Fifty-one projects were recognised at the 2014 Australian Institute of Architects’ Victorian Architecture Awards, announced on Friday 20 June at Central Pier in Docklands.
McBride Charles Ryan’s Dallas Brooks Community Primary School, a uniquely shaped building that reflects the fluid and rich journey needed for the early years of academic life, took home the night’s highest honour, the Victorian Architecture Medal.
Comprising a Primary School, Community Facilities and a Community Park, the school explores how new pedagogy methods may be reflected in various configurations of age-appropriate learning spaces. The development of small learning communities have been knitted together by shared outdoor courtyard spaces.
The project also won the Melbourne Prize and William Wardell Award for Public Architecture, while McBride Charles Ryan’s The Quays project was awarded the Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture as well as the Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Award.
The practice’s Community Hall (NGV Melbourne Now) also won the Small Project Architecture Award.
House at Hanging Rock by Kerstin Thompson Architects. Image: Trevor Mein
Kerstin Thompson Architects’ House at Hanging Rock was awarded the Harold Desbrowe-Annear Prize for Residential Architecture. Organising interior and exterior space and the extended site through a series of parallel bands, the house is defined by three terraces, staggered in plan and stepped down the site along a gentle diagonal.
All projects that received a named or architecture award will progress on to the 2014 National Architecture Awards.
Full list of winners:
William Wardell Award for Public Architecture
Dallas Brooks Community Primary School – McBride Charles Ryan
Public Architecture Award – New
Dandenong Mental Health Facility – Bates Smart Whitefield McQueen Irwin Alsop Joint Venture
Port of Echuca Discovery Centre – Jaws Architects
Commendation
Melton Library and Learning Hub – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT)
Public Architecture Award – Alterations & Additions
Birralee Primary School – Kerstin Thompson Architects
Commendations
Bendigo Library Redevelopment – MGS Architects
Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture
House at Hanging Rock – Kerstin Thompson Architects
Residential Architecture Awards – Houses (New)
Hover House – Bower Architecture
Portsea House – Wood Marsh Architecture
Somers Beach House – March Studio
Commendations
Fairfield Hacienda – MRTN Architects
Venus Bay House – Welsh + Major
John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)
South Yarra Warehouse – NMBW Architecture Studio
Residential Architecture Awards – Houses (Alterations & Additions)
St Kilda East House – Clare Cousins Architects
St Kilda West House – Kennedy Nolan
Westgarth House – Kennedy Nolan
Commendations
Cubo House – Phooey Architects
Family Apartment – NMBW Architecture Studio
Lightbox – Edwards Moore
Northcote Project – Wolveridge Architects
Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture Award – Multiple Housing
The Commons – Breathe Architecture
Residential Architecture Award – Multiple Housing
Richmond Redevelopment (Urban Renewal) – Williams Boag
The Quays – McBride Charles Ryan
Commendations
Albert Tower – Rothelowman
ILK Apartments – Cox Architecture
Illura – Elenberg Fraser
North Melbourne Townhouses – FreadmanWhite
John George Knight Award for Heritage
Melbourne GPO Exterior Conservation Works – Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Heritage Architecture Awards
Wertheim Factory Conversion – Studio Nine – Kerstin Thompson Architects
Commendations
Rippon Lea Roof Reinstatement – Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
The Ghost and Mrs Muir – Multiplicity
Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
Victorian Desalination Plant – Peckvonhartel and ARM Architecture
Commercial Architecture Award
National Australia Bank (NAB), Docklands – Woods Bagot
Prahran Hotel – Techne Architects
Commendation
25 Rokeby Street – John Wardle Architects
Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture
The Quays – McBride Charles Ryan
Interior Architecture Award
National Australia Bank (NAB), Docklands – Woods Bagot
Commendations
25 Rokeby Street – John Wardle Architects
Craigieburn Central – Lend Lease in collaboration with NH Architecture
Spectroscopy Innovation Centre Agilent Technologies – Sinclair Knight Merz
Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
Peninsula Link – ARM Architecture
Urban Design Award
Box Hill Gardens Multipurpose Area – NMBW Architecture Studio + Aspect Studios
M80 Ring Road & M2 Tullamarine Freeway Interchange – Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design
Commendations
25 Rokeby Street – John Wardle Architects
Cloud Canopy – Maddison Architects
Williamstown Library – Sally Draper Architects in association with Mitsuori Architects
Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture
Kew Studio – Sean Godsell Architects
Small Project Architecture Awards
Community Hall (NGV Melbourne Now) – McBride Charles Ryan
Geelong Ring Road Rest Areas – BKK Architects
Commendations
Compulsive Productions – Matt Gibson Architecture + Design
Flinders Lane Apartment – Clare Cousins Architects
Port Phillip Community Group Offices – FreadmanWhite
Alan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture
The Commons – Breathe Architecture
Sustainable Architecture Award
Melton Library and Learning Hub – Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT)
Commendation
Florence Street – Nest Architects
Colorbond® Award for Steel Architecture
Kew Studio – Sean Godsell Architects
Commendation
Arrow Studio – Peter Hogg + Toby Reed Architects
Enduring Architecture Award
McIntyre House – Peter and Dione McIntyre
Chapter Awards
Australian Institute of Architects Melbourne Prize
Dallas Brooks Community Primary School – McBride Charles Ryan
Australian Institute of Architects Regional Prize
Bendigo Library Redevelopment – MGS Architects
Victorian Architecture Medal
Dallas Brooks Community Primary School – McBride Charles Ryan
Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media – National
Public Sydney: Drawing the City by Philip Thalis and Peter John Cantrill
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure: Making and Using the Urban Environment by Nigel Bertram
Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media – State
Dr Caligari moves to the Suburbs: The Architecture of Edmond and Corrigan by Nervegna Reed Architecture
Commendations
Minimono, volume 1: Paul Morgan Architects by Uro Publications
New Suburban: Remaking the Family Home in Australia and New Zealand by Stuart Harrison
