The Australian Institute of Architects 2024 National Architecture Awards have announced 35 top awards. See the full list of winners and explore the gallery.
“Otherworldly.” This is not a description usually applied to the warehouses, storage sheds and mega-shops such as Bunnings and Spotlight near the new Powerhouse Castle Hill storage facility in Sydney’s north-west.
The Parramatta Aquatic Centre, by Grimshaw and Andrew Burges Architects with McGregor Coxall, won two major awards: The Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design, the highest award in the category, and the national award for public architecture. Jury chair Stuart Tanner said the 35 awarded projects showed public buildings with utilitarian purposes need not be perfunctory. “Architects have created unexpectedly beautiful and sophisticated public buildings that transcend their practical purposes such as storage.”Also in Sydney, the Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture, the highest in its category, went to the North Head Viewing Platforms by CHROFI and Bangawarra with National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Lahznimmo’s Andrew Nimmo and his wife and fellow director, Annabel Lahz, have won a range of major national awards, including the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Sub Base Platypus Renewal., that most storage sheds were pretty ordinary.Initially, the architects thought the building was going to be a large storage shed similar to those already on the north-west Sydney site. And it would be a utilitarian piece of architecture, with most of it back of house and not designed for the public.
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