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| Mt Tamborine: Gallery and Cafe |
Gall & Medek Architects have recently
completed a gallery and cafe at Mt
Tamborine, in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Precisely crafted, with particular attention
paid to materiality and tectonic articulation,
the project develops an ambiguous
relationship between interior and exterior,
and between building and joinery. It is a
contemporary interpretation of the
surrounding shops, designed to enhance the
“colourful intertwining of economic and
communal transactions that should make up
commerce”.
Photo Jason Haigh.
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| Noosa: Studio |
Bark Design’s new studio, left,in the Noosa
hinterland has been designed to “showcase” the practice’s architectural approach.
Perched on four footings in order to slot
between two mature bloodwoods, the
modular 20 metre long steel structure is
glazed on three sides, framing broad views
of the coastline from Noosa to Coolum. The
fourth facade acts as the “billboard” – a
plywood clad wooden box facing the road,
providing privacy, protection from the
western sun, a desired ambiguity of
perceived use, and a big “drive-in movie” projection screen. From the road this solid
form contrasts with the northern entry
platforms and horizontal roof planes, which
act as simple lightweight frames for the
landscape beyond.
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| Sydney: Cruising Yacht Club |
Morris Bray Architects have redeveloped the
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Darling
Point clubhouse, above, unifying the two
existing wings from the 1950s and the 1970s.
Completed in a tight time frame, the work had
to reflect the club’s status as Australia’s
premier yachting club and host of the Sydney
to Hobart yacht race. The entire width of the
club is now open to the water, with a series of
outdoor terraces. Back-of-house facilities are
located between these entertainment areas
and the street, providing a noise buffer to
local residences.
Photos Brett Boardman.
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| Lord Howe Island: Museum |
The Lord Howe Island Museum, left and
above, recently completed by Tomaszewski
Associates, is the island’s biggest building.
Designed for cyclonic conditions, with
ecology, low maintenance and low energy
use as principal considerations, the building
nestles in the surrounding bushland. Trees
are visible from all areas and Mount Gower is
framed by “porthole” windows. The building
floats on concrete piles, so as not to interfere
with the natural water table of the low lying
site. Two main exhibition wings flank a
central reception/Island Information Centre.
One houses a natural history collection (the
island’s isolation means that it has some
unique flora and fauna), the other is devoted
to the island’s social history. Exhibits include
flying models of the flying boats that used to
service the island.
Photo Adam Blaiklock.
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| Melbourne: Installation |
Caroline Beach, Adam Dettrick and Dale
Stephens have collaborated on an artwork at
the new entry, below, to the Bundoora Park
Homestead, recently refurbished by Williams
Boag Architects. The brief called for a work
that acknowledged both the historical
significance of the homestead and its new
use as a decorative arts centre. The artwork
explores the relationship between pre-European
landscape and contemporary
landscape patterns. The pre-European
landscape is depicted throught the
cartographic devices of the surveyor, with
contours and rivers mapped onto a cartesian
grid of latitude and longitude lines (the 600 x
600 panel grid). Overlaid on this is a second
netweork of lines drawn from one of the
homestead’s ceiling patterns. This continues
across the landscape pattern regardless of
contour, river or other features.
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| Glenelg: Town Hall |
Situated at a prominent South Australian
seaside location, the historically significant
Glenelg Town Hall, above, has been
redeveloped, restored, and upgraded by
Mulloway Studio. The main new function is an
interpretative centre, located in the space once
occupied by a socially important memorial hall.
This is augmented by a commercial museum
and restaurant on the ground floor, and a wine
bar on the upper floor balcony. The elegant,
clean design was arrived at through relentless
attention to vertical and horizontal circulation.
The strategically positioned freestanding lift
shaft and glass-sided lift car occupy an elliptical
void, puncturing through the floor. This gives
maximum exposure of, and opportunity for,
people moving up to the first floor interpretive
centre and allows glimpses and sounds from
the centre to filter down to the public foyer. It
also caters for complex access requirements.
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| Sydney: Tree House |
Innovarchi designed this studio, a glazed
attachment to the wall of an existing garage,
above, as a tree house perched up high
above the garden and nestled amongst the
leaves and branches. The project also aims
to increase the viability of the large suburban
site and to subtly increase the urban density
by providing the possibility for extended
family accommodation. A fully operable glass
facade, set in the tree tops, allows the
occupant to maximise the indoor/outdoor
relationship whilst still maintaining a large
degree of privacy.
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