2025 NSW Country Division Awards

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

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

Commendations

Brahminy Home – HGA Studio

Home Nabiac – Nicholas Flatman Structure

Residential Structure – Homes (Alterations and Additions)

Award

Home in Narrawallee – Architect George

Commendation

Yukari Home – Tanev Muir Architects

Residential Structure – A number of Housing

Award

Cedar on Collins – Kennedy Associates Architects

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

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

Dylan Wooden