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Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture: Perth Arena by ARM Architecture and Cameron Chisholm Nicol. Image: Greg Hocking

Showcasing diversity and community engagement, the Australian Institute of Architects announces its 2013 National Architecture Awards.

The diversity of Australian architecture was celebrated on Thursday 7 November at the Sydney Opera House, which in October marked forty years as a cultural icon. Around 500 architects and their clients gathered in the Concert Hall and North Foyer for the 2013 National Architecture Awards dinner and presentation, hosted by the Australian Institute of Architects.

Thirty-eight projects were awarded a total of fifty-five awards and commendations across the twelve categories. Pojects were selected by the 2013 national jury from the 166 eligible award winners progressing from the Insitiute’s state and territory awards series earlier in the year. On this year’s jury were Shelley Penn (chair), Richard Hassell, Ben Hewett, Justine Clark and Hannah Tribe.

Faced with the “daunting task of selecting the best from the best,” their focus for the major categories of Public, Urban, Commercial and Interior turned to the impact of public spaces on communities as well as clients. In her jury overiew published in Architecture Australia, Shelley Penn noted the positive social engagement of projects within these categories, saying: “Many of the winning projects went far beyond the basic requirements of the immediate brief to make meaningful contributions to the public realm … architecture which is not merely responsible, but generous. These were sometimes modest, sometimes grand – each of them offering a legacy of positive urban spaces, connections and approaches that will influence how their cities function and are perceived.”

Two new named awards were added to the program this year: the Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture and the David Oppenheim Award for Sustainable Architecture. The awards commemorate David Oppenheim, a distinguished architect and sustainability pioneer basing projects on architectural science and quantitative assessment, and Murcutt, a spirited and uncompromising architect whose practice with his partner, Rachel Neeson, holds many awards for projects great and small, including the Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture.

2013 National Architecture Awards

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Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture: Perth Arena by ARM Architecture and Cameron Chisholm Nicol. Image:  Greg Hocking

2013 National Architecture Awards

 Public Architecture

Sir Zelman Cowen Award   
Perth Arena – ARM Architecture and Cameron Chisholm Nicol

National Awards 
Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law – Architectus and Guymer Bailey Architects 
RMIT Design Hub – Sean Godsell Architects and Peddle Thorp Architects 
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre – Collins and Turner with City of Sydney 
Swanston Academic Building – Lyons 
Translational Research Institute – Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill Architects 
West Kimberley Regional Prison – TAG Architects and Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects 

National Commendations 
Hamer Hall – ARM Architecture 
The Braggs, University of Adelaide – BVN Donovan Hill and Hames Sharley 
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre – BVN Donovan Hill

Residential Architecture – Houses

Robin Boyd Award 
Fairhaven Residence – John Wardle Architects

National Awards 
Tír na nÓg – Drew Heath Architects 
Edward Street House – Sean Godsell Architects

National Commendations 
(-) Glass House – Charles Wright Architects 
Balmain House – Fox Johnston 
Bisley Place House – James Russell Architect

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Frederick Romberg Award 
McIntyre Drive Social Housing, Altona –MGS Architects

National Awards 
29–35 Prince Street, Cronulla – Candalepas Associates 
Constance Street Affordable Housing – Cox Rayner Architects

Enduring Architecture

National Award 
Australian Parliament House – Mitchell Giurgola and Thorp

Heritage Architecture

Lachlan Macquarie Award 
Hamer Hall – ARM Architecture

National Award 
Good Shepherd Chapel, Abbotsford – Robert Simeoni Architects

Commercial Architecture

Harry Seidler Award
Darling Quarter – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)

National Award
Mountain Retreat Medical Clinic –Circa Morris-Nunn

National Commendations
One One One Eagle Street – Cox Rayner Architects
Brookfield Place – Hassell and Fitzpatrick + Partners

Interior Architecture

Emil Sondersten Award
Perth Arena – ARM Architecture and Cameron Chisholm Nicol

National Awards
Hamer Hall – ARM Architecture
Translational Research Institute – Wilson Architects + Donovan Hill Architects 

National Commendation
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre – BVN Donovan Hill

Urban Design

Walter Burley Griffin Award 
Revitalising Central Dandenong: Lonsdale Street Redevelopment – BKK/TCL Partnership

National Award
Flinders Street Revitalisation – Cox Rayner Architects
GASP Stage 1 – Room 11 Studio

National Commendations
Hamer Hall – ARM Architecture
2 & 4 National Circuit Precinct – Fender Katsalidis
Brookfield Place – Hassell and Fitzpatrick + Partners
Pitt Street Mall Public Domain Upgrade – Tony Caro Architecture
Darling Quarter – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios and Lend Lease

International Architecture

Jørn Utzon Award
Australia House – Andrew Burns Architect and Atelier Imamu

National Award
Finding Country Exhibition (Venice Biennale 2012) – Kevin O’Brien Architects with the Finding Country Collective and Venti di Cultura

Small Project Architecture

Nicholas Murcutt Award
Djakanimba Pavilions – Insideout Architects

National Awards
Keperra House – A-CH (Atelier Chen Hung)
Art Gallery of NSW Forecourt Upgrade –Johnson Pilton Walker
7th Heaven, Ormond College – Nest Architects

National Commendations
Abbotsford Convent Breezeway – Jackson Clements Burrows
Third Wave Kiosk – Tony Hobba Architects

Sustainable Architecture

David Oppenheim Award
West Kimberley Regional Prison – TAG Architects and Iredale Pedersen Hook

National Award
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre –Collins & Turner with City of Sydney

National Commendations
Darling Quarter – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) with Aspect Studios, Lend Lease, E.G.O. Group and Davenport Campbell
Constance Street Affordable Housing – Cox Rayner Architects
(–) Glass House – Charles Wright Architects
One One One Eagle Street – Cox Rayner Architects
Djakanimba Pavilions – Insideout Architects

Steel Architecture

Colorbond Award 
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre –Collins & Turner with City of Sydney

National Commendation
West Kimberley Regional Prison – TAG Architects and Iredale Pedersen Hook

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