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Manilla Presbyterian Church
The architect of this small parish church at Manilla embraced plywood and exploited its natural finish and structural capacity as a shear skin in the elements of roof design.
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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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Speculative House, Buderim, Queensland
This speculative house was designed to provide a model for a low cost timber alternative to the fully tailor-made house. It displays an effective architectural and engineering simplicity, with deliberate and clear organisation of materials, functions and structure.
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Hardware store, Tullamarine, Victoria
This complex consciously displays a diversity of different timber based products, structural forms and jointing techniques. Solid timber is used in bolted columns, framing and trusses and plywood in diaphragms, shear walls and external cladding.
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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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Board Store, Tumut, NSW
This is one of the largest nail gusset plate portal frame buildings constructed from glue laminated softwood in Australia.
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Store building, Mt. Gambier, SA
. Economy governed much of the design for timber industrial buildings such as this. However, the confidence and technical skill in its design, the assured detailing and the fine 2:1 width to height proportion of this simple form endow this building with a strength and scale uncommon ifor buildings of this type..
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Store building, Clayton, Victoria
In the Clayton building, the columns and rafters are box sections that house between each other at the main moment joints. The regular lines of deep plywood purlins, set between the portals, establish rhythms in the roof and soften the light from the strips of translucent roof sheet.
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Store Building, Cardiff
The Cardiff building is the longest clean span timber portal building in Australia.
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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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St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Gracemere, Qld
A multi purpose church with curvaceous and segmented timber portal structure and veneered ceiling panels
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Sydney Showground Exhibition Building
One of the largest structures to be built at Homebush Bay for the Royal Agricultural Society and the 2000 Olympic Games is the timber dome and hall of the Exhibition Building.
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Olympic Viewing Pavilion, Homebush, NSW
This project showed just what is possible in a very short time frame working with knowledge within the parameters of a largely timber structure. The roof utilises multi pinned stainless steel dowel connections.
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Brunsdon - Hoelzl House
A sytlish and elegant combination of architectural design and owner builder dedication.
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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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Launceston Swim Centre, Glen Dhu, Tasmania
The use of timber to replace the original steel design of this swimming centre resulted in a much more economic and aesthetically pleasing building.
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Factory Building, Legana, Tasmania
Externally, this building looks little different to the thousands of portal factory and store buildings found in any of Australia's industrial estates. However, it is a timber building, even though it was originally designed as a steel one.
The cause of the change was cost. The timber portal came in about $5,000 cheaper than the steel alternative and the builder could erect structure with his own carpentry team.
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Own House
Bud Brannigan's own house, in the suburban Brisbane suburb of St. Lucia, is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Queensland elevated lightweight timber house.
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Marina House
A private residence situated on the coastal area of North Haven , South Australia.
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Riawunna Aboriginal Education Center
An innovative design and concept which, using simple materials like timber and galvanised steel sheet, integrates landscape and architecture to striking effect.
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