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Parramatta Aquatic Centre by Grimshaw with Andrew Burges Architects and McGregor Coxall
The sophisticated design for a public recreation hub on the edge of Sydney’s second CBD emphasises the contiguity of city and landscape, creating a sense of reciprocal spectacle.
Public / culturalBradbury Park Play Scape by Alcorn Middleton
The agility of its small practice enabled Alcorn Middleton to assemble a collaborative design team to win a competition for a local playground; the outcome is an experientially rich piece of active urban infrastructure for the whole community.
Public / culturalNambucca Heads Library Extension by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas
Layered upon an existing structure, this character-filled extension proposes a new direction for a community hub while leaving opportunities for surrounding buildings to respond in their own manner.
Public / culturalMPavilion 2023
Professor of architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, Paul Walker reviews MPavilion 10, designed by Japanese architect and 1995 Pritzker Prize laureate Tadao Ando, and executive architect Sean Godsell.
Public / culturalDairy Road Masterplan
On a site east of Canberra and adjacent to wetlands, a collaborative team whose process inverts the “master” plan paradigm is gradually designing a diverse neighbourhood in a restored landscape.
Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / culturalThe Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
The inventive refurbishment of an existing performance venue extends the community’s opportunities and opens up the growing suburb’s civic heart.
Public / culturalArt Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge
Volumes of warmly lit timber define Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s library and members lounge redesign, which simultaneously respects heritage and serves contemporary communities.
Public / culturalBondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation Project by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
In a delicate balance between conservation, intervention and demolition, TZG has unified an “unruly collection of parts” to bring a cultural icon back to the centre of community life in Sydney.
Public / culturalWarrnambool Library and Learning Centre by Kosloff Architecture
By knitting together a new three-storey building and a refurbished, heritage-listed hall in regional Victoria, Kosloff Architecture has designed a valuable asset for the community and the local TAFE.
Education, Public / culturalSydney Metro Upgrade of Central Station
A long-awaited expansion to Central Station’s Northern Concourse reworks decades of disparate elements to deliver clear wayfinding, strong civic scale and ample natural light.
Public / culturalSydney Modern Project by SANAA
Conceived a decade ago, SANAA’s design for a new wing for the Art Gallery of New South Wales gradually draws visitors down a steeply sloping site, through a series of offset pavilions and into a dramatic space inside a World War II fuel tank.
Public / culturalRevisited: State Library of Queensland
The State Library of Queensland has become one of Australia’s most cherished public living rooms. We asked several people with different connections to the library to reflect on their experiences of the building and its spaces.
Public / culturalGeorge Street Plaza by Adjaye Associates with Daniel Boyd
In Sydney’s CBD, a small, collaborative project makes a significant contribution to the city’s public spaces, encouraging us to consider multiple perspectives and our own place in the universe.
Public / culturalNew Farm Neighbourhood Centre by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas
With its alterations and additions to an inner-suburban Brisbane Queenslander, a local design team created spaces that work together like an ensemble cast to encourage human habitation and celebrate the community’s daily routines.
Public / culturalPhive – 5 Parramatta Square
Amidst Parramatta’s sprouting field of skyscrapers, the city’s sculpturesque new civic centre and library building cantilevers over the public square and carves out its own space, creating “a stage for the theatre of community life.”
Public / culturalCollingwood Yards by Fieldwork
In repurposing the derelict site of an inner-Melbourne technical college, this project seeks to embed arts in the community, provide affordable studio space in an otherwise unaffordable area and create public amenity that is welcoming to all.
Public / culturalRiverside Green by Hassell
Ostensibly a simple sequence of spaces, Riverside Green is a skilfully designed facility in Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands that is adaptable enough to allow the public to curate its own urban experience.
Public / culturalWalyalup Civic Centre by Kerry Hill Architects
On a challenging site in the heart of Fremantle, KHA’s design for a multifunctional civic centre demonstrates that modernism can be used to restore civic urbanity, celebrate a place of historic significance and craft an engaging space for public enjoyment.
Public / culturalSydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal by ARM Architecture
In a surprising yet entirely appropriate intervention, ARM Architecture has worked with a diverse team of experts to improve acoustics, access and mechanics in one of Australia’s most iconic heritage buildings.
Public / culturalA space sculpted by landscape: Victorian Family Violence Memorial
Beside a busy Melbourne intersection, an understated commemorative space honours the lives of victim survivors, looks to the future with hope and invites incidental engagement.
Public / culturalIndustrial cathedrals: Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
A dexterous amalgam of architectural interventions turned a 100-year-old pier on Sydney Harbour into a permanent home for some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies.
Public / cultural‘Ingeniously demure’: Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre
In a tiny Central Queensland town, an elliptical rampart structure built from local stone celebrates a 100-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton and creates a distinguished landmark for palaeontological tourism in the region.
Public / culturalMusic, desert and sky: Cobar Sound Chapel
A years-long discussion between composer and architect has resulted in an immersive sound–design experience inside an old water tank at the desert’s edge in New South Wales.
Public / culturalFrom deforestation to regeneration: Spring Bay Mill
An old woodchip mill on Tasmania’s east coast, once an integral part of the state’s controversial logging industry, is now a post-industrial events and performance venue and the site of ongoing environmental regeneration.
Public / culturalBold confidence: Shepparton Art Museum
With an ambition to “change agendas,” the commanding new Shepparton Art Museum in regional Victoria stands as a counterpoint to the landscape, while accommodating the natural floodway and maximizing the surrounding parkland.
Public / culturalVenturous and engaging: Rockhampton Museum of Art
On Rockhampton’s riverbank, a new art museum designed by local and national practices in partnership connects the city’s architectural heritage with contemporary art and culture.
Public / culturalA curated piece of utopia: Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge
On a site gifted to the public for artistic enjoyment, a design team led by Kerstin Thompson Architects has integrated landscape and architecture to transform the location while preserving its natural ecosystems and cultural context.
Public / culturalChurch of the Living God
In suburban Sydney, a mixed-use building for the community of the Church of the Living God offers a civic presence and a deep sense of the sacred while communing with the surrounding streets.
Public / culturalDesign immemorial: The Nicholson Galleries, Chau Chak Wing Museum
At the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, the new Nicholson Galleries, designed by Studio Plus Three, respects and celebrates the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere.
Public / culturalTactical urbanism: Fish Lane
A neglected post-industrial area of central Brisbane is transformed into a vibrant arts precinct through a collaborative private delivery model with a nuanced approach at both the strategic and the fine-grain scale.
Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural