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Andrew presents at the AustraliaNow talks - a joint presentation organised by Brickworks, AIANY and CultureNOW. It is a great opportunity to see a cross section of Australian Architecture as part of the celebration of the Opera House’s 50th birthday.

As we move beyond Covid there is a pressing task of re-establishing relationships across practice, making the profession tangible. This series of talks will focus on affiliations. Each event will be hosted at a large practice, generously inviting the profession in. A pair of talks will be presented; the large practice and an invited small / medium practice. Through this multiplicity of voices the talk series will explore issues critical to our discipline, identifying affiliations across scales and modes of practice.

We are thrilled to have received the City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize and a Public Architecture Award at the NSW AIA Awards last Friday for our Gunyama Park Aquatic Recreation Centre (GPARC) 🎉🎉.

From the outset, we wanted to make a project that really expanded the recreational opportunities for the local community – not just a place for people to train and keep fit but a place where everybody could enjoy the pleasures of swimming – a generous and inclusive recreational heart for this emerging high-density neighbour-hood. Achieving this vision has been a collective effort. We would like to thank Clover Moore and City of Sydney
for their leadership in connecting high quality sustainable design with community needs.

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We are thrilled to have received the Best Kitchen Award on Dwell Award 2020.

The project has been a beautiful collaboration with our clients Will & Julia Dangar, Interior design consultants Karen McCartney & David Harrison, and with Robert Plumb Build.

Photography by Prue Ruscoe.

ABA’s Bismarck House is featured in the Australian Financial Review, edited by Stephen Todd.

We were very excited to win 2020 House Interior of the Year at the recent Dezeen Awards. A big thank you to our collaborators on the interior, David Harrison and Karen McCartney and builder Bill Clifton from Robert Plumb Build and clients Will and Julia Dangar. Photography by Peter Bennetts.

Andrew presenting selected projects from past works, and projects currently in process at Cosentino City Centre Sydney.
Curated by David McCrae of mm+j architects

Recent photography of Gunyama Park Aquatic Recreation Centre captured by Brett Boardman.

Construction is complete and the facility will open in February 2021.

Construction continues on our Gunyama Park Aquatic Recreation Centre. In a recent drone photography by Brett Boardman. The centre is due for completion in 2020.

We are thrilled to receive the Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture (Alterations and Additions) for our Bismarck House! The project has been a beautiful collaboration with our clients Will & Julia Dangar, Interior design consultants Karen McCartney & David Harrison, and with Robert Plumb Build. The Bismarck House also won a Commendation for Interior Architecture. Congratulations to all the award winners and shortlisted projects.

ABA’s Bismarck House is on Better Homes and Garden at 7+ channel.

Link to the video can be found here

After three months working remotely, ABA returned to the Surry hills office this week. To give us a reason to come back, and to give the spirit of the architects bookshop a new home, Andrew took the chance to repurpose the bookshelf here, just around the corner in Marlborough Street.

ABA’s Bismarck House is featured in the June 2020 edition of Elle Decoration UK Magazine. A preview of the article can be found HERE

ABA’s Bismarck House has been featured on The Local Project.

ABA’s Brick House is featured in the book Design Lives Here, edited by Penny Craswell, published by Thames and Hudson.

A rare project collaboration initiated by Will Dangar (Dangar Barin Smith Landscape) and Bill Clifton (Robert Plumb Build), saw a pair of semi-detached houses reinvented as a playful, cohesive pair. ABA was engaged to design the northern laneway lot for Will Dangar, while Potter Wilson Architects had already completed the design for Bill Clifton’s semi to the south. To celebrate the completion of both projects, a double house open night was coordinated by Karen McCartney and David Harrison, who acted as interior design consultants for Will Dangar’s project. It was a beautiful night shared with colleagues in construction, architecture, and design.

Having won the 2017 WAF Best Completed Education Project, (for the East Sydney Learning Centre) Andrew was invited to judge this year’s Education category at the 2018 WAF in Amsterdam. As well as judging at the festival, Andrew took the opportunity to revisit many OMA projects in the Netherlands he first visited in the mid 1990’s, as well as seminal housing projects including Borneo Sporenburg by West 8 and Hans Kollhoff’s 1994 Piraeus Housing Block.

Construction is now underway for Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre (GPARC). The ABA, Grimshaw and TCL team were joined by Lord Mayor Clover Moore and CPB Contractors to officially break ground at the site. A traditional Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony marked the start of the main works. The centre is due for completion in 2020.

The East Sydney Early Learning Centre was shortlisted to present at the World Architecture Festival from 15-17th November 2017 in Berlin. Andrew presented the project on Day One of the festival and we are very excited to announce that the ESELC took out the category award for School – Completed Buildings. Congratulations to all entries and thank you to the City of Sydney for supporting such an ambitious project! A full list of award winners can be found here.

Andrew attended the National AIA Awards in Canberra and ABA’s East Sydney Early Learning Centre was awarded the Daryl Jackson Award for Educational Architecture! It was a joy to work on a project where the ‘delight of the child’ was at the forefront. Thank you to the City of Sydney and all that contributed to the project. Thank you also to the AIA, it is a thrill to be recognised amongst such an esteemed list of entries. Congrats to all! A full list of award winners can be found here.

Andrew was invited to judge this year’s Tapestry Design Prize for Architects, an international tapestry competition for architects. This year’s brief was centred around Boullée’s Cenotaph for Newton and hypothetically sited in the Pharoah Wing of MONA, in Tasmania. Read more about the competition here

Andrew Burges will be talking on formative years in his architectural education, reflecting on the influence of the teaching of Swetik Korzeniewski as part of the Antecedence Series at the Institute of Architects on 10.11 in Sydney and the 17.11 in Melbourne. See the link for the talk here

Andrew is in Europe on an architectural study trip, visiting and learning from inventive timber buildings and structures. The trip forms part of the Intergrain Timber Vision Travel Bursary Award, which ABA won last year for our East Sydney Early Learning Centre project.

ABA’s Brick House has been shortlisted for the 2017 IDEA Awards in the Residential Single category. Winners will be announced at the annual IDEA Gala Party in November this year. A full list of shortlisted entries can be found here.

ABA’s Brick House has received a commendation in the popular ‘New House over 200sq.m category’ at the 2017 Houses awards at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday night. A link to the commended projects can be found here. A link to the winning projects can be found here

Andrew presented alongside other esteemed architects at the AIA Tuesdays at Tusculum Talk, Designing where we work, love and play. The talk invited select award winners from the NSW Chapter Awards to present their projects through the lens of work, love and play.

We were very happy to receive an AIA award for Educational Architecture, and a commendation for Interior Architecture, for our East Sydney Early Learning Centre. Thanks to City of Sydney for their leadership in engaging us to provide a best practice childcare design, and congratulations to the contractor Belmadar for their efforts on such a challenging site. A list of awarded projects can be found here.

We were thrilled to receive a residential architecture award for our Brick House at the Australian Institute of Architecture Awards on July 1st. Thanks to our client and builder Shane Green Building for their collaboration on the project. Congratulations to all the award winners. A list of awarded projects can be found here.

ABA’s East Sydney Early Learning Centre was awarded this year’s Travel Bursary Award in the Intergrain Timber Vision Awards. The project also received a commendation in the Commercial Exterior Award category. A full list of award winners can be found here. The jury’s citation can also be read here.

Australasian Leisure news reviews the ambitious sustainability targets of ABA and Grimshaw’s GPARC Aquatic Centre. Targeted as the first Aquatic Centre to achieve a 5 star as Built Green Star rating, an outline of the project and its sustainability principles can be viewed here

ABA’s East Sydney Early Learning Centre was featured on Channel Ten’s ‘Australia by Design: Architecture’ program. The program hosted by Tim Horton (Registrar for the NSW Architects Registration Board) showcases the human story behind some of the most innovative and creative designers & builders in Australia. It highlights their award winning ideas, achievements and projects. To find out more about the program and to watch the episode, click here

Andrew Burges joined with Will Fung from CO-AP in Hobart to talk on recent work as part of the Brickworks ‘Double Talk’ Series. Andrew focussed on the recently completed Brick House and East Sydney Early Learning Centre, and the upcoming GPARC Park and Aquatic centre.
A link to the talk can be found here.

Andrew Burges spoke as part of the Surry Hills ‘About the House’ series curated by Ian Moore. A series typically dedicated to inner city housing solutions, Andrew’s talk instead focused on the social, community and recreational infrastructure required in support of high density housing, illustrated through ABA’s recently completed East Sydney Early Learning Centre and the upcoming GPARC Aquatic and Recreation Centre, which will form the recreational heart for the Green Square Town Centre.

Andrew Burges will be reflecting on his consultation with the City of Sydney Inclusions (Disability) Panel through the design of the GPARC Aquatic Centre as part of a Preconference Workshop for the 2016 Universal Design Conference. The workshop, entitled ‘Best Practice in Public Facility Design’, will review the success of the COS Inclusions Panel in developing a more human centred approach to Universal Design. See the conference link to the workshop here

ABA and Grimshaw’s GPARC Aquatic Centre has been included in Concrete Playgrounds review of the 10 futuristic design projects changing the face of Sydney.

ABA’s Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre is featured in Australia’s Exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Curated by Michelle Tabet with Aileen Sage directors Isabelle Toland and Amelia Holliday, The Pool is a fantastic exploration of the role of the swimming pool in the collective experience and construction of Australian cultural identity. See the New York Times review of the exhibition here

The interviews with prominent Australians discussing the different themes or ‘lanes’ of cultural identity can be heard here (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/pocketdocs/features/the-pool/).

The link to The Pool exhibition book can be found here (http://www.manic.com.au/Pool-The-Architecture-Culture-and-Identity-in-Australia.html).

Andrew’s review of the stunning 1972 Gissing House by Harry Seidler is published in Houses Magazine 91. The link to the article can be found here. (Photo Credit - Chris Colls)

Andrew kicked off the University of Queensland Architecture lecture series with a talk on ‘Geography Making’ featuring recent public, competition and residential projects at the . Andrew’s interview with the State Library prior to the lecture is in the link here

A video link of the lecture can be found here https://vimeo.com/121851732

Our family and childcare centre at 277 Bourke St Darlinghurst for the City of Sydney is progressing on site. Due for completion during 2016, the works are being undertaken by Belmadar Constructions.

ABA’s Skylight House has been selected as a finalist for the Think Brick Horbury Hunt award, celebrating innovation and craftsmanship in the use of brickwork. View the Skylight House and other selected entries here

ABA’s Skylight House wins the best alterations and additions over 200 sq.m award at the 2014 Houses awards. See the jury’s comments here

ABA's Pittwater House has been shortlisted in the World Architecture Festival's residential architecture awards for the best new houses globally in 2014. See the link to the 10 shortlisted houses here

ABA have been selected from 144 local and international entrants as finalists for Stage 2 of the Gunyama Park and Green Square Aquatic Centre Competition. The concept for the project focused on expanding the community appeal of the Aquatic centre by grafting the hedonistic qualities of Sydney’s beach pools into a new urban leisure and wetland landscape. View more of the ABA Gunyama Park entry here.

ABA, in association with Grimshaw Architects and Taylor Cullity Lethlean Landscape Architects, has been selected as the winner of the Gunyama Park Aquatic and recreation Centre. See the Sydney Morning Herald's article on the competition announcement here and Channel 9's coverage here

ABA has won an excellence in timber award at the 2013 Australian Timber Design Awards for its custom cladding design for the Pittwater House. Congratulations to all the design winners, who can be seen here

ABA won the 2012 Heritage award for its renovation and rooftop pavilion addition to a 1930’s modernist dwelling in Darling Point. A link to all the 2012 winners can be found here

The project can also be found in Issue 87 of Houses Magazine.

A detailed practice profile of ABA has been featured in Houses magazine 86. The article by Natalie Ward explores early influences and the evolution of the design approach of the practice. A link to the article can be found here.

ABA has been shortlisted for its Australia House competition entry. The competition, for a new artist in residence studio in the rural Japanese Niigata Prefecture as part of Echigo – Tsumari Art Triennale, had 154 entries from around the world. The jury of Tadao Ando, Tom Henigan and Fram Kitagawa awarded first prize to Andrew Burns Architects. See the press release here.

ABA’s Harbourside Villas and boathouse are featured in this month’s addition of Houses Magazine.

ABA has won the 2011 Woollahra Council Heritage Award for our renovation of an interwar functionalist residence at Darling Point. The renovation of the two storey existing building, including a new third level rooftop ‘pavilion’, worked closely with the original intent of the original Nesbitt design while creating an contemporary adaption of the projects guiding modernist principles.

ABA’s Stone House in Bondi has been featured in Kitchens + Bathrooms

ABA’s alterations and additions to a weekender at Palm Beach has been published in Houses Issue 60.