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Food services building, Woden, ACT
After his experience with plywood clad trusses at the church in Manilla NSW, architect Ian McKay devised a true folded plate for the food services building at Woden, ACT. Surround by high rise offices, this cafeteria was planned as a small scale pavilion with the natural finish of the folded plywood roof structure as a major feature.
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Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, Glen Iris, Victoria
Many species of timber are naturally resistant to the corrosive environment found in some buildings. At the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, radiata pine has been treated with copper chrome arsenic (CCA) salts to increase its natural resistant to the corrosive atmosphere found around a heated indoor pool.
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Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Center
The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre is the larget intergrated sports and lesure facility of its type in Australia and provides an international standard sporting venue for Melbourne. Facilities include court space for basketball, badminton, squash and table tennis, a 75m multi purpose pool, diving tower and wave pool. The court spaces utilize tas oak timber flooring.
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National Wine Centre
Opened in 2001, Adelaide’s National Wine Centre was conceived as an iconic tourist and educational facility showcasing Australia’s internationally renowned wine industry. The complex contains an interactive museum, a comprehensive range of wine-tasting facilities, offices and function rooms. It was designed in a form reminiscent of wine barrels, wineries and the skeletal frames of vines in the vineyard.
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Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Early in the design process for the Parliament House, the architects established that Australian timber would be employed widely for both aesthetic and practical reasons.
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Pavilion, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania
This pavilion, known as Wombat One, was the prototype for a simple yet finely detailed portal frame system, constructed from a set of standardised parts milled largely from standard 100 x 38 framing grade hardwood.
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Rare Books Room
Inside the Queensland Supreme Court Library, and contained within the Queensland Supreme Court building, is an intriguing construction. Although called a room, it is a freestanding, pod-like structure, distinct from its surroundings in scale, form, colour and contents. As its name suggests, the Rare Books Room, designed by Planet Design (Leigh Shutter), holds Queensland Supreme Court Library’s collection of rare books and documents, a collection comprising some 950 volumes dating back to the 16th century. Many are first editions belonging to prominent judges and these include works by Bacon, Justinian and Plowden. Rare documents held in this collection include biographical files on Queensland’s legal personalities dating back to 1860, unpublished memoirs, manuscripts and conference papers.
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Riawunna Aboriginal Education Center
An innovative design and concept which, using simple materials like timber and galvanised steel sheet, integrates landscape and architecture to striking effect.
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RMIT Textiles Building
The School of Textiles designed by H2O Architects with Bates Smart Architects is arguably the largest timber clad building in Australia. The striking western red cedar façade is reminiscent of the woven fabric produced by the building users.
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State Library of Victoria
When the Melbourne Public Library (as it was then known) was opened in 1856 by acting Governor Major General Edward Macarthur, entry was free to anyone over 14 years old, providing they had clean hands and signed the visitors book. The library began with a collection of 3846 volumes personally selected by the Board of Trustees. Today, the State Library of Victoria as it is now known has almost two million books, serials, newspapers and hundreds of thousands of historical pictures, maps, manuscripts and more, occupying a complex of buildings on a whole block bounded by La Trobe, Swanston and Russell Streets.
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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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Victorian County Court
The Victorian County Court, in the centre of the Melbourne legal district, is an assembly of two primary masses. At street level a four-storey podium building, finished in white polished pre-cast concrete and metal, faces the street. It is kept low to preserve the view of the nearby historical Supreme Court building. Rising above the podium, and set back from its edge, a seven-storey tower building contains more court and jury rooms.
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Visitor and Interpretation Centre
The Port of Brisbane is Australia’s only purpose built capital city port. Fisherman island (partly reclaimed land) sits adjacent to the Moreton Bay Marine Park and amongst mangroves and sea grass beds, which are vital breeding grounds for many birds and marine species. Amidst the clamour and activity of maritime activities, the Port of Brisbane Corporation has developed a four-hectare lake environment, providing many migratory bird species with a safe haven for feeding and roosting. The Visitor Centre on this site is also a quiet and light-filled haven for migratory birds.
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War Memorial Swimming Centre, Devonport, Tasmania
Wishing to avoid an unsympathetic or institutional building for this landscaped site, the architects sought to support the roof of the pool's amenities areas with a three dimensional timber space frame.
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