Category: Architecture
John Pauline of HASSELL discusses designing sporting stadiums that are useful to their host city long after the event they were built for is over.
"Our aim was to provoke and inspire. As such, sculptures and artworks are integrated into the office, including a 12-metre long decommissioned rocket from the Soviet era."
You may walk past these bastions of the built environment every day or have seen them in a thousand holiday photographs, but what did they look like when they were just a twinkling in their creator's eye? Skeletons looks at the origins of notable buildings, beginning with the State Library of Victoria.
Above: The ICC Convention Centre. Photography by Guy Wilkinson Photography. Featuring Australia’s biggest stage, biggest ballroom, seven exhibition halls and a 270-degree view of the Sydney Harbour skyline, ICC Sydney by HASSELL and Populous has set a new benchmark in exhibition and convention venues. The precinct includes a convention facility capable of holding three separate concurrent […]
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