Seven Australian initiatives have been named winners within the 2025 Structure Masterprize – a world awards program that honours designs throughout the disciplines of structure, inside design and panorama structure with the intention of advancing the appreciation of structure worldwide.
The prize, previously often called the American Structure Prize, was began in 2015 by publishing and awards firm Farmani Group. In 2025, it accepted entries from 72 international locations throughout 44 mission classes.
This yr’s Australian mission winners included a mission for floating island constructions in Hong Kong designed by an Australian apply, a factory-turned-community hub in Sydney, a cultural centre imagined from a historic retailer in regional NSW and several other residences throughout Victoria and NSW.
Of the general public initiatives to take out a prize, Archer Workplace’s Boot Manufacturing facility Group and Innovation Hub, which concerned the adaptive reuse of a historic manufacturing unit constructing in Sydney, was a named a winnner within the Cultural Structure class, and BAAKA Cultural Centre by Kaunitz Yeung, which was born of a co-design course of with neighborhood, was named a winner within the Heritage Structure class.
Island Synchronisation by DOJO Studio and Urbanroom – which proposes another methodology for the formation of floating island constructions in Hong Kong, merging undersea habitat with a resting place for divers and fishermen – was additionally celebrated as a winner within the Installations and Constructions class.
The prized Australian residences included F2 Structure’s Rammed Earth Home, within the Agricultural Buildings class, positioned on a hill overlooking Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay, and the Thomas Avenue Home by Embrace Architects, within the Homes Inside class, positioned in suburban Melbourne. Two homes by Rob Mills Structure and Interiors have been additionally prize-winners: in Victoria, the Howqua River Lodge within the Residential Inside class; and in Sydney, the Wentworth Residence within the Conceptual Inside class.
As well as, the Agency of the Yr Award was bestowed upon Singapore- and Melbourne-based apply Equator Works, based by Erik L’Heureux. The apply specialises in design for dense equatorial cities, with a concentrate on adaptive reuse, net-zero vitality, super-low embodied carbon, and total decarbonisation methods.
A jury of 60 designers, architects, curators and lecturers from around the globe chosen the profitable initiatives.
