{"id":281418,"date":"2025-11-13T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:03:10","slug":"winners-of-the-victorian-premiers-design-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281418\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the Victorian Premier\u2019s Design Awards announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier\u2019s Design Awards have been announced, recognising excellence, ingenuity and innovation across the state\u2019s design community with seven category winners and a student design award.<\/p>\n

Taking out the top prize in the Architectural Design category was Woodleigh Futures Studio, a zero-waste building by McIldowie Partners, Joost Bakker and Woodleigh School, which is an independent school on the Mornington Peninsula.<\/p>\n

The Northern Memorial Park Depot<\/a> by Searle x Waldron Architecture, The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, Oculus, OPS Engineers, Buro North and Lucid was highly commended in this category.<\/p>\n

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The other finalists in the Architectural Design category included:<\/p>\n

Assemble, 15 Thompson Street, Kensington \u2013 Hayball, Assemble, Hacer Group, Oculus and Atelier Ten
\nAuburn High School Senior Centre \u2013 Wowowa Architecture
\nCanopi Valley Lake \u2013 Niddrie Quarry Housing \u2013 Bird de la Coeur Architects, CDA Design Group, RedC and MAB
\nECHO.1 \u2013 C Street Projects, Neil Architecture, Speckel, Detail Green, Ascot Consulting Engineers and Structplan
\nEva and Marc Besen Centre<\/a> \u2013 Kerstin Thompson Architects and Tarrawarra Museum of Art
\nGargarro Botanic Garden \u2013 TCL, Gargarro Botanic Garden and Brandrick Architects
\nKangan Institute Health and Community Centre of Excellence \u2013 Architectus and Bendigo Kangan Institute
\nMelbourne Place<\/a> \u2013 Kennedy Nolan Architects, Longriver, Tracy Atherton (hotel consultant) and ADCO Constructions (builder)
\nMunarra Centre for Regional Excellence<\/a> \u2013 ARM Architecture, Munarra Limited, Department of Premier and Cabinet, First Peoples State Relations, the University of Melbourne and the Victorian School Building Authority
\nPakenham Station \u2013 Genton, North Western Programme Alliance, John Holland, Metro Trains Melbourne, KBR and Level Crossing Removal Project
\nPascoe Vale Primary School Gymnasium and Performance Centre \u2013 Kosloff Architecture, GLAS Landscape Architects and Kent Morris (artist)
\nQuiet Studio \u2013 Studiobird, Autex Acoustics and Universal Practice
\nTempleton Primary School \u2013 Kosloff Architecture and GLAS Landscape Architects
\nTerrain \u2013 Terrain
\nTruganina Community Centre<\/a> \u2013 Wyndham City Council (client), Jasmax (architect), CICG (contractor), Outlines (landscape architect), Lisa Waup (artist) and Lucid Consulting (ESD).<\/p>\n

In the Design Strategy category, Plan for Victoria \u2013 a youth-led transport and planning design initiative by Y Lab and the Department of Transport and Planning \u2013 was named the winner.<\/p>\n

Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks commented, \u201cThese awards showcase the creativity, ingenuity and technical expertise that make our state Australia\u2019s design capital, and demonstrate how design can drive business growth and social change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Victorian Premier\u2019s Design Awards are managed by Good Design Australia on behalf of the Victorian government, with the full list of winners accessible online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier\u2019s Design Awards have been announced, recognising excellence, ingenuity and innovation across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-281418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}