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10/04/2025

Architects Without Frontiers welcomes our newest ambassador, Bruno Charlesworth.

AWF’s ambassadors help us to look beyond our normal sphere and connect with people with shared aims and values in new places, communities and industries.

Thanks to Bruno’s breadth of experience as a creator, collaborator and communicator, we hope to reach out, seek support and learn from a wider and more diverse range of thinkers, makers and doers in a big world.

Bruno practiced as a lawyer for more than 25 years, representing creative talent in Australia and internationally. Along with his extensive representation of major musical artists, he worked with emerging directors and producers to arrange funding, and distribution for feature films in Australia and Internationally. From 1995 his practice diversified into Town Planning, Construction Financing and Property Development.

Bruno’s subsequent partnership with Nonda Katsalidis in Property Developer Republica shaped some of the most iconic silhouettes on Melbourne’s skyline including the Abinger Street silos in Richmond, Republic Tower, HM@S Lonsdale, Hero Apartments and Eureka Tower.

Bruno also produced or executive produced a substantial number of films including box office hits such as ‘The Craic’, ‘Russian Doll’ and ‘Ladies in Black’ as well as festival darlings ‘Love and Other Catastrophes’, ‘Not Quite Hollywood’, ‘Bad Girl”and ‘Good Vibrations’. Most recently he produced 1970’s tent boxing drama ‘Kid Snow’, shot in Kalgoorlie, released widely in September 2024.

AWF’s community of Partners, clients, friends, benefactors continues to grow, and our ambassadors help us work together with them all.

18/02/2025

Take a sneak peek at some images from AWF Network Partner AJC’s design and fundraising package for upcoming Stage 2 works at the Cakaudrove Women’s Resource Centre in Vanua Levu, Fiji.

The package contains concept designs by AJC, landscape design by AWF Network Partner Tract, and a project cost plan by quantity surveyor Slattery Australia.

Following the success of the Stage 1 Great Hall, Soqosoqo Vakamarama Taukei ni Cakaudrove (the Society for Indigenous Women of the Cakaudrove Region) approached Architects Without Frontiers to help develop a costed proposal for Stage 2 they can use for community fundraising and grant applications.

The Stage 2 works add classrooms, a commercial teaching kitchen, office space, native plant nursery, ceremonial ground and lovo earth oven to a campus that already helps more than 600 indigenous Fijian women per year with leadership empowerment programs, business development and training, vocational skill-building, family crisis support and disaster resilience.

09/02/2025

AWF Network Partner HGA Studio .architects has picked up two gongs and a commendation in the 2025 NSW Regional Architecture Awards for three beautiful projects:

Hotel Marvell - Commercial Architecture Award
Bonito – Interior Architecture Award
Brahminy House – Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Commendation

HGA Studio are AWF’s first regional Network Partner; we’re thrilled to have worked with them on Hillside Health Centre in Belize and the Muanivatu Trails community-owned tourism project in Fiji.

Image 1: Hotel Marvell (Photo - David Chatfield)
Image 2: Hotel Marvell (Photo - David Chatfield)
Image 3: Bonito (Photo - David Chatfield)
Image 3: Brahminy House (Photo - David Chatfield) .architects

04/12/2024

Network Partners, friends, clients and supporters celebrated ARCH joining the AWF Network Partner community at an event overlooking Brisbane’s King George Square last Thursday.

MC’d by Neil Carter (Sustainability Leader, ARCH), hosted by David Rose (Principal Architect & Chairperson, ARCH) and welcomed by Turrbal Elder and Law-woman, Songwoman Maroochy, the event featured a cross section of beautiful and impactful projects across Australia, the Pacific, Asia, West Africa and the Middle East.

Presenters included:
Professor Esther Charlesworth AM (Founding Director, AWF)
Geoff Marsdon (Executive General Manager, Bondor Metecno)
Ron Bridgefoot (Principal Architect, ARCH)
Maricel Marbus (Architect, ARCH)
Scott Chapple (Principal Architect, ARCH)

Image 2: Eric Tweedale Stadium, ARCH
Image 3: Hanna Neumann Building, ARCH

28/11/2024

We’re very excited to announce our latest Network Partner, ARCH.

Previously known as Suters Architects, ARCH has been designing inspirational places in Australia and internationally since 1958.

ARCH’s architectural, interior design and specialist clinical planning work covers hospitals, learning places, seniors living, sport and leisure, hospitality, residential, workplace, science, industry and civic facilities. They’re dedicated to connecting, nurturing, and sustaining communities through their projects

Their values of designing with people, place, planet and purpose make ARCH a great fit as an Architects Without Frontiers Network Partner. We look forward to working with them on exciting new projects.

26/11/2024

Three AWF Network Partners have projects shortlisted in the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards:

, together with Kerstin Thompson Architects for The Round, Nunawading;
, together with NH Architecture, Bird de la Coeur Architects & Openwork for the Tarakan Street Social and Affordable Housing;
, together with Balmain and Co, Nightingale Housing & MABT.C.L for Nightingale Preston;
, together with Milieu Property, Inner North Carpentry, Acre & Perimeter Landscaping, for Park Street.

📷 Images
The Round, Nunawading -
Tarakan Street Social and Affordable Housing –
Nightingale Preston –
Park Street – .xyz

25/11/2024

AWF Network Partner and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia () are working together to showcase sustainable innovation through new construction methods.

Their design for a community building for vulnerable young girls in Hope Village, Tanzania, incorporates walls of 3D-printed earth, which has numerous sustainable benefits, from the use of local materials and reduction in energy production to its recycling and afterlife qualities.

The 3-D earth printing process was tested earlier this year in a series of full-scale mock-ups at IAAC’s Forest Campus in Barcelona, Spain, using 3dWasp Crane Technology. Instead of a solid barrier, the walls use a complex pattern of interwoven layers, allowing for increased ventilation and natural light within the building’s interior spaces.

Photography: .lt

19/11/2024

Congratulations to AWF Network Partner Jackson Clements Burrows Architects for a very big year at the 2024 AIA National Architecture Awards

JCB’s wins included:
2024 National Award for Public Architecture for the Berninneit Cultural and Community Centre,
2024 National Award for Educational Architecture for Clifton Hill Primary School,
2024 Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture for T3 Collingwood (now Australia’s largest mass timber building).

Images:
01 Berninneit Cultural and Community Centre - Victor Vieaux
02 Berninneit Cultural and Community Centre – Peter Clarke
03 Clifton Hill Primary School – Peter Clarke
04 Clifton Hill Primary School – Peter Clarke
05 T3 Collingwood – Tom Blackford
06 T3 Collingwood – John Gollings

11/11/2024

It’s great to see AWF Network Partners Breathe () and Hayball (), together with Architecture architecture, Austin Maynard Architects, Clare Cousins Architects and Kennedy Nolan, recognised at this year’s World Architecture Festival () for their work as architect / developers of Nightingale Village in Brunswick.

The project won the WAF Completed Buildings: Housing Category. Judges lauded the precinct as a testament to the power of collaboration: “Each architecture firm brings their unique vision to the site while sharing spaces and facilities to ensure the best quality of life for residents.”

📷 Tom Ross

16/10/2024

We’re thrilled to learn that Jack Gillmer, along with Emily McDaniel and Michael Mossman, have been selected as the creative directors of the Australia Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

As First Nations Lead for AWF Network Partner SJB, Jack has been working with AWF client Badu Arts Centre () in the Torres Strait to develop protocols for the repatriation of cultural materials from museums and universities around the world.

Together, AWF, SJB and Tract are developing a new arts centre campus for Badu, which will include a keeping space for returned cultural artefacts.

Images:
01 L-R: Jack Gillmer, Emily McDaniel and Michael Mossman
02 ‘Home’, by Jack Gillmer, Emily McDaniel and Michael Mossman
03 Jack Gillmer
04 Badu Island, Torres Strait

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