Riparian Plaza was announced the Overall Winner of the 2008 Property Council of Australia/Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation and Excellence Awards held on Saturday 24 May 2008 at the Crown Casino Complex, Melbourne.

Earlier in the evening, Riparian Plaza won the National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Mixed Use Development. This award was open to inspiring developments that exhibited innovation and excellence in design and development of a building of at least three substantive uses.

Riparian Plaza went on to surpass a distinguished field of 12 category award winners to take out the top honours of the evening. Previous winners of the prestigious Property Council of Australia/Rider Levett Bucknall Award include the Renzo Piano designed Aurora Place and last year's winner, the Norman Foster designed Deuschte Bank Place.

The Property Council of Australia/Rider Levett Bucknall Awards recognizes the outstanding achievements of 97 finalists from all around Australia across 13 award categories. The developments showcased represent outstanding examples of the property industry’s commitment to creating strong community links and vibrant places for people to live, work and play.

 

 

(L-R)  Mr Bob Minnikin, Director of Incoll Management Pty Ltd; Mr Scott Collins,
Director of Bloomberg Incorporation Ltd and Mr Henry Feiner, Partner of Harry
Seidler & Associates with the National Award for Mixed Use Development
and the 2008 Property Council of Australia/Rider Levett Bucknall Award.

 

Riparian Plaza has been recognised with three distinguished Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Awards.

 

In June 2007, Riparian Plaza received a Brisbane Regional Commendation and a Commercial Architecture Award from the Queensland Chapter of the RAIA. Success at these awards culminated in Riparian Plaza being awarded the 2007 National RAIA Award for Commercial Architecture.

The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Awards are Australia’s most prestigious annual architecture prizes.  A total 27 National Awards and Commendations across 11 categories were awarded to projects in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT, NSW, NT, the UK and China. They were presented to the nation’s most inspiring recent architectural projects, and the architects who created them, at a special awards ceremony in Alice Springs.

 

Mr Greg Holman (far right) accepting the 2007 RAIA National Commercial

Architecture Award on behalf of Harry Seidlers & Associates.  

Pictured wtih Mr Carey Lyons (left) and Ms Brigette Andresen (centre)

 from the National RAIA Jury.