Geoffrey London Government Architect, Victoria, Australia

OVGA Office of the Victorian Government Architect Champions quality of design in the built environment. The OVGA provides leadership and strategic advice to government about architecture and urban design and promotes an awareness about how good design can make great living places and urban environments. ��

OVGA Office of the Victorian Government Architect Improving the quality of public buildings and spaces and enhancing the quality of the built environment. What is Good Design? Good design refers to how things work, not just how they look. Within the built environment, good design is about functionality, performance, build-quality, as much as about innovation and creativity. Good design is sustainable and resource efficient. It embraces its context and makes a positive contribution to its environment. Good design delivers value-for-money as well as better buildings, particularly when attention is paid to the full costs of a building over its whole lifetime.

Advice Project inception The OVGA offers expert and independent advice assisting clients to: •  Scope a project and ensure design ambitions are clear •  Define a procurement route that meets the design ambitions of the

project •  Develop a project brief and an appropriate selection process •  Select a design team which matches the aspiration for design quality

Design development The OVGA offers consistent design review of significant projects through: •  Victorian Design Review Panel (VDRP) •  Design Quality Teams, or •  OVGA desk-top peer review �

VDRP Victorian Design Review Panel Free high level expertise through formal peer review Aim: To support Government clients in raising the design quality of proposals, achieve best value and ensure that all opportunities are realised for all Victorians in public projects •  Election commitment •  3 year pilot project •  Year 1 – Government projects •  Year 2/3 – Government + private sector

Advice

Advocacy Victorian Government Policy on Architecture and the Built Environment Leader Leading the Design Agenda Enabler Enabling Design Excellence Procurer Procuring Good Design

Advocacy Good design series •  What is Good Design? •  Good Design and Transport •  Good Design and Ecological

Sustainability •  Good Design and The Coast •  Good Design in Local

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Advocacy •  Senior support •  Appropriate budgets •  Design workshops •  Procurement strategies •  Early demand for design quality •  RFP evidence of design quality •  Link practices •  Architect selection •  Architect fees •  Design review •  Emerging architects •  Research •  Life-time costing •  Design champions •  Policy instruments •  Public forum

Issues

Advocacy GOVERNMENT AS ‘SMART CLIENT’ Guidelines for building procurement processes, the implications for design quality arising from these processes, and the recommendation of strategies to enable good design.

Procurement Best practice in Government procurement •  of Design Services •  of Buildings and Infrastructure

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GOVERNMENT AS ‘SMART CLIENT’ Guidelines for building procurement processes, the implications for design quality arising from these processes, and the recommendation of strategies to enable good design.

http://www.ovga.vic.gov.au/images/Government_as_Smart_Client.pdf

Advocacy Celebration of Victorian Architecture 2001-2010 �

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Marvellous Melbourne

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> Delivering Better Design

Medium Density Housing – A Case Study

In March 2000, Bob Carr, Premier of NSW, convened a forum that brought together 233 developers, architects, planners and local council and government representatives. The aim of the forum was to determine ways of improving the design quality of residential flat development and SEPP 65 and the Residential Design Code is the result.

OGA

SEPP 65 Design Quality Principles:

Principle 1: Context

Principle 2: Scale

Principle 3: Built Form

Principle 4: Density

Principle 5: Resource, energy & water efficiency

Principle 6: Landscape

Principle 7: Amenity

Principle 8: Safety & Security

Principle 9: Social dimensions

Principle 10: Aesthetics

> Delivering Better Design

>A consistent policy across the state.

>Guiding developers, architects, authorities, planners and residents with the Residential Flat Code.

>Mandating the use of architects.

>Providing a basis to evaluate the merit of proposed design solutions.

>Establishing Design Review Panels to advise consent authorities on development applications, policies and initiatives.

OGA

SEPP 65 does this by:

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Victoria's  biggest  event  

•  Over  1.7  million  people  at  Mcketed  venues  •  Plus  380,000  at  free  road  events    •  Over  2.1  million  spectators  for  sports  and  

ceremonies  •  90,000  tourists  from  around  the  world  •  2  million  a<ended  the  Largest  cultural  fesMval  ever  

staged.  •  1.5  billion  viewers  worldwide  

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•     2  million  people  a+ended  across  Victoria      •     100,000  a  day  through  Alexandra  Gardens,  Federa=on  Square  and  the  Arts  Centre      •     80,000  at  the  Sidney  Myer  Music  Bowl  over  9  concerts    •       Fes=val  embraced  by  Melbournians  &  at  live  sites  in  Ballarat,  Bendigo,  Traralgon  &  Moe  

FESTIVAL  MELBOURNE  2006  

MELBOURNE  ON  THE  MOVE  

•  Free  public  transport  •  Increased  services  every  day  of  the  

Games  •  1.8  million  extra  people  travelled  by  

public  transport  to  venues  and  events  •  Ave.  of  150,000  people  travelled  to  and  

from  events  each  day  •  V/Line  carried  75%  more  passengers  than  

last  year  •  90%  of  people  surveyed  rated  public  

service  as  ‘good’  or  excellent’  

   TOURISM  

•  Busiest  fortnight  in  the  history  of  Melbourne’s  hotel  industry  –  94%  occupancy  

•  250,000  room  nights  sold  for  the  Games  

•  EsMmated  90,000  internaMonal  and  interstate  visitors  

•  Over  25%  of  Mckets  sold  to  interstate  &  overseas  visitors  

•   Pre  &  post  touring  around  Australia  

•  Global  exposure  money  can’t  buy  

THE  MEDIA  COVERAGE  

•  2,950  journalists/  photographers  based  at  the  Main  Press  Centre  and  InternaMonal  Broadcast  Centre  

•  Extensive  coverage  worldwide  •  Australian  media  Coverage  from  January  to  March  2006;    68,583  electronic  stories    38,232  print  stories  

• Website  hits  during  Games  Mme:  

  86  million  pages  viewed  during  13.1  million  visits    

TRADE  &  INVESTMENT  PROMOTION  •  Business  Club  Australia:  M2006  •  Joint  iniMaMve  of  the  Australian  and    

Victorian  Governments  •  7,823  Australian  and  internaMonal    

members  •  25  Events  in  11  Countries  leading    

up  to  the  Games    •  32  Business  networking  events  over                11  days  with  over  5,000  a<endees  •  PromoMng  trade  and  investment                  between  Commonwealth  countries    •  6  internaMonal  business  deals  already  confirmed  with  another  

4  under  negoMaMon  

   AUSTRALIAN  BRAND  LEVERAGE  

THE  GAMES  LEGACIES  •  PromoMng  relaMonships  with  Commonwealth  

countries  •  Encouraging  tourism  to  Victoria  and  Australia  •  PromoMng  trade  &  investment  •  Leveraging  business  opportuniMes  •  Maximising  employment  and  training  •  Establishing  an  environmental  framework  •  A  dedicated  educaMon  program.  •  Increasing  sports  parMcipaMon  •  Involving  indigenous  communiMes    •  PromoMng  equal  access  •  Involving  local  communiMes  •  PromoMng  opportuniMes  for  regional  and  rural  

Victoria  

GAMES  INFRASTRUCTURE  LEGACIES:      Parkville  urban  development                                      Melbourne  Cricket  Ground  

Melbourne  AquaMc  Centre                State  Mountain  Bike  Track                            State  Lawn  Bowls  Centre