An architect’s holiday home, painstakingly designed over a seven year process, has been awarded the top accolade at the 2021 Newcastle Architecture Awards.
Lahznimmo Architects won the Newcastle Architecture Medal for House at Pretty Beach, a project that sensitively navigates the challenging steep bush site and respects its flora and fauna.
The jury described the project as “a remarkable gem of a building.”
“This projects reminds us that good architecture embraces its site and works with it,” the jury said. “The beauty and ruggedness are not mutually exclusive and its simplicity is something worth striving for.”
Across the Newcastle region, eight awards and eight commendations were handed out on Friday 19 March in announcement.
“The calibre of projects entered in this year’s awards program demonstrates the high standard of architecture being produced in the Newcastle region,” said jury chair Philip Pollard. “Without exception, each project demonstrated remarkable levels of collaboration between architects and their clients, in both the private and public sector realms, to deliver outstanding examples of innovation, creativity and adaptation.”
The winners are:
Newcastle Architecture Medal
House at Pretty Beach – Lahznimmo Architects
Public Architecture
Award
Maitland Regional Athletics Complex – Maitland City Council Architects with Studio Dot
Commendation
Port Stephens HealthOne – SHAC
Educational Architecture
Commendation
The Big Tree House – Curious Practice
Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
Award
House at Pretty Beach – Lahznimmo Architects
Commendations
Wangi Waterfront House – SHAC
Lambton House – Curious Practice
Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
Award
Valencia Street – Curious Practice
Commendations
Cliff Cottage – Dianna Thomas Architect
Hatherly House – SDA
Residential Architecture – Houses (Multiple Housing)
Award
Lume – SJB
Commendation
Alma Residences – CKDS Architecture
Heritage
Award
Newcastle Visitor Information Centre – EJE Architecture. (Award with acknowledgement of collaborators- The initial “cold-shell” architectural design of the Civic Station building (for an unknown use) was undertaken by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, with landscape DA design by JMD.)
Interior Architecture
Award
Fronte Oceano – Anthony St John Parsons
Sustainable Architecture
Commendation
Valencia Street – Curious Practice
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
Port Stephens HealthOne – SHAC