PROJECTS

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.

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.

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.

Koning Eizenberg Architecture has continued its transformational work with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, turning a sombre, 19th-century library building into a youth-centred “lab.”

Rendered in raw, off-form concrete that will accept the effects of the weather and wear its patina with grace, JPW’s Chau Chak Wing Museum is a composed and monolithic yet welcoming addition to Sydney’s public institutions.

Perched on the shore of England’s largest lake, a “living museum” dedicated to the preservation of maritime craft and tradition articulates and stitches together the many narratives of its place.

China’s first comprehensive maritime museum, located ouside Tianjin, at once reflects contemporary globalism, the marine history of the local area and a profoundly Australian style of architecture rooted in landscape metaphors.

A partially subterranean building dedicated to the maintenance of memory is a seamless and subtle addition to the Australian War Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, France.

Australian architecture practice Terroir collaborated with Danish firm Kim Utzon Architecture on the design of this bold extension to the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, which “wraps and folds” around the existing 1910 building.

Crone Architects’ addition to the civic precinct of Orange in New South Wales is a highly refined building and suite of generous public spaces that “grow” out of the landscape and connect seamlessly with the existing pedestrian network.

A new pavilion by FJMT at the Australian National Maritime Museum on Sydney’s Darling Harbour takes its cues from naval architecture, offering a dramatic entry experience to the museum.

ARM Architecture’s final additions to the Shrine of Remembrance offer a contemporary foil to the memorial’s classicism.

One of Queensland’s most important heritage buildings, reborn by Tanner GHD in Association.

Cox Rayner Architects imprints the tectonic force of the landscape into the walls of a Queensland outback museum.

Penny Craswell discusses the “new” MCA, by Sam Marshall in partnership with the NSW Government Architect’s Office.