Small Project Architecture Award
The Small Project Architecture Award honours innovative and impactful design achieved on a smaller scale across Queensland. This award highlights projects that showcase creativity, resourcefulness, and a dedication to excellence, overcoming challenges such as limited budgets, compact sizes, or complex constraints.
This category features a diverse array of projects, including pavilions, installations, small-scale structures, and compact buildings. These designs exemplify ingenuity by maximising functionality and aesthetic appeal while responding to specific site and client needs. Many also champion sustainability through the efficient use of materials and resources, setting a high standard for small-scale architecture.
Projects in this category will be those considered to be “small” in terms of area or budget. Projects are recognised that have been constrained by space or cost restrictions, but have achieved a level of invention, creativity and craftsmanship despite these constraints. This category can accommodate projects, typically projects in the public realm, which may be over-looked against larger scale projects in other categories or may be transient or experimental in nature, such as exhibition design, set design, playgrounds, architectural sculptures or installations that may or may not be able to be visited by the jury. Projects of all functional types may be considered.
Exclusions:
- Residential projects of a permanent nature are not eligible for this category.
- Projects concurrently entered into any other category are not eligible for this category.
Award Winners Throughout the Years
2024
The Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture
Mari-Mari-Ba Bushland Communal Hub | Deicke Richards
Jury citation
TheMari-Mari-Ba Bushland Communal Hub boldly reclaims space by deliberately repurposing a recognisable colonial architectural feature.
Within this residential development—a sanctuary for First Nations women and children seeking refuge from domestic violence—a transformation of space unfolds with the thoughtful integration of existing building elements—a porte cochère and chimney—into a yarning circle, exemplifing exceptional ideation and outcome.
Here, private and confidential gatherings occur, fostering healing connections to culture and Country.
Award for Small PROJECT Architecture
SHED FOR PROPAGATION | MARC & CO
Jury citation
The Shed for Propagation embraces the joys of an architectural folly wholly supported by the client. Nestled within a planned and well-established garden, the Shed provides a key location for reflection and respite, demonstrating sensitive contextual awareness through careful positioning that fundamentally informs plan and section.
The usual tectonics of a shed are subverted with inventive and playful detailing, such as through the expressive use of timber dowelling and angled planes of glazing that create moments of function and beauty.
National Partners
