AWARDS

National Awards

Delivering exceptional programs that recognise and promote members’ achievements is central to the Institute’s role as the profession’s peak body.

The Institute’s peer-reviewed 2022 awards program exemplified best-practice architecture and provided qualitative examples of how architecture can deliver outstanding outcomes. These innovations were shared at national, chapter and regional awards programs.

Projects spanned residential, commercial, public, sustainable architecture and more, a showcase of the best in the field. The subsequent media coverage highlighted these achievements to a broad audience.

National Jury Chair Tony Giannone said:

“Every awards program helps us build a portfolio of work that is representative of our Australian identity in an urban and regional context.

… As we celebrate this year’s awards, never has the adage ‘a moment in time’ been more relevant. The jury tour gave us an insight into projects completed during COVID-19 lockdowns and amid a period of general reflection on what is important to us as a society. Relevant to the interrupted timelines of the last few years and reflecting the new flexibility in the way we live and work was an evident change in density and visual emptiness in the workplace.

… The presentations by architects and their clients expressed a welcome casualness in the way we live now. The jury commends the breakdown of barriers and notions of transparency in site planning in all categories. The front yard is no longer the front yard, it’s whatever you want it to be, and policymakers will have to respond.”

1_ National Award For Residential Architecture - Houses (New) | Jimmy's House | MJA Studio with Studio Roam and IOTA | Photographer: Jack Lovel

2_ National Award for Public Architecture | Walyalup Civic Centre | Kerry Hill Architects | Photographer: Nicholas Putrasia

3_ National Award For Interior Architecture | The Hedberg | LIMINAL Architecture with WOHA | Photographer: Natasha Mulhall

4_ National Award for Sustainable Architecture | The Hütt 01 Passivhaus | Melbourne Design Studios | Photographer: Matt C Photography (Maitreya Chandorkar)

5_ The Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing | Quay Quarter Lanes - 8 Loftus St | Studio Bright | Photographer: Rory Gardiner

6_ Australian Award for International Architecture | Yuandang Bridge | Brearley Architects + Urbanists BAU | Photographer: Zhu Runzi

794 PROJECTS ENTERED

85

SHORTLISTED ENTRIES

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NAMED AWARDS

22 NATIONAL AWARDS

10 NATIONAL COMMENDATIONS

Chapter Awards

The 2022 National Architecture Awards followed each chapter’s state and territory awards with 184 projects from around the country and overseas progressing to national judging.

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CHAPTER WINNERS