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We are proud of our education team – the award acknowledges the collective efforts required to achieve a successful design outcome.
Thanks to all involved.

Link to read more about the awards

• Commercial Architecture – National Award: Private Women’s Club (pictured),
• Heritage – National Commendation: Sacred Heart Building Abbotsford Convent Foundation, and
• Small Project Architecture – The Nicholas Murcutt Award: Jock Comini Reserve Amenities.

The award wins substantiate our integrated approach to projects and practice focus on architecture as a civic endeavour.
Congratulations to the collaborative project team, clients, consultants and contractors.

Link to read more about the awards and jury citations

The day forum in Sydney addresses the future of education design, with speakers discussing cultural trends, politics in education design, virtual learning spaces and campus planning.
Tickets available via link

Image by Peter Bennetts

Construction of the civic redevelopment began late 2017. From the outset, our approach to the 1960s building was about retaining the local cultural history and honouring the original architectural features, while adapting the spaces to be more efficient, functional, flexible and modern. We are delighted to be celebrating this milestone with the Hume City Councillors and look forward to sharing images of the completed project in the coming months.

‘Crossing the Floor’ art installation by Robbie Rowlands

Our projects include; Private Melbourne Women’s Club in Commercial Architecture category, Jock Comini Reserve Amenities (pictured) in Small Project Architecture category and Sacred Heart Building Abbotsford Convent Foundation in the Heritage category. The national jury noted significant themes emerging across all project categories that ‘demonstrated the value of architecture through public benefit’ and a ‘clear commitment to social and environmental sustainability’. Winners will be announced in Brisbane on 7 November.

Link to AIA shortlisted projects

KTA won the national design competition for Bundanon’s new $30.6M gallery and creative learning centre.

Hear first-hand about the design process and the concepts behind this radical architectural proposal for the site, formerly the home of the late artist Arthur Boyd. Kerstin will walk the property with participants and outline how her architectural approach responds to its landscape, climatic conditions and complex heritage and cultural significance.

More information and tickets are available here.

Architects Declare was launched in the UK in May 2019 and has quickly gathered momentum on a global scale.The declaration states that building and construction accounts for nearly 40 percent of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. All signatories seek to raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, and the need for urgent action among clients and supply chains.

You can sign the declaration here

KTA, JWA & ARM are all leading architecture practices that have contributed significant cultural projects around Australia and within the Melbourne Arts Precinct.

The conversation will be led by journalist Ray Edgar. The event is presented and hosted by Melbourne Theatre Company & Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, The University of Melbourne as part of 2019 Open House Melbourne program.

More info & ticket booking here.

Kerstin presented a selection of KTA’s completed and in progress works with Australia’s built heritage, to show our various approaches for relating past and future architectures.

A video recording of the address will be available via Open House Melbourne soon.

Image: Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Convent Foundation winner of the 2019 AIA Victorian Chapter Heritage Architecture Named Award The John George Knight Award.

Photo by Derek Swalwell.

We look forward to presenting the project at the World Architecture Festival in later this year in Amsterdam (4-6 December).

Builder: FourSQ
Landscape architecture: Openwork

Image by Kerstin Thompson.

Among these include two named awards as category winners – The Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture (Private Melbourne Women’s Club) & The John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture (Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Convent).

Jock Comini Reserve Amenities also won an architecture award in the Small Projects category. Northcote High School Performing Arts & VCE Centre was shortlisted for Educational Architecture and Sunda Dining was shortlisted for Small Projects.

Thank you to our clients and collaborators for their much-valued contributions towards the delivery of each rewarding and successful project.

We look forward to the AIA National Architecture Awards later this year.

Image: Private Melbourne Women’s Club
Photography: Derek Swalwell

Collective Agency, curated by Monique Woodward and Stephen Choi, will encourage reflection on today’s challenges, the articulation of more meaningful protocols, and most importantly, the willingness to act.

The conference calls for “everyday advocacy and activism” as a way to instigate change. In the context of architecture, everyday advocacy means acting for the good of a single project but also for the broader public good. Kerstin suggests, “There can be a positive double agenda.”

View the full program of events here.

Image: The 2019 National Architecture Conference captains’ lunch, via ArchitectureAU.

Our competition entry was a truly collaborative process, and we are excited at the prospect of working with the City of Whitehorse Council to create a civic asset that will serve as a cultural focal point for the Whitehorse community for decades to come. A public design competition process was led by CityLab and Whitehorse City Council to select a design team for the Whitehorse Centre and the Civic Precinct. This open EOI lead to a shortlisting of 5 architect-lead teams with BKK and KTA announced as competition winners.

Read the ArchitectureAU article here.

The project will include a new contemporary gallery space submerged into the landscape, a learning centre, visitor hub, cafe and an accommodation facility.

The Arthur Boyd Gallery will be subterranean, where visitors can enjoy and compare Boyd’s imaginary landscape with the actual one around them. The thermal stability and fire protection of being underground will protect Boyd’s $43M art collection in the gallery and associated storage.

Read more.

Image:
Peter’s Fish and Crucifixion (1993)
Oil on Canvas – Arthur Boyd