2006 GEORGE TEMPLE POOLE AWARD WINNER
FREMANTLE MAUSOLEUM
Cnr Leach Highway & Carrington Street
Palmyra
DesignInc
Martin Farquharson
Jury Comments
The bold contemporary expression of this building is impressive from any viewpoint. It is a result of the Architects creating beauty through the skilled use of scale, proportion and crisp precise detailing. A serene balance of colour and value is achieved with the use of high quality materials which are appropriate for a building for this function.
The floating and elevated vertical and horizontal planar forms resting on simple post and beam elements allow views into and out of the building. The use of long white rendered walls floating over narrow slithers of dark water and the elevated forms all add to the ethereal effect.
The interior design is entirely consistent, integral with and indivisible from the whole concept. The interiors are sublime, bold, inspiring and architectonic in terms of the space created and the materials used, but also as the architect states, the building does “…provide a strong spiritual ambience, that evokes a sense of serenity, reverence and the eternal.”
The design of the Mausoleum draws reference and inspiration from timeless symbols of Christian imagery expressed successfully in contemporary terms. It meets all its brief requirements. The new building sits comfortably in the Cemetery setting with its paved and grassed forecourt making a grand statement of wide cantilevers and colonnades.
The three juries assessing the building have each considered it of such high quality that it deserves an Architecture Award in two categories and is a worthy recipient of this year’s George Temple Poole Award.
Department of Housing & Works Award for Public/Institutional
Sponsored by Department of Housing & Works
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
CHALLENGER TAFE MARITIME CENTRE
1 Fleet Street
Fremantle
Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland
Cooper & Oxley Builders Pty Ltd
Graham Sands
Jury Comments
The Challenger TAFE Maritime Centre is located at the western end of Victoria Quay. The College is committed to establishing “an internationally recognised campus for maritime studies”.
The architect’s solution effectively supports the client’s aspirations and responds sensitively to the unique waterfront environment. New building accommodated teaching, library, café, and College executive offices. Various smaller projects facilitated a reorganised campus plan and through the introduction of a central courtyard, defined “a campus heart”.
Orientation respects and “reinforces” the streetscape of Slip Street, which is bounded by a unique collection of historic waterfront buildings.
Internal planning is based on a simple “cruciform” circulation space. Views through the ends of the cruciform provide a constant reference to the marine environment. Views from internal rooms are carefully framed through a series of horizontal windows.
The building forms a contemporary interpretation of the series of sheds fronting Slip Street. The architects have elected to utilise the asymmetrical roof form with subtle variations found on adjacent buildings and have integrated this with superior detail.
Material selection is principally metal, found predominately in the precinct. Importantly the established cream colouring was not mimicked allowing a new statement which reflects colouring found elsewhere in the marine setting. The simple material palette, which includes pre-cast concrete and Colorbond finished stainless steel indicates a concern for the impact of the corrosive environment.
The internal courtyard sited north of the new building, has an appropriate balance of hard and soft materials respecting the traditional lack of “soft landscaping” found on Victoria Quay. The project is an excellent response to the Waterfront Master Plan and is an appropriate example of how buildings should be developed in the important historic context. The jury were unanimous in their view that the project warranted an Award and hope that future development in the precinct responds in a similar sensitive manner.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
PERTH COLLEGE SCIENCE BUILDING
31 Lawley Crescent
Mt Lawley
Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland
PS Structures Pty Ltd
Graham Sands
Jury Comments
The architectural brief called for the development of a new science centre to accommodate new and emerging teaching and learning methods in the broad range of science disciplines. This project is the first new building to be developed on the site as part of the current redevelopment of the Perth College Campus.
The site for the new Science Centre, identified in the masterplan, has a long east and west exposure and a 6m fall from north and south. The planning solution develops a service street on the east, a series of wet and dry labs and teaching spaces in the middle and a pedestrian access foyer on the west providing a flexible transparent and accessible teaching and learning environment.
The building overlooks the pool court on the west side and utilises a series of vertical and horizontal fins referencing detailing of adjacent buildings and providing environmental control while maximising views out. The use of laminated glass vanity panels enclosing transparent student artwork adds to the visual stimulii.
The building is characterised by the play of natural light. Externally from the standing seam joints of the zinc cladding to the charcoal fins of the west façade, light plays a critical role in defining the form and texture of the building.
Internally, generous use of glass between teaching spaces and movement corridors creates a sense of openness and transparency that references a search for truth and learning. Creative display of ‘still’ science objects in the glazed separation between laboratory and circulation space and the placement of aquariums as ‘live’ science in the same space, stimulates much interest.
Using immaculately detailed traditional materials, including brick, stone, glass and zinc, the architects have created a richly patterned and strong new identity which sets a benchmark of quality for the redevelopment for the rest of the campus.
The jury were very impressed with the outcome and have no hesitation in recommending it for Award status.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
SHARK BAY INTERPRETIVE CENTRE
65 Knight Terrace
Denham
Woodhead International
Crothers Constructions Pty Ltd
Gollings Photography
Jury Comments
The architectural brief for this project called for the development of a multi-purpose museum/ exhibition/art gallery/educational and information centre to showcase the rich natural and human history of the Shark Bay World Heritage Region.
Through a consultative process which facilitated an exchange of knowledge and ideas, the architects in conjunction with the local community and expert consultants, have developed an outstanding design solution to this unique brief.
Drawing on the metaphor of a series of crates or treasure chests washed up like flotsam and jetsam on a pristine beach, the building is composed of a series of cubes, tossed together in an apparently random pattern. The largest cube clad in beautifully detailed titanium zinc sheets with curved and tilted lines represents the classic treasure chest and houses the map room.
The second cube constructed in pre-cast and polished concrete panels houses the major exhibition hall and temporary gallery. Linking these principal elements is a glass cage providing protected arrival and entry hall and information desk.
The Architect has selected from a palette of the most durable materials, including titanium-zinc, copper, pewter, precast concrete, polished concrete and glass which have been carefully crafted and detailed to reference the history of the site and provide a unique and striking aesthetic.
The Shark Bay Heritage Interpretive Centre goes beyond the functional brief to create a landmark sculptural building that sits comfortably in this ancient and beautiful landscape.
It is understood that the resultant architecture provokes important discussion amongst the wider community. The fact that the centre is now the focus of new community art and cultural activity and those community representatives involved in its development now reflect on it with pride, the jury are unanimous in its recommendation of Award status.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
FREMANTLE MAUSOLEUM
Cnr Leach Highway & Carrington Street
Palmyra
DesignInc
Martin Farquharson
Jury Comments
This building certainly has presence. The use of quality materials (stone, steel, concrete, timber); the cruciform expressed with water and reflected light; the human size statue of Jesus at the crossing, give the created spaces a real sense of religious sincerity.
The floating and elevated vertical and horizontal planar forms resting on simple post and beam elements allow views into and out of the building. The use of long white rendered walls floating over narrow slithers of dark water and the elevated forms all add to the ethereal effect.
The use of dome and pyramid roof and ceiling shape over the two major spaces within, along with the inclusion of external colonnades, provide the link to traditional Christian Architecture (a brief requirement), although the expression is certainly contemporary.
The acoustics, especially in the domed room, give the internal spaces added significance and ambiance. They can be places of quiet reflection or reverberate to the sounds of family celebrating the life ended.
The judges were impressed by the inclusion of concealed technical detail and the use of low energy design principles. The massing of the building and the use of stone certainly support the latter.
In the Cemetery setting, the new building with its paved and grassed forecourt, makes a grand statement. Its physical separation from the traditional headstone cemetery enhances its sense of uniqueness and place.
The building is of such quality and grandeur that the jury recommend it for Award status.
COMMENDATION
KURONGKURL KATITJIN, ECU MT LAWLEY, INDIGENOUS CENTRE
2 Bradford Street
Mt Lawley
Jones Coulter Young Pty Ltd
Patrick Bingham-Hall/Andrew Pritchard
Jury Comments
This collection of colourful rolling and irregular built forms essentially represent the shape and colour of nature. Overlayed on a multi-coloured background, giant letters, which represent words of Aboriginal relevance, is impressive indeed.
It is full of Aboriginal symbolism and certainly satisfies the initial brief of standing out from the other buildings on campus, to make a statement on behalf of the various Aboriginal groups that it represents and serves.
The outside lettering imagery is carried through to the interiors, as are the colours of nature, although of darker hues. Moving though the building allows you to appreciate the feeling of shifting from one rock to another. Looking up at one point to see the Southern Cross as penetrations in a shade form overhead is clever indeed.
It is a very brave building and challenges traditional ideas of what architecture is. It is visually magnetic and provokes interest in anybody seeing it for the first time.
It is well considered and apart from the concerns the jury had over its ongoing maintenance, its graphic statement and ability to generate interest has resulted in its Commendation.
COMMENDATION
WALMAJARRI OFFICES & STAFF HOUSE FOR DJUGERARI COMMUNITY
Djugerari Community
Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
Franmor Constructions
Jury Comments
The Walmajarri Offices and Staff House provides the remote aboriginal community with a facility to teach young Walmajarri people their culture and history. The architects have demonstrated an understanding of the requirements of the community through a restrained and sensitive response to the site, building constraints and environment.
Buildings are arranged as pavilions under a parasol roof, forming a series of outdoor rooms. Views to key landscape features in the surrounding landscape are framed through the orientation of the various spaces.
The utilisation of the parasol roof provides real benefits in environmental performance of the buildings in this harsh environment. The roof creates a sculpted profile indicative of temporary structures found historically in the “outback”.
Construction and detailing are “agricultural” addressing “pastoral history” and the practical requirements of construction in remote areas. Components were deliberately designed to facilitate “off site” construction. Components and materials were selected and sized with a view to minimise waste and promote effective life cycle costing.
The functional and social requirements of the aboriginal community are admirably met. The design is practical and elegant in providing an excellent example of how architects should respond to unique challenges of designing in the desert. The jury recommend this fine built solution for Commendation status.
Single Residential Award - Sponsored by - The Laminex Group
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
HOUSE NORTH FREMANTLE
Brackenridge Architects
Dawson Construction
Justin Smith
Jury Comments
Prominently located on an exposed lofty corner site, this house responds creatively to its elevated position, with a dynamic and varied composition. A sculptural floating concrete canopy announces the house from the northern approach, and effectively marks the entry. A distended cantilevered concrete balcony is prominent on the southern aspect which extends dramatically above a lower terrace, which utilises assorted ‘heritage’ limestone relics from an earlier period.
Internally, this residence constantly surprises and delights with a range of spaces from an eerie subterranean circulation link to light-filled living spaces, which collectively differentiate human emotions and responses. Material expression emanates from a natural palette and sophisticated detailing completes this evocative composition. The crispness and precision of each detail, seemingly so clean and simple, can only be the result of hours of love and consideration. This house speaks of inimitable passion.
COMMENDATION
FLORIDA BEACH HOUSE
Odden Rodrigues Architects
Ramsay Constructions
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
An emphatic demonstration of the power of simplicity, this beach house exhibits this building type in a clear and appropriate manner, while still satisfying some dubious local planning requirements. The use of large reconstituted limestone blocks is a clear reference to the ubiquitous sub-division retaining wall, while the expression and exaggeration of the end gables playfully distracts from the draconian design guidelines. The house is splayed on the block creating interesting garden spaces that are gradually merging with the surrounding dunal landscape.
COMMENDATION
BREMER BAY HOLIDAY HOUSE
Lot 107 Short Beach Road
Bremer Bay
Daniela Simon @ Sodaa
Owner Builder
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
Capitalising on a unique and beautiful location, this residence manipulates the ground plane creatively to provide internal spaces with individual character, multiplicity of function, and delight. External representation is alternatively robust and delicate, not dissimilar to its natural surrounds.
A combination of rammed earth, concrete and rusty steel complements the landscape, and entirely conforms to the stated aim of digging in to the earth, and nestling away from the sometimes hostile elements. The planning shows a clear understanding of the concept of ‘holiday cottage’ that celebrates cooking, eating, reading and sleeping. The two bedrooms are complemented with a range of delightful nooks that makes one want to curl up and snooze.
COMMENDATION
NEDLANDS HOUSE
Simon Rodrigues Architect
Jim Nabbs Homes Pty Ltd
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
Subtly intriguing, this house demonstrates a congruency with its context that belies its simple rational expression, providing a thoughtful response to a clear brief and modest budget.
Set back from the street, the house has an urbane sophistication achieved through a restrained use of materials. Face brick, concrete soffits and steel trowelled render make for an elegant final expression, while an upper floor vaulted ceiling creates a sense of airiness and light. The result is an extraordinarily balanced and high quality reaction that creates quite the impression.
COMMENDATION
WINTER COTTAGE
1340 Brockman Highway
Bridgetown
Chindarsi Architects
Chindarsi Architects and Whitby Home Builders
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
Dramatically perched on an eastern slope, this is a overtly contemporary response to the site and brief for a rural residence. Delicately proportioned and fenestrated, this residence enjoys a holistic relationship with its larger site and topography. While it appropriated little embodied energy during construction, it is certainly representative of a highly energetic design phase. Material selection and detailing support the ESD rationale in an exemplarily manner.
ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
THE COLLIE STREET APARTMENT
Unit 6, 8 Collie Street
Fremantle
Spaceagency
Aliocha Merker
Jury Comments
In renovating an upper floor apartment in the heart of urban Fremantle, Spaceagency has produced a truly refined solution. Overall, the jury found the design very well considered and effective. Playful and abstract ideas form an original solution and an eye-catching apartment with street presence.
The scheme exhibits a high level of detail resolution and innovative use of space within tight constrains of a difficult site and the existing built fabric, a difficulty not reflected in the seamless and appropriate architectural response.
The re-instatement of the original balcony over the footpath has re-activated street interaction and vistas, adding considerably to the amenity of the space. Cleverly crafted and arranged cabinetwork has also been pertinent to the success of the design. The jury noted also the high level of skill in inserting a very modern scheme into an existing historic environment.
COMMENDATION
DUNEDIN STREET RESIDENCE
97 Dunedin Street
Mt Hawthorn
Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
Linkpin Constructions
Jury Comments
A very original scheme, the jury commends this project for its strong application of conceptual ideas, followed through to a resolved solution. While the main ideas are quite radical, the project also demonstrates a level of restraint at the detail level where some of the original house details have been subtly referenced and integrated without feeling out of place.
The jurors commend also, the restrained and sympathetic treatment of the street façade while offering a dynamic and playful modern rear addition, and all the while the two sitting comfortably together.
Duplex/Triplex and Multiple Residential Award - Sponsored by Homes and Living
COMMENDATION
TJUNTJUNTJARRA COMMUNITY HOUSING
Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
Urban Building Company
Finn Pedersen
Jury Comments
This remote project, located in the Great Victorian Desert, represents ‘a tough paddock’ for the delivery of an architectural housing program and is one in which only a few architects fear to tread.
The jury has recognised the significant contribution made by the architects in collaboration with the aboriginal community in addressing spiritual, symbolic and cultural issues incorporated in the project. This process was aided specifically through the inclusion of a specialist anthropologist (Sarah Yu) in the consultation team.
The building forms and detail strongly reflect both the living patterns in remote / rural communities and the harsh arid climatic conditions that prevail. Detailed consideration has been given to water consumption, energy consumption and general thermal comfort.
The project also incorporates a competent level of understanding of the specification required for sustaining the healthy living practices as prescribed in the Indigenous Housing Design Guidelines. This is a fine example of little ‘a’ architecture, full of the stuff that really matters in producing responsive and sustainable community housing.
COMMENDATION
AZURE APARTMENTS, MT PLEASANT
The Esplanade
Mt Pleasant
HPA Architects Planners Interior Designers
Mirvac Fini Construction
Jury Comments
The Azure Residential Apartment Building displays an overall competency in this category. It demonstrates both internally and externally a sensible and enjoyable flow of spaces. Well sited landscaped areas create a very usable communal space which will in time develop a strong sense of community between the inhabitants. Streetscape is well considered with a balance between architectural expression and contextual and environmental considerations.
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Civic Design Award - Sponsored by Midland Brick
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
THE MANDURAH WAR MEMORIAL
Leighton Road E
Halls Head
Mandurah
Hames Sharley
Pindan and City of Mandurah
Jury Comments
The jury was impressed with the nomination of the Mandurah War Memorial and without hesitation, concluded that the project was of a high quality in its civic design contribution, architectural and landscape design aspects and of such considerable community benefit, that an architecture award should be confirmed upon the project.
The brief required recognition of the position of the sun rising over the Mandurah waterfront on Anzac Day. A member of the jury attended the Anzac Day dawn service and reported the design’s outstanding and emotional result. The sun’s light enters and floods the space captured along the principal axis crated by the parallel procession to two lines of height graduated columns that rise from the waters edge, to reach a climax at a point identified by an inscribed black granite memorial obelisk forming a central feature of the complex.
The approach along the well landscaped Anzac Walk to introduce the memorial is less well defined than other prominent design foci - that intended at times of a memorial service gathering, and the axial emphasis arising from the Anzac Day dawn.
The Memorial’s day to day impact is somewhat diminished as a result and once inside the internal spaces of the monument, the interpretation of a moving message of remembrances is not immediately apparent. However the jury thought that there was, as a result, a quality of mystery and surprise which was appropriate to the design outcome.
Heritage Council Conservation Award - Sponsored by The Heritage Council of WA
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
EPRA OFFICES/OLD BAKERY REDEVELOPMENT
12 Lindsay Street
Northbridge
Jeff Considine - Considine Architects
Loxam Developments
Darren Mok/Jeff Considine/Nam Ngyuen
Jury Comments
This former three storey bakery and flour mill has been restored, modified and extended, incorporating ESD techniques, to create an architecturally exciting new office building. Responding to the adaptive reuse brief, new efficient and flexible work spaces have been imaginatively and sometimes dramatically layered into the old buildings.
Significant elements identified in the Conservation Plan, including much of the original coarse fabric and timber joinery, have been retained; contrasting with new functional and ESD initiated insertions.
ESD techniques employed include an automatically controlled environmental system that utilizes passive solar heating, natural cooling and split package air-conditioning using mainly fresh air. Naturally lit spaces are protected with roof and window screens. A ventilated form of double glazing has been added to the bakery façade. “Low E” glass has been used over film-protected glass to minimize the heat load from but retain the original Lindsay Street western windows.
Translucent double glazed polycarbonate sheeting to the new northern roof of the redevelopment is protected with appropriately angled louvre mesh to allow the upper part of the new space to function as a solar collector. Hot air is ducted to the southern work spaces as required, supplementing the automated system.
The treatment of new and existing spaces and the inclusion of imaginative interpretation, give the interior a unique character while celebrating the heritage of the place. A worthy winner of the 2006 Heritage Award.
COMMENDATION
LEVI WALLIS COTTAGE
251 Stanhope Road, Walliston
Philip Griffiths Architects
WA Feature Carpentry
Philip Griffiths
Jury Comments
Levi Wallis Cottage is a c1915 simple timber framed, sawn board clad cottage with a corrugated iron roof. Whilst the cottage is modest in scale it is significant through illustrating how people lived on the land in difficult conditions. Qualities of self sufficiency and self reliance are clearly evident.
Informed by a Conservation Plan the Architect and owners are to be congratulated for their perseverance and attention to detail. An example of this detail is the retention and conservation of hessian lining to the walls. The interiors inform the visitor in a sympathetic manner. Whilst our heritage icons are obvious landmarks for conservation our vernacular representative structures are extremely valuable in relaying stories about our heritage.
COMMENDATION
FREMANTLE PRISON TUNNELS PROJECT
Fremantle Prison
The Terrace, Fremantle
Palassis Architects
Colgan Industries
Jury Comments
The tunnel maze under the Prison and adjacent Hampton Road were built by convict labour to create a unique drinking water catchment for the fledgling City of Fremantle in the mid to late nineteenth century. Hand pumping water from the tunnels to above ground storage tanks was a form of further punishment for the convict prisoners working in manacles.
The tunnels are 20 metres below ground level, small punts allow visitors to travel sections of the 3m x 1.2m tunnels in collected water about 1 metre deep. The project has provided safe vertical access ladders to the tunnels without interference with the original fabric of the shafts. The new access method to the tunnels has enhanced the appeal of the prison complex by adding an element of adventure tourism.
The galvanised iron elements in the access elements and in the interpretation centre add to the “austere aesthetic”. The jury were most impressed with the presentation of access to this most significant concealed historical site.
Commercial Award - Sponsored by Fielders
Commercial is often a difficult category to judge. A small suburban office may be pitted against a multi-million dollar CBD project. But, regardless of size or complexity, the most pleasing aspects of the entries was the close attention paid by all firms to time, budget and building brief.
The general standard of entries was high, with some outstanding interiors, master planning and ESD solutions. It is notable, however, that the premiated buildings were successful in exterior and interior design as well as showing close attention to commercial issues.
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ABC) PERTH ACCOMMODATION PROJECT
HASSELL Joint Venture with Jones Coulter Young
John Holland Construction
Martin Farquharson
Jury Comments
This building is the outcome of a complex and difficult project that was 14 years in the making. The building is full of surprises - The Zen-like manager’s domain is open to the main lobby below and is the antithesis of a standard public service office - desk facing the wall, simple lines and minimalist furniture - successful design. The technical complexity of the spaces and the requirement for isolation is contrasted by the visual accessibility of the studios and control rooms.
The office spaces have exposed services devoid of suspended ceilings, whilst the circulation spaces are finely detailed and intimate. The office layouts have aided the decompartmentalisation of the organisation by placing once separated divisions in close contact with each other.
The open lobby and public spaces retain their accessible feel, despite recent security requirements to include screening. The privately run café adjacent to the main entry is a human touch that works socially and architecturally. As well as the electronic wizardry and state of the art lighting systems the physical requirements such as perfectly flat studio floors and acoustically absorptive floors all meet or exceed expectations.
The architectural integrity of exterior has been maintained, despite budget cuts late in the process. Surprisingly the ABC is not a photogenic building, but is rewarding in the flesh. On parting the building the jury asked how the staff felt about the new building, the General Manager, Geoff Duncan, looked to the receptionist who replied without hesitation, “I love it, we all love it”. Exit stage right.
COMMENDATION
THE BRISBANE HOTEL
Beaufort Street
Perth
Taylor Robinson
De Francesch Builders
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
This project is the latest in a series of commercial ventures by the same architect and client. The Brisbane has been transformed from an aged pub on the brink, to a sophisticated and pleasant bar and eatery.
The choice and use of materials is consistent and robust. The transition from the internal to external spaces is seamless and the terraces to the north of the building provide comfortable and elegant outdoor spaces day and night.
Though completely gutted, the original building lives on. The renovations are part of an accretion of change brought on by the evolving commercial realities of the hotel trade. The outcome is a clear indication of the understanding between architect and client. It is visually, socially and commercially successful. |
Interior Award Sponsored by Mondo lucê
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
FREMANTLE MAUSOLEUM
Cnr Leach Highway & Carrington Street
Palmyra
DesignInc
Martin Farquharson
Jury Comments
The Fremantle Mausoleum was the unanimous choice of the judges for the 2006 Architecture Interiors Award. The design demonstrates a whole-hearted commitment to all criteria used to make such a judgement and achieves a high overall architectural standard in the process.
The interior design is entirely consistent, integral with and indivisible from the whole concept. The interiors are sublime, bold, inspiring and architectonic in terms of the space created and the materials used, but also as the architect states, the building does “…provide a strong spiritual ambience, that evokes a sense of serenity, reverence and the eternal.”
COMMENDATION
UNIVERSITY CLUB OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
UWA, Office of Facilities Management
Donaldson + Warn Architects
Andrew Pritchard/Geoff Fisher/Martin Farquharson
Jury Comments
Beautifully appointed "club" style facilities providing a variety of options for meeting, conferencing, restaurant and cafe dining. Quality new materials have been combined with items of furniture from the University's past. The thoughtful and refined interior design seamlessly meshes with and complements the overall architectural concept."
COMMENDATION
BEACHVIEW COURT RESIDENCE
Richard Szklarz Architects
Richard Szklarz Architects Pty Ltd
David Morcombe
Jury Comments
The Beachview Court Residence is commended for the clarity, durability, effectiveness and simplicity of its interior design. The plan is a practical, pragmatic and informal interpretation of a brief for a family beach house, but at the same time the architects have created a transparent space, infused with natural light, that is a delight to inhabit and dwell in.
The interior space is a comfortable, yet subtly designed platform from which to take in the expansive ocean views. The materials used and the detailing employed are serviceable, crisp and contemporary, yet provide a degree of warmth essential to a family home.
COMMENDATION
484 MURRAY STREET (BG & E OFFICES)
484 Murray Street
Perth
The Buchan Group (WA)
Floreat Constructions Pty Ltd
Michael Conroy
Jury Comments
This office fit-out of an abandoned warehouse is commended for the effective and restrained interior design. Retained graffiti ‘frames and personalises sections of the open plan office’ from the time when rave parties were held here.
Interventions including a transparent bridge and new mezzanine deck, are simply and crisply designed. Timber roof trusses were retained, an inserted boardroom divides a separate front tenancy and overlooks the Service Ramp entry, celebrated with a long water chute running towards the street.
COMMENDATION
THE BOTANICAL AT BURSWOOD ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX
Great Eastern Highway
Burswood
Banham Architects
PS Structures
Annetta Ashman
Jury Comments
A contemporary and functional fitout to expand the banqueting facilities from previous basement carparking space. The new area incorporates three stylish adaptable meeting rooms, a pre-function lounge, dispensing bar, kitchen and restrooms. A seamless addition to a 5 star complex.
Ecologically Sustainable Development Award - Sponsored by Tarkett
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
WINTER COTTAGE
1340 Brockman Highway
Bridgetown
Chindarsi Architects
Chindarsi Architects and Whitby Home Builders
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
Ultimately, in line with the RAIA Environmental Policy, Ecologically Sustainable Development criteria ought to be intrinsic to the architecture of any building, just as we expect to see function, value, buildability, durable quality and delight. The Winter Cottage is such a work. Chindarsi Architects have created a home in which all the systems are integrated, sometimes invisibly, sometimes as a celebrated element of the architectural composition, one that sits comfortably in its rural hillside setting.
The Winter House scores well in terms of energy assessment. It utilises aspects of passive solar design, thermal mass and natural ventilation with evaporative and night cooling. Water is harvested, used and reused. Organic wastes are processed via a composting toilet, and go to nourish the gardens. Photo-voltaics provide power to low consumption LED luminaries, and the sun heats the water.
And it all just works … beautifully! Above all, it is a home, lovingly crafted to celebrate a peaceful life.
COMMENDATION
BUNBURY MAIN ROADS OFFICE
HASSELL
Perkins Builders
Robert Frith and Paul Webster
Jury Comments
Bunbury Main Roads Office proves that the integration of systems towards Ecologically Sustainable Development can offer functional, striking architecture that provides a comfortable and practical working environment, to a commercially realistic budget.
The building integrates VRV air-conditioning and heat stack ventilation through computer control for thermal comfort, backed up with orientation, solar balancing, thermal mass and operable windows. There is good natural light. Water is recycled and organic wastes processed on site. This was completed with fitout materials chosen for longevity and considering environmental credentials. The result is an architecture that echoes regional context, again demonstrating that ESD is becoming mainstream in the work of thoughtful Architects and enlightened Clients.
Archicentre Award - Sponsored by Archicentre Pty Ltd
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ARCHITECTURE AWARD
COTTESLOE FLAT
14 McNamara Way
Cottesloe
Fringe Architects
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
This clever refit, built to a tiny $36,000 budget, revitalises and transforms the tired interior of a two room, split-level studio apartment, situated in a low cost, poorly oriented, concrete and brick 1964 block of flats.
Every visible surface has been renewed, the renovation sitting like a thin skin inside the old, damp shell. The deep tones of the Jarrah windows and doors have been revealed, the refurbished openings enabling the damp to be dried out so that a new floating floor of blonde timber could be overlaid.
This wood palette extends to the Kitchen fitout, while the Bathroom, bathed in light from the glass-walled shower stall, glows with the green of glass mosaic tiles. Plasterboard linings, with shadow line joints, help the floor hide new wiring for lights, power and communications, and complete this slick, modern interior renovation, which certainly “feels” bigger than its mere 45 square metres would suggest.
COLORBOND® steel Award - Sponsored by BlueScope Steel
WALMAJARRI OFFICES & STAFF HOUSE FOR DJUGERARI COMMUNITY
Djugerari Community
Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
Franmor Constructions
Jury Comments
Steel has been used extensively and appropriately in this building complex. The design capitalises on steel’s lightness, portability and its ability to be prefabricated off site and/or cut to precise lengths in order to minimise rework and waste. The design incorporates a split column system, coupling the slender columns with connectors thereby reducing the overall weight for transport.
Simple portal frames and a shed type construction provides a protective parasol roof with well insulated habitable cubes below. This breezeway invokes a convection effect through this space and casts a wide shadow in a hot, arid zone. The columns splay into a simple tree like form shortening the span and reducing the beam sizes required. All the necessary ingredients of success in a building in remote locations.
Light steel frame studwork form the structure of the walls finished with plywood and compressed fibre cement sheet. Protective horizontal custom orb sheet provides sun protection as required. Overall, the complex is a simple, rugged solution, innovatively using steel in simple rugged fashion. A solution befitting for a rugged landscape in a remote location.
COMMENDATION
WINTER COTTAGE
1340 Brockman Highway
Bridgetown
Chindarsi Architects
Chindarsi Architects and Whitby Home Builders
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
Steel has been used throughout the building and the simple “Miesian” structural system is exposed both inside and out. Two large exposed verindale trusses provide a longitudinal brace to the building and contributes to the support of a large cantilevered balcony.
The steel tensile ties further work with the truss to provide lateral support to the building. Finally the gabion rock wall is contained in a steel mesh wire tied together and laid in a sketcher course. Overall the design has addressed the location and has used a number of materials and building systems that have enabled its component parts to be manufactured off-site. The building has successfully integrated a number of sustainability initiatives has to be commended for its overall design innovation.
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SHENTON PARK RESIDENCE
Philip Griffiths Architects
Consortium Builders Pty Ltd
Philip Griffiths
Jury Comments
The lighting to this new residence elegantly integrates with the architecture, enhancing the building's forms and features in a modest and understated fashion. Mood lighting mixes comfortably with functional lighting. Careful thought has been given to the lighting of the owner’s extensive artwork collection, both indoors and outdoors. The resulting solution is an excellent example of a well considered integrated lighting solution, one which serves to enhance the architecture, not dominate it.
COMMENDATION
WINTER COTTAGE
1340 Brockman Highway
Bridgetown
Chindarsi Architects
Chindarsi Architects and Whitby Home Builders
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
Joe Chindarsi’s Winter Cottage in Bridgetown is a small yet lovingly detailed dwelling perched scenically below the crest of a ridge overlooking the rolling hills of the Blackwood River Valley. With thoughtful detailing, the architect has utilised a range of standard fittings to achieve a highly refined rendering of the building. Fittings have been sensitively selected and placed to highlight the building well.
At night, the use of light in conjunction with the transparency of the structure creates a warm glow perched on the hillside - akin to a jewellery box in the wilderness. The architect should be commended for taking advantage of the artful use of lighting to reinforce the picturesque qualities of the building as a whole. In addition to this, the lighting strategy as been defined by parameters of energy conservation and a humane understanding of the everyday function and needs of the client. The project is to be commended for its sensible, sensitive and seamless use of lighting as an integral part of the overall strength of an excellent project.”
COMMENDATION
THE BRISBANE HOTEL
Beaufort Street
Perth
Taylor Robinson
De Francesch Builders
Robert Frith
Jury Comments
In the Brisbane Hotel redevelopment, the architects have skillfully employed a range of lighting solutions to enhance the unique qualities of each of the different zones inside and outside the venue.
The jury was impressed by the sensible blend of discrete and feature lighting. Attention to the lighting design is equally evidenced by the deliberate reduction of luminance in some areas as it is by the custom designed feature light fittings in others. Light forms an integral component in the rich palette of design elements that make a consistently high quality redevelopment project.
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