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Shortlisted houses vying for the 2025 National Architecture Awards

A modular island home off the coast of Brisbane and a renovation to a Graeme Gunn-designed dwelling in Melbourne are among the residential projects shortlisted in this year’s Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards.

Across nine categories, the jury has selected 25 projects to visit during their national tour, four of which have been shortlisted in multiple categories.

In NSW, Cloaked House by Trias and New Castle by Anthony St John Parsons are each shortlisted in two categories. Kennedy Nolan’s Gunn Ridge House in Victoria and My My My Architecture’s Ochre House in the ACT are also contending for awards in two categories.

The national jury comprises Jane Cassidy (ACT) as chair, Ninotschka Titchkosky (NSW), Martyn Hook (Vic), Yang Yang Lee (WA) and Kavita Gonsalves (Qld).

Winners will be announced at the National Architecture Awards on 6 November in Canberra.

The houses on the shortlist are:

Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

Hedge and Arbour House – Studio Bright

Henville Street House – Philip Stejskal Architecture

Lagoon House – Peter Stutchbury Architecture

Mapleton House – Atelier Chen Hung

Morning Bay House – Casey Brown Architecture

Nebraska – Lara Maeseele

New Castle – Anthony St John Parsons

Ochre House – My My My Architecture

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

Carlton Cottage – Lovell Burton Architecture

Cloaked House – Trias

Gunn Ridge House – Kennedy Nolan

Hotham – Austin Maynard Architects

Niwa House – John Ellway

Shadow House – Grotto Studio

The Stopover – Taylor Buchtmann Architecture

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Blok Three Sisters – Blok Modular in collaboration with Vokes and Peters

Four Dwellings on 800 Square Metres – Clare Design

Indi Sydney – Bates Smart

Newburgh Light House – Splinter Society Architecture

Shiel Street North Melbourne, Community Housing Project – Clare Cousins Architects

Sirius Redevelopment – BVN

Heritage

Gunn Ridge House – Kennedy Nolan

Interior Architecture

Babylon House Interior – Casey Brown Architecture

New Castle – Anthony St John Parsons

Small Project Architecture

Love Shack – Second Edition

Sustainable Architecture

Cloaked House – Trias

The Paddock – Crosby Architects

Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture

Ochre House – My My My Architecture

Enduring Architecture

Moore Park Gardens – AJC Architects


Source: Architecture - architectureau

2025 National Architecture Awards shortlist

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