FOUR projects from across the region have been honoured at the Australian Institute of Architects' 2015 Darling Downs/West Moreton Regional Architecture Awards held in Toowoomba.

James Cubitt Architects took home the top honour of the night, the William Hodgen Award for Building of the Year, for The Armitage Centre in addition to a regional commendation.

In awarding the project, the jury praised the architects for the "inventive tilt-up concrete 'black box' theatre that sensitively embraces the existing adjacent church hall using its brick rear wall as both a container and a historical feature".

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For the second year, the jury selected a project by a local architect to be the Regional Project of the Year.

St Joseph's College's new junior science centre and GLA Block by Sims White Architects and Kratzmann Architects won the 2015 award.

In addition to the two special honours, the jury awarded regional commendations with those projects now progressing to the Queensland State Architecture Awards to be announced on June 26 in Brisbane.

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Context Architects appoints award-winning architect Jonathan Gibb

Context Architects has appointed renowned architect Jonathan Gibb as an associate. Returning from a five-year stint in Melbourne, Jonathan has more than twenty years experience of master planning and designing buildings and developments both in New Zealand and Australia. Credits to his name include the award-winning Imperial Buildings and Everybodys Building in Queen Street, Auckland; New Lynn War Memorial Library; Christchurch Convention Centre and the Sky City Casino, Convention Centre and Grand Hotel.

Jonathan joins the Context team at the practices Auckland office to lead commercial new builds, multi-unit residential developments and large scale public sector projects. Committed to high standards in architecture, Jonathan has won many awards for significant projects and is a highly motivated to understand and deliver on clients vision.

Context Architects is the preferred national architect for leading retailers and banks, as well as specialising in commercial, and medium and high-density residential developments. Context operates nationally and internationally from offices in Auckland and Christchurch.

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Kemeys Folly, near Newport in South Wales, starred in popular property show Grand Designs six years ago Owners Sarah and Dean Berry have now put the unusual six-bedroom home up for sale for1,999,950 The Grade II listed building sits in 23 acres of land and boasts a cinema room, pool house and stables Original building was a hunting lodge built in the 1700s and was at one point owned by the Sheriff of Monmouth

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An 18th century folly which was converted into a luxury home and featured on TV property show Grand Designs is on sale for 2 million.

Kemeys Folly, in Langstone, near Newport in South Wales, starred in the popular Channel 4 programme six years ago when it was converted into a six-bedroom luxury house - and now owners Sarah and Dean Berry have put the unusual property up for sale.

The ambitious project saw the couple combine the painstaking restoration of a castellated 18th Century hunting lodge with the construction of a state of-the-art glass extension.

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The Miami Valley Veterans Museum has a whole lot of stories to tell.

The museum opened in 2010 in one room at the former Stouder Memorial Hospital. It reopened its doors recently following a remodeling in its home since 2011 on the second floor of the Masonic Building on West Main Street.

It all history. We would like people never to forget whats happened in the past, said Mitch Fogle, museum executive director and a Navy veteran.

Mannequins dressed in military uniforms and military and other flags such as the POW flag, greet visitors as they head down the main hallway to the museum.

The displays in each room are done by themes from the Early War Room, to the World War I and II rooms, a Vietnam Room and a Modern War Room.

In between are other offerings such as a library; the Home Front Room, with an old time radio and articles and photos of the World War II canteen girls; a display of wartime mess kits and K-rations; and an artifact from the World Trade Center received in 2011, among others.

The museum covers veterans in a general area from Columbus to the east and the Indiana border to the west, Cincinnati to the south and Lima to the north.

Weve gotten stuff from all over. A lot of people in those outlying areas dont know about us. We need more exposure, Fogle said.

Work continues to provide more signs and labels on each item on display whether in a case or stand alone. There is more labeling than before, which makes it more pleasurable for the people who come up, Fogle said.

The remodeling is complete, but improvements to the museum and its collection are never done.

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