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RADAR
FEATURES
COMMENT
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Beside the Yarra River at Richmond, Victoria, a derelict, historic
power station—a collection of buildings dating from 1878—
has been developed as the headquarters of an international
clothing and furnishings supplier, with construction also under way
on a new office park. Architects Metier 3 have sought to express
the site’s past, present and future as a metaphor for the client
company’s own progression. They have transformed the site’s
principal structure of polychromatic brickwork by replacing its blank
south facade with a veil of glass facing the river. This steel-framed
screen stands in front of the building to allow extra office space to
be accommodated, to frame it in association with nearby structures
and to provide a striking image on arrival at the south-east
entrance. New office structures are located to the north and east of
the site and existing brick buildings have been renovated to contain
offices, studios, meeting rooms and showrooms
top South-east corner and main entry. left Office atrium.
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The complex brief for this large corporate client has been
skillfully manipulated into the shells of a family of buildings which
made up the disused Richmond Power Station.
While the interior echoes the style of the client body, many of the
volumes, parts of the existing fabric and miscellaneous historic
elements have been successfully retained and incorporated into the
design, acknowledging the history of the site and creating a diverse
and rich environment in which to work.
A sense of light and space throughout the building enhances its
obvious functions and creates a place which works well and brings
high user satisfaction.
The design expresses the corporation’s ideals very well.
right Glazed entry wall
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Country Road Headquarters,
Richmond, Victoria
Architect Metier 3—design
director
Frank Fiorentini; design
architect
Frank Faelli; project
architect
Anthony Tesoriero.
Developer Walker Corporation.
Occupant Country Road Clothing.
Structural Engineer Burns
Hamilton & Partners. Civil
Engineer
Ian K Prudden.
Landscape Architect Lawrence
Blyton. Acoustics Carr Marshall
Day Associates. Quantity Surveyor
Rider Hunt. Builder Qanstruct.
Photographer Tim Griffith.
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