2025 Awards Winners Revealed (Photos)
Victoria’s best: A photo attempt for the winners of 2025 Architecture Award
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Cara Waters, an Age City Editor, received the best praise at the 2025 Victorian Architecture Awards, a cemetery store, a boutique CBD hotel and a Pub Parklet. Jury President Hamish Lyons, this year’s awards diversity of work on Friday evening at Pullman Melbourne Albert Park presented, said it was greater than he has seen for a long time. “It shows that architects operate in every portfolio, primary schools in every corner and corner to factories to high -level hotels, or he says. “It was really a variety of years, it is very encouraging.” 19 awards were given in 384 applications. Here are the eight winners.
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Victoria’s Architecture Medal and Melbourne Award (Northern Memorial Park Depot, Searle X Waldron Architecture) Judges say: Hamish Lyons, President of the Jury, says that the two -storey, Kereste building brings together a series of themes and narratives. “Previously, all the people who used the building were scattered on the site, or he says. “Grave digges, truck drivers, management, office people, everyone working in that region, all of them were in different sections, which brought them together for the first time.”
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Victoria’s Architecture Medal and Melbourne Award (Northern Memorial Park Depot, Searle X Waldron Architecture) Judges say: Hamish Lyons, President of the Jury, is a “really unique architectural part ve and is built for people who work daily and work for people who work every day. “He created a community of human beings, all working in the same area but not really recognizing each other, or he says. “It has a folded green façade that works well against existing trees, but it is a perforated screen, so when you are out, you take this aperture to the interior. So it doesn’t feel like an administrative shelter or warehouse. In fact, it seems like a building that is experienced by people and has a welcome feeling.”
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Commercial Architecture: (Hyde Melbourne Place, Kennedy Nolan) The judges say: Boutique Hotel Hyde Melbourne Place, Red Brick Front and burnt orange interiors stand out in Melbourne CBD. Jury President Hamish Lyons says that the building is an extraordinary example of hospitality and hotel design, which breaks the mold of hotels.
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Commercial Architecture: (Hyde Melbourne Place, Kennedy Nolan) The judges say: “They really worked hard to make you feel like Melbourne, Ham Hamish Lyons says. “Even at the ground level, various ribbon connections, pedestrian connections, food and drink, they did everything to make you feel, if you are a national or international traveler, you will stay in something that is melbourne.” Lyons says that hotel rooms have an internal quality. “You are not in a general, international, branded hotel, or he says. “You feel like you’re in a native house prepared in the sky.”
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Sustainable Architecture: (Paddock, Crosby Architects) What Judges say: According to the jury President Hamish Lyons in Castlemaine, Padok is a sustainable cluster development that offers a different regional lifestyle. “This really offers the idea of regional life, and does not trust the standard detached farm house.”
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Sustainable Architecture: (Padok, Crosby Architects) Judges: “You live in a community and you benefit from the benefits of the community, Ham Hamish Lyons adds.
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Public Architecture: (Eva and Marc Besen Center, Kerstin Thompson Architects) The judges say: The settled Tarrawarra Museum is a part of the architecture to respect the style when designing the door next to the new Eva and Marc Besen Center.
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The museum and center in Healasville in the northeast of Melbourne were founded by philanthropists and art collector Eva and Marc Besen.
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Public Architecture: (Eva and Marc Besen Center, Kerstin Thompson Architects) Judges say: “KERSTİN [Thompson] He has done a job to create a building that has its own power in architecture, which has its own power but is aware that the prominent museum is the primary building on the site, Ham Hamish Lyons says. Both strong but quiet and recessive. “Credit:Leo Shoewell
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A new sculpture march between the current museum and the new center allows people to interact with art before stepping into the new building.Credit:Leo Shoewell
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Housing Architecture-Evler: (Hedge and Arbor House, Studio Bright) The judges say: A suburban in the northeast of Melbourne integrates this settlement house suburban and bushes.
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Housing Architecture – Houses: (Hedge and Arbor House, Studio Bright) “A good housing project is usually a little twist the customer’s first expected, Ham says Hamish Lyons. “But he fully appreciates the architect’s ability to put him in the game.”
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Housing Architecture-Evler: (Dunstan, SSDH) The judges say: In the Newlands field between Preston and Coburg North, this single-storey red clinker brick house, which has cooked soil roof and wooden windows, was redesigned in a strong example of re-use adapted by SSDH.
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Housing Architecture – Houses: (Dunstan, SSDH) The judges say: “This is not a building that will yell to you that his age can turn into a very elegant house, Ham Hamish Lyons says. “But the architects did a perfect job by respecting a very simple building of his time and working with this language to bring together a total house without any problems.”
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Housing Architecture – Multiple Housing: (Nightingale Preston, Breathe Architecture) Judges say: Near the train station in Preston, these housing offices are “not only standard dog boxes”, according to Hamish Lyons.
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Housing Architecture – Multiple Houses: (Nightingale Preston, Breathe Architecture) The judges say: “This is based on the idea of common areas, the idea of community, the idea of meeting people in common laundry, and the idea of a little better balcony. “It really may be forced to say that this architecture does not have to be cellular dormitories. In fact, I will go and live in a building about the community.”
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Small Project Architecture: (Grace Darling Hotel Parklet, Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Application) What the judges say: Pub Parklets filled Melbourne after Pandemik, but it goes beyond the standard wooden structure in Grace Darling in Collingwood.
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Small Project Architecture: (Grace Darling Hotel Parklet, Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Application) The judges say: “The award program is always trying to encourage incredible diversity, you know to the elders and you know, expensive and similar, Yür says Hamish Lyons. “This is a really modest, good job.”
