The Morley-Ellenbrook train line project has bagged four accolades including the state’s highest architectural honour at the Australian Institute of Architects’ state awards.
At Friday night’s ceremony at Beaumonde On the Point, the project encompassing the Morley, Noranda, Ballajura, Whiteman Park and Ellenbrook stations bagged the prestigious George Temple Poole Award.
Each station has its own look while continuing a common geometric “narrative”. Credit: Trevor Mein
It also won the Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture, Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, and the Public Architecture Award.
The jury said the stations, designed by Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick, TCL and UDLA, made an outstanding contribution to the social and public infrastructure of a rapidly growing area of Perth.
They said it set “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.”
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Other significant projects recognised at the awards included the Ruah Centre for Women and Children by Architectus, which won the Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture and the Brian Kidd Enabling Architecture Prize.
The centre 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.
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