New Farm State School | BVN
The heritage listed New Farm State School has taken a leap towards the future of education while respecting the distinctive character of its neighbourhood.
New Farm residents are understandably proud of their suburb as a characteristic place. While devising a new master plan for the campus, we demonstrated an inclusive process of community engagement, running multiple workshops with the school and public.
The expanded campus visually integrates with the neighbourhood, brings more green space to the area, improves wayfinding and traffic flow and incorporates a welcoming place for community engagement and participation.
A new learning street has been cut through the middle of the school, linking the original facilities with two new multistorey contemporary learning hubs, connected by outdoor rooms. The learning street flows between indoor and outdoor learning and play spaces, creating a series of vibrant and colourful contemporary learning environments with a neighbourhood street feel.
Prince of Wales Hospital: Acute Services Building | BVN with TERROIR
The new Prince of Wales Hospital, Acute Services Building (ASB) is located on the land of the Bidjigal peoples adjoining the existing Prince of Wales Hospital and the UNSW Kensington campus. The building is the first built outcome of a long masterplanning process. The project both provides a vital boost to existing hospital’s capacity, and supports the need to embed research, education and training initiatives into day to day clinical practice.
At the heart of the project is a public landscaped courtyard. An important welcoming space, incorporating meeting settings, landscape and artworks that connect to a country narrative. Wrapping the courtyard an internal entry space is designed as an extension of the garden bringing together research and education, shops and community and cultural facilities. The building’s form is broken into a series of layered elements, creating terraces at upper levels that offer further opportunities for landscape and the use of outdoor spaces.
Nightingale Marrickville | SJB
Nightingale Marrickville is collaboration with Fresh Hope Communities and Nightingale Housing. It is the first purpose built affordable build to rent housing project for SJB, Nightingale and Fresh Hope. Comprising 54 Teilhaus homes and two commercial tenancies at ground, the project provides a build to rent community offering that’s affordable, at 80% of the going market rate in the area.
Homes at Nightingale Marrickville are allocated through a balloting process that gives everyone a fair chance at becoming a resident. 50% will be allocated to priority groups, including First Nations Australians, single women over 55, individuals with a disability, and key community contributors. All ballotters will be subject to an income cap.
Teilhaus, meaning part of house in German, are space efficient, small footprint homes that maintain functionality through joinery and the addition of community spaces. The project was designed to prioritise sustainability and cost efficiency.
Larrakeyah: Shared User Facility | BVN
The Shared User Facility (SUF) is a new multipurpose building at Larrakeyah Defence Precinct, on the edge of Darwin Harbour. It brings together previously disparate Navy and Base groups in new contemporary working accommodation.
The simple cranked form follows the edge of an escarpment overlooking HMAS Coonawarra, and is oriented to the south to minimise solar heat gain and reduce the need for sun shading, with fullheight glazing that provides high levels of natural light, and direct sightlines to the wharf.
A double height foyer links the customer service, conference and training facilities on the ground floor with the upper level, which comprises a flexible and adaptable office environment.
Addressing Defence’s strong focus on sustainability, the materials palate is robust, with a focus on low-maintenance and long-life cycles, particularly in the corrosive marine environment. These are rigorously detailed, with a focus on scale, modulation, and proportion.
Lidcombe Rise | Plus Architecture
Lidcombe Rise, at 236 Church St Lidcombe, is the first Communities Plus Development to be delivered in NSW. Communities Plus is an initiative by the NSW government to revitalise and expand its stock of Social Housing across NSW by partnering with private developers and NGO’s.
Comprising four buildings housing 376 apartments,the foundational design principle guiding the design and development teams was the notion of equity of amenity across the residential typologies provided. From the experience of the residents as they entered from the street into their lobbies and to their apartments, the quality of the ground floor amenity zones and the amenity offered by the apartments themselves, the overall offering was designed to be indistinguishable between the different types of tenure offered, realising the opportunity implicit within the provision of such developments that the base nature and dignity of the occupant doesn’t change, regardless of circumstance.
International Grammar School: Renaissance Centre | BVN
The Project was envisaged to be the anchor project for this part of the campus, operating a city block away from its main buildings.
The public domain functions as the school corridors, shared with the Ultimo community as the learning within the classrooms adds to the activation of the streetscape.
The outcome of several consultation workshops saw three key elements would be the driving aspirations for the project to succeed.
It was designed to be a forum for exchange of ideas, a place where thinkers can gather in the round and share their work with the school, and vice versa.
Working on making flexible and inspiring spaces with an existing structural grid and a low ceiling, whilst aiming for an exceptional acoustic performance were the biggest challenges.
Each space aims to quickly adapt to the needs of the users, implementing different tools to open up or divide areas into more intimate spaces.
Huntington | SJB
Running parallel to the Hunter River, Huntington at 35 Honeysuckle Drive is a key node in the Newcastle Honeysuckle Precinct urban renewal corridor, evolving the foreshore into a highly connected, mixed use precinct. Poised to play an important role in enlivening the precinct this new residential development introduces significant retail to the ground plane and 90 apartments above, across two buildings.
The success of the Honeysuckle precinct is intrinsically linked to the connectivity between the city and the water’s edge and its activation. Huntington stitches the old town at the south to the foreshore boulevard through permeability and the introduction of protected, north facing retail spaces. The material palette also speaks to the site’s differing conditions, with a playful brick façade facing Honeysuckle Drive which opens to the north to capture views and light and reflect the palette of industry across the river.
Artie Smith Oval Cricket & AFL Sports Pavilion | LocalArchitect South Coast in association with Barnacle studio
The Artie Smith AFL and cricket pavillion in Bombaderry by Local Architect South Coast in association with Barnacle Studio provides a gathering place for sports enthusiasts, families, and friends. Reflecting inclusive values, it welcomes people of all ages, genders, backgrounds, and abilities as an integral part of a design that provides for multiple purposes and uses within a state level sporting facility. The pavilion is part of a broader masterplan and sports complex for Bomaderry which has heightened its amenity and potential scale of sporting events, whilst giving a sense of recognition and worth to a regional community.
Wrapping the buildings around the much-loved Sydney blue gums of Artie Smith Oval, the long roof line becomes a dominant element that provides continuity and rhythm as well as shade and shelter. Echoing the meandering escarpment line to the West it is integrated within a suburban context.
Huntington | SJB
Running parallel to the Hunter River, Huntington at 35 Honeysuckle Drive is a key node in the Newcastle Honeysuckle Precinct urban renewal corridor, evolving the foreshore into a highly connected, mixed-use precinct. Poised to play an important role in enlivening the precinct this new residential development introduces significant retail to the ground plane and 90 apartments above, across two buildings.
The success of the Honeysuckle precinct is intrinsically linked to the connectivity between the city and the water’s edge and its activation. Huntington stitches the old town at the south to the foreshore boulevard through permeability and the introduction of protected, north-facing retail spaces. The material palette also speaks to the site’s differing conditions, with a playful brick façade facing Honeysuckle Drive which opens to the north to capture views and light and reflect the palette of industry across the river.
The Greenland Centre | BVN with Woods Bagot
