Judges praise disaster-resistant gallery and bridge on Arthur Boyd’s NSW estate and ‘profoundly moving’ place of worship in Sydney’s Punchbowl
Punchbowl mosque, in Sydney’s south-west, has been recognised in the 2024 RIBA architecture awards. The project took 17 years to gain council approval.Punchbowl mosque, in Sydney’s south-west, has been recognised in the 2024 RIBA architecture awards. The project took 17 years to gain council approval.Two Australian architecture projects have been recognised in the UK’s prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects international awards for excellence.
In 2022, Melbourne firm Kerstin Thompson Architects completed the Bundanon Art Museum in the grounds to house the extensive collection of art the Boyds had also gifted. Accompanying the museum is an accommodation and creative learning centre called the Bridge.RIBA judges praised both the subterranean museum and the bridge, both designed to withstand their flood and bushfire-prone environment, as major architectural works that elegantly integrate the site with the prior heritage buildings.
“It learns from ways in which traditional owners have over millenia managed these dynamic forces. Feeling climate and its vicissitudes is fundamental to the visitor experience of being ‘en plein air’, to delight in and connect with this remarkable place.
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