AWARDS
2023
Warm Vessel
Resene Total Colour Landscape Award - Maestro Award
Arc Angel
Resene Total Colour Award - Maestro Award
Apartment for an Older Man with Plus Minus Design
AIA NSW Award - Winner Interior Architecture
2021
SRG House with Fox Johnston Architects
AIA NSW Award - Winner Residential Architecture - Houses (Alts + Adds)
AIA NSW Award - Commendation Heritage
Houses Awards - Winner Houses in a Heritage Setting
Houses Awards - Commendation Houses Alts and Adds over 200m2
2020
Ballast Point House with Fox Johnston Architects
Shortlisted - Houses Awards, New House over 200m2
2019
CC Babcoq
Winner - Restaurant & Bar Design Awards UK
2018
Hanging Garden Mural
USA CODAawards - Merit Award Residential commissioned artwork
Polychrome House
Resene Total Colour Awards - Maestro Award
Paper Bird with Plus Minus Design
AIA NSW Award – Commendation Sustainable Architecture
AIA NSW Award – Commendation Small Projects
2017
North Bondi Amenities with Sam Crawford Architects
Dulux Colour Awards – Grand Prix
Dulux Colour Awards – Winner Commercial Exterior
Australian Institute of Architects National Award – Winner Small Project Architecture
AIA NSW – Winner Small Project Architecture
AIA NSW – Commendation for Public Architecture
2016
Mark’s Park Amenities Upgrade with Sam Crawford Architects
AIA NSW Award – Winner Public Architecture
AIA NSW Award – Winner Small Projects
2015
Cronulla House
Resene Total Colour Awards – Winner Best Neutral Colour Scheme
UTS Science Building with Durbach Block Jaggers
Lymesmith designed the playful colour scheme for the facades 714 window reveals.
Gold Sydney Design Awards – Mixed Use Category
AIA National Award – Educational Architecture
AIA NSW – Inaugural William E Kemp Award for Educational Architecture
City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Architecture Prize
2014
Building Blocks at Quay Quarter
Resene Total Colour Awards Winner for Display + Product
Prince Alfred Park Pool with Neeson Murcutt
Lymesmith designed the Trigeneration Chimneys on this much awarded project.
2014 AIA NSW Sulman Medal for Public Architecture
2014 AIA NSW Lloyd Rees Award – Urban Design
City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize
Australia Award – Urban Design
Good Design Awards – Best In Architecture + Interiors 2013 AILA Award
2013
Prince Alfred Park Pool with Neeson Murcutt
2013 Sydney Design Awards – Architecture Mixed Use
2013 CCAA – State Award
2013 CIA – NSW High Commendation
Earlier
Parramatta Interchange Wall, with MWA
2008 RAIA Urban Design Architecture Award; 2007 National Concrete Association Award, Category ‘Wall’.
2003 winning competition entry for upgrade of Macquarie St Mall, Liverpool, with MWA and JILA
MEDIA
Lymesmith Media
A spectacular mural high in the sky takes its cue from Canberra's mountains The Riot ACT, Feb 2024
Little Wonder. A tiny jewel of an apartment has caught the eye of the Australian Institute of Architects Australian Financial Review, July 2023
Largest animal shelter in the southern hemisphere opens in Western Sydney Architecture & Design June 2023
BARC | Blacktown Animal Rehoming Centre | SCA | Sam Crawford Architectures Archilovers June 2023
The New Blacktown Animal Rehoming Centre is giving unwanted Pets a New Life ellaslist May 2023
Colour explosion allows Boomer to express hue-manity Sydney Morning Herald May 2023
From Blah to Bloody Gorgeous: How a Newtown street corner became a happiness hub Sydney Morning Herald May 2023
‘An integrated artist’: The Canberra creative embracing colour with each project All Homes September 2022
A ’60s Cronulla Home Gets A Colour-Rich Makeover The Design Files
Interview: A Talk With Sonia van de Haar Mutina Journal May 2018
National Architecture Awards: Small Project Architecture Award Architecture AU November 2017
Dunny Done Right: North Bondi Amenities Architecture Australia October 2017
2017 Intergrain Timber Vision Awards winners announced Architecture and Design September 2017
Pet Reprieve: Ambitious Plan for $36m Animal Rehoming Megacentre Revealed Architecture AU September 2017
Designer Public Dunnies - Civic dignity in small public architecture Architecture AU August 2017
Paper Bird Restaurant Review Sydney Morning Herald August 2017
A collective of artists enliven an urban laneway with captivating murals in Byron Bay Designboom August 2017
North Bondi Amenities Building arcspace.com June 2017
Five Incredible Colour Palettes The West Australian May 2017
2017 Dulux Colour Awards ArchitectureAU May 2017
Editorial: We Must Rally to Save Our Drabness! Byron Shire News March 2017
Elysium dreams big in Byron Bay laneway Byron Echo December 2016
From brick shithouse to terrific toilets: Marks Park Amenities by Sam Crawford Architects Architecture and Design May 2016
Sonia and Yasmine chase away the shadows Habitat by Resene April 2016
Prince Alfred Park and Pool Australian Design Review January 2016
Cronulla House – a dramatic but neutral palette Habitat by Resene 2016
2015 National Architecture Awards: Education Award Architecture AU Nov 2015
Rule bender: UTS Science and Health Building Architecture AU July 2015
Built-in Colour Resene news 2015
Resene Total Colour Awards – Building Blocks for Quay Quarter Architecture AU September 2014
Prince Alfred Park Architecture AU June 2014
The Obscured Gift Architecture AU February 2014
Darcy St, Parramatta Resene News 2014
Prince Alfred Park Pool Architecture Australia December 2013