Glen Huntly Station wins Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
Glen Huntly Station has been honoured with the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design in the 2025 Victorian Architecture Awards.
Designed by COX with Rush Wright Associates, the Glen Huntly Level Crossing Removal Project re-envisioned the existing rail corridor, creating safer connections and providing a new train station, tram stop and associated infrastructure to service the local community.
[Above: Project team members Emma Fitt, Nitesh Janakiraman, Amanda Barker, Zen Lee, Andy Hayes, Jess Chapman]
Jury Citation
Sitting prominently on Glen Huntly Road, the new train station, delivered as part of the level crossing removal program, deftly supports seamless, generous connectivity across multiple transport modes.
The complexity of the site at the start of the project: congestion, complex electrical infrastructure and entrapment of commuters in the ‘snorkel’ to exit the station has been so expertly resolved, the end result feels effortless for users.
Leveraging their expertise in station design, COX tested multiple station configurations, driving an outcome that prioritises solar access, a generous public realm, exceptional amenity and a strong sense of this place.
The project delivers site-based sustainability initiatives such as rooftop solar and water-sensitive landscaping but, perhaps more importantly, encourages increased human-powered and public transport through the eastern suburbs.
Delivered over an extraordinary 4 month construction timeframe, the exceptional result reflects the fluency of the project team with this particular typology, procurement and delivery method.
Jury Citation
Glen Huntly Station exemplifies what we need more of: nuanced, site-specific, generous and high-quality public spaces.
Thank you to the jury members and Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter – and warmest congratulations to the project team at the Level Crossing Removal Project.