Blackheath Mountain Retreat by Matthew Dynon Architect has won the Regional Design Award at the 2026 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards, earning a $5,000 prize. Built as modules in Sydney and trucked to a steep Blue Mountains site, the split-level family home is wrapped in LYSAGHT LONGLINE 305® in Monument Matt across its roof and walls.
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.
Goodwood Green Community Hub by Adelaide University student Sasha Rounsefell has won the Student Award at the 2026 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards, earning a $2,500 prize. The design concept for Goodwood, South Australia, pairs a precinct shaped by Kaurna cultural values with a 40-apartment Passive House building clad in LYSAGHT LONGLINE 305®, reaching a 9.1 NatHERS rating.
MacKenzie House by Designers of Space has won the Residential Design Award at the 2026 Lysaght Inspirations Design Awards, earning a $5,000 prize. The Chandler, Queensland, family home takes the clean lines of a classic barn and clads them in LYSAGHT ENSEAM®, using pre-finished materials to keep maintenance low for an active, outdoor-loving family.
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.