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CITY OF SYDNEY LORD MAYOR’S PRIZE
UTS Science Faculty, Building 7
Durbach Block Jaggers Architects & BVN Architecture
Photography: Darren Bradley
The 2015 winner of the Lord Mayor’s
Prize is the University of Technology
Sydney, through the integration of
a number of public domain works
including Alumni Green with the
UTS Science Faculty, Building 7, by
Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
and BVN Architecture.
As part of a strong urban master
plan for the campus, the UTS
Science Faculty Building 7 weaves
together the built form needed
by students and teachers with the
open space of the Alumni Green
and surrounding streetscape. The
university is unique in being spread
across public streets, and has
brought quality architecture to a
strong guidingmaster plan.
The Science building’s curved
and billowing façade softens its
appearance andmaximises natural
light to the public space.
Over-scaled volumes, canting walls,
strategic skylights and reflective
surfaces all open up the building,
and light the route from the Alumni
Green colonnade to the student
spaces below ground.
The building contains a range of
specialist research facilities, clinical
teaching spaces and Australia’s
largest undergraduate science
teaching space - a two-hundred
seat Super Lab. These purposeful
spaces are well connected above
and below ground to student
commons andmeeting spaces.
Reflected light and colour charge
these spaces with mystery and
might.
The building achieves a harmony
with the adjacent green space.
It has a 5 Star Green rating and
includes innovative air-conditioning,
a green roof providing insulation,
and uses a high amount of recycled
materials.
UTS occupies a unique space as
a university immersed in a city-
centre landscape. As this building
and those surrounding it evolve
and grow, there will be continued
opportunities to improve the public
domain and create a noteworthy
open space for students, visitors
and Sydneysiders alike.
PROJECT TEAM
Practice team:
Neil Durbach
Design Director
Camilla Block
Design Director
David Jaggers
Design Director
Stefan Heim
Practice Director
Paul Pannell
Practice Director
Abbie Galvin
Principal
Erin Field
Deborah Hodge
Sarah Kirkham
Xiaoxiao Cai
Alex Holman
Elena Bonanni
Kristin Neise
Erika Halim
Manny Prouzos
Ian James
Michael Janeke
Benjamin Chew
Laura Robinson
Valentine Steisel
Consultant Team:
Surface Design &
Kingston Building
Group
Facade Consultant
Arup
Fire Consultant
Steensen Varming
Greenstar & ESD
JBA Urban Planning
Planner
Steve Watson &
Partners
PCA & BCA
Morris Goding
Accessibility
Consulting
Accessibility
Consultant
Lymesmith
Polychromy
Colour Consultant
Taylor Thomson
Whiting
Structural
Consultant
Steensen Varming
Electrical Consultant
Steensen Varming
Mechanical
Consultant
Arup
Hydraulic Consultant
Aspect Studios
Landscape
Consultant
Steensen Varming
Lighting Consultant
Davis Langdon/
Aecom
Cost
Consultant
Construction Team:
Richard Crookes
Constructions
Builder
Savills Project
Management
Project Manager
Established 2013
The City of Sydney Lord
Mayor’s Prize was established to recognise a
project that improves the quality of the public
domain through architectural or urban design
excellence and may be for, or include, public art.
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