WA’s Architecture Awards winners
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Woods Bagot, Architectus and Hassell were among the big recipients at the Western Australian Architecture Awards 2025.
The METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project by Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA has swept the stage at the recently announced Australian Institute of Architects Western Australian Architecture Awards, taking home four accolades.
METRONET was awarded Western Australia’s highest architectural honour, the George Temple Poole Award. The project was also the recipient of the Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture, the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, and the Public Architecture Award.
Designed by Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick (TRCB), TCL and UDLA, the project delivers five new stations and precincts at Morely, Noranda, Ballajura, Whiteman Park and Ellenbrook. The stations along the Morley-Ellenbrook line make an outstanding contribution to the social and public infrastructure of a rapidly growing area of Perth, noted the jury.
The jury praised the project for setting “an impressive new sustainability benchmark for government infrastructure in Australia, and for being an exemplar of public transport and community facilities, with the end-user experience at the forefront of the design.”
Related: The WA Landscape Architecture Awards
Elsewhere, the Ruah Centre for Women and Children in Northbridge by Architectus has won the Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture and the Brian Kidd Enabling Architecture Prize. The project is Australia’s first state-of-the-art healing and recovery centre dedicated to supporting women and children affected by family and domestic violence.
The seven-storey building provides medical, counselling and legal services, and accommodation for families. The jury applauded the project as “an elegant, well-planned and beautifully detailed building” that gives “broken lives a chance to rebuild.”
Hale Memorial Hall and Stow Precinct won the Hillson Beasley Award for Educational Architecture and the Heritage award. Designed by KHA, the Hale Memorial Hall was first constructed in 1961 to commemorate the former students of Hale School who died in the World Wars.
Hassell’s Murdoch Square won the Ross Chisholm and Gil Nicol Award for Commercial Architecture and the John Septimus Roe Award for Urban Design. Murdoch Square reimagines a health precinct as a thriving and inclusive community hub, with five separate buildings integrating public and private healthcare, commercial offices, aged care, and short and long-stay accommodation facilities.
All awarded and commended projects from the region are now in the running for the Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards, set to be announced later in the year.
Read about this workplace project in WA by Architectus and Hassell
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