Architecture Awards for Electrolight Projects

It was very pleasing to learn that several of our projects have been recognised in the 2012 Victorian AIA Awards.  Our projects collected a total of 6 awards across four projects:

Ormond College Acedemic Centre

We worked with McGlashan Everist architects to provide lighting and daylighting design services for the refurbishment of this classic Boyd Rohmberg library building at Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.  It was the winner of  the John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture, the Marion Mahony Award and the Public Architecture Alterations and Additions Award.

Ormond College

Congratulations also to Hassell with whom we designed lighting to public areas of the Government Services Offices in Dandenong. The building is another major success story for the Revitalisation of Central Dandenong initiative with which we have had a long association since our work began on Lonsdale Street in 2008.

Government Services Offices Dandenong – under construction

There were also commendations for Creeds Farm Living and Learning Centre which we designed with Tandem Studio and for the Kangan Batman Institute, Automotive Centre of Excellence Stage 2 with Gray Puksand.

The winner of the Victorian Architecture Medal was Billard Leece with Bates Smart for the rather wonderful Royal Children’s Hospital with lighting design by NDY Light.

It seemed to me that this year there was more award-winning projects designed by specialised lighting designers than ever before. This, of course, is not a surprise given the many benefits having such a designer brings to the design process and I expect this trend to continue long into the future.