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Studio Prineas has been awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Best in Practice Prize for Small Practice 2024

On November 22nd our team attended the Australian Institute of Architects 2024 NSW Prizes and Honours Awards Night. We are thrilled to have been awarded the Best in Practice Prize within the Small Practice category. This year’s award focus was ‘breaking business as usual’, demonstrating that architectural practices have a pivotal role to play in our local architectural and wider communities as advocates of sustainable practices, innovation, and change. The Studio Prineas team is honoured to be recognised as leaders in our profession- particularly this year, which marks an important studio milestone of 20 years in practice.

Jury Citation:

“Studio Prineas is a collegiate team that works together efficiently and joyously. Younger architects are well mentored and supported, in formally structured sessions and also throughout every day. The practice’s all-in Monday morning meetings sort through the progress, challenges, and wins of every project, including those that are in-house such as their recent B-Corp Certification. This means that younger architects and graduates are constantly learning and being challenged to contribute to the whole-office knowledge bank. They have an exceptionally high proportion of registered architects and are a female led and mostly female staffed practice. Being a successful woman dominated practice provides balance against the traditional male-led architecture industry and leads by example not only for other architects but for the consultants, builders, and clients that we all work with. 

Through Studio Prineas’ B-Corp Certification, they have proven they are world standard across a whole range of sustainability, ethics, and equity challenges. Partly as a result of going through the certification process, they have developed a number of new processes that make their ethical and sustainable design process more transparent to clients, thus challenging everyone they work with to put their best efforts towards our climate challenges.

Studio Prineas promotes the idea of ‘thinking more and building less’, believing that our value as architects can be as problem-solvers, innovators, and thinkers, and that we can find ways to use what we have in clever and beautiful ways. 

Studio Prineas is demonstrating through their beautiful and considered work that being a wonderful place to work and having high standards for sustainability and ethics is compatible with the best architectural output.”