The University of Melbourne Student Precinct, designed by a diverse group of practices, is the most awarded project in the 2023 Victorian Architecture Awards, winning the Victorian Architecture Medal along with a raft of other awards.
David Wagner, Australian Institute of Architects’ Victorian chapter state president, said the student precinct project was made possible through a co-design process, “a demonstration of the transformative power of architecture that reflected broader outstanding design outcomes in this year’s awards.”
Along with the Victorian Architecture Medal, the project won the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture, the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design and an Architecture Award for Heritage Architecture – Creative Adaptation.
Also highly lauded was the much-hyped Nightingale Village, another collaborative project involving multiple practices. It won the Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture, the Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize, and awards for Multiple Housing and Urban Design.
The Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize is one of two new naming honours in the 2023 awards, which bear the names of influential women architects – marking the first time that awards have been named for living and practising designers.
Nightingale Village by Hayball and Breathe and Architecture Architecture and Austin Maynard Architects and Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan
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Tom Ross
The other new award, the Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award, was awarded to Brambuk: The National Park and Cultural Centre, which has functioned as the cultural hub and interpretation centre for the Gariwerd (Grampians) National Park for more than three decades. Designed by Gregory Burgess Architects in close collaboration with Jadawadjali and Djab Wurrung people, Brambuk was constructed by using traditional building techniques married with advanced timber technology to realise a responsive, organic building.
“Since its opening in 1990, Brambuk has become a powerful symbol for the many ways in which architecture can be a tool for reconciliation,” said University of Melbourne professor Philip Goad. “Today, for its visitors and First Nation communities, Brambuk continues to speak convincingly across cultures, landscapes, and time.”
Projects that received an architecture award or a named award will now progress to compete in the National Architecture Awards program, announced in November.
Victorian Architecture Medal
University of Melbourne Student Precinct – Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban
Public Architecture
The William Wardell Award
Bendigo Law Courts – Wardle
Bendigo Law Courts by Wardle.
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Tim Griffith
Awards
Dianella Community Centre – Canvas Projects Melbourne Holocaust Museum – Kerstin Thompson Architects Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre – Kosloff Architecture
Commendations
Bell to Moreland Level Crossing Removal Project – Wood Marsh Architecture Berengarra Aged Care – Lyons Queenscliff Ferry Terminal – F2 Architecture
Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
Harold Desbrowe Annear Award
Spring Creek Road Farm House – Architect Brew Koch
Spring Creek Road Farm House by Architect Brew Koch
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Thurston Empson
Award
Merricks Farmhouse – Michael Lumby with Nielsen Jenkins
Commendation
AB House – Office Mi—Ji Bass Coast Farmhouse – Wardle Mori House – MA Architects and Aires Mateus
Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
John and Phyllis Murphy Award
Sunday – Architecture Architecture
Sunday by Architecture Architecture
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Tom Ross
Awards
Armadale House – Neeson Murcutt Neille Helvetia – Austin Maynard Architects Mary Street House – Edition Office
Commendations
Fitzroy House – Andrew Child Architect Wrong Champ – Wowowa Architecture
Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
The Best Overend Award
Kerr Street Residences – Kerstin Thompson Architects
Kerr Street Residences by Kerstin Thompson Architects
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Derek Swalwell
Awards
38 Albermarle St, Kensington – Fieldwork Nightingale Village – Hayball and Breathe and Architecture Architecture and Austin Maynard Architects and Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan
Commendations
Fenwick – Edition Office with Flack Studio Viv’s Place – ARM Architecture
Educational Architecture
The Henry Bastow Award
University of Melbourne Student Precinct – Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban
University of Melbourne Student Precinct by Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban
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Peter Bennetts
Awards
Box Hill North Primary School – Sibling Architecture Centre for Higher Education Studies – Fieldwork and Brand Architects Macleod College – Kennedy Nolan
Commendations
Carlton Gardens Primary School – Six Degrees Architects Meadows Primary School –Project 12 Architecture
Commercial Architecture
The Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award
Delatite Cellar Door – Lucy Clemenger Architects
Delatite Cellar Door by Lucy Clemenger Architects
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Derek Swalwell
Awards
Encore Cremorne – Fieldwork JCB Studio – Jackson Clements Burrows
Commendation
CONO Business Park – Particular Architects
Interior Architecture
The Marion Mahony Award
Three Springs Architectural Interiors – KGA Architecture
Three Springs Architectural Interiors by KGA Architecture
Hermon – Wowowa Architecture Somers House – Kennedy Nolan The Mental Health Beds Expansion Program at McKellar Centre – NTC Architects with BG Architecture
Heritage Architecture
The John George Knight Award
Queen Victoria Markets Shed Restoration A-D, H-I – NH Architecture with Trethowan Architecture
Queen Victoria Markets Shed Restoration A-D, H-I by NH Architecture with Trethowan Architecture
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Dianna Snape
Awards – Conservation
Fitzroy Town Hall Ceiling Conservation – Conservation Studio Australia Prahran Arcade Facade Conservation – RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants Royal Exhibition Building – Promenade – Lovell Chen
Commendation – Conservation
Doherty House – RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants
Award – Creative Adaptation
University of Melbourne Student Precinct – Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban
Commendation – Creative Adaptation
Albert Park Primary School Performance Hub – Searle x Waldron Architecture
Small Project Architecture
The Kevin Borland Award
Victorian Family Violence Memorial – Muir and Openwork
Victorian Family Violence Memorial by Muir and Openwork
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Peter Bennetts
Award
Joyce Chapel Bridge – Searle x Waldron Architecture
Commendations
Firbank Sandringham Curiosity Centre – Studio Bright Lily’s Shed – Oscar Sainsbury Architects
Urban Design
The Joseph Reed Award
University of Melbourne Student Precinct – Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban
University of Melbourne Student Precinct by Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Archi-tects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban
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Peter Clarke
Award
Nightingale Village – Hayball and Breathe and Architecture Architecture and Austin Maynard Architects and Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan and Openwork and Andy Fergus
Commendation
Bell to Moreland Level Crossing Removal Project – Wood Marsh Architecture
Sustainable Architecture
The Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award
Nightingale Village – Hayball and Breathe and Architecture architecture and Austin Maynard Architects and Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan and Openwork and Andy Fergus
Nightingale Village by Hayball and Breathe and Architecture architecture and Austin Maynard Architects and Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan and Openwork and Andy Fergus
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Tom Ross
Award
ANMF House – Bayley Ward
Commendations
Bendigo Law Courts – Wardle Glenroy Community Hub – Designinc Melbourne Spring Creek Road Farm House – Architect Brew Koch
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
AB House – Office Mi—Ji
AB House by Office Mi—Ji
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Benjamin Hosking
Commendation
That Old Chestnut – Figr Architecture Studio
Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize
Nightingale Village – Hayball and Breathe and Architecture architecture and Austin Maynard Architects and Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan and Openwork and Andy Fergus
Regional Prize
Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre – Kosloff Architecture
Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award
Brambuk: The National Park and Cultural Centre –Gregory Burgess Architects
EmAGN Project Award
AB House – Office Mi—Ji
Emerging Architect Prize
Claire Scorpo, Agius Scorpo Architects
Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media
Advocacy Award
The Age / Opinion Pieces – Michael Smith
State Award
Architectural Criticism in The Saturday Paper – Naomi Stead, RMIT, The Saturday Paper
National Award
Deadly Djurumin Yarns – Deadly Djurumin and Parlour
