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The conversion of the site into a permanent home for Sydney’s arts institutions will ensure the preservation of the historic structures into the future.

Industrial cathedrals: Walsh Bay Arts Precinct

A dexterous amalgam of architectural interventions turned a 100-year-old pier on Sydney Harbour into a permanent home for some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies.

Public / cultural
The vast plaster ceiling features copiously repeated prismatic forms, housing lights that can be varied in colour and intensity.

A good Melbourne citizen returns: The Capitol

After a major 1960s downscaling and a series of ad hoc renovations, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin’s Capitol Theatre has been re-engineered to beguile audiences for another hundred years.

Education, Public / cultural
The City of Perth Library, with its distinctive circular form and angled top, maintains open views to the Titles Building.

Civic pride: Cathedral Square

Kerry Hill Architects has led a collaborative redevelopment of the historic heart of Perth since 2009, complementing the existing heritage fabric with architectural insertions at an urban scale.

Hospitality, Public / cultural
The structure at the western end of the building has been completely rebuilt. The building’s elevation subverts the symmetry of its gable.

The Condensery: Somerset Regional Art Gallery

PHAB Architects has revived a former condensed milk factory in Toogoolawah, Queensland through considered restoration and contemporary gestures.

Public / cultural
The architects retained the facade of the former Kent Brewery, designed by Maurice Halligan and F. H. B. Wilton and constructed in 1912.

Dynamic power: Irving Street Brewery

Tzannes Associates’ adaptive re-use of the former Kent Brewery in the heart of Sydney’s Central Park retains the brick facade and inserts part of a trigeneration plant that powers the neighbourhood.

Public / cultural
Original marble surfaces, plasterwork and oak joinery.

Brisbane City Hall

One of Queensland’s most important heritage buildings, reborn by Tanner GHD in Association.

Interiors, Public / cultural
The Glebe Town Hall’s restored Victorian Free Classical facade.

Glebe Town Hall

After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.

Public / cultural
Willoughby Incinerator revived

Willoughby Incinerator revived

Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls

The Willoughby Incinerator by Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls is adapated as an artist’s studio, gallery and café.

Hospitality, Public / cultural