the theatre; suspended, exposed and harbourside – beautifully delivers drama from the outset. 2013 New South Wales Graduate & Student Awards NSW First Degree Design Prize Structural Innovation in Architecture Prize Steamworks Angus Vinden University of Newcastle Ribb Catalan Collaboration of 13 students University of Technology Sydney Steamworks is set in an urban infill site within inner-city Newcastle. Through rigorous analysis, the proposal investigates a number of issues, including the constraints of existing context and grain, designing for denser urban fabric and connections to the wider city. The jury was impressed by its bold agenda, blurring boundaries by altering the way people see and use the space and its use of strong organisational and planning strategies. The ideas are carried through to the specification of appropriate materials. The project’s program of an urban spa and associated facilities such as saunas, hot and cool chambers and a gym are carefully considered across several floors of purposeful experiential sequence. The final scheme is beautifully drawn to affectively evoke the atmospheric qualities of an innercity spa. Collaboration between students Philena Au Yeung, Hani Bafail, Francesco Bianchini, Timothy Cheung, Sonni Chung, Domenico Ciccio, Laura Hinds, James Lauman, Natalie Ma, Sandra Mendonca, Amelia Pang, Jordan Soriot, Aaron Yeoh and instructors Phillipe Block, Melonie Bayl-Smith, Dave Pigram. At first glance this beautiful arching, curving form of slender legs and fanning body looks like it is attempting to climb the cold wall of a UTS warehouse. This structure appears organic and anthropomorphic. To realise this work with masonry blocks and mortar is an impressive resolution and understanding of material capacity and structural ability. Reminiscent of Gaudi’s parabolic curvilinear structural forms, Ribb Catalan pushes one’s structural understanding of tensile brittle ceramics. The team’s use of rigorous computer modelling – to analyse, iterate and optimise the direction of load to maintain the structure in its safe limits of compression and tension – is a clear display of structural innovation. To allow this structural expression in a playful, almost Brett Whiteley-esque freedom of line is exemplary. 53 2013 New South Wales Graduate & Student Awards Digital Innovation in Architecture Prize Hanging Luminality Jonathan Fernandes and James Ye-Won Lee University of Sydney This project represents a unique design response using digital techniques that cross over between art, architecture and robotics. Designed in response to a brief from the Sydney Festival to create a performance space for the summer of 2012, the project – which references the kinetic sculptural work of Reuben Margolin – sought to challenge the potential of architecture as a “temporal, dynamic system capable of being assembled and disassembled within a few days”. 54 Through the design and installation of a segmented ceiling plane, which is linked to a series of sensors and height-adjustable rigging supported from an overarching structural truss system, Hanging Luminality can adapt its form to suit the density or flow of occupants, the performance type, or to follow a prescribed series of instructions through which the spatial and volumetric proportions of the space are adjusted. One could imagine interaction with the work of Andrew Benjamin through the ability for this system to dynamically modify the occupants’ perception of volume through the fluid manipulation of surfaces. The parametric computational techniques utilised to evolve the temporal and mechanical aspects of the design establish not only the sensory operation of the system but also the assessment of various construction compositions. The final execution of the work to the level of full-size mockup demonstrates the rigorous application of these techniques from concept to assembly. 2013 New South Wales Graduate & Student Awards Jury Shaun Carter (Jury Chair), Joe Agius , Angelique Edmonds, Emili Fox, Steven Donaghey, Michael Weiner, Jana Somasundaram. 2013 New South Wales University Awards & Prizes History And Theory Award Construction And Practice Prize First Degree Graduate Of The Year Prize Masters Graduate Of The Year Prize A prize for the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the discipline areas of History and Theory in the three years of the Master of Architecture degree. Jemima Manton Sophie Bock Dominic Warland Jonathon Gregory Evans University of Newcastle University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of Technology Sydney A prize for the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the discipline areas of Construction and Practice in the three years of the Bachelor of Architecture Degree. Christopher Mullaney Amy Beech-Allen Angus McLaren Jay Alexander Griffin University of Newcastle University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of Technology Sydney This prize awarded to the most outstanding student in Design and Professional Studies graduating from a Bachelors program. Hamish Cox Eugene Kirkwood Marguerite Farmakis Benjamin Peake University of Newcastle University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of Technology Sydney This prize awarded to the most outstanding student in Design and Professional Studies graduating from a Masters program. Christopher Mullaney Madeleine Rowe Marinel Dator Christopher Bamborough University of Newcastle University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of Technology Sydney 55 Entries Public Architecture 1 Blacktown Clinical School McConnel Smith & Johnson Image: Richard Glover 2 Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub BVN Donovan Hill Blacket Prize Image: John Gollings 3 Charlestown Medical Centre Schreiber Hamilton Architecture Image: Kevin Schreiber 4 Concord Medical Education Centre Suters Architects Image: Hans Schlupp 5 Cranbrook Junior School Tzannes Associates Image: Simon Wood 6 CSU Community Health Facility Brewster Hjorth Architects Image: Mark James 7 Hunter Medical Research Institute SKM-S2F and Denton Corker Marshall - architects in association. Image: John Gollings 8 Ingham Health Research Institute McConnel Smith & Johnson Image: Richard Glover 9 Lycee Condorcet Gymnasium Integrated Design Group Image: David Ha 10 Mill Hill Early Education Centre Baker Kavanagh Architects Image: Neil Fenelon 11 Morris Iemma Indoor Sports Centre McPhee Architects Image: Sharrin Rees 12 Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment Architect Marshall in association with Government Architect’s Office Commendation Image: Brett Boardman 13 NeuRA Cox Richardson Architects and Planners Image: Brett Boardman 14 Newcastle Museum Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Image: John Gollings 15 Newington College Sesquicentenary Project Budden Nangle Michael Hudson Image: Anthony Fretwell 16 Newtown Interchange Caldis Cook Group in association with the NSW Government Architect’s Office Image: Ross Thornton Image: John Gollings 21 The Star Event Centre Fitzpatrick + Partners Image: Tania Milbourne 1 2 22 The University of Sydney Centre for Carbon, Water and Food Suters Architects Image: Hans Schlup 23 The Wayside Chapel Environa Studio 4 3 Image: Owen Zhu 24 UTS Great Hall and Balcony Room DRAW Image: Brett Boardman 25 UTS Multi-Purpose Sports Hall PTW Architects 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Image: Brian Steele 26 Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre Collins and Turner with City of Sydney Sulman Medal; Architecture Award – Sustainable Architecture Image: Richard Glover 17 Ourimbah Information Resource Common Extension Webber Architects Image: Adrian Boddy 18 Redfern Jarjum College Cracknell & Lonergan Architects Image: Peter Lonergan 19 St James’ Primary School, Muswellbrook Webber Architects Image: Josh Marshal 56 20 The Kinghorn Cancer Centre BVN Donovan Hill 14 15 16 Entries Urban Design 1 18 College Street Scott Carver Image: Geoff Ambler 18 17 19 2 Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with ASPECT Studios and Lend Lease Lloyd Rees Award; Milo Dunphy Award; City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize 1 2 Image: John Gollings 20 3 Newtown Interchange Caldis Cook Group in association with the NSW Government Architect’s office 21 4 3 Image: Ross Thornton 22 4 Pitt Street Mall Public Domain Upgrade Tony Caro Architecture Architecture Award 23 Image: Tony Caro 5 6 5 Railway Park Auburn MWA Image: Kyal Sheehan 24 25 6 The Former Coal Loader Hassell Image: Simon Wood 7 7 Walla Mulla Park Chris Elliott Architects with Terragram Image: Richard Glover 26 57 Entries Commercial Architecture 1 11 Joynton Avenue CHROFI Image: Simon Whitbread 2 5 Murray Rose Avenue Turner Image: Brett Boardman 1 2 3 85 Castlereagh St John Wardle Architects and Westfield Design and Construction Image: John Gollings 4 Brisans Motorcycle Showroom Suters Architects 3 4 Image: Andy Warren 5 Danks and Bourke Tony Owen Partners Image: Brett Boardman 6 Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award 6 5 Image: John Gollings 7 Eclipse Tower Fitzpatrick + Partners Image: Tanja Milbourn 8 Gladesville Bridge Marina Candalepas Associates 7 8 9 Image: Brett Boardman 9 Kingston HQ Suters Architects Image: Andy Warren 10 Sydney Eye Specialist Centre Kingsford Georgina Wilson Architect Image: Murray Fredericks 11 The Darling Cox Richardson Architects and Planners Image: Brett Boardman 58 10 11 Entries Interior Architecture 1 85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby & Entry John Wardle Architects and Westfield Design and Construction Commendation 11 Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment Architect Marshall in association with Government Architect’s Office Image: John Gollings Image: Brett Boardman 2 Allen and Overy BVN Donovan Hill 12 Point Piper Residence Daniel Boddam Image: John Gollings Image: Terrence Chin 3 Bresic Whitney Office Fitout Chenchow Little Architects 13 Seacliff House Chris Elliott Architects Image: John Golling Image: Richard Glover 4 Clayton Utz, Sydney Bates Smart 14 The Kinghorn Cancer Centre BVN Donovan Hill John Verge Award Image: Richard Glover 5 Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), E.G.O. Group and Davenport Campbell Image: John Gollings 6 Easts Legends Lounge Cullinan Ivanov Partnership Image: Giles Westley 7 Gordons Bay Residence Madeleine Blanchfield Architects Image: Felix Forest 8 Harbour Rocks Hotel SJB Interiors Image: Tom Evangelidis 9 Lilyfield Warehouse Virginia Kerridge Architect Architecture Award 1 2 3 4 6 5 Image: John Gollings 15 The University of Sydney Fisher Library and Learning Network Suters Architects 7 8 9 Image: Richard Glover 16 UoW UniCentre Brewster Hjorth Architects Image: Christian Mushenko 17 UTS Great Hall and Balcony Room DRAW 11 10 12 Image: Brett Boardman 18 Woods Bagot Sydney Studio Woods Bagot Commendation Image: Trevor Mein 13 14 15 16 Image: Michael Nicholson 10 Martian Embassy LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) Image: Brett Broadman 17 18 59 Entries Residential Architecture - Houses (Alterations & Additions) 1 25 The Crescent DB + Balagna Architects 11 Freshwater Semi David Boyle Architect Image: Diego Balagn Image: Brigid Arnott 2 A House With Tiles On It Welsh + Major 12 G+T House Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects Image: Ben Hosking 3 Balmain Archive Innovarchi Image: John Gollings 4 Balmain House Fox Johnston Architecture Award Image: Brett Boardman 5 Bellevue Hill Residence Tzannes Associates Commendation Image: Brett Boardman 6 Chauvel House Mary Ellen Hudson Architects 13 Glebe House Design 5 - Architects Image: Pohio Adams Architects 10 Elliott Ripper House Christopher Polly Architect Image: Brett Boardman 2 3 5 4 6 15 Lavender Bay Boatshed Stephen Collier Architects Commendation Image: Peter Bennetts 16 Lilyfield Warehouse Virginia Kerridge Architect 17 Northbridge House Sandberg Schoffel Architects 9 Double Bay House Pohio Adams Architects 1 Image: Brett Boardman Image: Peter Bennetts 7 Cosgriff House Christopher Polly Architect Image: Geoff Beatty 23 Tír na nÓg Drew Heath Architects Wilkinson Award 14 House on Captain Piper’s Road Kieran McInerney Architect Image: Michael Nicholso 8 Cowshed House Carterwilliamson Architects Architecture Award – Residential Architecture Houses (Alterations & Additions); Architecture Award – Sustainable Architecture; Commendation – COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture Image: Brett Boardman Image: Stephen Antonopoulo Image: Grant Harvey Image: Brett Boardman 60 Image: Brett Boardman 22 The Upside-Down Back-ToFront House Carterwilliamson Architects 7 8 10 9 11 Image: Alex Nikulin 18 Oatley Road Residence, Paddington Georgina Wilson Architect 12 13 15 14 Image: Murray Fredericks 19 Ryrie House Studio Schelp Image: VMark Design 20 Shutter House Louise Nettleton Architects 16 17 18 Image: John Gollings 21 Tenandry Mury Architects Image: Ben Guthrie 20 21 22 23 19 Entries Residential Architecture - Houses (New) 1 Angophora House Richard Cole Architecture Commendation Image: Simon Wood 2 Austinmer Beach House Alexander Symes Architect in association with G + V Architecture Image: Nicholas Watt 3 Ayana - Lighthouse Road House, Byron Bay Corben Architects Image: Saul Goodwin 4 Bantry Bay House MacCormick Simonian Architects + MacCormick & Associates Architects Image: Huw Lambert 5 Bellevue Hill House David Edelman Architects Image: Brian Steele 6 Bondi House Andrew Burges Architects 11 Gallery House Domenic Alvaro Image: Meinphoto 12 Gordons Bay Residence Madeleine Blanchfield Architects Architecture Award 1 3 2 Image: Felix Forest 13 Helen St House Jodie Dixon Architect Image: Murray McKea 14 Hewlett House MPR Design Group 4 5 7 8 6 Image: John Gollings 15 Hunter Valley House James Stockwell Architect Image: Patrick Bingham Hall 16 Invisible House Peter Stutchbury Architecture Image: Michael Nicholson > Image: Peter Bennetts 7 Bronte House Tobias Partners Image: Justin Alexander 9 10 11 8 Coalcliff House Indyk Architects Image: Murray Fredericks 9 Five Dock House Utz-Sanby Architects Image: Marian Riabic 12 13 14 10 Flipped House Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects Architecture Award Image: Willem Rethmeier 15 16 61 Entries Residential Architecture - Houses (New) (Cont.) 17 Jamberoo Farm House Casey Brown Architecture Image: Patrick Bingham Hall 18 Lagoon House Matt Elkan Architect Image: Simon Whitbread 19 Link House Renato D’Ettorre Architects Image: Murray Fredericks 20 Keir Residence True North Architects Image: Brigid Arnott 21 King Residence David Boyle Architect Image: Brigid Arnott 22 Macmasters Beach House Neeson Murcutt Architects Image: Brett Boardman 23 Merewether 4 Webber Architects Image: Michael Kai 24 Northern Beaches House Tobias Partners 26 Russ & Diana’s House Cracknell & Lonergan Architects Image: Mark Callahan 27 Shellbank Avenue House Corben Architects Image: Steve Back 18 17 19 28 Shelly Beach House Nathan Lester Architecture Image: Brett Boardman 29 St Albans House Rory Brooks Architects Architecture Award 21 20 22 23 Image: Michael Nicholson 30 Stewart House Chenchow Little Architects Architecture Award Image: John Gollings 31 Waverley Residence Anderson Architecture 25 24 26 Image: Simon Anderson 32 Yatte Yattah House Tzannes Associates Image: Ben Guthrie Image: Justin Alexander 25 Palm Beach House Shahe Simonian (Zanazan) 28 29 Image: Trevor Mein 31 62 32 30 27 Entries Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing 1 18 College Street Scott Carver Image: GeoffAmbler 2 29-35 Prince Street, Cronulla Candalepas Associates Aaron Bolot Award Image: Brett Boardman 3 Apex Apartments Turner Image: Brett Boardman 4 Benelong Crescent Luigi Rosselli Architects Image: Justin Alexander 5 Eden Art Wall Tony Owen Partners Image: Brett Boardman 6 ESQ Bronte Baker Kavanagh Architects Image: Neil Fenelo 7 Grand Central Apartments EJE Architecture Image: EJE 8 Iglu Central Bates Smart Architecture Award Image: Richard Glover 9 Imperial Stanisic Architects 11 Robert Menzies Student Accommodation Allen Jack+Cottier Architects Image: Nic Bailey 12 Silk Apartments Tony Caro Architecture Architecture Award 1 2 3 4 Image: Brett Boardman 13 Telopea Social Housing Turner Architecture Award Image: Ethan Rohloff 14 The Majestic Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Commendation 5 6 7 Image: Brett Boardman 15 UWS Bankstown Student Housing Baker Kavanagh Architects 8 9 11 10 Image: Neil Fenelon 16 VSQ2 Tony Caro Architecture Image: Steve Bac 17 YVES Apartments JAA Studio Architecture + Urbanism 12 13 14 15 Image: John Gollings Image: Brett Boardman 10 Little Bay Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Commendation 16 17 Image: John Gollings 63 Entries Small Project Architecture 1 Always was always will be Cracknell & Lonergan Architects Image: Paul Patterson 2 Art Gallery of NSW Forecourt Upgrade Johnson Pilton Walker Robert Woodward Award Image: Brett Boardman 3 Blaxland Riverside Playground Kiosk Tonkin Zulaikha Greer with JMD Design and Sydney Olympic Park Authority Image: Brett Boardman 4 Brisbane Street House Alexander &CO. Image: Murray Fredericks 5 Casa Delle Lune Timothy Moon Architects Image: Timothy Moon 6 Cook Park Amenities Fox Johnston Commendation Image: Brett Boardman 7 Crescent House Andrew Burns Architect Commendation Image: Brett Boardman 8 Eileen O’Connor Centre Allen Jack+Cottier Architects Image: Nic Bailey 9 Grid Carterwilliamson Architects 11 Hyland House Chris Elliott Architects Image: Richard Glover 12 Laman Street Residence Space Design Architecture Image: Edward Highton Space Design 1 2 Image: Clive Lucas Stapleton Partners 64 4 13 Martian Embassy LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) Commendation Image: Peter Murphy 14 Rose Bay Marina Gangway and Service Pedestals Allen Jack+Cottier Architects 5 6 7 8 Image: Nic Bailey 15 Science House Welsh + Major Image: Welsh Major 16 Tamarama Semi-D David Langston-Jones 9 10 11 Image: Anthony Browell 17 The Room Malcolm Carver Image: Michael Nicholson 18 Tilba Pavillion Tobias Partners 13 14 Image: Justin Alexander 19 Yurong Public Amenities Government Architect’s Office Architecture Award Image: SimonWhitbread 17 16 Image: Brett Boardman 10 Hyde Park Barracks Reconstruction of Gate Lodge Domes Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners 3 18 19 15 12 Entries Heritage (Creative Adaptation) Entries Heritage (Conservation) 1 Botanica Heritage Precinct – The Gallery Allen Jack+Cottier Architects 1 Conservation of the Convict Superintendent’s House, Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Architecture Award Image: Nic Bailey 2 Former Paramount Studios Building Fox Johnston and Urbis Image: Stephen Fabling 1 2 2 Great Hall, University of Sydney OCP Architects Image: Simon Wood 3 Glebe Town Hall Tonkin Zulaikha Greer 3 Harbour Rocks Hotel SJB Interiors 4 3 Image: Tom Evangelidi 3 4 Restoration and Rejuvenation of George Bradman House, Bowral Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners Image: Simon Wood 5 Lavender Bay Boatshed Stephen Collier Architects Commendation 2 Image: Csilla Cserhalmi Image: Brett Boardman 4 Gowings and State Theatre Buildings Restoration and Hotel Conversion, Sydney Woodhead and Graham Brooks & Associates Greenway Award 1 Image: Clive Lucas Stapleton Partners 5 Taree Courthouse Suters Architects 5 Image: Peter Bennett 4 Image: Russell McFarland 6 Science House Welsh + Major Image: Richard Glover 7 Shutter House Louise Nettleton Architects 6 5 Image: John Gollings 8 The Former Coal Loader Hassell Image: Simon Woo 9 The Majestic Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Commendation 7 Image: Brett Boardman 8 9 65 ARCHITECTURAL MODELMAKERS Steve Mosley Matt Scott Rob Flowers phone: 9565 4518 email: [email protected] www.modelcraft.com.au 66 When Quality Matters... 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Stephenson Award Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) Interior Architecture John Verge Award The Kinghorn Cancer Centre BVN Donovan Hill Architecture Award Lilyfield Warehouse Virginia Kerridge Architect Commendation 85 Castlereagh St Sky Lobby & Entry John Wardle Architects and Westfield Design and Construction Commendation Woods Bagot Sydney Studio Woods Bagot Sustainable Architecture Milo Dunphy Award Darling Quarter Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios, Lend Lease, E.G.O. 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