AWARDS

A modest house in an “unremarkable but incredibly familiar” Gold Coast suburb has clinched the top prize in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Twenty-two projects and two emerging practices have received commendations in the 2020 Houses Awards.

The winning project celebrates a simple life and the capacity of modest architecture to impact significantly on the way we live.

The jury lauded this small, humble project, adding that it “delivers something that we need to see more of in our cities.”

The architect has used traditional materials in a contemporary way to create a quietly powerful statement.

In this winning garden, the dramatic clifftop scenery is carefully calibrated into a series of episodic encounters.

The architects’ sure hand and subtle confidence has brought life and light deep into the modestly sized space.

In reworking a 1970s split-level house, the architect has joyously reinterpreted the history of its place and beach shack typology.

This intriguing alteration and addition to a stately Edwardian reflects new changes to the city and the way we live in it.

The civic generosity of this house brings domestic life into direct relation with its laneway context.

The winning home wears the uniform of its Federation-era neighbourhood with polite grace but hides its true radical heart.

Behind an unusual entry, the main volume of this house sits between a verdant front courtyard and a rear outdoor living space.

This practice has asserted itself among Queensland’s architectural talent and added its own palpable freshness.

Across nine categories, 159 entries and three emerging practices have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Twenty-nine projects from this category have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Eleven projects from this category have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Thirty-six projects from this category have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Eighteen projects from this category have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Fourteen projects from this category have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Five projects from this category have been shortlisted in the 2020 Houses Awards.

Twenty projects in this category have advanced to the 2020 Houses Awards.

Twenty-six projects in this category have advanced to the 2020 Houses Awards.

Three practices are shortlisted for this award in the 2020 Houses Awards.