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The Uluru-Kata Tjuta Signature Walk by Troppo Architects is the inaugural winner of the Resilient Building Design Award at the 2026 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards, earning a $5,000 prize. Its off-grid eco-lodges were built off site, airlifted onto Anangu Country with no ground disturbance, and clad in LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® and KLIP-LOK® in a custom COLORBOND® steel Etna Red™ finish chosen to weather into the red dunes.

Larnangurrak (Our Place) by Y2 Architecture has won both the Overall and Commercial & Industrial Design Awards at the 2026 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards, earning a combined $15,000 prize. Designed with the Dja Dja Wurrung community through Wartaka sessions, the Golden Square centre brings cultural stories and connections to Country into its form and landscape, with LYSAGHT LONGLINE 305® wall cladding and KLIP-LOK® roofing.

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta Signature Walk by Troppo Architects has been voted the People's Choice Winner of the 2026 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards, earning a $2,500 prize on top of its inaugural Resilient Building Design Award. The public chose the airlifted, off-grid eco-lodges on Anangu Country, clad in LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® and KLIP-LOK® in a custom COLORBOND® steel Etna Red™ finish.

Nido Early School is a contemporary early learning centre built from the adaptive reuse of a heritage-listed villa. The roof features a combination of LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® and CUSTOM BLUE ORB® to deliver a modern look that harmonises with the site’s geometry and blend of old and new materials.

AZURE® steel cassette facade clad five new elevated Armadale Line stations in Perth (Carlisle, Oats Street, Queens Park, Cannington, Beckenham). Robotic Australian manufacture delivered 20,000+ sqm to a fixed line reopening date, giving Hassell crisp architectural lines, installers a lighter and faster system, and the PTA a durable facade. The largest AZURE® project in Australia to date.

Located in Townsville, QLD, Kirwan Police Facility is Australia’s first all-in-one community safety precinct that coordinates the state’s police services. LYSAGHT ENSEAM® was the definitive solution for the wall cladding, due to its ability to meet functional, compliance and aesthetic requirements.