Category: Architecture
The winners of the Victorian Chapter of the AIA Awards have been announced, with ARM Architecture taking out four awards - including a sixth Victorian Medal - for the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre. "It has elevated the role of public architecture for both Geelong and the wider regional community," Hamish Lyon, Chair of Juries said.
The stateā€™s longest standing honour, the Sulman Medal, was awarded to the "quintessentially Australian" Kempsey Crescent Head Surf Life Saving Club by Neeson Murcutt Architects, with SJB Architects, Smart Design Studio and WMK Architecture among the other celebrated practices at the AIA NSW Architecture Awards.
The vision for the final building on Parramatta Square has been revealed, after Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW) won an international competition to design the structure. The 16-storey, 35,000sqm office tower is located at 3 Parramatta Square, and is planned to cost around $320 million.
ADR recaps the big winners of the state awards in Queensland, ACT, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, with Cox Architecture, Lahznimmo Architects, Cumulus Studio and Hames Sharley among this year's celebrated practices.
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