Collins and Turner have been confirmed as winner of the City of Sydney Design excellence competition for 40a+40b O’Dea Avenue in Waterloo.

Carried out for property group JQZ, and designed in collaboration with Environa Studio, the project comprises 3 mixed use buildings including a 20 storey residential tower on Sam Sing Street, and 4 storey mixed use retail and residential structures on Archibald Avenue and Hatbox Place.

The project aims to establish new standards of amenity for inner city living, by including over 2500sqm of landscaped external space in the form of gardens, roof terraces, and planted balconies across the full height of the tower and low-rise buildings, consistent with City of Sydney’s recent initiatives to encourage the use of green roofs and urban farms across the inner city.

The tower form is divided into two slender blocks, separated by open air sky gardens which link to open circulation corridors.

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The Waterloo Youth Centre has received 3 AIA national awards at a ceremony held at the Sydney Opera House. Architecture awards were received in the categories of Public Architecture, Sustainability, as well as the Bluescope steel award for Australian steel building of the year.

Penny was one of the judges at this years DARCH Horse Awards, held on Friday 22nd November at Austral’s CBD Design Studio. The DARCH Horse Awards recognise and celebrate outstanding contributions by non-architects in the pursuit of a high quality built environment. The aims of the awards are to engage a broader audience in discussion about the importance of architecture to our city, our society, and our culture. The awards aspire to recognise the value input affiliated professionals and industry members make to the places which we inhabit, and encourage a spirit of generosity and collaboration.

Collins and Turner has been selected as architect for a free-standing restaurant complex on the waterfront promenade at Barangaroo South.

Resembling stacked bamboo bowls, the proposal was revealed today by Lend Lease’s Barangaroo South Managing Director Andrew Wilson.

“Collins and Turner submitted an exciting, stylish concept that makes a strong visual statement and confidently holds its own among the other world-class designs at Barangaroo,” Andrew Wilson said.

A judging panel comprising Lend Lease team members, a Barangaroo Delivery Authority representative and Ivan Harbour from Barangaroo South master planners Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners selected Collins and Turner over the 14 other entrants due to its “artistic design” and “well-researched, well organised and flexible approach”.

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The Waterloo Youth Centre has won the 2013 AIA NSW Sir John Sulman Medal for outstanding public architecture, and a NSW architecture award for sustainability at presentation evening held at Pier 2/3 at Pyrmont.

The Sir John Sulman Medal and Diploma are the most prestigious architectural honours in New South Wales and the oldest in Australia. They are named for the English-born architect, Sir John Sulman (1849-1934), who spent his adult life engaged in architectural practice, education and town planning. In his last years he positioned himself as a public commentator on architecture, art and the emerging discipline of planning through journalism, committee membership and lobbying. He donated the money for the Medal in 1931, three years before his death. Previous recipients include the Queen Victoria Building, Seidler’s Australia Square and the the Sydney Opera House.