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The site of the proposed architecture and design museum in Helsinki’s South Harbour.

International design competition for Finnish architecture and design museum opens

17 Apr 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

International design teams have been invited to take part in an open design competition for a new Finnish architecture museum in Helsinki’s South Harbour, anticipated to open in 2030.

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National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra.

Competition to reimagine National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden

11 Apr 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The National Gallery of Australia has launched an open, international design competition for the $60 million revitalisation of its three-hectare sculpture garden.

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Artist impression by AJC Architects with landscape design by Peter Ireland. Design subject to approval.

Design Excellence Competition winner revealed for Sydney affordable housing

8 Apr 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

AJC Architects have been named the winners of an invited City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition for affordable housing buildings in Alexandria, with the winning scheme revealing buildings broken up into “intimate neighbourhoods.”

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Winning design for Griffith Park Precinct by Collins and Turner, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and WSP Indigenous Specialist Services.

Winning design for Griffith Park Precinct unveiled

28 Mar 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The City of Bankstown-Canterbury has unveiled the winning design to transform an under-utilised park in Bankstown.

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Silvester Fuller has won a design competition to redevelop a disused building into a worker and market housing building in Sydney's Redfern.

Architects revealed for new housing hub in Redfern

4 Mar 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Silvester Fuller has won a design competition to redevelop a disused building into a worker and market housing building in Sydney’s Redfern.

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BVN has won the City of Sydney Council's Design Excellence Competition for Buildings G and H of the Erskineville Village project.

Latest round of architects selected for design of Sydney’s Erskineville Village

26 Feb 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The winning scheme accommodates more than 380 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as a communal hub with co-working areas, a swimming pool, landscaped spaces with outdoor kitchens and a yoga studio.

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Helsinki South Harbour has been proposed as the site of the New Museum of Architecture and Design.

Competition forthcoming for Finnish architecture museum

16 Feb 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The City of Helsinki will soon launch an international two-stage design competition for a building that will house the New Museum of Architecture and Design.

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A design competition is calling on international architects to envision a safe and welcoming maternity centre in southern Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Student competition launched to improve maternal health in Africa

13 Feb 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A design competition is calling on international architects to envision a safe and welcoming maternity centre in southern Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Existing Riverside Theatres venue.

Stage two competition begins for Parramatta Riverside Theatres redevelopment

8 Feb 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Five architectural teams have been shortlisted as finalists in a Design Excellence Competition for the $180-million redevelopment of Riverside Theatres on the banks of Sydney’s Parramatta River.

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The competition panel will be made up of five individuals, each of whom have their own unique area of expertise.

Jury announced for Suttons Beach Pavilion design competition

25 Jan 2024, Adair Winder

The jury responsible for selecting the winning design for a new mixed-use facility at the Suttons Beach precinct on Queensland’s Redcliffe Peninsula has been revealed.

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Subject area for the Griffith Park Precinct.

Shortlist announced in competition to reimagine Bankstown’s Griffith Park

10 Oct 2023, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The City of Canterbury-Bankstown has announced four shortlisted teams that will proceed to the second stage of a competition to design a community space in the centre of Bankstown.

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Claudia Takada has been announced the winner of the 2023 Buildner Office Design Competition.

Australian graduate wins international design competition

22 Aug 2023, Adair Winder

Claudia Takada from ClarkeHopkinsClarke won the 2023 Buildner Office Design Competition for her proposal for an office space in Blackheath, New South Wales.

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Afrique en Cirque Opening Night.

Design competition launched for Parramatta theatres redevelopment

11 Aug 2023, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The City of Parramatta has opened expressions of interest for the Riverside Theatres Redevelopment Design Competition.

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Dallas Museum of Art, originally designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in 1984.

Global competition to revitalize Dallas Museum of Art

20 Feb 2023, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A design competition has been launched for the redevelopment of Texas’s Dallas Museum of Art.

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Render of Powerhouse Museum Ultimo.

Shortlist revealed for Powerhouse Ultimo Design Competition

9 Sep 2022, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Five leading Australian design teams have been shortlisted to participate in the Powerhouse Ultimo Design Competition.

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A Bruny Island hideaway by Maguire and Devine Architects was among the most wishlisted unique Airbnb listings in Australia in 2021.

Airbnb launches competition for wackiest accommodation ideas

23 Jun 2022, Isla Sutherland

Airbnb is calling on the imaginations of architects and designers to conjure up visions for the next homes in its weird and wonderful category of listings.

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Submissions close Monday 7 November 2022.

NATSPEC launches student competition

17 May 2022, ArchitectureAU Editorial

NATSPEC has launched its annual competition for 2022, directed at architecture students enrolled in Australian universities who can demonstrate the innovative or sustainable use of materials or systems.

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The winning scheme for the 2021 NGV Architecture Commission, Pond[er] by Taylor Knights and James Carey.

Shortlist revealed: 2022 NGV Architecture Commission

4 Feb 2022, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the five shortlisted teams that will compete to design the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission.

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The Business as (Un)usual ideas competition.

Ideas competition to re-imagine the Australian Dream

10 Jan 2022, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A competition is looking for ideas for the Australian Dream in the 21st century and there’s a prize pool of $10,000 on offer.

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Mornington House on Thomas Street in Unley, Adelaide.

$20,000 competition for emerging architects

8 Nov 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Living Village Design Competition is being organized by the SA Housing Authority, Citylab, the Australian Institute of Architects and the City of Unley.

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The Gathering Place designed by Durbach Block Jaggers.

Durbach Block Jaggers design ‘banksia pod’ building for Parramatta

21 Oct 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Proposed for a site adjacent to the Leigh Memorial Church, the building will house the staff of the Parramatta Mission.

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Shepparton Art Museum by Denton Corker Marshall.

Denton Corker Marshall’s Shepparton Art Museum set to open

27 Sep 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Dubbed a “beacon” on the ‘“art hill” the long-awaited Shepparton Art Museum, designed by Denton Corker Marshall, will open to the public in November.

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The siting of the NGV Contemporary.

Four teams shortlisted in NGV Contemporary competition

20 Sep 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Victorian government has announced four shortlisted teams in the NGV Contemporary design competition.

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The Indiana Teahouse.

‘Iconic’ Indiana Teahouse added to WA heritage register

22 Jun 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The ‘iconic’ Indiana Teahouse on Perth’s Cottesloe Beach is now part of a state heritage place, scuttling plans for its redevelopment.

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Alumni House by Durbach Block Jaggers with Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Cox Inall Ridgeway, Ongarato and Northrop.

‘Serendipitous encounters’: Newcastle uni’s Alumni House

3 Jun 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The University of Newcastle has announced the winner of its competition to design a new dedicated building for its alumni.

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Commhaus by Lauren Ho, Madeleine Archer and Ben Thorp, University of Melbourne.

Student winners named in Future Homes design competition

26 Apr 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Students were encouraged demonstrate how to rethink housing in Melbourne’s established suburbs.

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The winning proposal by Lian (with Finding Infinity and Openwork).

Housing competition winning design to be built

12 Apr 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Victorian government will built one of the four winning designs from its Future Homes competition as a demonstration project.

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The site for the proposed National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.

Design competition for abuse victims and survivors memorial

12 Apr 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Australian government has launched a design competition for a National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.

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The winning proposal by Design Strategy Architecture in collaboration with Includesign.

Replicable apartment designs win Future Homes competition

30 Mar 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Victorian government has announced four winners in the Future Homes competition seeking exemplar apartment designs.

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Breeze of Innovation by Smar Architecture Studio.

Australian wins competition for Californian landmark

29 Mar 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

An Australian architecture practice’s proposal for an architectural landmark in Silicon Valley was selected the stand out winner from more than 900 submissions.

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Francine Houben.

Four new additions to NGV Contemporary jury

2 Mar 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Victorian Government and the National Gallery of Victoria have announced four new jurors for the NGV Contempoary jury.

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Housing De-Railed by Evan Langendorfer.

Radical ideas for affordable housing in Melbourne

25 Feb 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A design ideas challenge to create affordable housing in Melbourne has generated winning proposals that capitalize on air rights above railways and tramlines and utilize prefabricated modular timber construction.

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55 Pitt Street by Woods Bagot and Shop Architects.

Woods Bagot, Shop Architects collaborate on Sydney tower design

15 Feb 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Woods Bagot and New York firm Shop Architects have won a design competition for a $1.5 billion office tower in central Sydney

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The siting of the NGV Contemporary.

‘Watershed moment’: Australian competition for global-scale cultural project

29 Jan 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The National Gallery of Victoria and the Victorian government have launched the design competition for NGV Contemporary.

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The Pier Pavilion winning design by Jessica Spresser in conjunction with Peter Besley and Arup.

Pavilion made with oyster shells wins Barangaroo design competition

17 Dec 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A pavilion made from 123 columns cast in oyster concrete will be built at the end of pier in Barangaroo after a nation-wide design competition.

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Lake Macquarie council will consider building the winning project on a vacant block on Ocean Street in Dudley.

Shortlisted teams announced in innovative housing competition

7 Dec 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Lake Macquarie City Council has announced the shortlisted teams in a $40,000 competition to design innovative housing.

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A new 18,000 square metre public space at the Melbourne Arts Precinct by Hassell and So-il.

NGV Contemporary will be designed by Australian architects

26 Nov 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The National Gallery of Victoria’s new contemporary gallery will be designed and built by an Australian team, with a design competition to determine the architectural team.

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The University of Newcastle’s NeW Space by Lyons Architecture and EJE Architecture.

Newcastle uni launches design competition for social hub

16 Nov 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The University of Newcastle has launched a competition for the design of a new landmark building in the centre of Newcastle.

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Urban Micromeadows by Abinaya Rajavelu, Sarah Reilly and Elise O’Ryan (Cred Consulting), winner of best open space idea.

Winning ideas to transform Sydney’s public spaces

9 Nov 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The Committee for Sydney and the NSW government have announced the winners of the inaugural Public Space Ideas Competition.

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The recently completed Engineering, Technology and Aviation Building at the Nathan campus, designed by Hassell.

Griffith uni launches design competition for $150M building

9 Nov 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Griffith University is seeking EOIs from architecture firms to design a $150M building at its Nathan campus in Brisbane.

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A concept image for the East Village development at 246 East Boundary Road, East Bentleigh, by Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects.

Hill Thalis to design first stage of build-to-rent precinct

13 Oct 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Hill Thalis Architecture has won a competition to design the first stage of a build-to-rent precinct in East Bentleigh.

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