NSW Architecture Awards

CELEBRATING DESIGN EXCELLENCE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA AND ABROAD

The Institute is dedicated to the promotion of Australian architects and architecture in both national and global arenas. Since 1981, we have upheld excellence in the profession by recognising best practice in the field through our National Architecture Awards program and inspiring others to continue striving to positively shape communities through architecture.

View the 2024 NSW Architecture Awards Winners Gallery.

Enter the awards

ENTRY FOR NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

To enter the Australian Institute of Architects Architecture Awards Program, an entrant must be a registered architect and Institute member. To be eligible to enter, entrants must:

  • be an architect registered in the State or Territory of the project, and
  • be an Institute Member at the time of entry, and
  • be a principal of the practice who owns, or is a formal licensee, of the copyright in the work being entered.

It is a requirement of entry that all entrants read and understand the 2025 Awards Entry Handbook. The Handbooks are an excellent resource of helping to develop a successful awards entry. Give your project the best possible chance to succeed and familiarise yourself with the Handbook before commencing your entry.

KEY DATES

Chapter Entries Open Presentation to Jurors (Tusculum) Shortlist Announced Site Visits Awards Gala
NSW Monday, 11 November 2024 – Thursday, 27 February 2025 Monday 17 March 2025 - Friday 21 March 2025 Wednesday 7 May 2025 Monday 12 May 2025 - Friday 16 May 2025 Friday, 20 June 2025
Enter the awards

Presentations will be held onsite at Tusculum, the NSW Chapter Offices and will be face to face.

Presentation to juries category schedule:

Friday 16th February (Day 1)

  • Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
  • Educational Architecture

Saturday, 17 February 2024

  • Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)/ Small Project Architecture (same room)
  • Commercial Architecture 
  • Residential Architecture – Houses (New) 
  • Heritage
  • Sustainable Architecture
  • EmAGN Project Award
  • Public Architecture 
  • Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
  • Interior Architecture
  • Student Presentation to Juries 
  • Brian Patrick Keirnan Prize Presentation to Juries. 

Please note, given the high volume of entries in the Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)/ Sustainable/ Education and Urban categories, we ask you to block both Friday and Saturday in your calendar as your time slot may fall on either of these days.

Presentations will be held onsite at Tusculum, the NSW Chapter Offices and will be face to face.

Presentation to juries category schedule:

  • TBA

2025 nsw juries

2025 NSW ARCHITECTURE AWARD JURORS

The Institute’s Architecture Awards recognise excellence and innovation in design and are conferred via a rigorous system of peer review.

In NSW, each awards category is presided over by a jury of at least three people. Juries are comprised of Institute members appointed and convened by the Institute’s NSW Chapter Awards Committee. In addition to submitting data and images online, each project entered for consideration in the NSW Architecture Awards is presented to a jury panel. We wish to thank jury members for their dedication and hard work. 

  • Annabel Lahz, lahznimmo architects

Jurors:

  • Bill Tsakalos, Blacktown City Council (Chair)
  • Brad Cogger, lahznimmo architects
  • Hannah Bolitho, UNSW
  • Barbara Flynn, Barbara Flynn Pty Ltd

Jurors: 

  • Joseph Loh, BVN (Chair)
  • Sascha Solar-March, Saha
  • Kristin Utz, Utz Sanby

Jurors: 

  • Joe Agius, COX (Chair)
  • Stewart Cown, SJB
  • Sky Grove, Grove Architects

Jurors: 

  • Emili Fox, Architectus (Chair)
  • Joshua Zoeller, CHROFI
  • Jim Koopman, AJC Architects

Jurors: 

  • Steven Toia, Genton (Chair)
  • Matthew Todd, Architectus
  • Nazia Kachwalla, TZG

Jurors:

  • Eva-Marie Prineas, Studio Prineas (Chair)
  • Julin Ang, Studioplusthree
  • Charlotte Wilson, SJB

Jurors: 

  • Alex Kibble, TKD (Chair)
  • Lucy Creagh, Lucy Creagh Urban Projects
  • Louise Cox

Jurors:

  • Caroline Pidcock, PIDCOCK (Chair)
  • Tom Rivard, REALM Studios
  • Luke Smith
  • Julie Power, Sydney Morning Herald

Jurors:

  • Michael Chapman, WSU (Chair)
  • Julian Ashton, BVN
  • Dua Green, AJC

Jurors:

  • Helen Cooper, Bates Smart (Chair)
  • Daniel North, Downie North
  • Clare Johnston, Henning Larson

Jurors:

  • Bob Carr (Chair)
  • Helen Lochhead, Helen Lochhead Urban Projects
  • Duncan Corrigall, AJC Architects
  • Peter McGregor, McGregor Westlake Architecture

Jurors:

  • Elizabeth Carpenter, fjcstudio, NSW President
  • Sean Wong, Wardle, EmAGN Co-Chair
  • Sally Hsu, Bates Smart, EmAGN Co-Chair
  • Annabel Lahz, lahznimmo architects, Chair of Juries

Jurors:

  • Elizabeth Carpenter, fjcstudio, NSW President
  • Sean Wong, Wardle, EmAGN Co-Chair
  • Sally Hsu, Bates Smart, EmAGN Co-Chair
  • Jennifer McMaster, TRIAS, Immediate Past Winner
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