The winners of the 2024 Australian City Design Awards have been introduced at a presentation in Canberra on Monday 18 March. The awards acknowledge modern Australian city design of the very best high quality and intention to encourage innovation within the constructed surroundings throughout cities, cities and communities. They’re co-convened by the Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Panorama Architects (AILA) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA).
“This 12 months’s awards have demonstrated that good city design just isn’t a superficial and non-obligatory layer to how we construct cities, however a elementary and unifying strategy to create locations that join us to one another and start to handle local weather and biodiversity crises,” mentioned Katherine Sundermann, Convenor of Juries.
“The position of presidency in main innovation is obvious within the award-winning streetscape and riverside transformations led by the Metropolis of Melbourne and Metropolis of Sydney. Right here, public land is rediscovered for human and ecological profit. A renewed concentrate on growing an proof base for good city design is highlighted in quantifying high quality, marrying algorithmic evaluation with crowd-sourced public intelligence to outline an important parts of public area, alongside counseled tasks that present focused instruments to carry the standard of ‘lacking center’ housing and transport tasks,” Sundermann mentioned.
Additionally introduced on the awards ceremony was a brand new physique, the Parliamentary Mates of Australian City Design. The group is led by the three skilled institutes and goals to create a bipartisan discussion board for collaboration amongst parliamentarians and related stakeholders, increase consciousness of the significance of fine city design, have interaction with stakeholders to make sure a holistic strategy to city improvement and talk the vital position of fine city design in shaping the nation’s identification.
It consists of three co-chairs: Elizabeth Watson Brown, Member for Ryan (Australian Greens), Graham Perrett, Member for Moreton (ALP), and Cameron Caldwell, Member for Fadden (Liberal), in addition to Tania Lawrence, Member for Hasluck (ALP), Bridget McKenzie, Senator for Victoria (Nationwide) David Pocock, Senator for ACT (Unbiased), David Shoebridge, Senator for NSW (Greens )Libby Coker, Member for Corangamite (ALP), and Jerome Laxale, Member for Bennelong (ALP).
“City resilience, de-carbonisation, accessibility and social fairness are elementary to a sustainable, survivable future for all of us and the professions, the neighborhood and the parliament can share company in designing this future collectively,” mentioned Member for Ryan and retired architect, Elizabeth Watson-Brown.
“I’m very proud to be co-chairing this vital group as a comparatively new MP after a 40-year profession as an architect and an urbanist. Of explicit private {and professional} curiosity to me has at all times been the design and shaping of our cities the place over 85% of Australians stay and the place most carbon air pollution and far social dislocation is produced.”
The winners of the 2024 Australian City Design Awards are:
Constructed tasks – Metropolis and Regional Scale
Award
George Road, Sydney – Metropolis of Sydney
Commendation
Walyalup Civic Centre – KHA
Constructed tasks – Native and Neighbourhood Scale
Award
Reworking Southbank Boulevard – Metropolis of Melbourne with TCL and Mike Hewson
Commendations
Er Pavilion – Vittino Ashe in collaboration with Brendan Moore, Melissa Cameron and Syrinx
Lilydale and Mooroolbark Stations – BKK Architects and Kyriacou Architects and Side Studios
Management, Advocacy and Analysis – Metropolis and Regional Scale
Award
The Greenline Challenge – Metropolis of Melbourne with Side Studios x TCL
Commendations
Macquarie Park Innovation Precinct – Stage 1 – AJC
Worth Evaluation System for Place (VASP) – Transport for NSW City Design (Public Transport and Precincts)
Management, Advocacy and Analysis – Native and Neighbourhood Scale
Award
Quantifying high quality – SJB and College of Know-how Sydney
Commendations
Top of constructing and FSR alignment examine – Hill Thalis Structure and City Initiatives, Olsson Structure City Initiatives, and Metropolis of Sydney Strategic Planning
Gurner Avenue Austral – E8urban
The Australian City Design Awards are co-convened by the Planning Institute of Australia, the Australian Institute of Architects and the Australian Institute of Panorama Architects, and supported by principal companion Bondor Metecno.