Last night at a colourful roof top party McCabe Architects and Bird de la Coeur Architects were awarded the Dulux Multi Residential Exterior Award and the overall Grand Prix for Atherton Garden Fitzroy, from a strong field of over 300 entries from Australia, New Zealand and PNG.

We warmly thank Mike McCabe for inviting us onto the project, Department of Human Services especially Robert Stopajnik for his backing, Gregory Anderson, Hamish Macdonald and Mark Dall, and the AbiGroup. Thanks to the jurors and to Dulux. Dulux Grand Prix 2013.

SA’s Executive Director Philip Fagan-Schmidt accepted a National High Density UDIA award for UNO Apartments on behalf of Housing SA /Renewal SA, at the Crown Palladium on Thursday night.

Designed by Bird de la Coeur and Greenway Architects as a vertical, integrated community. UNO contains a mix of apartments including a spacious 3 bedroom apartment on the 15th floor, with a variety of smaller apartments below for investors, first home buyers, selected social housing tenants and eligible tenants from Housing SA's Affordable Homes Program, as well as a youth crisis accommodation service over the ground floor retail off the Waymouth St frontage.

Bird de la Coeur Architects are pleased to have been involved in the creation of UNO and would again like to thank former Minister for Housing, Minister Rankine, Joslene Mazel and Phil Fagan-Schmidt for their leadership and innovation, David O'Loughlin and Ben Ward who led the project, and our partners in Adelaide at Greenway Architects led by Peter Tynan.

The Age's Awards for the food year's most deserving, delicious and dubious.

The Age has announced its winners of the 'Munchies' awards for 2012 with our Yarra Lane and the Claremont Street precinct picking up the 'Bert Newton Award for the Dag turned Cool'. The Age said, 'South Yarra got back its long-lost dining mojo thanks to the Claremont Street/Yarra Lane revival . . . ' So if you haven't already eaten your fill this festive season, head on down. We recommend Claremont Tonic in our 1 Yarra Lane building with fitout by Hecker Guthrie. Photographs: Dianna Snape