Five projects from around Australia were named as the 2021 Australian Urban Design Award (AUDA) winners at an online ceremony this week.
Urban centres in the Northern Territory were the stars of the night, with two awards announced for the Territory.
Jury chair Malcolm Snow said: “In the entire history of the awards, we’ve never had a winning project from the Northern Territory.”
“To see two awards for the Territory in one year is just a fantastic accolade and the creators of these projects should be incredibly proud.”
The first NT award was the transformation of Goyder Square in Palmerston by Hatch Roberts Day in collaboration with Turf Design Studio and Electrolight, which took out the award for Built Projects – City and Regional Scale.
The Darwin Civic and State Square by TCL Landscape Architecture and Urban Design took out the Leadership, Advocacy and Research – City and Regional Scale award.
Judges highly praised this project, saying the square provided a compelling vision for a new cultural and civic core that reimagines an existing car park into a dynamic new heart for public life in the city.
The category of Built Projects – Local and Neighbourhood Scale had two award winners, with the first recipient Prahran Square in Victoria by Lyons Architecture and ASPECT Studios.
Sharing the award was the Canopy Precinct in New South Wales by Arcadia Landscape Architecture and Scott Carver Landscape Architecture.
The final award for Leadership, Advocacy and Research – City and Regional Scale was awarded to the Queensland University of Technology Campus to Country by TCL Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.
According to the judges, this project set a high benchmark for other large-scale institutions to emulate in terms of its public commitment to the integration of Indigenous values and for the clarity of its urban design logic and communication.
Snow added: “An aspect I really appreciated about this year’s winners is how many of them created new public spaces.
“It’s so important that towns and cities provide well-designed spaces like this for their communities.
“In the instance of Prahran Square for example, a new public space has been reclaimed from a surface car park and has been given back to local residents.
“This has been cleverly achieved while maintaining car parking below this exciting new addition to the public realm of a dense urban area.”
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