Green light given for South Australian Sports Institute HQ

Green light given for South Australian Sports Institute HQ

The South Australian Government has announced that the South Australian Sports Institute HQ concept, designed by Studio Nine Architects, has received funding to the tune of $49 million.

Tasked with a brief from the Office for Recreation Sports and Racing (ORSR) to create a space with a focus on community, activation, and connection, creating a new iconic gateway for the city of Adelaide, Studio Nine devised a new combined SASI and ORSR high-performance precinct, situated between the existing Netball SA Stadium and SA Athletics Stadium in Mile End. This is the first time in 39-years that the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) will have its own purpose-designed facility.

The building form and footprint draws inspiration from the strength of the bicep muscle and tendons, stretching out to connect and activate the neighbouring sites.

The façade takes a modular approach with the panels intended to be prefabricated off site. Applied in a sweeping gesture that follows the curve of the building, the depth of the panels offers articulation and sun protection. At pedestrian level the façade engages with the ground plain, activating the frontage. Sweeping up, a bridge forms a link from the existing Netball SA Stadium across to SA Athletics Stadium, with the previously disused passage now a key aspect of the unified precinct.

Visible and accessible from the main road, the facility improves the precincts’ connection to the city and the broader community through new bus stops and bike paths.  

The Institute will include a strength and conditioning gym that accommodates multiple sports, a specially designed indoor court with smart technology sport-specific ergometer training zones and an environment chamber for simulated heat, humidity and altitude stress training.
The new HQ will help SASI achieve its target of contributing at least 10 per cent of Australia’s team medals at Olympics and Paralympics and will attract national and international training camps and elite programs.

The HQ is expected to commence construction in 2022 to mid-2023.

written by : Jarrod Reedie
1 Jul 2021
published in : architectureanddesign.com.au

Sunshine Beach House . Teeland Architects

Sunshine Beach House is a contemporary home inspired by the sun, surf, sand, and waves. The house has been designed for a young family of surfers with an active beach lifestyle. The ground floor kitchen and living areas open onto the garden and pool. The family can move seamlessly from house to garden, pool to the beach, and back again.

First look at proposed Crows Nest metro tower

First look at proposed Crows Nest metro tower

A state-significant development application has been submitted for the first of three towers to be built above Crows Nest metro station on Sydney’s lower North Shore.

Designed by Woods Bagot as part of the Crows Nest Design Consortium, the tower at Site C of the over-station development will be the smallest of the towers at nine storeys, compared to the 17- and 21-storey towers planned for sites B and A, respectively. Providing 3,100 square metres of office space across seven levels, it will sit above the eastern entry for the metro station, facing the intersection of Clarke and Hume streets.

Across all sites, the station’s built form will read as a modestly scaled two-storey brick-clad structure, responding to the material character of the surrounding area.

The tower at Site C will seek to extend this “resolute and sculptural” materiality vertically.

“The brick base is extruded to the envelope to form a simple rectangular prism compatible with the scale of similar brick buildings in Crows Nest,” state the architects.


“The brick envelope is spliced to create portals evocative of the vertical rhythm of the Blue Gum High Forest… The brick portals are designed to visually ‘clasp’ an assemblage of glazed modules both flush and variably projecting to animate the façade whilst providing a sense of tangible occupancy linked to street life.”

These projecting bay windows will also offer interesting views of the street from the offices. The architects note that the building has been configured with the core distributed along the northern party wall to optimize access for natural light and outlook to local streets, Hume Park and the village beyond.

Though much of the rooftop will be given over to the plantroom functions – since the metro station prevents the provision of a basement plantroom – there will be landscaped rooftop along the west, south and eastern perimeters open to building tenants. The rooftop will incorporate raised landscaped planters below brick-lined portals with three integrated seating alcoves.

Along with Woods Bagot, the Crows Nest Design Consortium includes Oculus, SMEC, Robert Bird and NDY.

The detailed design and construction application for the tower is on public exhibit until 19 July.

NSW planning minster Rob Stokes approved concept designs and building envelopes for all three towers in December 2020.

written by : ArchitectureAU Editorial
22 jun 2021
published in : architectureau.com

Studio Bright Extends Ruckers Hill House With Inverted Roman Aqueduct In Northcote

Studio Bright Extends Ruckers Hill House With Inverted Roman Aqueduct In Northcote

Melbourne-based architecture firm Studio Bright has extended an old house with new living spaces in a separate rear-garden pavilion that can be accessed with an inverted Roman aqueduct featuring a small pool at the bottom.

Studio Bright, previously known as MAKE Architecture, has restored the Ruckers Hill House on a prominent, corner sited Edwardian on the crest of Ruckers Hill, Northcote, Australia.

 

A bridge-like, colonnaded addition, made of inverted Roman brick, creates an intimate atmosphere and tranquil spaces on each side of the house: one side has an open, sun-filled pool, other side offer a cozy garden.
The architects placed a new addition at the back of this site that allows a sun-filled pool and garden, and to form a streetscape expression akin to a garden pavilion. They wanted to create a contemporary and street-tough addition, but evoking a little bit Edwardian spirit.
The studio calls the new addition as “pavilion”, and the new pavilion expands the nuanced living possibilities.

They placed all rooms that can be configured for the specialized interests of particular family members, while each room offering possibilities for temporal changes.
“For example, the living room is a music space with a heavy curtain ready to be drawn across to present impromptu theatre, steps forming the stage edge,” said Studio Bright.

“On the upper floor, two multipurpose spaces house a library, lounge, guest room and study.”

The link that allows this rearward displacement spans the site bridge-like, almost an inverted Roman aqueduct with its water at the bottom.

The architects said that “its spatial use is unclear yet full of possibility: poolside chaise, veranda to a garden, even at times an indoor cricket pitch.”
As the studio explains, “to the long side-street edge, new stepped levels help mediate the street, working the balance between defending internal privacy and yet sharing inner workings and the pleasures of the spilling over garden.”

The architects used powder-colored brick to adapt to the existing houses in the street. Inside, rounded walls and curtains complement the spaces which give a sense of flowing and lightness.
Wooden panels are used in kitchen and dining spaces, while reddish-colored and greenish palette used in bathrooms create a sharp contrast with other materials and textures.

The bridge-like pathway made of inverted Roman brick creates a beautiful play of light and shadow inside.

Project name: Ruckers Hill House

Architects: Studio Bright

Location: Northcote, Australia.

Date: 2019

All images © Rory Gardiner

All drawings © Studio Bright

Country: Australia

written by : Studio Bright
7 Mar 2021
published in : worldarchitecture.org

Studio Bright Extends Ruckers Hill House With Inverted Roman Aqueduct In Northcote

Heritage snub for modernist pavilion and amphitheatre

Heritage snub for modernist Fairfield pavilion and amphitheatre

The executive director of Heritage Victoria Steven Avery has recommended that a modernist pavilion, kiosk and amphitheatre in Melbourne’s Fairfield Park should not be added to the state heritage register, despited their direct association with award-winning Melbourne architects.

The Northcote Amphitheatre was designed by Maggie Edmond for Northcote City Council in 1985. The 460-seat semi-circular amphitheatre is arranged around 10-metre diameter stage and is designed to meet the surrounding parkland.
A pavilion designed by Paul Couch was built in the late 1980s to support theatrical activities at the park, and included performance change rooms, a theatrical set building workshop, public toilets and public barbecue area on the rooftop, which is shaded by gazebo with cube-shaped light box on top. The pavilion was designed to be covered in greenery and blend into landscape.

In 2019, the City of Yarra announced plans to demolish a significant portion of the pavilion to make way for a larger storage shed, and received nine objections to the plan.

The council’s own heritage advisor recommended against the partial demolish, but the council ignored that advice, promoting a petition from architecture practice Kennedy Nolan.

University of Melbourne chair of architecture professor Philip Goad made a submission to the council in which he described the pavilion as a “rare, non-residential work by the highly regarded Paul Couch [and an example of his] long-held interest in tilt-slab precast concrete panel construction system that is often a defining feature of his better-known residential works.”

“Couch has been a pioneer in using tilt-slab concrete panels in small-scale settings,” he said.

“In my opinion there is definitely a case for, at the very least, listing the pavilion structure and workshop/change rooms together with the bluestone amphitheatre as being of local heritage.”
Heritage Victoria’s executive director noted that “The Fairfield Pavilion exemplifies Couch’s preferred style of tilt-slab concrete construction used to great effect in
small-scale settings,” however, he dismissed the significance of the architect.

“Couch’s contribution cannot be said to be strong or influential, or of the order of other architects and firms recognised under Criterion H such as Harry Seidler, Robin Boyd, Peter Macintyre, and Edmond and Corrigan.”

He also dismissed the significance of the amphitheatre in relation to the life work of Maggie Edmond. “Although the amphitheatre is Maggie Edmond’s favourite work, it represents an unusual mid-career community commission, rather than demonstrating an architecturally notable point in her design oeuvre and contribution to the discipline.”

The executive director’s recommendation has been published on the Heritage Council of Victoria’s website and submissions can be made to the council until 21 June.

written by : ArchitectureAU Editorial
7 Mar 2021
published in : architectureau.com

World’s Largest Natural Marine Observatory Takes the Shape of a Whale

World's Largest Natural Marine Observatory the Shape of a Whale by Baca Architects

Baca Architects have set out to build the world’s largest natural marine observatory in Australia. Taking the form a whale emerging from the water, the project will be built at the end of the Busselton Jetty. Baca was appointed by marine contractor Subcon as Lead Architects for the new project. Called the Australian Underwater Discovery Centre (AUDC), the design will include an underwater trail and dining experience.

The $30 million project will take guests through a landscaped sequence from their moment of arrival. Bustleton Jetty Chairman Barry House says: “This is as authentic as it gets, because people are in the tank and the fish are looking in. By adding underwater dining, underwater sculptures, marine art and other features, this project will enhance Bustleton Jetty’s 155-year-old experience.”

The marine research center will promote clean oceans and feature public interaction with a research and laboratory to educate people about climate change. Chairman House goes on to say that, “This is an exciting stage of the project, to get feedback on the design that will be a catalyst for drawing people to Western Australia from all over the world, especially those who love the ocean.”

Subcon: Blue Solutions is a marine contracting company specializing in building offshore windfarm and artificial reefs, and they are joined by CoreMarine Engineering. Construction for the AUDC aims to start in the middle of next year, with the center open by December 2022. Bustleton Jetty managers are aiming for more than 200,000 new visitors in 2023 bringing the total to more than 900,000.

written by : Eric Baldwin
15 Apr 2021
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of the Largest Natural Marine Observatory in World

NSW government announces two new metro stations

NSW government announces two new metro stations

The NSW government has revealed the location for two new metro stations for the Sydney Metro West line in the city centre and at Pyrmont.

Requiring the compulsory acquisition of 11 commercial buildings in the CBD and two in Pyrmont, the stations will be positioned to cut travel times and offer greater choice of transport in the city, the government said.

“There will now be four stations in the CBD, allowing people to change trains, to go to any destination they want to go and to really make sure that we don’t have those crowds that you see often in the existing stations,” premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference.

A station will be built at Hunter Street in the CBD, with entrances on the corner of Hunter and George streets and Bligh and O’Connell streets, and the Pyrmont station will be built between Pyrmont Bridge Road and Union Street, on land currently belonging to the Star casino. A spokesperson for the casino told the Sydney Morning Herald the compulsory acquisition its property risks derailing its plans for a 140-metre hotel tower at the site.
The Metro West project will link the CBD to Parramatta and Westmead, and is expected to be completed by 2030.

Transport Minister Andrew Constance said the line would transform transport options in the city.

“If you look at some of the travel time savings, this is going to be phenomenal,” he said. Less than 15 minutes between the heart of the city and Sydney Olympic Park; four minutes from Parramatta to Sydney Olympic park.”

In regards to the property acquisitions, Constance told reporters that they would involve commercial, not residential buildings.

“We will be assigning managers to each of those individual commercial tenants and business owners to help through this process but I want to thank them and acknowledge that they’re going to be sacrificing so much for the rest of the state, this is a big project,” he said.

written by :  ArchitectureAU Editorial
13 May 2021
published in : architectureau.com

‘Unapologetic’ HOTA gallery opens on the Gold Coast

‘Unapologetic’ HOTA gallery opens on the Gold Coast

A $60.5 million art gallery designed by ARM Architecture, the centrepiece of the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct, opened to the public on 8 May.

The vibrantly coloured building on the banks of the Nerang River is the third element in the Home of the Arts (HOTA) precinct, masterplanned by ARM and German landscape architecture firm Topotek 1. It follows an outdoor stage and a pedestrian bridge.

The gallery has more than 2,000 square metres of exhibition space across six levels, giving it the capacity to host international touring exhibitions as well as smaller and temporary exhibitions. It also has a dedicated children’s gallery and a rooftop bar with views across Surfers Paradise.

HOTA gallery overtakes the Art Gallery of Ballarat as Australia’s largest regional gallery.

Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate told the Australian Financial Review the brief to the architects was for a new building that reflects the personality of the city.
“It had to be fun – first and foremost – and make people think, ‘what is that?’ And the last thing, be unapologetic. It’s the ‘have-a-go’ spirit of the Gold Coast,” he said.

ARM’s design for the building is based on a voronoi pattern, a design motif used throughout the precinct, which can be seen at the HOTA outdoor stage.

Voronoi is a geometric shape found throughout nature in various patterns including cracked mud, animal skins and bubbles.

The voronoi pattern on the facades of the HOTA Gallery is expressed through multiple block colours. The Gold Coast council describes the gallery as a “cultural beacon” and a “must-see destination for residents and visitors.”

Alongside its exhibition spaces, the building also accommodates 1,000 square metres of storage space for the $32 million City Collection that consists of more than 4,400 artworks. ARM included a Juliet balcony in the building’s design, which allows visitors to see into the storage space.

The inaugural exhibition at HOTA Gallery features 19 new commissions by emerging and established artists and collectives, each with a connection to the Gold Coast.

written by : ArchitectureAU Editorial
10 May 2021
published in : architectureau.com

‘Unapologetic’ HOTA gallery opens on the Gold Coast

A $60.5 million art gallery designed by ARM Architecture, the centrepiece of the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct, opened to the public on 8 May.

SANAA’s Sydney Modern Expansion Moves Forward And Is Scheduled To Complete In 2022

SANAA's Sydney Modern Expansion Moves Forward And Is Scheduled To Complete In 2022

New details and updates have been shared by Michael Brand, Director of Art Gallery of New South Wales on SANAA’s major Sydney Modern expansion project which is currently under construction in Sydney.
SANAA’s major transformation, named Sydney Modern Project, will create a public art garden next to the existing Gallery as well as learning studios, a special studio for multimedia works and a rooftop art terrace, overlooking Sydney Harbour in the city.

The Sydney Modern Project is the first project of Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA built in Australia once complete. As the construction is well underway despite the pandemic, the building is scheduled for completion in 2022.

Michael Brand has shared details as part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ 150th anniversary celebrations in collaboration with the Sydney Opera House to mark the annual Badu Gili festival of First Nations Culture.

“While we work to complete our expanded art museum campus through the Sydney Modern Project that will see First Nations art displayed front and centre, we are proud to share some of our collection highlights with the world on the sails of the Sydney Opera House,” Brand said.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Sydney Modern Project is an important transformation of one of Australia’s pre-eminent art museums: a new standalone building will almost double the Gallery’s exhibition space, revitalise its much-loved late-19th-century neo-classical building, and create a new public art garden and civic space for Sydney.

The Sydney Modern Project will give prominence to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, as well as revitalising the Gallery’s much-loved existing building with its unrivalled collection of Australian art from the early 19th-century to the present.

For more than half a century, the Gallery has been at the forefront of collecting, displaying and interpreting historic and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and in engaging directly with artists and their communities.

SANAA’s new building will sit in contrast to the Gallery’s 19th-century neo-classical building. Conceived as light, transparent and open to its surroundings, SANAA’s building responds to the site’s topography with a series of pavilions that cascade towards Sydney Harbour with spectacular views.

The expansion will almost double the Gallery’s total exhibition space, from 9,000 to 16,000 square meters and will feature galleries specifically designed to accommodate art of the 21st century.

From the time of its founding in 1871, the Gallery has collected and worked with the artists of its time from both Australia and abroad, a commitment that will remain central to the transformed art museum.

SANAA’s design is comprised of a series of interlocking pavilions that step down towards Sydney Harbour. The pavilions sit low and lightly on the site, following the natural topography of the land.

The museum highlighted that “approximately 70% of the new gallery is being constructed above existing structures – the land bridge built in 1999 and the concrete roof over two decommissioned WWII naval oil tanks built in the early 1940s.”

“Adaptive re-use of the tanks will enable public access to a significant State asset for the first time.”

The design delivers much-needed gallery space while respecting and enhancing public use of the surrounding landscape, retaining and celebrating significant trees and improving the accessibility of the cultural precinct.

The new building also comprises art research and education spaces, multipurpose spaces, shop, food and beverage facilities, and visitor amenities.

The $344 million (AUD) project will include 40,000-square-metre gallery space (new and existing building), 16,000-square-metre exhibition space (new and existing building), 960-square-metre dedicated gallery to showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.

The project will increase the total number of trees on the site with the Gallery planting more than double the number of trees that have been removed for construction. Significant landscape design will use endemic ecological planting (Sydney Sandstone Woodland) and reinstate historic species associated with the ‘Governor’s Domain’, more in keeping with the site’s original flora.

The external facade material of the pavilions of natural limestone in warm tones and two sweeping internal walls of rammed earth in the new building are sympathetic to the sandstone facade of the existing building and parkland setting of The Domain.

In May 2015, SANAA won an international competition to expand the Art Gallery of New South Wales. SANAA revealed new images for the expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2017. The firm also shared a set of revised images in 2020.

SANAA was founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa in 1995 in Tokyo. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa were chosen as the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

SANAA’s major works include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan), New Museum in New York, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, Louvre-Lens in Lens, France, Grace Farms in Connecticut.

written by : Art Gallery of New South Wales
23 Apr 2021
published in : worldarchitecture.org

Gallery of SANAA's Sydney Modern Expansion Moves Forward

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Brisbane Gabba could be redeveloped for 2032 Olympics

Brisbane Gabba could be redeveloped for 2032 Olympics

Brisbane’s Gabba stadium will be transformed to become the main stadium of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games should the city win the hosting rights, the state’s premier has revealed.

Populous, which designed the last major upgrade to the stadium in 2020, has produced concept deigns for the redeveloped stadium, which would increase its capacity to 50,000 from the current 42,000.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told media the existing stadium would be “essentially demolished” and a new one built, at a cost of around $1 billion.

“The Gabba has been home to our sport since 1895,” she said. “A home for the 2032 Olympic Paralympic Games could be its crowning glory.

Populous director Chris Paterson said the Gabba was extraordinarily well located, being close to the CBD and transport options.

“Brisbane already boasts the world’s best rectangular stadium in Suncorp Stadium,” he said.

“This is an opportunity to complement it with the best round field stadium right in the centre of the city.”
The premier said the stadium, formally known as the Brisbane Cricket Ground, was an ideal choice for redevelopment as it was already the city’s main stadium for AFL, cricket and other events. It will also have its own Cross River Rail station competed by the time the of the 2032 Olympics.

The redevelopment would also include a new pedestrian plaza linking the stadium to the Cross River Rail station, which is currently under construction.

The Premier said the pedestrian plaza could become central hub for the games in its own right.

“I can see the river lined with people watching big screens all taking part in the fun and excitement of the games,” she said.

“There’s South Bank leading to West End which is connected to Roma Street via the Kurilpa Bridge with a new bridge under construction for the new Queen’s Wharf development.

“There are city cats offering even more options for transport.

“All of this is infrastructure we already have.”

The Gabba, which takes its name from its suburb, Woolloongabba, hosted its first game of cricket in December 1896. Along with cricket, it was home to greyhound racing until 1993, when work began to turn it into a “state-of-the-art” stadium, designed by Daryl Jackson, which has since also hosted AFL team the Bears, which later became Lions.

The premier has also said that the mooted Brisbane Live precinct could become the home of swimming for the games.

written by : ArchitectureAU Editorial

20 Apr 2021

published in : architectureau.com

Corporate hotel tower proposed for Brisbane’s southern CBD

44 roma hotel brisbane cbd
44 roma hotel brisbane cbd

Corporate hotel tower proposed for Brisbane’s southern CBD

A 26-storey hotel tower would be built on a 40-square-metre site at the southern end of the Brisbane CBD under a proposal before council.
Designed by Buchan with landscape architecture by Arcadia, the development at 44 Roma Street is being pitched as “a unique corporate traveller hotel” development that would help revitalize this “abandoned” corner of the city.

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The hotel would include 212 hotel suites along with a ground floor restaurant and bar. It would be close to Queen Street Mall and the proposed Brisbane Live precinct.

The design calls for the building to be built to the boundary on all four sides, contravening council setback rules. The proposed height also exceeds planning limits.

But Buchan argues the tower’s design excellence and features that break up the mass of the building would mitigate any issues.

44 roma hotel project

 

    These include significant landscape indents and setbacks on Turbot Street and the eastern boundary facing the Pullman Hotel.

“The design and architecture also endeavour to ‘breakdown’ the mass by splitting the building into quadrants,” the architects note in planning documents.

“The quadrants are then further emphasized with two split level horizontal landscape edges. By splitting the building, it mitigates an overall box look and articulates the face elegantly without compromising elegance and efficiency.”

The ground plane has been designed to be open and inclusive, with the underpass of Turbot street envisioned as a place for exhibitions and food truck events

written by :   ArchitectureAU Editorial
30 Mar 2021
published in : architectureau.com

Gallery of 44 Roma Hotel at Brisbane CBD