Edition 102
Mar 2009
- EDO Apartments
- Bellbowrie Community Church
- Boroondara Sports Complex
- RSPCA Burwood Redevelopment
- Smith Street (Ware)house
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Welcome to STEEL PROFILE® #102
We've had outstanding feedback from our readers on the recent redesign, so thank you to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts about issue #101.
This issue our featured projects range from a community church in Brisbane to the RSPCA's new Quarantine Kennels in Burwood, Victoria, via housing and a leisure facility. All five projects display innovative use of steel in structure, cladding and design resolution.
BlueScope Steel is the principal corporate partner of the Australian Institute of Architects' national awards program, so we're pleased to profile the team that designed last year's COLORBOND® Steel Award winner: Aurora Energy's Southern Operations Facility in Tasmania.
We also reveal the considered approach that underpins the EDO Apartment development in Woolloomooloo NSW, which picked up the Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing, at the awards.
BlueScope Steel is also the principal corporate partner of the Institute's national conference, which runs from April 30-May 2 this year at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Mark it in your diary. This year's creative directors are Terroir architects Gerard Reinmuth, Richard Blythe and Scott Balmforth, so we are particularly pleased in this issue to showcase Scott's own home – Smith Street Ware(House) in North Hobart.
Manu Siitonen
BlueScope Steel Editor
BlueScope Steel Editor
Manu Siitonen
Managing Editor
Josh Gliddon
Associate Editor
Contributing Writers
Rachael Bernstone, Stephen Crafti, Margie Fraser, Toby Horrocks, Josh Gliddon
Contributing Photographers
Patrick Bingham-Hall, Brett Boardman, Paul Bradshaw
Art Director
STEEL PROFILE® has established an editorial advisory panel to ensure that only projects of the highest calibre are selected for publication. The panellists are:
Adam Haddow
Adam is director of SJB Architects in inner-city Sydney. He was awarded a 40th Anniversary Churchill Fellowship in 2006, and holds a Bachelor of Architecture with first-class honour from the University of Melbourne.
Professor Tom Heneghan
Tom is the former co-ordinator of the Design in Architecture Program at the University of Sydney. This is Tom’s farewell appearance on the panel. Tom is now a professor in the architecture department of Tokyo National University of Arts.
Daniel Griffin
Daniel Griffin was born in Australia an raised on a yacht. His award-winning architectural thesis at RMIT examined the urbanisation of Palestinian refugee camps. He is currently teaching architecture at the University of Melbourne, and establishing a Humanitarian department with RMIT.
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