Architectural Design
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.
2025 Best in Category
2025 Finalists
Assemble, 15 Thompson Street, Kensington
Hayball / Assemble / Hacer Group / Oculus / Atelier Ten
Auburn High School Senior Centre
WOWOWA Architecture
Canopi Valley Lake - Niddrie Quarry Housing
Bird de la Coeur Architects / CDA Design Group / RedC / MAB
ECHO.1
C Street Projects / Neil Architecture / Speckel / Detail Green / Ascot Consulting Engineers / Structplan
Eva and Marc Besen Centre
Kerstin Thompson Architects / TarraWarra Museum of Art
Gargarro Botanic Garden
TCL / Gargarro Botanic Garden Ltd / Brandrick Architects/Gargarro Botanic Garden Ltd
Kangan Institute Health and Community Centre of Excellence
Architectus / Bendigo Kangan Institute
Melbourne Place
Kennedy Nolan Architects / Longriver / Tracy Atherton (Hotel Consultant) / ADCO Constructions (Builder)
Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence
ARM Architecture / Munarra Limited / Department of Premier and Cabinet, First Peoples State Relations / The University of Melbourne , Victorian School Building Authority
Pakenham Station
Genton / North Western Programme Alliance / John Holland / Metro Trains Melbourne / KBR / Level Crossing Removal Project
Pascoe Vale Primary School Gymnasium and Performance Centre
Kosloff Architecture / GLAS Landscape Architects / Kent Morris (Artist)
Quiet Studio
Studiobird / Autex Acoustics / Universal Practice
Templeton Primary School
Kosloff Architecture / GLAS Landscape Architects
Truganina Community Centre
Client - Wyndham City Council / Architect - Jasmax , Contractor - CICG , Landscape Architects - Outlines / Artist - Lisa Waup / ESD - Lucid Consulting
2024 Best in Category
Northcote Aquatic and Recreation Centre
Warren and Mahoney
2024 Finalists
38 Albermarle Street
Assemble / Fieldwork / Six Degrees
Central Goldfields Art Gallery and Indigenous Interpretive Garden
Nervegna Reed Architecture / Djandak (Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation) and Djaara MembersThree Acres / Central Goldfields Shire Council
Koorie Heritage Trust Stage 2
Lyons / Architecture Associates / Greenaway Architects
Korumburra Community Hub
fjcstudio / South Gippsland Shire Council / 2Construct / erbas™ / Hive / 3acres
Melbourne Indigenous Transition School - Boarding House
McIldowie Partners / Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS)
Moondani - Pascoe Vale Primary School
Kosloff Architecture
Murran – First Nations Business, Retail and Arts Hub
Dawn Architecture / Chris Connell / Bayiam Art
Ned Kelly Discovery Hub
Content Studio / Convergence Design / Webb Consult / Sinatra Murphy / Pidgeon Ward / Rural City of Wangaratta
Nightingale Preston
Breathe / Balmain and Co / Nightingale Housing / MABT.C.L
Northcote Aquatic and Recreation Centre
Warren and Mahoney
Park Street
Breathe / Milieu Property / Inner North Carpentry / AcrePerimeter Landscaping
Tarakan Street Social and Affordable Housing
NH Architecture / Bird de la Coeur Architects / Openwork + Tract
Transforming Southbank Boulevard
City of Melbourne / TCL / Mike Hews
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
Breathe Architecture / Bowden Corp / Tahnee Edwards / Human Habitats
Darebin Intercultral Centre
Sibling Architecture
Delatite Cellar Door
Lucy Clemenger Architects / Delatite Wines / Landscape Architect - Tommy Gordon, Art Gardens Australia
Dunlop Avenue, Ascot Vale - Big Housing Build
Hayball / Tract (Landscape Architect) / Homes Victoria
Glenroy Station
Genton
James Makin Gallery
Tristan Wong (Architect) / James Makin / Axiom / Hugh Makin
Lilydale and Mooroolbark Stations
BKK Architects / Kyriacou Architects / Jacobs / ASPECT Studios
Melbourne Holocaust Museum
Kerstin Thompson Architects / Melbourne Holocaust Museum
Nightingale Village
Architecture architecture / Austin Maynard Architects / Breathe / Clare Cousins Architects / Hayball / Kennedy Nolan
Pitch Music and Arts Festival - Main Stage
Ambrose Zacharakis / Henry Howson / Untitled Group
Queenscliff Ferry Terminal
F2 Architecture / Searoad Ferries
The Roundtable
Common / Enlocus / RMIT Architecture / Commissioned by City of Melbourne
Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership - East Melbourne
DesignInc Melbourne
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
Victorian Heart Hospital
Conrad Gargett / Wardle
Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre
Kosloff Architecture / Department of Education / Warrnambool City Council / SouthWest TAFE
Wesley Place
OCULUS / COX / Lovell Chen / Charter Hall
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
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
Fieldwork / Contemporary Arts Precinct Ltd. / SBLA / McCorkell Constructions
Ferrars & York
HIP V. HYPE / Six Degrees / SBLA
Four Pillars Gin Distillery 2.0
Breathe / Four Pillars Gin
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
Levantine Hill Estate Winery
Fender Katsalidis
Nightingale Ballarat
Breathe / Nightingale Housing
Nunawading
fjmtstudio
Olderfleet
Grimshaw / Mirvac / Arup / AECOM / Carr / Lovell Chen
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS) Gymnasium
McBride Charles Ryan / Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS) Music House
McBride Charles Ryan / Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School
Port Melbourne Secondary College
Billard Leece Partnership / Tract Landscape Designer / Victorian Schools Building Authority / Hutchinson Builders / Root Partnerships / WSP
Queen & Collins
Kerstin Thompson Architects / BVN / The GPT Group
Society Vs Yakimono
Russell & George / LUCAS Restaurants
Terrace House
Austin Maynard Architects / Kapitol Group / Armitage Jones / Adams Engineering / Openwork / BCA Engineers
The Hütt 01 PassivHaus : Tomorrow's House Today
Melbourne Design Studios (MDS) / Home by Hütt / Felicity Bernstein & Marc Bernstein-Hussmann
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
ACMI Renewal
BKK Architects / Razorfish / ACMI
Davison Collaborative
HIP V. HYPE / ARCHIER
Delacombe Stadium
Kosloff Architecture / VSBA
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 / Kosloff Architecture / Structural Engineering: IRWIN / Consulting Engineers Services Engineering: Stantec / Building Surveyor: Philip Chun
Melbourne Connect
Woods Bagot / University of Melbourne / Lendlease
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
National Gallery of Victoria / BoardGrove Architects Pty Ltd CBD / Contracting Group (Builder not Designer)
Pascoe Vale Primary School
Kosloff Architecture / VSBA
Prahran Square
ASPECT Studios / Lyons / City of Stonnington
RMIT Rodda Lane
RMIT / Sibling Architecture
Sarah Sebastian
Russell & George
Springvale Community Hub
Lyons / Rush Wright Associates / City of Greater Dandenong
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 Best in Category
State Library Victoria Vision 2020 Redevelopment
Architectus / Schmidt Hammer Lassen / SLV
2020 Finalists
Bardolph Gardens
Breathe Architecture
Bayswater Early Years Hub
k20 Architecture / Knox City Council
Carlton Learning Precinct
Law Architects
In Absence
Edition Office / Yhonnie Scarce / National Gallery of Victoria
Jackalope Pavilion
March Studio / Jackalope Group / Random International / CodBuild
Ona Coffee
Breathe Architecture
Protagonist
Cumulus Studio / Arts Centre Melbourne
Reservoir Station
Genton / McGregor Coxall
RMIT Capitol Theatre
Six Degrees Architects / Michael Taylor Architects / GHD / Slattery / Schuler Shook
Rod Laver Arena
COX Architecture / Development Victoria / Melbourne & Olympic Parks / Lendlease
State Library Victoria Vision 2020 Redevelopment
Architectus / Schmidt Hammer Lassen / SLV
2019 Best in Category
Parliament of Victoria Member’s Annexe
Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design with TCL
2019 Finalists
Base Cabin
Studio Edwards / Base Cabin
Braemar College Stage 1, Middle School
Hayball / Cundall / WGA / Tract / BSGM
Frankston Station
Genton / Level Crossing Removal Project
Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, Monash University
Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design
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
NH Architecture and Woods Bagot / Plenary Group / Probuild Constructions
Parliament of Victoria Member’s Annexe
Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design with TCL
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
Robert Simeoni Architects
The New Ozanam House
MGS Architects / Accuraco Project Management / IrwinConsult / Webber Design / Outlines Landscape Architecture
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
MacKenzie Falls Gorge Trail
hansen partnership / Parks Victoria
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.
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