Each of the State and Territory chapters present annual awards and prizes, as listed:
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) The ACT Architecture Awards are run annually by the ACT Chapter of the AIA.
Awards •
Canberra Medallion (highest award, started 1956) •
Sir Roy Grounds Award for Enduring Architecture (started 1995) • Sir
John Overall Award for Urban Design •
Enrico Taglietti Award for Educational Architecture •
JS Murdoch Award for Heritage •
Romaldo Giurgola Award for Public Architecture •
John Andrews Award for Commercial Architecture • Gene Willsford Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and Additions) • Malcolm Moir and
Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) (named 2009) •
Sydney Ancher Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing (started 2007) • W Hayward Morris Award for Interior Architecture • Derek Wrigley Award for Sustainable Architecture • Cynthia Breheny Award for Small Project Architecture • Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture •
CS Daley Medal for Residential Architecture†
(last award Burrundulla Garden Housing, 1989) Prizes • ACT President's Medal • Clem Cummings Medal (named 2007) recognises contributions from non-architects and architects to architecture and the public interest • EMAGN Project Award • Emerging Architect Prize • Robert Foster Award for Light in Architecture • Pamille Berg Awarf for Art in Architecture • ACT Architecture Professional Practitioner Award • Missing Middle Prize • Connection to Country Narrative Prize • Social Impact Prize • John Redmond Prize • Student Medallion • DJAS Architecture Graduate Prize † No longer awarded
New South Wales The NSW Architecture Awards are run annually by the NSW Chapter of the AIA.
Awards •
NSW Architecture Medallion (highest award, started 2018) •
Sir John Sulman Medal for Public Architecture (started 1934) •
Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) (started 1961) •
Blacket Prize for Regional Architecture (started 1964 as Blacket Award, renamed 1984) •
Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design (started 1964 as Civic Design Award, named 1979) •
Greenway Award for Heritage (Creative Adaptation/Conservation) (started 1975) • Sir
Arthur George Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture (started 1979) •
Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture (started 1996) •
Robert Woodward Award for Small Project Architecture (started 1997) •
New South Wales Enduring Architecture Award (started 2003) •
John Verge Award for Interior Architecture (started 2007) • Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture (started 2007) •
Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing (started 2009) •
Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and Additions) (started 2014) • William E Kemp Award for Educational Architecture (started 2015) • EmAGN Project Award
Prizes • NSW President's Prize (started 1984) • Adrian Ashton Prize (Architectural Culture and Literature, started 1986) •
Premier's Prize (started 1997) •
Marion Mahony Griffin Prize (acknowledges a female in the field of architecture for a distinctive body of work, started 1998) • Emerging Architect Prize (started 2011) •
Lord Mayor's Prize (started 2013) • David Lindner Prize (Public Domain and Urban Renewal Research for graduates and emerging architects, started 2013) • Christopher Procter Prize (Urban Design and City Making Research, started 2019) • Best in Practice Prize (started 2019) • Reconciliation Prize (started 2019)
Northern Territory The Northern Territory Architecture Awards are run annually by the Northern Territory Chapter of the AIA.
Awards •
Tracy Memorial Award (highest award, since 1976) • Peter Dermoudy Award for Commercial Architecture • Reverend
John Flynn Award for Public Architecture •
George Goyder Award for Urban Design (last awarded 2017) • Peter Fletcher Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and Additions) • Burnett Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) • Ken Frey Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple • George Chaloupka Award Award for Interior Architecture (last awarded 2017) •
JG Knight Award for Heritage Architecture • NT Chapter Award for Educational Architecture •
Thorny Devil (Moloch Horridus) Award for Sustainable Architecture (last awarded 2019) • Yali—McNamara Award for Small Project Architecture (started 2013, last awarded 2019) • Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture •
Northern Territory Enduring Architecture Award (started 2013) • Indigenous Community Architecture Award (last awarded 2019) • EmAGN Project Award • People's Choice Award
Prizes • President's Prize • President's Award for Recycled Buildings • Student Prize • Emerging Architect Prize (last awarded 2018) Due to the small number of entrants each year, not all categories are awarded in any given year.
Queensland The Queensland Architecture Awards are run annually by the Queensland Chapter of the AIA. •
Queensland Medallion (highest award, started 2020) •
Robin Gibson Award for Enduring Architecture (started 2003) •
FDG Stanley Award for Public Architecture •
Jennifer Taylor Award for Educational Architecture •
Robin Dods Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) • Elina Mottram Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and Additions) • Job & Froud Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing •
Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture •
Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture •
GHM Addison Award for Interior Architecture • Don Roderick Award for Heritage •
Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture •
Karl Langer Award for Urban Design • Regional Project of the Year
Prizes • QIA Medallion (academic award started 1948) • Emerging Architect Prize • Art and Architecture Prize • EmAGN Project Award • Queensland People's Choice Award • Social Impact Prize • People's Choice • Robin Dods Triennial Medal† †
No longer awarded South Australia The South Australian Architecture Awards are run annually by the South Australia Chapter of the AIA.
Awards •
South Australia Architecture Medal (highest award, started 2021) •
Jack Cheesman Award for Enduring Architecture (started 2005) • Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture • Gavin Walkley Award for Urban Design • Keith Neighbour Award for Commercial Architecture •
Robert Dickson Award for Interior Architecture • Dr John Mayfield Award for Educational Architecture • Newell Platten Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing • John S Chappell Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) • John Schenk Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and additions) • Derrick Kendrick Award for Sustainable Architecture • Marjorie Simpson Award for Small Project Architecture • David Saunders Award for Heritage Architecture
Prizes • Sir James Irwin Chapter President's Medal •
City of Adelaide Prize for Design Excellence •
City of Adelaide Prize People's Choice • Emerging Architect Prize • EmAGN Project Award • South Australia Creative Collaboration Prize
Tasmania The Tasmania Architecture Awards are run annually by the Tasmania Chapter of the AIA. •
Tasmanian Architecture Medal •
Tasmania Award for Enduring Architecture (started 2010) • Colin Philip Award for Commercial Architecture • Sydney Blythe Award for Educational Architecture • Barry McNeill Award for Sustainable Architecture • Roy Sharrington Smith Award for Heritage • Alexander North Award for Interior Architecture • Peter Willmott Award for Small Project Architecture • Alan C Walker Award for Public Architecture (started 2013) •
Esmond Dorney Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) (started 2017) •
Dirk Bolt Award for Urban Design (started 2019) • Ray Heffernan Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing (started 2022) • Edith Emery Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and additions) • Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture • EmAGN Project Award
Triennial Prizes :*
James Blackburn Triennial Prize (residential categories) :*
John Lee Archer Triennial Prize (public, commercial, educational architecture, and urban design categories) :*
Henry Hunter Triennial Prize (heritage, interior architecture, and small project categories)
Prizes • Sydney Wallace Thomas Blythe Student Prize • Emerging Architect Prize • Barry McNeill Graduate Prize
Victoria The
Victorian Architecture Awards are run annually by the Victoria Chapter of the AIA.
Awards •
Victorian Architecture Medal (highest award, started 1929) •
William Wardell Award for Public Architecture (started 1996) • Public Architecture Award (Alterations and Additions) •
Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) (started 1996) • Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture (started 1997) •
Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize (started 1997, named 2023) •
Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design (started 1997) • Regional Prize (started 2001) •
Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award (started 2003, named 2023) •
John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture (started 2005) • Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture (started 2006) •
Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing (started 2007) • Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture (started 2015) •
John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and Additions) •
Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture • Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture • Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
Prizes • President's Prize (started 2000) • Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (National, State and Advocacy Prizes) • Emerging Architect Prize • EmAGN Project Award • Victorian Student Ideas Prize • Victorian Graduate Prize • Robert Caulfield Graduate Research Scholarship • Sinclair—Nelson Drawing Scholarship
Western Australia The West Australian Architecture Awards are run annually by the West Australia Chapter of the AIA. •
George Temple-Poole Award (highest award) •
Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture •
John Septimus Roe Award for Urban Design • Hillson Beasley Award for Educational Architecture •
Richard Roach Jewell Award for Enduring Architecture (started 2015) • Marshall Clifton Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (New) • Peter Overman Award for Residential Architecture, Houses (Alterations and Additions) • Harold Krantz Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing • Ross Chisholm and Gil Nicol Award for Commercial Architecture •
Julius Elischer Award for Interior Architecture • Heritage Architecture Award •
Iwan Iwanoff Award for Small Project Architecture • Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture • Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
Prizes • Brian Kidd Enabling Architecture Prize • Mondoluce Lighting Award • EmAGN Project Award • Emerging Architect Prize •
Bronze Medal/Architecture Medal† †
No longer awarded ==Regional architecture awards and prizes==