
2018 PRIZE
WINNER: Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies - 'Chaos and Fertility'
The $10,000 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects is a unique international award that encourages innovation and visionary thinking by challenging architects to design contemporary tapestries. The site for the 2021 design challenge is the multi-award winning Phoenix Central Park designed by John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers.
The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2021 is generously supported by Metal Manufactures Limited, Architecture Media, Creative Victoria and the City of Port Phillip.
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Abhinay H Satam + Shristi D Rawat (India) Madeleine Gallagher, Julie Lee, Georgina de Beaujeu + Lis de Vries (Australia) Michael Chapman (Australia)
WATCH THE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT HERE
9 November – 17 December 2021
To be held at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. Find out more.Voting for the $1000 People's Choice Award has closed. The winner of the People's Choice Award will be announced on Tuesday 7 December 2021.
Since 2015 the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects has fostered exciting new creative dialogues between architects and tapestry weavers. From architectural students to globally recognised firms, the Prize has received over 500 tapestry design entries. The initiative of architect and former ATW Board Chair, Peter Williams AM, the prize celebrates the rich historical connection between architectural space and tapestry design.
Previous hypothetical design sites include the Pharos Wing, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (MONA) (2018); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2016) and the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini, Venice (2015). First prize winners include Pop Architecture + Hotham Street Ladies (2018), Justin Hill (2016), John Wardle Architects (2015) and Kristin Green Architects + Michelle Hamer (2015). In 2020, the Australian Tapestry Workshop was acknowledged for its significant contribution to architecture internationally with the Australian Institute of Architecture’s International Chapter Council awarding Director, Antonia Syme AM the prestigious William J Mitchell Prize.
Two Tapestry Design Prize for Architects winners have been woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop. ‘Perspectives on a Flat Surface’ designed by John Wardle Architects was commissioned by Judith Neilson AM in 2016. Justin Hill’s design ‘22 Temenggong Road, Twilight’ was woven in 2018.
WINNER: Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies - 'Chaos and Fertility'
WINNER: Justin Hill - '22 Temenggong Road, Twilight'
JOINT WINNER'S: John Wardle Architects & KGA Architecture (Kristin Green) & Michelle Hamer