Above the Sydney Harbour in Australia, a 34-hectare parkland called the Domain sprawls out on the eastern fringe of the city’s central business district. In 1958, the construction of a freeway through the Domain separated two long-standing establishments: the city’s Royal Botanic Garden (built in the 1810s) and the adjacent Art Gallery of New South […]
The Woodside Building for Technology and Design is an educational facility of Monash University within its Clayton Campus in Melbourne, serving the Faculties of Engineering and Information Technology. The design has been developed by Grimshaw in collaboration with engineers Aurecon and client Monash University, embracing sustainability targets and best practices in integrated design. Such targets […]
By refurbishing an existing 1970s three-storey concrete building and adding a mass timber structure, Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School is now enclosed in a high-performance envelope with light, airy interiors. The process transformed the run-down former training centre—a typical institutional example of brutalist concrete monolith of its time—into the first educational facility […]
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GREENWAY MASTER PLAN GreenWay is a 5.8-kilometre multi-use linear link between Iron Cove and Cooks River. It is envisaged as an urban green corridor, a continuous and connected shared landscape for cultural engagement and recreation. Following the route of the Inner West light rail, this platform features bike paths and foreshore walks; bushcare sites; cultural […]
The term business district often generates an imagery of skylines dotted with steel-grey, extensively glazed, monolithic office towers. Their potential to engage with the human scale—to improve well-being and contribute to the urban streetscape and natural environment—is vastly untapped. The EY Centre presents a climate-responsive office tower typology that derives its materiality of form from […]
The towering six-storey wall of glass of the Australian Novartis building immediately draws one’s attention—soaring ceilings and a curved timber-clad stairway overlooking the atrium winds from floor to floor, creating an open and modern effect. In line with demonstrating Novartis as a transparent organisation, glass is used as façade material, inviting natural lighting while visually […]
Designed for Frasers Property and Sekisui House, stage one of The Brewery Yard project—formerly Irving Street Brewery—integrates the plant equipment for a precinct-wide tri-generation plant into the historic Carlton and United Brewery building on the fringe of the central business district in Central Park, Sydney, Australia. The plant will supply power and hot and cold […]
