FIVE Greater Dandenong building projects are in the running for Victorian Architecture Awards.
The Revitalising Central Dandenong: Lonsdale Street Redevelopment is a contender for the Urban Design Award.
The BKK/TCL project was conceived as a grand boulevard with a pedestrian focus and was part of the State Government’s Revitalising Central Dandenong initiative.
Uniting Aged Care in Noble Park, by ThomsonAdsett, started as an idea to renew an ageing inner suburban care facility and became a contemporary new building – and a chance for the Residential – Multiple Housing Award.
The 68-bed facility accommodates aged care, independent living and administrative facilities and has contributed to rejuvenating the neighbourhood.
Also in the running for the Residential – Multiple Housing Award is Eunice Seddon Homes and Wallara Accommodation in Dandenong, by Allen Kong Architect.
It creates a peaceful and supporting environment for people living with an acquired brain injury.
The open-style planning encourages residents to have daily contact with the outdoors and control over their space.
Chisholm Institute Automotive and Logistics Centre in Dandenong, by Paul Morgan Architects, is up for the New Public Architecture Award.
The training facility for apprentices in automotive and logistics training is a giant industrial shed completed on a cheap budget.
The ‘performance shell’ responds aerodynamically to wind conditions and thermally to solar orientation and is visually reminiscent of high-speed machines.
A contender for both the Commercial Architecture and Urban Design awards is the Precinct Energy Project (PEP) in Dandenong by Peter Hogg and Toby Reed Architects.
It’s a prototype for a new commercial/industrial building type that aims to provoke discussion about the environment in a fun way.
It provides a focal point and new local icon for the regeneration of downtown Dandenong.
There are 240 projects competing in the Australian Institute of Architects awards in 11 categories and for the Victorian Architecture Medal.
Entries will be exhibited at PIN UP Project Space in Collingwood from 29 May to 29 June.
Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 21 June and will progress to the National Architecture Awards, announced on 1 November.
