AIA, 2023 NSW Architecture Awards

Blacket Prize

Brewster Hjorth Architects

“The project included extensive archeological investigations, the design includes the preservation and integration of important historic building fabric. The complex functional theatre facilities have been located in a new modern structure located behind, and largely hidden by the heritage buildings. By utilising inventive design solutions the project has successfully provided a much needed public facility on the City’s main street”

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AIA, 2023 NSW Architecture Awards

Commendation for Heritage – Creative Adaption

Squillace Architects

“Converting an 1855 church to secular use presents a notoriously difficult brief and the Architects have achieved a successful, lovingly considered conversion into office space. The volume and many details of the original form and function of the building are still clearly legible throughout. The inclusion of a restaurant within the internal courtyard, provides a public life and benefit to this internalised space, and also features a variety of quirky details from the original buildings on display.”

AIA, 2023 NSW Architecture Awards

AWARD FOR COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE

AWARD FOR HERITAGE – CREATIVE ADAPTATION

FJC Studio (formerly FJMT Studio)

“Substation No.164 is a transformational adaptive reuse project in a dense city context. A pair of neglected industrial buildings have been sensitively refurbished, preserving the grand volume of a former machine hall while adding a contemporary commercial tower.”
“The Substation No. 164 project is a uniquely inventive project, representing a conceptually innovative adaptive re-use response for commercial projects in inner-city urban settings.”

AIA, 2022 NSW Architecture Awards

Award for Heritage – Conservation

National Trust

President’s Prize

TKD Architects

“Extraordinary in concept and execution. Really coming to terms with climate change and the fact that many of these sites are going to be underwater – in this instance they’ve lifted it and done strengthening work in response to rising sea levels. They’ve truly taken the bull by the horns in terms of prepping for climate change. Nice community project. Only project giving a quite radical environmental response.”

AIA, 2017 NSW Architecture Awards

City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize & Commercial Architecture Commendation

NSW National Trust Awards 2017, National Trust Adaptive Reuse Award,

Mirvac

“Tramsheds Harold Park is an authentic, highly considered heritage restoration project, salvaging and reinterpreting the iconic Tramway Depot to create a unique food destination – housing providores who are passionate about food, sustainability and education. Brought back to life, the building is now a much-loved destination for the local community as well as domestic and international visitors.”

Photo Credit: Simon Woods Photography

AIA, 2017 National Architecture Award

Multi-Unit Residential Winner

AIA, 2017 NSW Architecture Award

Multi-Unit Residential Winner

Smart Design Studio

“Careful consideration, analysis and integration of the extant terrace allowed Smart Design Studio to acknowledge what good the past has to offer, but also to propose innovation where opportunity invited… Smart Design Studio is signalling the next phase of a far more robust and sophisticated engagement with heritage redevelopment; an approach that allows old and new to have an equal voice in the way our cities are formed.”

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AIA, 2013 NSW Architecture Awards

Greenway Award

GHD Design (formerly GHD Woodhead and Woodhead)

“Gowings and State Theatre Buildings Restoration and Hotel Conversion by Woodhead and Graham Brooks and Associates, Sydney – ‘a remarkable achievement in conservation, refurbishment and adaptive reuse”

Image Credit: Simon Wood Photography

UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Presentation, 2002

“The Aboriginal community recognises Australian Hall, the venue of the 1938 “Day of Mourning” conference, as the only “European” building of significance to Aboriginal heritage. The technically-sophisticated restoration project has saved a social and architectural landmark from commercial redevelopment, thereby securing and preserving an important landmark in the history of the Australian Aboriginal community.”