The NSW chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects celebrated the recipients of the 2025 President’s Prize and the Christopher Procter Prize at an occasion held on 4 December on the chapter workplace within the Tusculum Heritage Constructing in Potts Level.

The primary of two prizes introduced by chapter president Elizabeth Carpenter, the 2025 Christopher Procter Prize, which recognises an rising architect who has demonstrated a dedication and fervour for the design of cities, was obtained by Anastasia Uricher for his or her submission “Nation centred Memorialisation: Translating Group led Remembrance into Design Practices.”

The mission was awarded “for its dedication to reconciliation, its translation of community-led remembrance into design observe, and its enduring affect on Australian city-making.”

Named in honour of the late architect and concrete designer Christopher Procter, the prize affords a $10,000 grant for research-based journey or research to counterpoint their skilled improvement.

“Anastasia Uricher proposes a visionary mission that locations Nation on the centre of the Australian Institute of Architects’ memorialisation and reconciliation,” the jury’s quotation reads. “The analysis will discover how modest, landscape-led interventions can weave collectively narrative, ecology and civic life. It seeks to translate these classes into sensible instruments for Australian architects and concrete designers, making certain remembrance and reciprocity are embedded in on a regular basis environments.”

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Additionally introduced by Carpenter, the 2025 President’s Prize was awarded to Julie Energy, senior journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.

“For a few years, Julie has been a powerful advocate for structure, searching for out tales that spotlight how the occupation can profit the general public,” Carpenter stated. “As a long-standing senior journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, her articles deal with key points and challenges to our constructed surroundings whereas remaining accessible to a common public not all the time inclined to interact with ‘archi-speak’ – a real diligence that masterfully permits structure to be higher understood and appreciated.”

“A prolific journalist, Julie’s writings on structure and the city surroundings are all the time colored along with her distinctive and contemporary tackle the world, with a human-centred focus to floor every story … Her contribution to the general public discourse is very vital now, given the twin want for progressive housing options and mitigating the affect of a altering local weather on the constructed surroundings – an area the place all of us want to search out frequent floor,” Carpenter stated.

Final month, the NSW chapter recognised this yr’s fellows, who embrace: