The Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have recently been presented to Australia’s most inspiring recent architectural projects and architects at an award ceremony in Melbourne. A total 32 awards and commendations across 12 categories were awarded to projects in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory, New South…

The Australian Institute of Architects announced that John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec will head the creative team for the Australian Pavilion at the upcoming 12th Venice International Architecture Biennale. The team’s two-part ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition will highlight three of Australia’s most interesting urban regions as they are…

The Melbourne Recital Centre, and its neighbor, the first permanent home for the Melbourne Theatre Company, have taken out four of the highest honors at this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards. Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, 37 awards and prizes were announced today at a dinner on Friday, July…

The National Portrait Gallery by Johnson Pilton Walker was awarded the 2009 Canberra Medallion and the Romaldo Giurgola Award for Public Architecture. In a third win, it also received the coveted Light in Architecture Prize. In presenting the two awards, Jury Chair Bronwen Jones said the building was sited in…

A small school that’s reinvigorating western Sydney’s Greek Orthodox community has been named NSW’s best new public building at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2009 NSW Architecture Awards. All Saints Primary School at Belmore by Candalepas Associates was announced winner of the prestigious 2009 Sulman Award for Public Buildings at…

A university creative arts building designed to serve both the resident student body and wider Townsville community is the top winner in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2009 North Queensland Regional Architecture Awards. At a ceremony in Townsville, the James Cook University School of Creative Arts by

A man credited with ‘shaping Sydney’s physical and culture landscape’, with creating some of the city’s most ‘iconic public spaces’, and ‘ensuring the better design of all new residential buildings over three stories’, has been awarded Australia’s top national architecture prize - the Australian Institute of Architects 2009 Gold Medal…

Australian buildings pushing new boundaries – including a ‘testosterone-charged’ creative learning center in Queensland, an iconic public building in China, and a ‘determinedly avant-garde’ house in the Victorian countryside – are among major winners at this year’s top architecture awards. The Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards are Australia’s…

New South Wales’ older existing building stock is enjoying a renaissance - with half the ‘new projects’ picking up awards at this year’s NSW Architecture Awards being pre-loved and now re-loved buildings. Announcing the Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Architecture Awards in Sydney tonight, jury chair Peter Mould said this…

The Australian Institute of Architects will announce the 2008 New South Wales Architecture Awards at a special ceremony in Sydney on Saturday 19 July 2008. Awards being presented include those for public architecture, sustainable architecture, urban design, residential architecture (houses and multiple housing), commercial architecture, small project architecture, heritage, interior…