A playful, treehouse-like dwelling in Brunswick Heads has taken out the highest accolade within the Australian Institute of Architects 2025 NSW Nation Division Awards.
Introduced on Friday 15 November on the Newcastle Metropolis Corridor, the 21 profitable and counseled tasks have been celebrated as the very best of the very best in regional NSW.
This 12 months’s jury comprised Jarad Grice, affiliate at Sam Crawford Architects, as chair, Carly Martin of Akimbo Structure and Eddie Web page of Maxwell and Web page Architects.
The jury visited the 36 shortlisted entries on a five-day tour throughout the state, which spanned from Brunswick Heads within the north to Rosedale within the south.
Talking on behalf of the jury, Grice commented, “Humble or luxuriant, public or non-public, it was a pleasure to watch by way of all of the buildings we visited, a typical need not solely to reinforce the lives of shoppers however to contribute in a significant and regarded vogue to the material of their setting and the broader neighborhood.”
“It’s now a typical chorus that we proceed to dwell in a interval of nice change. With considerably of an exodus from our cities, the position of architects dwelling and dealing within the areas has presumably by no means been extra necessary. It’s important that the errors made in our bigger cities through the years will not be repeated as our regional cities and centres develop, and a part of the accountability for this, rests with us as architects,” he mentioned.
Grice additionally famous that in distinction to architects working in dense city environments, regional architects have the chance to pursue their accountability to Nation and the popularity of Indigenous information of their tasks.
This deep connection to context and an intrinsic consideration of tradition was spotlighted inside this 12 months’s lauded tasks.
The winners are:
James Barnet Award
Excessive Tide Home – Ware Architects
Public Structure
Award
Bathurst Animal Rehoming Centre (BARC) – Welsh and Main
Commendation
Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshore Group Constructing – King and Campbell
Academic Structure
Award
New Boarding Home, Yanco Agricultural Excessive College, SINSW – ARM Structure
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Business Structure
Award
Lodge Marvell – HGA Studio
Inside Structure
Awards
Bonito – HGA Studio
Girls’s Trauma Restoration Centre, Shellharbour – Edmiston Jones
Commendation
Yukari Home – Tanev Muir Architects
Residential Structure – Homes (New)
Awards
Excessive Tide Home – Ware Architects
Home within the Dry – MRTN Architects
Rosedale Home – Scale Structure
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Commendations
Brahminy Home – HGA Studio
Home Nabiac – Nicholas Flatman Structure
Residential Structure – Homes (Alterations and Additions)
Award
Home in Narrawallee – Architect George
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Commendation
Yukari Home – Tanev Muir Architects
Residential Structure – A number of Housing
Award
Cedar on Collins – Kennedy Associates Architects
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Heritage Structure
Commendation
Sadlier Residence – Supply Architects
City Design
Award
Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshore Group Constructing – King and Campbell
Small Undertaking Structure
Award
Wallabies Watch – StudioMODA
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Medallion
Girls’s Trauma Restoration Centre, Shellharbour – Edmiston Jones
Timber Award
Excessive Tide Home – Ware Architects
Imaginative and prescient Award
Girls’s Trauma Restoration Centre, Shellharbour – Edmiston Jones
NSW Presidents Regional Prize
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