The Chicago Athenaeum

FITZROY HIGH SCHOOL & LETTERBOX HOUSE

McBride Charles Ryan has recently received The International Architecture Award for Fitzroy High School and Letterbox House.

“The International Architecture Awards are the highest and most prestigious disinguished building awards that honor new and cutting-edge design.”

The award is organised by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in conjunction with Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.

Fitzroy High School:

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie Lyn Ryan
Project team: Andrew Hayne, Drew Williamson, Michelle James, Angela Woda, David Fraser

Letterbox House:

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie-Lyn Ryan
Project team: Adam Pustola, Meredith Dufour, Michael McManus, Angela Woda, Matthew Borg, Fang Cheah,
Flynn Lewer

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Horbury Hunt Awards

We are proud to announce that McBride Charles Ryan has received the Horbury Hunt Commercial Award at the 2011 Think Brick Awards.

“The Horbury Hunt Awards recognise excellence and innovation in built projects and the collaboration of the project team to deliver architectural outcomes: architect/designer, builder, masonry contractor and brick manufacturer. The Awards reward innovation and craftsmanship in brickwork and recognises the contribution of all parties in that process.”

We would like to congratulate and thank all who worked on the project.

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie-Lyn Ryan
Project team: Benedikt Josef, Amelia Borg, Natasha Maben

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WAN Awards

“WAN winners pave the way for new typologies in education facility design”

McBride Charles Ryan are happy to report that we were recently the recipients of the WAN Education Sector 2011 award for a built project.

We would like to thank the judges for their time and kind comments. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the project team and the staff at Fitzroy High School.

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WAF Shortlist

PEGS JUNIOR

McBride Charles Ryan has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival Award in the learning category for PEGS Junior.

The World Architecture Festival is the world’s largest annual global architecture awards regularly attracting more than 700 entries from almost 60 different countries every year.

The festival opens November 2 in Barcelona, Spain.

For more information about the awards click here.

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Melbourne Design Awards

PEGS JUNIOR

Thanks to your votes, PEGS Junior Boys School has recieved the Melbourne Design Award for Commercial Architecture!

“The MDA is the only design awards recognising a broad range of design categories open to design professionals, students and those that commission design.

The awards are cross-disciplinary, celebrating and honouring the role of design and the skills of designers around the planet, while recognising all aspects of the design process.”

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Monaco House in Sydney Morning Herald

Monaco House Featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, APRIL 24-25, 2010

“McBride Charles Ryan’s Monaco House seems to erupt out of its starched and narrow lane just metres from the Melbourne Club, bubbling convexly above street level and concavely at it, punching a crumpled cave of conviviality into the street wall.”

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LICC Awards

LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION – KLEIN BOTTLE HOUSE

The Klein Bottle House was shortlisted as one of the finalists of the London International Creative Competition.

“London International Creative Competition is a vehicle for facilitating contact between uniquely talented artists and an international audience”

Find out more information here.

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Melbourne Design Awards

WINNER, ARCHITECTURE – RESIDENTIAL

McBride Charles Ryan are happy to announce that the Letterbox House was the proud recipient of the Residential Architecture award at the Melbourne Design Awards.

We would like to extend a warm thanks to all who voted for the project.

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Grand Design Award

Klein Bottle House

Klein Bottle House has won the Grand Designs Awards for Best International House. Debbie flew to the UK to accept the award-presented by Kevin McCloud.

Visit the Grand Designs Website for for more information about the award:
www.granddesignsawards.com

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DULUX Colour Awards Grand Prix

Celebration ensued in the office when it was announced that Fitzroy High School had taken out the category prize for Best Commercial Interior, as well as the Grand Prix for the 24th Annual Dulux Colour Awards.

It was surely an honour to have been chosen among such a huge and diverse group of applicants this year.

Special thanks for the project goes out to  Project team: Debbie Ryan, Rob McBride, Andrew Hayne, Drew Williamson, Michelle James, Angela Woda, and David Fraser.

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