{"id":515419,"date":"2026-03-03T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515419\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:30:13","slug":"shortlist-revealed-australian-urban-design-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515419\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlist revealed: Australian Urban Design Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-seven projects across three categories have been shortlisted for the 2026 Australian Urban Design Awards. <\/p>\n

Three of four categories have disclosed their shortlists. These include Built Outcomes, Research and Advocacy, and Strategic Design and Policy. A fourth category, Urban Design Champions, has not released a shortlist but will reveal the category winner during the awards ceremony in Canberra on 24 March 2026. <\/p>\n

The 2026 Built Outcomes jury comprises Matt Pullinger, director of Matthew Pullinger Architect; Bill Tsakalos, city architect and director of transformational design at Blacktown City Council; Leigh Woolley, director of Leigh Woolley Architect; and Emily Wong, editor of Landscape Architecture Australia.<\/p>\n

The 2026 jury for the Research and Advocacy, and Strategic Design and Policy categories includes Anna Chauvel of Design and Place, Placemaking NSW; Cameron Caldwell, Member for Fadden, Liberal National Party of Queensland; Ben Driver, senior lecturer in urban development and design at UNSW; and Bridget Smyth, city architect and executive manager of city design and public art at the City of Sydney.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Urban Design Champions jury consists of Elizabeth Watson-Brown, Member for Ryan, Australian Greens; Tina Perinotto, managing editor of The Fifth Estate; Dani\u00e8le Hromek, director and design lead of Djinjama; Ian Woodcock, senior lecturer in urbanism at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, the University of Sydney; and Jennie Officer, director of Officer Woods Architects.<\/p>\n

Since 1996, the awards program has recognised urban design contributions and innovations that improve the performance of Australian cities for communities. <\/p>\n

Built Outcomes <\/p>\n

Balam Balam Place<\/a> \u2013 Kennedy Nolan, Open Work and Finding Infinity<\/p>\n

Barangaroo Station Park \u2013 Arcadia<\/p>\n

Campbelltown Multi-storey Mobility Hub<\/a> \u2013 Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects<\/p>\n

Green Square Public School and Community Spaces \u2013 BVN<\/p>\n

Jewell Station Village \u2013 Neometro<\/p>\n

Merri Northcote \u2013 Six Degrees Architects<\/p>\n

Metro Tunnel \u2013 Hassell, WW+P Architects and RSHP<\/p>\n

New Footscray Hospital \u2013 Cox Architecture, Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) and Tract<\/p>\n

St Kilda Pier Redevelopment \u2013 Jackson Clements Burrows Architects with Site Office Landscape Architecture and AW Maritime<\/p>\n

Surry Hills Village \u2013 SJB, Studio Prineas and Aspect Studios<\/p>\n

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Research and Advocacy <\/p>\n

Adaptive Reuse City House Initiative (ARCHI) \u2013 City of Adelaide<\/p>\n

Design for Climate Design for Change \u2013 Marra and Yeh Architects<\/p>\n

Learning to Walk Again \u2013 Learning to Walk Again<\/p>\n

Safer Cities program \u2013 Transport for NSW<\/p>\n

Sydney\u2019s Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability \u2013 Dr Joshua Zeunert and Dr Alys Daroy<\/p>\n

The Grassening \u2013 \u201cThe Grassening\u201d Team<\/p>\n

ULI Australia, and Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria) Net Zero Imperative: Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) \u2013 Street Trees as Essential Infrastructure \u2013 The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Australia, and the Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria)<\/p>\n

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Strategic Design and Policy <\/p>\n

Base Farm Greendale Master Plan \u2013 Terroir in association with Matthew Pullinger, Realm Studios, Yerrabingin, Atelier Ten, Costin Roe and Urbis<\/p>\n

Campbelltown 3D City Centre Digital Twin \u2013 McGregor Coxall<\/p>\n

City of Vincent \u2013 City of Vincent and the local businesses of Vincent<\/p>\n

Doomadgee Future Planning Project \u2013 Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council, Circ Design and Meridian Urban<\/p>\n

Kanamaluka\/Tamar Master Plan: Infrastructure and Amenities \u2013 Fitzgerald Frisby Landscape Architecture<\/p>\n

Ku-ring-gai Transport Oriented Development (TOD) Alternative \u2013 A Place-Led Strategic Planning Framework \u2013 Ku-ring-gai Transport Oriented Development (TOD) Alternative \u2013 A Place-Led Strategic Planning Framework<\/p>\n

NSW Housing Pattern Book \u2013 Government Architect NSW with the NSW DPHI Strategic Planning and Policy Team<\/p>\n

Redleaf Masterplan \u2013 Oculus and Landcom<\/p>\n

The Rocks\/Tallawoladah Women\u2019s Safety Strategy \u2013 Placemaking NSW with Arup and Transport for NSW<\/p>\n

Thebarton Masterplan \u2013 Renewal SA, Arup, Breathe Architecture and TCL<\/p>\n

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The Australian Urban Design Awards<\/a> are co-convened by the Australian Institute of Architects<\/a>, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects<\/a> and the Planning Institute of Australia<\/a>, and supported by principal partner Bondor Metecno<\/a> and supporting partner Dulux<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-seven projects across three categories have been shortlisted for the 2026 Australian Urban Design Awards. Three of four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-515419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515419","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=515419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}