Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award

The Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award is an architecture prize presented annually at the Victorian Architecture Awards by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) since 2003. The award recognises long lasting, significant and enduring architecture with usually 25 years passed since the completion of construction.

25 Year Award, 2006 for the Robin Boyd House II, Victoria Chapter of RAIA

Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award
Stanhill Apartments, built 1950
Awarded for	Outstanding architecture over time (25 years or more) in Victoria
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Institute of Architects (Victoria Chapter)
First award	2003; 22 years ago (2003)
Currently held by	Frederick Romberg for Stanhill Apartments, 2025

Background

The award was established in Victoria in 2003 and initially called the 25 Year Award. In 2007 the award name was changed to the '25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture' later becoming the 'Victorian Award for Enduring Architecture'. In 2023 the award became a named award, recognising Melbourne based architect Maggie Edmond, recipient of the first 25 Year Award in 2003, for the Chapel of St Joseph in Mont Albert North designed by her firm Edmond & Corrigan and built in 1978.^[1][2]

The award recognises achievement for the design of buildings of outstanding merit, which remain important as high quality works of architecture when considered in the contemporary context. Nominations for the award can be made by AIA members, non–members and non–architects, but adequate material and information supporting the nomination must be provided for consideration of the jury.

Recipients of the state-based award are eligible for consideration for the National Award for Enduring Architecture presented later in the same year, as part of the Australian National Architecture Awards.

The average age of the 23 projects that have won the award is 42.5 years (2003–2025).

Recipients of the award

Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award (since 2003)

Year	Architect	Project	Location	Year built	Years since*	Other AIA Awards
2025	Frederick Romberg	Stanhill Apartments[3][4][5]	34 Queens Road, Melbourne	1950	75 years
2024	Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design	Knox Schlapp Public Housing[6][7][8]	45 Graham Street, Port Melbourne	1985	38 years	Robin Boyd Award [finalist], 1985 ACI Award for Innovation in Architecture, 1985 New Housing Merit Award, 1985
2023	Gregory Burgess	Brambuk: Living Cultural Centre[9][10][11][12]	277 Grampians Road, Halls Gap, Grampians National Park	1990	33 years	National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2023 Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture (National), 1990
2022	Allan Powell	Crigan House[13][14][15][16]	21 Victoria Street, St Kilda	1989	33 years
2021	Kevin Borland, John and Phyllis Murphy and Peter McIntyre (with engineer Bill Irwin)	Swimming and Diving Stadium[17]	Olympic Boulevard and Batman Avenue, Olympic Park	1956	63 years	National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2021[18] Building of the Year, 1956
2020	Daryl Jackson in association with Tompkins Shaw and Evan	Great Southern Stand[19]	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1992	28 years	Victorian Architecture Medal, 1992 Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture (National), 1992
2019	Nonda Katsalidis	Melbourne Terrace Apartments[20]	Franklin and Queen Street, Melbourne	1994	25 years	Architecture Award, 1994 City of Melbourne Building and Planning Award, 1995
2018	Cocks Carmichael Whitford	Yarra Footbridge, Southbank (Evan Walker Bridge)[21]	Yarra River	1990	28 years	Walter Burley Griffin Award, 1990
2017	Loader and Bayley in association with Harris, Lange and Partners	South Lawn car park[22]	152–292 Grattan Street, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne	1972	45 years
2016	McGlashan Everist	Heide II[23]	Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen	1968	48 years	Bronze Medal, 1968
2015	Grounds, Romberg & Boyd (partner in charge Robin Boyd)	Domain Park Apartments[24]	193 Domain Road, South Yarra	1962	53 years
2014	Peter McIntyre	McIntyre River House[25][26]	2 Hodgson Street, Kew	1954	60 years	RAIA Architecture & Arts Award, 1954–1955
2013	Bates Smart & McCutcheon	ICI House (now Orica House)	1 Nicholson Street, Melbourne	1958	55 years
2012	Roy Grounds	National Gallery of Victoria[27][28]	180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne	1967	45 years
2011	Robert Peck & Denton Corker Marshall	One Collins Street[29]	1 Collins Street, Melbourne	1985	26 years
2010	Gregory Burgess	Infill Housing Program by Ministry of Housing (1982—1985)	Carlton and Fitzroy North, Melbourne	1983	27 years	RAIA (Victoria Chapter) Award for Outstanding Architecture, New Housing category: for Kay Street, Carlton, 1984
2009	Yuncken Freeman Brothers, Griffiths & Simpson (1956—1959); Gregory Burgess (1999—2001)	Sidney Myer Music Bowl[30][31]	Kings Domain, Melbourne	1959	50 years	National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2009 Melbourne Prize, 2002
2008	Kevin Borland, Architect's Group	Clyde Cameron College (now Murray Valley Private Hospital)[32]	Nordsvan Drive, Wodonga	1978	32 years
2007	Graeme Gunn	Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union Building[33]	52 Victoria Street, Carlton	1970	37 years	Victorian Architecture Award Citation, 1971
2006	Grounds, Romberg & Boyd	Robin Boyd House II (Walsh Street House)[34]	290 Walsh Street, South Yarra	1958	48 years	National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2006[35]
2005	Yuncken Freeman	BHP House	140 William Street, Melbourne	1972	32 years	National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2005 Award of Merit, 1973 Bronze Medal, 1975
2004	Yuncken Freeman (Roy Simpson architect)	Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne (Cardinal Knox Centre)	Albert Street, East Melbourne	1971	34 years
2003	Edmond & Corrigan	Chapel of St Joseph[36] (now Strabane Chapel Hall)	27–29 Strabane Avenue, Mont Albert North	1978	25 years	Merit Award for Outstanding Architecture, New Buildings Category, 1983 (Victorian Chapter)

* Number of years from completion until award.

Gallery of award recipients

Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award recipients

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  2025 award, Stanhill Apartments, built 1950
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  2020 award, Great Southern Stand, MCG, built 1992
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  2017 award, South Lawn Car Park, University of Melbourne, built 1972
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  2016 award, Heide II, built 1968
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  2015 award, Domain Flats, built 1962
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  2013 award, ICI House, built 1958
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  2012 award, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), built 1967
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  2009 award (National and Victorian), Sidney Myer Music Bowl, built 1959
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  2007 award, Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union Building, built 1970
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  2006 award, Walsh Street House, built 1967
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  2005 award, BHP House, built 1967

See also

• Australian Institute of Architects Awards and Prizes
• Maggie Edmond
• Australian Institute of Architects
• National Award for Enduring Architecture
• New South Wales Enduring Architecture Award
• Victorian Architecture Medal
• Melbourne Prize