Newcastle Architecture Awards 2021
Image: House at Pretty Beach by Lahznimmo Architects. © Brett Boardman
ARCHITECTURE
Lahznimmo Architects
Newcastle Architecture Medal
Award for Residential Architecture - Houses New
Lahznimmo Architects won the Newcastle Architecture Medal and the Award for Residential Architecture for their project House at Pretty Beach. The program is organized by the Australian Institute of Architects. House at Pretty Beach is built on a challenging bush block on the edge of Bouddi National Park at Pretty Beach and took seven years to design and build for the owners/architects. A steep site, bush fire prone, within an Endangered Ecological Community, and home of the vulnerable Red Crowned Toadlet, the site had been dismissed as unbuildable by many. The brief was simple, a low-maintenance house framed around looking out to the beautiful forest and fern filled gully, with a feeling of being elevated within the trees. Built entirely of non-combustible materials, the concrete and brick house demonstrates an approach to building within ecologically sensitive sites prone to bush fires.
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Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize 2021
Image: Ian Skinner, Ashscapes. © Ian Skinner
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ian Skinner
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
Ian Skinner, photographer based in Canberra, capital city of Australia, won the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize 2021 organized by the Australian Photographic Society for his work titled "Ashscapes". "The catastrophic fires in Southeastern Australia in 2019-2020 were shortly followed by torrential rain. The rivers and creeks disgorged vast quantities of debris from the conflagration into the ocean so that the waves turned grey with ash, and convulsed with charred remnants. Where the gentler waves reached their zenith on the beaches, small flecks of carbonised vegetation rested in ephemeral patterns suggesting the hills, ridges and valleys of their living selves." explained Ian Skinner describing his work.
Image: Ian Terry, Night on the Tier. © Ian Terry
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ian Terry
Emergent Designs Award
Ian Terry, photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania, has received the Emergent Designs Award for his work titled "Night on the Tier". "This image is part of an ongoing project responding to the journeys of George Augustus Robinson who, assisted by palawa (Indigenous Tasmanian) guides, walked through Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in the 1830s to persuade palawa still on Country to give up their resistance to the European invasion of their island. In following Robinson with his journal in hand I am seeking to connect the historical with the contemporary, to make sense of my existence in this island of dreams which was stolen violently from its first people. This fractured landscape is where Robinson spent his first night on one conciliation expedition." explained Ian Terry describing his work.
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RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021
Image: Alila Yangshuo, Guangxi China, by Vector Architects. © Shengliang Su
ARCHITECTURE
RIBA International Awards for Excellence
16 projects have been awarded the RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021 by the Royal Institute of British Architects. The RIBA International Awards for Excellence take place every two years and aim to recognise the most significant and inspirational projects around the world. This year, the winning designs are spread across 11 countries ranging from large urban masterplans and infrastructure schemes, cultural centres, hospitals and memorials to private residencies. These projects form the list for the RIBA International Prize 2021. The winner will be named in November, along with the winner of the RIBA International Emerging Architect Prize.
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WA Architecture Awards 2021
Image: WA Museum Boola Bardip by Hassell + OMA. © Peter Bennetts
ARCHITECTURE
Hassell + OMA
George Temple Poole Award
Commendation for Steel Architecture
The Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture
Commendation for Heritage
The WA Museum Boola Bardip by Hassell + OMA is the overall winning project of the WA Architecture Awards 2021. Located in Perth Cultural Centre, the WA Museum Boola Bardip provides a solution to a complex brief, and a superb facility for Western Australians to both understand and celebrate their special place in the world. Boola Bardip means "many stories" in Nyoongar language. It acknowledges that the Museum sits on Whadjuk Nyoongar land, and honours the cultural heritage of Australia’s First Peoples. The Museum also reflects a care for the shared cultural heritage of all Western Australians, where the existing heritage buildings and architecture have become exhibits themselves. Steel was a pivotal element in achieving brief functionally through the myriad of structural suspension points and column free spaces, while also enabling a celebrated connection to the existing historic fabric.
