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Contents
Architecture Australia Discussion Awards

Sept / Oct 2018 12 Venice in Review 35 Chapter Awards
Linda Cheng samples a selection Architecture Australia’s coverage
of reviews and reports from the of the winning and commended
2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, projects in the Australian Institute
including two perspectives on of Architects chapter awards,
Australia’s exhibition Repair. in the lead-up to the National
Architecture Awards.
Projects
Platform
18 krakani lumi
The krakani lumi standing camp is 68 Austin Maynard Architects
Taylor and Hinds Architects’ poetic Katelin Butler considers the
and evocative interpretation of refreshingly unorthodox approach
the traditional shelters built by of Austin Maynard Architects and
Tasmania’s Aboriginal people. its fervent commitment to resolve
Review by David Neustein. design problems with civic-
mindedness and creativity.
26 Bunjil Place
In referencing Bunjil the Creator, 108 Fox Johnston
FJMT’s Bunjil Place in Melbourne’s David Welsh examines the way
Narre Warren raises ongoing in which Fox Johnston traverses
questions about recognition, typology, scale and program with
symbolism and community space. perceived effortlessness and its
Review by Louis Mokak and human-focused approach to
Upfront Christine Phillips. building design.
09 Foreword 74 Joynton Avenue Creative Precinct

Clare Cousins, National President Peter Stutchbury Architecture
of the Australian Institute of has reached back into history to
Architects, reflects on the transform former hospital buildings
opportunities for optimism in Sydney’s Green Square Town
and advocacy in the profession. Centre into a dynamic public arts
precinct. Review by Laura Harding.
10 Reflection
Editorial director Cameron Bruhn 82 Monash University Learning
on Australian architecture’s recent and Teaching Building
achievements at home and abroad. A rich field of spatial and learning
experiences pervades John Wardle
Architects’ new learning and teaching
building at Monash University’s
Clayton Campus. Review by
Rachel Hurst.
90 Highgate Primary School

New Teaching Building
Cover image krakani lumi by Taylor and Hinds Architects
Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

has designed a new primary school
building in Perth’s Highgate that
offers both intimacy and engagement
with its inner-suburban context.
Review by Leon van Schaik.
98 New Academic Street

Photography Adam Gibson
A collaboration between five

architectural practices, RMIT
University’s New Academic Street
reinvigorates utilitarian buildings
and reconnects them to their urban
setting. Review by Andrew Nimmo.
Sept / Oct 2018 07

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Foreword
As you know, Australia is facing

To Act and to Hot on the heels of two major international
trips – first to Venice for the International a housing affordability crisis. The issue
Advocate Architecture Exhibition and then to is complex. However, architects have
New York for the AIA Conference on the ability to help transform how people
Architecture – it has been an absolute live in this country, whether they are the
delight to travel around Australia key workers we depend on to educate
participating in the Chapter Awards our children, look after us in times
ceremonies. The Institute’s awards of ill health and keep our communities
program is the nation’s most prestigious safe; people needing a higher level
and competitive and recognizes the of assistance by way of subsidized rent
impact of great design on clients, on from a not-for-profit organization or
communities and on the profession. community housing provider; or simply
It was a great honour to help celebrate people renting for the long term who
the achievements of practices across want greater security of tenure and
all scales of architecture. We now look a better rental experience. Affordable
forward to the National Architecture housing, social housing and build-to-rent
Awards later in the year. are all areas where architects should
A common theme that emerged be advocating and intervening to deliver
in both these international and domestic better outcomes.
architecture festivals was that our goals – Australia faces an estimated deficit
and our challenges – are shared across the of over 200,000 affordable dwellings.
country and around the world. Procurement, Clearly, business as usual is simply not
gender equality, reduced fees, affordable an option when it comes to addressing
housing, energy and carbon, governance housing affordability challenges in Australia.
structures and how to ensure that the Government support and incentives are
Institute remains relevant to members – needed to encourage the sector to emerge
these are the topics that are of concern, and architects can play a big role.
not only internationally but here at home. I think architects are optimists.
As architects we need to act and to We know we can make a difference
advocate on these issues. Now more to the lives of our clients and the cities
than ever. we live in, particularly when our projects
Our Institute is the sum of its have a social conscience, quality and
members and we need engaged members exceptional design as their backbone.
to be able to effect change. So while The key is recognizing that our clients
we actively advocate to government are often our best advocates and the
and will continue to, we can’t sit on awards program helps put this in focus.
our hands and wait for policy reform,
particularly with regard to procurement — Clare Cousins, National President
and housing. We need to show the world Australian Institute of Architects
what can be achieved when architects
dream big. Whether it’s delivering
innovative, architect-led housing models
here or creating places that are made
for people, such as New York mayor
Bill de Blasio’s ambitious Housing New
York 2.0 plan, which aims to build and
preserve affordable homes for 300,000
New York families by 2026, the power
of our profession to effect social change
should not be underestimated.
Sept / Oct 2018 09

Reflection
Local and Global This issue of Architecture Australia to participate. John Wardle Architects
celebrates the outcomes of the (in collaboration with artist Natasha
Recognition Institute’s Chapter Awards in the lead- Johns-Messenger and filmmaker Coco
up to the National Architecture Awards, and Maximilian) presented the Somewhere
which will be announced in Melbourne Other diorama and Room 11 showed three
on 1 November. A total of 264 entries films that explore the practice’s work and
have been recognized locally, with 203 its intrinsic link to place in Tasmania. Eight
now in the running for national honours. Australian participants, including Hayball,
Our congratulations to all the practices Monash University and the University of
and people recognized in each of the New South Wales, were exhibited in a major
chapters and to every firm that biennale satellite exhibition: Time, Space,
generously presented its built work Existence, organized by the European
for peer assessment. This moment also Cultural Centre. A popular highlight of the
presents an opportunity to reflect on 2018 biennale was the Pavilion of the Holy
recent (and upcoming) international See – the Vatican City State’s first biennale
exposure and recognition for Australian outing. Sean Godsell Architects was one
architects and architecture. of ten practices invited to design and build
The issue opens with an overview a chapel in a beautiful wooded garden on
of Australian contributions to the 2018 the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Venice Architecture Biennale – surveying The recognition of Australian
the reception of the Australian pavilion, projects and practices through international
Australian architects exhibited across awards programs is impressive. The Council
the Venetian archipelago and the biennale on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has
itself through the insights of Australian recently announced the winners of its 2018
writers and critics (page 12). Freespace – Tall Buildings Awards, with the Oasia Hotel
the theme for the 2018 International Downtown – designed by Singapore-based
Architecture Exhibition curated by Yvonne practice WOHA, headed by Australian
Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin- architect Richard Hassell – named Best
based Grafton Architects – proposed Tall Building Worldwide by the jury. The
an inclusive and thoughtful agenda for 2018 World Architecture Festival Awards
architecture. The Institute presented the shortlist has also been announced and
immersive Repair exhibition with creative Australian projects or projects led by
directors Mauro Baracco and Louise Australian-founded architectural practices
Wright of Baracco and Wright Architects are well represented across the awards
and artist Linda Tegg. Reviews by Dublin- categories. Australia was among the top
based landscape architect Dermot Foley five performing countries this year and
and Australian architect Justin Mallia, there are over fifty Australian finalists
who divides his time between Italy and in the 536-strong shortlist. The finalists
Fix Two valued members of the Tzannes team, Australia, provide international and local will present their projects to juries at the
Megan Lawrence and Danielle Morris, appeared perspectives here. World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam
in the photograph of current staff on page 108 For the Freespace group exhibition on 28–30 November 2018.
of Alec Tzannes’ Gold Medal coverage in the
July/August issue of Architecture Australia, in the vast Arsenale halls, Farrell and
but were not listed on page 109. McNamara invited two Australian practices — Cameron Bruhn, Editorial Director
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Venice in Review
Venice in Review In the 2018 Venice Architecture

Words by Linda Cheng Biennale, themed Freespace,
curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley
McNamara of Grafton Architects
promised to celebrate “examples of generosity
and thoughtfulness in architecture throughout
the world.” Here, Architecture Australia samples
a selection of these installations through the
eyes of the critics, commentators and reporters.
Australia’s exhibition Repair is, by any interpretation, a unique

experience among the 2018 national participants. Creative
directors Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright of Baracco and Wright
Architects with artist Linda Tegg filled the Australian pavilion with
more than ten thousand plants from Victoria’s Western Plains
Grasslands, which are sustained by a highly technical lighting
installation. Irish landscape architect Dermot Foley found they
had “curated an environment unlike any of the other pavilions at
this year’s biennale.” Australian architect Justin Mallia described
the exhibition as “an elegant and visually striking composition”
that is “eloquently composed and engagingly experiential.”
The grassland installation is accompanied by an interpretive
two-channel video projection of fifteen Australian projects. “Each
film is screened once throughout the day with an intermittent
dimming of lights,” Mallia explained in his review. Foley described
the atmosphere inside as “sombre […] causing us to tread
carefully and behave courteously” – an apt metaphor for the
creative directors’ selection of featured projects and their
engagement with the natural environment.
“The exhibition raises […] profound questions. It asks us
to be more conscious of the environment, habitat and cultural
history within which we work as designers,” Foley wrote. “In
a biennale that, despite the overall ‘Freespace’ theme, seems
to harbour a distancing of nature, Repair takes a step in a
very particular direction. The idea that architecture, by coming
into contact with an immersive environment, both changes
it and simultaneously becomes it is what we experience.”
Mallia finds, “Having germinated in Australia, Baracco
and Wright’s belief in a wide, holistic role for architecture is worthy
of representation in this international forum.”
Photography Rory Gardiner
Sept / Oct 2018

Australian participation in the 2018 biennale spread far and wide
beyond the national pavilion at the Giardini. Grafton Architects
invited John Wardle Architects and Room 11 Architects, among
seventy-one international participants, to the main Freespace
exhibition in the Central Pavilion and the Arsenale.
John Wardle Architects’ (JWA) installation, created in
collaboration with artist Natasha Johns-Messenger and filmmaker
Coco and Maximilian is titled Somewhere Other (opposite, bottom).
It is a five-metre-long viewing portal made of Australian
hardwood. “Our installation presents an instrument that draws
a long lens from Venice back to Australia,” said John Wardle. In a
way, Somewhere Other is a metaphorical camera obscura that
presents JWA’s view of the world from its geographical location –
“upside down at the bottom of the world,” in the words of English
poet D. H. Lawrence, which has been a source of continued
fascination for Wardle.
Room 11’s installation (opposite, centre) similarly invites
visitors to explore the landscapes of Tasmania and three of
its projects. “The work of these architects reflects on how
we should occupy this planet, expressing the theme of ‘the
Earth as Client’ as represented in the Freespace manifesto,”
said Farrell and McNamara.
Away from the Giardini, on another island in the Venetian
lagoon, Sean Godsell Architects has created one of ten chapel
structures (opposite, top) for the Vatican’s first-ever exhibition at
the Venice Architecture Biennale. Inspired by Venetian bell towers,
the twelve-metre-tall structure contains an altar within with pews
spilling out into the landscape. Inside, the tower structure frames
a view of the sky with a square oculus, which in turn washes the
altar in a golden halo of light.
Elsewhere, eight Australian groups were invited to exhibit
in the fourth edition of Time Space Existence, a major satellite
exhibition organized by the European Cultural Centre. The
Australian participants are XYX Monash University (bottom right),
Hayball (left), University of New South Wales (top left) and Blainey
North (bottom left), as well as K2LD Architects, Earl Carter, RMIT
University, and Lawrence Harvey.
Photography Brett Boardman
Sept / Oct 2018 15

Photography Italo Rondinella
The 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale includes sixty-three
national participations. David Neustein and Grace Mortlock of
Other Architects penned an irreverent, “wildly subjective” top
ten ranking, in which the Israeli pavilion (top) was judged to be
the “Best tightrope walk” for its exhibition In Statu Quo: Structures
of Negotiation. The exhibition stares down the line of complex
geopolitical tensions. “Focusing on five holy sites in and around
Jerusalem that are claimed by multiple religions, the exhibition
examines the fraught and makeshift mechanisms that enable
groups of worshippers access to these contested spaces.”
With two female curators at the helm of this year’s
biennale, Monash University academic Nicole Kalms assembled
a list of unmissable exhibitions by female architects. These
include Weaving Architecture by Benedetta Tagliabue, Joan
Callís and Elena Nedelcu, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (right).
Taking inspiration from a flock of birds, the installation “reflects
Tagliabue’s commitment to decoration and colour as a way
to bring life and engagement to liminal places,” wrote Kalms.
— Linda Cheng is the editor of ArchitectureAU.com and formerly a student

of architecture.
Photography Giovanni Nardi
The 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale will

be open to the public until 25 November 2018.
To read the reviews and reports, visit:
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Project
krakani lumi
Architect
Taylor and Hinds

Architects
Review by David Neustein

Photography by Adam Gibson
With care for Country a critical

aspect of its design, the krakani
lumi standing camp is Taylor and
Hinds Architects’ poetic and
evocative interpretation of the
traditional shelters built by
Tasmania’s Aboriginal people.
Designed to house A traditional Aboriginal shelter with a domed roof and link between the local community’s elder and younger
visitors on the wukalina bark cladding is the subject of George Tobin’s sketch members. “If we can make this shine it will lead the
Walk, Australia’s only
Aboriginal-owned and Native Hut (or Wigwam) of Adventure Bay, Van Diemen’s way for other Aboriginal people,” says Audrey Frost,
guided walking tour, the Land, 1792.1 While at first glance Tobin’s drawing an Elder and member of the board that oversees the
krakani lumi standing appears cheerful and benign, closer inspection operation of the walk.
camp interprets the
material and formal
reveals that something is clearly amiss. Neither of the Clyde Mansell, chair of the Aboriginal Land
elements of traditional blue-coated figures occupying the hut appears to be Council of Tasmania, was still formulating his idea for
Tasmanian Aboriginal Aboriginal, nor does a third figure who watches from an Aboriginal cultural walk when he was approached
architecture.
nearby. In the middle distance an entire boatload of by Taylor and Hinds Architects directors Poppy Taylor
The bark cladding of identical blue-coated figures is making landfall on and Mat Hinds. “It got to the point where we had
traditional north-eastern
Tasmanian Aboriginal
the beach, having disembarked from the tall ships at envisaged all these things about how we could take
shelters is reimagined anchor in the background. A rifle lies at the entrance people on Country,” says Mansell, “but had no idea of
in the half-dome of the to the hut and another is propped against a tree, not how we would house them.” Cognizant of the project’s
camp’s central pavilion
far from an ominous pile of bones. potential, but also wary of “coming into the Aboriginal
as a red-stained timber
lining reminiscent of tree Along with the journal entries of French and community and telling them what to do,” Hinds and
sap or an open wound. British explorers, this drawing was one of the key Taylor took a patient and consultative approach to the
A communal firepit references for Taylor and Hinds Architects when commission. Rather than drive immediately into the
forms a central gathering researching Tasmanian Aboriginal architecture design, they engaged a group of University of
place; the charred black for the newly inaugurated wukalina Walk. While Tasmania architecture students to investigate
silvertop ash walls of the
buildings open and close the Hobart architects found Tobin’s depiction of concepts and arrangements for the standing camp,
to blend the camp site the shelter to be accurate, the absence of Aboriginal while conducting concurrent historical research into
with its bushy surrounds. people from the scene has its own terrible authenticity. traditional shelters and settlements. Eight years later,
Nestled within an By the late eighteenth century a large number of this process has finally come to fruition in wukalina
outpost of coastal banksia palawa, Tasmanian Aboriginal people, had already Walk’s first operating season. “It’s the first time that
scrub, the timber boardwalk
between camp site and been dispossessed of their lives, lands and customs we’ve been able to have this display of elements of
beach zigs and zags to by British invaders. The invaders’ accounts provide our culture,” Mansell enthuses.
minimize disturbance the prevailing records from that time, with essential Isolated from the mainland for more than
to the local flora.
knowledge and ceremony forever lost. Tobin’s 12,000 years following the thaw of the most recent
sketch provides a portrayal of occupation in its ice age, Tasmania’s Aboriginal people developed
most sinister sense. their own distinct speech, creation stories and
Tasmania’s Aboriginal population was customs. Hinds and Taylor’s research revealed that
devastated by the British, but not extinguished. the traditional shelters of the north-east were clad in
The surviving community has gradually rekindled its rough bark shingles and lined with softer paperbark.
culture and traditions and this year triumphantly These dwellings were situated in the lee of the sea
launched the state’s first Aboriginal tourism venture. breeze and orientated east to catch the restorative
The four-day wukalina Walk is Australia’s only Aboriginal- warmth of the morning sun. The site selected by
owned and guided walking experience, taking visitors trainee Aboriginal rangers for the krakani lumi
on a journey that covers twenty-four kilometres of the standing camp is likewise orientated east, nestled
state’s north-eastern coast and thousands of years into a crescent of banksia scrub a short distance
of history. The walk’s main purpose is educational, from the beach. In situating the camp site, not a
dispelling the myth that Tasmania is devoid of single tree was removed or cut and all structures
Indigenous people while acting as an important were airlifted into place by helicopter. The entire
Sept / Oct 2018 21

Arranged around the
central eating and bathing
pavilion are six dual-person
sleeping huts that open to
the landscape. Their inner
domed volumes conceal
pulley mechanisms.
All of the structures

were airlifted into position
by helicopter and not a
single tree was removed
or cut from the site, which
was selected by trainee
Aboriginal rangers.
In place of window
glass, solid panels and
screens have been deployed
throughout the project to
minimize bird strikes, and
nooks for native animals
have been etched into the
structure of the walls.
krakani lumi
Key
1 Walkway
13 2 Fire/BBQ
3 Lounge
13
4 Solar battery store
5 Equipment store
6 Kitchen
7 Dry store
4 5 8 Guide accommodation
6 8 10
7 9 Drying area
3
11
10 Store
9
11 Washroom
1
12 Granite platform
12 13 Existing native
2 vegetation
13 13 13
Communal building floor plan

0 2 4m
1:300
Site plan
01 5 10 m
1:1000
Hut sections Communal building section

0 1 5m
1:200 1:200
Footnotes
site is off-grid and powered by a solar array with diesel and outer lining ingeniously conceals solar batteries,
generator backup. Less than a year after construction utilities and pulley mechanisms. As in a Rachel 1. “Series 02: Sketches on
commenced, Mansell says, the landscape has almost Whiteread casting, each dome exists as empty H.M.S. Providence; including
returned to the condition it was found in. space, a void carved from the mass of a monolithic some sketches from later
voyages on Thetis and
Care for Country is a critical aspect of the black cube. Bark cladding is reimagined as a red- Princess Charlotte,
project, especially given its location within the last stained timber lining that glows in sunlight like exposed 1791–1811/by George Tobin,”
remaining habitat of the native Forester kangaroo. sap or an open wound. The Boolean form of the dome State Library of New South
Wales website, digital.sl.nsw.
The architects’ sensitive and considered approach is is at once present and absent, tangible and intangible, gov.au/delivery/Delivery
exemplified by the way the timber boardwalk between literal and symbolic. It speaks of loss, but equally of ManagerServlet?dps_pid=
the camp site and the beach zigs and zags to avoid traditions celebrated and reborn. FL1606968&embedded=
true&toolbar=false.
disturbing a single tree or shrub. In order to avoid bird “The myth of a country devoid of indigenous
strikes, solid panels and screens have been used in architecture – ‘architecture nullius’ – has long 2. Philip Drew, “Gunyah,
place of window glass, while nooks for native animals persisted,” writes Philip Drew in his review of Paul Goondie and Wurley: The
Aboriginal Architecture of
are secreted within walls. Charred black silvertop ash Memmott’s important 2007 book Gunyah, Goondie Australia,” The Sydney
exteriors merge into the surrounding foliage or and Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia. Morning Herald website,
disappear completely with the closure of a sliding One of the bases for this myth, Drew reasons, is that 14 December 2007, smh.
com.au/news/book-
door or awning. From floor to wall to ceiling, from “Traditional shelters had a lifespan rarely exceeding reviews/gunyah-goondie--
exposed studs and dowels to window frames and a season at most. Consequently, symbolism was wurley-the-aboriginal-
shutters, the camp site’s central eating and bathing seldom attached to shelters; nor were they much architecture-of-australia/
2007/12/14/11975682
pavilion is entirely lined in locally sourced Tasmanian embellished with decoration.”2
49463.html?page=fullpage
oak. Functional and decorative objects are neatly While it may be that traditional Indigenous #contentSwap2.
housed within studs or hung from dowels. Lighting is shelters were rarely embellished with symbols or
provided by simple silvered bulbs with hanging cord decoration, today it is precisely the unadorned and
switches. Screened in brass mesh, the kitchen and economical form of these structures that resonates
bathroom perforate the all-black exterior and emit with powerful symbolism. Still, Taylor and Hinds
a welcoming glow by night. Architects faced a near impossible task with its
In the modern palawa kani dialect that design of the wukalina Walk standing camp. The
consolidates several Tasmanian Aboriginal languages, camp’s architecture needed to somehow embody the
“krakani lumi” carries a double meaning, translating as symbolic space of the traditional temporary shelter,
both “resting place” and “place of rest.” The traditional yet do so within a permanent and contemporary form.
domed shelter depicted by Tobin has been re-created Remarkably, Taylor and Hinds succeeded in bridging
by Taylor and Hinds at krakani lumi, only this time in this divide, expressing the presence of the past while
negative. The camp site’s central pavilion contains summoning the past into the present.
an excavated half-dome like the maw of a cave, while
smaller domed volumes are nested within six dual- — David Neustein is a director of Other Architects.
person sleeping huts. The space between inner dome
Hanging silvered bulbs

light the interior of the
central pavilion, where a
uniform palette of locally
sourced Tasmanian oak
imbues the building with
a sense of warmth.
Architect Taylor and Hinds Architects; Project team Mat Hinds, Poppy Taylor (lead architects), Jordan Davis
(graduate of architecture); Builder AJR Construct; Structural and hydraulic consultant Aldanmark Consulting
Engineers; Building surveyor Lee Tyers Building Surveyors; Electrical engineer ECOS; Landscape architect
Inspiring Place; Fire engineer Castellan Consulting; Alternative solutions consultant Holdfast Building
Surveyors; Biodiversity, flora and fauna assessment consultant Anna Povey; Wildlife management plans
consultant Birdlife Tasmania; Quantity surveyor WT Partnership; Land surveyor Woolcott Surveys
Sept / Oct 2018 25

Project
Bunjil Place
Architect
FJMT
Review by Louis Mokak and Christine Phillips

Photography by John Gollings, Glenn Hester, Trevor Mein and Nicole England
Indigenous and non-Indigenous

voices are heard side by side as they
consider this compelling new civic
building. In referencing Bunjil the
Creator, FJMT’s Bunjil Place raises
Photography Nicole England
ongoing questions about recognition,

symbolism and community space.
Photography Glenn Hester
Christine Phillips: When Architecture Australia asked This reference to Bunjil is both a figurative The underside of the roof
me to review Bunjil Place by FJMT, I invited Louis and a metaphorical device for a building that aspires forms of FJMT’s Bunjil Place
in Melbourne’s Narre Warren
Mokak, a Djugun man from West Kimberley and to protect and welcome its people. As Boon Wurrung is supported by a woven
current architecture student at RMIT University, Elder Arweet Carolyn Briggs explains, “This land structure of laminated
to co-write with me. A building named Bunjil Place will always be protected by the creator, Bunjil, who natural timber, confidently
referencing Shigeru Ban.
inevitably raises questions about place, Country, the travels as an eagle, and by Waarn, who protects
role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the waterways and travels as a crow. Bunjil taught The eagle-like form
of the building represents
in contemporary Australia and how this plays out the Boon Wurrung to always welcome guests, but Kulin Nation figure Bunjil the
in architecture. I am a female architect and academic he always required the Boon Wurrung to ask all visitors Creator, who protects and
with a Greek Cypriot heritage, born in Melbourne, livingto make two promises: to obey the laws of Bunjil and welcomes. The vast wings
sweep back to shelter a
in Melbourne. I acknowledge the traditional owners of not to harm the children or the land of Bunjil.” north-facing civic space.
the land on which Bunjil Place stands and respectfully Sited in Narre Warren, thirty-eight kilometres
Beneath the roof, the
recognize the Elders, both past and present. south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, the City of Casey woven timber structure
is one of the fastest growing regions in the country. is pulled dramatically down
Louis Mokak: I am a saltwater man and a proud The project grew out of the council’s identifying a at two points to create a
monumental and generous
Djugun man from West Kimberley. Born on Gadigal need for the provision of cultural facilities. An invited
civic entry.
country, I grew up on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country competition was held and the commission was won
The building’s program
and am now living on the lands of the Kulin Nation. by FJMT, a practice well versed in public architecture.
includes an eight-hundred-
I acknowledge the sacred lands of the Kulin Nation As a hybrid civic type, Bunjil Place brings seat theatre with a full-sized
in which I live and pay my respects to the Elders, together a range of facilities, all in the one building. fly tower as well as an
past, present and future generations. As I am a These include an outdoor community plaza, an outdoor plaza, a black box
studio, a function centre,
visitor to these lands, my voice in this piece is from eight-hundred-seat theatre with a full-sized fly a library, a gallery, council
my perspective alone and does not represent the tower, a multipurpose black box studio, a function chambers, a customer
voices, cultures or traditions of the Kulin Nation. centre, a community library, a gallery, council service centre and offices.
chambers, a customer service centre and offices

Both: As non-Indigenous and Indigenous people, for over four hundred staff.
we agreed it was important that our voices The building’s entry and main frontage smartly
be differentiated. We write side by side and turn their backs to the traffic, the winglike roof forms
acknowledge that our values and perspectives coming together to form a protected, north-facing
are not always shared, but that we respect and civic space sheltered from the noise and pollution
give space to our differing views. of the busy roads. An underground carpark frees up
FJMT’s recently completed Bunjil Place the ground space, allowing for public amenities such
in Melbourne’s Narre Warren is a compelling civic as the community plaza. Adjacent to the existing public
building. While programmatically and visually engaging, swimming pool, a children’s playground connects the
the building also raises questions about the role two buildings. An outdoor children’s reading space
contemporary architecture can play in acknowledging links to the library, while a memorial grove extends
and respecting the world’s oldest living culture. out past the landscaped area. This siting and careful
As we drove toward Bunjil Place, we were struck by the consideration of public outside spaces reflect the
immense scale of its eagle-like roof forms. On approach sentiment of FJMT’s approach.
you immediately encounter the monumentalism and
spectacle of the eagle, a representation of Bunjil the CP: Combining so many programs within the one facility
Creator. The timber structure erupts out of the ground does raise questions. Shouldn’t we be dispersing
and spreads its wings, authoritative and commanding our community facilities around our suburbs in order
in flight, while at the same time conveying a sense of to encourage intimate, pedestrian-friendly
being grounded. communities? My views on the cultural “megahub”
Photography Trevor Mein
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Bunjil Place
The architects hope

to create a meaningful and
welcoming gathering place
in a region with the largest
number of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people
in metropolitan Melbourne.
Combining so many
civic functions and
cultural events in the one
space allows for a richer
experience of community
life, in a contemporary take
on the nineteenth-century
town hall.
Photography John Gollings

were challenged, however, following our site visit and of its current residents speak English as a second
this is why. Not only can the back-of-house facilities language. The practice sought to create a building
be shared, but the adjacency of different programs that would welcome all of its community. As former
enables a fluid approach to how the spaces are used. CEO of Casey Mike Tyler says, “Like Bunjil, who taught
Artists can make use of both the workshop area and everyone to always welcome guests, the project will
the adjacent gallery space. The information desk provide an invitation to all.”
doubles as a ticketing booth and theatre bar, while
one cafe facilitates all the programs. CP: In my view, FJMT’s design acted as a catalyst for
There is also a cultural benefit to the hybrid embedding Indigenous themes beyond the built fabric.
model. A visit to the library might also inspire a visit It was FJMT’s winning entry that prompted the council
to the adjacent gallery. Attending your child’s school to hold a public naming competition, with “Bunjil
performance in the workshop space on a Thursday Place” selected as the official name, reaffirming
afternoon might prompt you to look at the Brook the design intent in a way that sparked further
Andrew piece exhibited in the same space the Indigenous engagement. Aboriginal naming and
following week. As FJMT design director Richard smoking ceremonies have been held on site and the
Francis-Jones explains, “When you go to pay your gallery’s exhibition program is focused on promoting
rates, for example, you experience far more than both local and Indigenous art and culture. Within
just the administration of local government – you’re the foyer, you can listen to stories of Bunjil told by
experiencing the public aspect of community life.” Aunty Carolyn Briggs on an interactive screen. While
In this way, Bunjil Place is a contemporary take on the I question the fact that the building does not facilitate
nineteenth-century town hall type – a counterpoint to informal spaces that welcome local Aboriginal
nearby Fountain Gate shopping centre as a gathering communities, FJMT’s design has certainly inspired
space for civic and cultural events. an acknowledgement of the world’s oldest living
culture on a number of levels and is a step in the right
Both: In terms of its formal expression, there is a direction. I am keen to hear Louis’s thoughts on this.
tension between structural expression and an interest
in materiality at Bunjil Place consistent with FJMT’s LM: I agree there are elements within the building
impressive body of public projects. In a confident that can form a reference to Bunjil the Creator.
nod to Shigeru Ban, the underside of the roof forms However, with community at its heart, Bunjil at its
is supported by a woven structure of laminated natural core and the City of Casey having the largest number
timber that seems to do the impossible as it pulls of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in
down at two points to form a generous civic entry. metropolitan Melbourne, a lot more could be done
A singular language visually draws together the with its programming. It’s not just about welcoming
different programs. By contrast, the building beneath ceremonies and having Aboriginal art on display.
is deliberately restrained. It addresses the public It should be integral to ensure that there is space
not through its facade, but in the way its form wraps and place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
around to create a public plaza. Like a gymnast’s communities to not only feel welcomed, but to feel
dance, the building reads as ribbons wrapping around that it is their place of connection, strength and
the exterior forms and through to the interiors, making belonging. For example, an Elders’ lounge, yarning
their way up and around the various programs. circles and informal community spaces with
These expressions are not just frivolous landscape that connects to Country could have
form-making experiments but grew out of FJMT’s been incorporated.
aspiration to create a meaningful and welcoming This raises the question of whether or not
gathering place for the community. Francis-Jones felt the building has achieved its aim of holding and
that Bunjil’s welcome message was an apt metaphor honouring the spirit of Bunjil. When we as First
for the present and future of the City of Casey. The City Peoples think of our creators, it is not just a moment
of Casey grows by 7,600 people each year and attracts of historical reflection. Our creators are with
new residents from all over the world. Almost a third us at this moment, as has always been the case.
Centreline section
01 5 10 m
1:1000
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Bunjil Place
Site plan key
1 Bunjil Place
2 Amphitheatre
3 Reading garden
4 Memorial grove
5 Playground
6 Nook garden
7 Recreation centre
heast Drive
Patrick Nort Floor plans key
4 1 Foyer
3 2 Function centre
3 Workplace
5 4 Customer service
2 5 Theatre
6 Studio
Magid Drive
7 Gallery
8 Library
1
FJMT’s design intent
7 to promote Indigenous
art and culture and its
figurative and metaphorical
6
references to Bunjil the
Creator were supported by
a public naming competition.
Princess Highway
Site plan
0 10 25 50 m
1:2500
Photography John Gollings

8
8
7
2
3
1
1
5 5 3
Ground floor plan Level one floor plan

0 5 20 m
1:1500 1:1500
It’s a knowing, it’s a presence and it’s something very deeply about how to incorporate our knowledge
deep. As Aunty Carolyn Briggs has told me, “Bunjil systems, our creation stories and our cultural values
is not just an eagle. Bunjil is a god, Bunjil is a demi, and protocol into the built environment. This can then
Bunjil is the creation. The creator of the Kulin Nation.” more strongly inform and further the way in which we
In referencing the creator, Bunjil Place must think, learn, connect and design as built practitioners
hold high spiritual significance that goes well beyond on these sacred lands.
design aesthetic and symbolic endeavours. It is about
virtue, the creation of a spiritual place, not just a — Louis Mokak is a proud Djugun man from West Kimberley and
currently studying a Bachelor of Architectural Design at RMIT University.
civic space. If the building does not properly honour He is a recipient of the Carey Lyon Scholarship and a director of Indigenous
Bunjil, there is a real danger that Aboriginal culture Architecture and Design Victoria.
and people are being sentimentalized rather than
Christine Phillips is a senior lecturer at RMIT University, director of
recognized for the strength of their knowledge OpenHAUS and alternate member of the Heritage Council of Victoria.
and what they offer others. Mere symbolism runs the
risk of devaluing our stories and the world’s oldest
living cultures.
Both: So what can we learn from FJMT’s Bunjil Place?
CP: Integrating multiple community facilities within

the one building has many programmatic and cultural
advantages. An ambiguous architectural expression
Architect FJMT; Project team Richard Francis-Jones, Jeff Morehen, Geoff Croker, William Pritchard,
provides a tangible civic landmark for a community. David Moody, Lina Sjögren, Annie Hensley, Andrew Chung, Fleur Downey, Iain Blampied, Laura Vallentine,
Jessica Kairnes, Amanda Beh, Bradley Kerr, Nic Patman, Lance White, Estelle Roman, Marco Coetzee;
LM: Design needs to go beyond physical Structural and civil engineer Taylor Thomson Whitting; Building services engineer Murchie Consulting;
Building surveyor Certis; Access consultant Before Compliance; Theatre planner Schuler Shook;
acknowledgement to connect to the world’s oldest Acoustic design consultant Acoustic Studio; Wayfinding Buro North; Waste consultant Closed Loop;
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Coverage of the winning 2018 Chapter Awards
and commended projects
in the Australian Institute
of Architects chapter awards,
in the lead-up to the National
Architecture Awards.
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Chapter Awards
New South Wales

Commercial Educational Public Interior
The William E Kemp Award

Macquarie University Incubator
The Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award The John Verge Award
by Architectus
International House Sydney 75 Myrtle Street Chippendale
by Tzannes by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
The Sulman Medal

Punchbowl Mosque
by Candalepas Associates
Award Award
St Patrick’s Primary School, The Waranara Early Learning
Award Lochinvar – Stage 1 Centre for the City of Sydney
Barangaroo House by SHAC by Fox Johnston
by Collins and Turner
Award
Joynton Avenue Creative Centre
by Peter Stutchbury Architecture
for City of Sydney
Commendations
Award Barangaroo Ferry Wharf by Cox
Award Architecture; Coogee Beach Centre
UTS Blackfriars Children’s Centre
Biripi Clinic by DJRD with Lacoste + by Brewster Hjorth Architects
by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture Stevenson Architects Award
NeW Space, University of Newcastle
Commendations Commendations by Lyons and EJE Architecture
The Beehive by Raffaello Rosselli The Waranara Early Learning Steel
Architect with Luigi Rosselli Centre for the City of Sydney Commendations
Architects; 333 George Street by Fox Johnston; Bellevue Hill Frasers Property Australia Head
by Grimshaw with Crone Public School by GroupGSA Office by BVN; All Hands Brewing
House by Maddison Architects;
Wine Cave by McGregor Westlake
Architecture; Grimshaw Architects
Office Fit Out by Grimshaw
Photography Peter Bennetts, Brett Boardman, Rory Gardiner, Ben Guthrie,
COLORBOND® Award
Biripi Clinic
by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
Commendations
Alexander McIntyre, Michael Nicholson and David Roche.
North Avoca Studio by Matt Thitchener

Architect; Barangaroo Ferry Wharf
by Cox Architecture
Sept / Oct 2018 37

Chapter Awards
New South Wales Continued Residential — Residential Houses — Heritage

from page 37 Multiple Housing Alterations & Additions
Residential
Houses — New
The Greenway Award

Joynton Avenue Creative Precinct
The Aaron Bolot Award The Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award by Peter Stutchbury Architecture
The Rochford Laneway House in association with Design 5 –
by Fox Johnston by Jon Jacka Architects Architects for City of Sydney
The Wilkinson Award

Cabbage Tree House
Award Award Award for Heritage – Creative

The Triplex Apartments Adaptation
Bolt Hole
by Luigi Rosselli Architects by Panovscott O’Connell Public
by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Award Commendation
Coastal Garden House Italianate House
by Neeson Murcutt Architects by Renato D’Ettorre Architects
Enduring
Award for Heritage – Conservation

The Westpac Long Gallery
by Design 5 – Architects with
Award
the Australian Museum
Griffiths Teas
by PopovBass
Commendations for Heritage –
Creative Adaptation
Goonoo Goonoo Station by TKD
Award Award Architects; Macaria Gallery
Three Piece House Sirius (1979) by Dunn and Hillam Architects
by TRIAS by Tao Gofers, NSW Department
of Housing with Alexander and Commendation for Heritage –
Commendation Lloyd Architects Conservation
Photography Brett Boardman, Murray Fredericks, Benjamin Hosking, Jon Jacka,

Killcare Beach Bush House Emmett Residence by Orwell
by MORA – James Fraser Architect and Peter Phillips
Katherine Lu, Trevor Mein, Michael Nicholson and Prue Ruscoe.

Award
Short Lane
by Woods Bagot
Commendation
Inkmakers Place by Jensen Young
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NSW Architecture Medallion
Small Project in association with Design 5 –
Architects for City of Sydney
NSW Premier’s Prize

Biripi Clinic
by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
The Milo Dunphy Award
International House Sydney
Blacket Prize
by Tzannes
St Patrick’s Primary School,
Lochinvar – Stage 1 by SHAC
The Lloyd Rees Award City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s Prize

Darling Harbour Transformation Barangaroo Ferry Wharf
by Hassell / Hassell and Populous by Cox Architecture
The Robert Woodward Award City of Sydney Lord Mayor’s

Treetop Studio Prize – Commendations
by Aileen Sage Architects 333 George Street by Grimshaw
with Crone; “Reflection” Memorial
Martin Place by Johnson Pilton
Walker and Jess Dare
President’s Prize
Award Deborah Dearing, President of the
Award
Joynton Avenue Creative Centre NSW Architects Registration Board
by Peter Stutchbury Architecture East Sydney Community and Arts
for City of Sydney Centre and Albert Sloss Reserve
Emerging Architect Prize
by Lahznimmo Architects with
Spackman Mossop Michaels Amelia Holiday and Isabelle Toland,
Award
Landscape Architects Aileen Sage Architects
Montoro Wines Cellar Door
by Source Architects
Marion Mahony Griffin Prize
Oi Choong, Context Landscape Design
David Lindner Prize

Passive Security in Schools:
Investigating alternative
methods of achieving secure
Photography Brett Boardman, Tom Ferguson, Ben Guthrie, Katherine Lu, Michael Nicholson and Prue Ruscoe.
Award
environments in schools
The Beehive
by Jamileh Jahangiri, TKD Architects
by Raffaello Rosselli Architect Award
with Luigi Rosselli Architects The Connection – Rhodes
Award
by Crone Architects
The Beehive Commendations
by Raffaello Rosselli Architect
Coogee Beach Centre by Brewster
with Luigi Rosselli Architects
Hjorth Architects; Macquarie
University Incubator by Architectus;
Commendations Cabbage Tree House by Peter
Paper Bird by Plus Minus Design; Stutchbury Architecture; Paper
Laneway Studio by McGregor Bird by Plus Minus Design
Westlake Architecture; Islington
Park by Curious Practice
Award
Day Street Apartments
by Tzannes and Loftex
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Chapter Awards
South Australia
Residential Residential Houses — Interior Sustainable
Houses — New Alterations & Additions
The Robert Dickson Award The Derrick Kendrick Award

The John S Chappel Award
GA House trop_Pods @ robe
PR House
by Architects Ink by Troppo Architects
by Architects Ink
The John Schenk Award

Millswood House
by Studio-gram with Kate Russo
Award
Cedar House
by JPE Design Studio
Award
Award The Darling Building
WBL Studio by Williams Burton Leopardi
Award
by Williams Burton Leopardi
Bowden Bajko House
by Davis and Davis Architects Commendations
Last Stand by BB Architects; Royal
Adelaide Hospital by Silver Thomas
Commendations
Hanley DesignInc (STHDI); Tess and
Timberland by Sw-architects; MH
Michael’s House by Max Pritchard
House by Architects Ink; JR House
Award Gunner Architects; Timberland
by Architects Ink
by Sw-architects
Hyde Park Townhouses
by Con Bastiras Architect
Residential — Steel
Award
Multiple Housing Royal Adelaide Hospital
by Silver Thomas Hanley
DesignInc (STHDI)
Commendation
Melt by Studio-gram
Award
Aldgate House
by Wood Marsh Architecture
Enduring
Photography Commercial and General, Cr3 Studio, Sandor Duzs, Scott Hardy,
Commendation The Newell Platten Award

Tess and Michael’s House Ivy Apartments, WEST
by Max Pritchard Gunner Architects by Davis and Davis Architects
Christopher Morrison, Sam Noonan, David Sievers and Troppo.
COLORBOND® Award
Millswood House
by Studio-gram with Kate Russo
The Jack Cheesman Award

Pritchard House (1990)
by Max Pritchard LFRAIA
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Chapter Awards
South Australia
Continued Public Urban Design Chapter Prizes
from page 43
City of Adelaide Prize
84 Halifax Street
by Oxigen
Educational
City of Adelaide Prize –
Commendations
The Darling Building by Williams
The Gavin Walkley Award Burton Leopardi; Queen Adelaide
Room by Swanbury Penglase;
The Jack McConnell Award Adelaide Health and Medical
Urban Beach by Renewal SA on
Adelaide Convention Centre Sciences Building (AHMS)
behalf of the Riverbank Authority
Redevelopment: East by Lyons
by Woods Bagot
City of Adelaide Prize – People’s
The Dr John Mayfield Award Choice
St John’s Grammar School John The Darling Building
Bray Centre for the Performing Arts
Small Project by Williams Burton Leopardi
by Walter Brooke
Sir James Irwin President’s Medal
Douglas Alexander,
Flightpath Architects

Alison McFadyen,
Award
Phillips/Pilkington Architects
The Playford Tennis Centre
by JPE Design Studio
The Marjorie Simpson Award
Award Commendation 84 Halifax Street
Adelaide Health and Medical Royal Adelaide Hospital by Oxigen
Sciences Building (AHMS) by Silver Thomas Hanley
by Lyons DesignInc (STHDI)
Commendations
Old Watulunga by Grieve Gillett
Andersen; Concordia College Heritage
Nautilus Centre by Russell and
Yelland Architects
Photography John Gollings, Trevor Mein, Christopher Morrison, Sam Noonan, Chris Oaten, Dan Schultz and Troppo.
Award
Commercial trop_Pods @ robe
by Troppo Architects
Commendations
Sturt Street Office Home by Taylor
Buchtmann Architecture; Bird in
Hand Block by Sw-architects and
Enoki; UniSA Mobile Art Architecture
and Design Studio (MAADS) by
Design Construct, School of Art,
The David Saunders Award Architecture and Design, University
The Darling Building of South Australia
The Keith Neighbour Award

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Award
Queen Adelaide Room
by Swanbury Penglase
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Chapter Awards
Queensland
Commercial Sustainable Educational Public
The Harry Marks Award

Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve The Jennifer Taylor Award
The Beatrice Hutton Award by Guymer Bailey Architects in The Science Place The F D G Stanley Award
The Stores collaboration with Norman Richards by Hassell Blackwater Aquatic Centre
by Cavill Architects in association Building Design and Interiors by Liquid Blu Architects
with Jasper Brown Architects
Award Award
Blackwater Aquatic Centre The Centenary Library, Anglican
by Liquid Blu Architects Church Grammar School Award
Award
by Brand and Slater Architects Curra Community Hall
Robina Market Hall Redevelopment
by Bark Design Architects
by The Buchan Group (architect)
and ACME (concept design architect)
Commendation
88 Limestone by Gibson Architects
Award
Small Project The Science Place
by Hassell Award
Award
The Springfield Anglican
Commendation College – Year 1 Classrooms Les Wilson Barramundi
Yeronga House by Architecture Koen Discovery Centre
by Tim Bennetton Architects by Bud Brannigan Architects
Commendations
Commendations
Griffith University Aquatic Centre
by Conrad Gargett; JK Murray Library Gold Coast Sports and Leisure
Urban Design Extension and Refurbishment by DWP Centre by BVN; Mary Cairncross
Design Worldwide Partnership Scenic Reserve by Guymer Bailey
Architects in collaboration with
Photography Scott Burrows, John Gollings, Christopher Frederick Jones, Andy Macpherson,
The Hayes and Scott Award Norman Richards Building Design

Northshore Pavilion and Interiors
by Anna O’Gorman Architect
Steel
Angus Martin, Andrew Rankin, David Sandison, Cathy Schusler and Richard Stringer.
Enduring
The Karl Langer Award

Parklands
by AAA – Arkhefield, ARM
and Archipelago Architects
COLORBOND® Award
Gold Coast Sports Precinct
by BVN
Award
The Robin Gibson Award
Ryan Street Library
Townsville Courts of Law – Edmund
by Jonathan Goh Architect
Sheppard Building (1975)
Award by Hall, Phillips and Wilson Architects
Commendations
Beerwah Tower Green
Dinosaur Canyon Outpost by Cox by Bark Design Architects
Architecture; UQ Architecture School
Entry by M3architecture
Commendations
Centenary Lakes Nature Play by PAWA
Architecture and LandPlan; The Link
by Lat27
Sept / Oct 2018 47

Chapter Awards
Queensland Continued Residential Residential — Residential Houses —

from page 47 Houses — New Multiple Housing Alterations & Additions
Interior
The Elina Mottram Award

The Robin Dods Award Gibbon St
Stradbroke House by Cavill Architects
by Tim Bennetton Architects in
association with Gabriel Poole
The Job and Froud Award

M3565 Main Beach
by Virginia Kerridge Architect
The G H M Addison Award

Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre
by BVN Award
Camp Hill Cottage
by Owen Architecture
Award
Carpenter-Hall House
by Russell Hall Architects
Award
Abian
by Wood Marsh Architecture
with Sunland Group
Award
Headricks Lane
by SP Studio
Award
Photography Scott Burrows, Kirsten Cunningham, Harry Firth, John Gollings, R. Hall, David Hanson and Chris Proud,
Award
One Room Tower
Tarragindi Steel House
Christopher Frederick Jones, Isaac Marano, Cieran Murphy, Toby Scott, Shantanu Starick and Richard Stringer.
by Phorm Architecture and Design
by Bligh Graham Architects
with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis
Award
Marchetti and Optiko
by Cameron and Co Award
Oxley and Stirling
Commendations by Elenberg Fraser
1 William Street by Woods Bagot;
NAB Place by Woods Bagot
Award
Award
Yeronga House
V House
by Tim Bennetton Architects
by Shaun Lockyer Architects
Art & Architecture Commendations
Commendations
Milton Residence by M3architecture;
Avonlea by Robinson Architects;
Yarrawonga by Counterpoint
Tinbeerwah House by Teeland
Architecture
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Award
Spire Residences
Heritage
by John Wardle Architects Chapter Prize
Commendation
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The Australian Institute of Architects Morgan Jenkins and Lachlan Neilson,
259 Queen Street Main Lobby by Andrew Bock Architecture
Art and Architecture Prize (Qld) Neilson Jenkins
Refurbishment by Cox Architecture
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by Dirk Yates, Speculative
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Condorelli (artist) and Pete Shields
(landscape designer)
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Chapter Awards
Tasmania
Commercial Interior Residential Heritage
Houses — New
The Colin Philp Award

The Roy Sharrington Smith Award
krakani lumi The Alexander North Award
Iuwa
by Taylor and Hinds Architects 105 Macquarie Street Apartments The Esmond Dorney Award by Taylor and Hinds Architects
with the Aboriginal Land Council by Preston Lane
Bruny Island Hideaway with the Aboriginal Land Council
of Tasmania
by Maguire and Devine Architects of Tasmania
Steel
Award
Award Jakadjari Hair Award
Mac 01 by Preston Lane Elms House
by Circa Morris-Nunn Architects by Stuart Tanner Architects
Commendation
Commendation Kingston Beach Dental COLORBOND® Award
Shorehouse Addition by BYA Architects Bruny Island Hideaway
by Jaws Architects Residential Houses — by Maguire and Devine Architects
Alterations & Additions

Small Project
Enduring Educational
Commendation
Helix – Scotch Oakburn College
by Birelli Art + Design + Architecture
Sustainable
The Peter Willmott Award
Award krakani lumi
Friendly Beaches Lodge (1992) by Taylor and Hinds Architects
by Latona Masterman and Associates with the Aboriginal Land Council The Edith Emery Award
of Tasmania Mawhera Extension
by Preston Lane
Photography Brett Boardman, Adam Gibson, Anna Gilby, Rob Maver and Matt Newton.
Urban Design Commendation

Willisdene House Barry McNeill Award
by Archier
Commendation Bruny Island Hideaway
University of Tasmania City by Maguire and Devine Architects
Apartments by Terroir and
Fender Katsalidis, in association
Public
Award
Chapter Prizes
Kangaroo Bay Pavilion
by Preston Lane James Blackburn Triennial Prize
Lagoon House
by Taylor and Hinds Architects
President’s Prize
Leigh Woolley FRAIA
The Alan C Walker Award Emerging Architect Prize

Kangaroo Bay Pavilion Mat Hinds, Taylor and Hinds Architects
by Preston Lane
Award SWT Blythe Student Prize

Commendation Sports Training and Research Centre
Triabunna Gatehouse
by Gilby and Brewin Architecture Port Arthur Visitor Centre by Kwan Chak Law
by Rosevear Stephenson
Sept / Oct 2018 51

Chapter Awards
Western Australia Commercial Educational Residential Residential Houses —

Houses — New Alterations & Additions
The Ross Chisholm and The Hillson Beasley Award

Gil Nicol Award Highgate Primary School The Marshall Clifton Award The Peter Overman Award
Main Roads WA – Northam Office New Teaching Building
1437 Inside Outside House orange ave
by TAG Architects by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
by Craig Steere Architects by VittinoAshe
Award
Freshwaters Award Award Award
by Paul Burnham Architect Wesley College Mildred Manning M+C Residence 6012 Goldtree House
Science Centre by Philippa Mowbray Architects by Hartree and Associates Architects
Commendations by Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick
Scarborough Beach Pool by Christou Commendation
Design Group; The Melbourne Hotel Commendations King George by Robeson Architects
by The Buchan Group – Perth Methodist Ladies College Junior
Years by Cox Architecture; South
Metropolitan TAFE Murdoch Block T
by Armstrong Parkin Architects
Residential —
Heritage Multiple Housing
Public Award
Blinco Street House
by Philip Stejskal Architecture
Michael Patroni, Andrew Pritchard, Red Images Fine Photography, Dion Robeson, Sampson Media and Bo Wong.
Photography Joel Barbita, Peter Bennetts, Douglas Mark Black, Jody D’Arcy, Rob Frith, Michael Nicholson,
The Margaret Pitt Morison Award
The Harold Krantz Award
The Cadogan Song School
The Bottleyard
by Palassis Architects
The Jeffery Howlett Award by MJA Studio
Optus Stadium
by Hassell Cox HKS Award
Roscommon House
by Neil Cownie Architect
Commendation
Armadale Crescent by Klopper
and Davis Architects
Award
Award Carrington Street
St Francis Xavier Cathedral by Spaceagency Architects
Precinct, Geraldton
by John Taylor Architect
Commendation
St Ives Carine Village by Hassell
Commendations
Notre Dame University Student Hub
by Cox Architecture; Cue Community Award
and Visitor Centre by Suzanne Hunt The Cadogan Song School
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Western Australia Continued Sustainable Small Project Chapter Prizes

from page 52
George Temple Poole Award
Optus Stadium
by Hassell Cox HKS
Interior
Mondoluce Lighting Award
Optus Stadium
by Hassell Cox HKS
Mondoluce Lighting Award –

The Wallace Greenham Award
Commendation
Optus Stadium
The Cadogan Song School
by Hassell Cox HKS
by Palassis Architects
The Julius Elischer Award The Iwan Iwanoff Award Emerging Architect Prize
The Cadogan Song School Cottesloe Lobby and Landscape Katherine Ashe, VittinoAshe
by Palassis Architects by Simon Pendal Architect
Award
Yalgoo Avenue
by Michelle Blakeley, Architect
Award
Roscommon House Award
by Neil Cownie Architect House A
by Whispering Smith
Commendation
Steel
Notre Dame University Student Hub Commendations
by Cox Architecture The Boatshed Market Wineloft
by Matthew Crawford Architects;
Hightide Hub by Harris Architects
Urban Design
Enduring
COLORBOND® Award
Optus Stadium
by Hassell Cox HKS
Commendation
Manatj Park, Perth City Link
by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
The John Septimus Roe Award in association with Lyons Architects
and Plan E Landscape Architects
Michael Nicholson, Andrew Pritchard, Perry Sandow and Silvertone Photography.

Scarborough Beach Pool
by Christou Design Group
Photography Peter Bennetts, Douglas Mark Black, Rob Frith, Ben Hosking,
The Richard Roach Jewell Award

Allendale Square (1977)
by Cameron Chisholm Nicol
Award
Highgate Primary School
by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
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Victoria
Public Commercial Interior
Award
The William Wardell Award St Vincents Place Residence
Bunjil Place by B. E. Architecture
by FJMT The Marion Mahony Award
Our Lady of Good Counsel
Church Deepdene
The Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award
Barwon Water
Educational by Law Architects
by GHDWoodhead
Award
Bendigo Hospital
by Silver Thomas Hanley
with Bates Smart Award
The Henry Bastow Award Boneo Country House
New Academic Street, RMIT University by John Wardle Architects
Award by Lyons with NMBW Architecture
Mercedes Me Studio, Harrison and White, MvS
by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and Maddison Architects
Award
North Fitzroy Library
and Community Hub
by GroupGSA
Award
New Academic Street, RMIT University
Award Award by Lyons with NMBW Architecture
Urban Design Jackalope The Geoff Handbury Science Studio, Harrison and White, MvS
by Carr and Technology Hub, Melbourne Architects and Maddison Architects
Grammar School
by Denton Corker Marshall
Commendation
GMHBA Stadium by Populous
Heritage
Photography Peter Bennetts, Sharyn Cairns, Peter Clarke, Drew Echberg, Adam Gibson, John
Gollings, Lisbeth Grosmann, Glenn Hester, Tom Hutton, Trevor Mein and Derek Swalwell.
The Joseph Reed Award

New Academic Street, RMIT University Award
by Lyons with NMBW Architecture
Station Street House
Studio, Harrison and White, MvS Award by Robert Simeoni Architects
Architects and Maddison Architects
Monash University Learning and
Teaching Building
by John Wardle Architects
The John George Knight Award

North Melbourne Terrace
by Matt Gibson Architecture
and Design
Award
Award
Koondrook Wharf
Monash University Learning
by Terroir
and Teaching Building
by John Wardle Architects
Award
Victorian College of the Arts Commendations
former Mounted Police Stables
Armadale Residence by Rob Mills
by Kerstin Thompson Architects
Architecture and Interiors; Henry
Street House by Eugene Cheah
Commendation Architecture; Victorian College
Award 18 Innovation Walk Revitalisation of the Arts former Mounted Police
Award Victorian College of the Arts former Project by Kosloff Architecture and Stables by Kerstin Thompson
Deakin Link Mounted Police Stables Callum Morton and MAP (Monash Architects; Space and Time
by Watson Architecture and Design by Kerstin Thompson Architects Art Projects) by Russell and George
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Victoria
Continued Residential Houses — Residential — Sustainable
from page 57 Alterations & Additions Multiple Housing
Residential
Houses — New
The John and Phyllis Murphy Award The Best Overend Award
King Bill Nightingale 1
by Austin Maynard Architects by Breathe Architecture
The Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award
The Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award Nightingale 1
Compound House by Breathe Architecture
by March Studio
Award Award
Boneo Country House Averi
by John Wardle Architects by Jackson Clements Burrows
Award Award
Towers Road House Barwon Water
by Wood Marsh Architecture by GHDWoodhead
Award
C. F. Row
Award
by Woods Bagot
Station Street House
Award by Robert Simeoni Architects
Photography Peter Bennetts, Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis, Sharyn Cairns, Peter Clarke, John Gollings, Tom Hutton,
Park House
Shannon McGrath, Trevor Mein, Sean Godsell Architects, Derek Swalwell, Richard Wong and Young and Percival.
by Kerstin Thompson Architects
Award
Award Studio, Harrison and White, MvS
Campbell Street Architects and Maddison Architects
by DKO Architecture and SLAB
Award
Commendation
Award The Kite
by Architecture Architecture North Fitzroy Library and
House on the Coast
Community Hub by GroupGSA
by Sean Godsell Architects
Commendations
Triangle House by Molecule
Studio; Moonah Home by
Steel
Bellemo and Cat; Humble House
by Coy Yiontis Architects
Award
35 Spring Street
by Bates Smart
Enduring
Commendations
Elwood House by Woods Bagot;
Parkville Townhouses by Fieldwork
COLORBOND® Award
Award Bugiga Hiker Camp – Grampians
Hatherlie National Park
by Andrew Simpson Architects by Sean Godsell Architects
Award Commendations Commendation

Yarra Footbridge at Southbank (1989) Dark Light House by MRTN Architects; Unfolding House
by Cocks Carmichael Whitford Old Be-al by FMD Architects by Sibling Architecture
Sept / Oct 2018 59

Chapter Awards
Victoria
Northern Territory
Continued Commercial Enduring
from page 59
Small Project
The Peter Dermoudy Award

Zuccoli Plaza
by The Buchan Group
Award
The Kevin Borland Award Public Bowali Visitors Centre, Kakadu (1993)
Sorrento Visitor Centre by Troppo Architects in association
by Workshop Architecture with Glenn Murcutt and Associates
Chapter Prizes
Tracy Memorial Award

ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel
The Reverend John Flynn Award by Susan Dugdale and Associates
ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel
Award by Susan Dugdale and Associates People’s Choice Award
Campbell Street ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel
by DKO Architecture and SLAB by Susan Dugdale and Associates
Small Project Emerging Architect Prize

Miriam Wallace, Susan Dugdale
and Associates
Student Prize
Katherine Mackay,
Charles Darwin University
President’s Prize
Sally Thomas AC
Award
Koondrook Wharf
The Yali McNamara Award
by Terroir
Charles Darwin University –
ACIKE Ceremonial Space
Commendations by Hodgkison
Garden Wall (NGV Architecture
Commission) by Retallack Thompson
and Other Architects; Elgin Street
Residence by Sonelo Design Studio
Steel
Chapter Prizes
Photography Gary Annett, Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis, Shane Eecen,
Adam Gibson, John Gollings, Troppo Architects and Miriam Wallace.
Victorian Architecture Medal
Studio, Harrison and White, MvS
Architects and Maddison Architects
COLORBOND® Award
Regional Prize
Kilgariff Entry and Fence
Koondrook Wharf
by Susan Dugdale and Associates
by Terroir
Melbourne Prize
Studio, Harrison and White, MvS
Architects and Maddison Architects;
Nightingale 1 by Breathe Architecture
(joint winners)

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Chapter Awards
Australian Capital Territory

Commercial Public Residential Residential —
Houses — New Multiple Housing
The Romaldo Giurgola Award

The John Andrews Award Synergy
Australian Federal Police by BVN The Malcolm Moir and Heather The Sydney Ancher Award
Forensics and Data Centre Sutherland Award
St Germain
by Hassell Swan by Cox Architecture
by Collins Caddaye Architects
Award
St Christopher’s Precinct
by Cox Architecture
Award Award Award
Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre Commendation Box House St Christopher’s Precinct
by Universal Design Studio and High Commission of Samoa by Paul Tilse Architects by Cox Architecture
Mather Architecture in Australia by Cox Architecture
Commendation
Dairy Road (3.4) Small Project
by Craig Tan Architects Interior
Heritage
Award
Inset House
by Judd Studio
Commendations
The W Hayward Morris Award Moss River House by Cox Architecture;
Sawtooth House by Judd Studio
Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre
by Universal Design Studio and
Mather Architecture
The Cynthia Breheny Award
The J S Murdoch Award Residential Houses — Phased Change House
Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre Alterations & Additions
Glen Martin, Stefan Postles, Tom Ross, Dianna Snape, The Guthrie Project and Ben Wrigley.
by Erin Owens Mako Architecture

Photography Brett Boardman, John Gollings, Christopher Frederick Jones, Light Studies,
by Universal Design Studio and

Mather Architecture
Educational
Award
St Christopher’s Precinct
by Cox Architecture
The Gene Willsford Award Award

Chowne Street House Kingston Boat Sheds
by Philip Leeson Architects by Tait Network
Commendations Commendation
The Enrico Taglietti Award Puutalo House by Judd Studio; Parents room, Monaro Mall, Canberra
STEM Centre TL House by Ben Walker Architects; Centre by Mather Architecture
by Collins Caddaye Architects DC House by Ben Walker Architects
Commendation Award
RN Robertson Building Synergy
by CCJ Architects by BVN
Commendation
Capital Airport Group Office Fitout
by Cox Architecture
Sept / Oct 2018 63

Chapter Awards
Australian Capital Territory
International Chapter
Continued Steel Residential
from page 63 Houses — New
Sustainable
COLORBOND® Award
Roberts Residence
Award
by Formi Building Creators
House 412
by Pulina Ponnamperuma and
Robust Architecture Workshop
The Derek Wrigley Award Enduring

Synergy
by BVN
Small Project
The Sir Roy Grounds Award

St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church,
Charnwood (1989)
by Mitchell, Giurgola and Award
Thorp Architects School-in-a-Box
by Stephen Collier Architects
Commendation
Chapter Prizes Bayshore Park Underpass
Award by GreenhilLi
RN Robertson Building Canberra Medallion
by CCJ Architects Australian Federal Police
Forensics and Data Centre
Commendation by Hassell Interior
The Link by CCJ Architects
Pamille Berg Award for Art
in Architecture
Chowne Street House
Urban Design by Philip Leeson Architects
Robert Foster Award for

Light in Architecture
Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre
by Universal Design Studio
and Mather Architecture Award
Australian Embassy Bangkok
Architectural Professional by BVN
of the Year Prize
Remco Alexander de Vries,
Photography Jaime Diaz-Berrio, John Gollings, GreenhilLi, Rachel Jackson,

SQC Architecture
President’s Medal
Public
The Sir John Overall Award
Harold (Hal) Guida LFRAIA,
Throsby Infrastructure Guida Moseley Brown Architects
by Tait Network
Glen Martin, Mike Nelson, Kolitha Perera and Ben Wrigley.
Clem Cummings Medal

Rachael Coghlan, CraftACT

Shannon Battisson, The Mill:
Architecture and Design
Lifetime Contribution Prize Award

Robert Foster New Wings at The Asian
Civilisations Museum
ACT Chapter Student Medallion by GreenhilLi
Joel Smith, University of Canberra
Award
ANU Pop-Up Union Village Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn
by Oculus with Craig Tan Architects Graduate Prize
Commercial
Joel Smith, University of Canberra
Commendation
St Christopher’s Precinct John Redmond Prize Commendation
by Cox Architecture John Roberts, University of Canberra Kampung Admiralty by WOHA
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Platform
Austin Maynard
Architects
The bold and delightfully

eclectic work of Austin Maynard
Architects is threaded with a
fervent commitment to resolve
design problems with civic-
mindedness and
creativity. Katelin Butler
traces the evolution of
refreshingly unorthodox
ideas inherent to the
Photography Tess Kelly
practice’s distinctive
architecture.
Images Courtesy Austin Maynard Architects
Austin Maynard Although not subscribing to any particular “style,” the have to have the discipline to say no.” When asked
Architects has channelled distinctive and playful work of Melbourne-based (but what type of project the practice was avoiding, he
its extensive experience in
designing highly livable Tasmanian at heart) Austin Maynard Architects (AMA) explains it was mainly those that involved working
single dwellings into its comes from a consistent approach to thinking about with traditional developers of multiresidential buildings.
proposal for Nightingale 3, design. The resulting architecture – predominantly More recently, however, AMA has embraced the
an architect-led housing
development in Melbourne’s
new houses and alterations and additions to date – opportunity presented by the architect-driven
inner north. is clearly driven by ideas. Unorthodox concepts are Nightingale model, drawing on the practice’s
Polemic ideas
fully explored in order to create something unexpected, extensive experience in designing livable single
realized: the Styx Valley steadily grounded in a response to brief, site and dwellings to create single buildings containing
Protest Shelter, designed context. Co-director and founder of AMA Andrew multiple homes. Nightingale 3 in Brunswick comprises
in 2003, is a conceptual
investigation into the
Maynard explains that when presenting new projects twenty apartments (four one-bedroom, fourteen
making of a station to to clients he’ll tell them, “We’ve fulfilled your brief, two-bedroom and two three-bedroom) over seven
facilitate activism against but we’re pretty confident it’s not exactly what you storeys and is currently in planning with Moreland
logging of Tasmania’s
expect.” Mark Austin, co-director since 2009, adds, City Council. Alongside six other Melbourne-based
Styx Valley Forest.
“We don’t push clients, but we give challenging ideas practices known for creating highly livable homes,
The directors of
the opportunity to exist.” This willingness to experiment AMA is working on a building that will be part
Melbourne-based practice
Austin Maynard Architects is refreshing – architecture is about creating spaces of Nightingale Village. Located in Duckett Street
(from left): Andrew Maynard that we enjoy spending time in, so why not have fun in Brunswick, this proposed precinct is intended
and Mark Austin. doing it? to reproduce Nightingale’s philosophy of social,
A hunger for experimentation has been integral environmental and financial sustainability at an
to the practice since its inception in 2002. For example, urban scale. The Nightingale model has become
the Styx Valley Protest Shelter, designed in 2003, is a integral to the profile of AMA, with architect Mark
conceptual investigation into the making of a Global Stranan leading the charge.
Rescue Station from which activists can form human So what makes an AMA house so livable?
barricades to stop the entry of bulldozers and log Maynard describes what drives his approach. “When
trucks into the Styx Valley Forest. CV08, “the suburb- you’re outside your house, you are wearing a mask.
eating robot,” is another political statement, but this When you’re inside, you disarm. We try to design
time about urban sprawl and Australians’ dependence spaces that people don’t have to perform in.” There is
on the car. often an element of whimsy and playfulness in these
These conceptual explorations sit within an designs. They aren’t childish per se, but they do tend
array of other polemic ideas and Maynard says that to bring out the imagination of the inner child and
they were his “way of avoiding bad projects. You children themselves love them. The use of a netted
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Platform
Key
16 1 Entry
2 Bedroom
3 Laundry
Tower House level one floor plan 4 Living
1:400 5 Study
6 Dining
7 Kitchen
8 Pantry
9 Store
5 10 Services
11 Walk-in robe
15 12 Main bedroom
13 Library
4 4 14 Courtyard
13 15 Garden
1 16 Study net
3
12
14 11 7 6 2 2
8 9
10
Tower House ground floor plan

0 1 2 5 10 m
1:400
Photography Peter Bennetts
Photography Derek Swalwell
King Bill (2018), an

alteration and addition
in Fitzroy, Melbourne,
demonstrates Austin
Maynard Architects’
civic-minded approach
to residential architecture.
16
Tower House (2014)

evokes a sense of
15 permeability, with a “village”
of timber shingle-clad
buildings added to the site
of an existing bungalow.
A netted floor over the study
14
13 12 12 kindles the imagination.
King Bill level one floor plan

1:400
11
Key
2 4
10
3 1 Entry
2 Dining
1 3 Kitchen
4 Living
6 7 9 5 Laundry
8 6 Guest bedroom
5
7 Lounge
8 Music room
9 Courtyard
10 Library
11 Garage
12 Bedroom
13 Balcony
King Bill ground floor plan
0 1 2 5 10 m 14 Study
1:400
15 Main bedroom
16 Walk-in robe
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Platform

floor, seen in various projects such as Tower House of the laneway. Tower House, designed as a village At Mills, the Toy
and King Bill, is an element that encourages parents of buildings, achieves this sense of permeability. Management House (2016),
the familiar challenge
and children to escape into another world. Similarly, Locals are encouraged to take a short cut through of managing children’s
the eye-catching Hill House appears, at first, as if the site from the main street to the more secluded belongings spawned a
it could be a child’s jungle gym. A hill was created, road at the rear. creative solution: a raised
floor with storage beneath.
covered with artificial turf and topped with a Although much of the work by AMA is single
cantilevered box. On further investigation, it is residential – for which the practice has been Hill House (2012)
solves the problem of
clear that this design solves the problem of a south- extensively awarded – this trajectory may be set to a south-facing rear yard
facing rear yard through the insertion of a courtyard evolve, with a slightly different practice structure through the insertion of
between the existing and new parts of the house. The that involves a three-tiered approach. Currently a courtyard between the
new structure, containing
hill allows for a relaxed occupation of the courtyard Stranan leads the Nightingale multiresidential the primary living and
space and the cantilever acts as a shading device projects, Ray Dinh manages the single residential cooking areas, and
to the living zone. work and Natalie Miles seeks to expand the practice’s the original house.
Lateral thinking is what AMA does best and repertoire into the educational and public sectors.
the practice relishes the discovery of new design Maynard and Austin promote a collaborative studio
opportunities that arise during the problem-solving culture and encourage the team to take ownership
process. Mills, the Toy Management House takes over the projects they work on. Maynard has been
on the familiar challenge of managing children’s particularly vocal in promoting the need for work-
belongings by creating a raised floor with toy life balance within the industry and the relaxed
storage underneath. This makes cleaning up as atmosphere of the studio on the day of my visit
simple as sweeping the toys into the floor, but the suggests that he’s not all talk.
resulting terrain also creates a variety of perches A passionate and alluring energy radiates
and other incidental ways of occupying this space. from this practice. AMA’s architecture isn’t necessarily
At Tattoo House, the kitchen bench extends to suited to everyone, but on closer inspection of the
become one of the steps up to the second floor – delightfully eclectic and bold forms, concepts and
an extreme example of making small spaces work references, there is a serious consideration of how
hard to be multifunctional. best to solve design problems. In addition, as a
The practice takes a civic-minded approach practice, this group of architects is willing to stand
to residential architecture in which a house is intended up and take action where it’s needed – the industry
to contribute to the broader community rather than is lucky to have such passionate advocates for
just its owners’ lives. King Bill, an alteration and good design.
addition project in Fitzroy, was designed to reflect
the pocket parks in the surrounding backstreets. — Katelin Butler is the editor of Houses magazine, a graduate of
A new glass pavilion, an original terrace and a former architecture and coeditor of The Forever House: Time-Honoured Australian
Homes, The Terrace House: Reimagined for the Australian way of life and
stable are connected by a native garden designed by The Apartment House: Reframing the Australian Dream.
Bush Projects. The intention was to have a perforated
street frontage to enable the garden to be shared
with passers-by, but unfortunately, due to council
restrictions, this transparency is limited to the edge
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Project
Joynton Avenue
Creative Precinct
Architect
Peter Stutchbury
Architecture
Review by Laura Harding

Photography by Michael Nicholson
In this robust work of adaptive

re-use, Peter Stutchbury Architecture
has reached back into history to
transform an ensemble of former
hospital buildings in Sydney’s Green
Square Town Centre into a dynamic
public arts precinct.
Green Square Town Centre, on the southern edge The exquisite detailing and material The Joynton Avenue
of the City of Sydney, has us all holding our collective, consideration of this element, and the associated Creative Precinct includes
the Esme Cahill building,
professional breath. The subject of unprecedented building ensemble, evoke the public commitment a former nurses’ housing
scrutiny in terms of urban design, public infrastructure of times past. No architectural effort or expense block within the historic
and “design excellence,” it is now one of the fastest has been spared in realizing the building to the South Sydney Hospital
site, transformed into a
growing development sites in the world. As each most exacting standard. The shells are crowned with creative centre with artist
piece is completed, the sum of the parts is being copper caps and lined with hardwood battens that studios, workshop spaces
progressively laid bare. We will soon know whether form strongly defined vaults, feathering to lend the and offices.
a flourishing urban culture has translated an industrial repeating section a sense of inclination and dynamism In the renovated Esme
expanse into a mixed and newly energized part of the at its northern tips. At the eastern and western edges Cahill building, the seven
flat arches of the original
city – or whether business as usual prevails and we small copper trims peel up to form protective ledges, facade (a reference
have simply acquired more of the vapid lip-service the sinusoidal curves of the roofing profile dissipating to Filippo Brunelleschi’s
of the early twenty-first-century property boom. like waves to seamlessly transition the corners with historic foundling hospital
in Florence) have been
An inept urban structure and some truly ghastly exquisite skill.
dramatically extruded to
urban housing have been a devastating beginning. Suspended between the vaults are glass create three-dimensional
Yet one exception is disproportionately tipping the gutters that gather water and light, yet it is the forms that define a large
outdoor canopy.
scales back toward optimism – the Joynton Avenue canopy’s shadows that are most revelatory. It takes
Creative Precinct by Peter Stutchbury Architecture a while to discern the delicate distinction of umbra The vaults formed
(PSA), in association with Design 5 – Architects as and penumbra below the vaults – a characteristic by the seven extruded
arches are crowned
heritage consultant, completed for the City of Sydney. that is resistant to photography. This layered shadow with copper and lined
Tellingly, it is a small work of adaptive re-use in a tract gives the structure its civic heft, defying the delicacy with hardwood battens;
of tabula rasa. The former South Sydney Hospital of its construction. It is emphatic and confident in its between the individual
vaults, glass gutters
comprised a group of brick buildings dating from public symbolism. collect water and light
1911. Within the precinct, the Joynton Avenue Creative One can easily imagine the joyful occupation and cast subtle shadows
Centre occupies the Esme Cahill building, which of this room with music, tai chi or raucous celebration. on the ground plane.
was the nurses’ accommodation block, opened The “outdoor room” seems so fitting and easy as
in 1938. A local heritage listing mercifully recognized a public space type in the benign climate and culture
only its social significance, leaving the fabric open of Sydney that it is curious how few one can readily
to robust intervention. list. The canopy addresses a small park that is held
The building had an intriguing, but limiting, along its northern edge by the Banga Community Shed,
cellular plan. Its basic brick elevation betrayed the former operating block that is now a community
uncompelling references to Filippo Brunelleschi’s workshop. It also accommodates public bathrooms
Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, Italy, with beneath an extended roof. This lyrical little structure
the presence of seven arches that framed the is a delight – the original slate roof twisted upwards
upper-level loggia spaces on the building’s north and translated into a luminous veil of colourful
side. In the transformed project, PSA has reached polycarbonate shingles.
back into history to rescue this fledgling architectural The interiors of the Creative Centre have
idea and draw it sharply into the present. The arched been treated with equal joy. At the time of writing,
forms have been translated from a two-dimensional the building is yet to be occupied but comprises a
elevational state into a dramatic three-dimensional U-shaped cluster of rooms that have been repurposed
form – extruded into twenty-five-metre-long shells as small spaces for art-making and subsidized
that define a large public canopy. offices for creative practice and startups. The wider
77
Across the park from

the Esme Cahill building,
the Banga Community
Shed, formerly the South
Sydney Hospital’s operating
block, has been recast
as a community workshop.
The original slate roof

of the operating block
has been extended and
twisted upwards into a
translucent roof of colourful
polycarbonate shingles that
now provides a sheltered
outdoor area for public
Joynton Avenue Creative Centre section activities and events.
1:500
Joynton Avenue Creative

Centre level one key
6 5
1 Shell roof over
outdoor room
2 Artist studios
7 8 3 Bridge
4
9 4 Voids
4 5 Shared workshop
6 Plant room
4
7 Bins
3 2 1 8 Cleaners
9 Storage
10
4 10 Office
11 11 Lift
4
12 Classroom
10 4 13 Kitchenette
14 Verandah
15 Sunroom/lounge
13
12 15
14
Joynton Avenue Creative Centre level one floor plan

0 1 2 5 10 m
1:500
Joynton Avenue Creative

Precinct site plan key
10
1 Joynton Avenue
Creative Centre
(Esme Cahill Building)
9 2 Matron Ruby Grant Park
7 3 Banga Community Shed
4 Southern forecourt
5 Northern forecourt
6 Outdoor room
3
7 Reflection plane
1 5 6 2 8 Community garden
4 9 Wash station
10 Playground
Hans
8
ard
Stre
et
Joynton Avenue
Joynton Avenue Creative Precinct site plan

0 5 10 m
1:750
Sept / Oct 2018 79
community will also have access to the building for fit for the messy anarchy one typically associates Timber-lined vaults,
workshops and exhibitions and some of the rooms with artists’ studios and workspaces. But time will tell exposed brickwork, selective
painting, raw edges and
will be available for hire. and while form might follow structure in this instance, brass outlining – the design
Given the cellular nature of the plan, the function needn’t be slave to either. Perhaps these tiny of the Esme Cahill building’s
workspaces are naturally compact, but changes vaults will be filled with creative dreamers of a less interior spaces draws
attention to the building’s
to the interior walls to allow the building to comply traditional kind or will become spaces of release, a way history and material layers.
with current accessibility standards have provided of psychologically “leaving the building” when creative
opportunities for timber and reeded glass screen work is in its more excruciating, resistant phases. The ceilings of the upper
level of the Esme Cahill
walls with individual environmental control and One of the important lessons to draw from this building have been removed
an almost domestic sense of comfort and intimacy. work relates to the common understanding of the term to expose the original timber
The north-facing cells in the centre of the plan “heritage.” The inner parts of Sydney have swathes of structure; the peaked
structure allows for thermal
have been aggregated to make larger classrooms “heritage conservation areas” full of old and weathered,
venting, in keeping with
and creative workspaces. The upper level has but not particularly notable, architectural fabric. the designer’s focus on
a particularly satisfying character – its ceilings Words like “conservation” and “heritage” stymie environmental performance.
removed to expose the original timber structure, the broader recognition of its potential, implying
augmented at its apex to allow for thermal venting preservation and stasis – but PSA and Design 5
and the optimal environmental performance for show us so powerfully here that the intelligent, radical
which PSA is renowned. transformation of undistinguished fabric can make
On the mid-level, between these larger rooms, it spectacularly relevant and alive. That it may inspire
is the architectural crux of the ensemble. While the more insight and less sentimentalizing about “heritage”
copper shells stop short of the face of the building, is one of many reasons to celebrate this project.
the timber-lined vaults sleeve through glazed slots But what of its contribution to Green Square Town
at the junction with the original brickwork arches Centre as a whole? On that question, we must revert
and run deeply into the plan. A series of incisions to holding our breath – wondering whether this clarion
have been made in original walls and slabs to visually architectural note will be able to be discerned within
link the ground and middle floors. Cuts in structural the sea of white noise that is relentlessly enveloping it.
elements are left raw, the exposed sections of
non-structural linings are painstakingly outlined — Laura Harding is a designer and writer, who works with
the practice of Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects in Sydney.
in brass and new components have their cut faces
trimmed with red paint to explicitly distinguish
the building’s layers.
The punctuated rhythm of vault and void
intensifies the cellular complexity of the original plan,
the vaults being experienced alternately as objects in
space and as intimate spaces of enclosure. This level
has been designed to accommodate artists’ studios,
the balustrades incorporating ledges that form easel
plinths for display. Arched perimeter windows draw
the eye along the exterior vaults toward infinity,
in powerful spaces where thoughts can take flight.
It will be fascinating to see how these spaces
are eventually occupied. At first blush, the strongly
patterned northern light from the unpeeled vaults,
an insistent linearity that almost compels movement
and the bespoke sublimity of the fabric seem an odd
Architect Peter Stutchbury Architecture; Project team Peter Stutchbury, Belinda Koopman, Ava Shirley,
Emma Trask-Ward, Eleri Smith, Alan Croker, Robert Gasparini; Heritage architect Robert Gasparini of Design 5
Architects; Engineer and civil consultant van der Meer Consulting; Landscape consultants CAB Consulting,
Sprout Landscape Architecture; Services, electrical, mechanical and lighting consultant Steensen Varming;
Hydraulic consultant JCL Hydraulics; BCA and access consultant Peter J Boyce and Associates; Acoustic
consultant Acoustic Studio; ESD consultant Flux Consultants; Town planner Longitude Planning; Waste
management consultant Foresight Environmental; Kitchen consultant The Mack Group; Section J consultant
Application Solutions; Signage consultant Leuver Design
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Project
Monash University Learning

and Teaching Building
Architect
John Wardle
Architects
Review by Rachel Hurst

Photography by Trevor Mein and Peter Bennetts
Curiosity and humility colour

John Wardle Architects’ approach
to designing this new learning and
teaching building at Monash University’s
Clayton Campus, where references
to the landscape cultivate a rich field

of spatial and learning experiences.
The Monash University It is a more than usually hectic forty-eight hours comparatively close to the land. With a respectful
Learning and Teaching at John Wardle Architects (JWA) and that is saying nod to Capability Brown, the surrounding green
Building by John Wardle
Architects is a multi-faculty something. The previous evening, to a packed swathes are drawn in and exaggerated by clever
facility that aspires to be flag-raising soiree, the remarkable duo of Will and insertions that frame and define approach. Most
an identifiable gateway Garrett Huxley performed an elegiac version of Abba’s striking of these are massive parallel cerulean steel
to the Clayton Campus.
“SOS,” complete with sequined onesies. A dozen of walls in the bus interchange, which evoke the grand
The program is the staff are somewhere other, installing Somewhere portals of Victorian railway stations. Otherwise, the
orchestrated to the
perimeter, creating
Other in a thirteenth-century Venetian boatshed and form is imprinted with geometries borrowed from
an interior landscape the directorial team will follow tomorrow. Somehow, regional contexts: stringybark forests and agrarian
of ravines, grottoes the JWA team finds time to give me the full story paddocks shape and pattern the zinc cladding,
and escarpments, with
daylight readily spilling
on the new Monash University Learning and Teaching while the roofscape acknowledges the pitched
from above. Building [LTB] at the Clayton Campus. SOS indeed. roofs of nearby suburbia.
At 29,000 square metres of educational LTB flouts the campus circulation grid and its
Acknowledging the
site’s bushland heritage, accommodation (and another 11,000 square paradigm of orderly, modernist vertical slabs. Instead,
the project is an extended metres of bus interchange, carpark and service it spans across the primary pathway, Ancora Imparo
meditation on building as
pavilions), the $265 million LTB project offers plenty Way, in four wide floor plates. Monash took an audacious
landscape; its zinc cladding
recalls stringybark forests of challenge – not least to its outer suburban campus leap of faith to embrace the site-greedy typology of
and agrarian paddocks, and neighbouring 1960s and 70s building stock. the low, flat “pancake,” but was convinced by the
while its roofscape speaks Catalysed by the Clayton Campus Masterplan and servicing and occupational benefits. Daylight can
to the pitched roofs of
nearby suburbia. Better Learning, Better Teaching agenda, Monash’s enter readily from above and the modest verticality
ambition was for an identifiable gateway to the of the complex reduces dependence on lifts and builds
campus and a step change in teaching modes. in physical activity. During my visit I see the lifts active
Although the primary users are the Faculty only three times, but lose count of the number of
of Education and the Office of Learning and Teaching, people using the stairs.
the LTB is a multi-faculty facility that aims to be a hub Three key entry points deal with the startling
of activity and cross-disciplinarity. Like other radical volume of pedestrian traffic, with a symbolic Tree
transformations of urban tertiary campuses (for House to the west a miniature demonstration of the
example, Lyons’ New Academic Street and Swanston whole. Like a grand cubby, this is a place to see and
Academic Building for RMIT), it aspires to provide be seen, where students are the elevated gatekeepers
compelling student experiences that encourage of the province. By encompassing natural pathways
students to stay on campus. Why is this so important and park context, the ground plane forms a continuous
to our earnestly competing institutions, when terrain rather than bounded floor, with subtle gradients
educational delivery is increasingly virtual? Cynically, introduced to break up the large footprint and link
one might suppose that it is to attract the international to other campus levels seamlessly. It’s a trick JWA
market, but research shows the benefits of peer-to- has used previously in the Melbourne School of
peer learning. Plus, with the trend toward inter-sectorial Design and though LTB is twice the size, it is equally
collaborations, universities have sound reasons to effective here. Maximizing the connection with light
develop holistic, accessible campus environments. and views, program is orchestrated to the perimeter
Recognizing the bushland heritage of the at all levels, opening up an interior landscape of
site and the original campus plan’s focus on expansive architectonic ravines, grottoes and escarpments,
native landscaping, the project is an extended while still prioritizing visual permeability from edge
meditation on building as landscape and sits to centre. It is a deft feat of putting learning on show.
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John Wardle Architects
has provided a diversity of
human-scaled, acoustically
balanced educational
spaces; the overhead hoop
pine roof hoods “warm and
illuminate the act of study.”
The building’s modest

verticality encourages
physical activity by diverting
foot traffic away from the
lifts toward four major
staircases; the vivid green
Spine Stair carves a section
through the voluminous
atrium to the Faculty
of Education.
Inside one of three

key entry points, massive
brick towers inspired by
Stoke-on-Trent pottery
kilns shelter intimate nests
and perches for gathering
and informal study.
Photography Trevor Mein Photography Peter Bennetts
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87
Monash University Learning and Teaching Building
Site plan key Floor plan key
1 Monash University 1 Informal learning

8
Learning and Teaching 2 Next-generation
10
9 7 Building learning
2 Bus interchange 3 Collaborative learning
3 Southern bicycle arrival 4 Large-format interactive
Ancora Im 5 station entry learning
paro Way
6 4 Underground carpark 5 Retail
entry 6 Collaborative learning –
5 The Ian Potter Centre theatre in the round
for Performing Arts 7 Escarpment stair
1 6 Information services informal learning
11 7 Sir Louis Matheson 8 Informal learning hub
2 Library 9 Bookable rooms
8 Menzies Building 10 Treehouse informal
Ancora 9 Law Library learning
Imparo
Way 10 South One 11 Faculty of Education
4 Lecture Theatre library
11 Monash House 12 Faculty of Education
12 3
12 Monash College workplace
13 Holodeck teaching
14 Specialist teaching
Wellingto
n Road 15 HDR workplace
16 Thesis room
17 Education Connect
18 External terrace
Site plan
0 10 25 50 m
1:4000
2
8 3
2 18
3 3
3 7
3 3
3
2 9 9 3 7
1
3
9
3 9 9 3
2 10 2 3 3
10 9 3
9
3 3 3
2 5 9 9 9 3 2 3
3
3 3 3
2
4
3 3 3
1 2
3 3
3 14 13
2
5
17
6
5 3 16
11 14
2
15
2 14
1 3
12
2 3 3 14
3
Ground floor plan Level one floor plan Level three floor plan
0 5 20 m
1:1500 1:1500 1:1500
Section
1:1500
In fact, in this rich field of spatial experiences, no hairdressers, sports shops or ping-pong tables here The grand, arched
portals characteristic
learning becomes a spectacle. Internally, the devices and the two hospitality outlets are discreetly buffered of Victorian railway stations
of “building as landscape” are amplified around so the bump and grind of the baristas doesn’t distract. are alluded to in the
different teaching modes and carry memorable tags, The ease with which the components of this cerulean steel walls
of the bus interchange,
such as the Kilns. Massive brick towers inspired by project come together is deceptive; here is a huge framing and defining
Stoke-on-Trent pottery kilns face off across the main brief, a punishing user group and a potential no place approach to the Learning
crossing and foster student culture. The JWA team of a site. Yet already there are stories woven into its and Teaching Building.
explains: the rough clay of brickwork is analogous making and occupation, from the exemplary masonry
to the raw material of the student cohort, which of the family-owned brickwork company Krause to the
through the high-firing of tertiary education attains daily tales of university life playing out in the alcoves
durability and fineness. and neighbourhoods around me. It’s the result of JWA’s
Elsewhere there are large circular caves lineage of good design practice: in client consultation,
of rooms for collective delivery and cypress green craft and spatial inspiration. The firm does fewer
terraces of tables for “blended learning” (something projects annually than places of comparable size and
between mass tutorial and lecture). And everywhere it shows; the team makes work of this virtuosic calibre
there are intimate nests and perches for informal study, appear easy.
at a ratio five times that of formal teaching places. Monash’s motto, Ancora Imparo, means “We
Four major stairs give a choice of fast or slow are still learning.” And Ancora Imparo Way is, literally,
circulation and reinforce the refrains of educational the pathway through this project. In a meta-educational
innovation and landscape. The Spine Stair, for example, environment (where the teachers teach the teachers),
carves a vivid green section through the atrium, this maxim underpins the LTB as an aspirational,
exposing the assemblage of the whole scheme and experimental space. It’s also in perfect synergy with
arriving directly at the Faculty of Education. This JWA’s sustained design attitude. The JWA architects
sectional exposé is a JWA trope dating back to one may be at the top of their professional game, but they
of its defining projects, the RMIT International Centre have the humility and the curiosity to approach each
of Graphic Technology of 1998, and refined here for project with fresh ambition.
panoramic impact. By contrast, the Escarpment Stair
meanders from an active base to more private study — Rachel Hurst is a senior lecturer in architecture at the University
of South Australia and a contributing editor for Architecture Australia.
banquettes on the top floor. Everything it touches is She researches everyday aspects of architecture through a baroque
realized in timber, obedient to another JWA signature – practice of making, writing and curating.
the self-imposed project “rules.” Climbing toward the
light of the Inhabited Roof, past clusters of busy young
things, I’m reminded of Louis Kahn’s eloquent diagram
for the Exeter Library of reading in the light. Here
the overhead hoop pine roof hoods similarly warm
Architect John Wardle Architects; Project team John Wardle, Stefan Mee, Meaghan Dwyer, Yee Jien,
and illuminate the act of study. And I’m struck by
Sam Clegg, Amanda Moore, Alexandra Morrison, Barry Hayes, Bill Kalavriotis, Elisabetta Zanella,
how studious this place is. Part of it is the skilful Goran Sekuleski, James Loder, Kanyanta Chipanta, Manuel Canestrini, Meron Tierney, Sharon Crabb,
acoustic balance, where any surface not required to Stuart Mann, Will Chan, Adam Kolsrud, James Stephenson, Andrew Wong, Kristina Levenko, Alan Ting,
Jeff Arnold, Alex Peck, Laura Culianez, Maya Borjesson, Ellen Chen, Adrian Bonaventura, Angus McNichol,
be enduringly hard is instead working hard to control
Luca Vezzosi, David Ha, Rhys Hall, Harry Bardoel, Charlotte Churchill, Kylie Barker, Emilia Firus, Chris Free,
ambient sound and add sensory texture. It can also Robert Hillman, Aleksandra Jovanovic, Robert Kolak, Aimee MacKenzie, Shaun McCallum, Olivia Potter,
be attributed to the consistent focus on providing Fiona Robertson, Lorenzo Vicari, Kate Crosby; Structural and civil engineer Irwin Consult; Building engineer
a diversity of human-scaled educational spaces that and sustainability (ESD) consultant NDY; Building surveyor PLP; Geotechnical engineer Douglas Partners;
Accessibility consultant du Chateau Chun; Acoustic consultant Marshall Day Acoustics; Landscape
are just good to be in, rather than a diverting array architects McGregor Coxall, Realm Studios; Signage and wayfinding Buro North; Traffic consultant GTA
of extracurricular and consumer facilities. There are Consulting; Pedestrian modelling Arup; Wind consultant MEL consulting
Sept / Oct 2018 89

Project
Highgate Primary School

New Teaching Building
Architect
Iredale Pedersen
Hook Architects
Review by Leon van Schaik

Photography by Peter Bennetts
By responding to site at a variety

of scales, Iredale Pedersen Hook
Architects has designed a new
primary school building in Perth’s
Highgate that offers both intimacy
and engagement with its inner-
suburban context.
Highgate Primary As I argue in Architecture in its Continuums, the Kimberley Regional Prison by Tag Architects and
School New Teaching constants of architecture have been much described: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, architects in
Building, in Perth’s inner
north, melds consideration forms disposed in space revealed by light; solids and association, in Architecture Australia, July/August
for the scale of a child with cavities composed of matter that is carved, moulded, 2013, 74–84.)
the composition of a city componentized or pixelated, surfaced to look hard, A complex of unusual constraints has turned
in miniature – its massing
responding to various
soft or translucent, textured or decorated, coloured Highgate Primary School in Perth into a crucible for
peripheral towers. raw or applied, penetrated with openings and advancing IPH’s approach to design constants through
Iredale Pedersen Hook
articulated with markings that are rhythmically and new engagements with a variety of continuums.
Architects selected a proportionally arrayed; elements deployed to create Constants are usually disseminated through precedents
location for the building a range of aural resonances; materials composed with or by referring to existing exemplars. At Highgate, IPH
on high contours; a new
school entry and laneway,
their scented impact on the olfactory system in mind. makes a deliberate reference to Herman Hertzberger’s
and a staircase that The continuums in which architecture operates are assertion that the scale of the child is of paramount
rises and falls back down less well documented and for the most part they have concern in a school; in the background lurks Aldo van
to playing fields, enjoy
been disrupted. The basis of knowing and doing has Eyck’s belief that a school should be designed as
sweeping views of the city.
been obscured from architects and their clients by the if it is a city in miniature. Also looming through this
Two canted columns,
failure to understand that spatial thinking is the unique mindscape are references to Alvar Aalto’s brickwork
painted in the school
colours, support the upper knowledge base of the profession. The range of and the massing at Saynatsalo Town Hall. On the local
verandah’s southern edge, expertise available to architects has been constricted front are the pitches and gables of the red brick and
while a third is a downpipe by the political distancing of the profession from white plaster, heritage-listed buildings of the existing
carrying rainwater from the
roof to a fountain at its base. what are regarded, wrongly in my view, as subaltern school, produced by the George Temple-Poole
disciplines: landscape architecture, interior design Government Architect’s office, some features of
Conscious of Perth’s
geological bed, the and decorating, and building design. Scholarship in which have been framed and thus exaggerated by
designers sat the new the field has been bedevilled by a separation between the finished building. Further on the local material
building on a limestone practice and research, while the ethics of practice continuum, IPH is very conscious of the limestone
plinth at the site boundary,
obviating the need for a
have been distorted by the grandiose overstatements platform on which the city rests and the tradition
fence and incidentally of modernism or marginalized by the largely aesthetic of making limestone plinths. This plinth, though,
creating a platform on concerns of postmodernism. through the inhabitation of a child’s mindscape,
which children can perch.
Over two decades of practice, Iredale Pedersen becomes a seat upon which children can perch.
Hook Architects (IPH) has developed its own palette The building blocks of the plan are in a sense
from the constants, with, as Adrian Iredale puts it, part of the realm of constants, being as they are
“an emphasis on fluid plan development” that stretches patterns (referred to as the Standard Pattern Primary
and folds envelopes to accommodate internal and School Brief) created by the Department of Education
external necessities (IPH’s Northam Aboriginal and through Building Management and Works, with the
Environmental Centre is an example). Perhaps more current revision completed in 2014. Historically,
consciously than many practices, in the furnace architects have made and used pattern books to
of designing for remote regional communities, IPH communicate precedents: Colen Campbell’s Vitruvius
has developed a well-argued ethical position. This Britannicus, Regency pattern books for cottages and
manifests itself most clearly in the way in which the lodges, even Ernst and Peter Neufert’s Architectural
architects managed to wrest considerable humanity Graphic Standards. Yet all too often the standards
from the strictures of prison design. (See West created by education bureaucrats are seen to present
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Highgate Primary School New Teaching Building
Key
14
1 New entrance
to school site
9 2 Central playing field
3 New outdoor preprimary
playing area
6 6
4 Existing heritage-
9 listed ficus trees
5 Undercover play area
6 Classroom
7 Kitchen
12 13 15 14 8 Storeroom
9 Bathroom
10 Lift
11 Store/stage
10 12 Collegiate room
8 13 Activity area
14 Verandah play space
6 6
8
15 Void
9 14
Upper floor plan

1:500
9 9 9
6 8 6
5
11
7 10
8
9
8 6 6
8
9
4 3 2
Ground floor plan Sections

0 1 2 5 10 m
1:500 1:500
The new building frames
and exaggerates the red
brick and gables of its
neighbouring, heritage-
listed school buildings,
created by the George
Temple-Poole Government
Architect’s office.
Three indigenous trees

grow through a large circular
opening, which visually links
the generous verandah
areas on both levels.
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Highgate Primary School New Teaching Building
obstacles insurmountable to good architecture. IPH verandah marches toward the city, giving a royal Inside one of eight
used the delicate relationships between the heritage- balcony view across the site, its southern edge held standard pattern
classrooms, colours drawn
listed buildings and the limited open space on the in place by two canted columns painted in the school from Birak, the first summer
school site to argue for a tight, two-level arrangement colours (one yellow, one black). A third column, hot-dip and Whadjuk Season of the
of standard classroom metrics. This enabled a galvanized and left in its unpainted blue, is a downpipe Young, demarcate shadows
cast by the tracking sun.
configuration that allows for at least eight different that spews the rainwater from the roof down to make
relationships between cohorts. an ephemeral fountain at its base.
IPH chose a location alongside the handsome A key diagram used by IPH in developing the
two-storey school buildings on high contours along concept with the client and the education department
Lincoln Street on the north-west corner, where the depicts: a pencil, the school campus, an adult, the
crossing with Bulwer Avenue forms a junction between neighbourhood, laneways, tables, classrooms and
suburban neighbourhoods and a northward route a child. This diagram became the engine for testing
dotted with church spires. From this vantage point each of the several arrangements trialled before the
there are sweeping views back to the city, interspersed design was finalized. Exquisite little drawings of the
with banks of trees indicating the location of major proposed design, which feel as if they can be cupped
parks. A laneway – characteristic of suburban in a hand, encouraged adoption. In a first for IPH,
subdivisions – was created between the new building the design was developed between these sketches
and the old, forming a clear entrance to the campus and computer models, cutting out the office’s usual
and framing views to the city skyline beyond. Parallel reliance on small physical models. Perhaps the fluidity
to this, a staircase rises to the verandahs of the upper that formerly became fixed in the plans of houses here
level and another falls back down like an auditorium to gave way to a different kind of flow, the kind that exists
the grassed playing fields. The stairs are anchored in within a city grid. It is a less signalled flow, but perhaps
place by a lift tower, one of three urban marker towers. an even more potent flow than previously achieved. It
The new building sits on its limestone plinth on the is not only because the school was built within budget
site boundary, obviating the need for a fence, and that it has become an informal exemplar for the
limestone-framed openings make certain aspects department, warmly regarded by staff and parents
of the teaching discreetly evident to passers-by. The alike. To come across this project, this city in miniature,
opening at the north-west of the building, down along so comfortable in its location, such an accomplished
the street toward the city and suburban shops, has melding of constants and continuums, inspires new
a setback wall of glazed bricks such as are found in affection for suburban living and for architecture itself.
those shops. At the junction corner a tower rises, its
split top sucking in light. The entry laneway corner is — Leon van Schaik has written books on spatial thinking, the
poetics of architecture and the processes involved in procuring innovative
marked by a more rectangular tower with its top cut at architecture. The practice-based research PhD program that he initiated
an angle (allowing views to the gable end of the listed at RMIT has become a template for institutions worldwide. His latest book
building) and a mirror inside bouncing light deep into is Architecture in its Continuums (Uro Publications, 2018).
the lower spaces. Colours drawn from the six Whadjuk

seasons are used to mark on the floors the passage of
Architect Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects; Project team Adrian Iredale, Finn Pedersen, Martyn Hook,
the sun through its solstices. The verandah areas, also
Mary McAree, Rebecca Angus, Tom See-Hoo, Rebecca Hawkett, Fred Chan, Craig Nener, Thomas Forbes,
drawn from the regulation pattern book, are gathered Nikki Ross, Leo Showell; Civil and structural engineer Pritchard Francis; Cost consultant Ralph Beattie
together between classroom blocks to form a major Bosworth; Electrical consultant BEST Consultants; Hydraulic consultants Wood and Grieve Engineers,
covered area on each level. These are visually linked Hocking Heritage Studio; Mechanical consultant Stevens McGann Willcock and Copping; Building
surveyor Milestone Certifiers; Landscape consultant Four Landscape Studio; Art coordinator Maggie Baxter;
by a circular opening through which three indigenous Artist Paul Caporn; Acoustic consultant Gabriels Environmental Design; Program consultant Perfect
trees grow. The covered roof of the north-east upper Project Planning
Photo: Joseph O’Meara
Project
New Academic Street
Architect
Lyons with NMBW

Architecture Studio, Harrison
and White, MvS Architects
and Maddison Architects
Review by Andrew Nimmo

Photography by Peter Bennetts
A collaboration between five

architectural practices, RMIT
University’s New Academic Street
revels in diversity as a series of
“theatrical stage sets” reinvigorates
utilitarian buildings and reconnects
them to their urban setting.
New Academic Street
In 2016 I wrote in Architecture Australia: “The city concrete structure is cut, removed or exposed to
campus can be an effective agent in the process of make new cross-site links, light shafts or double-
urban change and can add to the cultural landscape height spaces. However, the approach to Building 8
of the city.” (“The City Campus and Urban Agency,” in the upper levels is almost a restoration, with lower
July/August issue.) The point being that because levels and external works handled in such a way
a university campus controls a whole precinct of that it is not always clear what is new or existing.
buildings, including the streets and open space, it Lyons proposed a design collaboration with four
has the ability to act in the broader public interest with smaller practices, all under its masterplan guidance.
respect to urban design. The article highlighted major This was a direct challenge to the monolithic approach
new works at the University of Technology Sydney and of engaging a single architect to produce the original
at Melbourne’s RMIT through the New Academic Street complex. The team included MvS Architects, NMBW
(NAS) project by Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Architecture Studio, Harrison and White and Maddison
Harrison and White, MvS Architects and Maddison Architects, along with landscape architects TCL. Each
Architects. At the time I had not visited NAS, as architect has contributed to parts of the scheme, with
construction had barely begun, but now it is finished. the largest single project, the library, as well as the new
The aim of NAS was to transform the heart student hub, called RMIT Connect, reserved for Lyons.
of the RMIT city campus. It was assumed by many Peter Elliott was also commissioned in the
that a project of this scale would involve substantial relocation of his Bowen Terrace Loggia, popularly
demolition and room for a shiny new iconic building known as the Yellow Beam, and the late Peter Corrigan
or two. But the transformation has not taken place was commissioned to design tile wrapping for newly
through clear-felling; rather, it has involved working exposed concrete columns within Building 8.
with the essential character of what was already there. As with all Lyons projects, behind the multiplicity
The existing Buildings 10, 12 and 14 are not of architectural expression there is a very simple and
beautiful, nor did the university community love them. sober diagram that underpins the whole. A relatively
Unaffectionately known as the “grey ghosts,” they are straight north–south primary spine, with a series of
big lumping university buildings typical of the 1970s east–west cross-links or laneways, creates a new grid
and together are shaped like a large capital E in plan. mirroring the city grid, with its own inherent hierarchies.
At the southern end and also part of the project was The linking of Swanston Street to Bowen Street delivers
Edmond and Corrigan’s riotous Building 8, itself built a much-needed permeability, improves the campus
over John Andrews’ partially completed Student Union engagement with the city and introduces natural light
and Library building. and ventilation deep into the plan. The architects
Lyons and its project team wanted to include see a direct correlation between these cross-links,
these buildings within the narrative of the campus. conceived as semipublic spaces, and Melbourne’s
This meant researching and understanding the bones famed laneways.
of the buildings, looking for a logic for revealing, In total the project involved 32,000 square
opening, removal and insertion that would give a metres of new and refurbished space plus two new
new value to these significant assets. The approach infill buildings facing Bowen Street. An important
to Buildings 10, 12 and 14 is respectful, though quite part of the strategy to activate the Swanston Street
robust – there is nothing delicate in the way that frontage was to convert 6,000 square metres
Photography William Watt

A project design
collaboration led by Lyons,
New Academic Street
opens RMIT University’s city
campus to Swanston and
Bowen Streets, thanks to
a series of cross-site links
and arcades, conceived
as semipublic spaces and
reminiscent of Melbourne’s
famed laneways.
Maddison Architects
led the overall student retail
design and upgrades to the
existing Building 14 at the
northern end of the site.
Each practice in the

design team contributed
to segments of the whole.
Among MvS Architects’
contributions, a student
balcony facing Swanston
Street and a new campus
entry sit confidently
alongside Edmond
and Corrigan’s riotous
Building 8.
A new entrance laneway

and stairs, designed by
NMBW Architecture Studio,
as viewed from Swanston
Street. Linking of the two
major streets delivers a
much-needed permeability,
which draws natural light
and ventilation deep into
the plan.
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The “New Academic
of existing back-of-house space into a new Media behind someone who knows the place backwards.
Street” forms the project’s
north–south primary spine. Precinct. At ground level the new east–west However, when I came back later that day by myself,
Together with a series of laneways mark “shopfront” spaces and a visual and then again the next day, I already felt that the
east–west laneways, this link to Bowen Street; above, a series of three space was familiar and that I knew where I wanted
creates a new circulation
diagram through the projections burst through the masonry and provide to go, with the grid circulation a reassuring reference
existing concrete buildings, much needed outdoor balcony space for casual point. Where it did become confusing was when
which mirrors the city grid. study and socializing. changing levels. The library, for example, has two
Study pods in the library’s What is not apparent in the completed project main entries, one directly above the other, that are
student learning centre, is an obvious controlling hand over the work; it feels essentially identical, as is the space directly outside.
designed by Harrison and
White and located at the
more like an encouraging hand. The outcomes revel This I found quite disorientating and it was easy
eastern end of Building 12. in the kind of diversity that tends to only happen in to be confused about which level you were on.
The project team’s approach the stylistic free-for-all of the commercial high street. As a whole NAS does not feel fixed. It feels as
to reinvigorating the existing
1970s buildings is respectful
Carey Lyon described the practice’s role as being like if it is designed to evolve and age and change, as a
yet robust. that of a benevolent dictator. Clearly there is a level commercial shopping strip will. This is not what you
One of the project’s many
of curatorial control, because the outcome works. would call timeless architecture; it is more like a series
vignettes – an informal Much of this control is about making sure that the of theatrical stage sets. Ultimately it is about the
study space, complete with primacy of the circulation diagram is not compromised people and the architecture is just the backdrop.
rocking chairs, designed by
and that the scale of the new insertions is appropriate. It is not a relaxing building, though relaxing spaces
NMBW Architecture Studio.
There is at times a jarring between the parts, but can be found. It is often agitated and raucous, but
it never descends into chaos. the students seem pretty happy with that. There are
Harrison and White was responsible for so many little vignettes and moments of discovery
the Media Portal and overhead projection on the and students have an amazing ability to hunt out
north-west corner of Building 14 and the works the study space that suits them.
to the east end of Building 12 facing onto Bowen What is the real contribution of NAS? The
Street, along with interior areas behind. NMBW variety of social and collaborative study spaces,
had primary responsibility for the stairways and the integration of cafes and other activities, the
east–west laneways, the “birdcage” balcony rebalancing of book stacks and study spaces within
projection on Swanston Street with study spaces the library – this is all a best-practice approach
behind it and the timber-framed Garden Building to education and it is happening across nearly every
in Bowen Street. The Garden Building in particular university campus in Australia. In fact, Australian
is one of the delights of the entire project. Maddison architects and those researching pedagogy here
Architects led the overall retail design and the Building are in the vanguard around the world. NAS is another
14 upgrades. MvS Architects designed the Gillespie excellent example of the modern campus.
Infill Building, the Building 8 Swanston Street entry I think the real contribution is in the relationship
realignment and the third projection at the meeting between street, buildings and people. We talk a lot
of Buildings 8 and 10. these days about activation of the street. That is
While it is interesting to compare the because we know from observation that active streets
different approaches of each architect, it is are social places, that they feel safer because they
not the individual work that is significant; rather, have good surveillance and that they are vital with the
it is the ensemble approach. buzz of commercial enterprise and social interaction.
If there is a criticism to be made, it would have New Academic Street is well activated indeed.
to do with internal legibility. Some people have said
to me that they find the place disorientating. Certainly — Andrew Nimmo is a director of Sydney-based practice
Lahz Nimmo Architects and an adjunct professor of architecture
it is spatially complex and on first visit can feel a little at the University of Sydney.
overwhelming. In my initial walk through with Lyon,
I certainly felt that disorientation as I tagged along
Sept / Oct 2018 103

New Academic Street
Key
1 New campus
6 arrival space
2 Student services
7 3 New Academic Street
7
4 Student learning spaces
5 RMIT Connect
6 Garden Building
7 Student terrace
8 Student retail
9 New laneway arcades
10 Student kitchen
11 Integrated design
showcase and retail
22 12 Library entry
13 Library entry space
14 Student learning centre
15 Bowen Terrace Loggia
(the Yellow Beam)
16 Library study space
17 Informal student
learning
18 Short stop
Level seven floor plan 0 5 10 m student study
1:1250
19 Student study area
20 Refurbished Edmond
and Corrigan Library
21 RMIT Connect below
22 Collaborative study area
15
13
16 14
21
12
20
18
17
19
Level five floor plan

1:1250
6
7
9 9 9
8 11
5
4
3
1
10
Level four floor plan

1:1250

Swanston Street elevation
1:1250
Swanston Street
Section
0 5 10 m
1:750
Sept / Oct 2018 105

Within one of two
new infill buildings facing
Bowen Street, a Lyons-
designed stair and lightwell
connect the student
services hub, library and
rooftop landscape.
The sober plan

and existing buildings
are overlaid with a
cacophony of colour and
architectural expression.
Landscape architects
TCL created terraces
on the rooftops and one
at street level, featuring
Peter Elliott’s relocated
Bowen Terrace Loggia.
A staircase spirals
around the perimeter of
NMBW Architecture Studio’s
Garden Building, from a
public cafe that engages
directly with the plaza at
ground level, past flexible
study areas to a social
rooftop terrace.
Architects Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Harrison and White, MvS Architects and Maddison
Architects; Builder Lend Lease; Project manager DCWC; Structural, civil and facade engineer Arup;
Building services and environmental design consultant, and fire and acoustic engineer AECOM;
Hydraulic consultant C J Arms; Building surveyor PLP Building Surveyors; Quantity surveyor Wilde
and Woollard; Disability access consultant Architecture and Access; Program consultant PSA Project
Management; Wind engineering consultant MEL Consultants; Landscape consultant TCL; Town planner
Meredith Withers and Associates
Sept / Oct 2018 107

Platform
Fox Johnston
Traversing a variety of
typologies, scales and
programs
with perceived
effortlessness,
Fox Johnston
Photography Elin Bandmann

shows how the
tenets of good
design are transferable and a
human-focused approach to
architecture essential. David
Welsh examines the Sydney
practice’s diverse oeuvre.
Conrad Johnston talks about finding a balance combination of delicacy and toughness that serves
between different types of work. In a world that the overnight camping ground set up by the Sydney
seems to be ever more compartmentalized into Harbour Federation Trust.
areas of expertise or interest, achieving that balance A variety of single residential commissions
is easier said than done. Since the practice began in soon followed, both large and small, which gave
2004, Fox Johnston has successfully realized projects Fox and Johnston the opportunity to run a series of
for both public and private clients that span a range experiments into how people live. Beyond simple brief
of typologies, hopping effortlessly across single and analysis, Johnston talks about “analysing family” –
multiresidential housing, small public amenities, how a family might live and how they evolve within the
commercial interiors, hotels and childcare centres. home and, by extension, how the architecture evolves
Emili Fox and Johnston’s practice evolved in response to them.
out of a series of invited design competitions that In the broad conversation of housing generally,
they both participated in and won. The first was for a the single architecturally designed house is, at least
project situated on the rooftop of the heritage-listed numerically speaking, an aside to the main theme
Paramount Pictures building in Sydney’s Surry Hills. that rages in our cities. Keen to join this conversation,
While their proposal never came to fruition, Johnston the practice actively pursued multiresidential projects
Emili Fox and Conrad
still describes the building as “a gift that kept giving,” and the first, a series of twelve mews-style townhouses Johnston, directors of
alluding to the Paramount Studios refurbishment in the Sydney suburb of Randwick, was completed Sydney-based practice
by the practice in 2013 – an inspired and creative in 2009. Fox Johnston.
adaptive re-use including the creation of new With a typical single residential commission, the The practice translated
cafe, work and retail spaces, along with a rooftop architect knows who the end user is. In multiresidential its thorough understanding
of how people live, honed
cinema, a basement-level bar and a refurbished projects, however, this relationship doesn’t exist. Fox by a variety of single
original cinema. and Johnston describe a process they often use in residential commissions,
That original competition indirectly led which they make up stories imagining the lives of the into its first multiresidential
project, a series of twelve
to another winning competition entry, which this people who will live in their projects. This ensures that mews-style townhouses in
time was realized on Cockatoo Island – a clever each apartment they design is not just a numerical Sydney’s Randwick (2009).
Sept / Oct 2018 109

Platform

Solis Apartments (2016)
in Sydney’s beachside
suburb of Little Bay has
a slender plan running
east–west, allowing
every apartment access
to northern light and
cross-ventilation.
Solis Apartments, which

represents a method for
“urban living by the sea,”
exploits a resilient material
palette of concrete and
aluminium screens to
Solis Apartments level two floor plan
successfully combat the
1:750
harsh seaside environment.
Solis Apartments ground floor plan

0 5 10 m
1:750

Rochford ground floor plan
0 5 10 m
1:400
The Rochford (2017),

a seventy-six-apartment
building in inner western
Sydney embodies the
practice’s consideration
for family living beyond a
Photography Benjamin Hosking
numerical response to
developer demand.
At the Rochford, a
simple device seldom
seen in multi-unit projects –
a kitchen that opens onto
the balcony – transforms
this space into an
integrated, central
component of the home.
Sept / Oct 2018 111

Platform
response to developer demand or SEPP 65 the “golden era” of 1960s air travel, along with a hint The Felix Hotel (2017) in
requirements – the spaces can be imagined as of Australian mid-century design. The ground plane Mascot overlooks Sydney’s
major airport and draws
inhabited, not only by the architects, but by the and public realm around large airports are often dire guests to its top-floor lobby
people who will buy the apartments. and unfortunately the environs of Sydney’s airport are in a clever inversion of the
The success of Randwick was important no exception. The 150-room hotel gets people up and standard hotel structure.
because it showed that the practice could work across out of there as quickly as possible via a double-height Concrete, ply and stained
a range of scales and a series of larger multiresidential lobby connected to a central service core that takes timbers create a light-filled
and imaginative series of
projects followed soon after. Projects such as Solis guests to a top-floor sky lobby. Putting the public spaces in the Waranara
Apartments in Little Bay and the recently completed spaces on top of the building connects them with the Early Learning Centre
apartments at the Rochford in Erskineville airport, offering expansive views across the workings (2017), which will cater to
families in the growing
demonstrate what the practice has learned of the runways and out to Botany Bay. Green Square precinct.
in its single residential laboratories. Meanwhile, Fox Johnston has also completed
For the Waranara Early
In Solis, a project the pair describes as the Waranara Early Learning Centre for the City of
Learning Centre floor plan,
“[a method for] urban living by the sea,” a long, thin Sydney. Situated in the former South Sydney Hospital see the project review by
plan running east–west allows all of the apartments nurses’ quarters and outpatients and administration Sing d’Arcy in Artichoke 64.
access to northern light and cross-ventilation. buildings, a new wing and external verandah have
A resilient material palette using concrete and been nimbly grafted onto and around the existing
aluminium cladding and screens gives the building building fabric. Using a palette of concrete, ply and
a sharp, sophisticated feel, the material choice made stained timbers, the practice has created a light-
with the harsh seaside environment in mind. In the filled series of spaces that will cater for close to
Rochford, exterior apartment space is integrated with eighty kids from in and around the rapidly developing
the interior, using a simple device often seen in single Green Square.
residential projects, but seldom (if ever) in multi-level, The range of project types tackled by Fox
multi-unit residential development: a kitchen that Johnston makes it clear that the elegant resolution
opens onto the balcony. This simple arrangement of fundamental aspects of living can unlock solutions
transforms the balcony into an integrated central for all manner of typologies. Maintaining a balance
component of the apartment, not just a bolt-on of different projects keeps the work of Fox Johnston
part as presented in many new apartments. relevant and sharp; its work shows that sound design
The practice has more apartment buildings principles are transferable across different building
under development, all of which focus on the types. It could be described as a humanist approach
fundamental tenets of good living: access to light and to building design – an interest in balancing welfare,
fresh air. While multiresidential design is at the core of ecology and dignity, no matter the project size,
their work at the moment, Fox and Johnston maintain location or program.
a balance with other typologies. Their recently
completed Felix Hotel in Mascot for the 8 Hotels Group — David Welsh is a principal of Welsh and Major Architects.
is a short-stay airport hotel that takes inspiration from

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