The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2019 Northern Territory Architecture Awards. This year marked the first occasion on which the awards ceremony has been held in Alice Springs.
Alice Springs-based practice Susan Dugdale and Associates again won the program’s top honour – the Tracy Memorial Award – for MPH HQ, a transformation of a working shed. The practice won the same prize in 2018 for the ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel.
“We’ve all seen the big shed, front office typology that proliferates at the verges of our cities,’ the jury said. “Rather than ordinary, though, MPH HQ is extraordinary.”
The winners are:
The Tracy Memorial Award
MPH HQ – Susan Dugdale and Associates
Commercial Architecture
The Peter Dermoudy Award for Commercial Architecture
MPH HQ – Susan Dugdale and Associates
NT Chapter Award
Mazda Dealership – DKJ Architecture
Educational Architecture
NT Chapter Award
Braitling Primary School (Stage 2) – Susan Dugdale and Associates
Mother Teresa Catholic College – Rossi Architects, Bennett Design and Walter Brooke
Sustainable Architecture
The Thorny Devil (Moloch Horridus) Award
Braitling Primary School (Stage 2) – Susan Dugdale and Associates
Interior Architecture
Commendation
Megafauna Central – Tangentyere Design
Small Project Architecture
The Yali McNamara Award
Fish River Accommodation – Design Construct, School of Art Architecture and Design, University of South Australia
The Indigenous Community Architecture Award
Fish River Accommodation – Design Construct, School of Art Architecture and Design, University of South Australia
Heritage Architecture
The JG Knight Award
Hut 37 – Ajar Architects
Enduring Architecture Award
Sails in the Desert – Ayers Rock Resort (Yulara) (1984) – Cox Architecture
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
MPH HQ – Susan Dugdale and Associates
Additional Prizes
President’s Prize
Peter Somerville, Department of Lands Planning and Logistics, Alice Springs
Student Prize
Ellen Brand, Charles Darwin University