Taking a Heritage building with an excellent architectural pedigree into a new iteration has been achieved with grace and grandeur thanks to HASSELL Sydney studio’s feel for volume and a reductive palette.
The use of wood for the structure was chosen because it allowed a clean and fast construction process and a lightweight building limiting the ecological impact on the site.
The centenary of Walter and Marion Griffin's arrival down under makes it timely to (re)consider erecting a memorial to the city’s authors at the national capital, Australia’s greatest achievement in landscape architecture.
The project celebrates the traditions of the school and civic library through a series of key ideas, or ‘chapters’, that have been translated into architectural interventions.