Pictured from left to right: Thomas Sharp (JCB), Jane Irwin (JILA), Ché Wall (FLUX), Sarah Lynn Rees (JCB), Daniel Harmon (JILA), Fernanda Cabral (PSA), Tim Jackson (JCB). Not Pictured: Peter Stutchbury (PSA), Belinda Koopman (PSA)
Following a nation-wide design competition, Western Sydney University is proud to announce the winning team to design its new Indigenous Centre of Excellence.
Chancellor Professor Jennifer Westacott AO, Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Barney Glover AO, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership Professor Michelle Trudgett announced the winning design team today.
The winning team is Sarah Lynn Rees + Jackson Clements Burrows Architects + Peter Stutchbury Architecture + Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture. The team also includes, Uncle Dean Kelly, Hills Thalis and Flux consultants. The winning design was chosen from submissions prepared by a shortlist of four teams.
The design competition selection panel were impressed with the winning team’s design concept, which encapsulates the visionary and community-centred nature of the transformational new building and confirms its position as an Indigenous-led project embedded in Country and in Indigenous knowledge.
To be located at the University’s Parramatta South campus, on Darug land, the Indigenous Centre of Excellence will consolidate Western Sydney as a region at the forefront of Indigenous education, employment and research.
