Celebrating the 2025 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards Winners
The 2025 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards have recognised outstanding projects across Australia, from landmark cultural centres to finely crafted
homes. This year’s winners showcase excellence in residential, commercial, sustainable, regional and student design.
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First-timer wins residential category of LYSAGHT Inspiration Design Awards
As a young builder working in his father’s business, Get Smart Constructions, Stuart Ponsford has helped build many homes for clients, but had minimal design experience, so experimenting on his own project – his first home – seemed a good place to start.
Caldwell Performing Arts Centre Receives LYSAGHT® Awards Commendation
It’s not every day that an architectural firm is asked to design a performing arts centre.
LYSAGHT® Inspiration Awards Student Design Award Commendation
The design of a distinct yet practical family home by mature-aged student Ethan McMartin from Skillstech TAFE, Queensland, has caught judges’ eyes in the recent Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards (LIDA), earning him a coveted commendation.
Goodna State School building wins 2020 Inspirations Design Award
A recently-completed prep and year one school building in the Brisbane suburb of Goodna, has won the commercial and industrial category of the 2020 ‘Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards’ (LIDA).
Mercy College Library Redevelopment Wins LYSAGHT Inspiration Design Award
The Regional winner of Lysaghts’ Inspirations Design Awards (LIDA) was thrown significant design challenges on the way to successfully obtaining this accolade with its ‘Mercy College Mackay Library’ development.
‘chatterbox’ Wins LYSAGHT Inspirations Student Design Award
Lysaght’s Inspirations Design Awards have shed light on some of our country’s best up and coming architects and designers, with judges having to sift through dozens of high quality entrants, before announcing Sandra Clarke as the Student Design Winner.


















