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Project Update: Eaton Community College New Science Building

We are pleased to announce that the Eaton Community College New Science Building has recently been awarded to BGC Construction and some holes are gonna get done dug any day now!! This exciting project will provide the College with 4 dedicated science labs, and 2 flexible lab spaces catering for Science-based Engineering and STEAM, with both digital design and workshop maker spaces. Most excitingly, we have managed to shed stormwater straight from our sculpted roof into landscaped wetland drainage swales below (no gutters!!) which will create outdoor bio-diversity labs for the students to get dirty in. This, coupled with our…

Hale Junior School a category winner for Shaw Design Awards!

SITE is excited to find out today that Hale Junior School was a category winner in the recent Shaw Contract Design Awards, and is now in the running for the final category award. This also means we have a chance at the people’s choice award so would be great if you would be willing to share and vote for us. Each entry can be voted for once per day until the 12th July 2019. See below link for voting. https://designawards.shawcontract.com/en-gb/project/hale-junior-school

Successful Master Planning

The beginning of a project can be a very exciting period! Often projects come out of a reaction to a perceived problem where a solution is half determined before the problem is fully understood, ‘critiqued’ or even challenged. This can perpetuate as funding is sought, approvals from relevant personnel are obtained and a kind of consultation with stakeholders is completed. Before too long, there is a ‘brief’ for a building project which then is used to seek engagement of architectural services. As Architects, we often get called in late in this process and get pulled in to the excitement of…

Project Update: Dalwallinu Recreation Centre reaches PC

Dalwallinu Recreation Centre Extension and Refurbishment have reached practical completion. We would like to share some photographs from Project Architect’s Christian Wetjen’s latest visit to Dalwallinu with a before and after comparison. The project includes: New Entrance Foyer/breakout space Lesser Hall Bar Kitchen Meeting Room Leasable space Additional amenities and change rooms Umpire’s match room Refurbishment works for the existing centre facilities

Wungong Town Community Centre and Library Feasibility Study

Element (formerly TPG + Place Match) in partnership with SITE Architecture Studio was engaged by the City of Armadale to provide consultancy services for the feasibility study for a new Library and Community Centre within the Wungong Town Centre. The City identified that the current Armadale Library will outgrow its capacity to deliver community and library services within the existing catchment. Without the additional Library services, the Armadale Library’s catchment population would be exceeded by 2026. The City also recognised that the forecast of Wungong Town population growth warranted a prevision of Library and Community services within the area. SITE…