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June 11 - 17, 2023: Issue 587

NSW Architecture awards shortlist 2023: Mona Vale Beach Amenities & Lifeguard Facility + Trilogy House, pittwater listed as Finalists

Mona Vale’s new Amenities and Lifeguard Facilities Building. Photo: Sean Fennessy

Winners of the 2023 NSW Architecture Awards will be announced on Friday 23rd of June 2023 at a live event being held at the Sydney Modern.

Categories include Residentials Houses – New, Residential – Multiple Housing, Residential Houses – Alterations and Additions, Interior Architecture, Heritage Architecture, Commercial Architecture, Urban Design, Public Architecture, Educational Architecture, Small Projects, and Sustainability.

Listed among the Small Projects Finalists is the Mona Vale Beach Amenities and Lifeguard Facility by Architects Warren and Mahoney.

The Mona Vale Surf Life Saving Club was an entrant under the Public Architecture category but did not make the Finalists list.

The Mona Vale Beach Amenities and Lifeguard Facility Project Summary states:

''Mona Vale’s new Amenities and Lifeguard Facilities Building celebrates nature, community and life on the beach. Providing a much-needed upgrade of the amenities block, a home for the weekly lifeguards and additional access to emergency life-saving equipment, functionality sits at the heart of the design to deliver an enhanced user experience.
Paying respect to one of the community’s biggest concerns – the size and volume of the building – the new facility presents itself as three small pavilions, creating permeability and transparency towards the horizon, and, critically, provides lifeguards with 180-degree views of the beach.
We set out to provide the most resilient building possible. Low-maintenance, hard-wearing materials were selected to withstand the harshest conditions, the coast’s first line. Now re-opened to the community, this new facility provides a more inclusive people-first space – breaking down barriers to welcome new visitors from right across the community.''

Mona Vale’s new Amenities and Lifeguard Facilities Building. Photo: Sean Fennessy

Mona Vale’s new Amenities and Lifeguard Facilities Building. Photo: Brett Boardman

Mona Vale’s new Amenities and Lifeguard Facilities Building. Photo: Sean Fennessy

Trilogy House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture is also a Finalist in the Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) category.

The Project Summary states:

''Trilogy House sits on the edge of Pittwater looking north up the bay. Located on a steep populated slope, surrounding residences are ever expanding. Designed by Peter Muller in the early ‘60’s and added to by Glenn Murcutt in the ‘90’s, the pedigree was already daunting.
Subsequent to meetings with Mr Muller, both the clients and architects elected to contribute a chapter to the story.
Additions and modifications to this project were undertaken with reference to the past and a contribution to the future. The mindset in architecture needs to shift to answer issues of waste, energy, recycling, capacity and humanity. Projects that capture a responsible architectural outcome will re-enforce the means by which architecture can re-shape the world- management of resources can no longer be left to those who most profit, it should be critiqued by those who care.''

Trilogy House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture. Photographer: Alejo de Achaval

Trilogy House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture. Photographer: Michael Nicholson

Little Manly House by CHROFI is listed as a Finalist in the Residential Architecture – Houses (New) category. Little Manly House is located nearby Little Manly Beach at the base of Manly’s Eastern Hill. The house enjoys oblique views across the street to the harbor to the southwest while the topography rises from the rear yard to the northeast with established trees providing a green sense of enclosure to the rear of the property.

The Project Summary states:

''...the rising topography to the rear delivers both a sense of enclosure, but also damaging overland flow during significant rain events.
Initially considered a constraint to development, the overland flowpath was redirected to form a perimeter landscape feature of native plants and a rivulet as a lush frame for our central design proposition – the house as a universal ‘platform for living’.
Loosely connected indoor and outdoor living spaces are immersed in the garden with garaging and ancillary spaces housed beneath and bedrooms above.
Drawing from our Client’s love of Kaufman House by Richard Neutra, the house expresses itself as an ensemble of gently stepped horizontal volumes composed to mediate the disparate scale of the streetscape, provide enclosure and privacy, while enabling the activity of life to move freely between the house interior and the garden.''

Little Manly House by CHROFI. Photographer: Clinton Weaver

Diverse projects ranging from the Sydney Opera House to a Preschool, an Art Gallery, Sailing Club, Pavilion and a Brewery, to name a few have been shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Architecture Awards.

The jury has refined a shortlist of 132 buildings and designs to continue to the final awards.

The Awards recognise excellence across the state and include a comprehensive process that includes site visits to all projects.

The Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects is a finalist in three categories; Heritage, Sustainability and Public Architecture. The Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation was announced in May at the 2023 National Trust Heritage Awards as the Judges’ Choice Award. Almost 100 years after it first opened, the Bondi Pavilion underwent a major makeover that transformed the heritage landmark from worn-down building to the cultural heart of Bondi. National Trust Heritage Awards Judges said it was “an absolutely brilliant project for an Australian heritage landmark that will now continue to serve local residents and visitors in a sustained and multi-purposeful way.”

Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects. Photographer: Brett Boardman

Also listed as a Finalist under four categories is the Modus Operandi Brewery by Prevalent; the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, the Commercial Architecture, EmAGN Project Award and Sustainable Architecture.

Completed in 2021 in Merewether the Modus Operandi brewery Project Summary states:

''Reimagines the Australian shed through the repurposing of a post-war portal frame structure and the tieing of it with a newly constructed interfacing mechanism, bridging between itself and neighbour lots.
This is the first purpose-built space for the brewing company and was predicated around their ‘Beaches Brewed’ motto along with the notion of Modus Operandi – the mode of working of the brand, the act of brewing, and the social connections that entail.
The resultant space provides a protected, adaptive building that glows differently depending on time of day, safeguards native species of plants, and showcases them as a protective, cosseting response to the increasing ephemerality of our natural world. The space portrays a feeling of artificial nature, achieved through highly natural mechanisms. This technical approach to the showcase of nature echoes the clients modus operandi: highlighting the raw natural material that is turned into their brews.''

Modus Operandi Brewery. Photographer: Jan Vranovský

Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter President Adam Haddow said great architecture made society more equitable, healthier, and ultimately more interesting.

“It reflects who we are as people and shows us what makes us ‘tick’ – representing our future history,” he said.

“This year’s NSW Architecture Awards shortlist represents projects built almost entirely during the pandemic – pleasingly they are full of optimism, beauty, joy, and delight.

“Collectively the projects shine a light on our challenge to solve the two greatest challenges of our age – finding a sustainable future and delivering housing equity.

“Some of the best contemporary architecture in the world is delivered in NSW. Buildings are better when architects are involved, delivering value across financial, health and wellbeing, and sustainability measures for our communities. We should be incredibly proud of the hard work and efforts of our profession.”

The full list of Finalists via Category, runs below.

EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Cranbrook School – Hordern Oval Precinct Redevelopment | Architectus
St Joseph’s College Aquatic and Fitness Centre | TKD Architects
UTS Central | fjmtstudio and DJRD with Lacoste + Stevenson (Original Broadway Podium Design)
The Village Preschool | Carter Williamson
Schools at Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct (SMEEP) | Woods Bagot
TAFE NSW Meadowbank, Multi Trades Hub + Institute of Applied Technology | Digital by Gray Puksand

HERITAGE
Sub Station No. 164 | fjmtstudio
Locomotive Workshop | Sissons Architects, Buchan and Mirvac Design
Yirranma Place | SJB
Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
The Imperial at Clifton | Welsh + Major
Fisherman’s House | Studio Prineas
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal | ARM Architecture
70 George Street_ COX Sydney Studio | Cox Architecture
St Saviour’s Cathedral | Michael Fox Architects
The Estate | Luke Moloney Architecture
Millers Point Townhouse | Design 5 – Architects
80 Albion | Squillace Architects

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Amara | Smart Design Studio
70 George Street | Cox Architecture
Cranbrook School – Hordern Oval Precinct Redevelopment | Architectus
Bridge 17 | Smart Design Studio
Built Head Office/Sub Station No. 164 | fjmtinteriors
Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Yirranma Place | SJB
Corrs Chambers Westgarth | Bates Smart
The Charles Grand Brasserie & Bar | Cox Architecture in Association with H&E Architects
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal | ARM Architecture
AMP QQT Workplace | Hassell
Apartment for an Older Man | Plus Minus Design with Lymesmith
PHIVE – Community, Cultural and Civic Hub | DesignInc Sydney, Lacoste+Stevenson and Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Modern building, Gallery Shop | Akin Atelier
The Estate | Luke Moloney Architecture
Nine-Square Bondi | Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
6 Parramatta Square | Woods Bagot
InterContinental Sydney | Woods Bagot
80 Albion | Squillace Architects

PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Modern building | SANAA and Architectus
Eastern Creek Speedway | Cox Architecture
Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
PHIVE – Community, Cultural and Civic Hub | DesignInc Sydney, Lacoste+Stevenson and Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal | ARM Architecture
City of Sydney Street Furniture | Grimshaw and City of Sydney
St George Sailing Club, Sans Souci | Jon Jacka Architects
Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
Cadeau | Curious Practice
Camperdown Memorial Rest Park Amenities | lahznimmo architects
Day01. Gallery | Ian Moore Architects
Mona Vale Beach Amenities and Lifeguard Facility | Warren and Mahoney
Dimensions X / Farm Stay | Peter Stutchbury Architecture
Stealth Pavilion | Plus Minus Design
Hutch | Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Parry Park Pavilions | Archrival (Custom Mad & Lucy Humphrey Studio) with Lucy Simpson (Gaawaa Miyay) and Copy Nature Office

SUSTAINABILITY
PHIVE – Community, Cultural and Civic Hub | DesignInc Sydney, Lacoste+Stevenson and Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Parramatta Park Pavilion | Sam Crawford Architects
Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Bay Pavilions Arts + Aquatic | NBRS with Donovan Payne Architects
Lane Cove House | SAHA
Re-Generation House | Alexander Symes Architect with Second Edition and Jane Theau
Music Room | Alexander Symes Architect
Balmain House | SAHA

URBAN DESIGN
Brookfield Place Sydney | Make Architects and Architectus
Westconnex Tunnel Support Facility | Conybeare Morrison International with ACCIONA Construction Australia, Samsung C&T and Bouygues Construction Australia Joint Venture
Opera Residences | Tzannes
City of Sydney Street Furniture | Grimshaw and City of Sydney
Alumni Park | McGregor Westlake Architects

NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARD WINNERS ‘DELIVER BEAUTY, DELIGHT AND JOY’

June 23, 2023

The renewal of the landmark Sydney Opera House in its 50th year has taken out the prestigious New South Wales Architecture Medallion for its “symphony of design, innovation and acoustic excellence”.

The state’s depth of architectural excellence was celebrated at the annual NSW Architecture Awards tonight, which recognised 70 projects and categories from multigenerational homes to social housing and urban public furniture.

Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter President Adam Haddow said winning projects were at the pinnacle of Australian design.

“I am incredibly proud of the cultural, economic, and societal contribution architects and architecture make to the state of NSW,” he said

“The awarded projects not only help us make sense of a complex world, but they deliver beauty, delight and joy.”

ARM Architecture’s redevelopment of the iconic Sydney Opera House reimagined the interior spaces of the concert hall.

Judges said the space is now on par with the world’s greatest auditoria. “Respecting and honouring the work of both Jørn Utzon and Peter Hall, ARM’s works have achieved the previously unimaginable – the addition of a recognisable third design voice, in perfect harmony,” they said. “This accomplishment deserves the highest recognition, and we applaud the entire project team for their remarkable performance.”

The Sulman Medal for Public Architecture was won by Lead Consultant SANAA with Executive Architect: Architectus for their addition to the Art Gallery of NSW.

“Rethinking the orthodoxies of the art experience in relation to both enclosure and circulation, Sydney Modern provides a new type of gallery experience that is freer in movement, more connected to the landscape surrounding it, and more diverse in the scale and type of art it can house,” they said.

For residential architecture, SJB’s 19 Waterloo Street picked up The Wilkinson Award for its 69 sqm residence for a couple and a dog that the judges said “challenges thinking about what is a home”.

“This building is a jewel box of experimentation,” they said. “Every inch of space has been meticulously detailed to create a home that is joyful and inventive, and lovingly tailored to the lifestyle of all three of its occupants including a little window for the dog, Eric.”

The renovation of Lane Cove House, by SAHA, won The Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) for its multigenerational living and The Milo Dunphy Award for its sustainability.

“The project doubles density at low cost, consumes no land, delivers huge social benefit to its intergenerational occupants, and does so with high architectural ambition,” judges said.

“The project brief reflects current soaring house prices and high aged care and childcare costs, but is also timeless: to enable extended families to live together yet separately, for the benefit of all.“

Award-winners from the NSW Architecture Awards will now progress to the National Architecture Awards program, which will be announced later in October.

The Australian Institute of Architects Awards program offers public and peer recognition of the innovative work of architects and promotes excellence across the industry.

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CONCERT HALL RENEWAL | ARM ARCHITECTURE. Photographer | Chris Bennett

NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARD WINNERS

Category Entry name Practice Award

NSW Architecture Medallion: Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal ARM Architecture Award

Premier’s Prize: Bigge St Liverpool Turner Prize

Lord Mayor’s Prize: Quay Quarter Tower 3XN with Executive Architect BVN Prize

Lord Mayor’s Prize: Opera Residences Tzannes and Crone (Executive Architect) Commendation

Blackett Prize: Goulburn Performing Arts Centre Brewster Hjorth Architects Prize

Emerging Architecture Prize: Ben Peake Carter Williamson Prize

COLORBOND® Award for Steel in Architecture

Warren Integrated Studies Hub Mayoh Architects COLORBOND® Award for Steel in Architecture

PCYC Wagga Wagga AJC Commendation

Commercial Architecture

Poly Centre 210 George Street Grimshaw The Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture

Quay Quarter Tower 3XN with Executive Architect BVN Award

Sub Station No. 164 fjcstudio (formerly fjmtstudio) Award

Yirranma Place SJB Award

Easy Street Commercial DFJ Architects Award

Locomotive Workshop Sissons Architects with Buchan and Mirvac Design Commendation

Modus Operandi Brewery Prevalent Commendation

Educational Architecture

Cranbrook School – Hordern Oval Precinct Redevelopment Architectus The William E Kemp Award for Educational Architecture

UTS Central fjcstudio (formerly fjmtstudio) and DJRD with Lacoste + Stevenson (Original Broadway Podium Design) Award

The Village Preschool Carter Williamson Commendation

EmAGN Project Award

Lane Cove House SAHA EmAGN Project Award

Enduring Architecture Award

Olympic Park Station Hassell, Ken Maher, Rodney Uren, Geoff Crowe, Robin McInnes, William Smart, Andrew Cortese, John Woodman, Mano Ponnambalam, Vanessa Yee, Adrian Gotlieb, Michelle McSharry, Chris Thomas and Ross de la Motte. Enduring Architecture Award

Heritage

Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal ARM Architecture The Greenway Award for Heritage

Sub Station No. 164 fjcstudio (formerly fjmtstudio) Award – Creative Adaptation

Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects Award – Creative Adaptation

The Imperial at Clifton Welsh + Major Award – Creative Adaptation

The Estate Luke Moloney Architecture Award – Creative Adaptation

Locomotive Workshop Sissons Architects, Buchan and Mirvac Design Commendation – Creative Adaptation

St Saviour’s Cathedral Michael Fox Architects Award – Conservation

Millers Point Townhouse Design 5 – Architects Commendation – Conservation

80 Albion Squillace Architects Commendation

Interior Architecture

Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal ARM Architecture The John Verge Award for Interior Architecture

Amara Smart Design Studio Award

Apartment for an Older Man Plus Minus Design with Lymesmith Award

Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Modern building, Gallery shop Akin Atelier Award

70 George Street_ COX Sydney Studio Cox Architecture Award

Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects Commendation

Yirranma Place SJB Commendation

Corrs Chambers Westgarth Bates Smart Commendation

Public Architecture

Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Modern building Lead Consultant: SANAA; Executive Architect: Architectus The Sulman Medal for Public Architecture

Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects Award

St George Sailing Club, Sans Souci Jon Jacka Architects Award

Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects Award

PHIVE – Community, Cultural and Civic Hub DesignInc Sydney, Lacoste+Stevenson and Manuelle Gautrand Architecture Commendation

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

Lane Cove House SAHA The Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

Balmain House SAHA Award

Aija’s Place Curious Practice Commendation

Fisherman’s House Studio Prineas Commendation

House for BEES Downie North Commendation

Trilogy House Peter Stutchbury Architecture Commendation

Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

19 Waterloo Street SJB The Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

Little Manly House CHROFI Award

Mossy Point House Edition Office Award

Draped House TRIAS Commendation

Bronte House Tribe Studio Architects Commendation

Shiplap House Chenchow Little Commendation

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Iglu Summer Hill Bates Smart The Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

The Crossing CHROFI with de Rome Architects and Dezignteam Award

Bigge St Liverpool Turner Award

Traces MHN DESIGN UNION PTY LTD Commendation

The Greenland Centre BVN with Woods Bagot Commendation

Small Project Architecture

Mona Vale Beach Amenities and Lifeguard Facility Warren and Mahoney The Robert Woodward Award for Small Project Architecture

Day01. Gallery Ian Moore Architects Award

Dimensions X / Farm Stay Peter Stutchbury Architecture Award

Stealth Pavilion Plus Minus Design Commendation

Sustainable Architecture

Lane Cove House SAHA The Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture

Bay Pavilions Arts + Aquatic NBRS with Donovan Payne Architects Award

Re-Generation House Alexander Symes Architect with Second Edition and Jane Theau Award

PHIVE – Community, Cultural and Civic Hub DesignInc Sydney, Lacoste+Stevenson and Manuelle Gautrand Architecture Commendation

Urban Design

Opera Residences Tzannes and Crone (Executive Architect) Commendation

City of Sydney Street Furniture Grimshaw and City of Sydney Commendation