METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line project sweeps WA’s top architecture awards
Photo by Trevor Mein
Great news from the 2025 WA Architecture Awards! The METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line project (delivered by the formidable team of Woods Bagot (lead), TRCB, UDLA and TCL) – took home four awards, including the top honour: the George Temple Poole Award. Huge congratulations to everyone involved.
From Emma Young via WA today:
The Morley-Ellenbrook train line project has bagged four accolades including the state’s highest architectural honour at the Australian Institute of Architects’ state awards.
At Friday night’s ceremony at Beaumonde On the Point, the project encompassing the Morley, Noranda, Ballajura, Whiteman Park and Ellenbrook stations bagged the prestigious George Temple Poole Award.
It also won the Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture, Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, and the Public Architecture Award.
The jury said the stations, designed by Woods Bagot with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick, TCL and UDLA, made an outstanding contribution to the social and public infrastructure of a rapidly growing area of Perth.
They said it set “an impressive new sustainability benchmark for government infrastructure in Australia, and for being an exemplar of public transport and community facilities, with the end-user experience at the forefront of the design.”
From Mark Naglazas via WA today:
The 21 kilometres of new railway track and five new stations and precincts at Morley, Noranda, Ballajura, Whiteman Park and Ellenbrook were praised by the judges for “its outstanding contribution to the social and public infrastructure of a major developing area of Perth and for its setting of new sustainability benchmarks for infrastructure development.”
In showering the Morley-Ellenbrook train line with so many prizes the state’s design gurus sent a clear message to our sprawling car-dependent metropolis that there’s a more sustainable, human-scaled and aesthetically pleasing way of laying out, organising and inhabiting our city.
“This is a generational change for Perth,” said Pippa Hurst, founder and creative director of DesignFreo and Fremantle Design Week, and one of the design community’s most persuasive advocates.
