2025 National Architecture Awards Shortlist Revealed

“This program acknowledges architecture’s role in shaping resilient systems, uplifting communities, and unearthing future leaders. It honours projects that embrace sustainability, social impact, budget optimisation and technical brilliance, while challenging traditional paradigms and unlocking economic, environmental and social impact beyond their site boundaries. In an era defined by climate urgency, affordability, digital disruption and social complexity, the National Awards provide a compass. They help chart our course toward a built environment that matters—not just now, but for generations to come.”

Each year, the projects in the National Architecture Award shortlist are selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts and leaders. This year, the jury includes:

• Jane Cassidy FRAIA (Jury Chair) | Immediate Past President of the Australian Institute of Architects, Director and Asia-Pacific Service Line Leader for Architecture & Design, GHD Design
• Ninotschka Titchkosky FRAIA | Architectural Innovator
• Yang Yang Lee RAIA | Architect, Lee Yang Yang Architect
• Martyn Hook RAIA | Professor of Architecture and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Precincts, RMIT University, Founding Director Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
• Kavita Gonsalves | Associate Principal & Sustainability Design Lead APAC, Populous

A comprehensive judging process by the jury determines the eventual winners of the Awards, which will be announced on 6 November. In an exhaustive two-week period, the jury will travel to every state and territory in Australia, visiting all shortlisted projects in person (and the select international projects virtually). The jury’s travels across the country can be followed on the Australian Institute of Architects’ Instagram account.

The eventual winners of the 2025 National Architecture Awards will be unveiled at the 2025 National Architecture Awards in Canberra on Thursday, 6 November 2025, at The National Gallery of Australia.