Rouse Hill. Town centre wins award

The Rouse Hill Town Centre won the Walter Burley Griffen Award for Urban Design, in the 2008 Australian Institute of Architects awards. The shopping mall has rejected the big-box format in favour of quasi open-air streets and the introduction of apartments and a library into its realm. The jury admired the way the shopping centre’s environmental considerations and its 24-hour spaces had been handled, according to “The Australian Financial Review Magazine”. The architects were Rice Daubney, Allen Jack+Cottier, Group GSA.