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The Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter, DARCH & presenting sponsors share great pleasure in inviting you to the 2013 NSW Architecture Awards Presentation Evening.

When : Thursday 27 June 2010

Where : Heritage Wharf – Jones Bay Wharf (Piers 19-21 Upper Deck, 26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont)

Time : 6:30pm for 7:00pm start

Dress : 50s cool

Price: Pre-drinks, dinner and after-party package $150 for DARCH members

Link to Purchase DARCH members-only price tickets here

Link to Flyer

For our ninth small bar tour we are hitting up Surry Hills best new venues where we will be hosted by the owners and designers of The Soda Factory, Play and The Wild Rover to hear about their experiences and sample their wares.

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The 2012 NSW Emerging Architect Prize recipient, Penny Fuller, along with Stewart Hollenstein (winners of the Green Square Library competition) and a panel of emerging architects are coming together to talk about the different directions they have taken in their careers so far and how they see the future of our profession – and to take your questions.

Who?
Penny Fuller – 2012 NSW Emerging Architect Winner
Joe Snell – Snell Architects & The Goods Tube
Amelia Holliday – Neeson Murcutt Architects
Lucy Humphrey – Archrival/Lucy Humphrey Studio
Claire McCaughan – Archrival/Sam Crawford Architects
Felicity Stewart & Matthias Hollenstein of
Stewart Hollenstein (Winners of the Green Square Library competition)

 When? 6.30pm Tuesday 23^rd April

Where? Tusculum, 3 Manning Street, Potts Point

How much? Institute members free, non-members $10 at the door

RSVP by 19th April darch@architecture.com.au

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Last week at the Government Architect’s Office the David Lindner Prize was launched by Peter Poulet and Robyn Lindner. Entries are now open. Click here to download the submission requirements.

The prize is designed to enable graduates and emerging architects to carry out research on important and challenging design issues involving the public realm. The Jury are seeking proposals on a broad range of topics relevant to current architectural discourse in Australia and internationally.

The winning proposal will be announced at the annual NSW Architecture Awards and awarded funding of $5,000 towards carrying out the research. The proposal will be published in the NSW Bulletin and featured at a public exhibition to coincide with the Sydney Architecture Festival.

Entries open: 25th March 2013
Submissions due: 30th April 2013
Winner announced: 27th June 2013, at the NSW Architecture Awards Presentation Night

 Link to Entry Requirements document

You are invited to attend the official launch of a new prize in honour of young architect David Lindner who went missing in 1993 in Iran visiting historic architectural sights.

The Lindner family would like to honour David’s memory and David’s sister Robyn has been working with the Chapter and representatives from DARCH to establish this new prize for Emerging Architects, details of which will be announced on the night.

We do hope you can join us at the official launch which will be held at the NSW Government Architect’s Office.
Where: NSW Government Architects Office, Department of Finance & Services Level 18 McKell Building, 2-24 Rawson Place, Sydney
Date: Friday 22nd March 2013
Time: 6.30pm
RSVP: 15th March 2013 to eleni.ragogo@architecture.com.au

Entries now open for the 2013 Emerging Architect Prize

Each year as part of the NSW Architecture Awards, the Emerging Architect Prize recognises the contribution of an individual emerging architect or emerging architectural collaboration to architectural practice, education, design excellence and community involvement which advances the profession’s role within the public arena. Entrants need to be nominated by a member of the Australian Institute of Architects and the winner of the NSW Award will proceed to be considered for the National Emerging Architect Prize. The Emerging Architect Prize winner will be announced at the NSW Architecture Awards night on June 27 held at the Heritage Wharf, Jones Bay Wharf.

Entry for this Prize is now a two-step process:
STEP 1 – NOMINATION: Eligible candidates are nominated by a member of the Australian Institute of Architects via the online entry system.
STEP 2 – SUBMISSION OF ENTRY MATERIAL: Nominated candidates will be invited to continue with the submission. Should they wish to accept the nomination; the nominee will be asked to submit additional entry material via the online entry system.

To make a nomination click here.

Are you looking to branch out on your own? What are the grass roots to building your own business?

Joe Lopino, Principal of Change in Perspectives and Business Coach, will take you through the building blocks and critical tools for any new business. During this round the table discussion you will be taken through building a Business Plan and the importance of cash flow dynamics to your business. 1.5 formal CPD points, places are limited to 25 participants.

Where? Tusculum 3 Manning Street, Potts Point

When? Wednesday 27th March, 6.30pm

How Much? Members $20, Non Members $30

Questions? Email us darch@architecture.com.au

Online Bookings: https://www.architecture.com.au/eregister?id=4421 

or call Eleni Ragogo 02 9246 4055

Last Saturday marked the inaugural DARCH/YEAS Sandcastle Competition at Tamarama Beach – in which architects and engineers went head to head to craft an outstanding home for our client Harold, the media mogul cockroach whose aspirations include living-it-large at Tamarama Beach.

After having to postpone the previous set date the weather on the day was perfect, hitting a sunny 30 degrees. Five teams competed, providing entertainment in the form of sand slump tests, stolen formwork, and flip-flop smoothing techniques amongst others. 3 hours of construction culminated in the winning castle – a Gaudi-inspired cockroach scale house atop a rather morbid coffin-shaped cockroach gravesite.

A big thank-you to our Judges on the day; Joe Snell of Snell Architects and Engineer Sumeer Gohil, thank you to EmAGN for the funding support and thank you to the YEAS team for all of their co-organisational help. Overall the day was a lot of fun, and DARCH looks forward to collaborating on more events with YEAS in the year to come.

First place: Architects: Daniel Griffin, Halima Begum, John Rowley  

Second place: Engineers: Lisa Granqvist, Hugh Miller, Hannah Mahony-Hayes and Christoph Angehrn

Third place: Architects: Dijana Tasevska, Antoinette Cano, Georgina Blix, Lyndsey Seddon,  Nicole Larkin

See Photo Gallery on Flickr