Gold tick for good design
The winners of Australia’s peak international design awards were announced today during the 2021 Good Design Awards Week. The Good Design Awards are the highest honour for design and innovation in the country and reward projects across 12 design disciplines and 30 subcategories.
Warralily’s Armstrong Creek Green Spine received the prestigious Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Architectural Design Category for outstanding urban design and innovation. Warralily also took out one of Good Design Australia’s Special Accolades, winning the ‘Greener Spaces Better Places’ Award. The awards celebrate the important role of green and living infrastructure design to make neighbourhoods better places to live, work and play.
The 2021 Good Design Awards attracted a record number of submissions with 933 design projects evaluated by more than 70 Australian and international Jurors, including designers, engineers, architects and thought leaders. Each entry was evaluated according to a strict set of design evaluation criteria which includes good design, design innovation and design impact. Projects recognised with an Australian Good Design Award demonstrate excellence in professional design and highlight the impact a design-led approach has on business success and social and environmental outcomes.
The Good Design Awards Jury commented: “Warralily’s landscape-led large scale vision has successfully transformed a degraded creek into a thriving ecosystem that is rich in biodiversity as well as creating social, economic and community connections. The creation of new play spaces and incorporation of art and environmental aspects adds to the quality. It now plays an important role as the lungs of the fast-developing master planned community within the ever-changing Armstrong Creek Growth Corridor. It is the backbone of this community and an incredible asset to have on its doorstep. Well done.”
Dr. Brandon Gien, CEO of Good Design Australia said: “Receiving an Australian Good Design Award is testament to embedding design excellence at the heart of a product, service, place or experience. Although 2021 continues to be another challenging year, it is incredibly inspiring to see designers and businesses working together to find innovative, customer-centric design solutions to local and global challenges and to see them recognised and rewarded for their efforts through these prestigious Awards.”
“The importance of embracing good design principles is now more important than ever as many businesses around the world have had to completely re-think their business strategies to remain competitive. The standard of design excellence represented in this year’s Awards is the best I’ve ever seen in my 25 years of running these Awards, an encouraging sign that the design sector is flourishing,” Dr. Gien went on to say.
The Australian Good Design Awards is the country’s oldest and most prestigious international awards for design and innovation with a proud history dating back to 1958. The Awards celebrate the
best new products and services on the Australian and international market, excellence in architectural
design, precinct design, engineering, fashion, digital and communication design, and reward new and emerging areas of design including design strategy, social impact design, design research and up- and-coming design talent in the Next Gen category.
———
Project Title: Warralily - Armstrong Creek Green Spine
Project Description:
Warralily’s Armstrong Creek Green Spine in Geelong, Victoria, provides a strong framework and corridor for community connectivity to parks, wetlands, environmental areas, schools, community facilities, and retail precincts. Warralily has transformed a degraded creek corridor into a thriving ecosystem, significantly improving water quality entering the RAMSAR listed Lake Connewarre.
Designed by:
Newland Developers
GbLA
SMEC
Neil Craigie and Associates
Commissioned by:
Armstrong Creek Development Corporation Newland Developers
About Good Design Australia and the Australian Good Design Awards:
Good Design Australia is an international design promotion organisation responsible for managing Australia’s annual Good Design Awards and other signature design events. With a proud history that dates back to 1958, Good Design Australia remains committed to promoting the importance of design to business, industry, government and the general public and the critical role it plays in creating a better, safer and more prosperous world.
www.good-design.org