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Elwood Canal Pedestrian Bridge, St Kilda, Victoria
This pedestrian bridge is a simply supported curved beam structure. The primary elements of the bridge, a pair of glue laminated jarrah beams provided the minimum clearance needed under the bridge for boating
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Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Early in the design process for the Parliament House, the architects established that Australian timber would be employed widely for both aesthetic and practical reasons.
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Library, Pennant Hills, NSW
Refined and well finished library building featuring inclined and braced glue laminated rafters.
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Sydney Opera House
The rich and extensive timber interiors, of the Sydney Opera House, an exemplary example of the use of plywood and laminated hardwood in a public building. Also discusses Utzon's origional unbuilt proposal.
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Dalgety Centre, Sydney Showground, NSW
The architects considered laminated timber beams for the roof of this project at the outset, believing them to be a cost effective alternative that fitted the nature and character of the space they wanted to create
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Carlton Clydesdale Pavilion, Sydney Showground, NSW
The design of this pavilion, with its large recycled columns and bearers, deliberately reconstructs the heavy timber forms of industrial structures built in Australia from the early 1800’s till Federation.
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Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building
Designed by noted Australian architect, Joseph Reed, and erected in 1880-1, the Royal Melbourne Exhibiton Centre it is a fine early example of the use of timber in the structure and finish of a large classical style building in Australia
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The Brambuk Living Cultural Centre, Halls Gap, Victoria
The design of the building, Brambuk, 'the White Cockatoo', is a fusion of holistic and organic architecture, the forms and elements of the building reflecting many influences from the culture of the local Aboriginal communities and the surrounding landscape.
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John XXIII College Chapel, Mt. Claremont, WA
The John XXIII Chapel continued the long tradition of timber construction in Australian ecclesiastical building.
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Board shed, Tuan, Queensland
Modules of nail plated hardwood trusses, simply supported on cantilevered CCA treated poles, roof this large industrial store building. The design was driven by economy but returns nail plate technology to its original market: large scale industrial roof construction.
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Pavilion, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania
This pavilion, known as Wombat One, was the prototype for a simple yet finely detailed portal frame system, constructed from a set of standardised parts milled largely from standard 100 x 38 framing grade hardwood.
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The World of the Platypus Building, Healesville, Victoria
The World of the Platypus Building, with a form metaphoric of the animal itself, extends the vocabulary of sustainable and organic architecture that Burgess and his team developed for the Brambuk building. Again timber is a key element in the design.
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Uluru Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Located one kilometre to the south of Uluru in central Australia, Uluru-Kata Tjuta Aboriginal Cultural Centre is intended to be a meeting place where the Anangu people of the western desert, the traditional custodians of the national park, can share their stories and traditional laws with visitors to the national park.
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Domed Atrium - Hobart, Tasmania
The centrepiece of Forestry Tasmania's new offices is a graceful glue laminated timber and steel dome.
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Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Center
The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre is the larget intergrated sports and lesure facility of its type in Australia and provides an international standard sporting venue for Melbourne. Facilities include court space for basketball, badminton, squash and table tennis, a 75m multi purpose pool, diving tower and wave pool. The court spaces utilize tas oak timber flooring.
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Beach House, Stradbroke Island, Qld
Integrated into the landscape, this linear and transparent timber beach house allows its external spaces to blend and penetrate its more regular living areas.
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Farmhouse, Ocean view, Qld
A functional farmhouse with large spaces, open view and intimate, relaxing corners
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Kenny Residence
A low cost home combining the sophistication and character of traditional Japanese design whilst serving as a haven for relaxed Australian living, all in a typical Melbourne subdivision.
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University Clubhouse
The brief for the Sunshine Coast University Club required a building that could provide varied functions and could also be expanded in the future. A tight budget + short building program resulted in much of structure being prefabricated and the use of steel being minimised.
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Suber Residence
a small house for Margot and Ken Suber that overlooks the Huon valley in Tasmania's south east. Reference to the Australian vernacular for building "sheds" - flimsy structures, clad in iron, underpins the architectural language of this house.
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Isaacson/Davis Beach House
A private beach house on the Mornington Peninsula that won the RAIA (Victorian Chapter) Architecture
Medal for the design of the best building in the state.
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Marina House
A private residence situated on the coastal area of North Haven , South Australia.
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Wapping Housing Project
MRTFC: Multi Residential Timber Framed Construction
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