Celebrate Adelaide’s first Festival of Architecture and Design at the official launch party featuring the Gold Medal Talk by Adelaide’s own Phil Harris and Adrian Welke, co-founders of Troppo, who have been awarded the highest individual honour in architecture. 

To be officially opened by Government Architect, Ben Hewett

Live entertainment by Abbey Howlett and The Golden Realm followed by DJ Jayar.

Drinks and nibbles provided to guests on arrival, and a cash bar and food-truck style dinner plates available to purchase.

About the 2014 Gold Medallists

Driven by a desire to produce socially responsible architecture, the pair founded Troppo in Darwin in 1980, and have since grown the practice to include offices in Perth, Adelaide, Townsville and Byron Bay cultivating a portfolio of over 2500 projects ranging from tiny remote buildings to full-scale city design. Their ethos epitomises the importance of building for place and people: producing work that is sympathetic to the land, using locally relevant materials to create settings that work for the informal Australian lifestyle.

'Troppo's work pioneers a unique and special Australian approach to architecture: irreverent but sophisticated, inventive with a tinge of larrikin spirit. In 34 years of practice they have evolved an architecture that deals with the heat, the rain, the place and subtleties of climate, while understanding and reviving the lessons of the Top End's important history and legacy of projects,' Paul Berkemeier, National President and Jury Chair said.

Click here to view the full 2014 Gold Medal Jury citation.