The Architectural Design category includes Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design and Urban Design. The category focuses on the design and planning of buildings, interior and exterior spaces, with particular emphasis on space creation, space planning and other factors that affect our responses to working and public environments.

2023 Best in Category

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape

Commissioned by Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation / Designed by Cooper Scaife Architects (Architect)

2023 Finalists

Aboriginal Housing Victoria

Aboriginal Housing Victoria

Breathe Architecture / Bowden Corp / Tahnee Edwards / Human Habitats

Delatite Cellar Door

Delatite Cellar Door

Lucy Clemenger Architects / Delatite Wines / Landscape Architect - Tommy Gordon, Art Gardens Australia

James Makin Gallery

James Makin Gallery

Tristan Wong (Architect) / James Makin / Axiom / Hugh Makin

Lilydale and Mooroolbark Stations

Lilydale and Mooroolbark Stations

BKK Architects / Kyriacou Architects / Jacobs / ASPECT Studios

Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Kerstin Thompson Architects / Melbourne Holocaust Museum

HIGHLY COMMENDED Nightingale Village

Nightingale Village

Architecture architecture / Austin Maynard Architects / Breathe / Clare Cousins Architects / Hayball / Kennedy Nolan

The Roundtable

The Roundtable

Common / Enlocus / RMIT Architecture / Commissioned by City of Melbourne

Victorian Family Violence Memorial

Victorian Family Violence Memorial

City of Melbourne / Department of Families Fairness and Housing / MUIR+OPENWORK / Sarah Lynn Rees, Indigenous Advisor JCB Architects / Phil Gardiner, WSP

Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre

Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre

Kosloff Architecture / Department of Education / Warrnambool City Council / SouthWest TAFE

Wesley Place

Wesley Place

OCULUS / COX / Lovell Chen / Charter Hall

Wurun Senior Campus

Wurun Senior Campus

Designed by GHD Design + Grimshaw / Commissioned by The Victorian School Building Authority / Clients: The Victorian School Building Authority, Collingwood College and Fitzroy High School / Builder: BESIX Watpac / Property Advisory and Project Management: SEMZ

Yarra Ranges Council Civic Centre Redevelopment

Yarra Ranges Council Civic Centre Redevelopment

H2o architects / Yarra Ranges Council / Lucid Consulting / Meinhardt Bonacci / Ziebell Landscape Architecture

2022 Best in Category

Victorian Pride Centre

Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) / Grant Amon Architects (GAA) / WSP / Peter Felicetti

2022 Finalists

Collingwood Yards

Collingwood Yards

Fieldwork / Contemporary Arts Precinct Ltd. / SBLA / McCorkell Constructions

Ferrars & York

Ferrars & York

HIP V. HYPE / Six Degrees / SBLA

HIGHLY COMMENDED Grampians Peaks Trail (Gariwerd) Stage 2

Grampians Peaks Trail (Gariwerd) Stage 2

McGregor Coxall with Noxon Giffen / Parks Victoria / OPS Engineers / Barengi Gadjin Land Council, Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation and Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation

Nightingale Ballarat

Nightingale Ballarat

Breathe / Nightingale Housing

Olderfleet

Olderfleet

Grimshaw / Mirvac / Arup / AECOM / Carr / Lovell Chen

Port Melbourne Secondary College

Port Melbourne Secondary College

Billard Leece Partnership / Tract Landscape Designer / Victorian Schools Building Authority / Hutchinson Builders / Root Partnerships / WSP

Queen & Collins

Queen & Collins

Kerstin Thompson Architects / BVN / The GPT Group

Society Vs Yakimono

Society Vs Yakimono

Russell & George / LUCAS Restaurants

Terrace House

Terrace House

Austin Maynard Architects / Kapitol Group / Armitage Jones / Adams Engineering / Openwork / BCA Engineers

The Hütt 01 PassivHaus : Tomorrow's House Today

The Hütt 01 PassivHaus : Tomorrow's House Today

Melbourne Design Studios (MDS) / Home by Hütt / Felicity Bernstein & Marc Bernstein-Hussmann

Victorian Pride Centre

Victorian Pride Centre

Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) / Grant Amon Architects (GAA) / WSP / Peter Felicetti

2021 Best in Category

Broadmeadows Town Hall

Kerstin Thompson Architects / Hume City Council

2021 Finalists

HIGHLY COMMENDED ACMI Renewal

ACMI Renewal

BKK Architects / Razorfish / ACMI

Breese St

Breese St

DKO Architecture / Breathe Architecture / Milieu Property

Delacombe Stadium

Delacombe Stadium

Kosloff Architecture / VSBA

Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street

Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street

Bates Smart / M&L Hospitality / Mulitplex / Lovell Chen / Studio Ongarato / Point of View

La Trobe University Library Bendigo

La Trobe University Library Bendigo

La Trobe University / Kosloff Architecture / Structural Engineering: IRWIN / Consulting Engineers Services Engineering: Stantec / Building Surveyor: Philip Chun

Melbourne Connect

Melbourne Connect

Woods Bagot / University of Melbourne / Lendlease

Monash University Chancellery

Monash University Chancellery

Monash University / ARM Architecture / Openwork (Landscape Design) / Aurecon (Services and ESD Consultant) / WSP (Structural, fire and waste engineering) / Geyer (Workplace Design Consultant) / Marshall Day (Acoustics)

NGV Triennial 2020 Outdoor Pavilions

NGV Triennial 2020 Outdoor Pavilions

National Gallery of Victoria / BoardGrove Architects Pty Ltd CBD / Contracting Group (Builder not Designer)

Prahran Square

Prahran Square

ASPECT Studios / Lyons / City of Stonnington

RMIT Rodda Lane

RMIT Rodda Lane

RMIT / Sibling Architecture

HIGHLY COMMENDED Springvale Community Hub

Springvale Community Hub

Lyons / Rush Wright Associates / City of Greater Dandenong

Waterfront Mushi

Waterfront Mushi

Canhui Chen, Swinburne University / Daniel Prohasky, Swinburne University / Joshua Salisbury-Carter, Swinburne University / Alex Reilly, Arup / Alessandro Liuti, Arup / Nancy Beka, Studio Edwards / Ben Edwards, Studio Edwards

2020 Finalists

Bayswater Early Years Hub

Bayswater Early Years Hub

k20 Architecture / Knox City Council

Home.Two

Home.Two

Breathe Architecture

In Absence

In Absence

Edition Office / Yhonnie Scarce / National Gallery of Victoria

Jackalope Pavilion

Jackalope Pavilion

March Studio / Jackalope Group / Random International / CodBuild

Ona Coffee

Ona Coffee

Breathe Architecture

Protagonist

Protagonist

Cumulus Studio / Arts Centre Melbourne

Reservoir Station

Reservoir Station

Genton / McGregor Coxall

RMIT Capitol Theatre

RMIT Capitol Theatre

Six Degrees Architects / Michael Taylor Architects / GHD / Slattery / Schuler Shook

Rod Laver Arena

Rod Laver Arena

COX Architecture / Development Victoria / Melbourne & Olympic Parks / Lendlease

SheltAir

SheltAir

SheltAir / Swinburne University of Technology / Enzie

2019 Best in Category

2019 Finalists

Base Cabin

Base Cabin

Studio Edwards / Base Cabin

Frankston Station

Frankston Station

Genton / Level Crossing Removal Project

Level Crossing Removal Project Caulfield to Dandenong

Level Crossing Removal Project Caulfield to Dandenong

COX Architecture / ASPECT Studios / Level Crossing Removal Projects / CPB Contractors / Lendlease Engineering

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Expansion

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Expansion

NH Architecture and Woods Bagot / Plenary Group / Probuild Constructions

Penguin Parade Visitor Centre

Penguin Parade Visitor Centre

TERROIR (Architect) / Phillip Island Nature Parks (Client) / AECOM (Project Manager) / Tract/ Wood & Grieve/ Thylacine (Consultants) / Kane Constructions (Builder)

Powell Street House

Powell Street House

Robert Simeoni Architects

The New Ozanam House

The New Ozanam House

MGS Architects / Accuraco Project Management / IrwinConsult / Webber Design / Outlines Landscape Architecture

Wunggurrwil Dhurrung

Wunggurrwil Dhurrung

Gresley Abas Architects / Gregory Burgess Architects / REALM studios / Connor Pincus Group / Wyndham City

2018 Best in Category

Nightingale 1

Breathe Architecture / Nightingale Housing/Project Group / Oculus/ Openwork / Nick Bishop ESD with Hip V. Hype Sustainability / Hansen Partnership

2018 Finalists

No entries found.

2017 Best in Category

Tanderrum Bridge

John Wardle Architects and NADAAA in collaboration / GHD / Oculus / ElectroLight / Buro North

2017 Finalists

No entries found.

2016 Best in Category

Acute House

OOF! architecture / OOF! in collaboration with JPILD / MItty & Price

2016 Finalists

No entries found.

2015 Best in Category

2015 Finalists

No entries found.

2014 Best in Category

The Commons

Breathe Architecture / Design Architect - Jeremy McLeod / Project Architect - Bonnie Herring

2014 Finalists

No entries found.