The jury for the 2025 Homes Awards has been revealed, comprising a gaggle of award-winning structure and design professionals, all with intensive expertise in residential structure.
This yr’s program contains 10 awards classes, together with Australian Home of the 12 months, New Home underneath 200 m², New Home over 200 m², Home Alteration and Addition underneath 200 m², Home Alteration and Addition over 200 m², Condo or Unit, Sustainability, Home in a Heritage Context, Rising Structure Observe, and the newly launched Small Tasks class.
John Ellway is an architect and the founding father of the Brisbane-based agency, John Ellway Architect. He has constructed a outstanding portfolio of award-winning properties, together with the Terrarium Home, which obtained the Eleanor Cullis-Hill Award from the Australian Institute of Architects on the 2019 Nationwide Structure Awards, the Elina Mottram Award at state stage and the Home Alteration and Addition underneath 200 m2 class on the 2018 Homes Awards. His challenge Three Home was honoured because the Australian Home of the 12 months on the 2021 Homes Awards. In 2022, his apply received one other Homes Award within the Home Alteration and Addition underneath 200 m2 class for the challenge Cascade Home.
Polly Harbison is the principal of Polly Harbison Design, a Sydney-based apply based in 2003. Harbison’s agency has garnered vital acclaim in numerous awards and has been extensively featured each internationally and domestically. Notably, her challenge Pearl Seashore Home obtained the Australian Institute of Architects Nationwide Award and the NSW Wilkinson Award in 2021. Balmoral Home, a collaborative challenge between Harbison and architect Clinton Murray, received the award for Residential – Homes (New) on the Australian Institute of Architects 2015 Nationwide Structure Awards. Along with her apply, Harbison has been on a number of architectural awards juries, together with the Australian Institute of Architects 2022 NSW Structure Awards.
Dimmity Walker is a director of Spaceagency Architects. Walker is expert at managing shopper interface and supply throughout a various vary of complicated architectural initiatives, leading to an in depth portfolio of state and nationwide award-winning initiatives. An lively and engaged member of the career, Dimmity has served on quite a few design juries for state structure awards and numerous nationwide architectural design prizes. In 2023, she was named a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.
John Wardle is an internationally recognised architect and the founding accomplice of Wardle. He has developed a design course of that includes and expands upon the concepts and themes current in a web site’s topography, panorama, historical past and context. The work of Wardle has been celebrated within the publication of two monographs: Quantity – John Wardle Architects (2008) and This Constructing Likes Me (2016), each printed by Thames and Hudson. The apply has received coveted nationwide and worldwide awards for schooling, residential, public and civic design. John was honoured in 2020 with the Gold Medal, the Australian Institute of Architects’ highest particular person distinction.
Chairing the jury might be Alexa Kempton who’s the editor of Homes journal. She has greater than 20 years’ expertise in structure and design media, and has been a part of the editorial workforce at Structure Media for 10 years. Alexa is a former editor of ArchitectureAu and managing editor of Structure Australia.
Pippa Soccio, the senior analysis scientist in constructing monitoring at CSIRO, would be the sustainability advisor whereas Louise Honman, an architect and constructed heritage specialist, would be the heritage advisor.
Entries shut 14 March 2025. To enter, go to the Homes Awards web site.
Homes Awards are organised by Structure Media, supported by Artedomus, Blum, Brickworks, James Hardie, Roca, Fulgor Milano, Architectural Window Methods, The Heritage Council of Victoria and Latitude.
