The Northern Territory Enduring Architecture Award is an architecture prize presented annually by the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

Chapter of the

Australian Institute of Architects The Australian Institute of Architects, officially the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (abbreviated as RAIA), is Australia's professional body for architects. Its members use the post-nominals FRAIA (Fellow), ARAIA (Associate Member) an ...

(AIA) since the inaugural award in 2013. The award recognises significant, long lasting and innovative architecture with usually more than 25 years passed since the completion of construction.

Background

The Award for Enduring Architecture recognises achievement for the design of buildings of outstanding merit, which have remained important as high quality works of architecture when considered in contemporary cultural, social, economic and environmental contexts in the Northern Territory. Nominations for the award can be made by AIA members, non–members and non–architects, but they must provide adequate material and information supporting the nomination for consideration of the jury. The average age of the 10 projects recognised from 2013 to 2025 is 41.9 years from completion of construction to year of award.

National Award Winners

Recipients of the state–based award are eligible for consideration of the

National Award for Enduring Architecture The National Award for Enduring Architecture is an Australian architecture prize presented annually by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) since 2003. The award recognises long lasting, innovative and culturally significant Australian a ...

presented later in the same year, as part of the Australian National Architecture Awards. Only one project located in the Northern Territory has won the national award. In 2019 the Ayers Rock Resort (now Sails in the Desert) at

Yulara Yulara is a town in the southern region of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is an unincorporated enclave within the MacDonnell Region. At the , Yulara had a permanent population of 1,099, in an area of . It is by road from the World Heri ...

by Philip Cox & Partners won both the local and national award, 35 years after the project was completed in 1984.

List of award recipients

Gallery of awarded projects

References

{{Reflist Australian architecture awards Architecture in the Northern Territory Awards established in 2013

Background

National Award Winners

List of award recipients

Gallery of awarded projects

See also

References