From 71 entries, 18 have been shortlisted by the jury in the 2024 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, which seeks conceptually rigorous, inventive responses to contemporary architectural issues. The prize promotes debate and to generate ideas about architecture by rewarding compelling work in its conceptual stages.
The shortlisted proposals are:
Baugruppen at White Gum Valley – Spaceagency
Between There And Now – Nathan Arceri
C6, South Perth – Fraser and Partners
Ecotonal Ground – Saran Kim
Eroding Occupation - Landscape as protagonist – Sam Hodgens, University of Tasmania
For a good time, not a long time – Yuchen Gao
Future Density: A water sensitive, climate positive housing typology for the future – Cox Architecture and The University of Queensland
Future Naarm: First Light – RMIT Architecture Immersive Futures Lab and Superscale
Gardens on Oxford – Lily Cannon, Chloe Jin and Sarah-Jane Wilson
Ghosts and Fragments in Place – Brandon Chan
Intertidal – Sophie Thorley and Charlotte Sandbrekke, The University of Sydney
Neo-Gaya – Rui Shen Chong, University of Tasmania
Pier Pavilion – Architecture Associates
Retrofitting for Reinvention – Hannah Hill-Wade and Tom Matthews
Sanctum Petra – Meghna Prasanth
The Politics in Aesthetics: An Anthropogenic Botanical Garden for the Penrice Soda Products Factory – Stephanie Clutterbuck
What We Know, Is What We Remember – Taylor and Hinds Architects with Dr Lois Peeler AM
Wild Futures – Infra-Architecture Lab
The 2024 jury comprised Nigel Bertram (Director, NMBW Architecture Studio), Leah Lang (Queensland Government Architect, Office of the Queensland Government Architect), Jennie Officer (Director, Officer Woods Architects), Peter Tonkin (Director, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer) and Georgia Birks Associate Editor, Architecture Media and jury chair of the 2024 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work).
The winner of the prize will be announced on 18 January 2024 on ArchitectureAU.com and in the January/February issue of Architecture Australia magazine.
The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work is organized by Architecture Media, publisher of ArchitectureAU.com and supported by Monash University.
