Architecture studio Conrad Gargett led the list of winners at the Greater Brisbane 2023 Australian Institute of Architects’ Regional Architecture Awards. The awards honoured several Greater Brisbane projects across educational, commercial, residential, heritage, interior and urban categories.

Craft’d Grounds by Conrad Gargett was awarded the highest honour, taking home the John Dalton Award for Building of the Year.

Describing the project as an “excellent example of adaptive reuse”, the jury said: “The architects have created a building that belongs to place, enriches the community, and offers a unique built identity with an honesty that is welcoming and open.”

2023 Lord Mayor's Brisbane Buildings that Breathe Architecture Prize

Heritage Lanes, 80 Ann St by Woods Bagot was awarded the 2023 Lord Mayor's Brisbane Buildings that Breathe Architecture Prize. The prize recognises outstanding achievement in building architecture that strongly aligns with Brisbane City Council’s New World City Design Guide – Buildings that Breathe.

Formerly a fruit and vegetable market, the Heritage Lanes site was reimagined as a marketplace on the ground floor of a new 35-level office tower that accommodates 7,000 workers.

The project’s “combination of the warm material palette, food and coffee retail outlets, subtropical landscaping, seating areas, and dramatic high-tech artwork form a welcome public plaza that surprisingly reconnects two streets in the heart of the city”, the jury noted.

The project also received commendations in the Urban Design and Interior Architecture categories.

Greater Brisbane House of the Year Award

REFRESH* Studio for Architecture received the Greater Brisbane House of the Year Award for Habitat on Juers, a 16-unit social housing project in the suburb of Kingston.

“Through clever design, the Habitat on Juers project breaks down typical institutional forms associated with social housing,” the jury said. “This project successfully demonstrates how missing middle social housing can improve the liveability, aesthetic, and performance of our suburbs.”

Greater Brisbane People’s Choice Award

Jubilee Place Precinct by Blight Rayner Architecture, a weather-protected ‘urban room’ next to the iconic heritage Jubilee Hotel, took out the People’s Choice Award.

Greater Brisbane projects received a total of 48 additional regional commendations across the award categories. All of the commended projects have now been shortlisted for the Australian Institute of Architects’ Queensland Architecture Awards to be announced in June 2023.

Winning projects (Category | Project | Architect)

The John Dalton Award for Building of the Year | Craft’d Grounds | Conrad Gargett

2023 Lord Mayor’s Brisbane Buildings that Breathe Architecture Prize | Heritage Lanes, 80 Ann St | Woods Bagot

Greater Brisbane House of the Year Award | Habitat on Juers | REFRESH* Studio for Architecture

Greater Brisbane People’s Choice Award | Jubilee Place Precinct | Blight Rayner Architecture

Commendation — Educational Architecture

Provence Centre, Iona College | Conrad Gargett
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School Sports Precinct | Blight Rayner Architecture
Cannon Hill Anglican College D-Block | Reddog Architects in association with Blueline Architecture
Somerville House – Fewings Building | BSPN Architecture
West End State School Expansion | Cox Architecture
Elkhorn Building | m3architecture

Commendation — Commercial Architecture

Craft’d Grounds | Conrad Gargett
Patina at Alumni Court | DM2 Architecture
Midtown Centre | Fender Katsalidis
Jubilee Place Blight | Rayner Architecture
QVS Stafford Vet Hospital | Vokes and Peters
Brisbane Lions Brighton Homes Arena | Populous

Commendation — Heritage Architecture

Lady Lamington | nettletontribe architecture
Thomas Dixon Centre | Conrad Gargett
Jubilee Hotel | Blight Rayner Architecture in association with Ivan McDonald Architects

Commendation — Interior Architecture

Refinery House | Carr
Jubilee Hotel | Blight Rayner Architecture
Suncorp HQ | Hassell
Student Central | Hassell
Heritage Lanes, 80 Ann Street | Woods Bagot
i2C Brisbane Studio | i2C Architects
Government Workplace | Cox Architecture
IAG Workplace Brisbane | Cox Architecture

Commendation — Public Architecture

Flipside Circus' Brisbane Circus Centre | Blok Modular
National Throws Centre of Excellence | Phillips Smith Conwell
Thomas Dixon Centre | Conrad Gargett

Commendation — Residential Architecture Houses (Alterations and Additions)

East Brisbane House | Nielsen Jenkins
Hopscotch House | John Ellway
Bardon Undercroft House | Kieron Gait Architects

Commendation — Residential Architecture (Multiple Housing)

Habitat on Juers | REFRESH* Studio for Architecture
Turner Avenue Homes | Push and David Pennisi
East Street Public Housing | Conrad Gargett

Commendation — Residential Architecture (Houses - New)

River Hearth House | Arcke
Timbin House | Conrad Gargett
Blok Stafford Heights | Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters

Commendation — Small Architecture

Musgrave Road | Studio KO&CoArchitecture

University of Queensland Cricket Club Maintenance Shed | Lineburg Wang with Steve Hunt Architect
Blue Bower | Phorm architecture + design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis
Minderoo Centre - Plastics and Human Health | m3architecture

Commendation — Urban Design Architecture

Jubilee Place Precinct | Blight Rayner Architecture
Herston Quarter Redevelopment Stage 1 and 2 | Hassell
Your Home & Living Guidelines | Moreton Bay Regional Council
Student Central UQ | Hassell
Heritage Lanes, 80 Ann St | Woods Bagot

Commendation — Sustainable Architecture

Bonsai House | Brisbane City Council City Projects Office
Thomas Dixon Centre | Conrad Gargett
Hopscotch House | John Ellway
Habitat on Juers | REFRESH* Studio for Architecture

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