Peter Stutchbury's striking Light House in Dover Heights was last night awarded the top residential architecture award in New South Wales at the 2015 NSW Architecture Awards.

Stutchbury, the Institute’s 2015 Gold Medallist, was unanimously awarded the Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New). The jury described the home as "poetic and investigative, and a delight to experience." They added, "It is a remarkable and exquisite outcome on a tight, complex site – the edge of a cliff, 80 metres above the sea."

45 winners across 12 categories were last night announced by the Australian Institute of Architects at the Sydney Town Hall. BVN's design for the Westmead Millennium Institute medical research facility took out the highest honor, the Sulman Medal for Public Architecture. Winners will progress to the National Architecture Awards to be announced in Brisbane on November 5, 2015.