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Babcock and Brown Offices
Babcock & Brown is an Australian investment and advisory firm that operates in the global financial and property market. After a period of considerable expansion, the company decided to confirm its strategic position in the marketplace and consolidate its already successful image. This included remodelling its corporate headquarters on an upper level of Sydney’s Chifley Towers. PTW Interiors was appointed as architects for the project.
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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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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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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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Federation Square
Federation Square is a complex of associated buildings adjacent to Melbourne’s characteristic Flinders St Station, providing a link over the tangle of railway lines running between the city of Melbourne and the Yarra River. Based on a design selected after an international design competition, the realised Federation Square complex pursues a variety of urban planning, architectural and environmental goals.
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Forest EcoCentre
This tensioned, glazed structure, in its semi-rural setting of Scottsdale in Tasmania’s north east, has been compared with many other greenhouse-styled projects. These include the ‘Biosphere II’ project in Oracle, Arizona, the great, conceptual city-domes of Buckminster Fuller, and Thomas Herzog’s use of the transitory space between inner and outer skin in his houses at Regensburg. Each of these is generally conceived, or built, at a larger scale than Robert Morris-Nunn’s Forest EcoCentre; however, a second key difference may be seen in the building’s demonstrated effectiveness in climate control, through clever positioning, appropriate applications of material, and passive energy use. This effectiveness has been recognised through a wide range of awards for excellence in building, environmental architecture, structural innovation, and steel construction.
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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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Jewellery and Crystal Gallery
Located on the edge of the Gallery Walk precinct, along a ridge on Mt Tamborine, is a curious gem, more tent than building, which opens out to expose delicate timber details, display cases, and rafters. The brief for this project was explicit, albeit complex: to design a gallery that was spiritually connected with its context, and clearly expressed its functions while addressing issues of biophysical sustainability.
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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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Library, Pennant Hills, NSW
Refined and well finished library building featuring inclined and braced glue laminated rafters.
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Meadowbank Estate Vineyard
Located in the new wine producing areas of Tasmania’s Coal Valley and surrounded by growing vines, Meadowbank Estate is one of the growing numbers of wineries in regional Australia that have added fine food and hospitality to their wine-making activities. Pragmatically, this increases the business’s trading base but, more importantly, it identifies the winery with what appreciating wine is really all about: relaxation, good food and pleasant company. For this, the owners have extended their original wine centre with a new largely timber wine sales and gallery area.
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Minter Ellison Lawyers’ Offices
As one would expect, upon entering the reception area on the 23rd floor the north Rialto Tower of the second largest law firm (by revenue) in Australia, the atmosphere is hushed, the furnishings are understated and the view is astounding. Minter Ellison Lawyers was originally located only in sections of the north tower of the Rialto Building in Collins Street until an expansion of services required an extension of the existing meeting precinct to the whole of level 23. The brief to HASSELL was to design a new precinct which reflected the ‘core values and aspirations’ of Minter Ellison, while ‘communicating a powerful corporate statement to existing and prospective clients’. The existing rooms within the precinct would be subtly linked by the interstitial spaces of ‘reception, waiting, vestibule and breakout’.
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Motor auction showroom, Enfield, NSW
Malcolm Stanley and his engineering firm of Stanley and Llewellyn were pioneers of modern Australian glue laminated construction and the building at Enfield is one of the few of their buildings known to remain.
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Murdoch Magazine Headquarters
The finger wharf and store at Pier 8/9 in Sydney Harbour’s Walsh Bay was built in 1912 and operated by the Central Wharf Stevedoring Co. in association with Gilchrist Watt and Co. between 1914 and 1968. After its life as a goods transfer station ended, the building sat unused for thirty years before being resurrected as the offices for Murdoch Magazines to a design by architectural firm Bates Smart.
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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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Pavilion on the Park, Adelaide, SA
In the early 1960s, a new generation of Australian architects began to emerge and, inspired by the timber buildings of rural and industrial Australia, sparked a revival in timber design and construction for commercial buildings. One of the first indications of this was the construction of timber hyperbolic paraboloid shells (hypars) as the roof structure for the restaurant in Adelaide's South Parkland.
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Precision Flooring Showroom
It can be a significant challenge to develop an inspiring and quality design for a small retail setting and for its new showroom Precision Flooring did not simply want a place to show materials. Director Richard Karsay wanted to convey the luxury, beauty and style of timber flooring to a discerning audience of architects, interior designers and others. He also wanted to show its range, versatility, and unique qualities.
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Store building, St Peters, NSW
This building marks the beginning of a cycle of glue laminated arch construction in Australia that continued until 1961. Ralph Symonds had found during the war that glue laminated arch construction was quick and economical.
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Studio and Gallery
This building was originally a mid-twentieth century three storey warehouse shell in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill, situated in a row of similar buildings. Its transformation into an artist’s home and gallery presented the building designers, Anita and Ralph Lincolne-Lomax, with a demanding brief and a tight budget. In response, they applied clear design principles and thoughtful detailing to arrive at a solution that is imaginative, versatile and efficient.
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Sunny Hills Country Club
This Sunny Hill Country Club Hotel was built from timber for two main reasons: timber has an established association with relaxation and leisure and it is an easy to use and economic building material.
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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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The Byron at Byron
Set within 17.5 hectares of lush rainforest and wetlands only five minutes drive south of the Byron Bay township, the Byron at Byron resort is designed as a haven for the visitor’s calm enjoyment and revitalisation, removed from the demands of modern life. The complex includes a central facility building with associated pools and decks, 92 one-bedroom suites, and kilometres of linking timber boardwalks that meander through the rainforest to a viewing platform overlooking Tallow Creek.
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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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Three Below and Blue Bar
There was a time when recycling building materials was not as fashionable or well regarded as it is today. Reusing a second hand door or window was regarded as doing things on the cheap rather than being environmentally responsible. While this time has fortunately passed, the challenge of effectively employing recycled materials in building remains.
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