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Mordialloc Creek Pedestrian Bridge, Mordialloc, Victoria
The Mordialloc Creek bridge is a 40 m span three pin arch structure that follows in the tradition of timber arch bridges established by the 50 m span Greensborough Bridge built in 1975.
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Elwood Canal Pedestrian Bridge, St Kilda, Victoria
This pedestrian bridge is a simply supported curved beam structure. The primary elements of the bridge, a pair of glue laminated jarrah beams provided the minimum clearance needed under the bridge for boating
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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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Sydney Opera House
The rich and extensive timber interiors, of the Sydney Opera House, an exemplary example of the use of plywood and laminated hardwood in a public building. Also discusses Utzon's origional unbuilt proposal.
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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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Speculative House, Buderim, Queensland
This speculative house was designed to provide a model for a low cost timber alternative to the fully tailor-made house. It displays an effective architectural and engineering simplicity, with deliberate and clear organisation of materials, functions and structure.
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Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village, Fraser Island, Queensland
The design of the Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village was underpinned by the architects' desire to achieve the most ecologically and environmentally responsible development within the financial constraints. They sought to touch the ground lightly
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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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John XXIII College Chapel, Mt. Claremont, WA
The John XXIII Chapel continued the long tradition of timber construction in Australian ecclesiastical building.
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Board Store, Tumut, NSW
This is one of the largest nail gusset plate portal frame buildings constructed from glue laminated softwood in Australia.
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Drying shelter, Narangba, Queensland
The building is a simple gabled roof shelter with CCA treated slash pine poles cantilevered out of the ground to support a roof of longitudinal plywood box beams and transverse glue laminated pine trusses
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Community and Worship Centre - Menai
The congregation of this church had definite ideas of the operation of the building and the configuration for the worship space. As well as making structural sense, the "spider web" of black steel tension ties over the centre of the congregation allows the inclined radiating timber members to define a secondary focus over the congregation.
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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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Sydney Showground Exhibition Building
One of the largest structures to be built at Homebush Bay for the Royal Agricultural Society and the 2000 Olympic Games is the timber dome and hall of the Exhibition Building.
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Church, Dural, NSW
This building is the first stage of a church complex. The project had a limited budget and costs determined much of the design. The decision to use a curved haunch timber portal frame as the primary structure came about through early cost management studies.
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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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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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Horicultural Training Centre, Hobart
A bright and airy complex of classrooms and associated facilities for a small educational organisation.
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Suber Residence
a small house for Margot and Ken Suber that overlooks the Huon valley in Tasmania's south east. Reference to the Australian vernacular for building "sheds" - flimsy structures, clad in iron, underpins the architectural language of this house.
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Marina House
A private residence situated on the coastal area of North Haven , South Australia.
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Skidmore Bridge, Union, MA, USA
The Skidmore Bridge at Union, Maine utilises a new FRP reinforced glulam bridge deck system. The main span is 20.5 m (68 ft) long and 7 m (23’ 6") wide. The FRP-glulam panels are 8-1/2" deep, 48" wide, and 23’ 7-1/2" long.
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Bemis Bridge, Hart's Location, NH, USA
This graceful asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge across the Saco River connects homes in Hart’s Location, NH to the outside world and carries skiers and hikers to Mount Washington. Designers were challenged by the special requirements set down for the new bridge which directed that the span be unobtrusive with environmental appeal, require low maintenance, not impede the spring runoff, and be built within a limited budget.
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Madison Footbridge, Madison, CT, USA
The bridge is a structural monolithic slab, prefabricated off-site in six parallel S-shaped lengths of pressure treated glulam timber, lifted into position by crane and clamped together with predrilled, threaded rods.
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Milwaukee Street Bridge, Jefferson, WI, USA
This graceful structure has two spans with a total length of 73 m (240 ft). A 3-hinged buttressed arch has vertical rods supporting floor beams and stringers with longitudinal deck panels. The clear width is 3.5 m (12 ft). The radius of the arch is 26 m (85 ft).
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Tar River Trail Bridge, Rocky Mount, NC, USA
A new bridge across the Tar River was needed to complete a 5.6 km (3.5 mile) greenway path for bikers, runners, walkers and hikers in Rocky Mount, N.C. The solution was a timber bridge, because the park department determined "since it’s a wooded setting, a wood bridge fits in better."
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