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The Annual Dinner and Development
Excellence Awards were held on Tuesday 16 September 2008 in
the grand ballroom of the Westin Sydney hote. The NSW Minister
for Planning, the Hon. Kristina Keneally MPhave an address and
presented awards. The Development of the Year 2008 was Regent
Place, Sydney, by Frasers Property.
The Taskforce’s awards acknowledge development projects
that achieve the best outcomes in terms of client requirements,
environment, business and community considerations; as well
as time, cost and quality. These awards recognise the crucial
role of the developer in making a new development an outstanding
success. The 2008 winners are:
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Overall Winner
Development Excellence
Award 2008 |
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Regent
Place, Sydney
Frasers Property
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The
REGENT PLACE development includes the Lumiere Residences.
The jury was most impressed by the sophistication and
elegance of these two buildings located on the edge of
the Town Hall and Cathedral Precinct of Sydney. Design
excellence competition was won by Foster and Partners
with PTW from Sydney. While the buildings sit well in
the broader context of the city, they are also well managed
at the street level where the podium picks up the heights
of the existing buildings. One of the features of both
buildings is the deep recesses that allow air and light
to the internal corridor system thus minimising energy
costs. The combination of apartments is carefully tailored
to the marketplace and the sales results indicate that
a very successful financial result has come from aiming
for high quality throughout the building.
The ground level retail and arcades offer a fusion of
a European food hall with a high-end Asian supermarket.
The supermarket chain Miracle has committed to open its
new “max M” concept store in the complex.
The Japanese restaurant Azuma will open in its second
branch in the building and there will be a retail concept
space called CO*OP. CO* is a concept highly popular in
Asia where young retailers and designers can take space
without the usual high overheads and barriers of going
it alone.
Overall a very successful building complex that knits
comfortably into its Sydney environment with an elegant
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Development Excellence Award for Commercial Development
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Quad Business
Park
Sydney Olympic Park
The GPT Group |
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This project adds
to a number of very successful business and commercial
buildings developed by GTP in the Quad precinct. This
latest building designed by Cox Richardson takes the environmental
performance to new levels with the incorporation of chilled
beams, waterless urinals, sun-shading devices and double-glazed
windows. Quad also incorporates a 90 place child care
centre which gives parents the ability to have children
cared for in this pleasant environment.
As evidence of the commercial success of the project,
all the spaces were leased within six months of completion
and the building is currently 100 percent leased with
good quality yields. The building is one further step
that GPT are taking towards improved environmental performance.
It has a five star rating, but in fact exceeds this by
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Excellence Award for Residential Development 2008
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Alchemy, Lavender
Bay
Thakral Holdings
Architect: Nettleton Tribe |
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This project has evolved from the demolition of the
original Kirribilli Club and the development of a new
revitalised club in a new podium structure, while establishing
twenty luxury, three bedroom apartments within the five
floors above. The building overlooks Lavender Bay and
the name of the apartments comes from a painting by
one of Australia’s most famous artists, Brett
Whiteley, who had his studio also overlooking Lavender
Bay.
Alchemy is one of his most famous paintings
and a waterfeature sitting within the Club’s lobby
interprets another of Whiteley’s paintings ‘Waves
on the Harbour’. The jury was impressed with the
simplicity of the building with its simple curve and
strong horizontal lines. This curved sculptured form
floats elegantly above the podium that incorporates
the Club. The curve form responds to the expansive panoramic
views that are gained from each of the apartments. The
market has responded well to the projects with most
apartments already sold. The Club is very content with
its new facilities which also gain from the expansive
views of the harbour.
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Winner Development
Excellence Award for Mixed Use Development 2008
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Darwin Waterfront
Development
ABN Amro/Toga Group |
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This project is a very bold move to reconnect
Darwin to its neighbours to the north and the rest of
Australia through the creation of a major convention
centre, community infrastructure and commercial development.
At an overall cost of approximately $1 billion, the
consortium headed by ABN Amro has certainly invested
in a bold manner. The vision includes a 1,500 seat convention
centre, waterfeatures, a wave lagoon, a beach, a cruise
ship terminal and gardens, 1,400 apartments, two hotels
and a number of restaurants. All of this has been well
designed through the architects Hassall and there are
significant sustainability features across the project.
As the first winner of an Urban Taskforce
Award outside New South Wales, this project demonstrates
the value of development undertaken with vision, with
good design quality and with environmental sensitivity.
It demonstrates how a single development can have a
major impact on the future of a whole city.
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Winner
Development
Excellence Award for Adaptive Re-use 2008
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The
Cove Apartments, Manly
Mondell Property Group |
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THE
COVE APARTMENTS AT LITTLE MANLY are a remarkable transformation
from a very uninspiring three-storey, walk-up, texture
brick home unit building to an elegant building that contributes
to the streetscape. The simple devices of adding large
balconies to the street façade and painting the
building, have transformed this ugly duckling into a swan-like
building that is now an asset to the street. The building
now celebrates its site location with sweeping views over
Little Manly Beach and sales of the apartments are indicating
a significantly increased value has occurred as a result
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Winner
Development
Excellence Award for Retirement Living 2008
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Waterbrook
Greenwich
Waterbrook Lifestyle Resorts
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WATERBROOK
GREENWICH. This project provides facilities for retirement
living in a resort lifestyle character not previously
offered in the Australian retirement marketplace. The
79 luxury apartments have sold particularly well. Most
of the new residents previously resided in the local area
within five to ten kilometres of Greenwich. Environmental
principals have been carefully considered by the architects
Marchese and Partners with the result that the project
has already won awards for excellence for this reason.
Solar access and cross-ventilation are maximised. An extensive
period of community consultation was undertaken by Waterbrook
with the local community. A number of meetings were held
with the community on the site and liaison meetings were
held during the construction phase. While being at the
top-end of the market for retirement homes, there is no
doubt that this is a very successful project. |
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Commendation Development
Excellence Award for Community Facilities 2008
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Cabravale
Leisure Centre
Fairfield City Council
Architect: Suter Prior Cheney
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The
CABRAVALE LEISURE CENTRE is a project for Fairfield City
Council that presents a dramatic modern sculptural image
of a new leisure centre. Significant consultation occurred
with over 1,000 residents. Fairfield City Council decided
that changes to local demographics over the last 30 years
required a new type of leisure centre that was based on
activities associated with gym training, aerobics, dance
and marshal arts. The new centre provides an excellent
community benefit and is of a very high design quality.
The centre uses significant sustainability devices including
solar panels, natural ventilation and water harvesting
to produce a solution that is environmentally socially
and financially successful. While this project is not
strictly a commercial development in term of the Urban
Taskforce Awards, it does demonstrate the value of well
planned community facilities that have no doubt been partly
funded through contributions from developments within
the Fairfield area. |
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Judging Panel
These awards would not be as successful
without the professional assistance of our judging panel,
to whom the Taskforce is most grateful. |
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Chair
- Professor Chris Johnson
Executive Director, Cities & Centres
NSW Department of Planning |
Mr
Peter Mould
NSW Government Architect
Department of Commerce |
Mr John
Ferrarin
Director
WT Partnership |
Ms Sue
Salmon
Chair
Total Environment Centre |
Mr Robert
Harley
Property Editor
Australian Financial Review |
Mr David
Tanevski
Managing Director, KWC Capital Group and Hon. Secretary/Treasurer,
Urban Taskforce |
Mr John Wynne
Director
Urbis Pty Ltd |
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These projects
represent the pinnacle of achievement for the property
industry in Australia.
For more information about the Award contact Urban Taskforce
on 9238 3955 |
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