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| PARAMOUNT HOTEL |
Tony Owen NDM’s short-listed tender
submission for the Parramatta Hotel, left,
aimed to follow the model of a classic
Sydney Art Deco pub; not in terms of style,
but in being a distinctive building that
activates a street corner and is synonymous
with its locality. The site is adjacent to a
Westfield development and in front of the
Parramatta train station, making it a key
element in the Parramatta Transport Precinct.
The massing of the building was designed to
balance and terminate the scale of Westfield,
with the nightclub taking the limelight.
This glass-clad architectural gesture
becomes a beacon at night, which can be
subtle and constant or programmed to
create a more vibrant display if desired.
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| CIRCLING INNER MONGOLIA |
Allen Jack + Cottier’s designers are
currently working on two transport-related
projects in Hohhot, the capital city of the
Autonomous Region in Mongolia. Inner
Mongolia and its capital form the gateway
and transport hub for all traffic between
China, the Russian Federation states and
Mongolia. In response, one of the projects
is a 45-kilometre ring-road around Hohhot,
which forms part of a five-year urban plan.
It is designed to accommodate rapid growth
in the city over the next twenty years, with
the expectation that the city will grow to
meet the road. The scheme includes seven
rows of mature trees, dedicated lanes for
public transport and bikeways, extensive
landscaping and quality kerbs and gutters.
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| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE |
Lyons has recently won two competitions
for university projects. The first is a new
School of Medicine at the University of
Western Sydney’s Campbelltown campus,
below and below right. The design for the
new educational facility adopts the
student-centred learning model, which
involves problem-based learning pods.
Flexible and adaptive to a wide range of
research modes, the project combines
undergraduate teaching spaces and lecture
facilities, postgraduate medical research
laboratories and offices under a singular
roof form. The project is due for
completion in 2007.
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| CENTRE FOR WORLD POLITICS |
Lyons’ second recent competition win is for
the new Centre for World Politics at ANU,
right. It takes its formal cues from the
adjacent heritage Coombs building, with its
hexagonal plan. The new building is located
on one of the university’s “gateway” sites,
and the centre will bring together the
Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy with
other postgraduate teaching and research
schools in international relations, strategic
and defence studies, regional politics and
diplomacy. Lyons proposed an interpretation
of the original Coombs building to create a
new and contemporary workplace for
academics, visiting scholars and students.
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