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| CUSTOMS HOUSE |
Lacoste + Stevenson, together with PTW
Architects and Tanner Associates, are
undertaking the refurbishment and
renovation of the Customs House at Circular
Quay. The City of Sydney Library will be
relocated to the lower three levels of the
building and the ground floor opened up to
Customs House Square and the rear lane.
The library reflects a mix of new and
established library services: national and
international newspapers, magazines,
internet, electronic databases, cultural
information and tickets, lounge seating and
cafe. The new room is envisaged as a living
room for Sydney. Levels 1 and 2 carry on the
role of a more traditional library including
fiction/non-fiction, collections and a grand
reading room. Level 1 will also include a
function space that will see the balcony
come alive above Customs House Square.
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| ROOTY HILL |
Blacktown City Council has commissioned
Innovarchi and Arup to provide full
architectural services for their earlier
concept design for the Rooty Hill
Amphitheatre. A state-of-the-art, hardworking
and practical facility, it is designed
as a delightful and sensitive addition to the
landscape – one that will grow and develop
with the community while also providing a
premium venue for “high end” performers.
The project explores the appeal of
performing in the Australian bush by
maintaining almost unobstructed views
through the stage to the bush. The design
also seeks to minimize its environmental
impact through material selection, rainwater
collection, waste-water management and
reuse, and an extensive bush regeneration
programme.
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| BATHURST |
Allen Jack + Cottier has just eleven months
to complete a new 400-metre long, threestorey
pit facility for Bathurst City Council.
Construction will begin immediately after
the final event for 2003, the “Bathurst 24
hr”, and all work must be completed for the
2004 “Bathurst 1000”, to be watched by
an estimated 60 million viewers worldwide.
The commission, undertaken by both AJ+C
and Kellogg Brown & Root, forms part of an
overall masterplan for the entire precinct,
and includes a tourism strategy and
redevelopment plans.
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| SLIPSTREAM |
Peter McGregor of McGregor Westlake
Architecture and Bruce Slorach of Deuce
Design have won an invited competition for
a light installation at Melbourne’s Docklands.
Sited on a 100-metre podium wall adjacent to
the freeway, Slipstream is an animated neon
artwork designed to reflect and amplify urban
elements – the natural system of the Yarra
River, and the cultural system of the roads and
freeway overpass – which reflect diurnal
patterns of ebb and flow. It is designed to be
experienced on the move – the six-second
flicker from the freeway, the twelve-second
drive-by of the local street, or the two-minute
saunter of the pedestrian. Animation adds a
further temporal dimension as the work rests
as the inhabitants sleep and the traffic fades.
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