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Occupying an important position at the
southern end of one of the main ridge line
entry points to the central business district
of Sydney, Denton Corker Marshall’s new
addition to Broadway uses its fourteen levels
plus four below-ground floors to create an
imposing gateway to the city. Folded around
a complex interior void or ‘crevice’, the vertical
movement up stairs and escalators and across
linking bridges introduces a buzzing visual
dynamism particularly at hourly class change
over times. The perforated aluminium sheet
plates that wrap the building exterior lend
further emphasis to the visual transparency
internally which is introduced by the void. This
creates a sense of seamlessness within the
building with the city around it, a condition
further reiterated by the creation of a ground
plane that flows out into a lane and courtyard
system to the rear of the building.
Photo: Richard Glover
Faculty of Engineering+ Information
Technology, University of Technology Sydney
Denton Corker Marshall
Situated in a former three story Telstra
training centre, this new primary school’s
success comes through the transformation
of a thoroughly ordinary existing structure
into an inspiring new learning environment
of flowing, open and malleable teaching
and learning spaces. The use of natural
materials, timber floors and joinery softens
the revealed structure. Learning spaces are
filled with natural light and ventilation with
high performance double glazing coupled
with large openings that maximise the school’s
thermal performance all year round. The
subdivision of the space into separate, gently
defined settings is controlled almost entirely
by the children who inhabit the space, granting
them almost unlimited control over the spatial
configurations they choose to learn within.
Photo:John Gollings
Our Lady of the Assumption Primary
School Stage 1
BVN
Built to accommodate the demanding
research requirements of nanoscience, the
Sydney Nanoscience Hub is situated within
the heritage context of the University of
Sydney’s listed Physics Building. Its success
comes from the spatial and material mediation
between the existing and the new. The new
building acts as a contemporary intervention
in the heritage physics precinct, including the
creation of a formal courtyard as part of its
entry sequence. The Hub’s highly reflective
glazed façade carries an etched pattern drawn
from the work of nanoscience, while also
reflecting the listed 1926 Wilkinson Building.
The demands for vibration free research
environments in nanoscience has led to
the creation of planted roofs to the rear
of the building, which also lend in the
mediation of the building to its context
in the other direction.
Photo: Brett Boardman
Sydney Nanoscience Hub
Architectus
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