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Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker designed the new National Portrait Gallery building.

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Finalist, MDPA 2013

Finalist, iD2012




According to an 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly profile of fast bowler Dennis Lillee, a moustache was a ‘compulsory’ accessory for sportsmen.



Marriage: a prolonged disaster

Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker

Poetic trio

Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018

In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.