The Design Institute of Australia has announced the winners for its inaugural Designers Australia Awards.
In an industry first, the awards dispense with tradition design disciplines such as industrial, interior, graphic, digital, product, environmental, textile, fashion, and others.
Instead, the awards emphasize the best design thinking and processes applied across projects, which are divided into three-cross disciplinary categories: Place, representing the places we live, work and play; Use, which describe the things we use; and Interact, which depict who and what we interact with.
Bates Smart was awarded winner of the Place category for the Gandel Wing at Melbourne’s Cabrini Hospital. “The new Gandel Wing’s natural finishes, rounded edges and neutral palette illustrate the power of buildings that can heal us,” said judges Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano. “The comforting interiors have been so thoughtfully reimagined that we thought it was a sustainable hotel concept — now that’s somewhere one should check-in! It’s time that hospital and hospitality go hand in hand.”
In the Use category, Design by Them took the top prize for DL Range by Gibson Karlo and Dion Lee. Juror Tuba Kocaturk said the range “presents a timeless process of experimentation with form and materials which brings together functional and purposeful production techniques from fashion and industrial design, translated into an innovative marriage of comfort and inspirational design.”
And finally Monash University XYX Lab was named winner of the Interact category for their HyperSext City exhibition. The judges found it “a testament to the changing role and position of design, moving from the traditional concept of a tangible product through to orchestration of new interactions and experiences,” Kocaturk said.
The judging panel comprised local and international design leaders including Alessandra Baldereschil, Susanna Bilardo, Lisa Cahill, Gavin Campbell, Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano, Marcus Fairs, John Gertsakis, Rafael Gomez, Peta Heffernan, Fenella Kernebone, Tuba Kocaturk, Scott Mayson, Nicole Monks, Lorenzo Palmeri, and Quan Payne.
The winners are:
Place
Winner
Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini
Awards of Merit
Billard Leece Partnership for Susan Wakil Health Building
Cox Architecture for Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Sydney Coliseum Theatre (West HQ),
Cox Architecture and Neeson Murcutt and Neille for Australian Museum Project Discovery
Danielle Brustman for Brighton Street Early Learning
DesiginInc Adelaide for DesiginInc Adelaide Studio
Elenberg Fraser for Market Lane
Latitude for SBB
Mata Design Studio for Applecross Residence
Mycelium Studios for Mycelium Studios
Naomi Milgrom Foundation and Glenn Murcutt for MPavilion 2019
Phillips Pilkington Architects for Gunditj Mirring Keeping Place
Russell and George for Sarah and Sebastian
Skeehan Studio for Canberra Glassworks Shop
Studio-Gram for The Guardsman
Walter Brooke and Associates and Genesin Studio for ITL
Walter Brooke and Associates and Hecker Guthrie for EOS
Woods Bagot for Central Park Tower Refurbishment
Zwei Interiors Architecture for body of work
Use
Winner
Design By Them for DL Range by Gibson Karlo and Dion Lee
Awards of Merit
Cobalt Design for Keep Cup Thermal Cup and Press Fit Lid
Design By Them for August Lounges by Gibson Karlo
Hare and Klein for Bridge Table
Jam Factory for Solute Pendant Light
JDT Design for LEGO 3D printed Spinner
Naomi Milgrom Foundation and Board Grove Architects for MPavilion 2020 Stool Dolly
Skeehan Studio for Rou House, and Nave Collection
Yellow Goat Design for H2O
Interact
Winner
Monash University XYX Lab for HyperSext City
Ian Wong for 100 Objects and I-conic
United Studio for Markr
President’s Award
Edward Linacre for contritution to the profession
Source: Architecture - architectureau
