Steve has sat on a number of professional review panels, including the Abu Dhabi Urban Design Panel, Melbourne Docklands Design Review Panel, Victorian Government Design Advisory Council, the Rouse Hill Project Review Panel, the Port Adelaide Design Review Panel, The North East Link Urban Design Advisory Panel. He is a foundation member of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s Design Review Panel, Landcom NSW Design Review Panel and was chairman of the Northern Territory’s Urban Design Advisory Panel (UDAP).
He has been a speaker at many professional and industry conferences on sustainable urbanism, urban regeneration, design, urban structure, community safety, and transit-oriented development. Steve led a training program in urban design across New Zealand as part of the implementation of the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol. He also ran an urban design training program for the Sultan of Oman’s design office in Oman.
Steve has won numerous international, national and state awards including:
2019 National Landscape Architecture Award – Malop Street Green Spine, in collaboration with Outlines Landscape Architecture.
2018 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects – Urban Design Award of Excellence, central Geelong Laneways Precinct, in collaboration with Outlines Landscape Architecture
2015 Australian Institute of Architecture – Tracy memorial Award – Todd Street Revitalisation, Alice Springs, in collaboration with Susan Dugdale Architects.
2015 Australia Institute of Architecture – Northern Territory Chapter – Tracy Memorial Award – Todd Street Revitalisation, Alice Springs, in collaboration with Susan Dugdale Architects.
2015 Australia Institute of Architecture – Northern Territory Chapter – George Goyder Urban Design Award – Todd Street Revitalisation, Alice Springs, in collaboration with Susan Dugdale Architects.
2015 Planning Institute of Australia – Commendation – Ocean Grove Urban Design Framework (with Mike Cullen, TTM and the City of Greater Geelong)
2014 Planning Institute of Australia – Planning Excellence Award – Darwin City Centre Master Plan
2014 Australia Award for Urban Design – Commendation – Darwin City Centre Master Plan
2009 Planning Institute of Australia – Presidents Award – Residential Densification in Tram Corridors Study
2009 Planning Institute of Australia – Planning Excellence Award – Residential Densification in Tram Corridor Study
2009 Australia Award for Urban Design – (Prime Minister’s Award) In conjunction with the City of Melbourne, Victorian Departments of Transport, Planning and Community Development and SGS Planning and Economics. – Tram Corridor Development Study.
2008 Planning Institute of Australia – Award for Planning Excellence – Cardinia Road Precinct Structure Plan.
2007 International Downtown Association – Special Achievement Award for Planning – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Plan
2007 AIA – The Melbourne Prize – Sandridge Bridge Precinct Redevelopment (as client, with City of Melbourne)
2006 Australian Urban Design Award – Public Domain Award – Sandridge Bridge Precinct Redevelopment (as client, this work was implemented by the City of Melbourne)
2006 New Zealand Planning Institute Award of Merit—National Urban Design Training Program as part of the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol
2004 Australia Award for Urban Design – Melbourne Docklands development, Melbourne – Steve Thorne served on the Design Panel of the Melbourne Docklands Authority
2003 PIA National Award for Planning Excellence – Urban Design, Plans Ideas Built – SafeCity Urban Design Guidelines
2002 Australian Institute of Criminology – Crime and Violence Prevention Award – Special Award for Major Technological Innovation and Design – Safe City Urban Design Guidelines
2001 Western Australian Municipal Association Award for Innovation – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Plan
2001 RAPI (Australia) National Urban Design Award of Excellence – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Plan
2001 Congress for the New Urbanism – International Best Practice Award – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation
2001 Australian Council of Building Design Professionals – Award for Excellence – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation
2000 Western Australian Municipal Association Award for Innovation – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Plan
2000 RAPI (WA) Urban Design Award of Excellence – Gosnells Revitalisation Plan
1999 Universal Design Competition – “Certificate of Outstanding Achievement”- for the Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Plan – National competition run by Office of Seniors, judged in Tokyo, New York and London and awarded by the Institute of Human Centred Design.
1999 Western Australian Municipal Association Award for Innovation – Gosnells Town Centre Revitalisation Plan
1992 International Urban Design Competition – Award Winner – Main and Masaryk Stations, Prague, Czech Republic
1992 South African Property Owners Association – Building Merit Award – Bank City Development, Johannesburg.
Bachelor of Architectural Studies
Bachelor of Architecture
Diploma in Urban Design (with distinction)
Master of Arts in Urban Design (with distinction).
