2020 National Architecture Awards: National Award for Urban Design

Jury citation

Campbell Section 5 Master Plan occupies a pivotal six-hectare site at the junction of two major Griffin axes – Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade. This ambitious urban project, encompassing five new streets and blocks, landscaped squares and a major new three-hectare green space, Hassett Park, has transformed this previously degraded corner of Campbell into a vibrant urban neighbourhood. Characterized by its generosity, with broad streets framing vistas to Anzac Parade’s memorials and the distant landscape, the project has the public domain at its heart. Hassett Park is the centrepiece, calmly uniting the new precinct and the existing fabric of Campbell. Built-form controls carefully mediate between the smaller suburban scale and the new urban scale, with taller buildings placed on the avenues and parkland.

Campbell Section 5 Master Plan is an exemplar from conception through to implementation. The as-built project is a testament to the strength of the masterplan and the guidelines embedded within it. The fundamentals are robust, and the quality and detail of the public domain will no doubt stand the test of time. This project has set a new benchmark for Canberra, uplifting the amenity of the area and integrating the old and new communities in the process.

For more coverage, read the project review by Dianne Firth from Landscape Architecture Australia August 2020.

Architect Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects; Project team Benjamin Driver, Alexander Rink, Laura Harding, Adrian Chan; Builder Canberra Contractors; Builder (Hassett Park) Ram Constructions; Landscape consultant Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture; Engineer Cardno; ESD consultant Tony Wong

Campbell Section 5 Master Plan is located in Campbell, Australian Capital Territory, on the land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples of the Ngunnawal nation.