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2025 VIC & TAS Awards

13 Nov 2025

Congratulations to the winners, commendations, and all entrants of the 2025 Victorian + Tasmanian Chapter Awards!

On Thursday 13 November 2025, members and guests of our Victorian + Tasmanian Chapters gathered at 75 Reid Street to celebrate the Victorian & Tasmanian Chapter Awards - a night dedicated to recognising the spaces and people shaping the future of learning.

This year’s celebration held special significance as LEA marked 25 years of championing excellence in learning environments. The evening brought together our vibrant community for connection, conversation, and celebration, with complimentary food and drinks and the opportunity to reflect on the innovation, collaboration and purpose that define our sector.

The 2025 awards showcased a diverse range of projects across Victoria and Tasmania, from new campuses and buildings to thoughtful modernisations and inspiring outdoor learning areas. Together, they demonstrate how architectural innovation and educational intent can align to support wellbeing, inclusion, sustainability and student agency, across projects of all scales and budgets.

We extend our sincere congratulations to all winners and commendations recognised this year, and thank every entrant for contributing such meaningful and inspiring work.

We congratulate all winners and commendations recognised at the 2025 Victorian & Tasmanian Chapter Awards and thank every entrant for their generosity, creativity and commitment to advancing learning environments.

The projects celebrated this year reflect the strength and diversity of our community - demonstrating how thoughtful design can support wellbeing, inclusion, sustainability and educational excellence across all scales and contexts.

As LEA marks 25 years of shaping the future of learning, we are proud to continue recognising the people and places that inspire better outcomes for learners, educators and communities.

The evening also celebrated the Overall Winner of the 2025 Victorian & Tasmanian Chapter Awards: Kilvington Grammar School – The Hive STEM and Library Centre, designed by ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects and captured through the lens of Dianna Snape, a project recognised for its visionary integration of student agency, sustainability and future-focused learning design.

Jury Citation "The Hive STEM and Library Centre demonstrates exceptional educational design through its innovative living laboratory concept, meaningful student led sustainability focus, and sophisticated biophilic design anchored by a preserved Eucalyptus tree. The building successfully integrates exposed services as interactive teaching tools, creating spaces that inspire curiosity while fostering genuine student belonging and ownership.

Through extensive stakeholder engagement incorporating curriculum integration and 3D visualisation, the design achieves a respectful street presence for the school while delivering a learning environment deeply connected to nature. The project's comprehensive evidence of both designed flexibility and proven adaptability, including successful accommodation of a 12-month renovation period, validates its responsive capacity to support evolving educational programs."

Thank you to everyone who joined us on the night and contributed to another outstanding chapter awards celebration.

Award Categories

The 2025 Victoria + Tasmanian Chapter Awards featured 28 entries. There are eight award categories:

Category 1 – An Innovative Education Initiative: Designed to showcase significant contributions to learning environments by schools, educators, students, designers, community organisations etc.

Category 2 – New Campus with Educational Facilities: Applies to construction of a new school or educational institution on a new campus.

Category 3 – New Building/s or Facilities – Large: A new building/facility or new buildings/facilities in an existing school or campus, value over AUD $10 million.

Category 4 – New Building/s or Facilities – Small: A new building/facility or new buildings/facilities in an existing school or campus value less than AUD $10 million.

Category 5 – Modernisation – Large: Modernisation/Renovation projects valued over AUD $5 Million.

Category 6 – Modernisation – Small: Modernisation/Renovation projects valued less than AUD $5 Million.

Category 7 – Small Project Under $2 Million:
A new building or a renovation, must be a learning environment.

Category 8 – Landscaping/Outdoor Learning Area: Designed to showcase outdoor learning environments or landscapes targeted at improving educational outcomes.

Award Citations

View the 2025 TAS + VIC Chapter Award Citations

Jury + Acknowledgements

Thank you to our volunteer Jury panel for your time and consideration in judging this years awards:
Deb Aukland
Eloise Beveridge
Andrew Duffin
Peta Heffernan
Elvis Jeannot
Simon Moisey
Shannon Warren