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Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia Shelter

The Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia Shelter in Alice Springs provides crisis accommodation for women and their children who are experiencing domestic violence, offering safe respite, restoration of dignity and respect to those finding themselves in need of its shelter.

Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Services (PAMS) Newman Clinic

The PAMS Newman Clinic is a built project that opened in 2020. It is the first primary healthcare clinic facility to be built in Newman. Following the vision of the Nyiyaparli and Martu Peoples, the Newman Clinic gives Aboriginal people access to community controlled and culturally appropriate health services.

Blak Box

Blak Box is a public art installation meant to encourage visitors to concepts of Indigeneity through sound. The intent of the storytelling project is to travel throughout many Countries utilising music, poetry and language.

Walumba Elders Centre

Walumba Elders Centre is a disaster relief response-built project. The Elders Centre provides private accommodation and multiple levels of care to residents as well as public community and cultural spaces.

Groote Archipelago Housing Project

Groote Archipelago Housing Project is the incorporation The Groote Housing Master Plan and the Groote Housing Guide into a built project. The strategy was to improve the poorly built and culturally inappropriate houses in Groote Eylandt with 100 new houses. The project’s goal was to build no more than 6–10 culturally and climatically appropriate houses per year and design them for long term and in such a way that local contractors can do the work. The Fulcrum Agency began work on this project 7 years ago and it is ongoing.

Bunjil Place

A built project featuring diverse cultural facilities and community spaces under one roof. The design features central focus on interpretation of the land in the culture of the Traditional Owners and inhabitants, the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and Boon Wurrung people. Completed in 2017, the project features public theatres, gallery, library, exhibition and meetings spaces.

Six ways to Indigenize practice

The article is a summary of six articles from Architecture Australia’s Indigenizing Practice series, which details the myriad ways incorporating Indigenous knowledge can enrich the built environment.

Gibbons Street Redfern

Gibbons Street is a Multi Residential built project that was completed in 2021. It is a mixed-use development of 160 social and affordable living units in a tower form with retail and commercial space. The design responds to Aboriginal historical and cultural context, featuring Aboriginal heritage items and materials that are significant in the streetscape of the area along with featured Aboriginal artists’ works.

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