Pleased to have Rodda Lane recognised at the Inde Awards where it has been shortlisted in the Learning Space category. This project offers an alternative space within RMIT’s CBD campus for socialising and informal learning n an outdoor setting. New landscaping, urban infrastructures and material treatments give a bold and proud identity to this network of disparate laneways woven between campus buildings. Read more about the project here.

Earlier this year Amelia Borg graduated with an MBA at the University of Melbourne Business School! Needless to say we are super proud of her and in awe of how she stayed focused on both study and practice throughout the pandemic Amelia’s skills have helped us deliver the best in our projects through understanding the complex needs of the clients that we work with, establishing a supportive and balanced studio culture for our team, whilst building upon the socially engaged agendas of our practice. Running an architectural practice has been and continues to be a challenging endeavour, we are continually learning and Amelia’s skills have only reinforced this venture we call Sibling Many thanks to the Steve Ashton Bequest who supported her studies with the Steve Ashton Scholarship for the Architectural Profession.

Pleased to share that the Music Market and Rodda Lane have both been shortlisted at this year’s AIA Victorian Chapter awards!

Music Market has been shortlisted in the heritage and interior categories and Rodda Lane for the Colorbond Steel award.

Fingers crossed for the award ceremony announcements in June.

Glassbook House, Family Framework House (featured below) and Hello Houses have been nominated for the 2021 ArchDaily Awards in the Houses Category. Great to be recognised against some high calibre projects both locally and internationally! You can find out more about the awards and how to vote for your favourite project here.

The NGV Triennial opened just before Christmas 2020 and with that came the unveiling of Boudoir Babylon, our installation designed in collaboration with Adam Nathaniel Furman. Read more about the project here.

The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. It is showing until 18 April 2021.

The project has been widely featured including on Dezeen and Australian Design Review.

We are very pleased to announce that Surfside Primary School has won Best Project under $5m at the 2020 Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) Awards.

This is our very first project for the VSBA and we look forward to delivering more schools in 2021 for our communities in both urban and regional areas of Victoria.

Sibling transformed 10 outdated general-purpose classrooms into a more modern collaborative learning environment.

To improve access and how the children find their way throughout the school, the architects used a garden or neighbourhood concept.

They replaced the traditional classrooms with a common street or path, which links a series of unique nodes.

Each node has its own identity, with unique colours inspired by natural landscapes.

The judges loved this confident and playful use of colour and thought it would be a delightful space to occupy.

Sibling also improved flexibility by using moveable acoustic partitions that allow adjacent classrooms to open up and become a large single space with several zones.

So pleased to have the Darebin Arts Centre win a Commendation at the prestigious 34th Dulux Colour Awards. The project was entered in the Commercial Interior – Public and Hospitality category, it is great to see local community projects such as this be recognised.

Thrilled to announce that the Glassbook House has picked up an award at the Master Builders Awards in NSW for best home renovation. Well done to Brad and his wonderful crew at Arc who skillfully built and delivered the project!

We are looking for a keen and experienced Revit documenter to join our team. This role involves leading Revit documentation for medium-scale public and educational projects, as well as implementing practice wide BIM procedures. Find out more about the role here. To apply please send your CV and portfolio to sister@siblingarchitecture.com

The last few months have brought about more dramatic challenges to our economy than what we have seen in several decades.

The built environment industry has had to react to political, social and economic changes that will stay with us for years or even longer. In such a turbulent environment, how do companies adapt – not just to survive, but to set themselves up for future success? What lessons have been learned and what is the way forward?

The University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning is holding a series of panel conversations called ‘State of the Industry’, inviting alumni and industry leaders to discuss how their industries have changed and what lies ahead.

Join Sibling Director Amelia Borg, John Denton (Founding Director, DCM) and Hamish Lyon (Director of Architecture and Design, NH Architecture) as they debate with Derek Huynh, founder of the University of Melbourne’s ABP Future Leaders Alumni Network.

We look forward to meeting again in real space for these conversations, but until then, please register here to join the panel online.