Architect Victoria Awards 2020 by Australian Institute of Architects

Architect Victoria Victorian Architecture Awards 2020

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT One of the most confusing and distressing issues relating to our current situation is the socioeconomic implications. For Victorians, COVID-19 came at a time when many were struggling in the wake of the summer bushfires. The impacts of the virus, particularly in Australia, won’t be entirely visible. The knock-on effects relating to mental health and the implications associated with family violence will most likely define the fallout from this pandemic.

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This year, the Victorian Architecture Awards were redefined by the restrictions imposed by COVID-19. Nationally, the Institute was faced with some tough decisions balancing the needs of our members while acknowledging that this might not be the time to be celebrating.

With the ever-increasing need for advocacy across a range of issues it was wonderful to see the Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media reintroduced this year. And as it is difficult not to reflect on statistics, since the introduction of the Victorian Medal in 1929 this is the first female-led practice to receive this prestigious award. Congratulations to Kerstin Thompson Architects.

Understanding the inherent value and role the awards program plays in the ability to advocate for quality built outcomes and the social responsibility that comes with this, the awards proceeded. We are not here to build buildings for the sake of it, but rather we are in the business of building to contribute to a much broader discussion. This discussion stems from the very fact that architecture is underpinned and defined by a civic responsibility. This discussion must be broad and constructive. In the wake of systemic construction industry issues being revealed, the safety and quality of our built environment, now more than ever, is being questioned. Now is the time to demonstrate the importance of getting it right. Longevity is key to building sustainable and caring communities. This needs to be at the forefront of our industry moving forward. CONGRATULATIONS The awards are not simply about the winning projects but also about recognising the process implemented to support a rigorous and collegiate program. A program that is open to the public, encouraging the engagement of students, graduates and practitioners to support and learn from their peers through the process of open presentations to the juries. This year the program was planned to be held at the RMIT Design Hub and formed part of Melbourne Design Week. Due to COVID-19 the program had to quickly adapt and move to an online platform. With Stage 3 restrictions tightening during the week leading into the online award presentations evening, the 800-person sit-down dinner was converted into a series

We saw a total of 234 entries with 108 of these being shortlisted. Across 15 categories 63 awards were given including named awards, architecture awards and commendations. A huge congratulations to all of those who were acknowledged. It was wonderful to see a diverse range of projects standing tall.

A wonderful by-product of the awards being transferred to online presentations has allowed for a broader and more collegiate exposure. In Victoria the awards have received over 5,500 views and nationally over 20,000 views. We see this as an important step in being able to broadly advocate for better built outcomes for our cities and regions. We would also like to acknowledge the following awards and honours that were announced earlier this year: Congratulations to John Wardle of John Wardle Architects recipient of the 2020 Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. 2020 Australia Day Honours Professor Harriet Edquist AM For significant service to architectural history and design, and to higher education.

of Architects Without Frontiers Australia, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). She is recognised for her “significant service to architecture, to education and to the community of the Asia-Pacific region”. THANK YOU A huge thank you to our jurors and jury chairs who adapted quickly to the evolving and changed awards process. We understand the significant contribution that is made by our jurors and for their tireless efforts particularly given the additional pressures that everyone has been faced with. Thank you to the Awards Committee Chair, Ingrid Bakker, and Awards Committee members Hamish Lyon, Melissa Bright, Matt Gibson, Rosemary Burne and Simon Knott for the dedicated work that is undertaken in the lead up to the awards. Thank you also to all of the Victorian staff, particularly Jason Stanton for his tireless and meticulous efforts and Caitlin Sinclair, Sanja Novakovic, Emma Adams and Michael Linke for their contributions. The awards are also significantly supported by our key sponsors who have generously contributed this year. Thank you for your ongoing support and engagement. Lastly, thank you to all members for your tenacity and dedication in ensuring that the evolution of our state’s cities and regions is positive and inclusive. As we continue to move through the waves of this pandemic please take very good care and remember to look out for those standing next to you and those who may be nearby. Amy Muir Immediate Past Victorian Chapter President

Mary Featherston AM For significant service to the arts, particularly to interior and industrial design. The Honourable Ted Baillieu AO For distinguished service to the people and Parliament of Victoria, particularly as Premier, and to international engagement. 2020 Queens Birthday Honours Genevieve Overell AM, an independent director of the Australian Institute of Architects National Board, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for “significant service to the community through roles with a range of organisations”. Dr Esther Charlesworth AM, founding director

AWARDS COMMITTEE Ingrid Bakker Committee Chair HASSELL Chair of Juries Melissa Bright

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF TRADITIONAL OWNERS The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which our company is located and where all submissions to the 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards are situated.

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VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE MEDAL The Victorian Architecture Medial is the highest honour awarded by the Victorian Chapter each year. The Medal derives form the original ‘Street Architecture Medal’ introduced by The Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA) in 1926 as an award for the design of a building of exceptional merit. Buildings were judged on their urban propriety and architectural etiquette; the building had to front a street, road, square or court to which public had access. It was expected to have a civic character, offering its architectural qualities to the greater public realm of the city. Today’s Victorian Architecture Medal is selected by the Jury Chairs from the field of Named Award winners in each category. The Winner of the Victorian Architecture Medal is therefore judged to be the most outstanding project of the entire field of entries, a building of exceptional merit.

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VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE MEDAL | Broadmeadows Town Hall | Kerstin Thompson Architects Congratulations all round to the winner of the 2020 Victorian Architecture Medal, to a team that embraced and realised the ambitions and vision for the project – to the local community, the client, the KTA design team, consultants and contractors. A win for the City of Hume. Broadmeadows Town Hall is an exemplary project, that through care and forensic investigation, reinstates and re-establishes a strong civic character and heart within the City of Hume town centre. This is a project about people and places – about the local community, the local history and local identity. As an adaptive reuse and conservation project, it has skilfully integrated old and new built fabric and thoughtfully connected community pride, community spirit and community optimism with past, present and future. From the original 1964 Town Hall designed for civic and social events, ranging from citizenship ceremonies to hot off the assembly-line car shows, to now, a 2020 landmark cultural and commercial hub, this project sets a strong precedent for understanding, celebrating and re-imagining the heritage value of our mid-century modernist suburban typologies. Practice Team: Kerstin Thompson (Design Architect), Kelley MacKay (Project Director), Martin Allen (Project Associate), Lloyd McCathie (Senior Architect), Tina Leal (Architect), Caroline Chong (Graduate of Architecture), Tamsin O’Reilly (Visualisation) Consultant / Construction Team: Prowse Quantity Surveyors (Quantity Surveyor), Du Chateau Chun (Building Surveyor), AS James (Geotechnical Engineers), Du Chateau Chun (Accessibility Consultant), Perrett Simpson (Structural + Civil Engineers), Dobbs Doherty (Fire Engineering), Umow Lai (Mechanical + Electrical), Umow Lai (Hydraulic + Fire Services), Umow Lai (Vertical Transport), Umow Lai (ESD Consultant), Maytrix (Facilities Planning – Kitchen), Coactiv8 (Facilities Planning – Workspaces), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Alder Consulting (AV Consultant), Bluebottle 3 (Lighting Consultant), Traffix Group (Traffic Consultant), Bosco Johnson (Land Surveyor), Simon Ellis Landscape Architects (Landscape Consultant), Leigh Design (Waste Consultant), Urbis (Statutory Planning), Robbie Rowlands (Artist), City of Hume (Project Manager)

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AWARDS CRITERIA The core judging criteria applicable across all categories covers the areas of: Conceptual framework Public and cultural benefits Relationship of built form to context Program resolution Integration of allied disciplines Cost/value outcome Sustainability Response to client and user needs

AWARD TYPES NAMED AWARDS The most outstanding project submitted in each category is awarded a Named Award. The Named Award bears the name of an architect whose contribution in a specialist area is still highly regarded. There is only one winner of the Named Award in each category in any year.

ARCHITECTURE AWARDS Architecture Awards are awarded in each category to projects of excellence that demonstrate consummate architectural skill and make a valuable contribution to the advancement of architecture in Victoria. There is no restriction on the number of Architecture Awards a jury may grant.

COMMENDATIONS Commendations are awarded in each category to projects of special merit which demonstrate significant architectural skill. There is no restriction on the number of Commendations a jury may grant.

NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS Projects awarded Named and Architecture Awards in each state progress to the National Architecture Awards forming the field of entries considered by the National jury for National Architecture Awards. 21

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RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (NEW) The Residential Architecture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Houses (New) category recognises achievement in the design of projects which are residential in nature, designed for single occupancy or up to two self-contained dwellings, and must be new builds. Generally, projects considered in this category fall within BCA Class 1a.

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HAROLD DESBROWE-ANNEAR AWARD | Kindred | panovscott Architects Kindred spirits make for great houses. And when you add an intergenerational mix of mood and meaning, that’s when a house becomes a home. These generous blocks of land in Melbourne’s south eastern suburbs are being held to ransom by the move to build to the boundary and cram and pave and pool as much as you can. Sites bloated and billowing and shiny and meaningless. And yet here before is a brave new normal. A simple thoughtful house pirouetting around a charming aging elm tree. Lawn radiates from its trunk and laps against the courtyard walls. You can sit on the edges of this home and dangle your feet in the green. Melbourne’s belting summer season moderated by something as simple as a living courtyard. Likewise, the skin of the building doesn’t aim to dazzle. It’s articulate and profound and rhythmic. And the planning of this beautiful home is crafted and cropped to compliment the specific needs of three generations and their happily adopted pooch, Ruby. Everywhere you look there’s thought and reason. A home that offers the best possible chances for an extended family to live and grow and love. Practice Team: Anita Panov (Design Director), Andrew Scott (Design Director), Justine Anderson (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: OPS Engineers (Structural Engineer) Builder: Glyde Construction Photographer: Brett Boardman

AWARD | The Good Life House | MRTN Architects This house is carefully considered by the architect on so many levels. His respect of the local context of Californian Bungalows is reinterpreted in a new Arts and Crafts manner with the clients love of Knox houses mixed in for good measure. His detailed understanding of the client’s desire to ‘live together apart’ is visible not only of the planning of the programmed spaces, but also in the creative design responses and details. Every space is carefully measured ensuring no wasted space, and new ideas for living introduced to provide elements of surprise as you move through the house. The architect challenges the suburban preconceptions of how we enter the home and asks us to rethink how we connect with our neighbourhood. The garage imposed by planning guidelines has become one of the most interesting features of the house and used in a multitude of ways by the family. Its careful detailing elevates this space to one of the most loved in the home and offers new ideas about what a garage can be as it becomes the main entry to the house for the family, while the articulated fence invites visitors to enter through the garden. This house is a delight in every aspect from larger urban considerations to the deep understanding of detail and materiality. Practice Team: Cameron Suisted (Project Architect), Antony Martin (Design Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: Deery Consultants (Structural Engineer), TJBC (Building Surveyor), Hip v Hype (ESD Consultant) Builder: Crisp Green Homes Photographer: Dave Kulesza

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AWARD | Fitzroy North House | Rob Kennon Architects On a small, inner-city parcel, Fitzroy North House celebrates every square centimetre of opportunity through rigorous site investigation, planning and form making. Tucked away down a quiet, no-through road, the house finds itself huddled amongst a typical Victorian streetscape. Blending into its heritage context, the fenestration of the new residence pays homage to its surrounds yet is clearly contemporary in nature with reduced ornamentation and meticulous detailing. Very little is revealed from the street and the true brilliance exposes itself as one moves through the site. A procession of spaces unfolds from the front verandah, through the covered gatehouse to the central courtyard. Beyond this, lies the main house which is flanked by another courtyard to the rear of the site. Full-height, full-width windows at both ends of the living area create a sense of immersion within the garden and a large, southern skylight ensures these spaces are awash with natural light throughout the day. Rob Kennon Architects have produced a design response that respects its heritage context, maximises the potential of the site and created a home that is sure to last a further 100 years. Practice Team: Rob Kennon (Design Architect), Jack Leishman (Project Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: Eckersley Garden Architecture (Landscape Consultant), Meyer Consulting (Structural Engineer) Builder: Ben Thomas Builder Photographer: Derek Swalwell

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (NEW) The residential new category attracted 25 entries this year. The entries offered a wide-ranging selection of compact inner-city homes, to sprawling luxury holiday houses. Overall the jury was impressed by the architects’ sense of responsibility not only to their clients’ brief and budget, but also the responsibility to local context. Urban homes carefully considered the surrounding built form and natural features, while regional homes on larger sites rigorously analysed and responded to the local natural environment. The jury was also impressed by the dominance of emerging architectural practices in this category, with all awarded entries being small, recently established practices, highlighting their passion and attention to detail which has had produced rich and diverse outcomes. Given the complexities of bringing any new residential project into the world, it’s always a privilege to be a witness to the great endeavours of others. Each awarded entry offers moments of inspiration and insight. This year, we were fortunate to see such a range of innovations and intrigues from young practices across a diverse range of housing types. Each project fully committed to making wonderful homes that change people’s lives.

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Kindred | panovscott Architects | Photographer: Brett Boardman

Frankston Mid Century Modern | MRTN Architects | Photographer: Derek Swalwell

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS) The Residential Architecture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Houses (Alterations & Additions) category recognises achievement in the design of projects which include renovations, alterations or additions to an existing building whether or not the building was residential in nature in the first instance. Projects designed for single occupancy or up to two self-contained dwellings may be entered in this category. Generally, projects considered in this category fall within BCA Class 1a.

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THE JOHN AND PHYLLIS MURPHY AWARD | Frankston Mid Century Modern | MRTN Architects Frankston Mid-Century Modern with its appearance of minimal intervention, belies the extensive rework that has in fact been done. MRTN Architects have shown great mastery in the refinishing and reinterpretation of the existing home, with the alterations allowing the original design to take the lead. The minimal addition of floor area and subtle realignment of roof planes, blend skillfully and seamlessly with the original home, bringing it up to modern sustainable and livable standards. Each room has been evidently afforded the same level of careful consideration and detail, thoughtfully resolved around the functional core, itself beautifully clad and reignited as the circulation pivot for the home. The clever repositioning of the kitchen allows for thoroughfare behind it, rather than through it. A strong client-architect relationship throughout the design process is apparent, and while the interior palette references a previous era, it is highly considered for the current occupants with material selection and colour-use that is playful and rich, warm and personable. Integral collaboration with the landscape design has further grounded this home and successfully set its roots on the site. Frankston Mid-Century Modern displays a skillfully restrained architectural response where the sense of the original self still shines true. Practice Team: Antony Martin (Design Architect), Joanne Nataprawira (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: TJBC (Building Surveyor), SBLA (Landscape Consultant), Deery Consultants (Structural Engineer)

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AWARD | RaeRae House | Austin Maynard Architects RaeRae house is a rationally executed project providing diverse opportunities for work, play and rest while addressing larger issues of scale, amenity, and diversity. Drawn in between two existing heritage structures of amalgamated plots, the visitor is taken through a series of interlocking spaces, always in conversation with the large central garden both visually and physically. Throughout this journey, quirky yet delightful spaces are encountered that encourage active engagement with the building elements. Privacy is skilfully preserved while providing porous and permeable spaces both horizontally and vertically, still maintaining the central courtyard as the main focal point. Laneway activation through function, scale and materiality adds richness to the street life. The formal exploration and the gable roofscape while sympathetic to the scale and spirit of the existing built environment, preserves amenity to the neighbours and provides enclosure and spatial complexity for its occupants. The material and tectonic response is a fine balancing act between material weight, spans, cost and environmental concerns, employing vernacular techniques with design finesse and craftsmanship. RaeRae House is a fine example of context-generated architecture for inner-city Melbourne, providing a variety of rich experiences, possibilities and opportunities for its inhabitants as well as its neighbours. Practice Team: Andrew Maynard (Design Architect), Mark Austin (Design Architect), Mark Strahan (Project Architect), Kathryne Houchin (Project Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: Group ii Building Surveyors (Building Surveyor), Co-Struct (Engineer), Plan Cost (Quantity Surveyor), Elarc (Landscape Consultant) Builder: Overend Constructions Photographer: Peter Bennetts

AWARD | Three Stories North | Splinter Society Architecture It is with such care that only a skilful and committed architect can painstakingly reveal the building’s original fabric by peeling away layer after layer of previous concealments. Three Stories North is a project that has injected new life and a new way of living into a building, while at the same time rediscovering its history and memory. Upon entry, the glorious three-storey void, the pièce de résistance, is both heroic and necessary, it visually connects the levels (while the staircase stitches them together) and allows northern light to flood deep into the interior. It is lyrical and dramatic, all credit to the architect’s brave act of reduction. In contrast, the rooms are a masterful manipulation of space. Just like a sliding tile puzzle, it is an exemplary solution for the reinterpretation and refinishing of existing space. Equally important in contributing to the realm of architecture, which is as much about accentuating internal space as it is the creation of form containing space. The joy of creation is omnipresence throughout the project. Splinter Society has been successful in creating a family specific home that is of our time and place. Practice Team: Chris Stanley (Project Architect), Asha Nicholas (Design Architect), Lachlan Million (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Structural Bureau Pty Ltd (Structural Engineer) Builder: Birdsmouth Construction Photographer: Sharyn Cairns JOINERY UNIT OVER THREE STORIES JOINERY UNIT OVER THREE STORIES

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AWARD | Ruckers Hill House | Studio Bright Opening the glass door that separates old from new, a new world of architectural exploration awaits. Studio Bright has orchestrated a mise en scène of stages as new experiences and construction detail reveals itself. Tremendous effort has been put in to address craftsmanship, materiality, playfulness, and they ooze a genuine urge to create something out of the ordinary. Ruckers Hill House is an undeniably well-considered piece of architecture, with an equally considerate and playful response and finishing to the original home internally. It continues Studio Bright’s commitment to addressing how architecture contributes to streetscape, and their masterful manipulation of form and space. This is a house designed to be occupied and used. Every room and every space has purpose; the house has quiet moments and yet is full of energy. The layout is the opposite of what an extension is commonly understood to be – that is, open-plan living, dining and kitchen for entertainment – instead small cosy spaces offer a different way of living, which is particularly apt in the current time of the pandemic that we are living in. Practice Team: Melissa Bright (Design Architect), Rob McIntyre (Architect), Todd de Hoog (Project Architect), Emily Watson (Architect), Pei She Lee (Graduate of Architecture), Maia Close (Architect) Builder: 4AD Construction Photographer: Rory Gardiner

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Garden House | BKK Architects

Photographer Derek Swalwell

True to its name, Garden House has allowed its lush rear garden to take priority of site and then generously throws open the modest internal spaces to it. The addition successfully unrolls new program from the existing home, progressively revealing itself as a linear journey through crafted moments and becoming in essence a delightful verandah to the garden. BKK Architects has provided a wonderful response to home; one of inviting warmth and solitude, but immediately affable and absolutely livable.

Elm Tree Place | Eastop Architects

Photographer Rory Gardiner

Elm Tree House is a skilful attempt to capture and manipulate space through the sensitive utilisation of natural light and materials. Taking cues from the previous addition by Nonda Katsalidis, the project adds new layers while peeling away old, still maintaining a strong dialogue with the existing. Deft use of transparency, reflectivity and shifting natural light has resulted in sensorial spaces with bold tonality and varying moods. This is a carefully executed project that captures and enhances the spirit of the old and new. Builder: CBD Contracting Group

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OTHER ENTRIES SHORTLISTED

Photographer Shannon McGrath

BBW House Tecture Architecture and Interior Design | Built By Wilson

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Bonview House PHOOEY Architects

Ben Robson Master Builder

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Catherine House ITN Architects

MMD Constructions

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CLT House FMD Architects

CCB Envico Pty Ltd

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Dearie Residence Office of Matthew Green Architects | Humecon Pty Ltd

Photographer Chris Matterson

East Melbourne Residence Katz Architecture H. Daniel Constructions

Photographer Tatjana Plitt

Deco House Mihaly Slocombe Basis Builders

Photographer Christine Francis

Elphin House Julie Firkin Architects Overend Constructions

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Ink House PHOOEY Architects Owner Builder

Photographer William Watt

Newry House Maddison Architects Frank

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Light House Layan

Moreprime Constructions

Photographer Derek Swalwell

North Melbourne Terrace Eldridge Anderson Warrick Home Builders

Photographer Derek Swalwell

Denbigh Road House Clare Cousins Architects Prolifica Building Co.

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Creative Living Constructions Pty Ltd

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Montague Street House Noxon Architecture Bespoke Project Management

Photographer Tom Blachford

Oculus House Schulberg Demkiw Architects Marven Construction

Photographer Ross Honeysett

East Melbourne Residence Carr

Beaton Projects Australia

Photographer John Gollings

Highfield House Pham Tuan Viet Architects Seventy7 Projects

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Photographer Shannon McGrath

New Modern Bower Architecture Cosgrave Constructions

Photographer Mark Munro

Oysbeyg House Leon Lopata Architects

Matherson Construction Pty Ltd

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Photographer Derek Swalwell

Paperback House Ben Callery Architects Truewood Constructions

Photographer Derek Swalwell

Pool House Zen Architects Basis Builders

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Park House PHOOEY Architects CBD Contracting Group

Photographer Tom Blachford

Prahran House Techne Architecture + Interior Design | One Construction Group

Photographer Tom Ross

Park Life Architecture Architecture JTR Construction

Photographer Derek Swalwell

Scandizzo House KENNON+ DuoBuilt

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Pod House PHOOEY Architects

Langbourne Constructions

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Split House FMD Architects

Dome Building Projects

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Photographer Felix Mooneeram

Strong Arm House MCK Architects McKimm

Photographer Daniel Fuge

Turn House Rebecca Naughtin Architect Clancy Construction

Photographer Tom Ross

Warehouse/Greenhouse Breathe Architecture Never Stop Group

JURY CHAIR REPORT | RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS) Communication between our jury was clear and quick through various messaging apps. The initial teleconference presentations were surprisingly smooth and effective, although without a face to the presentation, it did seem strangely impersonal; probably equally disconcerting for the presenters. The shortlist Zoom presentations were far more engaging and equally smooth; however, the jury did miss the presence of audiences, which in our opinion gives some buzz for the speakers, as well as the jury! In the absence of site visits, while missing the experiential aspect of the judging process, the jury compensated by discussing, questioning and debating the projects a lot more in details. Google drive-by was also useful in this context, thanks to the technology that allows it. Additional questions for the groups shortlisted were in hindsight limited. As we could only derive these from what the presenters had decided to show the first time. This undoubtedly means there are gaps in what the jury was able to assess holistically. However, the ability to send questions through early was helpful in allowing us to drill down in areas of interest. Going forward when site visits return, we would welcome the opportunity to provide these additional questions to shortlisted entries. 37

Napier Street for Milieu | Freadman White | Photographer: Gavin Green

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (MULTIPLE HOUSING) The Residential Architecture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Multiple Housing category recognises achievement in the design of projects which are residential in nature and which include two or more self-contained dwellings (whether or not the building includes uses for other purposes).

Karen Alcock Jury Chair

Matt Gibson Juror

Aaron Roberts Juror

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (MULTIPLE HOUSING)

THE BEST OVEREND AWARD | Napier Street for Milieu | Freadman White Adjacent to their multi-award winning Whitlam place, Freadman Whites Napier St for Milieu continues the architects fine work in this challenging typology. Sibling buildings only in massing to the street, this new building brings a finer grain and a more animated interface to the public realm. Large sliding-glass walls allow particular apartments to open fully to the street and its established tree canopies. Drawing from a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a collective memory of forms and materialsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; linked to the local context, the language and refined detail begin at the street entry and continue through to the circulation light void and directly into the apartments. The restrained material palette and subtle variance in brick detailing and tone create a delightful softness and warm atmosphere to external areas of the building. The architects display a sincere appreciation of the human condition, elements which are handled by inhabitants are crafted and of a warmer tactility. Internal planning allows a high degree of functionality and varied apartment types, while the interior design and detailing displays a refined sensibility in relation to how the inhabitants will live and use the spaces. The consistent detail, materiality, architectural language and the resulting experiential quality create a wonderful dichotomy between housing multiple dwellings and the sense of the building as a singular whole Builder: Atelier Projects Photographer: Gavin Green

AWARD | Salisbury Townhouses | NTF Architecture One of the few adaptive re-use projects in the category, the jury applauded this project for its ability to revitalise suburban housing stock at extremely low cost. Reminiscent of a European model, Salisbury Townhouses adapts a group of six austere yet highly salvageable 1960s single-storey flats into six highly versatile twobedroom townhouses. Through the simple act of reconfiguration, a paint job and adding a repeat footprint overhead, the architects provides a highly responsive site strategy successfully integrating the ground-floor shells with a super insulated timber upper level. Through minimal intervention, the dwellings activate the awkward triangular site via a variety communal and semi-private outdoor spaces. Humble and rational in approach, the appearance is elegant yet unfussy, robust and sustainable. Within the City of Whitehorse’s Bush Suburban Overlay, the act of reuse and adaptation allowed this developer greater yield at a lower cost to both themselves and the environment corresponding to a richer more affordable housing solution. Melbourne will double its population in 30 years, clever densification of latent housing stock in middle to outer suburbs has never been more critical. Salisbury Townhouses provides a fine example of the role architects can play in providing quality housing consolidation in areas where traditionally architects had SALISBU RY AVEN little presence. UE Practice Team: Brett Nixon (Design Architect), Ben Ellul (Project Architect) INTERVENTION

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AWARD | Piccolo House | Wood Marsh

In a category where by nature buildings are pushed to maximise lettable areas, often left with non-descript rectangular boxes requiring a skin to give them articulation or interest, this building lets its refined robust form do the talking. Subtly nuanced and craftfully detailed, the zero lot-line profile of Piccolo is nonetheless highly sculptural and architecturally festive. Contextual in an abstracted way it sits remarkably well in its setting, picking up on both the materiality and theatre of Clarendon Street. Conceptually strong as a piece of stone carved into, it retains a rigorous consistency as an architectural object benefitting from its island site configuration. Nonetheless, this is executed delightfully both internally and externally providing a wonderful interface with the public realm, activating the cobbled laneways to either side and in so doing celebrating its urbane entry sequence in an invigorating combination of light, colour and material. Exemplifying a multi-residential model for the future through its androgynous look – masculine with sequins– the visitor muses: is it residential, commercial, office or retail? It’s all of the above – a mixed-use format not typecast or trapped in time but one that is robust in both structure and program. A building that will endure. Practice Team: Roger Wood (Design Architect), Darren Kaye (Graduate of Architecture), Matt Ross Goodman (Graduate of Architecture), Kat Sainsbery (Graduate of Architecture), James Steward (Graduate of Architecture), Marco Zerbi (Graduate of Architecture), Daniela Chiu (Graduate of Architecture), Penny Pan (Graduate of Architecture), James Fuangsakorn (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: 4D Workshop (Structural Engineer), ALA Consulting Engineers (Services Consultant), Reddo Building Surveyors (Building Surveyor) Builder: Piccolo Developments Photographer: Trevor Mein

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AWARD | Gillies Hall | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects Gillies Hall resets the benchmark for student housing, both in terms of its environmental performance and construction techniques alongside its delightful interior spaces. Combining Passive House Certification with cross-laminated timber construction, the project aligns itself with Monash University’s net-zero 2030 agenda. In light of the global climate emergency, this project delivers a vision for how the future of construction in Australia can embody very high environmental performance while maintaining a clear and sophisticated spatial intelligence. Further, the project is an example of how to overcome the regulatory issues associated with mass timber construction within the Australian construction industry. CLT is exposed where possible, highlighting the inherent material qualities of the construction technique, affording warm, materially rich spaces. Internal planning allows students refined individual dwellings alongside ample communal spaces to gather cook and socialise. While the student dwellings remain lean, as is typical of this typology, in this instance the clear planning and materiality of the dwellings allow a greater sense of space and amenity alongside a richer experiential quality. The Jury believe the building is not only conducive to changing the conversation around the environmental performance of buildings in Australia, it is also a building which will heighten the health and wellbeing of the students it houses. Practice Team: Graham Burrows (Director), Simon Topliss (Project Director), Danielle Pacella (Project Architect), Thom McCarthy (Interior Design Lead), Gretal Stent (Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: AECOM (Services Consultant), AECOM (Structural Engineer), AECOM (Acoustic Consultant), AECOM (Passive House & ESD Consultant), AECOM (Fire Engineer), GRUN Consulting (Passive House Certification), Buro North (Signage & Wayfinding), WT Partnership (Quantity Surveyor), GLAS Urban (Landscape Consultant), Ratio (Town Planner), Steve Watson & Partners (Building Surveyor) Builder: Multiplex Photographer: Peter Clarke

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COMMENDATION Housing Choices Australia - Dandenong | Kennedy Nolan

Holme Apartments | John Wardle Architects

John Wardle Architects understand that residential buildings have a responsibility to the city as well as the occupants. The strong singular form holds the site when viewed from a distance and the detailed brick base is tactile and approachable at street level.

Photographer Derek Swalwell

This building is not reactionary. The concept is strong and carried through at every level. Developments of this size have many competing factors, to be able to deliver such a welldetailed, determined building in this context is a significant achievement.

Located in the back streets of Dandenong, the site is surrounded by an eclectic mix of building types and styles. In the hands of less confident practices these homes may have tried to ‘fit in’ but Kennedy Nolan understand that change comes from leading by example. Its strong simple form is civic, bold and confident. There are playful moments, but it takes it brief seriously. Delivering well-designed, robust housing that isn’t afraid to claim its place in the suburbs. Builder: Manresa Constructions

Photographer Michael Gazzola

Builder: Hacer Group

OTHER ENTRIES

Photographer Derek Swalwell

[TOWER] homes BKK Architects FourSq

Photographer Willem-Dirk du Toit

Alumuna Residences Wood Marsh Schiavello Construction

Photographer Peter Bennetts

101 Maling Kavellaris Urban Design Liberty Builders

Photographer Peter Clarke

Aurora Melbourne Central Elenberg Fraser

Probuild Constructions (AUST) PTY LTD

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1046 Glenhuntly Tecture Architecture and Interior Design | Zeta Building Group

Photographer Jaime Diaz-Berrio

Clifton House Idle Architecture Studio Aspekt Construction Group

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97 Mathoura Road Toorak Carr

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Collins House Bates Smart Hickory Group

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George Street Kerstin Thompson Architects ProvanBuilt

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Nightingale 2.0 - Fairfield Six Degrees Architects Atelier Projects

Photographer Peter Clarke

The Eastbourne Bates Smart Mirvac Construction

Image Launch Housing

Harris Transportable Housing Schored Projects Oscar Building

Photographer Tom Ross

Journal Uni Place METIER3 Architects Icon Construction

Photographer Tom Roe

Luminary Plus Architecture Ironside

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Ozanam House MGS Architects

ADCO Constructions Pty Ltd

Photographer Willem-Dirk du Toit

The Grace Albert Park Lake Fender Katsalidis Watpac Construction

Photographer Emily Bartlett

Pine Ave Cera Stribley

Bold Constructions

Photographer Tom Ross

Thornbury Townhouses Fowler and Ward ProvanBuilt

Photographer Timothy Kaye

The Alexandra ADDARC VCON

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UniLodge Lincoln House nettletontribe Watpac Construction Pty Ltd

OTHER ENTRIES

Photographer Patrick Rodriguez

UniLodge, Royal Melbourne nettletontribe LU Simon Builders

JURY CHAIR REPORT | RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (MULTIPLE HOUSING) This year’s entries demonstrate a maturing of higher density living in Victoria. Projects were as diverse in brief and they were in design. Entries included affordable, emergency and student housing, residential towers, small infill projects and adaptive reuse. Jackson Clements Burrows Architects’ Gillies Hall project for Monash University is the largest Passive House certified building in the southern hemisphere, and one of Australia’s largest cross laminated timber (CLT) projects. It is also a joyful and beautiful building demonstrating that sustainability and architectural expression can be achieved hand in hand. In contrast of scale, budget and brief, NTF Architecture’s Salisbury Townhouse development reimagined six suburban flats into a series of beautiful two-storey townhouses in the hills of Blackburn. John Wardle Architects’ Holme Apartments drew on the historical context to deliver a sculptural tower with a connection to the community and Kennedy Nolan’s affordable housing for Housing Choices Australia in Dandenong questioned what it means to build apartments in the suburbs. Wood Marsh’s Piccolo building in South Melbourne is a beacon of playfulness. The rigid frame offset by the coloured glass facade and the nighttime drama of the ground level lighting. The winning project by Freadman White is a beautiful mid-scale project, delivered under a design and construct contract. The consistent detail, materiality, architectural language and the resulting experiential quality create a wonderful dichotomy between housing multiple dwellings and the sense of the building as a singular whole. An exemplar example of quality and design. The jury were excited by the diversity, depth of ideas and understanding of context that all of the projects demonstrated. We are optimistic that this is a building type that will only flourish in the years to come, moving beyond the perceived restrictions of commercial development to deliver joyful homes to our city. 45

In Absence | Edition Office and Yhonnie Scarce | Photographer: Ben Hosking

SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE Projects in this category will be those considered to be “small” in terms of area or budget. Projects are recognised that have been constrained by space or cost restrictions, but have achieved a level of invention, creativity and craftsmanship despite these constraints. This category can accommodate projects, typically projects in the public realm, which may be over-looked against larger scale projects in other categories or may be transient or experimental in nature, such as exhibition design, set design, playgrounds, architectural sculptures or installations that may or may not be able to be visited by the Jury. Projects of all functional types may be considered. Exclusions: • Residential projects are not eligible for this category. • Projects concurrently entered into any other category are not eligible for this category.

Suzannah Waldron Jury Chair

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THE KEVIN BORLAND AWARD | In Absence | Edition Office and Yhonnie Scarce In Absence by Edition Office and Yhonnie Scarce is a small project with a remarkable presence and expansive conceptual ambition. Clear geometry abstracts multiple geometries of Indigenous cultural and agricultural production to establish a counterpoint to the geometry of western cultural traditions that define Sir Roy Groundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Gallery of Victoria. Rising from a field of kangaroo grass the dark-stained Tasmanian hardwood cylindrical form with a striking void at its centre draws visitors together, an invitation to engage in a dialogue and awareness of the presence of each other, the land, and the sky. Using architecture and art to contribute to an important national conversation, Edition Office and Yhonnie Scarce have combined collaboration, abstraction, geometry, choreography, and a dense and finely detailed material quality with exceptional clarity of thought and resolution.

In Absence was developed through an indigenous-led consultation process to arrive at a design that speaks multiple truths, celebrates the architecture, agriculture, and industry of Indigenous Australians, and invites an awareness of cultural erasure. Realised in a short time frame with a tight budget and complex engineering requirements, In Absence resolutely demonstrates the cultural power of architecture with an articulate and enigmatic form. Practice Team: Kim Bridgland (Design Architect), Aaron Roberts (Design Architect), Yhonnie Scarce (Artist) Consultant / Construction Team: Farrar D (Structural Engineer)

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AWARD | Protagonist | Cumulus Studio Protagonist by Cumulus Studio is a small project with big ideas. This long-awaited forecourt cafe and ticket booth is bounded on all sides, above and below, by iconic Melbourne architecture. Its elegant simple form, wrapped in its smooth curtain of metalwork fabric is compelling in its modesty, choosing camouflage over competition. Up close Protagonist is not shy, a strong conceptual framework references history, materiality, and the arts and entertainment functions of its urban context. The mechanical magic of the gilded curtain in the round, lifting to open its ‘doors’ is theatrical, revealing a stage set of function and delight within, and opens visual connections to the venues it serves. When closed the curtain surface becomes a canvas for projected artwork. Explorations of materiality are compelling. The golden metalwork curtain drapes fabric like over the rounded corners of the form; the luxe mirrored surfaces inside and the stage inspired lighting stem from context, reflecting Roy Grounds urban design and referencing the John Truscott theatre interiors. Delivering invention, function, delight and craftsmanship in a small budget and space, the jury hopes the playfulness, elegance and timelessness of Protagonist may see it loved and retained well beyond its temporary mandate. Practice Team: Keith Westbrook (Design Director), Rosella Sciurti (Designer), Jet O’Rourke (Project Director)

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COMMENDATION Mt Macedon Primary School | Workshop Architecture

Starting with a simple premise of being ‘more than’ a classroom - this clever adaptation of an existing portable building maximises reuse and impact. Exceeding extreme budget constraints, it resets the normative client approach, to create a series of delightful indoor and outdoor learning spaces. New additive elements are both playful and purposeful. Deep cantilevered roof trusses, open makers deck, wrapped ramp and immersive seating nook are tied together forming a diverse sequence of spaces which add up to more than the sum of their parts. Photographer John Gollings

Builder: Raysett Constructions

OTHER ENTRIES

Photographer Kristoffer Paulsen

Home.Two Breathe Architecture SWITCH co.

Photographer Vicky Jones

Super Tight John Doyle & Graham Crist with Atelier Bow-Wow | CBD Contracting

Photographer Derek Swalwell

Dandenong Public City Park Amenities BKK Architects | ADM Structures

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256 Collins Street METIER3 Architects Insitu Group

SHORTLISTED

Photographer Ben Wrigley

Wabi Sabi Cotter Reid Architects owner builder

Photographer Tom Ross

The Australian Ugliness WOWOWA Architecture Kane Constructions

JURY CHAIR REPORT | SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE Small scales, briefs and budgets were the catalyst for big ideas and agendas in this year’s Small Project Architecture category. There was depth and diversity across the entrants ranging from temporary exhibition design and installations, to adaptive facade alterations, small structures new and altered, temporary and mobile, flexible and fixed. The jury was impressed by the shortlisted entrants’ ability to use small architectural projects as a catalyst to address larger cultural, civic and community contexts and conversations. Aspirations for each project were diverse but ambitious. Mt Macedon Primary opportunistically and creatively challenges institutional constraints. The Australian Ugliness engages in a polemic musing on Robin Boyd’s local architectural legacy. Protagonist’s chameleon-like stance both camouflages and critiques its iconic civic context. While In Absence invites important community reflection on complex issues of indigenous culture and reconciliation. The awarded projects are all also exemplified by a careful and considered relationship with their contexts and siting. A clarity of framing, opening and expanding the ground. An experimentation in materiality and details. And a delight in their built spatial outcomes. They are exemplary projects, responding to difficult cultural and site contexts, with lots of constraints. And they all do more. Our jury process involved discussion and reflection on the important role of progressive procurement, collaboration, and supportive clients. Two of the awarded projects emerged from design competition processes held by ambitious clients. Both projects, In Absence and Protagonist, successfully embed a layered and narrative design thinking, and a strong commentary on their cultural and civic contexts. The strength and translation of their design concepts commends this design focused approach to procuring future significant small civic architectural projects. We commend all the Small Project Architecture entrants and award winners on their opportunism and for illustrating how the diverse constraints of small architecture can be exceeded by big ideas, impacts and ambition. 51

Carlton Learning Precinct COLA | Law Architects | Photographer: Dianna Snape

URBAN DESIGN The Urban Design category recognises achievement in design which enhances the quality of the built environment or public domain leading to the betterment of the broader city for the general community. Projects considered in this category may be single buildings, a group of buildings or non-building projects, studies or master plans of a public, civic or urban environment.

Ian McDougall Jury Chair

Evie Blackman Juror

Mark Jacques Juror

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THE JOSEPH REED AWARD | Carlton Learning Precinct COLA | Law Architects Law Architects have created a pinnacle for urban design in a modest and hardworking school project in the Carlton Learning Precinct. Resuscitating a 1960s Housing Commission structure, the architects have created a totally rejuvenated home for the Primary School, a community hub, ELC and Family Services. The masterstroke of the project is Law’s clever design for the community open space – called the COLA. This new space converts the old basketball area to an all-weather covered plaza. It is a space for the school and the wider community to share: a games arena, a marketplace, parent’s drop-off, public and school assemblies. The fringe of little red brick sheds gives enclosure without exclusion and provides community amenities for the COLA – the sheds recall brick toilet blocks while their diagonal decoration recalls the 19th century brick fences of inner-city Melbourne. The grand truss canopy, wrapped in wire mesh and the gradual spread of creepers, is urban and no-nonsense – all entirely on point. Law have made a community asset through savvy imagination and with a deep passion for quality public places, particularly for communities that don’t usually get these. Practice Team: Sandy Law (Design Architect), Katherine Peasley (Project Architect), Jenni Webster (Architect), Stephen McKay (Project Architect), Barde Gregory (Designer), Celine Soniega (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: RPS (Project Manager), Wilde & Woollard (Quantity Surveyor), LEaRN, The University of Melbourne (Educational Research Consultant), Philip Chun (Building Surveyor), Calibre Consulting (Structural Engineer), Calibre Consulting (Civil Consultant), Cundall (Services Consultant), Omnii (Fire), Cundall (Acoustic Consultant), Three Acres Landscape Architecture (Landscape Consultant), Fytogreen (Green Wall Specialist), Nexus Design (Signage), Chris Love Design (Kitchen Designer), Irwinconsult Engineering Consultants (Waste), Smith Land Surveyors (Land Surveyor) KEY

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AWARD | Ozanam House | MGS Architects MGS Architects’ experience and insight into mediumdensity housing and humane urban places has realised a valuable residential refuge for homeless people in North Melbourne. The project involved a big increase in residential accommodation (from two to eleven storeys) and gathers support services, health, drop-in, counselling and more into one welcoming destination. Out front, MGS have incorporated an open street cafe. This is the welcome mat, the axle around which areas like counselling rooms, meeting rooms and clinical areas radiate, spaces for public, residents and staff alike. Facilities like these are too few. So much has to be provided for on the hard-working lot, but MGS have even squeezed in a modest garden, a private space for residents. The residential tower mirrors the private apartment building next door. All these components have been designed as a quality development. The jury have awarded the importance of the Vincent Care facility and services and also the way MGS have empathetically created a sensitive and contributive building, a good citizen in its neighbourhood on Flemington Road.

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Consultant / Construction Team: Accuraco (Project Manager), Tract Consultants (Town Planner), Irwinconsult (Services Consultant), Irwinconsult (ESD Consultant), Webber Design (Structural Engineer), Webber Design (Civil Consultant), Outlines (Landscape Consultant), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), PLP Building Surveyors & Consultants (Building Surveyor), WT Partnership (Quantity Surveyor), Rider Levett Bucknall (Quantity Surveyor), Morris Access Consulting (Accessibility Consultant), Cardno (Traffic Consultant), Salt (Waste Consultant)

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Practice Team: Joshua Wheeler (Project Architect), Eli Giannini (Design Architect), John Bezemer (Project Leader), Catherine Ranger (Design Architect), Steve Sutedja (Architect), Sue Buchanan (Interior Design), Jane Mooney (Graphic Design), James Cochrane (Architect), Jake Hartmann (Student)

Builder: ADCO Constructions Pty Ltd Photographer: Andrew Latreille

AWARD | Sable Drop Terrace | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects JCB Architects have repaired a 15-metre embankment squeezed between the 11-storey Building A and Queens Avenue at Monash Caulfield. Working within the university’s standard landscape palette they have created a ‘sticky’ public space, solving the dual problems of slope and cafe dine-out apron, at once. JCB SITE PLAN Architects cleaned up the old shop front and threshold, 1 : 1000 @ A3 regraded the bank and replaced the garden terraces with a neat composition of steps, hangout spaces and access ramp. They even put some garden back. Clever use of timber and concrete benches disguises the embankment while providing informal seating. The materials palate here looks fresh and balanced, really because the new terrace has a sequential sense and generosity. This might have been a quick fix up, but JCB Architects show commitment here, though their knowledge and sensitivity to how people use open space, to turn this modest leftover space into a place you want to be in. The result, Sable Drop Terrace, is refreshing, natural and elegant.

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Practice Team: Graham Burrows (Director), Simon Topliss (Project Director), Fenina Acance (Project Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwin Consult (Structural Engineer), Irwin Consult (Civil Consultant), Irwin Consult (Services Consultant), Turner & Townsend Thinc (Project Manager), TCL Landscape Architects (Horticultural Consultant), Electrolight (Lighting Consultant) Builder: Ace Landscape Services / Neo Construct Photographer: Thom McCarthy

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | URBAN DESIGN The Victorian Architecture Awards judging for 2020 has been like no other â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our traditional assessment process has always been characterised by a sequence of view submissions, face-to-face talk, site visit, decision, big night out. This year we could only view (video, photos and drawings)., clumsy virtual talk, decision. This is the world of international prize programs and the jury believe that the exclusion of thorough site tours is something which should never become the norm. The 2020 urban design category had 8 entries to consider. The jury believe urban design is complementary to architectural design but different. Our architectural community has a broad view, so the jury decided to nominate six characteristics to measure the success of a submission. These characteristics are place and purpose, context and history, orchestrated relationship with neighbours, innovation, social and community agenda. Matching these traits meant that some high-quality entries were more architectural than urban in their success. A site visit might have revealed the urban design attributes of these. That said, generally the entries demonstrated how urban design principles such as activation and contribution to city life, context and the pedestrian realm, have become fundamental in the good design practice evident across the entries. The jury selected three projects Sable Drop Terrace, Monash University Caulfield (Jackson Clements Burrows Architects) Ozanam House Homeless Resource Centre, North Melbourne (MGS Architects) and , Carlton Learning Precinct COLA (Law Architects), recipient of the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, the categoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest accolade. As a postscript, the jury singled out one of the entries, Mirvac Riverside by Six Degrees Architects, which was assessed, like all entries, under COVID conditions. As a retail project its success could not be experienced or even tested, due to lockdown. The jury commend this important repair of a blighted urban pocket and recommend the architects re-enter the project next year. 57

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HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE This category is for any built conservation project or study developed in accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter, or any adaptive reuse of a heritage structure.

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THE JOHN GEORGE KNIGHT AWARD | Broadmeadows Town Hall | Kerstin Thompson Architects Constructed in 1964 and designed by the hitherto relatively unknown architects, Murray, Forster & Walsh, the Broadmeadows Town Hall refurbishment project is an exemplar of both conservation and adaptive reuse of a mid-century modernist former town hall and municipal offices which had become obsolete and on the cusp of demolition. Mid-century architecture globally is just beginning to become more widely recognised as being of heritage value. Being stylistically so distinct from its predecessors, and in terms of history relatively recent, this epoch is providing heritage practitioners and authorities alike with many exciting challenges, including, as in this instance, the not uncommon circumstance of a lack of any formal statutory heritage recognition. The Broadmeadows Town Hall, fondly locally named the Pink Elephant, was saved and revived by local community sentiment combined with the powerful and comprehensive deep research by Kerstin Thompson Architects to establish the heritage values of the place, not just the purely architectural aesthetic, but the associative intangible social values, and to capture and enhance them. Once equipped with this core knowledge, KTA were in a position to confidently both critically conserve and also to boldly add to the complex, bringing it up code, providing legible interpretive experiences and guaranteeing the place a sustainable future, all resulting in an outstanding, but sensitive revival. And all without imposed statutory heritage controls. It is a remarkable and ground-breaking project. Practice Team: Kerstin Thompson (Design Architect), Kelley MacKay (Project Director), Martin Allen (Project Associate), Lloyd McCathie (Senior Architect), Tina Leal (Architect), Caroline Chong (Graduate of Architecture), Tamsin O’Reilly (Visualisation)

Planning – Workspaces), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Alder Consulting (AV Consultant), Bluebottle 3 (Lighting Consultant), Traffix Group (Traffic Consultant), Bosco Johnson (Land Surveyor), Simon Ellis Landscape Architects (Landscape Consultant), Leigh Design (Waste Consultant), Urbis (Statutory Planning), Robbie Rowlands (Artist), City of Hume (Project Manager) Builder: Building Engineering

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AWARD | State Library Victoria Redevelopment | Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects While this massive investment in one of our most treasured 19th century civic landmarks inevitably involved substantial new programming and associated adaptive reuse interventions, all of which appear to have been highly successful, it has been the forensic conservation efforts which most impressed the jury on this project. Particularly in Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall where very detailed forensic investigations took place to reveal the original decorative paint scheme by Edward La Trobe Bateman. The resultant decision to remove the extant 1980s highly flamboyant faux heritage decorative scheme and to reveal and conserve earlier and original decorative schemes within a modest contemporary interpretive scheme, was judiciously handled. Additionally, the jury was impressed with the restoration of the roof lights in this space. The conservation heritage award is intended to highlight and acknowledge those forensic interventions into the heritage place which are often barely noticeable but which are nonetheless borne of deep research, science and careful contemplation. The result of these interventions is typically the difference between a diminution, when handled poorly, and an enhancement of the legibility of heritage value. From the clever and subtle manner of bringing the west-wing stairs into compulsory contemporary code compliance to the manner in which intensive new services have been integrated into a Victorian interior, never designed to accommodate such interventions, this project has succeeded impressively and is a testament to the excellent relationship that has prevailed between Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen with Andronas Conservation. Practice Team: Ruth Wilson (Principal in Charge), Morten Schmidt (Design Director), John Sprunt (Project Leader - Design Phases), Matt Spinaze (Project Leader - Construction), Elif Tinaztepe (Project Leader - SHL), Jette Birkeskov Mogensen (Project Leader - SHL), Lucy Croft (Interior Designer), Simon Farr (Team Member), Jayden Peacock (Team Member), Thomas Harvey (Team Member), Sarah Ianno (Team Member), Emma

Lombardi (Team Member), David Ha (Team Member), Anette Bjerring Gammelgard (Team Member), Simon Andreas Arnbjerg (Team Member), Waleria Kudera (Team Member), Henriette Byrge (Team Member), Ivan Cheltuitoru (Team Member) Consultant / Construction Team: Development Victoria (Project Manager), Andronas Conservation Architecture (Heritage Architect), Irwinconsult (Civil Consultant), Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), McKenzie Group (Building Surveyor), McKenzie Group (DDA Consultant), Irwinconsult (Electrical Consultant), Irwinconsult (Mechanical Consultant), Irwinconsult (Hydraulic Consultant), Irwinconsult (Fire Services), Irwinconsult (Fire Engineering), Irwinconsult (Vertical Transport), Arup (Acoustic Consultant), Arup (AV Consultant), Urbis (Town Planner), ID Lab (Signage and Wayfinding), Steensen Varming (Lighting Consultant), Steensen Varming (ESD Consultant), Salt (Traffic Engineer), AECOM (Quantity Surveyor) Builder: Built Photographer: Trevor Mein

AWARD | Trades Hall, Victoria | Lovell Chen In collaboration with specialist materials conservators from the Grimwade Centre at the University of Melbourne, Lovell Chen heritage architects have carefully peeled back, conserved and interpreted the hitherto hidden richly detailed 19th century layers to the interiors of this working persons architectural icon with celebrated forensic care. The refurbishment of the New Council Chamber (Solidarity Hall) involving the removal of the deemed to be intrusive 1960s layer and reversion back to its previous 19th century presentation but with some contemporary additions, which included conserving wall treatments found behind the 1960s walls, was particularly applauded as was the introduction of a museum standard interpretive display. Other notable interior works were to the Old Council Chamber, the New and the Old Ballrooms, offices and circulation spaces, while it was also acknowledged that the less glamorous basics such as ensuring the ongoing functionality of the complex slate clad roofing system was also deftly handled. Practice Team: Kai Chen (Design Director), Anne-Marie Treweeke (Project Architect), Stuart Hanafin (Project Architect), Suzanne Zahra (Heritage Architect), Peter Lovell (Conservation Works Consultant)

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AWARD | Abbotsford Convent Magdalen Laundry | Williams Boag Architects Working to a very modest budget, funded by Heritage Victoria, on the latest in a series of conservation and adaptive reuse projects at this nationally significant heritage and landmark complex, now in community use, Williams Boag Architects, in conjunction with specialist finishes and buildings conservators, have successfully navigated a complex brief to deliver a sensitive new use to a nineteenth century industrial site with a sometimes gritty and complex history, referred to as the North Laundry. The careful historic finishes investigations, which, after analysis, have been partially retained as palimpsestuous interpretive panels or patches, and the detailed documentary evidence captured in the Conservation Management Plan have enabled a successful reveal and conservation of the several key layers or chapters of the story of this place to be achieved with panache â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including a rare instance of lead paint finishes consolidation as distinct from its usual abatement/remediation. WBA have made several crafted but bold moves to bring the formerly toxic, debilitated and dangerous laundry complex into contemporary multipurpose performance and exhibition space allowing each of the key historic building fabric layers to remain legible while seamlessly adding the next. Practice Team: Peter Williams AM (Design Architect), Greg Meyers (Project Architect), Peter Wolf (Lead Documentation), Aaron Hughes (Graduate of Architecture), Danica Yee (Graduate of Architecture), Jacqueline Hays (Architecture Assistant) Consultant / Construction Team: T D & C (Structural Engineer), T D & C (Civil Consultant), Connor Pincus (Services Consultant), Hendry Building Surveying (Building Surveyor), Harlock Consulting (Quantity Surveyor), SLR Consulting Australia (Acoustic Consultant), Nigel Lewis Architect (Heritage Consultant), Donald Ellsmore (Conservator), Tracey Avery (Conservator), Dr Caroline Kyi (Conservator), Hardrock Geotechnical (Geotechnical Engineer), A S James Pty Ltd (Land Surveyor), Environmental Health Solutions (Contamination Consultant) Builder: FDC Construction & Fitout (VIC) Pty Ltd Photographer: Tony Miller

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AWARD | Regent Theatre, Melbourne | Lovell Chen Originally constructed in 1929 as the flagship of the Hoyts cinema chain but then substantially destroyed by fire in 1945, the main auditorium was reconstructed in 1947 but by the 1970s had fallen into disuse. Famously saved by union Green Bans from demolition, it was comprehensively restored and adaptively modified by David Mariner and Peter Lovell to become a live theatre in the mid-1990s. This current project involved further adaptations to improve the capacity of the place to perform its role as a live theatre, in particular in relation to sightline adjustments to suit signature international performances and code compliance matters. The project impresses for its innovative engineering solution in the form of the massive three-dimensional clear spanning truss and its seamless envelopment in new, expertly painted traditional venetian plasterwork, detailed to match the extant signature finishes. These substantial, but necessary interventions were developed via intense research and implemented with surgical precision with a resultant exemplary conservation and consolidation of a sustainable ongoing compatible use, for this key heritage place. Practice Team: Peter Lovell (Project Director), Milica Tumbas (Project Principal), Deirdre Heffernan (Project Member), Tina Tam (Project Architect), William Jamieson (Graduate of Architecture), Jack Tweedie (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), Irwinconsult (Services Consultant), Andrew Christofi & Associates (Hydraulic Consultant), Resonate (Acoustic Consultant), Schuler Shook (Theatre Consultant), Philip Chun (Building Surveyor), Affinity Fire Engineering (Fire Engineering), Buckford Illumination Group (Lighting Consultant), Slattery Australia (Quantity Surveyor), Morris Goding Access Consulting (Access Consultant), Mendis Hanna & Associates (Electrical Consultant) Builder: ICON Photographer: Peter Glenane HiVis Pictures EAST FOYER

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COMMENDATION Sorrento House | Cera Stribley

Art House & Studio | Zen Architects This reasonably intact but degraded late-Victorian doublefronted timber dwelling, overlooked for formal heritage recognition but nonetheless a fine example of its type, has been voluntarily saved, restored and masterfully adapted to contemporary standards. The owners, with a desire to maintain a cohesive historic heritage character to the street (despite the lack of will of the local authority), in combination with Zen Architects, motivated to recycle and interpret, have mostly followed the conventional approach of retaining sufficient of the front portion to enable ongoing respectful legibility while adding a rear addition and new interior. Perhaps relieved of the sometimes-limiting constraints of heritage planning policy, the result positively sings its contemporary tune in harmony with the retained heritage character with not a sign of historicist genuflection.

Photographer Derek Swalwell

A mid-1960s modernist beach house of clear architectural mastery but hitherto unprotected by any formal statutory mechanism, where both the owners and Cera Stribley architects have nonetheless adopted appropriate and laudable procedures to manage the inevitable need to restore and upgrade. From improving the thermal performance with double glazing and a new heating system, repairing the roof, to the careful removal and reinstatement of internal timber lining boards and canvas ceilings, there has been a consistent informed and sympathetic light touch which allows the integrity of the place and original design intent to be masterfully retained intact. Photographer Emma Cross

Builder: Leone Construction

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RMIT Capitol Theatre | Six Degrees Architects

The RMIT Capitol Theatre project by Six Degrees Architects is a successful and sensitive series of conservation measures which have given this iconic place, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony and which is of possible world heritage significance, a new lease of life where it had previously fallen into disrepair. Appropriate documentary and physical research, clear, evidence-based conservation and code compliance driven interventions including reproduction carpet (based on a found relic), modern lighting, upgraded bathrooms, decorative hard plaster repairs and multi-media installations, have successfully enabled the remnant auditorium and lobby spaces to be deployed for contemporary tertiary university and other public meetings and activities while honoring the Griffin/Mahony legacy. Photographer Tatjana Plitt

Builder: Hutchison Builders

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE The heritage category attracted what must surely be a record of 22 projects this year, the second year that the heritage award has been expanded to recognise excellence in pure heritage conservation as a distinct endeavour from the equally important, but typically more creative, adaptive reuse. The projects involved significant heritage places which are extremely diverse in typology and age and also in the level and nature of interventions, ranging from a very light touch to extensive re-envisaging. Buildings, or places, as conservation practitioners prefer to call them, ranged in type from very large civic edifices, commercial, community and health care premises and private residences to modest outbuildings and came not just from the Victorian and Federation eras but also from well into the 20th century, including interwar and, notably, mid-century modernism. It is clear that heritage conservation, which was once a slightly marginalised, specialist sector of the architectural profession, has now fully entered the mainstream. Another emerging trend is the increasing sophistication and scope of the built environment heritage conservation sector, now regularly including specialist subconsultant materials scientists and museum-standard objects conservators, as well as the ongoing support of traditional crafts and trades such as stonemasonry, lead beating and specialist applied finishes. Heritage conservation is no longer seen as an often times painful impediment to the realisation of heroic contemporary architecture but an important contributor to the whole built environment which can sit comfortably and sensibly alongside contemporary architectural endeavour. Society now clearly embraces both the cultural but also the environmental and economic benefits attached to heritage conservation and this is reflected in this year’s quantum of quality projects in the Victorian Architecture Awards heritage category. All entrants are congratulated. The job of the jury was especially difficult this year with the enforced remote engagement with projects in addition to the number and diversity.

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Ian Potter Southbank Centre, University of Melbourne | John Wardle Architects | Photographer: Trevor Mein

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE The Interior Architecture category recognises achievement in the design of an interior spatial environment and may include projects completed within a new building or the interior refurbishment of an existing building.

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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

THE MARION MAHONY AWARD | Ian Potter Southbank Centre, University of Melbourne | John Wardle Architects The Ian Potter Southbank Centre accommodates a diverse range of performance, rehearsal and learning spaces for the University of Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Arts campus in Southbank. The interior architecture focuses on the underlying idea of learning through observation and curiosity, this is manifested by challenging the technical and conventional notions of music conservatoriums which internalise and isolate their function and program; John Wardle Architects instead generously encourages engagement and activation with the wider community and its users. This is legible in the facade expression where several apertures reveal the internal activity within characteristically private spaces. A deliberate sensory expression is adopted in circulation zones and incidental areas where music permeates from rehearsal spaces, these become spaces of habitation where the inclusion of elegantly detailed seating and communal zones promote social engagement and connectivity. The careful planning and arrangement of spaces expertly negotiates the complex technical, acoustic and programmatic brief requirements, resulting in a vertical plan that is dynamic and functional; harmonised by a continuity of rich materiality and refined detail, that is robust yet tactile and informal. The Ian Potter Southbank Centre provides a meaningful spatial experience for learning, curiosity, creativity, social connection and engagement, a testament to the skill and ingenuity of JWA. Practice Team: John Wardle (Design Architect), Stefan Mee (Design Architect), Meaghan Dwyer (Project Architect), Andrew Wong (Design Architect), Kah-Fai Lee (Project Architect), Stephen Georgalas (Project Architect), Megan Marks (Project Architect), Minnie Cade (Project Architect), Alan Ting (Project Architect), James Loder (Project Architect), Jeff Arnold (Interior Designer), Barry Hayes (Facade Specialist), Tom Denham (BIM Coordinator), Alexandra Morrison (Project Architect), Clare Porter (Graduate of Architecture), Ariani Anwar (Project Architect), Daniel Sykes (Project Architect), Sharon Crabb (Interior Design), Kristina Levenko (Graduate of Architecture), Adrian Bonaventura (Graduate of Architecture), Tatiana Malysheva (Graduate of Architecture), Bill Kalavriotis (Project Architect), Sumedha 68

Dayaratne (Documentor), David Ha (Project Architect), Anna Jankovic (Project Architect), Will Rogers (Project Architect), Nick Roberts (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Aurecon (Services Consultant), PLP Building Surveyors & Consultants (Building Surveyor), Irwin Consult (Civil Consultant), Arup (Facade Consultant), RBA Architects & Conservation Consultants (Heritage Consultant), Aspect Studios (Landscape Consultant), Urbis (Planning Consultant), Diadem (Signage & Wayfinding), Irwin Consult (Structural Engineer), Electrolight (Lighting Consultant), Aurecon (ESD Consultant), Brian Hall & Marshall Day Entertech (Theatre Consultant), GTA Consultants (Traffic Consultant), Before Compliance (Accessibility Consultant) Builder: Lendlease Photographer: Trevor Mein 0

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AWARD | Monash University Chancellery | ARM Architecture The Monash University Chancellery is the workplace of principal university leaders and administrators, inclusive of the chancellor and vice-chancellor. While the building’s primary function is that of office space, it holds significance for the university campus as an emblem of Monash’s values and aspirations for the future. While the building has an important commitment to sustainability, as the first commercial building in Australia to achieve Passive House Certification, the interior spaces focus on housing the rich culture of the university and Indigenous Australians. Artworks and artefacts are woven throughout the interior spaces, into the grain of the building’s DNA, making for a sequence of layered and impactful interiors. ARM Architecture’s commitment to an inclusive artist-lead process allows the presence and message of each artist to be felt. We acknowledge the significance and power of the art program as an exceptional response to the brief, client and community. The Monash University Chancellery reflects the ambition and sensitivity of the client as a community leader. The uncompromising ambition and the strength of the project’s outcome is a show of ARM’s will and rigorous pursuit of exceptional architecture. The interior spaces of the Chancellery go beyond the client’s needs and highlight the value of quality architectural design. Practice Team: Ian McDougall (Design Director), Jesse Judd (Project Director), Jeremy Stewart (Design Leader), Andrew Smith (Project Leader), Andrea Wilson (Interiors Leader), Justin Fagnani (Documentation Leader), Eliza Langham (Graduate of Architecture), Fiona Plaisted (Graduate of Architecture), Nourin Ahmadpour (Interior Detailer), Ryan Robertson (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), Aurecon (Services Consultant), Aurecon (ESD Consultant), Inhabit (Facade Consultant), Glowing Structures (Lighting Consultant), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Steve Watson & Partners (Building Surveyor), NDY (AV Consultant), Geyer (Workplace Consultant), Openwork (Landscape Consultant), Vivid (Wayfinding Consultant), Architecture & Access (DDA & Access Consultant), Irwinconsult (Fire Engineer) Builder: Kane Constructions

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AWARD | Napier Street for Milieu | Freadman White Napier St is a skilfully resolved apartment building which challenges typical apartment typology. Adhering to a commercial budget, the outcome is a robust but generous offering to both the occupants and the greater community. The building forgoes the typical street front apartment lobby and draws the occupants in through a gated breezeway to the centre of the building. The vertical circulation core promotes interaction between neighbours by way of its thoughtfully planned pathways and thresholds, while the timber clad planters complement the robust natural material palette. The porosity continues into the apartment through the timber battened doors with operable infills for cross ventilation. Internally, the material palette echoes the external communal spaces in expressing their natural qualities. The apartments have been planned with a flexibility which enables consolidation and an emphasis on long life. An operable and porous facade provides direct interaction and communal offering to Napier St while blurring the threshold between the interior and exterior spaces. An honesty in materials, thoughtful design and rigorous but practical detailing positions Napier St as an exemplar project and results in a rich and inviting outcome. Builder: Atelier Projects Photographer: Gavin Green

AWARD | Gillies Hall | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects Gillies Hall sits within the Monash University Peninsula campus and accommodates 250 on-site residents with a lively array of communal spaces. An ambitious brief with outstanding sustainability credentials, the project represents an uncompromising cost-value outcome for the client and a wonderful array of interior spaces. JCB Architects’ simple use of materials speak to larger ideas and connect to the broader context of the Mornington peninsula. The presence of timber can be felt through the corridors of Gillies Hall, connecting the interiors to the project’s ambitious sustainable credentials. The largest Passive House certified building in the southern hemisphere with the combined use of CLT construction, the interior spaces are quiet, temperate and smell of timber. The communal areas offer rich amenity to the residents and the wider university campus allowing for an ambient backdrop to the chaos of student-hood. The spatial planning offers a series of carefully curated vertical sightlines, small occupiable moments, and private rooms of rich identity all of which speak to a sense of homeliness. A contextually driven colour pallet efficiently engenders a sense of identity and belonging throughout.

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RECREATION WALK RESTORED CREEKBED SPORT FACILITY CAMPUS BROADER CAMPUS CHURCH PRIVATE RESIDENCE8 HOCKEY FIELD CARPARK STREET

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GILLIES HALL AIA AWARDS 2020

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RMIT Capitol Theatre | Six Degrees Architects

Three Stories North | Splinter Society Architecture

Three Stories North demonstrates a clever reworking of a complex heritage condition for contemporary life. Considered design interventions reveal, conceal and contrast the existing fabric, while a palette of robust materials caters to the demanding requirements of a family home. The vertical circulation void becomes the central axis of the house by creating a dialogue between the domestic program beyond and the immediate street context.

Photographer Tatjana Plitt

The restoration of the existing Marion Mahoney and Walter Burley Griffin designed theatre is skilfully executed and brings the interior back to the public domain to be experienced in all its richness. The previously disconnected entrance is revived through considered new insertions which balance the existing interior architecture. The insertions are rigorously detailed with a delicateness which belies their robust materiality.

Delivered on a modest budget, the project highlights the value in both understanding and challenging the existing.

The revived theatre is a commendable outcome which highlights the relationship between a committed client, architect and builder. Builder: Hutchison Builders

Photographer Sharyn Cairns

Builder: Birdsmouth Construction

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Photographer Peter Clarke

161 Collins Street Bates Smart Built

Photographer Gallant Lee

Australian Medical Robotics Academy Jacobs with Maben Group and Electrocom Solutions | Maben Group Pty Ltd SHORTLISTED

Photographer Rory Gardiner

Elm Tree Place Eastop Architects

CBD Contracting Group

Photographer Willem-Dirk du Toit

Melbourne City Mission Frontyard Fender Katsalidis Built

SHORTLISTED

Photographer Ben Hosking

Photographer John Gollings

Photographer Peter Clarke

97 Mathoura Road Toorak Carr

Apartment 302 Shelley Roberts Architects

Arts Epicentre Branch Studio Architects

Flux

Photographer Derek Swalwell

Block House Ha

Moon Building Group Pty Ltd

SHORTLISTED

Photographer Rory Gardiner

Geelong Arts Centre Hassell Kane Constructions

Photographer Martina Gemmola

Modo Pento WOWOWA Architecture Sak Builders

MRU Construction

Photographer Will Watt

Chocolate Buddha Maddison Architects Leeda Projects

Melbourne Construction

Photographer Ross Honeysett

East Melbourne Residence Carr Beaton Projects Australia

SHORTLISTED

Photographer Dan Hocking

Harry & Vivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Ha

Creative Living Constructions Pty Ltd

Photographer John Gollings Monash University Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts | Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design | Multiplex Australasia

Photographer Peter Bennetts

JARtB House Kavellaris Urban Design Kavellaris Urban Design

Photographer Shannon McGrath

Montague Street House Noxon Architecture Bespoke Project Management

SHORTLISTED

Photographer Shannon McGrath

ONE and RISE at 101 Collins Gray Puksand

Shape (for ONE) and MPA (for RISE)

Photographer Felix Mooneeram

Orrong Road Apartment B.E Architecture Dome Building Projects

Photographer Andrew Latreille

Ozanam House MGS Architects

ADCO Constructions Pty Ltd

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Penguin Parade Visitor Centre TERROIR Kane Constructions

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Photographer Trevor Mein

Piccolo Office Wood Marsh

Piccolo Developments

Photographer Peter Clarke

Rod Laver Arena Redevelopment COX Architecture Lendlease

Photographer Brett Boardman

State Library Victoria Redevelopment Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects | Built

Photographer Tommy Miller

Tedesca COX Architecture Andrew Clarico

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Photographer Willem-Dirk du Toit

The Grace Albert Park Lake Fender Katsalidis Watpac Construction

Photographer Emily Bartlett The University of Melbourne Veterinary

| Billard Leece Partnership | Kane Constructions

School, Werribee

Photographer James Geer

Winning Appliances Chadstone Cera Stribley NEWPOL

Photographer Ben Hosking

The Melburnian Apartment Edition Office CBD Contracting

Photographer Brett Boardman

UniLodge Lincoln House nettletontribe Watpac Constructions Pty Ltd

Photographer John Gollings

The Swift Science and Technology Centre | McBride Charles Ryan LBA Constructions

Photographer Derek Swalwell

Union House Austin Maynard Architects CBD Contracting

Photographer Earl Carter

The University of Melbourne Life Sciences Building Hassell | Kane Constructions

Photographer Tess Kelly

University of Melbourne Southbank Hub Lyons | APM Group

Photographer James Geer

Winning Appliances Richmond Cera Stribley Storepro

JURY CHAIR REPORT | INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE The interior architecture category this year attracted the highest number of entrants; of these diverse 40 entrants, the jury shortlisted 14. As with every year, the category captured a broad range of sectors, scales, briefs, typologies, programs and budgets. The jury were impressed by the high standard of entries, in particular the execution of many compelling adaptive-reuse projects that reimagine under-utilised buildings, including Three Stories North, Elm Tree Place, 161 Collins street, One + Rise at 101, University of Melbourne Southbank Hub and Melbourne City Mission, Tedesca. These tactful transformations enable the existing built fabric of our city to evolve and be culturally responsive, without unnecessary demolition. The jury were also delighted to see the delicate and faithful restoration of Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significant heritage fabric at the State Library of Victoria, Capitol Theatre and Alexander Theatre. An increasing sophistication in the interior architecture of medium and high-density residential projects is also apparent in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entries, with the submission of high-quality built outcomes that rival a stand-alone home in their degree of resolution and conceptual clarity. Special mention goes to Napier Street for Milieu by Freadman White, the Melburnian Apartment by Edition Office, Mathoura Road by Car, Gillies Hall by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, Ozanam House by MGS Architects, Orrong Road Apartment by B.E Architecture and the Grace Albert Park Lake by Fender Katsalidis. While many projects presented exceptional responses to interior detailing, materiality and spatial experience, others stood out in their innovative approach to environmentally sustainable construction, in particular in the implementation of Passive House and CLT in commercial and multi-res typologies in Monash University Chancellery, Gillies Hall and Union House. Although a challenging year without site visits in place, the jury placed strong emphasis on the awards judging criteria, with particular regard to projects that explored a dialogue between the wider project site and interior to create outstanding outcomes for the inhabitants. Despite rigorous and robust discussion, the final list was unanimous.

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Ian Potter Southbank Centre, University of Melbourne | John Wardle Architects | Photographer: Trevor Mein

9 Cremorne St | Fieldwork | Photographer: Peter Clarke

COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE The Commercial Architecture category recognises achievement in the design of projects used primarily for commercial purposes. Generally, projects considered in this category fall within BCA Class 3b | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8.

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THE SIR OSBORN MCCUTCHEON AWARD | 9 Cremorne St | Fieldwork Each design move in 9 Cremorne Street has been undertaken with decisiveness and precision. Occupying a tight city-fringe site with a historically significant early Edwardian factory, this is an office building designed for Australian conditions. Above the warmth and reassuring simplicity found in the brickwork of the heritage base sits a strong, fully screened, rectangular volume. It is a building that dynamically responds to the changing environment while dealing sensitively with the existing heritage fabric. It is a corner bookmark, marking the gateway into the Cremorne Precinct Wrapped in expanded metal screens, the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance can change throughout the day as these screens give the occupants the ability to adapt their workplace to suit their environmental preferences. It gives an ephemeral effect to the simple form but more importantly an immediacy and intimacy to the interior work spaces. It is an outstanding example of how to balance all the differing issues and constraints a project provides. It creates a great place for people to work, a built identity for a company and positive contribution to our developing urban environment. It does this while demonstrating how a sustainable approach can be a strong and beautiful architectural statement. Practice Team: Joachim Holland (Director), Hannah Jonasson (Director), Tim Brooks (Project Architect), Wyndham Cameron (Architect), Piers Morgan (Graduate of Architecture), Alessio Fini (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Tract Consultants Pty Ltd (Town Planner), Builde Pty Ltd (Building Surveyor), NJM Design (Services Engineer), Adams Consulting Engineers (Structural & Civil Engineer), Tensys Engineers (Facade Engineer), GIW Environmental Solutions (ESD Consultant), Dobbs Doherty (Fire Engineer), Bryce Raworth (Heritage Consultant), Before Compliance (DDA Consultant), Cogent Acoustics Ptd Ltd (Acoustic Consultant), Traffix Group (Traffic), Jack Merlo (Landscape Consultant) Builder: Cobild Photographer: Peter Clarke 78

AWARD | Light Box | Clare Cousins Architects On a highly constrained site with only one facade receiving direct light, the project successfully delivers an outcome that is focussed on tenant wellbeing. The key move in the project is the use of glass bricks across the majority of its facade. This delivers a beguiling outcome, at night the facade glows, acting as a beacon within the streetscape. Arranged across this elevation at each level are operable glazed-screens which open onto Juliet balconies. This provides an attractive opportunity for user control. Within the building and to the rear of the floorplate a full-height lightwell draws light deep into the floorplate and is naturally ventilated. A kitchenette and adjacent room provides spatial complexity and flexibility. Light and air is also drawn into the building via the full-height open fire stair fronting the street. In time, creepers will grow up the face of this stair, acting as a soft counterpoint to the adjacent glazed facade. This is a highly successful scheme which should act as a prototype for other commercial projects due to the deft manner in which it has provided access to natural ventilation, direct light, nature and greater levels of user control. Practice Team: Clare Cousins (Design Architect), Brett Wittingslow (Project Architect), David McDonald (Project Architect), Sarah Birthisel (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Ipsum Engineers (Structural Engineer) Builder: Marino Construction Photographer: Tess Kelly

TITLE STREET ELEVATION PROJECT LIGHT BOX

COMMENDATION Nagambie Brewery & Distillery | Six Degrees Architects

271 Spring Street | John Wardle Architects

271 Spring Street skilfully negotiates complex site parameters to become an integrated part of the urban precinct. At podium level the interventions of a lowscale brick entry portal and folding brick skin respect and successfully stitch together existing heritage buildings. The retention of heritage fabric internally further preserves this cultural memory and offers a more diverse selection of tenancies. A porous ground plane connects into the existing pedestrian network linking Spring Street with the workshop, providing a new urban landscape, and extending the public realm.

Photographer Greg Elms

Nagambie Brewery & Distillery demonstrates how a considered architectural strategy can contribute to the transformation and rejuvenation of a regional town. Nagambieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s features are celebrated through a carefully scaled cluster of new and existing buildings deftly arranged to amplify both the experience of the lake and the former heritage structures. Responding to the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finer-grained context, distinct and separate forms are employed to identify the mix of program and break down the overall scale of the project. Narrow urban incisions successfully re-address the main street connection to the lake and draw visitors through to the expansive lakeside experience beyond. Builder: CRC Constructions

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Builder: Probuild

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Photographer Peter Clarke

Botanicca 3 Gray Puksand Hacer Group

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Medhurst Cellar Door Folk Architects Overend Constructions

Photographer Jaime Diaz-Berrio

Fivex House North Tower Baldasso Cortese Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd

Photographer Ben Tole

St Collins Lane ARM Architecture Built

Photographer Tommy Miller

Tedesca COX Architecture Andrew Clarico

JURY CHAIR REPORT | COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE Nine projects were presented to the Commercial Jury resulting in a shortlist of five. The projects represented a mix of different typologies with four being primarily hospitality or retail and the remaining five being office buildings of differing scale and contexts. This diversity was represented in the shortlist with St Collins Lane, a primarily retail proposal, Nagambie Brewery & Distillery a hospitality focused project and 271 Spring Street, 9 Cremorne Street and Lightbox all commercial offices of respectively decreasing scales. What was shared among the shortlisted projects was an explicit exploration of how each project could make a wider contribution through its creation. In the case of St Collins Lane this is through the transformation of the previous shopping mall into a new Melbourne arcade. For Lightbox it is the way the street facade and the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circulation can bring life to the street. The emphasis of Nagambie Brewery & Distillery was on enlivening the town, connecting the street with the lake. 271 Spring Street sought to find a resolution of old and new that continues the patterns of pedestrian movements through the precinct. And 9 Cremorne Street created a gateway and marker of sustainable commercial development. 9 Cremorne Street developed this contribution in the most comprehensive way, and with its clarity of expression and rigorous resolution, it was a clear winner in this category.

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Penguin Parade Visitor Centre | TERROIR | Photographer: John Gollings

PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE The Public Architecture category recognises achievement in the design of projects which are predominantly public or institutional in nature. Generally, projects considered in this category fall within BCA Class 9.

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PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE

THE WILLIAM WARDELL AWARD | Penguin Parade Visitor Centre | TERROIR The Penguin Parade Visitor Centre by TERROIR is a spectacular and beautifully executed building that envelops a commanding formal language and the intelligent distribution of interpretive and hospitality programs around a high-traffic human circulation space. Its clustered composition of sharp formal elements marks the intersection of three distinct landscape terrains (wetland, dune and bluff) which define a siting response appropriate to the immediate landscape, and one through which visitors are introduced to the Penguin Sanctuary without a sense of being ushered or overly managed. Set beneath a complex ceiling-scape of engineered-timber beams and other contrasting elements, the arrangement of the plan allows for very large numbers of people to simultaneously interact with the centre before making their way by boardwalk to the beach. Notwithstanding its almost strident formal composition, the experience of the building at ground level is alluring and gentle â&#x20AC;&#x201C; palpable through the expressive use of zinc tile cladding, patterned to evoke the two-toned colouring of the little penguin species. The overall effect is one of clean articulation, sculptural intimacy and controlled scale. Congratulations to TERROIR for integrating this complex and demanding building within such a delicate and popular site. Practice Team: Scott Balmforth (Design Director), Gerard Reinmuth (Design Director), David McPeak (Project Lead), Paul Sayers (Architect), Tom Rubenach (Architect), Chris Rogers (Architect), Jordan Mathers (Graduate of Architecture), Joshua Lynch (Graduate of Architecture), Christine Mosbech (Graduate of Architecture), Ben Feher (Graduate of Architecture), Ben Black (Student), Charlotte Meheut (Student), Jack Andrews (Graduate of Architecture), Cassandra Kiss (Interior Design) Consultant / Construction Team: AECOM (Project Manager), Tract Consultants (Landscape Architect), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Structural Engineer), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Civil Consultant), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Services Consultant), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Acoustic Consultant), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Specialist Lighting), Wood and Grieve Engineers (ESD Consultant), Steve Watson 84

and Partners (Building Surveyor), AS James (Geo Technical Engineers), Thylacine (Interpretations Design), UFD (Food Service Design), GTA Associates (Traffic Consultant), AECOM (Pedestrian Planning) Builder: Kane Constructions Photographer: Peter Bennetts

AWARD | Gandel Wing, Cabrini Malvern | Bates Smart The Gandel Wing is an outstanding example of institutional architecture. The complex hospital brief and challenging site were thoughtfully navigated, and the building finely crafted by the architects to produce a consistent and high-quality outcome. Sited comfortably within its suburban context, the Gandel Wing does not overwhelm its surrounds. The jury were particularly impressed with the building’s ability to successfully straddle the fine line between the need for privacy and permeability for its occupants. The privacy of both patients and suburban neighbours is effortlessly balanced via a clever terracotta veil to the 75 per cent glazed facade. Access to natural light and views have been championed in all patient rooms, and nature harnessed to support the building function of health and recovery. The interiors are exceptionally well detailed and executed with thoughtful consideration given to both materiality and internal planning. The move to include semi-private spaces between the private rooms, allow patients respite and the opportunity to interact more freely with other patients and visitors. Courtyards inserted between the old and the new buildings create a seamless transition between the two. This Gandel Wing is an essay in excellence. Practice Team: Timothy Leslie (Design Architect), Mark Healey (Interior Design Director), Kristen Whittle (Design Architect), Cian Davis (Design Architect), Kevin Masci (Project Architect), Aurelia Gachet (Architect), Anqi Zeng (Architect), Raymond Feile (Architect), Marko Coetzee (Designer), Bill Henning (Designer), Raechel Schofield (Interior Designer), Louisa Watts (Interior Designer), Iain Walker (Designer), Lorry Foca (Designer), Namrata Durgai (Interior Designer), Wei Ren Choo (Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Gardner Group (Building Surveyor), Aurecon (Civil Consultant), Slattery (Cost Consultant), Aecom (Engineer), Cundall (ESD Consultant), Aecom (Hydraulic Consultant), Bates Smart (Interior Designer), John Patrick Landscape Architects (Landscape Consultant), Aecom (Lighting Consultant), Aurecon (Project Manager), Slattery (Quantity Surveyor), Aecom (Services Consultant), Aurecon (Structural Engineer), Contour (Town Planner), Design Inc (Health Planner), DuChateau Chun (DDA Consultant), Arup (Façade Consultant), Altitude Façade Access Consulting (Façade Access) Builder: Kane Constructions Photographer: Peter Clarke

AWARD | State Library Victoria Redevelopment | Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects The State Library of Victoria Extension provides an exemplary model for adaptive reuse and sets a precedent for what a library in the 21stCentury should be. The State Library evolved as a conglomeration of approximately 20 buildings of varying architectural styles and time periods. These have become a microcosm of the city, blocks within a block; but the closure of certain areas over the years had meant that the legibility of the building as a whole had been lost. Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have skilfully re-established these connections by opening up the Russell Street entrance to create a strong east—west connection and unlock spaces which had lain dormant for decades, returning them back to public use. New elements are thoughtful, well considered and the use of a simple palette of materials, fixtures and fittings provide a unified backdrop. New services and technology are also discretely hidden away, and the use of natural daylight optimised. The State Library of Victoria Extension presents a lesson in refinement, stripping back to enhance and to hero the existing, while introducing new understated additions that let the story of the existing building come to the fore. Practice Team: Ruth Wilson (Principal in Charge), Morten Schmidt (Design Director), John Sprunt (Project Leader - Design Phases), Matt Spinaze (Project Leader Construction), Elif Tinaztepe (Project Leader - SHL), Jette Birkeskov Mogensen (Project Leader - SHL), Lucy Croft (Interior Designer), Simon Farr (Team Member), Jayden Peacock (Team Member), Thomas Harvey (Team Member), Sarah Ianno (Team Member), Emma Lombardi (Team Member), David Ha (Team Member), Anette Bjerring Gammelgard (Team Member), Simon Andreas Arnbjerg (Team Member), Waleria Kudera (Team Member), Henriette Byrge (Team Member), Ivan Cheltuitoru (Team Member) Consultant / Construction Team: Development Victoria (Project Manager), Andronas Conservation Architecture (Heritage Architect), Irwinconsult (Civil Consultant), Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), McKenzie Group (Building Surveyor), McKenzie Group (DDA Consultant), Irwinconsult (Electrical Consultant), Irwinconsult (Mechanical Consultant), Irwinconsult (Hydraulic Consultant), Irwinconsult (Fire Services), Irwinconsult (Fire Engineering), Irwinconsult (Vertical Transport), Arup (Acoustic Consultant), Arup (AV Consultant), Urbis (Town Planner), ID Lab (Signage and Wayfinding), Steensen Varming (Lighting Consultant), Steensen Varming (ESD Consultant), Salt (Traffic Engineer), AECOM (Quantity Surveyor) Builder: Built Photographer: Trevor Mein 86

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AWARD | Parks Victoria Albert Park Office and Depot | Harrison and White with Archier The Parks Victoria Albert Park Office and Depot by Harrison & White + Archier is a spatially inviting, robust and aptly integrated building within the park-scape of Albert Park. The jury was impressed with the way open-space volumes connect with the park while bringing an exteriority into the heart of the building via the undercroft and courtyard. This idea is articulated through the incorporation of vegetation and in situ concrete seating that both protect and welcome you to the building as part of a rich layering of tectonic elements, material treatments and foliage. The prevailing concrete structure serves as a generous carrier of these ideas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; literally, in the way planting zones are supported at the upper level, but also in the way it reveals and sets in motion the composition of the building as a grafted program comprising a works depot and ground-level utility beneath the office areas above. This combination and consolidation of programs was an architect-led initiative to reduce the net footprint of buildings and structures within the park as a whole and is to be applauded as a sincere first move which was then seized as an opportunity for architectural public expression. Consultant / Construction Team: Openwork (Landscape Consultant), Accuraco (Project Manager), Wood and Grieve (Engineer), Metro (Building Surveyor), HIP V. HYPE (ESD Consultant) Builder: Building Engineering Photographer: Peter Bennetts

COMMENDATION Broadmeadows Town Hall | Kerstin Thompson Architects

Photographer John Gollings

The Broadmeadows Town Hall is a skilful example of what can be achieved when outdated community buildings are adaptively reused rather than replaced. Clever internal planning carefully considers each new element while the best of the existing fabric is respected and championed. The architecture confidently succeeds in the complex task of maintaining respect for the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history while providing flexibility and amenity for its new functions, which extend well beyond the original building use. This outstanding project is a beacon for the community.

South Melbourne Life Saving Club | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects

Photographer John Gollings

Measured, thoughtfully composed and robust, the South Melbourne Life Saving Club is a simple gesture with a big impact. Fitting lightly into its context, this deceptively simple building is effortlessly polite, preserving sightlines and views for its neighbours, while offering glimpses to the inner workings of the private surf club and affording incidental opportunities for sitting, sunbathing, and shelter. It is a building that gives generously to its neighbourhood and is clearly well loved in return. Builder: Connell Design and Construct

Builder: Building Engineering

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Balwyn Park Tennis & Community Facility MGS Architects | SJ Higgins

SHORTLISTED

Photographer Gallant Lee

Gaza Ridge Health Centre Jacobs with Millar Merrigan Joss Construction

Photographer Rory Gardiner

Geelong Arts Centre Hassell Kane Constructions

Photographer John Gollings

Holy Trinity Kew Atelier Wagner Architects

Devco Project & Construction Management

SHORTLISTED

Photographer John Gollings

Kalora Park Sports Club WOWOWA Architecture PAH Constructions

Photographer Mengzhu Jiang

Ocean Grove Surf Lifesaving Club Wood Marsh Ireland Brown Construction

Photographer Gallant Lee

VCAT Oakleigh Harmer Architecture Jones Lang LaSalle

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Mainview Boulevard Family Learning Centre Canvas Projects | Melbcon

Photographer Tom Roe

Rockbank Station Kyriacou Architects Lendlease

Photographer Peter Bennetts

Wunggurrwil Dhurrung GresleyAbas and Gregory Burgess Architects | Devco

Photographer Michael Kai

Mernda Rail Extension - Stations Grimshaw John Holland

Photographer Peter Clarke

Rod Laver Arena Redevelopment COX Architecture Lendlease

Photographer Rhiannon Slatter

Oak Park Sports and Aquatic Centre | Haskell Architects Hutchinson Builders

Photographer Scott Burrows

Shepparton Law Courts Redevelopment | Architectus ADCO Constructions (VIC) Pty Ltd

JURY CHAIR REPORT | PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE The quality of entries in the public category this year was impressive. Excellence, skilful design and a high-level of execution was consistent across all of the projects submitted. The variety of project type, scale and function made for an engaging day of presentations and a challenging shortlisting process. Twenty projects from regional new builds to urban adaptive re-use, suburban hospitals, community halls and sporting facilities were submitted, resulting in a shortlist of nine. The jury elected to proceed with a longer shortlist due to the elimination of site visits from the 2020 program. In their absence, documentation and verbal presentations informed deliberations, which occurred over several online meetings. The jury were impressed with the variety of strategies which led directly to meaningful public outcomes, often well beyond a buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designated function. The deliberate harnessing of nature to support patient recovery, and the purposeful inclusion of shelter for nonhuman stakeholders being noteworthy examples. In many projects generous incidental public offerings were present. They included lighting strategies to facilitate participation in a broader public discourse, generous external seating, sunbathing platforms, and an architect-led initiative to minimise built footprint and maximise a public park. Of particular note was the emergence of strategies actively seeking to generate community projects or to push beyond the brief and extend the understanding of the ways in which a public building can be occupied. Thank you to all of the architects who entered and adapted to the challenging 2020 awards program. Congratulations to those with projects in the public category and particularly to those receiving awards and commendations for their remarkable work.

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Monash University Chancellery | ARM Architecture | Photographer: Rhiannon Slatter

EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE The Educational Architecture category recognises achievement in the design of any preschool, primary, secondary or tertiary educational facility and/or joint research facilities in which an educational institution is a significant partner.

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THE HENRY BASTOW AWARD | Monash University Chancellery | ARM Architecture The new Monash University Chancellery building is a thoughtful, collaborative, well executed, crafted piece of architecture. It combines administrative office space with a variety of accessible community functions, providing a ceremonial centre piece for the university. As a building in the round it responds to its context playfully and intelligently with an open and inviting presence that successfully encapsulates ARM Architecture’s desire to conceptualise the intellect, diversity, and values of the 21st century university. It has, by design, facilitated a more collegial style of collaborative working within the university’s administration, and opened the chancellery to the wider university community. The project produces a visually stimulating and tactile environment that integrates a culturally diverse collection of artworks into the building fabric. The services design and interior detailing is skilful and combined with the overall quality of the building’s resolution, expressing the necessary rigor, attention to detail and perseverance required to produce an exemplary piece of environmentally responsive architecture that has regard for its genius loci. It set a benchmark for entries with its approach to sustainable design and building technology, having been designed to ‘passive haus’ principles, while allowing the Atrium to be opened up and naturally ventilated for ceremonial occasions, showing an understanding of adapting the technology for local conditions. Practice Team: Ian McDougall (Design Director), Jesse Judd (Project Director), Jeremy Stewart (Design Leader), Andrew Smith (Project Leader), Andrea Wilson (Interiors Leader), Justin Fagnani (Documentation Leader), Eliza Langham (Graduate of Architecture), Fiona Plaisted (Graduate of Architecture), Ryan Robertson (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), Aurecon (Services Consultant), Aurecon (ESD Consultant), Inhabit (Facade Consultant), Glowing Structures (Lighting Consultant), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Steve Watson & Partners (Building Surveyor), NDY (AV Consultant), Geyer (Workplace Consultant), Openwork (Landscape Consultant), Vivid (Wayfinding Consultant), Architecture & Access (DDA & Access Consultant), Irwinconsult (Fire Engineer)

Builder: Kane Constructions

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AWARD | The Swift Science and Technology Centre | McBride Charles Ryan The Swift Science and Technology Centre is a wellconsidered building containing an array of teaching and learning experiences. The architecture engages and immerses students at every step in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines. McBride Charles Ryan has been awarded for their skill in producing a diverse collection of teaching and learning spaces, within the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laboratory and ancillary spaces. The architects have successfully created a space that engages students, teachers, and the broader community through excellence in design, in the context of the school and its design history. The building itself creates a new grandstand end to the southern perimeter of the campus. Its faceted curvaceous facade introduces a new focus to the surrounding outdoor areas. The Edna Walling motifs reference the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich landscape history. The architects described the making, display and understanding as critical to their design process, evidenced throughout the either partially or fully glazed internal spaces. The new building forms a connector between the senior and junior schools with all students free to witness the learning within. Practice Team: Robert McBride (Project Architect), Debbie Ryan (Designer), Bahman Andalib (Project Architect), Phuong Nguyen (Project Architect), Paul Van Herk (Design Architect), Nick Jones (Design Architect), Katrina Owers (Graduate of Architecture), Shereen Amin (Graduate of Architecture), Michelle Gan (Student of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: APP (Project Manager), IrwinConsult (Civil Engineer), IrwinConsult (Structural Engineer), Cundall (Electrical Engineer), Cundall (Acoustic Engineer), Cundall (Fire & Life Safety Engineer), Cundall (Mechanical Engineer), LYA (Fire Safety Engineer), WT Partnership (Quantity Surveyor), Floreancig Smith (Building Surveyor) Builder: LBA Constructions Photographer: John Gollings

AWARD | Monash University Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts | Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design EAST ELEVATION | 1:100 @ A3

The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts at Monash University is a skilful and highly crafted example of the adaptive reuse of a significant building. The original Alexander Theatre or the Alex as it is affectionately known has been incorporated through skilful planning and architectural interventions into a larger complex of complementary and alternative performance venues. Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design are to be commended, not just for the refined detailing and clarity of design resolution of this project, but for engaging with their client and fighting to retain the Alex, which was a crucible for the 1960s avant-garde theatre scene and student events. Slated for demolition, this heroic piece of architecture has been painstakingly brought back to its former glory to reclaim its role of attracting and nurturing world-class talent. It has been reinstated as a jewel in the crown of the Monash Clayton campus, offering an exemplar illustration of post-war architecture, reinvented for contemporary use. The tapering monolithic form of the original proscenium arch has been repeated in the new additions, generating an almost ancient Mycenean composition of angling forms, where each junction has been carefully resolved and meticulously detailed, creating an exemplary building, enriching campus life from every angle. Practice Team: Peter Elliott (Design Architect), Jude Doyle (Project Architect), Daniel Bennetts (Project Architect), Sean van der Velden (Project Architect), Hosna Saleem (Graduate of Architecture), Shigeru Iijima (Graduate of Architecture), Geoff Barton (Project Architect), Grant Dixon (Project Architect), An Thai (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), Irwinconsult (Services Consultant), Irwinconsult (ESD Consultant), AECOM (Facade Engineer), McKenzie Group (Building Surveyor), Architecture & Access (Access Consultant), Marshall Day Acoustics (Acoustic Consultant), Marshall Day Entertech (Theatre Consultant), Aspect (Landscape Consultant), Slattery Australia (Quantity Surveyor), MASS (Signage), The Matrix Group (Food & Beverage), GTA Consultants (Traffic), Salt (Waste Management), Aurecon Australasia (Project Manager) Builder: Multiplex Australasia Photographer: John Gollings

AWARD | Ian Potter Southbank Centre, University of Melbourne | John Wardle Architects The Ian Potter Southbank Centre is a unique and engaging facility for the university on a tight and challenging site, that combines music performance, rehearsal and teaching spaces with great skill and vision. As a building, this project is crafted with a keen attention to detail, that culminates in the creative use of precast concrete as artwork and artifact. The organisation of the auditoria and teaching spaces vertically, responds intelligently to the complexities of site and program. The architect has balanced the need for acoustically tuned spaces with a dynamic learning environment. The introduction of one-way sound spill from the studios to the corridors creates a sense of activity and adds audible life to the facility, creating a greater sense of community and accountability between the students. Externally, the creation of a fourth stage below the cantilever of the Hanson Dyer Hall creates an intimately scaled focal point for public performance that animates the adjacent public space. Driven to promote curiosity and awareness of the art from the public realm, the architect’s solution to the complex problem of trying to visually connect the activities within a traditional black box, acoustically tuned studio, with the community has produced a marvellous twoway theatrical experience between artist and passer-by that will continue to intrigue for years to come. Practice Team: John Wardle (Design Architect), Stefan Mee (Design Architect), Meaghan Dwyer (Project Architect), Andrew Wong (Design Architect), Kah-Fai Lee (Project Architect), Stephen Georgalas (Project Architect), Megan Marks (Project Architect), Minnie Cade (Project Architect), Alan Ting (Project Architect), James Loder (Project Architect), Jeff Arnold (Interior Designer), Barry Hayes (Facade Specialist), Tom Denham (BIM Coordinator), Alexandra Morrison (Project Architect), Clare Porter (Graduate of Architecture), Ariani Anwar (Project Architect), Daniel Sykes (Project Architect), Sharon Crabb (Interior Design), Kristina Levenko (Graduate of Architecture), Adrian Bonaventura (Graduate of Architecture), Tatiana Malysheva (Graduate of Architecture), Bill Kalavriotis (Project Architect), Sumedha Dayaratne (Documentor), David Ha (Project Architect), Anna Jankovic (Project Architect), Will Rogers (Project Architect), Nick Roberts (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Aurecon (Services Consultant), PLP Building Surveyors & Consultants (Building Surveyor), Irwin Consult (Civil Consultant), Arup (Facade Consultant), RBA Architects & Conservation Consultants (Heritage Consultant), Aspect Studios (Landscape Consultant), Urbis (Planning Consultant), Diadem (Signage & Wayfinding), Irwin Consult (Structural Engineer), Electrolight (Lighting Consultant), Aurecon (ESD Consultant), Brian Hall & Marshall Day Entertech (Theatre Consultant), GTA Consultants (Traffic Consultant), Before Compliance (Accessibility Consultant) Builder: Lendlease Photographer: Trevor Mein

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COMMENDATION Richmond High School | Hayball

Photographer John Marmaras

Richmond High School is a model for high-density educational design that addresses the realities of urban densification, utilising a compact site vastly smaller than typical high schools. The building encapsulates the school’s pedagogical philosophy by using a central multi-level agora as a device of cross-pollination between science, technology and the arts. Combining a warm and robust material selection in a well-balanced composition of form that responds to the site and the school’s future expansion, Hayball have created a community asset which feels like an integrated whole, where all students feel connected, and part of the greater school.

GPFLA Learning Centre | Branch Studio Architects

Photographer Peter Clarke

Branch Studio are commended for their bravery and innovation. In a unique repetition of interlocking learning environments, the GPFLA Learning Centre expresses a clear design process and direct response to the client brief and pedagogy. The technology-rich interior learning spaces, with checkered ground and first floors, form a counterpoint to a landscape that extends to a terraced outdoor learning area – a design and teaching highlight for the school. Builder: Behmer & Wright

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Circon Constructions

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Luther College Middle School Enhancement | COX Architecture Ireland Brown Constructions

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Firbank Grammar School COX Architecture Long Contracting

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Marcus Oldham College Learning Centre | 3iD Architecture Rendine Constructions Pty Ltd

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Huntingtower School Performing Arts Centre Baldasso Cortese | SJ Higgins

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MDD Building Bellemo & Cat Harris HMC

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Minaret College Hayball Lloyd Group

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MLC Nicholas Learning Centre McIldowie Partners McCorkell Constructions

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Monash Business School Alumni Centre | BKK Architects with Monash University | United Commercial Projects

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Monash Student Hub Harmer Architecture Hutchinson Builders

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RMIT Capitol Theatre Six Degrees Architects Hutchison Builders

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Santa Maria College Year 7 & 8 Village Learning Centre Law Architects | Harris HMC

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St Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Refurbishment, Catholic College Sale Y2 Architecture | MelbCon Pty Ltd

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Stage 1 Glengala Primary School Angelucci Architects Grove Group Pty Ltd

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The University of Melbourne Veterinary School, Werribee | Billard Leece Partnership | Kane Construction

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University of Melbourne Southbank Hub Lyons | APM Group

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UOM Southbank - End of Trip Searle x Waldron Architecture Lendlease

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE This year’s awards were conducted in extraordinary circumstances. This made the task of judging a strong and diverse education category even more challenging than usual. The jury were presented with a wide range of projects from across the state, including early learning, primary, secondary, and tertiary education facilities. They all expressed an individual approach to the challenges of program, budget and location with optimism and a focus on the positive influence architecture can have on the environment and the communities it serves. The diversity of the architectural propositions further reflects the diversity within the Victorian community, with minimalist, new modernist, and more narrative-driven work, all strongly represented and publicly accessible. Among the 28 entries, were a variety of adaptive reuse, alterations and additions, infill and new buildings, with a programmatic range, including end of trip and university administration facilities that challenged the jury’s definition of an educational project in light of a project’s response pedagogically. The big winners this year were the local communities. The number of theatre projects presented expressed an obvious desire to develop a brighter future for the performing arts in our secondary and tertiary institutions, while providing a stronger connection to the wider community. We commend all those who entered and presented projects as part of this year’s awards. It was a highly competitive year and the overall standard was very high. The shortlist and awards were incredibly difficult to determine while social distancing. We thank everyone for their patience and commitment to the process and wished we could have walked around the shortlisted projects and engaged with the architects on site. Congratulations to all entrants, especially the shortlisted and award winners in this year’s education category. Well done.

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Wunggurrwil Dhurrung | GresleyAbas and Gregory Burgess Architects | Photographer: Peter Bennetts

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE The Sustainable Architecture category recognises achievement in sustainable design that excels as architecture, and exhibits innovation and excellence in terms of environmental sustainability. Assessment of environmental performance is guided by the Australian Institute of Architects Environment Policy and Sustainable Design Strategies for Architects. All Victorian Architecture Award entries are considered for a Sustainable Architecture Award.

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Ande Bunbury Juror

Maia Close Juror

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

THE ALLAN AND BETH COLDICUTT AWARD | Wunggurrwil Dhurrung | GresleyAbas and Gregory Burgess Architects Wunggurrwil Dhurrung by GresleyAbas and Gregory Burgess Architects is a highly commendable public building representing best practice in environmentally sustainable architecture. The project champions a triple bottom-line approach, fulfilling a comprehensive social response, excellent environmental credentials within a highly constrained budget. The implementation of sustainable outcomes derived through early discussions and engagement with the Traditional Owners are a highlight of the project, where strong Aboriginal leadership and collaboration has resulted in a positive transformation of the site and setting a benchmark for future sustainable development. Wunggurrwil Dhurrung means Strong Heart in Wathaurung and this building epitomises the definition by providing a culturally safe place for Aboriginal people, and an integrated family centre for the community. The built spaces encircle a central communal courtyard, which also acts as a focal point of interaction with the architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainability features. All of the water that falls on the site returns to the ground or is used within the building. Tanks and ephemeral creeks slow the movement of water on site to enable gradual dispersion into the ground while supporting an endemic landscape that will rehabilitate the site and improve the surrounding ecology. The project achieves a 5-star Greenstar As Designed public building (As-built certification in progress). An extensive solar array (56.5kw) generates the majority of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy, complete with battery storage. Environmentally conscious and active travel is encouraged through Electric vehicle charging stations, Low E vehicle priority bays and end of trip facilities. Excellent air quality is achieved by the use of a mixed mode ventilation system coupled with zero VOC materials and finishes used throughout (including furniture). The jury commends the collaborative engagement between Traditional Owners and architects which resulted in a project that carefully integrates high-level environmental performance and community identity. The project is an outstanding example of respect and sustainability. Practice Team: Ahmad Abas (Design Architect), Gregory Burgess (Design Architect), Emily Cox (Senior Interior Designer), John Pham (Project Architect), Tim Colyer (Senior Draftsperson), Miriam Price (Project Architect), Laura Gazey (Graduate of Architecture), Monica Santoso (Graduate of Architecture)

Consultant / Construction Team: Realm Studio (Landscape Consultant), Connor Pincus Group (Services Consultant), Connor Pincus Group (ESD Consultant), Peter Fellicetti (Structural Engineer), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Philip Chun (Access Consultants), Paul Thompson (Landscape Consultant), E2Designlab (Landscape Consultant), Vicki Couzens (Artist), Jeph Neale (Artist), Rob Bundle (Artist), Dave Ashton (Artist), Peter Worland (Artist), Lanigan Civil (Civil Consultant) Builder: Devco Photographer: Peter Bennetts

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AWARD | Bayswater Early Years Hub | k20 Architecture Bayswater Early Years Hub aptly named the community Sunflower is a flagship project for Knox City Council setting the benchmark for Environmental Sustainable Design within the context of local government community education facilities and infrastructure implementation. Sunflower by K20 Architecture is the result of a highly integrated collaborative approach to triple bottom-line application of sustainable design principals. The resultant vision creates a facility focused on minimising human impact on the environment through an eco-centric design while championing the user experience and surrounding environment as the key drivers for the built space. Sunflower has created a new civic identity and engagement of the local community via reinforced social cohesion by bringing together new early learning spaces, maternal healthcare, allied health, a series of supporting services and community rooms to the existing community reserve containing the local school and a bowling club. Sunflower’s integrated approach to sustainability is evidenced through an impressive 100+ year building lifecycle performance and a vast array of best practice environmental design and planning initiatives demonstrating both passive and active building systems including: • Innovative Internal Building Planning providing structure free floor plates maximising future adaptability and biophilic connectivity of internal spaces to nature • High performance, healthy, low-embodied energy, building fabric • High performance low-energy environmental control and monitoring systems • Net zero operational infrastructure in the form of largescale renewable energy, plant and storage. High Performance integrated WSUD Implementation incorporating rainwater harvesting and on-site retention in support of a comprehensive regenerative native vegetation strategy. The jury acknowledges Sunflower as demonstrating excellence and innovation though the seemingly balanced integration of process, design and performance within the field of sustainable architecture

Practice Team: Anthony Uahwatanasakul (Project Architect), Theodore Kerlidis (Project Architect), India Mitchell (Project Architect) Consultant / Construction Team: Vert Engineering (Structural Engineer), SDP Consulting (Services Consultant), Organica Engineering (ESD Consultant), Hansen Partnership (Landscape Consultant), Philip Chun and Associates (Building Surveyor) Builder: Circon Constructions Photographer: Peter Bennetts

AWARD | University of Melbourne Old Quad | Lovell Chen In the heritage refurbishment of the Old Quad building at the University of Melbourne, Lovell Chen have woven a subtle magic and built an almost invisible new building within the shell of the old. The act of improving the environmental performance of existing buildings is of vital importance in improving our cities, especially when so many old buildings have incredibly poor environmental performance. The Old Quad refurbishment is an exemplary demonstration of what is possible, given sufficient skill. The Old Quad was the first university building in Australia and is of state-level heritage significance. Commenced in 1854, it was designed to be the heart of the University of Melbourne and recent master planning identified the need to re-establish its place at the centre of the university’s civic, cultural and ceremonial life. Built of stone, with elaborate Gothic-style windows it was beautiful but felt like a fridge. Over the years insensitive carving up of the spaces had lost the sense of grandeur to the interior. Using the complementary Green Star and the Passive Haus EnerPhit renovation rating tools, the refurbishment achieves a comfortable temperature all year round and reduces energy consumption by 70—90 per cent while reinstating and celebrating the building’s original period features. The library on the upper floor is of particular note with exposed original columns and elaborate timber trusses. New panelled timber bookcases and patterned carpet based on old linoleum found on site are subtle insertions that help reinstate the original grandeur of the building while hiding the immense scale of the improvement works undertaken. Practice Team: Anne-Marie Treweeke (Project Architect), Milica Tumbas (Passive House Designer), Tina Tam (Project Architect), Natasa Vuletas (Team Member), Peter Lovell (Conservation Consultant) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), Umow Lai (Services Consultant), du Chateau Chun (Building Surveyor), Slattery (Quantity Surveyor), Aurecon (Project Manager), Glowing Structures (Lighting Consultant), Resonate Acoustics (Acoustic Engineer), Studio Semaphore (Wayfinding and Signage), Chris Love Design (Commercial Kitchen Design)

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COMMENDATION Mernda Rail Extension - Stations | Grimshaw

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Nightingale 2.0 - Fairfield | Six Degrees Architects

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The Mernda Rail Extension Project by Grimshaw is a highly commendable public works project demonstrating leadership in environmental sustainable infrastructure by creating new civic identities and connecting three local communities not only to each other but to the greater Melbourne context.

The Nightingale model is a robust and exemplary approach to high-density living where sustainability, community and cost are intertwined to achieve a not-for profit building where the occupants, and the environment, are the winners. This project is no exception and showcases what the Nightingale model is capable of achieving.

The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positive impact diverting 5,000 car trips from roads since its opening and enhanced intermodal bus, bicycle and pedestrian connectivity and infrastructure, provides park-and-ride spaces, new walking and cycling paths and a native landscape for community recreation. The project also achieved an Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA) rating.

On a difficult site and with a very low budget, Six Degrees Architects have created a series of functional and aesthetic spaces. Things like district heating and bulk purchase of renewable energy are highlights along with the recognition that a chance positive encounter with your neighbour is more important to a sense of happiness than glossy finishes.

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Gillies Hall | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects

Jackson Clements Burrows Architects have delivered an exemplar model of sustainable student housing by combining CLT construction and Passive House certification. The innovation lies in the marrying of low-carbon construction techniques with a high-performing and welldetailed building. No added heating or cooling is required, and the minimal energy-use is offset by rooftop PV. The building sits comfortably and sensitively within its landscape context, the warm and natural palette is enhanced by the exposed robustness of the CLT panels, reminding the user of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lowcarbon initiative. Photographer Peter Clarke

Builder: Multiplex

JURY CHAIR REPORT | SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE The field of shortlisted projects fell roughly into three main categories with competing heritage, public and residential (multiple housing) projects and three single commercial, educational and urban projects. The nature of the projects saw Nightingale, a true multiple family residential, competing against Gillies Hall student accommodation. The two heritage projects could not have been more different in scale, use and approach to historic preservation and adaptation. Art House and Studio perhaps would have fit more comfortably within residential alterations and additions, where the scope and relative extent of performance and sustainability initiatives would have been more comparable. The commercial office project, 9 Cremorne Street, while demonstrating high-levels of innovation, suffered from its siting and limited application of GBCA criteria to the base build. Through the virtual visit process, the jury found that Bayswater Early Years Hub and Wunggurrwil Dhurrung were compatible with respect to their programmatic complexity and overall environmental, social and economic performance, setting them apart from entrants in the public architecture category. In the final analysis, the jury decided to award one Named Award, two Architecture Awards and a further three commendations. While all nine shortlisted projects demonstrated very high sustainability credentials, two were demonstrably of lower performance. The overarching rational for the ranking of projects and associated awards is as follows: University of Melbourne Old Quad, Bayswater Early Years Hub, and Wunggurrwil Dhurrung all represent absolute best practice environmentally sustainable architecture and technology. Wunggurrwil Dhurrung scoring highest with respect to not only its comprehensive social response owing to its engagement with the Indigenous community, but for its economic performance assessed at less than 30 per cent of the cost of its nearest competitor. The commendations acknowledge aspiration and performance within the project types: Gillies Hall is a very high performing university housing project from a technical perspective with a substantial construction budget. Mernda Rail Extension is a life changing addition to the urban system and transportation corridor, operating on a regional scale. Nightingale Fairfield represents the third chapter in the program maintaining the high bar previously achieved, which in our opinion should be commended. 103

Monash University Chancellery | ARM Architecture | Photographer: Rhiannon Slatter

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COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE The COLORBOND® Award recognises projects in which steel products play a significant role in the architectural solution and which exemplify innovation in the use of steel products. Use of BlueScope products, including COLORBOND®, is a criterion for selection or award.

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COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE | Monash University Chancellery | ARM Architecture The Monash University Chancellery exterior is an exemplary architectural solution using steel. Its innovative engineering is evident through the complex detailed resolution of the steel screen which sits offset from the rectangular glazed box behind. Inspiration was gained from the origin of the term ‘Chancellery’ derived from the Roman word ‘Cancellarii’, literally meaning reticulations forming a latticework. This lattice structure consists of locally sourced and individually formed steel panels which have been fixed onto steel ladders exhibiting consideration for both the simplification of installation and maintenance. The ninetythree ladders on which these panels have been assembled have been fabricated and painted off site and bolted onto the structural supporting frame retaining quality control and minimizing the time materials are on site. The facade comprises of thirty-seven different types of panels, varying from rectangular forms folded in one direction to others which have been folded in more complex shapes ultimately altering your perception as you move around the building. This modular screen system also acts as a brise-soleil, successfully deflecting sunlight to reduce heat gain within the building. The Chancellery’s playful facade is an admirable manipulation of common 20th century glazed box forms wrapped in elaborative screens using 21st-century digital design media. Practice Team: Ian McDougall (Design Director), Jesse Judd (Project Director), Jeremy Stewart (Design Leader), Andrew Smith (Project Leader), Andrea Wilson (Interiors Leader), Justin Fagnani (Documentation Leader), Eliza Langham (Graduate of Architecture), Fiona Plaisted (Graduate of Architecture), Ryan Robertson (Graduate of Architecture) Consultant / Construction Team: Irwinconsult (Structural Engineer), Aurecon (Services Consultant), Aurecon (ESD Consultant), Inhabit (Facade Consultant), Glowing Structures (Lighting Consultant), Marshall Day (Acoustic Consultant), Steve Watson & Partners (Building Surveyor), NDY (AV Consultant), Geyer (Workplace Consultant), Openwork (Landscape Consultant), Vivid (Wayfinding Consultant), Architecture & Access (DDA & Access Consultant), Irwinconsult (Fire Engineer)

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | COLORBOND® AWARD FOR STEEL ARCHITECTURE Of the ten qualifying entries for the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, four were shortlisted. These four projects varied in categories consisting of residential, urban design, educational and public. This shortlist allowed for a broad consideration of the use of steel to inform different programs. Attention was paid to the awards judging criteria in terms of the innovative use of steel, the significant use of steel in the architectural solution and steel being used exemplarily. The winning project of this award, Monash University Chancellery by ARM Architecture, executed these criteria in a poetic and ingenious manner, most importantly serving as an exemplar for its innovative use of steel in the architectural solution. Also deserving acknowledgement for this award are the Carlton Learning Precinct COLA by Law Architects, Mernda Rail Extension by Grimshaw and CLT House by FMD Architects which also cleverly and thoughtfully devised uses of steel in the architectural design, well suited to their purpose. This year’s unanticipated virtual judging process allowed the architects to carefully consider which elements of the projects were presented. This acted as filter of information providing structure to judging and deliberation. Recognition goes to the Awards Committee for their commendable improvisation and continuous efforts to keep this year’s awards running smoothly. Category Sponsor

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Monash University Chancellery | ARM Architecture | Photographer: Rhiannon Slatter

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MCG Great Southern Stand | Daryl Jackson in association with Tompkins Shaw and Evans | Photographer: John Gollings

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ENDURING ARCHITECTURE AWARD Buildings in excess of 25 years of age may be considered for this Award. The Award recognises achievement for the design of buildings of outstanding merit which remain important as high quality works of architecture when considered in a contemporary context. Projects will be works considered technically advanced or innovative for their time; works which remain symbolically significant; are exponents of creative leadership, or works of national significance.

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ENDURING ARCHITECTURE AWARD | MCG Great Southern Stand | Daryl Jackson in assoc. with Tompkins Shaw & Evans Known as the peoples ground, the MCG is one of the oldest and largest capacity contained sporting venues in the world. The Great Southern Stand marks the point at which the MCG in partnership with the VFL, fully engaged with contemporary stadia design trends for largescale, multi-use, multi-tiered buildings that offered spectators improved viewing and a corporate box experience. Jackson summarised the design intent as: ‘clear sightlines, close proximity to the action, comfortable seating, adequate services, food and drink facilities’ with a ‘sense of arrival at the outside ticket box, a celebratory progression to one’s designated seat, and the anticipation of a spectacle.’ Designed with a capacity for 45,000 spectators, each with uninterrupted column-free view lines, the hybrid structure of post-tensioned concrete frame, top-hung cantilever steel roof and precast concrete secondary elements creates an expressive and dynamic architecture. From the concourse that extends out over Brunton Avenue and into Yarra Park on an earth podium, to the rear elevation of inclined ramps and switch back stairs articulated with porthole windows and horizontal incisions, internal public concourse and view corridors to the arena, the building provides spectators with intuitive way-finding to assist with navigating the monumental space and making it a more human scale. Over the past 28 years the Great Southern Stand has continued to deliver on Jackson’s design intent by creating an amazing spectator experience and no doubt it will continue to do so well into the future. We all look forward to a time when we can go and see our favourite team again from the Great Southern Stand. • 1992 RAIA Victorian Chapter – Victorian Architecture Medal • 1992 RAIA National Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Building Photographer: John Gollings

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State Library Victoria Redevelopment | Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects | Photographer: Trevor Mein

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VICTORIAN PRIZES MELBOURNE PRIZE The Melbourne Prize recognises projects that have made a significant contribution to the city of Melbourne. All projects located within the urban growth boundary are eligible for consideration. Projects may be of a built form, an urban design solution or an innovation that has influenced and improved the fabric of the city.

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REGIONAL PRIZE The Regional Prize recognises projects that have made a significant contribution to Regional Victoria. All projects located outside the urban growth boundary are eligible for consideration. Projects may be of a built form, an urban design solution or an innovation that has influenced and improved the fabric of the region.

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MELBOURNE PRIZE | State Library Victoria Redevelopment | Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects The Vision 2020 Redevelopment of the State Library of Victoria has resulted in a skilfully and soundly researched design framework which will maintain the relevance of this much-loved Melbourne institution for many generations to come. Melburnians have a strong link with the current site of the State Library of Victoria which occupies an entire central city block. The first public library occupied a portion of this site from 1856 onwards and has subsequently shared the site with other important cultural institutions. Since the year 2000 the State Library has occupied the entire site. The Vision 2020 Redevelopment addresses ageing buildings, changing usage and stilted circulation. The scope of works has re-instated through site links and welcoming entrances. Interiors have been stripped of years of building clutter and offer 40 per cent more public access space via an easy sequential flow. Contemporary research and learning spaces respectfully acknowledge original building volumes. The original Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall reading room has been meticulously restored, updated and re-opened to the public following a sixteen-year closure. The architects have deftly edited layers of history and earlier renovations to reveal the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original character. Moments of new design introduce personality while remaining respectful of the earlier built fabric. Practice Team: Ruth Wilson (Principal in Charge), Morten Schmidt (Design Director), John Sprunt (Project Leader - Design Phases), Matt Spinaze (Project Leader - Construction), Elif Tinaztepe (Project Leader - SHL), Jette Birkeskov Mogensen (Project Leader - SHL), Lucy Croft (Interior Designer), Simon Farr (Team Member), Jayden Peacock (Team Member), Thomas Harvey (Team Member), Sarah Ianno (Team Member), Emma Lombardi (Team Member), David Ha (Team Member), Anette Bjerring Gammelgard (Team Member), Simon Andreas Arnbjerg (Team Member), Waleria Kudera (Team Member), Henriette Byrge (Team Member), Ivan Cheltuitoru (Team Member)

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REGIONAL PRIZE

REGIONAL PRIZE | Penguin Parade Visitor Centre | TERROIR Generated at a convergence of dune, headland and wetland where the passage of tiny penguins pass, this new centre delivers on an extraordinary vision, providing a world-class facility of architectural excellence in this significant and conservationsensitive place. The depth of investigation undertaken in developing the key principles of arrival, visitor movement and delivering enriched experiences is clearly evident and is to be commended. The rigour in the development of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s angular configuration, creates an outstanding experiential journey within, whereby visitors are immersed into their own remarkable path, and integrated sequentially along the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cavernous spine through a variety in scale and interconnection of interior spaces. Externally, the building sleeve extends into the landscape, its long jagged horizontal forms extending into the dunes progressively along its pathway, showing considerable understanding of, and response to its natural context. This project has secured, protected and strengthened the future for the penguin colony, bolstering wildlife and environmental conservation on Phillip Island, and enhancing its regional tourist destination. The Penguin Parade Visitor Centre is an exceptional building of integrity, detail, resolution and architectural excellence. Practice Team: Scott Balmforth (Design Director), Gerard Reinmuth (Design Director), David McPeak (Project Lead), Paul Sayers (Architect), Tom Rubenach (Architect), Chris Rogers (Architect), Jordan Mathers (Graduate of Architecture), Joshua Lynch (Graduate of Architecture), Christine Mosbech (Graduate of Architecture), Ben Feher (Graduate of Architecture), Ben Black (Student), Charlotte Meheut (Student), Jack Andrews (Graduate of Architecture), Cassandra Kiss (Interior Design) Consultant / Construction Team: AECOM (Project Manager), Tract Consultants (Landscape Architect), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Structural Engineer), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Civil Consultant), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Services Consultant), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Acoustic Consultant), Wood and Grieve Engineers (Specialist Lighting), Wood and Grieve Engineers (ESD Consultant), Steve Watson and Partners (Building Surveyor), AS James (Geo Technical Engineers), Thylacine (Interpretations Design), UFD (Food Service Design), GTA Associates (Traffic Consultant), AECOM (Pedestrian Planning) Builder: Kane Constructions Photographer: Peter Bennetts

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | MELBOURNE PRIZE The Melbourne Prize recognises projects that have made a significant and unique contribution to the Melbourne metropolitan area. This year 67 entries were considered. The jury selected a long list of 10 projects via teleconference presentations. A shortlist of three entrants was then selected. The jury was impressed with the Carlton Learning Precinct COLA by Law Architects, where the brief for a freestanding enclosed primary school gymnasium building has been transformed, with the impetus of the architect, into that of a Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA). This transformation of typology allows for open-air after-hours-use by the general community as well as inserting a striking and permeable building at the gateway entry to the School and Early Learning Centre. Another standout project was the Monash University Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts by Peter Elliot Architecture and Urban Design. This project retained the 1967 Alexander Theatre at its heart as well as adding new buildings to house jazz, performance and hospitality spaces for institutional and community use. Located in Melbourne’s south east this suite of state-of-the-art facilities represents much needed decentralisation of international standard performance spaces. The winner of the Melbourne Prize is the State Library of Victoria Redevelopment by Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen. The State Library has occupied portions of this entire city block since 1856 with almost continuous evolution over this period. The current Vision 2020 Redevelopment has opened up 40 per cent more public access space in an inviting manner to reveal original building volumes in an easily used sequence of varied spaces. Through site links have been enhanced while the flexibility of the resulting spaces follows a robust design framework in place for future generations. This contemporary transformation will be an enduring link between Melbourne’s past and future for this much-loved public institution.

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JURY CHAIR REPORT | REGIONAL PRIZE Under the challenges of our COVID-19 shutdown, the jury remotely reviewed the presentations of a selected field of 15 projects, each located beyond Melbourne’s urban growth corridor in regional Victoria. Projects diverse in function, scale, complexity and budget were assessed for their contribution, innovation, influence and achievement of architectural excellence in their region. A shortlist of six, offering a diverse range of exceptional projects, was formulated to be further reviewed via video link in lieu of making actual site visits. This shortlist included the delicate and exquisite collection of hand-crafted elements celebrating local and regional Mornington Peninsula lifestyle that is Tedesca by COX Architecture. Included too, acknowledgement of a regional coastal community as enriched by Wood Marsh’s fluid, weathered Ocean Grove Surf Life Saving Club nestled into the dunes. Among the larger-scale projects, Architectus’ redevelopment of Shepparton Law Courts generated a transparent and inclusive place for the community judicial under the auspice of delivering justice from ‘beneath the river red gum’, in the tradition of the local Indigenous communities. The Jury furthermore concluded that two of the shortlisted projects in particular, should be commended for their architectural excellence. Workshop Architecture’s simple, rhythmic addition at Mt Macedon Primary School, which embraces and extends the traditional portable classroom, taking it to a new level of community capacity and educational connection within the small regional centre. Also, the Geelong Arts Centre by HASSELL, with its boldly sculpted yet delightfully translucent facade, and elemental interiors, places the local community arts program firmly on the world stage. However, it is TERRIOR’s Penguin Parade Visitor Centre located in Phillip Island which is considered the exemplary regional project delivering a world-class facility of architectural excellence. Its depth and rigour exhibited by bold, yet carefully moderated, angular forms, responds to the landscape. Its structural and material integrity and the memorable journey experience which it provides for its visitors, together express an outstanding architectural vision. TERRIOR’s Penguin Parade Visitor Centre receives the 2020 Regional Prize.

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Penguin Parade Visitor Centre | TERROIR | Photographer: Peter Bennetts

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State Library Victoria Redevelopment | Architectus + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects | Photographer: Trevor Mein

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BATES SMART AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIA The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media is Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prestigious media award for journalists, editors, producers and event organisers working in the field of architecture and design. It is an annual award to encourage and to recognise media discussion of architecture.

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BATES SMART AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIA ADVOCACY AWARD | Our City, Our Square | Citizens for Melbourne The Our City, Our Square campaign is recognised for facilitating a successful public intervention into the planned demolition of the Yarra Building at Federation Square. While focused on a single issue, the campaign has contributed greatly to elevating public awareness around issues of process, contemporary heritage, ownership of public space and the contribution of architecture to community life. The campaign, coordinated by Citizens for Melbourne, is broad in reach while concise in execution and displays a clear strategy across a range of media, statutory processes and public engagement. The content, events and advocacy have clarity of purpose and outcome that maximised the particular and specific qualities of the medium, including coordinating detailed planning submission alongside visually engaging and accessible print media, social media and merchandising. Importantly, the campaign has successfully facilitated a process that is immediately accessible, with clear calls to action paired with pathways for contribution that has set a framework for continued public involvement in built environment issues. Additional producers or contributors: Tania Davidge - President, James Lesh -Vice President, Shelley Freeman - Treasurer, Antony DiMase - Secretary, Brett De Hoedt Member, Michael Smith - Member, Melinda Ovens - Member, Kerrin Jefferis - Member, Rohan Storey - Member

STATE AWARD | Beaumaris Modern: Modernist Homes in Beaumaris | Fiona Austin; Simon Reeves; Alison Alexander; Melbourne Books This book celebrates the cluster of excellent Modernist houses in Melbourne’s bayside suburb of Beaumaris. It is an approachable book with an admirable mission – to highlight the importance of this endangered group of houses to protect them from being demolished. This is unfortunately in contrast to the ongoing absence of local government protection of houses in this area. The coffee table book format is co-opted here to create a book that works on two levels. It is a showcase of fine houses with stunning new photography and it is also a work of subtle activism. The book is clear and clean in its design, and the project summaries feature redrawn floor plans, albeit without north points and a consistent scale. The writing is friendly and accessible to appeal to a broad audience. Insights and anecdotes by original owners are dotted throughout, tracking the various alterations and restorations since the optimistic days of the 1950s and 60s. The jury was impressed by the dual purpose of this publication and hopes that it has had an impact on protecting the local Beaumaris architecture. Additional producers or contributors: Melbourne Books - Publisher, Alexandra Milne - Editor, Alison Alexander - Editor, Jack Shelton - Photographer, Derek Swalwell – Photographer

NATIONAL AWARD | International Indigenous Design Charter | Jefa Greenaway | Russell Kennedy | Meghan Kelly and Brian Martin The International Indigenous Design Charter serves as a self-regulated, living document to guide best practice when working with Indigenous knowledge in commercial design projects. The clarity in which this international document outlines key protocols is outstanding, making it genuinely accessible to all stakeholders – including built environment professionals, design clients, government, corporations and other businesses. In particular, the key points have been cleverly delineated from expanded descriptions, ensuring the delivery of a user-friendly document. Rather than providing definitive answers, the charter promotes the idea of learning through active practice. Each of the ten succinct points prompts deeper thinking and inquiry, and in turn, will generate broader conversations about the appropriate expression of Indigenous knowledge beyond architecture and design. The editorial curation of the charter demonstrates commendable professional leadership, fostering excellence in cultural innovation through inclusiveness. Additional producers or contributors: Deakin University (Publisher)

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RMIT Design Archives Journal Vol.9 No.2, Robin Boyd Redux | Journal Editors, Karen Burn & Harriet Edquist

Future West (Australian Urbanism) | Timothy Moore with UWA’s School of Design

Influence: Edmond & Corrigan + Peter Corrigan | Vivian Mitsogianni and Patrick Macasaet editors

Harry Seidler’s Umbrella Selected Writings on Australian Architecture and Design | Joe Rollo

DADo Film Society of the Robin Boyd Foundation | Adam Roggero, India Mitchell, Jessie French, Laura Phillips

@thecuriae Michael Spence

Architecture segment - ABC Radio Melbourne | Jefa Greenaway

Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning - University of Melbourne | Professor Donald Bates

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