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The grass embankment pushes the public domain deep into the building, where the civic chamber is located.

Walyalup 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 / cultural
The new building rationalizes circulation through the ill-defined and misaligned existing context.

Many stories: WA Museum Boola Bardip

Through careful sculpting of new program into an uncoordinated existing context, collaborating architects Hassell and OMA have delivered a civic precinct that is uniquely Western Australian.

Public / cultural
Reclaimed land was removed to create an artificial inlet that returns the city to the water’s edge.

The unfinished business of Perth’s Elizabeth Quay

In Perth, the Elizabeth Quay precinct has proven popular but its success depends on “unfinished business.”

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The square’s design integrates architecture, landscape and art, including a nine-metre statue, Wirin, designed by Tjyllyungoo (aka Lance Chadd) and sculpted working with Stuart Green from Big Spoon Art Services.

‘Genuinely inclusive’: Yagan Square

Lyons Architecture with Iredale Pedersen Hook and Aspect Studios

The collaborative design for Yagan Square in the heart of Perth returns the site to its origins as a people’s meeting place and links previously disconnected parts of the city.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Cadogan Song School by Palassis Architects.

‘Delicate and beguiling’: Cadogan Song School

A small but reverential addition to the Cathedral Precinct in Perth reinvigorates its heritage context and reintroduces site to citizen.

Public / cultural
The roof, a “simple and singular signature,” makes the stadium a recognizable gateway to the city.

Maximizing intensity: Optus Stadium

Hassell Cox HKS

As the centrepiece of an urban rehabilitation project east of Perth’s CBD, this sporting landmark is uniquely of its place while also serving as an international gateway to the city.

Public / cultural
The square manifests as a complex constructed topography of open lawns and jagged architectural forms punctuated by lookouts, ramps and staircases.

Everyday civic: Yagan Square

Lyons Architecture with Iredale Pedersen Hook and Aspect Studios

At Perth’s new urban square, Yagan Square, flexibility and history provide a platform for engaging with changing notions of national identity, Reconciliation and civic life.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The large shed provides expansive undercover spaces that are protected from the harsh climate, as well as flexibility of use for exhibitions and events.

Nesting galleries: East Pilbara Arts Centre

A new gallery for the Indigenous art collective Martumili Artists, designed by Officer Woods Architects, is proving to be an important cultural facility for the small community of Newman in Western Australia.

Public / cultural
The City of Perth Library, with its distinctive circular form and angled top, maintains open views to the Titles Building.

Civic pride: Cathedral Square

Kerry Hill Architects has led a collaborative redevelopment of the historic heart of Perth since 2009, complementing the existing heritage fabric with architectural insertions at an urban scale.

Hospitality, Public / cultural
The New Kununurra Courthouse serves the small town of Kununurra in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Local rules: New Kununurra Courthouse

TAG Architects and Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, architects in association

A new civic building by TAG Architects and Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects evokes its remote setting in north-east Western Australia.

Public / cultural
A continuous landscape character is woven through the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct, connecting courtyards, plazas, parklands, rooftops and bushland.

Botanical remedy: Fiona Stanley Hospital landscapes

Perth’s new hospital provides many well-crafted landscapes that service the needs and moods of patients and visitors alike.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Chevron-shaped window hoods identify the principal inpatient, acute care wards of the main hospital building at Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Natural healing: Fiona Stanley Hospital

The Fiona Stanley Hospital employs evidence-based design principles to make tangible contributions to patients’ wellbeing.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The architecture seeks to provoke symbolic interpretation.

Perth Arena

A mesmerizing urban pantheon based on big ideas, local context and the geometry of puzzles.

Commercial, Interiors, Public / cultural
The prison comprises forty-two buildings within a campus masterplan.

West Kimberley Regional Prison

A custodial environment that allows Indigenous prisoners to maintain their connection to country.

Public / cultural
The flexible atelier space allows for multiple configurations.

Kings Park Education Centre

Perth’s new environmental teaching centre by Donaldson + Warn for Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority.

Education, Public / cultural
The Women’s Health and Family Services building (left) and Foundation Housing (right) are located in Northbridge, on the edge of the Perth CBD.

Foundation Housing and Women’s Health, Perth

A diverse public project in Perth combines domestic and institutional qualities.

Commercial, Health, Public / cultural, Residential
Kinked geometries animate the building’s forms, inflecting towards the Metro station entry on the corner of Murray and William streets.

One40william, Perth

Bates Smart director Philip Vivian reviews One40william by Hassell.

Commercial, Public / cultural
Beneath curtains of gold anodized aluminium tubes, the staircase ascends to the main theatre.

State Theatre Centre

Kerry Hill Architects’ State Theatre Centre for Perth celebrates transparency, opacity and the urban experience.

Public / cultural