The 2016 Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Architecture Awards were announced at the National Arboretum on Saturday 25 June.
Forty-six project were entered into the awards this year. “ACT architecture has seen a revival in the past few years with some world-class projects coming to fruition,” said ACT Chapter president, Rob Henry. “It is an exciting time to see the role the profession can play in making Canberra’s spaces better for locals and visitors alike.”
Bates Smart’s Canberra Airport Hotel was the most lauded project of the night, winning awards for Commercial Architecture, Interior Architecture and the Light in Architecture Prize. The award’s highest honour, the Canberra Medallion, went to Bowen Place Crossing by Lahz Nimmo Architects, which also won the Sir John Overall Award for Urban Design.
“The project is an exemplar of a thoughtfully instigated competition procurement process,” said the jury. “The foresight to imagine the scope and possibility for an urban landscape element of poetic scale and enduring contribution, adjoining Lake Burley Griffin in the Central National Area, is the key to the success of the intervention.”
All winners of named awards and architecture awards will proceed to the 2016 National Architecture Awards to be announced in November.
Bowen Place Crossing by Lahz Nimmo Architects.
Image: Brett Boardman
Canberra Medallion
Bowen Place Crossing – Lahz Nimmo Architects
Urban Design
Sir John Overall Award
Bowen Place Crossing – Lahz Nimmo Architects
St John Paul II College by Collins Caddaye Architects.
Image: Stefan Postles
Educational Architecture
Enrico Taglietti Award
St John Paul II College – Collins Caddaye Architects
Awards
Australian Defence Force Academy – New Indoor Sports Centre – HDR | Rice Daubney
Australian Defence Force Academy – Auditorium – HDR | Rice Daubney
48 Macquarie Street by Guida Moseley Brown Architects.
Image: Rodrigo Vargas
Commercial Architecture
Awards
48 Macquarie Street – Guida Moseley Brown Architects
Ben Chifley Building – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Canberra Airport Hotel – Bates Smart
Ben Chifley Building by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp.
Image: Andrew Chung
Interior Architecture
W. Hayward Award
Ben Chifley Building – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Award
Canberra Airport Hotel – Bates Smart
Commendation
TJ House – Ben Walker Architects (interiors) and Dezignteam (base building)
Flanagan Lewis House by Arquitectura.
Image: Pedro Geleris
Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
Awards
Flanagan Lewis House – Arquitectura
LF House – Ben Walker Architects
Clerestory House – Rob Henry Architects
Commendation
Campbell House – Philip Leeson Architects
King House by Cox Architecture.
Image: Ben Wrigley
Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award
King House – Cox Architecture
Commendation
Claire’s House – Light House Architecture and Science
Common Ground Housing by Collins Caddaye Architects.
Image: Stefan Postles
Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Award
Common Ground Housing – Collins Caddaye Architects
Commendation
Element – Cox Architecture
ANU – Florey Building by CCJ Architects.
Image: Ben Wrigley
Heritage
J. S. Murdoch Award
ANU – Florey Building – CCJ Architects
Commendation
Ainslie Arts Centre – Philip Leeson Architects
AG House by Ben Walker Architects.
Image: Light Studies
Small Project Architecture
Award
AG House – Ben Walker Architects
Westside Acton by Cox Architecture.
Image: Rodrigo Vargas
Sustainable Architecture
Award
Westside Acton – Cox Architecture
TJ House by Ben Walker Architects (interiors) and Dezignteam (base building).
Image: Light Studies
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
TJ House – Ben Walker Architects (interiors) and Dezignteam (base building)
Rivendell, 1975 by Laurie Virr.
Image: Tim Wimbourne
Enduring Architecture
Award
Rivendell, 1975 – Laurie Virr
Additional Prizes
Art in Architecture Award
Kim Harvey School of Dance – Clarke Keller
Light in Architecture Prize
Canberra Airport Hotel – Bates Smart
Mervyn Willoughby-Thomas Renovation Award
Sunny Room Additions – Allan Spira Architects
President’s Medal
Alastair Swayn
Clem Cummings Medal
Harris Hobbs Landscapes
Emerging Architect Prize
Erin Hinton
Architectural Professional of the Year Prize
Dean McPherson
ACT Chapter Student Medallion
Will Headland
Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn Graduate Prize
Will Headland
John Redmond Prize
Ursula Embry
Cox Architecture Student Design Prize
Postgraduate Commendation
Wooden Housing Complex – Stewart Youngblutt
Undergraduate Prize
Outside In – Chloe Yin
Undergraduate Commendations
Dickson Mixed Use Apartment – Brenton Reis
Residential, Dickson – Billy Ileris
