ArchitectureAU – ACT Architecture Awards

2013 ACT Architecture Awards presentation dinner

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:23:24 +0000

The Australian Institute of Architects ACT Chapter is celebrating local architecture at the annual ACT Architecture Awards presentation dinner.

To celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday, Questacon will host an awards exhibition cocktail event on 22 June 2013, followed by the “Masquerade Centenary Winter Ball” themed presentation dinner at Parliament House.

ACT Architecture Awards entries open

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:29:47 +0000

Entries are now open for the 2013 ACT Architecture Awards from the Australian Institute of Architects.

Art in Architecture Award – All projects in the main 2013 ACT Architecture Awards scheme can be considered for this award at the jury’s discretion. Alternatively, entrants can nominate a particular project to be considered or enter independently of the main awards scheme. Entries close 1 March 2013.

2012 ACT Architecture Awards announced

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The 2012 ACT Architecture Awards were announced at a black-tie event at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra on 2 June.

A record sixty entries were received for the 2012 awards over eleven categories. From these, a total of twenty-eight prizes and commendations were awarded.

2012 ACT architecture awards

Roger Pegrum — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

At awards time, we get to see the best work by architects from Canberra and across the ACT. This year, the Canberra Medallion and the Romaldo Giurgola Award for Public Architecture went to a wonderful school hall in Queanbeyan by Collins Caddaye Architects. A produce market down by the railway by Colin Stewart Architects received the John Andrews Award for Commercial Architecture, and a modest fibro shack on the coast by Joanna Nelson Architect won the Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award, named for two of Canberra’s early architects. A light-filled junior school in a brand new town centre by Munns Sly Moore Architects was a worthy winner of the Education Prize. All these impressive projects were the work of small local offices and a local sole practitioner.

We were nevertheless grateful to see nominations for excellent projects by out-of-towners. The ACT Chapter award for interior architecture is named for W. Hayward Morris, who designed and decorated the famous Institute of Anatomy. This year that award went to Cunningham Martyn Design from Melbourne for their creative interventions at the heart of Walter Bunning’s National Library. Other architects from the big places on the coast to win awards were NMBW Architecture Studio, for Aranda House, a memorable suburban house; BVN Architecture in association with FMSA for Belconnen Police Station, a gutsy police station; and BVN Architecture for Gym HMAS Creswell, a very healthy gymnasium. It was a good year for Canberra and a good result for architecture.

ACT Architecture Awards entries open

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:33:00 +0000

Entries are now open for the ACT Architecture Awards. Entries can be submitted online and will be accepted until 17 February 2012. The display boards and CDs containing presentation material must be submitted by 24 February. Entrants give a ten-minute presentation to the jury on 5 or 6 March 2012. Entry fee is $477.

The awards will be presented on 2 June 2012.

Awards

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The first instalment of state awards in the lead-up to the RAIA National Awards, to be held at the Millennium Library, Brisbane, on 26 October.

01 TAS Image: Ray Joyce