Press Release: Milson Island wins 2012 Steel Design Awards NSW / ACT

29.06.12

Milson Island Indoor Sports Stadium took the top honour in the Buildings – Small Projects category at the Australian Steel Institute (ASI) Awards NSW & ACT last Friday night, in Sydney. The awards, which run every two years by the ASI, showcase intelligent solutions and excellence in design and execution. The winners go on to vie for national honours to be announced in Canberra this September. Michael Heenan, CEO and Design Principal of Allen Jack+Cottier (AJ+C) led the design team in creating the innovative and site responsive Indoor Stadium for school children, for the Department of Sport and Recreation. “The shape emerged by morphing the ideal shapes resulting from the thermodynamic analysis, the side wind forces, the need to shed leaves and branches and yet collect water and the enclosure requirements. All building elements had to be sized to be barged across the river to the site” he said. “This is a powerful building which in its frugality demonstrates the essence of shelter and a building that exploits the inherent properties of steel and ply.”