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Quality architecture is years in the making. Research, innovation, and creative development are often unseen until the unveiling of our finished buildings. Journal is the diary of Bates Smart, opening the doors to our culture, process and everyday innovation. Its role is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and ignite an ongoing discourse between our people, our clients, our colleagues and the broader public. It is open to anyone who has an interest in architecture and how the discipline of design is shaping our cities.This document is a selection of projects that represent some of the practice's current buildings and interiors projects.We invite you to join the conversation and visit Journal online at

http://journal.batessmart.com

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Collins Square, concept sketch Cover:NSW Government Service Centre, façade detail

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03 SYDNEY’S NEWEST LANDMARK TOWER420 George Street

Sydney

11 JEWEL IN THE CITY171 Collins Street

Melbourne

15 SOCIAL CHANGE

IN THE WORKPLACESydney Water

Potts Hill, Sydney

20 MEDIA HOUSE

AT WORKMedia House

Melbourne

29 NSW GOVERNMENT SERVICE CENTRE

Queanbeyan, NSW

30 TURNING A CORNER

CBWMelbourne

36 BAKER & MCKENZIE

Melbourne

38 NEW ROYAL

CHILDREN’S HOSPITALMelbourne

42 NATIONAL CENTRE FOR

SYNCHROTRON SCIENCEClayton, Melbourne

44 SYDNEY STUDIO AT WORK

Sydney

46 A NEW CONNEQ FOR SUCCESS

ConneqRyde, Sydney

50 COLLINS SQUARE

Docklands, Melbourne

52 UTS COMPETITION

UTS Broadway BuildingSydney

55 DISCOVERY POINT

Wolli Creek, Sydney

57 COLOUR IN CONTEXT

Urbanest Student HousingHaymarket, Sydney

60 SITE 3

SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARKHomebush, Sydney

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420 GEORGE STREET

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SYDNEY’S NEWEST

LANDMARK TOWER

—Blending commercial office

space and prime retail—

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420 George Street, commercial lobbyOpposite page: 420 George Street, towerPrevious page:420 George Street, commercial lobby

420 GEORGE STREET SYDNEY

Our challenge was to insert a large-scale retail and commercial complex seamlessly into the fabric of Sydney. Bates Smart has created a landmark contemporary addition to the City that respects its historic neighbours and provides a vibrant public mid-block link between George and Pitt Streets.

The 36-level office tower is expressed as two contrasting volumes. A solid granite volume houses the core and a transparent glazed volume houses the floorplates, presented as ‘trays’ suspended between two planes of glass. The adjacent 10-storey atrium provides privacy and daylight access with the amenity of a low-rise, campus-style office.

The uncompromisingly modern retail podium is treated as an insertion into the streetscape and references its historic neighbours with sensitivity. The podium façade reinterprets the cornices and vertical masonry elements of the adjoining heritage buildings in a fresh contemporary language.

420 George Street has been designed to achieve a 5 star Green Star rating.

420 George Street has been short-listed for the 2011 NSW Australian Institute of Architects design awards.

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“420 GEORGE STREET CONTINUES OUR EXPLORATION OF MODERN

FORMS AND MATERIALS WORKING HARMONIOUSLY WITH

HERITAGE NEIGHBOURS.”—

PHILIP VIVIANDirector

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1. Commercial office entry foyer 2. Car park lift 3. Stairs 4. George Street retail entry 5. Pitt Street retail entry 6. Through link to adjacent retail 7. Retail arcade 8 Retail tenants 9. Retail lift 10. Retail goods lift 11. Lower ground access 12. Escalators

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420 George Street, retail arcadeOpposite page: 420 George Street, Pitt Street retail entryPrevious page:420 George Street, Pitt Street Mall retail façade

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“420 GEORGE STREET STRIKES THE ILLUSIVE

BALANCE BETWEEN A STRONG RETAIL

PRESENCE AND CORPORATE IDENTITY.”

—SIMON SWANEY

Director

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171 COLLINS STREET

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JEWEL IN THE CITY

—The façade of 171 Collins Street creates

a new and cohesive relationship with the spires of St Paul’s Cathedral

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171 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE

171 Collins Street will deliver a premium, new-generation workplace to Collins Street. The new tower will have an elegant crystalline appearance – like a jewel in the City.

The woven façade is inspired by the building’s relationship to the spires of St Paul’s Cathedral, echoing the Cathedral’s multi-faceted geometry.

A subtle folding of the building’s skin creates crystalline undulations. Delicate angling of the façade elements reflect light from the sky to the base of the tower. This gives the whole building a lightweight, ephemeral appearance.

The design provides visual articulation without being overly dominant. It maintains a quiet elegance – almost restoring the sky as a backdrop for the spires of St Paul’s.

The Collins Street frontage retains the façade of the historic Mayfair Building, which is transformed through the insertion of a dazzling, light-filled atrium. In Flinders Lane, the building reinterprets the masonry heritage of the Lane in a language of glass and steel through a combination of opacity, transparency and textured surfaces.

The building grows from its urban context and provides a new pedestrian link between Collins Street and the vibrant atmosphere of Flinders Lane.

The building embraces the latest in 6 star sustainable design, with the added benefit of air distribution through an underfloor plenum.

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171 Collins Street, Flinders Lane entry 171 Collins Street, Flinders Lane concept sketchOpposite page:171 Collins Street, atriumPrevious page:171 Collins Street, city panorama

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SYDNEY WATER

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SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE

WORKPLACE—

The new workplace for Sydney Water’s Infrastructure Group, in suburban Potts Hill,

signals that things are changing—

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SOUTH ELEVATION

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SYDNEY WATER POTTS HILL, SYDNEY

For too long the benefits of social and environmental change in contemporary workspaces have been reserved for CBD office workers, while those in operational and technical roles have continued to work in traditional spaces. Our new workplace design for the Sydney Water Infrastructure Group sends a signal that change is underway.

This workplace responds directly to the specific needs of Sydney Water field workers. The egalitarian design expresses Sydney Water’s corporate values: transparency, accessibility and efficiency. The open floor plan provides maximum flexibility and encourages interaction.

The materials used – polished concrete floors, perforated plywood panels, and natural timber cladding – serve as a reminder of the building’s semi-industrial purpose. Their detailing is refined and contemporary.

The new offices are designed to achieve 5 star ABGR and Green Star ratings, with environmentally sustainable design features such as mixed-mode ventilation, rainwater harvesting and extensive sun shading.

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Sydney Water, exteriorPrevious page:Sydney Water, rainwater harvesting tanks

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Sydney Water, atrium spaceOpposite page:Sydney Water, outdoor communal space

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“THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BUILDING IS A DIRECT EXPRESSION

OF SYDNEY WATER’S CORPORATE VALUES: TRANSPARENCY,

ACCESSIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY.”—

GUY LAKEDirector

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MEDIA HOUSE

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MEDIA HOUSE AT WORK

—The building embodies an

understanding of how media content is created and delivered today

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Media House, workspaceOpposite page:Media House, civic plazaPrevious page:Media House, city panorama

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“THE ENTIRE GROUND FLOOR IS TREATED AS AN INSIDE/OUTSIDE PUBLIC SPACE,

EMBRACING THE STREET AND EXPRESSING THE CIVIC PRESENCE OF THE AGE.”

—ROGER POOLE

Director

MEDIA HOUSE MELBOURNE

No industry has been transformed more dramatically by the digital revolution than the media. Quality content is still critical to media success, but the delivery preferences of customers are now very fluid. Fairfax Media’s new Melbourne headquarters brings its print, radio and digital assets together under one roof, and marks the company’s transition from a print-based culture to a purpose-built “new media” studio environment.

The design of the new workplace was conceived in three dimensions, to ensure efficient information flows not only within teams but also between levels of the building. A pair of open, transparent stairs encourages movement, while adjacent staff hubs and meeting rooms encourages easy, spontaneous collaboration.

Floor plan configurations promote flexible workflow and facilitate changing work processes, incorporating enclosed quiet rooms, meeting spaces, and collaborative breakout zones.

The ambience is modern and dynamic. The predominantly neutral colour palette is enlivened by splashes of bold colour that assist navigation. Selections from the client’s vast photo archive reinforce the organisation’s culture. To evoke the atmosphere of a media studio, much of the structure is left exposed, with expressed services and lighting.

With its civic character and iconic elongated form, the building occupies 160 metres of Collins Street frontage. Media House creates a gateway, bridging between the City’s historic heart and the emerging Docklands precinct. The entire ground floor is accessible to the public and visually open to the street. The building expresses not only the transparency so important to the credibility of news media, but also the deep connection between The Age and the people of Melbourne.

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Opposite page:Media House, lobby Media House, mezzanine

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Media House, stairwayOpposite page:Media House, workspace and breakout areas

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New South Wales Government Service Centre, exterior and details

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“RATIONAL AND YET RAW AND

ELEMENTAL.”—

MAITIú WARDEditor, Architectural

Review Australia

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NSW GOVERNMENT SERVICE CENTRE

—A robust expression of civic purpose expressed in a material

that draws on the landscape character of the area—

NSW GOVERNMENT SERVICE CENTRE QUEANBEYAN, NSW

As Queanbeyan’s first significant new public building in over twenty years, the design of the Government Service Centre demanded both a sense of civic gravitas and sensitivity to the town’s well-established built and natural landscapes.

A single grand visual gesture responds to this dual imperative and reinvigorates Queanbeyan’s civic precinct. A massive folded roof form, clad in weathering steel, wraps around the sides of the building and frames views into the landscape beyond.

As the steel oxidises, the cor-ten cladding will come to match the russet hue of the town’s historic brick buildings as well as recalling the rugged landscape of the surrounding Monaro Plains. Viewed from afar, the effect is unquestionably modern and yet aligned with local history through its materials and inherent strength. Closer inspection of the building reveals a high level of refinement and the considered use of complementary materials.

The Centre has achieved a 4.5 NABERS rating and exploits the benefits of passive solar design.

The Centre won the John Andrews Award for Commercial Architecture in the 2009 ACT Australian Institute of Architects design awards.

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CBW

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TURNING A CORNER

—CBW is a pair of distinctive

new office towers at the corner of Bourke and William Street,

in Melbourne’s centre—

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“CBW INJECTS NEW LIFE, COLOUR AND ENERGY INTO THIS

IMPORTANT CORNER SITE.” —

ROGER POOLEDirector

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CBW, lane way view CBW, 550 Bourke Street podium detailOpposite page:CBW, Melbourne’s legal precinct

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CBW, 181 William Street lobby Opposite page: CBW, 550 Bourke Street lobby

CBW MELBOURNE

CBW revitalises a neglected part of Melbourne, injecting new life, colour and energy into this important corner site. The two new towers form a lively multi-level retail hub, building on Melbourne’s laneway tradition.

181 William Street is a 26-level split-core office tower. The glass façade has a rich and varied palette of glazing, developed to link the building to the urban and natural environment. The range of seven façade colours has been distributed in a manner inspired by the dot painting techniques of Indigenous artworks.

The second tower, 550 Bourke Street, is configured to ensure maximum sun penetration to the public space below. The tower has a slim profile and curved façade, giving it a distinctly different shape and treatment from its neighbour at 181 William Street.

The whole precinct incorporates passive and mechanical environmental measures to deliver a 5 star Green Star sustainability rating. Bates Smart worked with SJB Architects on CBW. NH Architects were consultants to this team on the retail element of the project.

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“THE KEY DESIGN AIM FOR THE GROUND PLANE IS FOR IT

TO INTEGRATE SUCCESSFULLY WITH THE SURROUNDING PRECINCT.”

—JIM MILLEDGE

Director

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BAKER & McKENZIE

—This workspace expresses

Baker & McKenzie’s unique approach: balancing global reach with local focus

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BAKER & MCKENZIE MELBOURNE

The workspace created for law firm Baker & McKenzie reflects the collegiate, team-focused culture of the practice. Clusters of single and dual-occupancy offices are arranged to maximise team interaction. All share views of the Melbourne skyline through full-height glass walls.

Democratic floor planning is complemented by materials selected to express innovation, warmth and progress. The natural textures of walnut wall panelling and travertine flooring contrast with sleek, highly finished surfaces. Black, mirror-finished stainless steel doors and frameless glass provide a note of crisp sophistication while natural materials signal a welcoming warmth.

The office occupies three floors in 181 William Street, a tower within Bates Smart’s 5 Green-Star CBW complex in Melbourne. A key design decision was to connect all three levels with an open stair which brings together the primary communal activities of the practice. The library is distributed over several levels, with casual meeting and social spaces that bring staff together. In the void at the centre of the stair is a striking sculpture of woven red anodised aluminium by artist Stephen Hennessy.

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Baker & McKenzie, reception Baker & McKenzie, connecting stair and voidOpposite page:Baker & McKenzie, research and break out space Baker & McKenzie, library and break out space

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“INNOVATIVE SHARED STAFF SPACES ARE CONNECTED BY A CENTRAL COMMUNAL

STAIR AND STRIKING SCULPTURE.” —

JEFFERY COPOLOVDirector

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NEW ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, MELBOURNE

—Writing for World Health Design, Director Kristen Whittle

explains the thinking behind the natural elements which are integrated into the design of the New Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne

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NEW ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MELBOURNE

After millennia in natural environments, humans have contrived to develop urban communities of great convenience, but with little of the soft natural fascination of our ancestors’ environment. Parkland gives us back the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the pleasing, recuperative qualities of nature, engendering the simultaneous combinations of rest and stimulation which can aid healing.

In the 20th century, architect Alvar Aalto showed how design could be shaped through a dialogue with natural settings. His formal language and use of materials showed how new and sometimes abstract design could convey a sense of familiarity and warmth whilst being very well resolved in a functional and ergonomic sense.

This range of conceptual influences underpinned our approach when we began our design journey with the New Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne. There can be no doubt that the successful creation of a psycho-socially supportive environment is determined by an agreement between client and architect to give priority to the users’ experience of the building. Our approach has been supported by the Department of Health Victoria and the RCH, our consortium leaders Amber Infrastructure Group, Bovis Lend Lease and Spotless Group, and also joint venture architects Billard Leece and consultants HKS. PICTURED

New Royal Children’s Hospital, main entrance

The hospital design seeks to emulate the soft fascination of nature. Built on parkland, the project draws on salutogenic design principles to bring the park into the building and, at the same time, establish an external appearance that helps bring the building into the park. Our goal in the development of RCH was to awaken the senses, by creating form and texture that are a clear analogy to nature and working to reproduce a man-made nature experience in buildings.

The opportunity created by the brief and the park site was to pursue a design in which nature would nurture – where recovery would be faster and wellbeing enhanced by accommodating children, their families and RCH staff in a building that would embrace and reflect the best of nature.

The ‘park in the building’ concept has influenced every aspect of the hospital’s planning. Attention has been given to the natural textures, forms and colours of the park and how this can refer directly to the material expression of the building. A unique aesthetic language has resulted, which forms a new benchmark for hospital design and shows how healthcare spaces infused with nature can speak to the child.This is an extract of an article published in World Health Design, October 2010

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New Royal Children’s Hospital, street façade New Royal Children’s Hospital, interior streetOpposite page:New Royal Children’s Hospital, aerial view

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“THE OPPORTUNITY CREATED BY THE BRIEF

AND THE PARK SITE WAS TO PURSUE A DESIGN

IN WHICH NATURE WOULD NURTURE.”

—KRISTEN WHITTLE

Director

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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SYNCHROTRON SCIENCE

—The light fantastic

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National Centre for Synchrotron Science, exterior National Centre for Synchrotron Science, exterior night viewOpposite page:National Centre for Synchrotron Science, interior model

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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SYNCHROTRON SCIENCE

—The light fantastic

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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SYNCHROTRON SCIENCE CLAYTON, MELBOURNE

Bates Smart embraces the elegant and bizarre world of the sub-atomic in a building which presents the public face of Australia’s peak electromagnetic radiation research instrument: the Australian Synchrotron.

The design adopts light as the fundamental basis for the architecture, presenting the visible part of the light spectrum in the façade. A transparent skin and backlighting marks the first encounter with light as people arrive. Internally, the architecture provides a highly functional response to the needs of a sophisticated building user while providing an intriguing encounter for the casual visitor.

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“LIGHT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF THE ARCHITECTURE.”

—KRISTEN WHITTLE

Director

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1. Entry 2. Gallery 3. Theatre 4. Classrooms 5. Café

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SYDNEY STUDIO AT WORK

—16 years of

exceptional growth—

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Established in 1995, Bates Smart’s Sydney studio has enjoyed enviable growth. Now, as a stable group of approximately 90, our studio combines a diverse range of creative and technical talents into a highly effective team.

We have established a steady base of loyal clients and continue to win new work through design competitions and other competitive processes.

One of the key reasons for our success has been our focus. We work across a broad range of sectors but within clearly defined parameters. We regularly decline work rather than jeopardise service to existing clients. As relative newcomers to Sydney, we elected to focus on serving our local clients (in a range of national and international locations) rather than chasing new international markets.

Our Sydney-based directors Philip Vivian, Simon Swaney and Guy Lake spend the majority of their day focused on clients and every project in the office receives a director’s attention for the duration of its journey, from concept to delivery.

Practice management is led by two Associate Directors, both qualified architects. Together they oversee our people and resourcing, responding to new business enquiries, client reviews, and other practice management tasks. Their background as architects and their commitment to staff and clients provide us with a strong management core. They ensure that we coordinate feedback from clients and staff into a programme of constant improvement.

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CONNEQ

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A NEW CONNEQ

FOR SUCCESS

—The workplace concept is derived from four elements:

connection, material, scale, and environment. Together these seek to give a group of engineers

a different view of themselves and their workplace—

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Conneq, reception Conneq, circulation stairOpposite page:Conneq, circulation stair

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“The transformation for the organisation is pivotal and positions Conneq

to meet the challenges of the future.” —

SIMON SWANEYDirector

CONNEQ RYDE, SYDNEY

Conneq is a specialist engineering company focused on infrastructure. Following significant growth the development of new premises formed a key component of the management plan to unify the organisation and generate a new culture of transparency, equity, flexibility and forward thinking.

The tenancy occupies three levels with a dramatic central void and stair interconnecting the organisation physically, visually and metaphorically. The stair features 12-metre long steel tubes drawing reference from the industry of the organisation. Cladding panels are formed using simple siding from site sheds refinished in warm metallic tones.

The levels are inverted so that staff areas are on the top floor with prime views over adjacent bushland. Planning is simple and rational with enclosed spaces held away from the perimeter to benefit all occupants. The mood of the interiors is elegant and restrained and merges hospitality and corporate environments.

Sustainability imperatives are addressed by using materials of low embodied energy which are also recyclable. Efforts have also been made to minimise the amount of material used as well as ensuring the fit out will last thereby deferring the need for wasteful refurbishment.

The Conneq project has been short-listed for the 2011 NSW Australian Institute of Architects design awards.

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Conneq, waiting spaceOpposite page:Conneq, workspace and meeting rooms

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“The planning has clarity, is efficient and easily navigable whilst the mood is

cool and elegant, merging hospitality and work environments.”

—SIMON SWANEY

Director

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COLLINS SQUARE—

A new public realm for Melbourne’s Docklands

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COLLINS SQUARE DOCKLANDS, MELBOURNE

Collins Square is an important new Docklands precinct consisting of five commercial buildings, the redevelopment of the historic Goods Shed No. 2A and a new “lantern building” that defines the primary entry to the site.

The buildings are set within a new public realm organised around two bisecting pedestrian laneways that connect the surrounding streets to the public destinations of Batman Place and Collins Square.

Our Masterplan seeks to add a new energy to the Docklands through the provision of a diverse retail offer that will support the contemporary business environment and activate the ground plane. Side core commercial buildings with large floor plates provide flexible office space which is open and interactive while atriums improve natural light and vertical connectivity.

Building A is the first commercial tower to be constructed on the Collins Square site and is prominently located at the corner of Collins Street and Batman Hill Drive. The building’s form is defined by a series of stacked volumes that allude to the stacking of containers; a loose reference to the former utilitarian life of the precinct as a hub for the arrival, departure and storage of goods. The façade varies in colour, transparency and reflectivity in order to enliven the tower façade. An abstract rhythm of smooth, textured and recessed elements provides an intriguing composition.

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Collins Square, Building A, exterior viewOpposite page:Collins Square, aerial view Collins Square, Building B, entry lobby

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COLLINS SQUARE—

A new public realm for Melbourne’s Docklands

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UTS COMPETITION—

Our vision is to create an open and inviting building where the public space ascends through the

building, taking the form of a grand stair and expressing the movement and interaction within

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UTS COMPETITION—

Our vision is to create an open and inviting building where the public space ascends through the

building, taking the form of a grand stair and expressing the movement and interaction within

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UTS BROADWAY BUILDING SYDNEY

The UTS Broadway Building is an urban opportunity to simultaneously repair a “missing tooth” on one of the city’s processional gateways. Our vision is to create an open and inviting public building.

The primary conceptual generator of the design is to use the dynamic movement of people towards and through the building to create spaces for interaction, serendipitous encounter, communication and collaboration, in the belief that these spaces will facilitate creativity and cross pollination of ideas in the university setting, thus creating a dynamic environment for innovative research.

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each serviced by core and atrium3. Primary circulation paths define

spatial zones4. Collaborative spaces around

voids linked

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UTS Broadway Building, interior with circulation stairOpposite page:UTS Broadway Building, exterior concept

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“OUR BUILDING CONTINUES THE RICH TRADITION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS THAT CLEARLY

EXPRESS THEIR CIRCULATION AND MOVEMENT.”—

PHILIP VIVIANDirector

From the exterior the building form is simple volume that reinforces the street wall of the adjoining streets. The singular form has been ‘eroded’ to create stepped volumes that highlight the people spaces within the building.

Warm colour tones are used to create a harmonious streetscape and to be sympathetic with existing UTS buildings.

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DISCOVERY POINT WOLLI CREEK, SYDNEY

Won in a limited design competition, our masterplan for a residential mixed use neighbourhood at Discovery Point, Wolli Creek consists of 14 buildings set within a network of streets and open space. The project accommodates approximately 1350 apartments with ground floor retail uses including cafés, restaurants, specialty retail and a supermarket.

Our design responds to the local context: both the existing structures found on site and the surrounding natural landscape comprising Cooks River and Wolli Creek, both bounded by extensive parkland.

A series of primary axes and secondary streets have been introduced to define three distinct precincts each focused around their own public space. These are in turn organised into discrete development parcels, each with good vehicular and pedestrian links and of appropriate size for residential development.

Building heights step down towards the existing railway station at the centre of the site with building massing and orientation designed to maximise north orientation and waterviews and reinforce the formal arc established by the existing buildings on the site.

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DISCOVERY POINT

—Discovering a neighbourhood

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URBANEST STUDENT HOUSING

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Urbanest is a lively, contextual building that reflects its use as student

accommodation and the character of the Haymarket area

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Urbanest Student Housing, façade detailOpposite page:Urbanest Student Housing, tower

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URBANEST STUDENT HOUSING HAYMARKET, SYDNEY

The colourful façade of the 16-storey Urbanest student housing development, in Sydney’s Haymarket, is designed to reflect the dynamism of student life and the vibrancy of the local area.

Haymarket is home to the city’s Chinatown and Spanish Quarter, as well as the historic Paddy’s Market. Its bustling streetscapes are adorned with a kaleidoscopic, chaotic assemblage of projecting vertical signs. On the façade, within an alternating pattern of modular window and wall panels, these signs are represented as glass panels picked out randomly in four “local” colours.

The façade pattern does have a sense of order to it – windows are coded to mark their function; clear windows are fixed, coloured ones pivot open around a hinge in the top of the frame – but when the building is occupied, and windows are opened or closed by individual occupants, this rhythm is disrupted and the building is animated with Haymarket’s unique, bustling energy.

For the occupants, this vibrant public street frontage is not merely decorative: the operable windows maximise natural ventilation, while floor-to-ceiling glass increases the sense of space within their apartments and offers generous views.

Urbanest has been short-listed for the 2011 NSW Australian Institute of Architects design awards.

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Urbanest Student Housing, façade detailOpposite page:Urbanest Student Housing, interior

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Urbanest, HaymarketEast Elevation

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EAST ELEVATION NORTH ELEVATION

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SITE 3 SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK

—The concept of interlocking ellipses evolved

as a reference to the curvilinear arena structures that exist at Sydney Olympic Park

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Site 3 Sydney Olympic Park, exterior viewOpposite page:Site 3 Sydney Olympic Park, exterior view

SITE 3 SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK HOMEBUSH, SYDNEY

Our competition-winning design for two new residential towers provides a sense of connection between the massive scale of the park’s sporting infrastructure and the human scale of life on the street.

The towers’ striking elliptical forms recall the iconic shapes of the nearby stadia but have been designed to sit alongside an existing rectangular high-rise building in a harmonious composition. The towers are linked by a low podium, comprising commercial office and retail tenancies that create a lively street frontage for residents and passers-by.

The floor plans’ elliptical geometry maximises views and access to sunlight for residents, while the horizontal sun-shading bands that circle each tower vary in depth, providing greater protection to the north.

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“In this building we explore the idea of ‘gills’ to create a building

that can breathe.”—

PHILIP VIVIANDirector

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