WA Architecture Awards announced

METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project by Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA
The METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project has swept the stage at the recently announced Australian Institute of Architects Western Australian Architecture Awards, taking home four accolades. METRONET was awarded Western Australia's highest architectural honour, the George Temple Poole Award.
The project was also the recipient of the Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture, the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, and the Public Architecture Award. Designed by Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA, the project delivers five new stations and precincts at Morely, Noranda, Ballajura, Whiteman Park and Ellenbrook.
The stations along the Morley-Ellenbrook line make an outstanding contribution to the social and public infrastructure of a rapidly growing area of Perth, noted the jury.
The jury praised the project for setting “an impressive new sustainability benchmark for government infrastructure in Australia, and for being an exemplar of public transport and community facilities, with the end-user experience at the forefront of the design.”

Ruah Centre for Women and Children by Architectus
The Ruah Centre for Women and Children in Northbridge has won the Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture and the Brian Kidd Enabling Architecture Prize. Designed by Architectus, the Ruah Centre is Australia’s first state-of-the-art healing and recovery centre dedicated to supporting women and children affected by family and domestic violence.  The seven-storey building provides medical, counselling and legal services, and accommodation for families.
Architectus closely collaborated with staff and women with lived experience, carefully balancing dignity, privacy and empowerment. The jury applauded the project as “an elegant, well-planned and beautifully detailed building” that gives “broken lives a chance to rebuild”.

Henville Street House by Philip Stejkal
Henville St House has won a Residential Architecture award (New). On a difficult site, this home uses clever planning and spatial clarity to transform constraints into moments of delight for its residents. With a thoughtfully restrained palette, balanced with precise attention to privacy and place, it achieves a series of rich, characterful spaces that overlap one another. The project breathes and provides flexibility for its residents, anchored at its heart by the living area that flows into the courtyard and sits humbly in its context.

ALL WINNING PROJECTS:

George Temple Poole Award

Metronet Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project – Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA

Public Architecture

The Jeffrey Howlett Award

Ruah Centre for Women and Children – Architectus

Award
Metronet Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project – Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA

Commendation
Shire of Dardanup’s Library, Administration and Community Building – Peter Hobbs Architects with Intensive Fields and Advanced Timber Concepts

Educational Architecture

The Hillson Beasley Award

Hale Memorial Hall and Stow Precinct – KHA

Awards
Scarborough Primary School – New Teaching Block – Site Architecture Studio

Mother Teresa Catholic College – Secondary School – Parry and Rosenthal Architects

Commendation
Karratha Senior High School Technologies Learning Area – Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

The Marshall Clifton Award

Deepwater House – AHA Studio

Awards

Parnell Avenue – Matthews McDonald Architects

Henville Street House – Philip Stejskal Architecture

Commendations

Sheridan House – Steelehouse Architecture

Injidup Springs House – Whispering Smith

Broome Street House – Philip Stejskal Architecture

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

The Peter Overman Award

Shadow House – Grotto Studio

Award

Mitchell Street Residence – Klopper and Davis Architects

Commendations

South Perth House – Simon Pendal Architect

Alexandra Residence – Cast Studio

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

The Harold Krantz Award

Forbes Residences – WOHA and MJA studio

Award

Montreal Commons – Hillam Architects

Commendation

The Grove Residences – MJA studio

Commercial Architecture

The Ross Chisholm and Gil Nicol Award

Murdoch Square – Hassell

Commendations

Vitality House and Works – Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

Exchange Hotel – Hunt Architects

Heritage

Margaret Pitt Morison Award

Curtin Heritage Living Cottesloe Redevelopment – Griffiths Architects with GKA and Hames Sharley

Award

Hale Memorial Hall and Stow Precinct – KHA

Interior Architecture

The Julius Elischer Award

Arup Workplace, Perth/Boorloo – Hames Sharley with Arup and Peter Farmer Designs

Awards

Vitality House and Works – Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

Onda – State of Kin

Gibney Cottesloe – Rezen

Commendation

BHP Perth Office Fitout – Woods Bagot

Urban Design

The John Septimus Roe Award

Murdoch Square – Hassell

Award

Curtin Heritage Living Cottesloe Redevelopment – Hames Sharley and GKA with SPH

Small Project Architecture

The Iwan Iwanoff Award

Perth Airport Terminal 1 Sensory Room – Plus Architecture

Sustainable Architecture

The Wallace Greenham Award

Metronet Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project – Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA

Award

Montreal Commons – Hillam Architects

Commendations

Rapid Close House – Philip Stejskal Architecture

Arup Workplace, Perth/Boorloo – Hames Sharley with Arup and Peter Farmer Designs

Enduring Architecture

The Richard Roach Jewell Award

CRA Advanced Technology Building (now Brodie Hall Building) Bentley – Forbes and
Fitzharding

Enabling Architecture

The Brian Kidd Prize

Ruah Centre for Women and Children – Architectus

Commendation

Brightwater Huntington’s Disease Campus – KPA Architects

Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture

Metronet Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project – Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA

Commendation

Karratha Senior High School Technologies Learning Area – Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

Mondoluce Award for Lighting

Gibney Cottesloe – Rezen

Vitality House and Works – Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

Emerging Architect Prize

Emily Duncan – Woods Bagot

All awarded and commended projects from the region are now in the running for the Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards, set to be announced later in the year.