The Australian Tapestry Workshop launched the Tapestry Design Prize 2021 for architects. The $ 10,000 award calls on architects to design a site-specific tapestry for a hypothetical location that will be a selection of three galleries in Phoenix Central Park by John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers in 2021: the basement gallery, the gallery with double height and the gallery on the upper floor. The award is open to architects, architecture students and multidisciplinary design teams worldwide. Participants are asked to consider how tapestries can articulate, transform and enrich public and private space. John Wardle Architects, who won the 2015 award for his design Perspective on a Flat Surface, will be on the jury of PTW Architects together with Cameron Bruhn (Dean and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland) and Diane Jones (Managing Director) ), Valerie Kirk (artist and tapestry weaver), Dimmity Walker (director of Spaceagency Architects) and the interdisciplinary artist Brook Andrew. The closing date for entries is June 7th at 5pm and the winner will be announced on August 26th at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. A People’s Choice winner will also receive $ 1,000. The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects, an initiative by architect and former ATW chairman Peter Williams, celebrates the longstanding association between architectural space and tapestry design. The hypothetical sites for previous competitions were the Australian Pavilion in Venice (2015), the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra (2016) and an un-built monumental cenotaph for the physicist Isaac Newton that the French neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée designed in the 18th century. (2018). Two of the award-winning tapestry designs are from the Australian Tapestry Workshop, including John Wardle Architects’ Perspective on a Flat Surface, which was jointly named in 2015, and Justin Hills 22 Temenggong Road, Twilight. The 2018 award winner, Chaos and Fertility by Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies, is currently in production. The closing date for entries for the 2021 prize is June 7th at 5 p.m. and the winner will be announced on August 26th at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. A People’s Choice winner will also receive $ 1,000. The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2021 is awarded by the Australian Tapestry Workshop and supported by Architecture Media (publisher of ArchitectureAU.com), Metal Manufactures Limited, Creative Victoria and the City of Port Phillip. The award ceremony is part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival.
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