University of Auckland student Sacha Milojevic won $3000 and the trophy for best student project with his proposal for a military museum rooted in gun emplacement excavations.

The Open Conceptual section with a prize of $5000 and trophy was won by design trio Nick Roberts, Henry Stephens and Jasen Aui for their Awaroa lighthouse proposal. 

The winner in the Open Work-in-Progress section was Patch Work Architecture for Kiwi Eames House and also received a $5000 cheque and trophy.

The 2012 judging panel comprised local architect Jack McKinney, University of Auckland architecture lecturer Bill McKay and guest international judge Tim Greer, from Sydney-based practice Tonkin Zulaikha Greer.

Full list of winners:

STUDENT
Winner:
Sacha Milojevic, University of Auckland for MMAT

Runner-up:
Gordon Yung, Victoria University for Proximity + Architecture

Highly Commended: Frances Cooper, University of Auckland for The construction of Wynyard Island and its Urban Littoral

Oli Booth, Victoria University for End of the Road

Marianne Calvelo, University of Auckland for Panoptical Ground

Melanie Paul, University of Auckland for Food for Thought: Architecture as educator

OPEN CONCEPTUAL
Winner:
Nick Roberts, Henry Stephens and Jansen Aui for Awaroa Lighthouse

Runner-up:
Graeme Burgess, Lilli Knight and Michael Strange of Burgess & Treep Architects for Installation Space

Highly Commended:
The Block Foundation for BLOCK

OPEN WORK-IN-PROGRESS
Winner:
Patch Work Architecture for Dogbox

Runner-up:
Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects for Titirangi Red House

Highly Commended:
RTA Studio for C3 House 
Eqo Leung of Opus Architecture for University of Waikato – Law & Management School