Ravensthorpe Cultural Precinct | Peter Hobbs Architects with Advanced Timber Concepts and Intensive Fields

The Ravensthorpe Cultural Precinct provides an essential piece of community infrastructure to the Shire of Ravensthorpe. The complex houses the Shire offices, Council Chambers, the Community Resource Centre and Library, community kitchen, professional offices, and a training room. A Senior’s centre and a creche are accommodated within a large multipurpose space.

Structured around a series of internal and external courtyards and verandahs, the facility offers a wide variety of informal and formal gathering, entertainment, social outreach and business spaces for the community. The building is constructed entirely from renewable FSC certified timber. The structural frame is an LVL [Laminated Veneer Lumber] fabricated offsite while all the finishing timber is WA plantation grown Yellow Stringy Bark. The precinct also seeks to service travelling visitors with an interpretive centre offering information on the Fitzgerald Biosphere and the regions history, a caravan and mobile home servicing area, EV fast chargers and ample parking.

Albany Senior High School – Performing Arts Centre | Roberts Gardiner Architects

The new Albany Senior High School Performing Arts Centre has confidently taken its place alongside Albany’s iconic heritage listed school buildings located amongst the weathered granite outcrops and protected bushland on the Northern side of Mt Clarence.

The new state-of-the-art ASHS Performing Arts Centre has breathed new life to the aging and underperforming old community-built Albany Youth Centre constructed in 1969. The old building structure was protected from further degradation and the new alterations and extensions to this local culturally significant facility have resulted in a contemporary learning, teaching and performance hub that nurtures and encourages Regional Performing Arts.

Additionally, the building sets an exemplary standard for sustainability and the adaptive re-use of aging infrastructure, providing an innovative model for students and the community and inspiring creativity and academic excellence. The centre provides a strong focal point for cultural enrichment to celebrate the arts.