Architects and designers, get in quick! Registrations for the 2024 NGV Architecture Commission competition are due to close next Monday 28 August, 2023.
The ninth iteration of the Commission, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) looks to promote the architecture profession each year via a structure placed in the NGV Garden. NGV has a history of rewarding thought-provoking, issues-led designs that are creative in nature and typology.
In 2024, the Commission will be a two-stage design competition format which is open to architects and multi-disciplinary teams that include an architect registered in Australia. Teams may include Australian and international entities and may bring together various design and broader creative disciplines.
The 2023 Commission saw Perth-based Nic Brundson’s (This is) Air make the invisible visible by drawing attention to one of the most fundamental aspects of life on Earth, air. Using air as a building material, (This is) Air will present a large spherical structure set in the NGV Garden which will morph and change as it inflates and deflates throughout the day in a contemplative study of air and time.
The Commission was created following the foundation of the NGV Contemporary Design and Architecture Department in 2015. The Gallery sees it as an opportunity for Australian architects and designers to propose unique compelling ideas and concepts for presentation within one of Australia’s great civic and cultural spaces, the NGV Garden at NGV International.
Former winners include Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang (2022), Taylor Knights + James Carey (2021), Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office (2019), MUIR + OPENWORK (2018), Retallack Thompson and Other Architects (2017), M@ STUDIO Architects (2016) and John Wardle Architects (2015).
For more information regarding eligibility requirements and submission deadlines, click here.
