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International design competition for a new cultural complex on the edge of Melbourne's business district, based around a contemporary reinterpretation of the 19th century European wintergarden.
This scheme examines conditions for architecture that question the orthodoxy of easily read discrete objects in space, and seeks to question the relevance of existing notions of object and landscape, figure and ground.
Proposition is for a civic project that can be represented as an icon or postcard image which does not rely on a 'grand scale'
As with all our projects, it seeks to re-examine the assumptions of what the elements that describe an architectural vocabulary consist of The site is treated as a base for potentially unending inscriptions of many histories of the city within the framework of a patterned mat, which resonates between camouflage and ornament visually linking many different surfaces and objects into an apparent whole


A design competition for a new visitor centre to complement existing historic buildings on the site where the catholic nun Mary MacKillop worked.
We investigated what we called 'reviewed typology', by looking at Australian examples of the plywood house, verandah and cloister models and seeking their reinvention through a series of architectural techniques concentrating on the buildings surfaces.
We are concerned with architecture as cultural pursuit, as against the technological reinterpretation of modernism of many contemporary practices. Our projects are unashamedly engaged with local culture and ideas, the projects are instigated through rigorous research into existing conditions, local histories and issues.
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