The Chicago Athenaeum and European Centre for Architecture have announced the winners of its 2024 International Architecture Awards.

Seven Australian projects are among more than 130 awarded projects from around the world, spanning across 33 categories.

McGregor Coxall received two awards: one for the Drying Green Park with Chrofi and a second for the Grampians (Gariwerd) Peaks Trail Stage 2 with Noxon Giffen, both in the Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture category. A third Australian award in this category was given to the Harrington Collection by FJC Studio (formerly FJMT Studio).

In the Civic Centres category, both the Phive Civic Centre in Sydney by Australian architecture firms’ DesignInc and Lacoste and Stevenson with French firm Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, and the Resource Recovery Centre by Australian practice Terroir won awards.

Finally, the Yutjuwala Djiwarr – Nhulunbuy Flexible Aged Care Facility by Kaunitz Yeung won an award in the Community Centre category and the Intercontinental Sydney Renovation by Woods Bagot was awarded in the Restoration/Renovation category.

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Honourable mentions were given to Meadowbank Schools and Heritage Lanes at 80 Ann Street, both by Woods Bagot, Parliament Square by FJC Studio (formerly FJMT Studio) and MPavilion 2022 in Melbourne by Thai practice All Zone.

The International Architecture Awards was established by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press in 2004 to honour the world’s most distinguished buildings, landscape architecture and urbanism.