
We are thrilled and honoured to share that the Newburgh Light House has been awarded a 2025 Architecture Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing at the Victorian Architecture Awards.
The award was announced at the annual gala event held this past weekend.
Thank you to our client WAF Constructions for entrusting us once again to design a residential offering on this tricky site.
Thanks to our team at Splinter Society Architecture and of course the jury for their time and participation in the process.
Jury Citation:
Located to the rear of a retail strip, adjacent to Vic Track land and the historical Auburn Train Station, the land-locked 150 m² site rises 10 levels, with every millimetre of the site utilised and moulded to provide light-filled and cross-ventilated homes occupying one level each.
Each constraint or hurdle is visible yet invisible in this project’s materiality and architectural response. In-situ concrete through the base, required to withstand the impact from a derailed train, manifests in the creation of façade and seating for the small café tenancy on the ground floor. The intricate, interconnected, prefabricated glass block façade panels provide privacy and boundary fire separation whilst maximizing light penetration into the apartments and achieving views.
This project challenges the more traditional responses to site and context, resulting in a building that is absolutely of its place and relevant as we look to solutions to utilise our available building plots to further infill and densify our suburbs.
Claire Humphreys RAIA| Jury Chair
John McIldowie Partners RAIA | Juror
Oliver Mayger RAIA | Juror
Meagan Velleman RAIA | Grad Juror
Practice: Splinter Society Architecture
Photographer: Timothy Kaye
Builder: WAF Constructions
Traditional Owners: Wurundjeri
Category Sponsor: Siniat