{"id":286223,"date":"2025-11-15T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286223\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:19:29","slug":"melbourne-retrofit-picks-up-international-award-for-responsible-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286223\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne retrofit picks up international award for \u2018responsible\u2019 architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\">The winning projects of this year\u2019s Ammodo Architecture Award have been announced, with 26 recipients selected from 168 entries across more than 60 countries. Now in its second year, the award showcases exemplary contributions to socially and ecologically responsible architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">In the Social Engagement category, which recognises projects where designers have used their skills as the primary tool to support social and ecological responsibility, NMBW Architecture Studio was one of 12 practices to receive an award. Their winning project, <a href=\"https:\/\/architectureau.com\/articles\/sanders-place-by-nmbw-architecture-studio-openwork-and-finding-infinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sanders Place<\/a>, involved the adaptive reuse of a two-storey brick factory in Melbourne into a co-working hub for developer Tripple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The award\u2019s advisory committee noted that transforming the closed industrial building into an open, welcoming space reconnects people with nature and community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NMBW's winning project, Sanders Place, involved the adaptive reuse of a two-storey brick factory in Melbourne into a co-working hub for developer Tripple.\" class=\"['full'] full blur-up lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c7ff7237704521c77e4d71bc302bdca6.jpg\" height=\"698\" width=\"465\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View gallery<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cThe project skilfully reimagines an existing factory through acts of careful subtraction and reuse, introducing five courtyards \u2013 including a central garden where trees grow through the floor \u2013 that bring light, air and life into the building,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cWith rooftop solar panels, heat recovery ventilation and extensive material reuse, Sanders Place exemplifies how sustainability and human wellbeing can be integrated with beauty and restraint. It demonstrates how architects can \u2018liberate themselves from chains\u2019 to create meaningful, ecological and socially engaging architecture, even in highly regulated urban contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The award includes a \u20ac50,000 grant to support the further development of the practice\u2019s projects, which, according to a media release, NMBW intend to use to \u201cfund a design-research initiative exploring how architecture in Melbourne and Sydney can be revitalised through decolonising design, adaptive reuse and multi-sensory engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cFocusing on disused colonial-era buildings often located on significant Indigenous sites, NMBW will investigate how to transform these structures into inclusive, living public spaces,\u201d the release notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The Ammodo Architecture Award advisory committee was chaired by Joumana El Zein Khoury, executive director of the World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam, and included Andr\u00e9s Jaque, architect, dean and professor, Columbia University GSAPP, New York; Anupama Kundoo, architect and professor, TU Berlin; Floris Alkemade, architect and former Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands; Mariam Issoufou, architect and professor, ETH Zurich; and Loreta Castro Reguera, architect and professor, UNAM Mexico City. To ensure global representation, projects were sourced through an invitation system organised by regional ambassadors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winning projects of this year\u2019s Ammodo Architecture Award have been announced, with 26 recipients selected from 168&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286224,"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-286223","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\/286223","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=286223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}