University of Notre Dame lecturers were among winners at the 2026 WA Architecture Awards.<\/p>\n
The university was tied to several wins at the State awards, with senior lecturers Simon Pendal and Katherine Ashe recognised for projects delivered through their architectural practices.<\/p>\n
Dr Pendal\u2019s company Simon Pendal Architect won the Iwan Iwanoff Award for small project architecture, while Ms Ashe\u2019s firm Vittino Ashe Architects received an award for residential architecture and commendations for sustainable architecture and lighting.<\/p>\n
The university\u2019s Fremantle campus library and student hub project, designed by Hames Sharley, received awards for educational architecture and interior architecture.<\/p>\n
The project was shortlisted in the Australian Interior Design Awards and earlier this year won a major award at the Learning Environments Australasia Design Awards.<\/p>\n
University architecture program co-ordinator Dr Lara Mackintosh said the awards highlighted the strength of Notre Dame\u2019s architecture programs and their connection with industry, with many of the award-winning firms employing Notre Dame graduates and Master of Architecture students.<\/p>\n
\u201cNotre Dame was incredibly well represented across the awards, from the recognition of our student hub to the success of our academics, alumni and industry partners,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe awards demonstrate the strength of our teaching, the quality of the firms we work with and the opportunities available to our students through those relationships.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of our students are learning directly from award-winning architects and practices before they even graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prestigious George Temple Poole Award went to the ECU City development by Lyons with Silver Thomas Hanley and Haworth Tompkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Notre Dame lecturers were among winners at the 2026 WA Architecture Awards. The university was tied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,155775,460,134,10992,44,46,8080,45],"class_list":["post-788700","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-cockburn","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-fremantle","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-south","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788700","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=788700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}