The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects has announced the shortlisted projects for the 2022 Victorian Architecture Awards.

The Victorian Architecture Awards celebrate the significant and unique contributions of architecture across Melbourne and regional Victoria.

With a total of 125 projects, the shortlist represents one of the largest number of projects ever selected by the Awards jury. This impressive number clearly demonstrates the strength of the architectural profession in the state, says Victorian chapter president Bill Krotiris.

“Despite building reform challenges the design and building industry has faced in recent years, we’re very pleased to witness and experience the ongoing significant and positive contributions architects are providing in shaping our built landscape for all Victorians,” says Krotiris.

“The diversity of the shortlist clearly illustrates the broad reach architecture has across urban, suburban, and rural contexts.

“Projects range from strategic large scale urban renewal works with carefully considered conservation works, through to new sustainable multi-residential models in our inner urban and ring suburbs and regions, through to innovative individual residential and interior interventions.”

The 2022 Victorian Architecture Awards saw a total of 252 submissions across fourteen categories, with the 125 shortlisted projects selected by independent juries following a rigorous entry and presentation process. These projects will be assessed further through an in-person site visit by the jury for consideration for a coveted architectural award. The site visit is a key component of the assessment for the Victorian Architecture Awards, allowing for a more holistic and rigorous determination of all elements of the design response.

“With architecture, the true assessment of its value is through seeing how it sits within its context, its understanding of place and the successful relationship of its uses and functionality – the considered integration of building services, structure and the sculpting of space,” says Victorian state manager, Tim Leslie.

Among the shortlisted projects are a range of unique public buildings such as the Victorian Pride Centre, the Puffing Billy Lakeside Visitor Centre, and Centrepiece, as well as important adaptive reuse and rebuild projects including Collingwood Yards, La Mama, and the Jewell Station precinct. One of the shortlist’s many significant Melbourne CBD revitalisation projects is the reinvigoration of the Wesley Church precinct.

Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Friday 17 June 2022.

The 2022 Victorian Architecture Awards Shortlist

Commercial Architecture:

405 Bourke Street | Woods Bagot
80 Collins, Melbourne | Woods Bagot
ANZ Breathe | Breathe
Ballarat Gov Hub | John Wardle Architects
Cubitt Street Tower | Pandolfini Architects
Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street | Bates Smart
Merrifield City | NH Architecture
Queen & Collins | KTA + BVN
SEEK HQ | Hassell
Wesley Place, 130 Lonsdale Street | COX Architecture
Woolworths Fishermans Bend | Hames Sharley

Educational Architecture:

Deakin Law School Building | Woods Bagot
Delacombe Stadium | Kosloff Architecture
Monash Robotics Lab | Studio Bright
Myer Music Centre Melbourne Grammar School | Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design
The Clendon Centre | Architectus
Victorian Tunnelling Centre | Grimshaw

Heritage Architecture:

Bendigo TAFE City Campus Revitalisation | Six Degrees with Architectus (lead)
Collingwood Yards | Fieldwork
Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street | Lovell Chen with Bates Smart
Keilor Police Hut | Andronas Conservation Architecture
Myer Music Centre Melbourne Grammar School | Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design
Queen & Collins | KTA + BVN
Stable & Cart House | Clare Cousins Architects
Wesley Place - 130 Lonsdale | Lovell Chen with COX Architecture

Interior Architecture:

Always | Kennedy Nolan
Bassano | Tom Robertson Architects
Deeds Brewery and Taproom | Splinter Society Architecture
Erskine River House | Kerstin Thompson Architects
Gatwick Private Hotel | Kosloff Architecture
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Gymnasium | McBride Charles Ryan
Queen & Collins | KTA + BVN
Sculptform Design Studio | Woods Bagot
Stable & Cart House | Clare Cousins Architects
Victorian Pride Centre | BAU GAA Brearley Architects & Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects
Yakimono & Society | Russell & George

Public Architecture:

CENTREPIECE at Melbourne Park | NH Architecture
Collingwood Yards | Fieldwork
Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub | Croxon Ramsay
Kia Arena | NH Architecture with RWA Sports Architecture
Northern Hospital - Inpatient Unit Tower Stage 2 | Lyons
Point Lonsdale Surf Life Saving Club | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
Puffing Billy Lakeside Visitor Centre | TERROIR
Rebuild La Mama | Meg White and Cottee Parker Architects
Shepparton Art Museum | Denton Corker Marshall
Victorian Pride Centre | Brearley Architects + Urbanists & Grant Amon Architects

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions):

Arcadia | Architecture architecture
Arthur | Oscar Sainsbury Architects
Autumn House | Studio Bright
Brunswick House | Placement
Courtyard House | Ha Architecture
Eastham Street | MUIR Architecture
Hermon | WOWOWA Architecture
Kew Cottage | Walter&Walter
Nido House |Angelucci Architects
Preston House II | Olaver Architecture
Richmond House | Therefore
South Yarra House | Pop Architecture and Beatrix Rowe Interior Design
Stable & Cart House | Clare Cousins Architects

Residential Architecture – Houses (New):

Always | Kennedy Nolan
Anderson Road | B.E Architecture
Beach Slice | Steffen Welsch Architects
Bellbird House | Bower Architecture and Interiors
Birregurra House | Rob Kennon Architects
Canning Street | Foomann Architects
Corner House | Archier
Emplacement | NTF Architecture
Erskine River House | Kerstin Thompson Architects
Esplanade House | Clare Cousins Architects
Flinders Residence | MAArchitects
Jan Juc Studio | Eldridge Anderson Architects
Keep House | BKK Architects
music box | multiplicity
The Arndt Residence and Artbarn | CHROFI
The Hütt 01 Passivhaus | Melbourne Design Studios (MDS)
Walnut House | Adam Kane Architects

Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing:

17 Union Street | BKK Architects with Clare Cousins Architects
231 Napier Street | Edition Office
Australia 108 | Fender Katsalidis
Balfe Park Lane | Kerstin Thompson Architects
Fitzroy House | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
Nightingale Ballarat | Breathe
Object 07 | Object Subject Architecture
Queens Place | Fender Katsalidis /Cox Architecture
St Albans Housing | NMBW Architecture Studio in association with Monash Art, Design & Architecture (MADA)
Terrace House | Austin Maynard Architects
Women's Property Initiatives Older Women's Housing | Studio Bright

Small Project Architecture:

Arts Project Australia | Sibling Architecture
Good Samaritan Primary School, Toilet Pavilion | Harrison and White
Immersive Media Lab – Orygen | S-I Projects
Ngargee Djeembana | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects with N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM
pond[er] | Taylor Knights and James Carey
Shorts Place Gym | Joyce Architects
The Dentist | Rob Kennon Architects

Urban Design:

80 Collins, Melbourne | Woods Bagot
Bendigo TAFE City Campus Revitalisation | Architectus with Six Degrees Architects
Collingwood Yards | Fieldwork
Jewell Station Precinct | BKK Architects with MA Architects and GLAS Landscape Architecture
Queen & Collins | KTA + BVN
Shepparton Art Museum | Denton Corker Marshall

Melbourne Prize:

Collingwood Yards | Fieldwork
Kia Arena | NH Architecture with RWA Sports Architecture
Queen & Collins | KTA + BVN
Rebuild La Mama | Meg White and Cottee Parker Architects
Victorian Pride Centre | Brearley Architects + Urbanists & Grant Amon Architects
Wesley Place - 130 Lonsdale | Lovell Chen with COX Architecture

Regional Prize:

Ballarat Gov Hub | John Wardle Architects
Bendigo TAFE City Campus Revitalisation | Architectus with Six Degrees Architects
Delacombe Stadium | Kosloff Architecture
Grampians Peaks Trail Stage 2 | Noxon Giffen Architects with McGregor Coxall
Nightingale Ballarat | Breathe
Point Lonsdale Surf Life Saving Club | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
Puffing Billy Lakeside Visitor Centre | TERROIR
Shepparton Art Museum | Denton Corker Marshall

COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture:

Autumn House | Studio Bright
Lilydale Heights College: Sustainability Hub, Town Square and Sports Pavilion | Harrison and White
Monash Robotics Lab | Studio Bright
Plaza of Holy Angels Mausoleum | Harmer Architecture
Puffing Billy Lakeside Visitor Centre | TERROIR

Sustainable Architecture:

ANZ Breathe | Breathe
Ballarat Gov Hub | John Wardle Architects
Nightingale Ballarat | Breathe
Shepparton Art Museum | Denton Corker Marshall
Terrace House | Austin Maynard Architects
The Hütt 01 Passivhaus | Melbourne Design Studios (MDS)

Additional Awards in Victoria:

Enduring Architecture
Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media
EmAGN Project Award – recognises the contributions of members of the EmAGN demographic
Victorian Architecture Medal – the highest honour awarded by the Victorian Chapter each year and judged to be the most outstanding project from the category winners

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