New centres helping young Australians scoop major NSW Architecture Awards
This year’s top award at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 NSW Architecture Awards was presented to the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI) — Youth Mental Health Building in Camperdown by BVN Architecture, the recipient of the state’s major public building award, the Sulman Award for Public Architecture.
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence at inner-city Redfern, by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, was awarded the top honour for recent urban design projects, the Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design, as well as a commendation for public architecture.
Presenting awards at a special ceremony at the Sydney Hilton, this year’s awards jury said the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence “provides an important community hub for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal users alike”. They added that it “comprised a naturally ventilated sports hall, gymnasium, weights room, kiosk and adjacent 25-metre swimming pool, all of which are accessible by the general public at all times”.
The BMRI Youth Mental Health Building was described as a “standout project” that was “uniting patients, carers, clinicians and scientists working in the fields of neuroscience and mental health, in a refreshingly engaging off-campus facility”. In a further win for BVN Architecture, the practice picked up the John Verge Award for Interior Architecture for its new BVN Architecture Studio.
This year’s Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture was presented to The Hangar at Cessnock Airport, by Peter Stutchbury Architecture, designed to house a small fleet of former military aircraft for tourist flights over the Hunter Valley. It was one of several regional projects receiving awards and commendations this year.
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