Queensland home gets popular vote
A consummate Brisbane home is the winner of the People’s Choice Award, part of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2014 National Architecture Awards. Oxlade Drive House by James Russell Architect was selected by voters from the 13 houses shortlisted in the National Awards’ Residential Architecture categories.
The simple, practical design appealed to voters for its indoor/outdoor layout and its clever response to local insect life — a full shade cloth screen encasing the courtyard spaces, allowing views out and only light in.
In awarding Oxlade Drive House at the Queensland Architecture Awards earlier in the year, the state jury noted it was “an intelligent, appropriate reinterpretation of the possibilities of inner-city living. A robust and unexpected series of devices and palette of materials engage the senses and heighten the connection between the inside and out”.
More than 4000 votes were received for the inaugural People’s Choice Award, which provided the public with an opportunity to engage with the National Awards and the work of Australian architects.
The winners of the National Awards were announced at a ceremony in Darwin on Thursday 6 November.
For more information visit architecture.com.au/events/national/awards/national—awards
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