AJC Wins Second Consecutive NSW Enduring Architecture Award

AJC has received the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) NSW Enduring Architecture Award for the second consecutive year, with Clubbe Hall at Frensham School recognised for its lasting design quality.

The award recognises buildings at least 25 years old that continue to demonstrate outstanding architectural merit, celebrating projects that have remained relevant and valued long after completion.

This year’s recognised project, Clubbe Hall, was designed by Keith Cottier, one of AJC’s defining architects, to mark Frensham School’s fiftieth anniversary. Today it remains at the heart of school life, its carefully considered response to place and honest expression of locally sourced brick, timber and exposed concrete enabling it to serve generations of students, staff and the wider Mittagong community.

Clubbe Hall first received the NSW Blacket Award in 1967, shortly after completion. Recognition with the NSW Enduring Architecture Award almost six decades later is a testament to the lasting quality of its design and its contribution to school and community life.

The consecutive awards recognise two very different projects. Last year’s recognition honoured Moore Park Gardens, one of Australia’s leading medium-density residential developments. While different in scale, purpose and setting, the two projects reflect the breadth of AJC’s work and a consistent approach to designing places that perform, adapt and remain valued over time.

As AJC marks its 70th anniversary, the consecutive awards reinforce the practice’s longstanding commitment to architecture designed to endure.

“To receive this award for a second consecutive year is incredibly meaningful,” says Michael Heenan, Chair of the Board and Design Lead at AJC. “Clubbe Hall and Moore Park Gardens are very different projects, but both remind us that the best architecture reveals its value over time, through the communities it continues to serve.”