Victorian Architecture Medal Explained

Victorian Architecture Medal
Current Awards:Powerhouse Place, Mildura
Awarded For:Highest Architecture Award in Victoria
Presenter:Australian Institute of Architects (Victoria Chapter)
Country:Australia
Year2:2024

The Victorian Architecture Medal is the highest honour awarded annually by the Victoria Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) and has been awarded 38 consecutive times since 1987. The Medal was originally known as the ‘Street Architecture Medal’ introduced by the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA) in 1929 as an award for the design of a building of exceptional merit.[1] Buildings were judged on their "urban propriety and architectural etiquette; the building had to front a street, road, square or court" and with a requirement of being publicly accessible, thereby excluding residential and private commissions.

Background

Definition

The Victorian Architecture Medal is awarded as part of the Victorian Architecture Awards and selected from the AIA Victoria Chapter 'named award' winners, from all direct entry categories and can also be drawn from the winners of the Sustainable Architecture Award, Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, Melbourne Prize or Regional Prize. The winner of the Medal is judged to be the most outstanding project of the year, by definition making it 'a building, place or structure of exceptional merit', often winning multiple prizes across different award categories.

Medal

A cast circular bronze medal is awarded to the winner and usually affixed on the winning project in a prominent position.

Public vs residential awards

The medal winner usually has a strong civic and public character with architectural qualities that contribute to the greater public realm of the city or environment. Two exceptions were the awarding of the Medal to John Wardle Architecture for a private residence, Balnarring Beach House in 1997[2] and to Wood Marsh for the Yve Apartments on St Kilda Road in 2006.[3]

Changes to the concept of 'public architecture' as the basis for the judging of the award occurred after World War II. The first post war Medal was awarded in 1954 to Roy Grounds House for a residential house and four apartments in Toorak.[4] This was followed ten years later with the private and remote Grimwade House by McGlashan Everist who were awarded the second Medal in 1963.[5] On only six occasions it has been awarded to projects located outside metropolitan Melbourne (1940, 1963, 1987, 1997, 2022 and 2024).

Since 1996 the annual William Wardell Award for Public Architecture has specifically recognised institutional and public buildings. The Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize established in 1997 has become another significant award that addresses the civic and public realm contributions of architecture to the city, but does not focus solely on the experience of the 'street'.

Street Architecture Medal (1929–1942)

RIBA influence

The Royal Victorian Institute of Architect's (RVIA) 'Street Architecture Medal' is considered the predecessor and equivalent of the current Victorian Architecture Medal. It was first awarded in 1929 and consecutively 14 times until 1942. The Street Architecture Award was a concept imported from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) that had established an award with the same name in 1923, an idea which had been around since before World War I. The award was created to encourage design excellence in architecture and increase public interest in the 'street architecture' of London. The first award for best public building in London was made to W. Curtis Green for Wolseley House at 157–160 Piccadilly.[6]

First Medal 1929

The 'Extracts from the Examining Jury's Report' of the first Victorian award by chair P.A. Oakley and jury were reported in the Journal of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects in July 1929.[7] "As architects, we feel deeply the proud responsibility enjoyed by members of our profession as sponsors of the city buildings which form possibly the most important visible expression of a city’s individuality and attractions." The jury could recognise any building built within the past five years, with the objectives of the award listed as twofold —"Firstly, that buildings which notably contribute to the civic beauty and architecture of the cities of this State should be publicly singled out and acknowledged, in order that universal appreciation of their good qualities and emulation of their characteristics may be encouraged, and that through this means a widespread sense of civic responsibility may be developed and fostered in the architects and citizens of our State..." and secondly that "...due recognition by his fellow practitioners and fellow citizens may be made of the high achievement of the architect responsible for a building deemed worthy of this award...".

It was also noted that a competition was to be held for the design of the bronze plaque to be attached to the winning building, open to RVIA Members and students. In July 1930 it was announced that the design competition for the Street Architecture 'plaque' was won by Mr. J.C. Barton and Mr. H.J. Tribe.[8]

The first medal was presented to Francis House at 107 Collins Street in Melbourne, a narrow fronted five storey office building with a ground level shopfront, designed by architects and cousins Blackett and Forster. William Blackett was the then president of the RVIA in his second term (1928–1930).[9] The building still stands in near original condition. It was built in 1927–1928 for the established pharmacists and chemists, Henry Francis & Co. It was notable for its bronze shopfront details and beige and orange retractable awning, inspired by the shopping streets of Paris and New York, greatly contributing to the characterisation of the area as the 'Paris End' of Collins Street.

In 1936 the president of the RVIA described the purpose of the award was to "encourage excellence of design and public interest in street architecture, the Institute having decided to examine annually buildings completed during the previous three years and to award a medal for a building of exceptional merit". Describing the 1937 medal winning project the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Building on Spring Street in East Melbourne by Leighton Irwin and Roy K. Stevenson "The Jury considers that this is an unusual example of street architecture as it actually faces streets on all four elevations and presents a very interesting treatment of the various facades."[10]

Other Street Architecture Awards and Medals in Australia

In the 1930s the Royal Institute of British Architects began awarding Street Architecture Awards and Bronze Medals to international projects, including Hackett Memorial Buildings at University of Western Australia which was awarded a RIBA Bronze Medal in 1931.[11] Later Perth Girls' School[12] in Western Australia was awarded a RIBA Bronze Medal in 1939, for the period 1936–1938.[13] British Medical Association (BMA) House at 137 Macquarie Street, Sydney, by architects Fowell and McConnel was presented the RIBA Street Architecture Medal in 1935 for buildings completed in the five years to end of 1933.[14] This was the first time the award had been presented in New South Wales. The RIBA provided the architects with a bronze medal to be affixed to the building and a signed diploma. It was planned at the time for an award to be presented every three years to a new building in New South Wales.[15]

Post World War II changes

A long pause caused by World War II and a slow return to a regular annual architecture awards in Victoria saw none given until 1954 at around which time the Street Architecture Medal was replaced and renamed with the 'Bronze Medal', 'the medal' or the 'RVIA Architecture Award'. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s few medals were awarded. It was not until 1987 that an annual medal was awarded consistently and named the Victorian Architecture Medal, and has been given annually until present.

Victorian Architecture Medal winners (since 1987)

Modern Era Medal Winners by Year[16]
YearWinner Project Location Other AIA awards
2024 Public Realm Lab[17] Powerhouse Place
  • Regional Prize, 2024
  • Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, 2024
  • Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture, 2024
2023 Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban University of Melbourne Student Precinct[18] University of Melbourne, Carlton
  • Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture, 2023
  • Heritage Architecture Award for Creative Adaptation, 2023
  • Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, 2023
  • Walter Burley Griffin Award, 2023 (National)
  • National Award for Heritage Architecture[19]
2022 Noxon Giffen Architects
(with McGregor Coxall)
Grampians Peaks Trail Stage 2[20] Grampians National Park (Gariwerd)
  • Regional Prize, 2022
2021 Woodside Building for Technology and Design 20 Exhibition Walk, Monash University Clayton Campus
2020 Kerstin Thompson Architects Broadmeadows Town Hall
  • Public Architecture Commendation, 2020
2019 Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design Parliament of Victoria Members' AnnexeSpring Street, East Melbourne
2018 Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Harrison and White, MvS Architects and Maddison Architects New Academic Street, RMIT UniversityBowen Street, Melbourne
  • Melbourne Prize (Joint Winner), 2018
  • Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, 2018
  • Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture,
  • Interior Architecture — Architecture Award, 2018
  • National Award for Urban Design, 2018[21]
2017 Silver Thomas Hanley, DesignInc & McBride Charles Ryan[22] Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne
2016 51 Little Malop Street, Geelong
2015 Shrine of Remembrance, Galleries of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
2014 McBride Charles Ryan Dallas Brooks Community Primary School
2013 Sean Godsell Architects in association with Peddle Thorp Architects RMIT University Design Hub (Building 100) 150 Victoria Street, Carlton
2012 Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart[23] 50 Flemington Road, Parkville
2011 Cox Architecture AAMI ParkOlympic Boulevard, Melbourne
2010 Woods Bagot and NH Architecture 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf
2009 Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre Project, (Southbank Theatre) 31 Sturt Street, Southbank
2008 John Wardle Architecture47 Domain Road, Melbourne
2007 Grimshaw Jackson Joint VentureSouthern Cross Station[24] Spencer Street, Melbourne
2006 Wood Marsh Architecture Yve Apartments[26] [27] 576–578 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
  • Harold Desbrowe–Annear Residential Award, 2006
  • Residential Architecture — Multiple Housing (National), 2016
2005 McBride Charles Ryan Architecture and Interior Design Templestowe Park Primary School Multipurpose Hall 399 Church Road, Templestowe
2004 Shrine of Remembrance Visitor Centre and Garden Courtyard Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
2003 Lab Architecture Studio in association with Bates SmartFlinders Street & St Kilda Road, Melbourne
  • Melbourne Prize, 2003
  • Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, 2003
  • Mahony Griffin Award for Interior Architecture (National Award), 2003
2002 LyonsVictoria University Online Training Centre, St Albans Campus[28] University Boulevard, St Albans
2001 Melbourne Museum[29] [30] 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton Gardens, Carlton
2000 FIELD Consultants Holyoake Cottage, Eaglemont[31] Eaglemont, Victoria
  • Harold Desbrowe–Annear Award, 2000
1999 Nation Fender Katsalidis Architects Ian Potter Museum of Art[32] Swanston Street, Melbourne
1998 Wood Marsh/Pels Innes Neilson Kosloff Eastern Freeway Extension (Stage 3) Sound Barriers M3 Eastern Freeway (Doncaster Road to Springvale Road), Doncaster, Doncaster East and Blackburn North
  • Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design (National), 1998
1997 John Wardle Architecture Isaacson Davis Residence[33] Balnarring, Mornington Peninsula
  • Harold Desbrowe–Annear Award, 1997
1996 Storey Hall
(RMIT Building 16)
336 Swanston Street, Melbourne
1995 Edmond & Corrigan in association with Demaine Partnership RMIT Building 8360 Swanston Street, Melbourne
  • Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design (National), 1995
  • Award for Institutional Alterations & Extensions, 1995
  • City of Melbourne Award for Institutional Buildings, 1995
1994 Williams & Boag Tyne Street Multiple Housing8–28 Tyne Street, Carlton
  • Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design, 1994 (National)
  • Merit Award for Multiple Residential, 1993
  • City of Melbourne Building and Planning Awards Merit Award—Multiple Dwellings Category, 1994
1993 Crone Ross Chapel of the Holy TrinityTrinity Grammar School, Charles Street, Kew
  • Merit award for New Institutional Buildings, 1993
1992MCG Southern Stand Redevelopment (Great Southern Stand/Shane Warne Stand)Brunton Avenue, East Melbourne
1991Peter Elliott Carlton Baths and Community Centre[34] 248 Rathdowne Street, Carlton
  • 1991 New Institutional Award [merit], 1991
  • BHP Steel Profile Architecture of the Decade Awards 1981–1991 [highly commended], 1991
  • BHP Steel Sheet and Coil Products Division and Metal Building [merit], 1991
1990Brunswick Community Health Centre11 Glenlyon Road, Brunswick, Victoria
  • Institutional Award[35]
1989Edmond & Corrigan with Ministry for Housing and ConstructionDandenong College of TAFE, Stage 3Dandenong, Victoria
1988Katsalidis & Partners Deutscher Fine Art Gallery & Residence[36] 7 Elm Street, Carlton
1987Catholic Church of St Michael & St John [37] 9 McLachlan Street, Horsham

Architecture Medal winners (1943–1986)

In the period following World War II and the resumption of some awards in 1954, the Street Architecture Medal was dropped as an award, with more than 12 years passing since it was last judged and awarded. Perhaps responding to the rise of modernism and new concerns in architecture it was seen as outmoded and out of date, although there was a widespread use of the term 'Bronze Medal' often for housing projects during the period it is unclear if these medals equate to the status of the current Victoria Architecture Medal.

Medal Winners by Year[38]

! Year!!style="text-align:left;"

Winner !Project Location Other AIA awards
1986–1980 NO AWARDS
1979Resurrection School[39] 402 Corrigan Road, Keysborough
  • Victorian Architecture Medal, Buildings Award
    "Judged an outstanding contribution to architecture" (text on cast medal)
1976–1978 NO AWARDS
1975BHP House 140 William Street, Melbourne
1974–1969NO AWARDS
1968 McGlashan EveristHeide II Heide Gallery, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen
1968 Romberg & BoydFletcher House††8 Avonbury Court, Brighton
  • Bronze Medal, 1968
1967Royal Insurance Group 430—444 Collins Street, Melbourne
  • General Building Category[41]
1966–1964NO AWARDS
1963Grimwade House[42] [43] [44] 28–54 Dundas Street, Rye, Victoria
1962–1955NO AWARDS
1954Grounds, Romberg & BoydHouse and Four Apartments (Roy Grounds House)[45] 24 Hill Street, Toorak
  • RVIA Architecture Award, 1954
    (Medal inscription on building)
1953–1943 NO AWARDS

Note:

  1. Street Architecture Medal concept dropped by 1954.
  2. Definition of award changed to consider private and residential projects.
  3. No 'Victorian Architecture Medals' were awarded between the years 1955–1962 and 1964–1986 (according to the AIA).
  4. Bronze Medals were awarded during periods when the AIA have stated no VAMs were awarded.
  5. †† Bronze Medal for The Age/RAIA House of the Year.
  6. Status of Bronze Medals to be determined.

RVIA Street Architecture Medal winners (1929—1942)

Predecessor (and equivalent) to Victorian Architecture Medal[46] ! Year!!style="text-align:left;"
Winner !Project Location
1942Meldrum and Noad Western Branch of the National Bank of Australasia Limited 460 Collins Street, Melbourne
(corner of William Street)[47]
1941King George V Jubilee Maternal and Infant Welfare Pathological Building[48] Women's Hospital, Melbourne
1940Edward F. Billson Sanitarium Health Food Company Building[49] 3475 Warburton Highway, Warburton[50]
1939Peck & Kempter and AC Leith & Associates Heidelberg Town Hall and Municipal Offices[51] 275 Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe
1938Bates, Smart and McCutcheon Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Melbourne[52] [53] 41 Cookson Street, Camberwell
1937Leighton Irwin and Roy K. Stevenson Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Building[54] 250/290 Spring Street, East Melbourne
1936Godfrey and Spowers (design architects: Norman H Seabrook and WR Godfrey) Bank of New South Wales office368–374 Collins Street, Melbourne
since demolished[55]
1935A&K Henderson and Partners (Kingsley Henderson) Shell Corner Corner of Bourke and Williams Street, Melbourne,
demolished 1958[56]
1934Bates, Smart and McCutcheon (Walter Osbert McCutcheon) Buckley & Nunn Building
(now part of David Jones)
294–312 Bourke Street, Melbourne
1933Sidney Smith, Ogg and Serpell Port of Melbourne Authority Building
(now the Port Apartments)
29–31 Market Street, Melbourne
1932Bates, Smart and McCutcheon AMP Building [57] 419–429 Collins Street, Melbourne
1931A&K Henderson and Partners Lyric House[58] 250 Collins Street, Melbourne
1930E. Evan Smith, Chief Architect;
designed and constructed by the Public Works Department of Victoria
Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy (RMIT Building 13)[59] 405 Russell Street, Melbourne
1929WAB Blackett[60] and WB Forster Francis House[61] 107 Collins Street, Melbourne

Notes:

RVIA Street Architecture Medal

  1. No Street Architecture Medals were awarded during the war years and post–war years between 1943 and 1953.
  2. 5 of 12 awards were for buildings on Collins Street, Melbourne.
  3. 10 of 12 awards were for buildings in Melbourne's CBD.

See also

Notes and References

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  17. Web site: 7 June 2024 . Winners announced: 2024 Victorian Architecture Awards . 8 June 2024 . Australian Institute of Architects.
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