Friday 19 June 2009
George Temple Poole Award
Apartments in Cottesloe by Blane Brackenridge
As is inevitable, the selection of one project from the winners of nine diverse project categories for the George Temple Poole Award poses an extremely difficult task for the Jury.
The winner of the 2009 George Temple Poole Award impressed the jury with its masterful planning solution on an extremely restrictive site with tight height restrictions and a challenging double slope.
The building presents a simple but well proportioned envelope to the street while providing interior spaces in the four units each with unique relationships to external spaces and courtyards gained in places through the thoughtful provision of building transparency.
The finished project displays an imaginative and sophisticated arrangement of four two-story dwelling units each carefully considered with regard to vistas, both external and internal, and supported by excellent detailing throughout.
PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
Sponsored by Department of Treasury and Finance
Building Management and Works
DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY AND FINANCE
BUILDING MANAGEMENT AND WORKS ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Manea Senior College - Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland
Location: BUNBURY
This design award recognises an exciting building resulting from both an innovative planning concept and a rigorous attention to detail Recasting the expected linked discreet buildings into a single entity created opportunities but also difficulties in negotiating a 19m level change across the heavily wooded site. The design team has taken on this challenge and dealt with it in a most creative way.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Association for the Blind of Western Australia - Hames Sharley
Location: VICTORIA PARK
This building reflects a strong commitment to research, and the obviously successful architect/client/user relationships should be recognised. The planning is clear, well understood by all users, and a logical expression of many varied functions. The design responds well to some symbolism and the well detailed building fabric and fit out is consistent throughout.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
The University of Western Australia Business School - Woods Bagot
Location: NEDLANDS
This award is to a creative and disciplined consultant team who have brought UWA campus architecture into the 21st century. While acknowledging the campus grid, the building then takes on a life of its own. Being slightly elevated to capture river views, it provides a well thought out learning environment that is at once inspiring and potentially very sustainable.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Midland Operations Support Facility Stage 2 - Peter Hunt & Daryl Jackson Architects
Location MIDLAND
Exemplary design has enabled a substantial office infrastructure to be placed within a heritage listed building. Bold decisions have been made to intervene into some parts of the original structure in order to leave the perimeter walls essentially untouched. Substantial displays describe much of the original building use, and again bold initiative was needed to enable some flexibility in their location. The new partially transparent building shell is cleverly at odds with the existing geometry, and services, core areas and circulation are very clearly expressed.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Atwell College - JCY Architects and Urban Designers
Location: ATWELL
Every building on this innovative campus is quite special, and designed with great care and precision. The site planning acknowledges different educational functions and succeeds in providing opportunities for a great variety of interior and exterior experiences.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Denmark Health Service- HASSELL
Location: DENMARK
This project exemplifies the importance of natural light and ventilation in a healthcare environment. Spatial quality is consistent from the lobby through to patient care and staff areas, and interaction with the landscape is very successful, without compromising the safety and security of all occupants. Reduced energy costs are enabled by remote BMS control of air-conditioning.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Dalyellup College - HASSELL
Location: DALYELLUP
This building is awarded for its logical, ‘no nonsense’ planning approach to a school environment. The central open space provides gathering areas, security and a focus to all occupants of the perimeter buildings, which are well lit, well ventilated, simply detailed and appropriately scaled. Focal points of colour and 3-dimensional public art enhance the internal and external learning environments.
COMMENDATION
Bunbury Library and Smart Building - Peter Hunt Architect
Location: BUNBURY
This library works very well due to a careful interpretation of a thorough brief from a very dedicated client. It is well sited to provide both a strong civic statement and a welcoming destination for an appreciative community.
COMMENDATION
Fitzroy Valley District High School - Bateman Grundmann Architects
Location: FITZROY CROSSING
This project has been thoroughly researched, and understanding the special physical and cultural environment has resulted is a very workable school. The values of the traditional landowners and the difficulties of education in remote areas have been responded to in a very commendable way.
COMMENDATION
Design, Technology and Visual Arts, Christ Church Grammar School - Donaldson and Warn Architects
Location: CLAREMONT
Clear planning and a distinctive form give this building a strong presence on the college campus. The interesting combination of refined and raw finishes and the use of innovative labyrinth and geothermal technology make for a highly commendable project.
COMMENDATION
Lecture Theatre 213, Curtin University of Technology - The Buchan Group
Location: BENTLEY
As a lecture theatre this building is very competent, but its real success lies in the way that it relates to the pedestrian system. It is at once attractive and welcoming on all four sides, acknowledging its connection to other buildings and adjoining open spaces.
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES
Sponsored by SCOOP Publishing
SCOOP PUBLISHING ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Casa Giudice - Spaceagency
Location: Mosman Park
The Jury was delighted with their visit to this well conceived and executed building. The sculptural quality of the design is evident from the street and consistent throughout. The whole site is used sensibly with a high degree of sensitivity using existing landform and landscape elements to advantage. Internal and external spaces are well related, practical and interesting. The robust nature of external materials, such as crushed recycled concrete is used with innovation to successfully bring them to the interior. The Architect has addressed all design criteria with thoughtful analysis to produce a successful building at reasonable cost. This is a great example of good Architecture which incorporates sustainability as an integral part of the design process.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Rosser Street - Paul Burnham Architect Pty Ltd
Location: COTTESLOE
This three level contemporary residence presents a visually striking, refined and sophisticated streetscape. The building must be entered to gain a full understanding of its outstanding design and detailing. There is much that is innovative about it, particularly with climate control and the provision of natural light and ventilation and winter sun into a long narrow building. Angled planes of concrete slabs form a well insulated roof structure with a series of north facing glazed windows lighting the building. North facing indoor and outdoor living spaces are located at each level. Spaces and finishes are the result of well considered planning and design with a refreshing lack of architectural clichés.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Gibney Street Cottesloe - Richard Szklarz Architects Pty Ltd
Location: Cottesloe
The harsh marine environment has strongly influenced the design and selection of external materials for this Cottesloe residence. The success of the design is the result of the architects well considered planning and attention to every detail. The house, outdoor pavilion and landscaping are unified to make a strong visual statement. Materials selected for the building exterior of concrete, copper, glass and aluminium are a low maintenance response to the marine exposure, and should mature elegantly. The architect has responded to the client brief and the environment to produce a simple, bold and beautifully detailed design solution.
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - ALTERATIONS + ADDITIONS
Sponsored by SCOOP Publishing
SCOOP PUBLISHING ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Swan Street Residence - Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
Location: NOT FOR PUBLICATION
The Swan Street residence exhibits an outstanding conceptual strategy of integration; it advances architecture by demonstrating how the qualities of the existing dwelling and context can be used to inform new spatial contours and formal expression. The architect rigorously explores the various interfaces between the existing bungalow and the new work resulting in a formal inventiveness, entwining the old and the new. The sculptural exterior sits comfortably in a well-established suburb while the interior creates a comfortable family home, with detailing that indicates a high level of thoughtfulness and care. This project offers a new way for architects and home-owners to think about renovations that are innovative, sustainable and vibrant.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
House B - CODA
Location: NOT FOR PUBLICATION
House B is a treatise in spatial collage that contributes to the advancement of architecture by showing how domestic rooms can be knitted together into a work of style and substance. The manipulation of space is successful in that the interplay of inside and outside, old and new, large and petite, courtyard and open room, and front and back sit together with ease. Material and spatial invention are intertwined with pragmatic necessities so that project-specific, client driven design solutions permeate the home. There is a readable logic, economy of means and honest style to this project that makes it a pleasure to inhabit.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
House M - CODA
Location: ADDRESS NOT FOR PUBLICATION
House M is a work of restraint that contributes to the advancement of architecture by demonstrating how a disciplined approach can be used to great effect. The house has been skilfully reworked with a bold new carport canopy providing a recognisable street address. This is counterbalanced by a masonry wall that anchors the house firmly to the site, providing a distinct gateway and allowing the interior space to spill out. A new kitchen and materials create a restrained backdrop to the previous architect’s work. Subtle manipulations of structural order, uses of ornament and techniques of collage have been used to bring a classic modernist house into the present without disturbing its original grace. Both the architect and owners are to be praised for retaining and extending the beautiful essence of this home.
COMMENDATION
Masel Residence - Chindarsi Architects
Location: MENORA
The Masel residence demonstrates an intelligent spatial, formal and material transition from old to new. The house shows significant architectural skill in combining the weight and texture of the traditional bungalow building with the light and spaciousness of modern surfaces. Engagement with the street is carefully considered; landscaping and trellises animate the facade in a dynamic fashion and create a sense of personal identity. The existing spatial order, palette of materials and sensuous details are used to inspire a series of brilliant rooms that are responsive to the environment and landscape, allowing outdoors to penetrate the inside and vice versa. We are left with a lasting image where contrasting materials and spaces have been combined to create a beautiful and elegant home.
COMMENDATION
Smyth Residence - Prevostweir Architects
Location: NOT FOR PUBLICATION
The Smyth residence is commended for the skilful manner in which it demonstrates how an eclectic set of client furnishings, a prominent site and an existing modernist house can be combined into a new work of luscious architecture. Threading through the abundance of well-executed ideas there is an underlying coherence within this project that should be recognised. In resisting demolition, by comprehensively binding the existing elements within new structure, the architects have created a sophisticated, transformative architecture.
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - MULTIPLE HOUSING
Sponsored by The Laminex Group
THE LAMINEX GROUP ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Apartments in Cottesloe - Blane Brackenridge
Location: COTTESLOE
A very well detailed and highly wrought response to a challenging site. The solution presents a modest street presence whilst the arrangement of 4 large residences within reveals an attentive and sophisticated resolution of space, privacy and ocean views to the west. The result is a sophisticated and engaging architectural solution, able to offer intrigue and delight around every corner.
COMMENDATION
Concreto Houses - Simon Anderson of Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts, UWA
Location: NOT FOR PUBLICATION
This modest owner/builder project offers a thought provoking proposition to an inner suburban site. The jury commends this project for its innovative and experimental approach to the residential housing typology.
The project utilises an atypical palette of materials and suggests a domestic arrangement that offers a home(s) that has the flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of the 21st century nuclear family.
HERITAGE
sponsored by The Heritage Council of WA
The Jury congratulates all of the entrants in the Heritage category this year. Again the Jury found the judging difficult with entries ranging from pure conservation work to creative adaptation and new work in heritage buildings. They cover different aspects of excellence in Heritage Conservation practice but all entries expressed a high standard of professionalism and achievement by each entrant.
As in previous years, the Jury was also impressed by the contribution and collaboration of the Owners with their Architects to achieve excellence in the work, as well as Builders and other Consultants.
THE HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WA ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Midland Operations Support Facility Stage 2 - Peter Hunt & Daryl Jackson Architects
Location: MIDLAND
The Jury was unanimous in awarding this impressive project-the Heritage Council Design Award because it is an exemplary example of adaptive re-use of a large industrial heritage building with a very sound and workable end result.
The Project retains the ‘Flanging Shop’, part of the former Midland Railway Workshops and a large, significant industrial building. The design inserts within it a complex new sequence of spaces and voids to accommodate a demanding and detailed client brief.
The Architects have understood, with the assistance of the Conservation Plan and input of Heritage Architect Philip Griffiths, the essential qualities of the building, its industrial history, space, light, significant fabric and machinery.
The Architects have planned and inserted new uses within the Building while carrying out only essential conservation to significant external fabric, retaining its industrial character. The planning of circulation space adjacent to the line of the original steel columns up to the original roof cleverly incorporates circulation while retaining views to the original roof, highlighting original fabric and a sense of the original volume of the ‘Flanging Shop’ building.
The resulting ‘building within a building’ is contemporary & sophisticated. The handling and arrangement of uses and activities is practical while dealing with light, views and access. This creates an innovative form that is discovered upon entry into the building and continues to unfold while moving through it. The clever incorporation of climate, noise control and services within the new work has been designed in a well resolved way such that it is not obvious to the patron or visitor.
The original, significant and very large machinery and ovens associated with the former use of the place have been retained and conserved and the design gives them focus and the opportunity of interpretation by planning open communal spaces around them with upper levels set back to view them.
This planning and ‘building within a building’ suits the Police Department’s requirements for security, access control and a more internally focussed accommodation.
Congratulations to Peter Hunt and Daryl Jackson Architects for their design, conservation approach and management of this excellent project
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall - Palassis Architects
Location: HAMILTON HILL
The Jury awards the Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall project as an outstanding example of Conservation of a significant heritage building and addition of a contemporary new building. The result is guided in its design and composition by the existing significant building. Thorough research and bold design based on Burra Charter principles has reinstated a civic quality to this site that had been lost. Site planning and landscaping resolve difficult traffic, bus and pedestrian access issues making access by the public easy and practical.
Well considered conservation of the Memorial Hall, with removal of later accretions and addition of low-key new facilities results in the original form and detail of the building being reinstated to its original prominence. The discrete inclusion of new services and facilities within the original Hall provides users with a multi-purpose space that continues its original use. The Hall is also suitable for a range of community activities, particularly local theatre productions.
The new additions are decidedly new and contemporary in design but have been sensitively handled in their scale, form and relationship with the heritage Hall building to ensure that the final composition is both civic and complimentary to the Memorial Hall building and the corner site.
The new facilities provide services and amenities that serve new and original spaces and provide the local community with a range of possible uses along with flexibility for future needs of the community.
COMMENDATION
No 1 Fire Station: FESA Museum and Education Centre - Palassis Architects
Location: PERTH
The Jury commends the Architects on the careful and considered approach taken to external conservation , particularly of limestone blockwork, given the rough hand of earlier ‘conservation works’ .
The jury found the development of a new services /access structure over the old Hose tower footings as a bold, well located and functional application of Burra Charter principles.
The return to early or original spaces and finishes internally and retention of original unique features such as firemen’s poles etc. interpret the original use and history of the building. The Jury commends the architects on a well considered and implemented conservation and adaptation project of one of our most significant Fire Stations.
COMMENDATION
`Colwyn’ Restoration - Hocking Planning and Architecture
Location: CLAREMONT
The Jury was impressed with the vision of the owners in conserving this well known heritage house listed on The State Register. The Architect documented thorough, careful and well planned conservation work, following the Conservation Plan he had previously prepared. The judges were impressed with the Architect’s and Owner-Builder’s careful and detailed approach to retaining and conserving the original heritage fabric, beautiful timber detailing and panelling internally, while making sensitive alterations and additions in the style of the original house.
The same attention to detail was found externally with replacement of the original terracotta shingle roof with a new one to the same detail and reinstatement of original verandahs. The new open street fencing and symmetrical carport pavilions in the front setback return classic balanced grace to the house as viewed from the street.
COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE
Sponsored by Midland Brick
THE MIDLAND BRICK ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Sorrento Quay Boardwalk - Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland
Location: HILLARYS
The Sorrento Quay Boardwalk project is a successful and sophisticated response to the existing marina context, creating a new and powerful architectural direction while becoming a figurehead for the marina. It maximises the potential of the open north orientation while providing protection from the strong winds, allowing the public to interact with the dynamic marina environs while relaxing from a seat of the bar. The selection of materials considers the marine environment while responding to the history of the Hillarys Marina. The detailing is appropriately nautical with-out suffering from cliché.
The project creates a new focal point for the marina with a commercial success that extends beyond the physical extremity of the new building. The complexity of the project and satisfying the various stakeholders should not be underestimated.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre - Paradigm Architects Pty Ltd
Location: SOUTH HEDLAND
Paradigm Architects have created a culturally sensitive and aesthetically appropriate response to a complex brief. This was achieved through a detailed an engaging consultancy process involving the Wangkamaya community.
The design embodies strong and simple environmental principles effectively responding to the difficult arid tropical climate while referencing experiential qualities of the region. The building carefully addresses the client desires to create a sustainable and strongly regional architectural response and minimising its environmental impact.
The building provides a clear identity for the community and creates a meeting point for the community and general public from which to continue and expand its preservation of and contribution to the indigenous culture of the Pilbara region.
COMMENDATION
Saracen Estates Winery & Duckstein Brewery - Bollig Design Group
Location: WILYABRUP
Bollig Design Group has created a carefully orchestrated sequence of spaces using the seductiveness of water as the primary orientating element. From the moment one approaches the building this theme unfolds allowing the general public to enjoy a variety of spaces establishing the building as more of a public square for the open use of the visitors.
Local materials have been carefully selected and used in a refined manner creating a regionally specific connection or selected based on long term weathering and assimilation into the local context.
COMMENDATION
Lexus Showroom - Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland
Location: OSBORNE PARK
The Lexus Showroom creates its street presence through sophistication and silence. In this manner the architecture embodies the principles of the product it is selling. The building is clearly organised reinforcing the car as the primary focus allowing the architecture to become an appropriate background. The selection of materials, the use of lighting and the formal clarity act as a powerful counterpoint to the frenetic nature of Scarborough Beach Road.
It creates a calmness and coolness distancing itself from the other showrooms and reinforces what Mies van der Rohe once said “it is better to be good than be original”.
COMMENDATION
Star Track Express - Parry & Rosenthal Architects
Location Perth Domestic Airport
Operating in a realm that seldom incorporates architectural services, Parry and Rosenthal have demonstrated that architecture can play an important role in industrial buildings. The Star Track building is clear and precise in form and refined and economical in detail while providing simple and dramatic use of the structure. The quality of work environment has been dramatically improved by natural lighting and cross ventilation using louvres and large openable doors.
This building has raised the standard of industrial architecture in this state and become the benchmark for future Star Track buildings.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Sponsored by Mondoluce
THE MONDOLUCE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Wesfarmers Corporate Fitout - Woods Bagot
Location PERTH
The Jury considered this project excellent in both conception and execution. The creation of the workplace has been achieved through an acute awareness of open and enclosed space and the working association between them.
Materials use and detailing support appropriateness that enabled construction to be of a consistently high standard. Furniture and fittings are likewise appropriate, unselfconscious and functional.
Of particular note is the excellence in both idea and execution of the integration of part of the Westfarmer’s art collection into the workplace and the commissioning of craft in the creation of the reception furniture.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
i-Zone - Curtin University Library - Taylor Robinson Architects
Location BENTLEY
The Jury witnessed the success of the planning and fitout of this new facility through in its popularity with both students and staff. This success can be attributed to the works clear understanding, introduction, and support of a new culture within the Library as well as its completeness and attractiveness. It provides variety a spaces in association and, while in close proximity, capable of independence in a dense environment.
COMMENDATION
Legislative Assembly Parliament House - Philip Griffiths Architects
Location PERTH
The Jury realized the task of increasing the seating capacity and upgrading services in this restricted space was complex and challenging: all within a significant heritage context.
The refurbishment achieves the upgrade creatively and with a high degree of skill while continuing the visual and craft tradition of the Assembly.
COMMENDATION
The Breakwater - Oldfield Knott Architects Pty Ltd
Location HILLARYS
The Jury recognized the highly successfully integration of the occupancy works within the building and its presentation to the waterfront environment in this strategic location. The quality of the resolution a variety of spaces is recognized as is the fitouts attention to the briefed requirement to provide a resort atmosphere.
URBAN DESIGN
Sponsored by the Australian Institute of Architects
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Sorrento Quay Boardwalk - Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland
Location HILLARYS
The introduction of the Sorrento Quay Boardwalk has created a new and powerful public address for the marina while allowing existing movement patterns to remain. This project carefully responds to a complex brief extending this to capture the imagination of the public by contributing to the dynamic environment with both moving and static elements. The integration to other buildings encourages commercial activity through thoughtful and considered use of material, form and transitions.
The architects should be congratulated for balancing the various stakeholder requirements with a project that exceeds expectations and provides a new direction for the future of the marina.
COMMENDATION
Seascapes - Village Centre Master Plan - Mirvac Design
Location SEASCAPES
From a Greenfield site Mirvac Design created the beginning of what should eventually result in a complex and engaging urban centre. The public facilities and the sustainability initiatives that are already constructed and implemented create a new benchmark for other developers. The variety of housing types and relationship of the native front gardens to the street re-define the level of street interaction providing subtle thresholds that carefully define public and private domains.
This is a new and exciting approach for Western Australia that will hopefully encourage others to embrace good design principles providing public spaces that encourage an understanding of sustainability from both a social and environmental consideration.
SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
Sponsored by Davis Langdon
THE DAVIS LANGDON ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Swan TAFE Thornlie Campus Metal Trades Welding Workshop - Armstrong Parkin Architects
Location THORNLIE
Simple massing, well considered blockwork detailing, appropriate use of industrial materials and finishes were integrated with a highly functional internal layout. Architectural opportunities, whilst limited, were grasped with vigour and included the discreet but effective use of colour. Good circulation connectivity to the existing material storage area contributed to the success of the project.
COMMENDATION
Swan Street Residence - Iredale Pedersen Hook
Location NOT FOR PUBLICATION
A bold architectural statement which successfully integrates, in a counter-intuitive manner, the old with the new adding considerable interest to the streetscape. This building bristled with thoughtful and clever touches that generated interest throughout.
COMMENDATION
Horse Barn - CODA
Location NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Simple in its approach and execution, this retro fit of an old chicken shed (literally) illustrates the potential of architectural intervention to uplift even a rudimentarily avian shelter. Although not entirely complete, the honesty of the solution to the exclosure of this space is palpable. The result is a playful low cost solution, with the on-site participation obviously enjoyed by the architects.
COMMENDATION
fabABODE - A + A Macliver
Location ARMADALE
The simplicity of the system, the ability to factory control quality, the use of sustainable materials and the very significant savings in construction time, put this ahead of earlier and less successful attempts at modular housing. Potential to customise the extent of verandahs and decks simply and with little extra on-site work contributes to the capacity for individual expression by purchasers.
COMMENDATION
Shenton Road Terrace - Fringe Architects
Location CLAREMONT
This project featured the clever development and extension of an existing heritage terrace house within the limitations imposed by the restrictive site and strata body guidelines.
A southern orientation to living spaces was enlivened with a strategically located full width skylight permitting reflected sunlight to penetrate deep into the space, even in mid winter.
An oversized glazed sliding door facilitated easy access to the sunken garden court effectively uniting the internal and external spaces.
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