The winners of the 2021 National Architecture Awards have been announced.
From a pool of 57 finalists, 27 projects were recognised in 14 categories, 10 with national awards and seven commendations.
The winners were announced via a special livestream event for the second year due to the pandemic.
Jury chair and immediate past national president Alice Hampson was joined by Angelo Candalepas, Robert Nation, Ingrid Richards and Cameron Bruhn.
“These awards attest to our profession’s inventiveness, imagination, pulchritude and multiplicity,” Hampson said.
Hampson said this year’s awards provided an opportunity to celebrate what the jury noted was the “increasingly rare” public architecture of great standing—notably the Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design by Grimshaw in collaboration with Monash University.
The building, is the largest passive house-certified project in the southern hemisphere that sets is pushing the university closer to net-zero by 2030, was one of the most awarded receiving both The Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture and The David Oppenheim Award for Sustainable Architecture.
“The universality provided to this building through structure, daylight and amenity, through order in the plan and poetry in the whole, brings to light the architectural discipline like no other building noted by the jury this year,” the jury said.
Smart Design Studio (NSW)
Smart Design Studio
Land 121 Facilities Project, Lavarack Barracks (QLD)
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Wangaratta Street (Vic)
MAArchitects
Barker College Rosewood Centre (NSW)
Neeson Murcutt + Neille
Penleigh Essendon Grammar School Music House (Vic)
McBride Charles Ryan
Geelong College Junior School (Vic)
John Wardle Architects
Bendigo Former Mining Exchange (Vic)
Williams Boag Architects
Australian Museum Project Discover (NSW)
Cox Architecture with Neeson Murcutt + Neille
Smart Design Studio (NSW)
Smart Design Studio
Divided House (Vic)
Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design (Vic)
Grimshaw in collaboration with Monash University
Australian Museum Project Discover (NSW)
Cox Architecture with Neeson Murcutt + Neille
Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre (NSW)
Andrew Burges Architects and Grimshaw with TCL in collaboration with the City of Sydney
Beaconsfield House (WA)
Simon Pendal Architect
Beck Street (Qld)
LineburgWang
The Hat Factory (NSW)
Welsh + Major Architects
Night Sky (NSW)
Peter Stutchbury Architecture
Bunkeren (NSW)
James Stockwell Architect
Pearl Beach House (NSW)
Polly Harbison Design
The Lothian (Vic)
Kennedy Nolan
Floating Sauna Derby (Tas)
Licht Architecture
Jackalope Pavilion (Vic)
March Studio
Plastic Palace (NSW)
Raffaello Rosselli Architects
Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design (Vic)
Grimshaw in collaboration with Monash University
Smart Design Studio (NSW)
Smart Design Studio
One & Only Desaru Coast (MY)
Kerry Hill Architects
Sub Base Platypus (NSW)
lahznimmo architects and Aspect Studios
QUT Campus to Country (Qld)
BVN
Olympic Swimming Pool (Vic)
Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Peter McIntyre, with engineer Bill Irwin
Land 121 Facilities Project, Lavarack Barracks (Qld)
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