REALMstudios wins at the 2025 AILA VIC Awards

REALMstudios work was recognised in 3 awards at the 2025 AILA VIC Awards last Thursday night.

Moondani Balluk

In Health and Education Landscape, Moondani Balluk, the Indigenous Academic Unit at Victoria University’s Footscray Campus.

The jury noted, “At the centre of Victoria University’s Footscray campus, the Moondani Balluk landscape successfully represents a link to the dramatic escarpment of the Maribyrnong River, within a highly constructed campus environment. What started as a small courtyard landscape for the Indigenous Academic Unit, evolved through strong advocacy into an expanded and innovative design. The design incorporates a suspended and perched landscape, co-designed with First Nation artists and academics. Moondani Balluk makes a valuable contribution to the language of educational landscapes.”

For Landscape Planning: Warrnambool Foreshore Framework Plan, “The Warrnambool Foreshore Framework recognises the dynamic nature of coastal environments and proposes a phased approach, built back from an ambitious future vision. It presents the long-term transition of the foreshore towards a healthier landscape, that is better connected to the township. Adaptive management strategies are used to respond to climate change impacts and evolving community needs. Successfully balancing many competing stakeholders and uses, this plan brings together cultural and ecological values to celebrate a critical coastal asset.”

For each of these awards the client group (Warrnambool City, Moondani Balluk) has been central to the foundation and then success of the projects. With them, we are delighted to have this work recognised by AILA VIC as meaningfully connecting people, culture, and place.

The third, an Award of Excellence in the Research, Policy and Communications category, was awarded for the Birrarung 2070 Exhibition, where along with 7 other landscape architecture and design studios including, @aspectstusios,  @emergent_studios_design , @mcgregorcoxall, @___office , @_openwork , , @sblastudio and @tcl_studio – REALMstudios work of imagining the Birrarung in 2070 and beyond was exhibited at the NGV for 6 months over 2024/25. We want to thank and acknowledge the NGV for their initiation and curatorship of the exhibition. Our sincere thanks also to the Birrarung Council and Wurundjeri Elders for their support.

Warrnambool Foreshore Framework Plan