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29/03/2026

The 2026 Australian Urban Design Awards has named Balam Balam Place as a winner in the 2026 Built Outcomes category. A project made possible by the community it sits within and the many hands of .info and many more.

“This year’s winners reflect a gentler approach to urban transformation: projects rooted in Indigenous and community leadership, ecological landscapes, and the creation of places for people to gather,” she said. “These projects reinforce a simple idea: urban transformation works best when it involves diverse people, responds to the specifics of place, and improves places over time.” - Katheine Sundermann, chair of the Steering Committee for the Australian Urban Design Awards.

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27/03/2026

An honour to be named one of ‘s Esteemed 10, a celebration of Australian architecture and design in 2026.

‘The esteemed 10 recognises 10 Australians for their excellence in residential architecture and design in 2026. Each recipient has their own legacy-building approach to homes that enrich and sustain the lives within then, centre those who create them, and magnify design’s indelible impact on the landscape and community.

Thanks to the many hands at work, and the talented team at .

23/02/2026

Feeling very lucky to be included in the VL50 again this year

“The VL50 is a snapshot of Australia’s most dazzling creative talent – a mix of visionaries, rule-breakers and masters of materiality – celebrated for their commitment to the wider design community and indicative of this country’s extraordinary ability to punch far above its weight.”
Rebecca Caratti
Vogue Living Editor-in-Chief

Thank you so much

15/01/2026

2025 included work on two new retail spaces.

We revived our collaboration with the Up There boys for their first foray into NSW, designing a new store for their Up There Athletica brand in Oxford Street Darlinghurst.

And in Melbourne’s little Collins Street we worked on a debut store for the high-concept optometrist and luxury eye-wear retailer Six Six. .store

More to come soon from these enjoyable partnerships with great people and concepts.

13/01/2026

We are working on a special project this year which involves reflecting on our practice over the last 26 years.
Looking back has provoked some introspection as well as some good memories which we wanted to share over coming weeks.
To start, we look at projects from 2025, starting with the William Street Chambers. There is a great article in the recent Victorian Bar News by Moya O’Brien, one of the resident Barristers.

“The design brief for Kennedy Nolan Architects was simple: we wanted a home away from home, a soft place to land, and most importantly we wanted a space which would foster a sense of belonging.” Moya O’Brien

https://www.vicbar.com.au/Web/web/Contents/News/Bar-news/Issue_178_Summer_2025.aspx

19/12/2025

William Street Chambers is a cold shell fit-out project for CRM Chambers and GPT at 181 William Street Melbourne.

Essential to the design outcome was to ensure that individual chambers would be capable of customization acknowledging the unique nature of Barrister’s Chambers as a collective of allied individuals rather than a singular corporate identity.

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27/11/2025

Balam Balam means ‘White Butterfly’ in the Woi Wurrung language, a name given to this place by Traditional Owners. Balam Balam Place is a civic space in rapidly gentrifying Brunswick and provides affordable space for the community, including artists and other creative people seeking space to make and develop work.

We are immensely proud of Balam Balam Place - joyful in process and wondrous to watch in occupation over time.

20/10/2025

Three very special handovers

1. Parkville House
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2. Clifton Hill House
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3. North Fitzroy House
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08/07/2025

Kennedy Nolan has been working on Borogegal and Cammeraigal land in Sydney and our Rosherville House has recently been recognised with commendations in the Dulux Colour Awards, The Australian Interior Design Awards and the Interior category of the NSW chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. Thank you to the juries for their time and consideration, to our Clients for their trust and encouragement and to the Builders for their skill and care.
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07/07/2025

Gunn Ridge House has been recognised by the Victorian Chapter with an award for both Alterations and Additions and for Heritage. We thank the juries for their recognition of our work on this interesting, significant and beautiful house, originally designed by Graeme Gunn for John Ridge, co founder of Merchant Builders and his wife Molly Ridge. We also thank the new owners who have wholeheartedly committed to preserving this wonderful building, giving it new life.
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Jury Citation
Some buildings are not Heritage listed yet. Sometimes owners and architects have to initiate the Significance Strategy to refurbish. The late great Graeme Gunn’s 1967 house for his colleague John Ridge is real history
- Merchant Builders, Gunn, Ridge, Janne Faulkner, Ellis Stone. The house is reborn with thorough research, deep respect and empathy by Kennedy Nolan and the owner, reviving the original and sensitively extending its vocabulary. Gunn’s original spaces are repaired or tweaked in manner befitting the natural ease of Gunn and Faulkner. Two elements have been added. The lower ground extension, using Gunn’s crazy stone, brick and concrete palette, simultaneously extends the terrace off the living level and creates the kids’ rooms below. And a new charred timber skillion space housing main bedroom amenities and study is perched over the driveway. The project is a lesson in conserving and creating; recognising an historic gem, understanding the original design and confidently making something new.

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30/06/2025

Thank you to the juries of the Victorian Chapter of the AIA for the significant and rare honour of Melbourne Place being awarded both the Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture and the Marion Mahoney Griffin Award for Interiors. This project is the result of a remarkable concept from a wonderful Client, a committed team of supportive Builders and the dedication and creativity of our own talented and hard-working people. We are so proud of this one.
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Jury Citation: Hotels can be sentinels in the city that create new patterns of sociability and expand the city’s capacity to welcome visitors while orchestrating new experiences for its community. Melbourne Place so aptly named has opened its doors to the city in a manner that has captivated both visitors and residents.
In a rare commissioning process, Kennedy Nolan has shaped the entire project from its inception. They collaborated closely with a small group that came together to create a brief for a hotel with the ethos of working within the structure and culture of ‘Central Melbourne. Shaped by both its frontage to Russell Street and three distinctly variant laneway elevations the building’s form suggests ‘good neighbourliness. A series of vantage points for congregation have been established both as major spaces and open terraces that orient into street and laneways and across the city.
The experience is constantly of being ‘within Melbourne!
The architect’s early conception of “an abstract zoomorphic form” is strongly evident as both emblem and guiding rule translated into every detail of a sequence of remarkable Melbourne interiors. With an orchestration that includes many local makers and artists Melbourne Place draws from and adds to the theatricality of the city’s social life.

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Client: Josh Taylor
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