Winner of the 'Apartments (Mid-Rise) ards for Excellence

Astina Group's EDEN (part of the East Side Quarter/ESQ precinct in Penrith) won the Excellence in Apartments (Mid-Rise) category at the 2026 UDIA NSW Awards The 142-apartment development was praised by the judging panel for its cascading planter...

Community Camplions honoured by Penrith Council

Penrith City Council has proudly celebrated the remarkable achievements of its 2026 Local Celebration Awards recipients. At the award ceremony, Council also recognised locals who have received Australia Day Honours and King’s Birthday Honours in...

Investiture Ceremony Farah Madon

Farah Madon appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day 2026 Honours List, for ‘significant service to architecture and to people with disability’.   Expression of thanks from Farah Madon. 'This recognition is incredib...

Farah Madon being presented with the Penrith Citizen of the Year Award by Mayor Fowler

  Farah Madon was awarded the 2019 Penrith Citizen of the Year. Below are the details as presented by Penrith City Council. Mrs Farah Madon supports our local residents living with a disability and champions accessibility equality for all o...

[Farah Madon receiving the 2019 Access Inclusion Award]

Farah Madon was awarded the 2019 Access Inclusion Award for being the Access Consultant for a Specialist Disability Accomodation designed by Stanton Dhal Architects which demonstrated an outstanding level of Access and Inclusion.  The award was ...

Master Builders QLD - Wide Bay Burnett Housing & Construction Awards 2021

Master Builders QLD - Wide Bay Burnett Housing & Construction Awards 2021 It is with immense pleasure that we announce that the very first project certified by Vista Access Architects in QLD for SDA at both the Design and As-built stages, has won...

[ACAA Fellow membership awarded to Farah Madon]

Farah Madon awarded ACAA Fellow Membership Farah Madon was awarded ACAA (Association of Consultants in Access Australia) Fellow membership at the 2022 ACAA AGM for her significant contribution to ACAA and to the field of disability access. Farah has ...

UDIA NSW 2025 Finalist Awards

    It is a huge honour for a project to be nominated as a Finalist in UDIA NSW AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2025, but to have 9 of our projects where we have been the Access and Inclusion consultants, completed in the past 12 months to be no...

[Variety Livvi's Place Glenfield]

  Vista Access Architects are delighted to have been the Disability Access consultants for the Inclusive playground - Variety Livvi's Place at Glenfield. Place Design Group were the Landscape Architects for this project. The project won the...

William Clarke College

Vista Access Architects were the Access Consultants for William Clarke College that has been awarded the Master Builders NSW, Excellence in Construction Award. Our congratulations to Architects PMDL Architecture + Design and The Rohrig...

December 2025 marked 15 years of voluntary service of Farah Madon as a Community Representative Member of Penrith City Council's Access Committee, having joined the Access Committee in 2010                 &nbs...

2021 saw the release of the much-anticipated - AS1428.1-2021 Australian Standards for Access and Mobility.  It takes a substantial amount of time commitment to contribute to the development of these standards and all contributions made to t...

[UDIA National 2023 Awards for Excellence- Finalist]

It gives us great pleasure to announce that our Paper Mill Precinct project is a finalist in the UDIA National 2023 Awards for Excellence in the Masterplanned Communities category.The Paper Mill Precinct project was by our long standing client's ...

[Farah Madon receiving the 2023 Mulgoa Local Woman of the Year Award from MP Tanya Davies]

Farah Madon was included on the NSW Local Women of the Year Honour Roll and received the 2023 Mulgoa Local Woman of the Year Award.  Text below from Mulgoa Valley Gazette Farah Madon, an architect dedicated to making housing more accessible...

[2021 Excellence in Inclusion Award- Farah Madon]

Farah Madon was recognised by the WWA’s Altitude Awards as their 2021 Award winner for “Excellence in Inclusion Award" "This award is for an outstanding individual who is working in community and within their organisation to include disadvantaged min...

Our SDA Tools App designed for NDIS Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) assessments has won the 2021 Australian Access Awards Presented by Centre for Accessibility for the Educational App of the Year !  The Awards are presen...

[SDA Tools App is the Finalist in the 2021 Australian Access Awards- Educational App category]

SDA Tools App by Vista Access Architects is the Finalist in the 2021 Australian Access Awards- Educational App category. The Awards are presented by the Centre For Accessibility Australia which is an industry and not-for-profit collaboration wor...

Farah Madon- Finalist of 2021 Western Sydney Women Awards- Executive Women of the Year

Farah Madon has been selected as a Finalist in the  2021 Western Sydney Executive Woman of the Year Award, alongside the wonderful Lori Modde and Sara Ang. Thank you Amanda Rose and the entire WSW team for this recogniti...

Farah was awarded the 2019 Access Inclusion Award for being the Access Consultant for a Specialist Disability Accomodation which demonstrated an outstanding level of Access and Inclusion. Photo of (from left) Farah Madon and Australian Disabilit...

'LRV Contrast' App developed by Farah Madon and BEZAPPS for calculating LRV Contrast has been judged as a Finalist in the 2019 Australian Access Awards for the Educational App of the Year category by the Australian Centre for Accessibility. Free down...

Photo of (from left) - Howard Moutrie, Farah Madon and FACS Director John Bailey

Farah Madon along with colleague Howard Moutrie were named Winners of the 2017 NSW Disability Access Inclusion Award in the category of Outdoor Public Domain Space.The award was presented by the NSW Government department of Family and Community Servi...