1. Edition 114

Edition 114

Apr 2013

  1. Fitzgibbon Community Centre
  2. Trades North, West Coast Institute of Training building
  3. Gap Residence
  4. East Kimberley Development Package Housing
  5. Pike Residence
  6. The new Royal Children’s Hospital
The front cover of Edition 114

Editorial information

Welcome to STEEL PROFILE® #114

We are proud to bring you this collection of innovative steel architecture and some insights into the inventive minds behind it.

Community themes thread throughout this issue. Whether purpose-built for gathering, such as the Fitzgibbon Community Centre, or to suit a culture's manner of living, the importance of design tailored to place is illustrated by projects in these pages and echoed by thinkers such as Peter Stutchbury – the subject of our architect profile – and also Ralph Bailey whose design for his residence demonstrates how gracefully unpainted buildings can meld with nature.

We trust you will enjoy the issue.

Kristin Camery
BlueScope Steel Editor

BlueScope Steel Editor

Kristin Camery

Managing Editor

Associate Editor

Contributing Photographers

Peter Bennetts, Paul Bradshaw, Scott Burrows, Daniel Eaton, John Gollings, Damien Hatton,  Peter Hyatt, Richard Kirk, Michael Nicholson, Bob Seary

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

A photo of Adam Haddow

Adam Haddow

Adam is a director of SJB Architects NSW. He was awarded the 40th Anniversary Churchill Fellowship in 2006 to study alternatives to conventional models of urban design. SJB Architects recently won two Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards for Multiple Housing.

More than anything, he loves to design buildings.

A photo of Frank Stanisic

Frank Stanisic

Stanisic Associates founder Frank Stanisic is a Sydney-based architect and urbanist.

His work is fuelled by an evolving interest in the diagram and frame as a basis for architectural invention, and the aesthetics of permeability.

Frank's projects have won numerous awards including Australian Institute of Architects' Special Jury, Wilkinson, Aaron Bolot and Frederick Romberg.

A photo of Sam Bresnehan

Sam Bresnehan

Sam Bresnehan is a graduate architect with Melbourne-based architectural and urban design practice, McGauran Giannini Soon Architects (MGS).

Graduating from the University of Tasmania with a Master of Architecture (First Class Honours) in 2010, Sam was awarded the 2011 BlueScope Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize.

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