Australian Institute of Architects Announces Winner of 2014 ACT Awards

The Australian Institute of Architects have announced 35 awards out of a record 51 entries for the ACT Architecture Awards. The star of the show was Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s (TZG) National Arboretum, which after winning the 2013 Romaldo Giurgola Award for Public Architecture last year received the highest prize of the Canberra Medallion.

Other awards included an Enduring Architecture award for Enrico Taglietti’s 1979 project ‘Apostolic Nunciature’; and the Australian National University Australian Centre on China in the World by Munns Sly Moore in association with Mo Atelier Szeto – which won the Romaldo Giurgola Award for Public Architecture, the Art in Architecture Prize and a commendation in the INLITE Light in Architecture Prize.

Read on after the break for the full list of awards

Art in Architecture Prize

• Hotel Hotel / March Studio
• Australian National University Australian Centre on China in the World / Munns Sly Moore Architects in Association with Mo Atelier Szeto

BCA Certifiers Mervyn Willoughby-Thomas Renovation Award

• Loft of Suburbia / Yuri Leong, ylarchitecture

Canberra Medallion

• National Arboretum Canberra / Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Taylor Cullity Lethlean

COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture

• Award: The Mook / Rodney Moss in association with Ken Murtagh and Pip Smith
• Commendation: Radford College–Radford Senior School / Cox Architecture

Commercial Architecture

• John Andrews Award for Commercial Architecture: Canberra Centre Food Court / Cox Architecture

Education Prize

• Taylor Primary School / Small Quinton Coleman Architects

Enduring Architecture

• Apostolic Nunciature 1976 – 1977 / Enrico Taglietti

Heritage Architecture

• J S Murdoch Award for Heritage: Gudgenby-in-a-Box / Philip Leeson Architects
• Commendation: NFSA Theatrette / Cox Architecture

INLITE Light in Architecture Prize

• Winner: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands / Philip Leeson Architects
• Commendation: No.36 Stage 2 / Townsend + Associates Architects
• Commendation: Australian National University Australian Centre on China in the World / Munns Sly Moore Architects in Association with Mo Atelier Szeto

Interior Architecture

• W Hayward Morris Award for Interior Architecture: Hotel Hotel / March Studio
• Award: National Museum of Australia – Additions / ARM Architecture
• Commendation: Virgin Australia Canberra Lounge / Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
• Commendation: Radford College–Radford Senior School / Cox Architecture

Public Architecture

• Romaldo Giugola Award for Public Architecture: Australian National University Australian Centre on China in the World / Munns Sly Moore Architects in Association with Mo Atelier Szeto
• Award: Canberra International Airport / Guida Moseley Brown Architects
• Award: National Museum of Australia – Additions / ARM Architecture
• Award: Radford College–Radford Senior School / Cox Architecture
• Award: Colleges of Science – Chemistry Sciences Building / Lyons
• Commendation: John Paul College / Collins Caddaye Architects
• Commendation: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands / Philip Leeson Architects

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

• Award: No.36 Stage 2 / Townsend + Associates Architects
• Commendation: Narrabundah House + Studio / Jigsaw Housing

Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

• Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New): The Mook / Rodney Moss in association with Ken Murtagh and Pip Smith
• Award: Phillips Pavilion / Arquitectura
• Award: Narrabundah House / Adam Dettrick Architects

Small Project Architecture

• ACT Chapter Award for Small Project Architecture: The National Workers Memorial / Johnson Pilton Walker
• Commendation: Mirning Bathroom / Roger Pegrum

Sustainable Architecture

• ACT Chapter Award for Sustainable Architecture: John Paul College / Collins Caddaye Architects

Urban Design

• Sir John Overall Award for Urban Design: National Arboretum Canberra / Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Taylor Cullity Lethlean
• Commendation: Colleges of Science / Lyons

Additional Prizes

• 2014 President’s Medal: Janet Thomson
• 2014 Clem Cummings Medal: Robert Purdon and Christine Purdon
• Emerging Architect Prize: Rob Henry
• ACT Chapter Student Medallion: Melanie Schonfeld and Cassandra Cutler
• John Redmond Prize: Stewart Youngblutt
• Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn Graduate Prize: Mark Power and Kate Shepherd
• Cox Architecture Student Design Prize Winner: Megaform / Kate Shepherd
• Cox Architecture Student Design Second Prize: Conference Centre / Cassandra Cutler
• Cox Architecture Student Design Third Prize: Shine Dome Inverted Cadence / Will Headland