World Architecture Festival Win for Creative Reuse
Images: Shuai Li and David Wyld.
Younghusband on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, has won the Creative Re-use category at the 2025 World Architecture Festival, an annual gathering for the global architecture community.
OCULUS worked alongside architects Woods Bagot in the conversion of over 17,000 square metres of underutilised industrial landscape into a vibrant, mixed-use community precinct.
The jury commended the design team on their integration of public space into the site, opening up a local heritage landmark to the community through porous insertions and a dynamic, activated ground plane.
The streetscape concepts and sustainability efforts within the precinct were also noted. Our work softens the industrial character with planting and preserves heritage, materiality, and resources with the re-use of iconic Melbourne bluestone paving.
Woods Bagot Design Director Peter Miglis says "Younghusband provides a deep social, environmental, and urban impact through a meaningful adaptive-reuse framework, celebrating the past and ensuring its ongoing relevance into the future. It's great to see projects like these that are creatively reusing existing structures celebrated on a world stage."
