2024 NSW Architecture Awards – Winners Revealed

The state’s best new residential, commercial, and public buildings have been named in the Australian Institute of Architects 2024 NSW Architecture Awards.

This year’s winners can be seen as a window into the changing built environment of contemporary Australia and a look into the way the state will live, work, and play, now and into the future. In particular, the 2024 winning cohort showed a pathway forward for sustainable and heritage buildings, including insightful adaptive reuses and considered renovations and additions. They have also shone a spotlight on design that has a deep connection to context and an intrinsic consideration of culture and Country. 

The 82 winners and commendations were chosen by a jury of industry experts from shortlist of more than 126 of New South Wales’s leading architectural projects.

“We see the public interest advanced in the continued rise of projects that seek to reduce the total greenhouse gas emissions of our buildings; requiring less energy to produce, fewer resources to extract, employing both timeless proven passive or active environmental systems,” explains Chair of Chairs, Tim Horton, Architect and Commissioner, Land and Environment Court.

“Design makes our lives better. Architects design to make our lives better. This year’s NSW Architecture Awards represent the very best, and excitedly focus on community, culture, reuse, and adaptation,” says Adam Haddow, Chapter President and National President Elect of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. 

“We have the very best architects in the world in NSW, and they are delivering remarkable projects that make New South Wales a better place to be. Great architecture can both elevate the soul and deliver a more resilient future. Sustainability and housing are the two biggest challenges of our age. Architects are best placed to help society find common ground, so that the environment is protected, and the lives of our communities are celebrated. This year’s awarded projects help show how great the future is.” 

The various juries this year undertook one of the biggest regional tours they have ever conducted, with 20% of the shortlisted projects entered in, receiving a site visit in the regional areas. 

“In all of the awarded projects we see a profound contribution to the public good and the public interest; mediating between private interests and the public domain – not only in the carefully porous physical relationship between public and private land, but in how projects have sought to recognise the place, memory and experience of aboriginal people on those sites,” said Horton. 

The 2024 NSW Architecture Awards program attracted 247 entrants. A comprehensive judging process determined the shortlisted entries and eventual winners. The 10 Juries spent two days in February hearing about 247 projects at the Jury Presentations, held at the University of NSW, which then led to a two-week shortlist jury tour right across NSW.

2024 Jury

Each year, the NSW Architecture Awards juries includes a venerated panel of industry experts. This year the jury comprised of: 

Commercial and Urban Jury:

Mark Raggatt, Jury Chair, ARM Architecture 

Rebecca Donoghue, Juror, SJB 

Duncan Corrigall, Juror, AJC Architects 

Residential Architecture Houses – (Alterations & Additions)/ Small Project Jury:

David Welsh. Jury Chair, Welsh + Major Architects 

Mitchell Thompson, Juror, Retallack Thompson 

Dana Tomic Hughes, Juror, Yellowtrace 

Kate Goodwin, Juror, Independent 

Sustainable Jury:

Lindsay Johnston, Jury Chair, Architecture Foundation Australia 

Jamileh Jahangiri, Juror, Studio Orsi 

David Haseler, Juror, fjcstudio

Heritage Jury:

Daniel Bourke, Jury Chair, fjcstudio 

Jason Elsley, Juror, Derive Architecture & Design 

Linda Babic, Juror, Heritas Heritage & Conservation 

Public and Education Jury:

Thierry Lacoste, Jury Chair, Lacoste+Stevenson 

Martina Novakova, Juror, Government Architect 

Hannah Bolitho, Juror, UNSW Cities Institute 

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Jury:

Jason Fraser, Jury Chair, Woods Bagot 

Joseph Loh, Juror, BVN 

Connie Argyrou, Juror, Architectus

Interior Jury:

Belinda Pajkovic, Jury Chair, atoma design 

Tomek Archer, Juror, Archer Office 

Giulla Conti, Juror, Architectus

Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Jury:

Jonathan Jacka, Jury Chair, Jon Jacka Architects 

Rory Brooks, Juror, Rory Brooks Architects 

Julie Power, Juror, Sydney Morning Herald 

Caroline Kite, Juror, Studio KaaKi

Enduring Architecture Award Jury:

Caroline Piddock, Jury Chair, Pidcock – Architecture + Sustainability 

Leone Lorrimer, Juror, GHD Design 

Paulo Macchia, Juror, Government Architect NSW

EmAGN Project Award Jury:

Adam Haddow, Jury Chair, SJB 

Ben Peake, Juror, Carter Williamson Architects 

Sally Hsu, Juror, Bates Smart 

Sean Wong, Juror, Wardle

Emerging Architect Prize Jury:

Adam Haddow, Jury Chair, SJB 

Tim Horton, Juror, Architect and Commissioner, Land and Environment Court 

Ben Peake, Juror, Carter Williamson Architects 

Sally Hsu, Juror, Bates Smart 

Sean Wong, Juror, Wardle 

2024 Winners

Colorbond® Award for Steel in Architecture

Rosedale House
Scale Architecture – Colorbond® Award for Steel in Architecture – Yuin Country

Commercial Architecture

Campbell House Private Office
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer – The Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award – Gadigal and Birrabirragal Country of the Eora Nation

The Porter House Hotel
Candalepas Associates – Award – The Gadigal People of the Eora Nation

The Sydney Swans HQ at the Royal Hall of Industries
Populous – Award – The Gadigal & Bidjigal People

Goodhope
Those Architects – Commendation – The Gadigal Peoples of the Eora Nation

Blue & William
Woods Bagot – Commendation – Cammeraygal

Educational Architecture

St. Patrick’s College: Scientia Building
BVN – The William E Kemp Award – The Wangal Clan of the Darug People

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Maggie Street
Curious Practice – NSW Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Huntington
SJB – NSW Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Botany Road
Candalepas Associates – NSW Commendation for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

The Surry
Candalepas Associates – NSW Commendation for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Ziggys’ Villas
Harley Graham Architects – NSW Commendation for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Nightingale Marrickville
SJB – NSW Commendation for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Small Project Architecture

North Head Viewing Platforms
CHROFI and Bangawarra with National Parks and Wildlife Service – The Robert Woodward Award – The Gai-mariagal People

Hurlstone Memorial Reserve Community Centre
Sam Crawford Architects – NSW Award for Small Project Architecture

Enduring Architecture

Glass House
Ruth and Bill Lucas – NSW Award for Enduring Architecture

Interior Architecture

Transurban
Bates Smart – NSW Commendation for Interior Architecture

Michael Kirby Building
Hassell – NSW Commendation for Interior Architecture

Campbell House Private Office
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer – NSW Commendation for Interior Architecture

Public Architecture

Parramatta Aquatic Centre
Grimshaw and Andrew Burges Architects with McGregor Coxall – The Sulman Medal – The Dharug People

Powerhouse Castle Hill
lahznimmo architects – NSW Award for Public Architecture – Bidjigal People of Darug Nation

Long Reef Surf Life Saving Club
Adriano Pupilli Architects – NSW Award for Public Architecture – Gayamaygal People

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
CHROFI and NBRS – NSW Commendation for Public Architecture – Gweagal Clan of the Dharawal People

Sydney Football Stadium (Allianz Stadium)
Cox Architecture – NSW Commendation for Public Architecture

Redfern Station
DesignInc – NSW Commendation for Public Architecture

Sustainable Architecture

Olive Tree House
Bastian Architecture – NSW Award for Sustainable Architecture

Campbell House Private Office
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer – NSW Award for Sustainable Architecture

Long Reef Surf Life Saving Club
Adriano Pupilli Architects – NSW Commendation for Sustainable Architecture

Fun House
ASA – NSW Commendation for Sustainable Architecture

The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
CHROFI and NBRS – NSW Commendation for Sustainable Architecture

Urban Design

Sydney Football Stadium (Allianz Stadium)
Cox Architecture with ASPECT Studios – The Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

Bayview Tree House
Woodward Architects – NSW Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

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