MILSONS Point has some of the best designed buildings in NSW. The Harry Seidler and Associates offices and.

The Point apartments both took out gongs at the state’s most prestigious public architecture awards last month.

The five-storey office tower at 2 Glenn St, designed by Harry Seidler and Associates, won the 25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture.

At the Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Architecture Awards. BVN Architecture won the Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture for The Point apartments at 20-24 Alfred St. The judges said it was well conceived, detailed and executed “with robustness and durability”.

The apartment block incorporates technologies never seen in Australia, like sliding panels on the outside that can turn internal space into exterior space, the judges said. The front facade and some internal aspects have been restored to its original 1900s character. The National Architecture Awards will be held in Melbourne in October.