Durbach Block Jaggers and John Wardle Architects’ gallery and performance venue Phoenix Central Park has been voted the best cultural building of 2020 by an international audience.
The Sydney project, the latest ambitious building to be commissioned by arts patron Judith Neilson, was the people’s choice winner in the Dezeen Awards’ cultural category, winning 32 percent support.
Laura Harding, reviewing Phoenix Central Park in the September/October issue of Architecture Australia, describes it as “a Corbusian boîte à miracles – a miracle box – an architectural vessel capable of holding everything you could desire.”
In the Hospitality Building category, Bali hotel the Tiing designed by Australian Nic Brunsdon won with 28 percent of the vote. “The project strives for a local vernacular filtered through architectural references of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and aspires to amplify the sense of place as interpreted and represented by a foreign architect,” wrote Thomas Mckenzie in a review of the project.
Other popular projects in the cultural category were He Art Museum by Tadao Ando Architect and Associates (24 percent), Jiunvfeng Study on Mount Tai by Gad Line + Studio (20 percent), Zhang Yan Cultural Museum by Shenzhen Horizontal Design (15 percent) and The Reach by Steven Holl Architects (9 percent).
A number of other Australian projects also polled well.
Partners Hill’s Daylesford Longhouse, winner of the 2019 Australian House of the Year, won 18 percent of the vote in the rural house category, behind No Footprint House by A-01 (24 percent) The Red Roof by Taa Design (20 percent) and Devon Passivhaus by McLean Quinlan (20 percent).
In the urban house category, Andrew Burges Architects’ Bismarck House in Byron Bay got 16 percent of the vote, behind Thang House by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (48 percent).
The residential rebirth category included Australian projects: Bismark House again on 9 percent and North Bondi House by James Garvan Architecture and Welcome to The Jungle House by CplusC Architectural Workshop, both on 10 percent.
Some 62,447 votes were cast across all categories. To see all the results, head here.
The winners of the professionally judged Dezeen Awards will be announced in November.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
