2022 NSW Architecture Awards Winners Announced

The NSW Architecture Awards Winners have been announced with the redevelopment of Walsh Bay Arts Precinct by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer taking out the NSW Architecture Medallion, the state’s top award.

 

NSW Architecture Medallion

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

The Walsh Bay Arts Precinct is the successful culmination of many years of strategic planning that has consolidated a significant arts precinct in an historic part of Sydney through the provision of new and improved homes to many of our most important cultural institutions.

The project is a considered intervention within fine historic buildings. New flexible spaces and long axial circulation spaces maintain the scale and experience of the existing wharf. Historic fabric is carefully, and appropriately restored and new fabric reads as clearly new. New works are both highly sympathetic and illuminating through careful crafting of material and detail. The use of mirrors within the interior cleverly expands the perception of these spaces and their materiality.

Each organization has a distinctive setting within the context of the overall precinct whilst still being clearly part of the wholistic experience of the wharf. There is a nuanced relationship between interior and the harbour, with some performance spaces having the capacity to be directly connected to the outside while others playing up their interiority. Maintaining and enhancing the public promenade around each wharf provides both an intimate public interface and practical day to day operational support for each organization.

The juries considered Walsh Bay Arts Precinct as both a fine new public building and an exemplar of the power of adaptive reuse to retain important built fabric and create memorable new institutions within the city.

 

NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARD WINNERS

Public Architecture

  • Bundanon | Kerstin Thompson Architects — Sulman Medal for Public Architecture
  • Ken Rosewall Arena & Precinct | Cox Architecture — Award for Public Architecture
  • Walsh Bay Arts Precinct | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects — Award for Public Architecture
  • Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities | Eoghan Lewis Architects — Award for Public Architecture
  • Eric Tweedale Stadium | DWP | Design Worldwide Partnership — Commendation for Public Architecture
  • Church of the Living God | Candalepas Associates — Commendation for Public Architecture

 

Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

  • Stable House | Sibling Architecture — Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
  • Seagrass House | Welsh + Major — Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
  • Dimensions X OM1 / Mobile Studio | Peter Stutchbury Architecture and Oscar Martin — Commendation for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

 

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)

  • North Bondi House | Anthony Gill Architects — Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)
  • Iririki | Madeleine Blanchfield Architects — Commendation for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)
  • Beachalet | Mattr Studio — Commendation for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions)

 

Sustainable Architecture

  • Phoenix House | Harley Graham Architects — Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture
  • Pepper Tree Passive House | Alexander Symes Architect — Award for Sustainable Architecture
  • Dimensions X OM1 / Mobile Studio | Peter Stutchbury Architecture and Oscar Martin — Award for Sustainable Architecture
  • Bundanon | Kerstin Thompson Architects — Award for Sustainable Architecture
  • Curl Curl House | Trias — Commendation for Sustainable Architecture
  • Eden Port Welcome Centre | Cox Architecture — Commendation for Sustainable Architecture
  • Rosby Wines Cellar Door & Gallery | Cameron Anderson Architects — Commendation for Sustainable Architecture

 

To view all other winners visit the Australian Institute of Architects website.

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