# Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award

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

## Background

The Enduring Architecture 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 must provide adequate material and information supporting the nomination for consideration of the jury.
Recipients of the state-based award are then eligible for consideration for the National Award for Enduring Architecture presented later in the same year, as part of the Australian National Architecture Awards.
In 2023 the award became a named award, recognising Melbourne based architect Maggie Edmond, recipient of the first Victorian Enduring Architecture Award in 2003 for the Chapel of St Joseph in Mont Albert North designed by her firm Edmond & Corrigan and built in 1978.
The average age of buildings that have won the Award is 39 years (2003–2024).

## Recipients of the Award

Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award (since 2003) :
| Year | Architect | Project | Location | Year built | Years since* | Other AIA Awards |
| 2024 | Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design | Knox Schlapp Public Housing | 45 Graham Street, Port Melbourne | 1985 | 38 years | |
| 2023 | Gregory Burgess | Brambuk: Living Cultural Centre | 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 | 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 | Olympic Boulevard and Batman Avenue, Olympic Park | 1956 | 63 years | National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2021 Building of the Year, 1956 |
| 2020 | Daryl Jackson in association with Tompkins Shaw and Evan | Great Southern Stand | 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 | 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) | 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 | 152–292 Grattan Street, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne | 1972 | 45 years | |
| 2016 | McGlashan Everist | Heide II | Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen | 1968 | 48 years | Bronze Medal, 1968 |
| 2015 | Romberg & Boyd | Domain Park Apartments | 93 Domain Road, South Yarra | 1962 | 53 years | |
| 2014 | Peter McIntyre | McIntyre River House | 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 | 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne | 1967 | 45 years | |
| 2011 | Robert Peck & Denton Corker Marshall | One Collins Street | 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 | 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) | Nordsvan Drive, Wodonga | 1978 | 32 years | |
| 2007 | Graeme Gunn | Plumbers and Gasfitters Union Building | 52 Victoria Street, Carlton | 1970 | 37 years | |
| 2006 | Grounds, Romberg & Boyd | Robin Boyd House II (Walsh Street House) | 290 Walsh Street, South Yarra | 1958 | 48 years | National Award for Enduring Architecture, 2006 |
| 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 | Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne (Cardinal Knox Centre) | Albert Street, East Melbourne | 1971 | 34 years | |
| 2003 | Edmond & Corrigan | Chapel of St Joseph (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

* 2020 Award, Great Southern Stand, MCG, built 1992
* 2017 Award, South Lawn Car Park, University of Melbourne, built 1972
* 2016 Award, Heide II, built 1968
* 2015 Award, Domain Flats, built 1962
* 2013 Award, ICI House, built 1958
* 2012 Award, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), built 1967
* 2009 Award (National and Victorian), Sidney Myer Music Bowl, built 1959
* 2006 Award, Walsh Street House, built 1967
* 2005 Award, BHP House, built 1967