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Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit
Recipients of the 2024 Holdmark Innovation Award
Kennedy Nolan with Finding Infinity
The Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit project by Kennedy Nolan with Finding Infinity was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Holdmark Innovation Award.
The annual Holdmark Innovation Award recognises excellence and innovation in the built environment. Supported by Holdmark, the Award is presented by Powerhouse during Sydney Design Week.
Kennedy Nolan
A Melbourne-based architectural studio founded in 1999 by Rachel Nolan and Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy Nolan has developed a reputation for design-focused practice with a distinct approach to the built form.
‘As practitioners, we’re dedicated to producing architecture that’s highly responsive to its context and forms a strong relationship with landscape. We pride ourselves on an innovative approach to public and residential projects. We deliver a highly responsive design sensitive to its context that incorporates sustainable design initiatives while achieving the requirements of our brief.’
Project Summary
‘The Holdmark Innovation Award 2024 selection committee reviewed examples of innovation in many forms this year, from experiments in materials, to new solutions for climate adaptation and whole urban strategies. In this rich cross section of approaches, we were unanimous in our choice of the winner, the Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit project by Kennedy Nolan with Finding Infinity. The cleverness of this project is that while intervention was minimal, the project challenges our assumptions of what a truly sustainable future might look like.
