Badu Arts Centre

Torres Strait, Australia

AWF Network Partners SJB and Tract are helping the community of Badu Island in the Torres Strait plan a bright future for Badu Arts Centre

Cakaudrove Women’s Resource Centre Stage‑2

Savu Savu, Fiji

Adding new educational, accommodation and administrative facilities to an Indigenous Fijian Women’s Culture and Information Hub in Savusavu.

MUANIVATU TRAILS VILLAGE-OWNED TOURISM FACILITY

VUADOMO, FIJI

Fiji’s first fully community-owned ecotourism and accommodation business.

SOLACE FOUNDATION CANCER CARE CENTRE

SEREKUNDA, THE GAMBIA

A ‘one stop shop’ for cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment in The Gambia

NOONGAR RADIO STUDIO AND ARTS CENTRE

PERTH, AUSTRALIA

A new cultural centre housing a studio for Perth’s only indigenous radio station.

SAN MIGUEL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SKILLS CENTRE

TABACO CITY. PHILIPPINES

A new vocational Skills Centre for a typhoon-damaged school will provide safe and comfortable classroom space, support educational programs to reduce poverty, and increase school attendance.

CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE CENTRES

TONGA, FIJI, VANUATU, SOLOMON ISLANDS

Hubs for environmental education, skills building, and information sharing in the Pacific.

GOOD SAMARITAN INN MULTI PURPOSE BUILDING

PRESTON, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

A new multi-purpose building for a Women's Crisis Centre and Refuge in Melbourne.

VUNIVAU VILLAGE RELOCATION

LABASA, FIJI

A relocation strategy for a village affected by flood and storm surge.

About

TRANSFORMING HUMANITY THROUGH DESIGN:

Our mission: Improve the built environment of communities in need. We facilitate the design and construction of health, education and community projects primarily in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

We believe that architecture can be an ethical tool for social change.

Our vision: To transform humanity through design.

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ARCHITECTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS — OUR STORY

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Construction starts at Muanivatu Trails

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AWF Founding Director honoured as Fulbright Scholar

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Fundraising package for Cakaudrove Womens Resource Centre Stage 2

AWF Network Partner AJC has released a design and fundraising package for Stage 2 works at the Cakaudrove Women’s Resource Centre in Vanua Levu, Fiji. The...

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ARCH Network Partner Event

Network Partners, friends, clients and supporters celebrated ARCH joining the AWF Network Partner community at an event overlooking Brisbane’s King George Square last Thursday. MC’d by...

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AWF WELCOMES NEW NETWORK PARTNER ARCH

Architects Without Frontiers are pleased to announce our latest Network Partner, ARCH. Previously known as Suters Architects, ARCH has been designing inspirational places in Australia and...

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Muanivatu Trails preliminary images released

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Breathe joins AWF as it's newest Network Partner

Architects Without Frontiers are thrilled to announce our latest network partner Breathe. Breathe are an award-winning Melbourne based studio of change agents, architects & advocates. They...

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Maasai girls rescue centre under construction

The Maasai Girls Rescue Centre have moved onto stage 2 of their eco-village masterplan developed by AWF Network Partner Clarke Hopkins Clarke Thanks to the...

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Parlour's Justine Clark joins AWF board

Architects Without Frontiers is thrilled to announce the appointment of Justine Clark to its Board of Directors. Justine is a prolific force in the public...

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AWF Announces 1st Foundation Partner; Bondor Metecno

We are very excited to welcome Bondor Metecno as Architects Without Frontiers’ first Foundation Partner. Bondor Metecno is Australia’s largest manufacturer of CodeMark and FM accredited...

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San Miguel National High School

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Good Samaritan Inn

AWF are proud to announce that the new multi-purpose building for the Good Samaritan Inn Women's and Children's Refuge has been completed and is now...

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Webber Design

AWF are excited to introduce a new Network Partner, Webber Design. With offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, Webber Design are a leading Structural Engineering...

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BKK Architects

AWF are excited to introduce a new Network Partner, BKK Architects. BKK Architects are an award-winning Melbourne-based architectural practice with successful projects in a broad range...

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Good Samaritan Inn

The new multi-purpose building for the Good Samaritan Inn Women's and Children's Refuge has been lifted off its trailer and gently craned into place. Designed by...

AWF Partners

Bondor Metecno are proud and excited to join Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and is our first Foundation Partner.

"AWF have a fantastic record designing and delivering projects for communities in need across the Asia Pacific Region. We are looking forward to working with AWF and their Network Partners to expand this program and help more communities in need over the coming years."
- Geoff Marsdon, Executive General Manager

Bondor Metecno

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“How do you create a sustainable community, in all senses of the word: socially, commercially, economically, environmentally? Our work with AWF aligns perfectly with these concerns. We can aid disadvantaged communities by helping them realise their cultural, touristic, and economic sustainability. This partnership aligns with everything we do.”—Dieter Lim, Managing Director

Tract

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“At a philosophical level, I think our industry can, and really should, contribute—in fact, I think it’s undervalued in terms of the contribution it can make—to how we live, and how we interact, and to every aspect of our lives.”—Mark Loughnan, Hassell

Hassell

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“Good design is not meant to be a privilege, it’s something that should be accessible to all. A lot of the time it’s limited in who it gets to, so it should also be affordable. Thoughtfully designed environments really can change one’s feeling of humanity.” —Tristan Wong, Director

SJB

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"The Maningrida project sits at the heart of its community and provides a cultural keeping-place for art that represents the region’s 13 diverse community groups. The ability for our practice to be involved in projects like this provides a wealth of valuable knowledge and insight for our team into where architecture should be heading: how we can learn from our clients, communicate ideas, and provide meaningful and useful spaces designed for the people that actually use them." —Tom Jordan, Hayball Managing Director

Hayball

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“We recognise that, in partnership with AWF, our industry has a critical responsibility to the future of our communities and the environment through the built work that we leave behind, both locally and abroad. Importantly, we have the opportunity to work with communities to transform lives through improved health and well-being.” –Veryan Curnow, Associate Director

JCB Architects

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NBRS strives to create life changing environments. We design spaces for people. We believe that architecture reaches beyond the physical construction of the built environment – it is a social art.

NBRSARCHITECTURE

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“Given our team’s enthusiasm, it was a no-brainer for us as a practice to partner with AWF. As well as the chance to give back for the enormous privilege we have as designers, partnership with AWF strongly aligns with our values and goals of transforming lives and leaving work that matters. At a structural level, AWF’s collaborative and evidence-based approach is exactly how we like to work. At a personal level, helping deliver humanitarian projects in a sustainable way has its own reward.”— John Whittingham, Director

AJC ARCHITECTS

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“At HGA Studio we believe in the power of architecture to shape not only spaces, but lives. Successful Architecture goes beyond aesthetics, it's about the emotions and interactions a space evokes. Each design is an opportunity to improve the quality of life for the people who inhabit the space itself. For us, sustainable architecture goes beyond the building and embodies the spirit of community.” — Harley Graham, Founding Director

HGA Studio

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“BKK Architects are actively interested in the community of architecture as well as architecture for community. Our design thinking is open and exploratory, privileging culture over strategy. Our partnership with AWF is an opportunity to give back to communities and involve a broader range of people in conversations about design.” — George Huon, Principal, BKK Architects

BKK ARCHITECTS

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“It has been a dream of mine though for many years given our growth and scale to involve Webber Design more in the community and give our team the opportunity to also give back. Joining AWF gives us the opportunity to commit our resources and involve our team in these socially important projects and further build camaraderie within the office.” — Paul Webber, Managing Director

WEBBER DESIGN

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“Hames Sharley is an interdisciplinary design practice that brings together experts in architecture, interior design, urban design, and planning to consider each project at every level of interaction – from how people inhabit rooms, to entire buildings and how they form part of the local context.”

Hames Sharley

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Breathe is a Melbourne-based studio. Change agents, architects & advocates. We represent the people in the cities in which we live and work and the planet on which we all call home.

Breathe

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The design work of ARCH embodies our commitment to people, place, planet and purpose. We are the only national firm of community architects in Australia and our team have specialist expertise in complex facilities including clinical planning, sports and aquatic facilities design and educational campuses.

Our partnership with AWF is a natural alignment of shared goals to design resilient civic infrastructure, engage local communities in participatory design, promote sustainable practices and contribute to humanitarian architecture through research and education.

ARCH

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AWF respectfully acknowledges the traditional landowners of the Country on which we work.