A concept for an innovative karaoke club/sushi bar wedged into East Circular Quay has taken out the top award at the 2008 RAIA NSW Chapter Student Prizes.
For the second consecutive year, the prize went to the University of Technology Sydney - this year to
UTS student Linda Matthews, who received the RAIA Design Medal for a project entitled East Circular Quay Karaoke Club and Sushi Bar.
Presenting the awards at a ceremony in Sydney today, RAIA NSW President Dr Deborah Dearing said: “The jury was excited by the exploration and design approach presented by Linda Mathews. Linda’s project tackled a highly significant site and took a unique and engaging position in the development of a contextual response. The project considered the occupation of the site beyond its immediate context and clearly understood the importance of both the physical site and contemporary methods of ‘travel’.”
University of New South Wales student Jay Jun Tan from the University of NSW received a Design Medal commendation for his ‘City of Justice’ project, a redevelopment of the existing Macquarie Street Supreme Court. The jury said: “within the project were a number of remarkable and celebratory spaces which clearly understood scale and place”.
The Full List of 2008 RAIA NSW Chapter Student Prizes are as follows:
Design Medal
Winner: Linda Matthews, University of Technology Sydney
Project: East Circular Quay Karaoke Club and Sushi Bar
The RAIA Design Medal recognises and celebrates excellence in design for a design project undertaken in the final year of the Bachelor of Architecture degree. The jury was excited by the exploration and design approach presented by Linda Mathews. Linda’s project tackled a highly significant site and took a unique and engaging position in the development of a contextual response. The project considered the occupation of the site beyond its immediate context and clearly understood the importance of both the physical site and contemporary methods of ‘travel’. Using the internet as a springboard for the design process the jury were particularly impressed in the process of data collection and analysis and the manner in which this informed and shaped a physical outcome. This investigation enabled digital media to inform the process while ensuring that the project stayed firmly rooted in a very real and physical sense of place. This was a fresh, intriguing and rigorous project which the jury feels established a process of investigation and action which could be further developed by Linda in practice. We congratulate Linda on an extremely thorough investigation into process which delivered a poetic and inspired building.
Commendation: Jay Jun Tan, University of New South Wales
Project: City of Justice
Jay (Jun) Tan’s investigation into a vertical law court presented both intriguing and worrying ideas. The project was a clear and concise study of building form, materiality and space which resulted in a very strong and formal tectonic response. The complex project brief of a law court was adequately addressed and placed into context upon an analysis of the movements within the existing court facility. There were clear and decisive moments within the scheme which had been expertly orchestrated to inform the journey and experience of the visitor. Indeed developed within the project were a number of remarkable and celebratory spaces which clearly understood scale and place. Unfortunately for the jury the project failed to adequately address broader social issues of justice and democracy. As architects we are charged with interpreting and presenting physical manifestations of social issues and conditions. In this regard and within the context of a free and democratic nation, where one is considered innocent until proven guilty, this project failed to represent this basic social condition.
HPA Mirvac DesignAward
Winner: Timmy Lum, University of Technology, Sydney
Project: Rethinking Sydney Town Hall
Commendation: Ying Wang, University of Sydney
Project: Centre for Environmental & Cultural Change (CECC)
Commendation: Ben Donohoo, University of Sydney
Project: Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA)
Lend Lease Design Ross Bonthorne Award: Bach. Architecture Degree
Christopher Bridge, University of New South Wales
Cherry Williamson, University of Newcastle
Peter John Christensen, University of Sydney
Linda Matthews, University of Technology, Sydney
Partridge Partners Prize
Winner: Katherine Daunt, University of Newcastle
Project: Richard Johnson Square
NSW Chapter Prize - First Degree
James Martin, University of New South Wales
Eirik Kjoisrud, University of Newcastle
Julin Ang, University of Sydney
Andrew Willess, University of Technology, Sydney
Award for History and Theory
Belinda O’Kane, University of New South Wales
Kylie Burgess, University of Newcastle
Timothy Osborne, University of Sydney
Jonathan Lynch, University of Technology, Sydney
Award for Construction and Practice
Oscar Stanish, University of New South Wales
Cherry Williamson, University of Newcastle
Amy Cruickshank, University of Sydney
Rachel Hemmings, University of Technology, Sydney
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