World Architecture Festival Awards

The Westmead Millennium Institute has been shortlisted in the prestigious World Architecture (WAF) Festival Awards.  This follows being shortlisted in the locally prestigious Australian Institute of Architects Awards NSW that will be announced on 2 July.

Australia, leads the number of projects on the list followed by the UK and Turkey.  Of the 338 projects from 46 countries, 21 Australian practices are shortlisted in the finished projects categories.

The WAF winners will be announced in Singapore from 4-6 November alongside the Inside World Festival of Interiors.

According to Mr Julian Ashton, Principal, BVN “The Westmead Millennium Institute takes laboratory design away from dark internally focussed spaces into light filled areas with significant exterior glazing allowing views outside and a great deal more daylight in the laboratory than in traditional laboratory design.”

“A central stair connects the laboratories which together with shared write up and common spaces enables researchers to meet and collaborate far more freely than previously,” he said.

In addition to Westmead Millennium Institute, BVN has Project Zero in the House category shortlist.  Project Zero is in suburban Brisbane and reuses a typical weatherboard Queenslander with a large brick addition to create a house in that is designed to use no external energy and minimal water.