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Kelly Burke

St Kilda pier wins peak Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply civic’ design

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St Kilda pier at dusk
St Kilda’s redesigned pier won the Victorian architecture medal on Friday, the prize for the state’s most outstanding project of the year at the Australian Institute of Architects’ Victorian awards. Photograph: Peter Clarke

The reimagined St Kilda pier has added more accolades to its burgeoning trophy cabinet, taking out some of the top gongs at the 2026 Australian Institute of Architects’ Victorian awards.

The $53m Victorian government project by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, alongside Site Office Landscape Architecture and AW Maritime, took home the Victorian architecture medal on Friday, the award given to the most outstanding project of the year.

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