Sir_Zelman_Cowen_Award_for_Public_Architecture

Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture

Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture

Annual national architecture award for public buildings in Australia

The Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture is a national architecture award presented annually by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) since 1981. The named award is given to the work adjudicated to be the most significant for the advancement of public architecture in that year. Alongside the Named Award, National Awards and National Commendations are also given by the jury.[1]

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Background

Definition of the award

The award recognises 'completed works of architecture of the highest quality' in the public architecture category. Originally the award was offered for 'non–residential buildings' with winning and commended projects including a wide array of building types including; cultural, education, health, transport, sports facilities, tourism, infrastructure, religion, justice, correctional facilities, war memorials, public administration, commercial buildings and a fountain.

Projects in this awards category must be predominantly of a public or institutional nature and generally fall within Building Code of Australia (BCA) Class 9, excluding projects within the definition of 'Educational Architecture or any BCA Class 9b building used primarily for educational purposes'.[2] Projects awarded Named Awards and Architecture Awards by state-based Chapters of the AIA will be considered for a National Award in the same year. Since 2015 education projects have been assessed in a separate award category for the Daryl Jackson Award for Educational Architecture.[3]

Zelman Cowen

The named award recognises Sir Zelman Cowen, a 1953 Fulbright Senior Scholar in Law from the University of Melbourne and Harvard University, a prominent legal scholar and university administrator, and later the 19th Governor General of Australia (1977—1982) at the time of the inception of the new national RAIA awards that were established in 1981.[4]

Named award winners

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Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture Award Winners
  • 1982 Award, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
  • 1985 Award, Sails in the Desert, Yulara, Northern Territory
  • 1989 Award, New Australian Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
  • 1991 Award, Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide, SA
  • 1996 Award, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 2000 Award, John Niland Scientia Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • 2001 Award, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 2012 Award, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
  • 2013 Award, Perth Arena, Western Australia
  • 2015 Award, Shrine of Remembrance (Education Courtyard), Melbourne, Victoria
  • 2020 Award, Marrickville Library, New South Wales
  • 2020 Award, Anzac Memorial Centenary Extension, New South Wales

Distribution of Awards

The first ten years of the Sir Zelman Cowen Award saw a wide distribution of winners by location with three winners in the Australian Capital Territory, three in Queensland, two in Victoria and one each in Northern Territory and Western Australia. An award was not made in New South Wales until 1998 for Olympic Park Station. Around 60% of awarded buildings were paid for with public funds and 40% with private funding. Cultural projects have accounted for around 40% of all awards, followed by education (22%) and transport (9%).

Awards by Australian state or territory, 1981—2023, by location of building (total 45 awards)

  New South Wales (22%)
  Victoria (22%)
  Queensland (18%)
  Tasmania (2%)
  Western Australia (7%)
  Northern Territory (7%)
  South Australia (7%)
  Australian Capital Territory (16%)

Commendations (1981—2006)

From the inception of the award commendations were an optional award allocated at the jury's discretion. Only six commendations were given in the first ten years of the award. Fourteen were awarded in the next decade (between 1992 and 2001), and overall 26 commendations were made in 24 years, averaging around one per year.

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National Awards and Commendations (Since 2007)

From 2007 the Award was changed from only awarding Commendations, to awarding the named award (Sir Zelman Cowen Award) as the highest award (see table above), a National Award for Public Architecture (equivalent to a High Commendation) and a National Commendation for Public Architecture. A total of 68 commendations have been awarded since 2007, over 17 years, at an average four National Awards/National Commendations per annum, in addition to the named award.

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See also

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