The supper room no longer doubles as a hot-rod venue. In the voluminous main hall above, the whistle has blown on basketball competitions. The squeak of sneakers is a distant echo.
"It was about bringing back that promise of suburban civic grandeur," says Thompson, whose $25 million refurbishment won both the heritage award category and the best overall competition prize, the Victoria Medal, at the Australian Institute of Architects' Victorian awards on July 10. The AIA jury called it an "outstanding" example of adaptive reuse and "a beacon for the community".
Thompson matches the monumentality of the building with a series of dramatic contrapuntal gestures. An enormous Louis Kahn-inspired circle cut out of the giant blank rectangular northern facade reveals and frames a three-storey glass box within. It's a window on a window. Like a shot fired through the bull's eye, the glass box explodes out the other side of the building.
"Adaptive reuse is the way of the future," Thompson says. The cost of crafting and building in these "heritage" materials today would be prohibitive, she says. It's also wasteful to demolish. What's more, these buildings not only carry embodied energy but embodied memories. Phillip Island's penguins may not need a building to encourage visitors, but the new $58 million Terroir design of the Penguin Parade Visitor Centre certainly acknowledges their importance as one of the state's most popular tourist attractions. The star-shaped centre won both the regional and public architecture prizes.
Private schools also appreciate that design can be a drawcard. Like Thompson's dramatic cut-out circle in the Town Hall Broadmeadows envelope, McBride Charles Ryan's Swift Science and Technology Centre at Toorak College plays with simple geometries – a sliced cylinder – to achieve its striking tilted-arc facade."It's an exuberant display of geometry," says Rob McBride.
Looks like a lit up CORONA HOT SPOT 😂
Is she trans or queer? Non binary? Are you sure she even identifies as female? Quick tip: easy way to help eliminate sexism is to not put 'female' in front of every noun, as if she is different to any other designer. Just a baker, jockey, doctor, architect ...
Copied from Amsterdam’s red light district
Looks like a 70’s electric fire
White or brown female? Biological female or transgender? Don't leave out the most important information.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: SBSNews - 🏆 3. / 89 Read more »
Source: smh - 🏆 6. / 80 Read more »
Source: newscomauHQ - 🏆 9. / 77 Read more »
Source: newscomauHQ - 🏆 9. / 77 Read more »
Source: theage - 🏆 8. / 77 Read more »
Source: theage - 🏆 8. / 77 Read more »