A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.

Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

Sepia photograph of the Technological Museum and a cow in the foreground

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Black and white photograph of man walking through eucalyptus plantation

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Colour photograph of red corrugated iron building from a high vantage point

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

Powerhouse Food: Producers

Across Western Sydney24 Aug 2024 — 25 Jul 2025

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

A tall rocket with a long trail of burning fuel lifts off from a launchpad at Cape Canaveral.

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

Photofields

Across Sydney6—7 Dec

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse x We Are Warriors

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Holdmark Innovation Award

The annual Holdmark Innovation Award recognises excellence and innovation in the built environment.

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Supported by Holdmark, the Award is presented by Powerhouse during Sydney Design Week. The winner receives a $10,000 cash prize.

Holdmark Property Group, under the leadership of founder and chief executive Sarkis Nassif, has committed $10 million towards Powerhouse Parramatta. This remarkable investment supports Sydney Design Week, the establishment of the Holdmark Gallery and an urban transformation summer school with Western Sydney University.

2024 Recipient – The Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit

The Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit project by Kennedy Nolan with Finding Infinity was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Holdmark Innovation Award.

‘As practitioners, we’re dedicated to producing architecture that’s highly responsive to its context and forms a strong relationship with landscape. We pride ourselves on an innovative approach to public and residential projects. We deliver a highly responsive design sensitive to its context that incorporates sustainable design initiatives while achieving the requirements of our brief.’

Kennedy Nolan

Kennedy Nolan is a Melbourne-based architectural studio founded in 1999 by Rachel Nolan and Patrick Kennedy. The studio has developed a reputation for design-focused practice with a distinct approach to the built form.

Dining set of chairs with table, and couch in the background.

Gate and outdoor entrance down the side of an apartment.

Maroon kitchenette with geometric fittings.

Previous Recipients

Stories

Retro fitted apartment, with lounge, arm chair, window and kitchenette.

Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit

Recipients of the 2024 Holdmark Innovation Award

The red rooftop of Phive, featuring small undulations, that create a wavey pattern across the building.

The project PHIVE

Recipients of the 2023 Holdmark Innovation Award

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Five people dressed in white sit on the floor around black pots and surrounded by black pots.

Sydney Design Week 2024

Calendar iconEnded 19 Sept 2024Location marker iconAcross Sydney

Initiatives

We support and invest in a range of initiatives that sustain industry development and individual creative practice across the applied arts, applied sciences and creative industries.

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Opportunities

Careers, volunteer projects, residencies, fellowships, design accelerators and research programs that are currently open.