The 2023 Australian Good Design Awards have awarded four architectural design projects with their highly esteemed Best in Class accolade.
From a community-minded residential precinct to a spooky tour, a restaurant with a diverse sea to plate experience and a scenic destination for wine lovers, the 2023 architecture category paid homage to a mixed assortment of projects across the commercial, public and residential sectors.
Architectural Design – category winner
Nightingale Village – Architecture Architecture, Austin Maynard Architects, Breathe, Clare Cousins Architects, Hayball, and Kennedy Nolan.
Nightingale Village is a medium-density residential precinct comprising 203 homes across six buildings in Brunswick.
Image: Tom Ross
Nightingale Village is a medium-density residential precinct comprising 203 homes across six buildings in Brunswick. Six architecture firms united through Nightingale Housing to deliver their own building, with the precinct setting new standards for community-centred design and environmental sustainability outcomes.
Architectural Interior Design – category winner
Delatite Cellar Door – Lucy Clemenger Architects with landscape by Tommy Gordon
Delatite Cellar Door by Lucy Clemenger Architects and Tommy Gordon.
Image: Derek Swalwell
The Delatite Cellar Door provides a unique wine tasting and dining experience located in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. The building utilizes environmentally sustainable design principles in a new commercial setting, as well as reflects the identity of Delatite’s owners.
Architectural Place Design – category winner
Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion – Chat Architects, Angsila Fishermen Community and INDA Chulalongkorn University.
The open-water dining pavilion design is a refreshing take on the widely deployed bamboo oyster scaffolding.
Image: W Workspace
Located off the coast of historic Angsila Fishing village in Thailand, the oyster scaffolding pavilion seeks to reinvigorate the struggling fishing industry through the creation of a new oyster eco-tourism infrastructure model. The open-water dining pavilion invites visitors to have a unique and refreshing dining experience on the bamboo scaffolding, offering the floundering industry an opportunity for diversification and prosperity.
Architectural Installation Design – category winner
Pentridge Prison Tours – Art Processors
Pentridge Prison Tours by Art Processors and National Trust of Australia (Victoria).
Image: Brent Lukey
Art Processors partnered with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to transform Pentridge Prison into an immersive and unforgettable visitor experience by opening up the chilling historic site to attendees, providing them with the opportunity to uncover unsettling truths about a callous epoch in Australia’s history.
The 2023 Good Design of the Year Award was given to an airbourne disease tracking device that helps agricultural growers manage their crops. BioScout by Tiller Design uses machine learning algorithms to identify and analyse spores in the field.
Elsewhere in the awards, Reef Design Lab’s Erosion Mitigation Units (EMU) received the Good Design Award for Sustainability and industrial designer Marc Newson was awarded the Australian Design Prize for his work with well known brands such as Qantas, Louis Vuitton and Ferrari.
