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Horbury Hunt Award 2008
This year the About Face programme will also incorporate the Horbury Hunt Award for outstanding brick craftsmanship and innovation in built commercial projects. Nominations closed on 6 June and the winner will be announced at the About Face awards dinner in October 2008.The Horbury Hunt Award recognises commercial projects in clay brick that exemplify excellence in design and construction and show a high level of innovation. Nominated projects are located in Australia and have been completed since April 2006.
The winning project will be announced and presented at an event in Sydney on October 2nd, 2008.
John Horbury Hunt (1838-1904) was an architect who came to Australia from America in 1863. Hunt is renowned for the distinctive, radical architecture he introduced to Sydney and rural New South Wales, including St Peter’s Cathedral and Booloominbah in Armidale, and Convent of the sacred Heart and Tivoli on Rose Bay.
2008 Horbury Hunt Nominees
Melbourne Grammar School – John Wardle Architects
“The design goes to considerable lengths to capture the multitude of landscape and contextual views available and cleverly blends old and new together visually.” Read more>
Rydges Hotel, Cambelltown - by Scott Carver
“The Hotel design incorporates specific bricks types and forms used by the other major precedent buildings on the site. The face brick assists in relating all buildings making a total homogeneous development where repeated themes give family resemblance to disparate building types.” Read more>
Roseville College - Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
“The excellent quality of the bricklaying reinforces the sculpture of the forms, and underlines the high standard of the facility as a whole.” Read more>
Dover Road, Rose Bay - Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
On a compact urban site in Rose Bay, Hill Thalis Architecture has designed an apartment block tailored to the site’s particular conditions comprising a diverse mix of accommodation including residential units, shops and a carpark. Read more>
Jack Floyd Reserve - Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
Jack Floyd Reserve is the western anchor to the City of Sydney’s broader upgrading of the centre of Redfern. The project transforms a neglected triangle of left over space near Redfern Station into a revitalised public place, providing a much-needed green space at the intersection of Botany Road and Redfern Street. Read more>
Knox Grammar School - Gardner Wetherill Associates
Knox One is the first new building on the Knox Grammar School senior campus and follows the site’s master-plan that sets out a “Grand Walkway” running through the campus, linking the sometimes disparate buildings. Read more>
Pymble Ladies College - PMDL Architecture & Design
The Gillian Moore Centre for the Performing Arts at Pymble Ladies’ College was designed to provide a high quality learning and performance environment for students. Read more>
Chapel of the Holy Name - DesignInc
The 400-seat Chapel of the Holy Name at Adelaide’s St Ignatius College features a striking oval floorplan, which is set out on a number of different but joining radii. The oval design concept was developed by the architects, DesignInc to express a feeling of being embraced by the building. Read more>
Jacaranda Square - ASPECT Studios | McGregor Westlake Architects | Deuce Design
Decorative coloured brick walls with concrete lounges, colourful canopies, recycled brick ground and native trees combine with a large green platform to create Sydney Olympic Park’s new community space. Read more>
Macquarie University - DEM (Aust) Pty Ltd
Macquarie University’s new building for its Division of Economics and Financial Studies was designed to create a “culture-changing” environmentally sustainable facility. Read more>
University of Western Sydney - Hassell Pty Ltd
The great American architect Louise Kahn said of his renowned Philips Exeter Library building, built in the early 1970's, "the weight of the brick makes it dance like a fairy above and groan below". Read more>
Mornington Centre - Lyons Architects
Lyons Architects set out from the beginning to test the conventional paradigm of a hospital. Read more>
The University of Notre Dame Australia, WA - Marcus Collins Architects
The University of Notre Dame Australia, School of Health Sciences, Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Research provides a facility to bring together multidisciplinary research teams drawn from Health Sciences, medicine, Nursing, Counselling, Behavioural Science and Education, investigating many aspects of preventative and restorative health. Read more>
The University of Notre Dame Australia, NSW - Marcus Collins Architects
The University of Notre Dame Australia’s new schools of Medicine and Nursing occupy part of the historic Sacred Heart Parish facilities in Darlinghurst, in Sydney’s inner Eastern suburbs. These consist of a 1912 church, an 1880 school and the 1970 presbytery. Read more>
Warrandyte Police Station - Kerstin Thompson Architects
Warrandyte Police Station is one of two stations commissioned together as a pair in Melbourne’s green belt bush suburbs of Warrandyte and Hurstbridge. Read more>
The Sacred Heart School - Suters Architects
As stage one of a master plan for the future growth of Sacred Heart Primary School, Suters Architects were briefed to deliver a modern Library which could serve as a multi-functional space. Read more>
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