Denton Corker Marshall was shortlisted in an international design competition for the 63,400m2 Guangzhou Kidney Hospital and Research Institute, featuring inpatient care units, outpatient clinic and research labs.
The building elements are expressed as a series of abstract forms breaking up the large volume. The facade comprises a double skin system that provides a sleek appearance, reflecting the hospital’s identity, reducing heat gain, limiting direct sunlight glare, and minimising heat load on the mechanical systems. High levels of transparency provide a successful balance of environmental performance and outlook.
A unique series of gardens containing patients and visitors’ amenities are expressed through a vertical ‘green slot’ with partially overlapping screens providing relief from subtropical sun. The gardens create relief for patients, families, and hospital staff, bringing significant benefits for people in treatment, potentially accelerating recovery.
In association with Guangdong Huafang Engineering Design Pty Ltd.
Sitting within Australia’s largest urban renewal district, the Fishermans Bend Campus will be a pre-eminent regenerator in creating the nation’s leading design, engineering and advanced engineering precinct. The University of Melbourne’s new campus will deliver cutting edge facilities for the Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) furthering their competitiveness in the global market in research and ideas.
Stage 1 has been designed by a collaborative team of architects, landscape architects and interior designers called CoLab8; including Kirsten Thompson Architects, Sean Godsell Architects, Edition Office, Snohetta, Unispace and Denton Corker Marshall (who are also the Principal Architect).
A 13-storey, 31,000m2 Workplace, Teaching and Learning Building (WTLB), designed by Denton Corker Marshall, supports around 2,000 occupants with presentation, teaching and learning, workplace and hub activities housed within a 5-storey linear plank and 7-storey workplace block floating above. On the rooftop of the plank a SkyPark and 600m2 presentation space create an active green place for exchange, recreation and agile working.
Exhibition Centre Liverpool (ECL) is a new exhibition and event venue located on Liverpool’s famous waterfront. It is the latest edition to the highly successful Arena and Convention Centre Liverpool (ACCL) and will become the only purpose-built interconnected arena, convention centre and exhibition centre in Europe. The architectural concept design was carried out by Populous.
The venue has 8,100m2 of exhibition space which is sub-divisible into three inter-linked column-free halls, each 2,700m2 in area, which can be used separately or in combination. One hall has an increased height of 18 metres to accommodate rock and musical stage shows.
A fully glazed double-height public concourse runs the full 135 metres length of the exhibition halls and offers separate individual access points to each of the smaller halls. The main entrance to the building is accessed from a new public realm plaza which connects the ECL with the ACCL.
The language and materials of the main facade draw on the industrial heritage of Liverpool’s historic dock structures. The public concourse’s glazed ribbon wall provides the public face of the building and is where all movement and activity takes place as it curves beneath the composed and solid level two plinth.
In association with Populous.
An invited design competition (one of four) for the new Casey Cultural Precinct, incorporating a number of facilities and uses including a 800 seat performing arts centre, a 370m² regional art gallery, and a 2,000m² community library.
The design proposed a single theme – a continuous transformational ribbon – to tie the different uses together and create a unified identity for the cultural precinct, while also expressing the diversity and character of the different functions.
The ribbon form allows a modulation from building to façade, canopy, veranda and sculpture. It defines the entire precinct and all the functions contained within it. The ribbon distinguishes the precinct as a new and unique destination with a recognisable and striking image. The building itself becomes a cultural event, a permanent performance, an attraction.
Our competition design for a major new campus for the Eastern University of Technology addresses the lack of placemaking, diversity and intensity in most new university campuses. Collaborating with Brearley Architects and Urbanists (BAU), our approach clustered the massive requirement of over a million square metres into compact clusters, creating a series of dense academic villages, each containing a mixture of learning and teaching, academic support, student accommodation and common open spaces for collaboration and social interaction.
The site stretches for over 3 kilometres along a major river, adjacent to major transport and railway lines. Our scheme extended waterways in the site to create a recreation lake for university use and connects to an adjacent riverfront public parkland. A publicly accessible component of sports stadium, hotel and apartments mark the western end of the site, whilst indoor sports halls and outdoor sports fields mark the eastern end. The six academic villages in between are each 300 metres x 250 metres in area, a scale comparable to a typical city block, and covered by a giant photovoltaic parasol supporting exceptionally high sustainability aspirations.
In association with Brearley Architects.
Denton Corker Marshall was invited, along with two other international practices, to participate in a design competition for the new Courts of Justice in Qatar.
Located in Jelaiah, in the north of Doha near Qatar University, the Courts of Justice occupy a 2.95 hectare site.
The design aims to create a sense of openness and accessibility to public areas, coupled with well shaded enclosure to the courtrooms and judicial areas. It is simple and legible in its primary forms, but rich and expressive in its internal detail.
The building has civic presence, and a powerful dignity appropriate to its role, yet maintains a sense of scale and humanity via a system of gardens integrated into the architectural disposition. It is memorable and forward-looking while at the same time capturing the essence of time-honoured authority and respect found in the best civic architecture.
The design for the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct takes inspiration from the water.
Like ripples created by pebbles dropped into a pond, ribbons spread out from the cultural precinct, sweeping through the landscape and across the water. Formed from metal sheet and sculpted landform, the ribbons interweave built-form, landscape and water with art, performance and events. They overlap and intertwine, enveloping existing buildings and forming new spaces, curving and diverging to define indoor volumes and outdoor spaces, inclining to create shade, shelter and pavilions in the park.
The buildings, ribbons and terrain form an armature that frames ‘whirlpool’ spaces woven through the site, overlapping at powerful junctions. The amphitheatre and the key building entries converge at the Great Terrace. This central space is the main centrifuge that draws from, and in turn contributes to, the surrounding elements.
Denton Corker Marshall was commissioned by Lendlease to review the consortium’s design for the International Convention Centre in Sydney.
The review involved rationalising a circulation and address, along with detail massing studies and external facade expression. The latter included introducing an event deck overlooking the Harbour.
The Denton Corker Marshall scheme was submitted as part of the final Sydney International Convention Exhibition and Entertainment Precinct (SICEEP) bid to Government. It was subsequently amended by others.
The Centre accommodates 12,000 people in a variety of meeting and assembly spaces over four levels, including a ballroom accommodating 2,000.
Denton Corker Marshall was shortlisted to take part in a limited competition for a public library and plaza for the City of Perth.
The proposed design was a vibrant new square and library for the most significant heritage precinct in the city. The library defines the new open and inviting civic space – Library Square. The Square reveals the Cathedral and provides a generous, inviting interface and entry into the library. The design of the urban open space creates a sequence of squares activating, connecting and integrating the library with its community.
The simple open linear plan of the library optimises internal flexibility and adaptive reuse over the life of the building. The building is designed to achieve a 5 Star Green Star rating.
In association with Donaldson + Warn.
A new Magistrates’ Court for Liverpool, housing 14 courtrooms, office and ancillary accommodation with dedicated prosecution witness accommodation, reflecting the ever increasing requirement for witness protection.
Designed to achieve an excellent BREEAM rating for its environmentally sustainable design, the new building is positioned to be part of a new legal hub or quarter within the Liverpool city centre.
Selected in a limited design competition, the Australian Embassy complex houses the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and 13 other government departments and agencies.
The complex comprises Chancery, Executive Residence, 32 staff accommodation units, clinic and recreational facilities, compliant with mandated security.
The Executive Residence is a two-storey building composed of a series of interlocking blocks which expressively articulate the façade with patterns of light and shade.
The staff residences are developed as two undulating two-storey buildings with grass roofs. Set within a private and secure garden setting, the individual houses are stepped in and out to provide identity and articulation to the frontages. Each home is clearly identifiable by individual cladding pattern, colour and abstracted graphic pattern.
Denton Corker Marshall was directly appointed by Her Majesty’s Court Service to design the new Magistrates’ Court Building in Birmingham City Centre.
The building consists of 24 courtrooms over 12 floors and contains over 25,000m² of accommodation.
The project was put on hold indefinitely following UK Government budget cuts in 2010.
A design competition entry for the town centre of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
The city aims to achieve zero emissions, zero waste, 100 per cent power generation through renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.
Town centre components include a 7,800m2 Convention Centre with a 140 guestroom, 5 Star hotel, extended stay hotel apartments, and a 30,000m² town centre retail building.
The design proposed creating comfortable enclosures within thermally modified environments via extensive shading devices, induced ventilation, integrated photovoltaics, night purging and hybrid systems maximising environmental performance.
Denton Corker Marshall was the only non-Spanish finalist in the 75,000m² Criminal Courts Building design competition for the new Madrid Justice Campus.
The brief required a total of 121 courtrooms serving Criminal Courts, Magistrates’ Courts, Violence Towards Women Courts, Criminal Executionary Courts and Penitential Monitoring Courts as well as, public facilities, support offices, meeting rooms and archives.
The Campus masterplan required each of the buildings to be circular in plan, of a defined size, with a circular void at the centre – effectively a ‘doughnut’ shape with a maximum height restriction.
The circular void at the centre was developed as an eight-storey atrium space, acting as the arrival hall for staff and court attendees, and as the main orientation device.
Two green towers located in the centre of the atrium become focal points within the space and contain the main vertical circulation for the public.
A 16-storey office building for the Government of Indonesia.
Located near Merdeka Place in Jakarta, the project takes the shape of a series of interesting solid and transparent boxes. The longitudinal office accommodation of the building was orientated to minimize exposure to the eastern and western sun.
A large auditorium, exhibition hall and library are open to public access. This complex project required tight security and the relocation of numerous trade agencies from other buildings.
A trade and cultural showcase for China, the development incorporates two iconic towers, a low rise podium and an extensive landscaped Chinese garden with pavilions integrated into a wider river and woodland environment.
The 50 level western tower has an elliptical floor plate and is sheathed in a twin skin façade, providing excellent ESD performance. It contains offices, apartments, a hotel, public areas and an observation deck.
A convention centre and exhibition centre is located in the podium together with a banqueting hall / Chinese restaurant.
The pavilions contain private villas, corporate function rooms or casual pavilions for public use within the gardens.
Denton Corker Marshall was one of six finalists in the architectural competition to design the new National Portrait Gallery for Australia’s capital city.
The design draws on the sensibility of the Australian landscape: intercepted light, shade, permeability, austerity; and the Australian character: informal, open, welcoming, unpretentious, direct.
Beneath a sheltering, curved and perforated veil-like canopy, rests a series of simple timber blocks with the portrait galleries residing within.
Winner of a limited international design competition for a new cultural precinct for Changsha, the capital of Hunan in China, comprising library, concert hall and museum.
The design combines the library, concert hall and museum into a single form with a strong visual impact. The unique dragon-like shape twists and turns through its park setting. Set back from the river, it maximises views to both the park and river. Stage two of the project, a hotel and convention centre, is housed in an adjacent tower and podium of 60-storeys.
Contained within the overall twisting roof structure, the library, concert hall and museum are discrete buildings with clearly identifiable entrances. Between each of these cultural buildings, the dragon roof covers plazas for drop-off and pick-up, or for use as large covered outdoor performance and gathering spaces.
Denton Corker Marshall was one of six international architectural practices short-listed for the National Museum of China competition.
The design sensitively expands the existing museum within the broader urban context of Tiananmen Square, the epicentre of historic and modern Beijing.
A new east wing was postulated as a significant and memorable work of contemporary architecture, with a simple yet bold form, in harmony with, but distinguished from, the existing museum. The eight cubes of the east wing have a striking inlay pattern which has resonances in Chinese calligraphy, architecture, town planning and decorative arts.
The design creates a powerful image for a national museum with strong cultural references. It employs details derived from Chinese culture, not copied, but interpreted into a new, abstract expression.
Denton Corker Marshall was appointed by English Heritage to design the interpretive centre for Britain’s best known ancient monument.
The 28 hectare site, located three kilometres east of Stonehenge, was to be the principal entry point, while the visitor centre was conceived as an abstract form embedded in, and at one with the landscape. On the edge of an open field it appears as a long sweeping wall, marked only by a single break, through which entry occurs.
Beyond the wall, a series of similar planes slide into the landscape. These curved forms read as powerful seams or layers extruded out of the earth. They are metal clad; huge billets of pewter-toned burnished metal, establishing an image of solidity, strength and timelessness without recourse to stone or concrete, or direct association with Stonehenge.
This first design, even with extensive documentation and full Planning Approval, could not proceed due to post-GFC removal of funding for associated road and tunnel infrastructure.
Denton Corker Marshall was selected as one of five finalists in a two stage competition to design the new Scottish Parliament.
The city of Edinburgh is cradled among hills, with a granite outcrop in its midst, the Salisbury Crags. The rugged hills, fluctuating light, soft mists and big sky establish Edinburgh’s sense of place.
The scheme alludes to both the urban form of the city and the presence of its hills. The design incorporates traditional urban morphology of laneways, creating long narrow buildings with small frontages onto the main street. The idea of the building is walls in the landscape.
The building’s walls are made from solid blocks of grey granite – Edinburgh Stone – making it part of the land and the city, and expressing a sense of traditional Scottish identity and values. Sheer planes of metal and glass provide a visual and semantic counterpoint to this thick, rugged material. The stainless steel expresses contemporaneity, modernity, strength and incorruptibility. Glass signifies lightness, openness and clarity.
A major civic and arts precinct on the principal ceremonial axis of Melbourne, created to celebrate the centenary of Australia’s Federation in 2001.
Denton Corker Marshall was one of five practices shortlisted to participate in the second stage of the international competition for a new complex at the edge of Melbourne’s distinctive city grid. The design created four integrated areas – a new civic square, a modern wintergarden, performance and exhibition facilities, and a cinematic centre.
The centrepiece of the design was a 100 metre transparent steel and glass tilting tower. A symbolic gesture containing only a viewing platform, it paid respect to the cathedral spire adjacent and the nearby tower of the Arts Centre. It would become an urban icon / marker for Melbourne focussed on a narrative about the Federation of Australia.
Denton Corker Marshall was commissioned to revitalise the facade of a series of buildings at Jiujiang University. This comprehensive project encompassed teaching facilities, an engineering lab, and a library, all originally constructed in the 1970s and 80s and showing signs of aging.
The design concept underpinning the project was the creation of stylistic unity across the campus while ensuring each building retained its unique character. This approach aimed at forging a harmonious yet diverse architectural narrative, contributing to the campus’s distinct identity. The proposals were to enhance the campus’s visual appeal, elevating the university’s image to attract potential students and staff. Modernising facilities to contemporary standards, aligns the physical campus with Jiujiang University’s progressive educational ethos.
Updated, aesthetically pleasing, and functionally superior spaces create an environment conducive to learning, academic achievement, and student experience. The design’s focus on sustainability and durability ensures the campus remains relevant and efficient for the foreseeable future.
The design of the new teaching and research building for the northern campus of Eurasia University in Xi’an accommodates 20,000m2 over five storeys. The building, triangular in plan, features a light-filled internal atrium containing an auditorium, vertical circulation and common spaces dedicated to informal learning.
The facade is articulated by a deep frame, creating a grand colonnade along the main street, defining and unifying the architectural form. The glazed facade is set back, providing external plazas on the three corners of the site for the University community.
Our concept is part of a larger plan, including a 700-seat auditorium building as a separate stage. The two buildings are intended to read together as a harmonious composition, framing a significant new gateway entry for the campus.
An international two-stage competition winning design, Harry Butler Institute is designed as a unique facility for research, education and public engagement.
The building provides a front door to a revitalized campus and gateway to the adjacent Wetlands, a sensitive ecosystem with 50,000 years of historical, cultural and social significance.
Our proposal is embedded carefully within the sensitive site. Its sinuous, organic form defined by it’s weaving around the existing trees and wetland landscape. Three distinct pavilions are positioned under a sweeping roof with covered accessways and breakout spaces between. The project accords with UN Sustainable Development goals and is designed to a 6 Star Green Star rating with a carbon-neutral energy solution, high water efficiency and extensive use of Western Australian sustainably sourced timber throughout.
The Research Innovation Science and Engagement (RISE) Precinct was to be part of the new science and technology precinct enabling a paradigm shift in the University’s research footprint at Deakin University’s Burwood Campus. The project comprised a new 9-storey multi-disciplinary research and teaching building, along with refurbishment of multiple buildings to create over 20,000m2 of space for the School of Information Technology, School of Life and Environmental Science and Institute for Frontier Materials. The project brief called for an innovation hub that:
– Fostered a culture of collaboration and connection between the three schools
– Enhanced the University’s cross-disciplinary research, providing new opportunities for industry collaboration, commercial research partnerships within an international research precinct
– Provide world-class, highly flexible and fit-for-purpose learning spaces for multi-discipline teaching.
Denton Corker Marshall was invited to participate in a design competition for the new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. The proposed design is about movement and transparency, and expresses the energy, vitality and sensibility of music in built form, both internally and externally.
The body of the conservatorium is a cube-like form, eroded to reveal rooms, spaces, walkways, stairs, lifts, balconies and voids into the heart of the building. These forms combine to make a complex interactive and, in a sense, tactile composition that invites visual discovery.
The ‘public’ face of the conservatorium is a glass veil. This wraps two sides of the cube in a single sensuous sweep, subtly twisting and bending to create a clear sense of movement and harmony.
The veil, supported by a series of slender stainless steel canted columns, is glazed with frameless clear glass panels, fritted in a diminishing density of white frosting from near pure white at the top to clear at the base. In this way, the veil has a singular reading as a sculptural form.
The Royal Parade Biosciences Zone Study at The University of Melbourne, comprises the north-central portion of the zone from Tin Alley to Genetics Lane in Parkville.
The study addresses a number of important campus objectives. It provides an ‘open door’ to the University at an urban scale and as the new front door for the Biosciences. It also highlights achievements within the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science and the School of Biosciences through the building itself. And it lifts facilities for ‘Teaching at Scale’ (large lecture theatres, laboratories) by one or two-storeys above ground plane to provide more transparent and flexible ground floor experience, allowing views and attracting people through the building to the University.
Pedagogically, it creates an opportunity for the journey through the building to be a ‘retail exposure of the Biosciences’ with nodes of activity and interest to reflect the key messages of the faculties and Schools.
A limited design competition for 820 student housing units on the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus.
It comprises linear hillside terraces and efficient central core apartments.
A central urban village is created providing a strong sense of community and encouraging social mix in a neighbourhood and campus hub.
A range of 16 housing types provides affordable, economical housing choices.
Simple rectilinear and orthogonal forms accommodate the modular unit types, enabling long term flexibility and adaptability.
Unique sky gardens create landscaped indoor/outdoor environments that capitalise on natural ventilation and solar access. Each contains multiple social interaction spaces furthering student collaboration and wellbeing.
With a total of 300,000m² gross floor area, this mixed-use development in Singapore’s new financial district, Marina Bay, comprises office, hotel, retail and cultural activities.
The two towers sit above a floating white rectangular podium. The towers are each seemingly composed of a cluster of eight slender shafts that individually rise to differing heights, creating a distinctive signature on the Singapore skyline.
The podium, by contrast, is expressed as a singular, unifying element, an ‘ice block’ floating above the ground plane to provide a large city room known as The Cube.
Asia Square’s Tower One provides 38 levels of high grade office accommodation. Tower Two accommodates a 305 room, 5 Star Westin Hotel, set above 26 levels of commercial office space.
In association with Architects 61.
The CSIRO commissioned Denton Corker Marshall to prepare a masterplan report for the consolidation of Canberra’s CSIRO facilities onto the Black Mountain campus.
The masterplan incorporates an understanding of the Black Mountain site in its entirety including influences affecting planning and development on the site. This holistic approach is expected to avoid unexpected surprises later in the life of the project. The masterplan includes relationship diagrams that identify the physical and functional links between departments, hours of use and public accessibility; requirements for vehicles; goods and people movement systems; carparking and any special external requirements.
In addition to the masterplan, concept design for a mixed-use commercial office and laboratory precinct was developed. Due to Government expenditure requirements, the project is required to be split into two phases. Phase one includes the construction of two interlinked buildings, with phase two providing a third interconnected building.
In association with S2F (Sinclair Knight Merz).
A series of soft, curvilinear axes link open spaces and buildings of the new multi-media university. Two main towers form the hub of the main campus with a graduate school and dormitory accommodation continuing the main north-south axis. Four curvilinear student dormitory buildings are sited in a cluster.
The university towers are designed with a double skin facade for internal environmental control. A sliding inner skin of clear glass is shaded by an outer skin of perforated aluminium. Parking is beneath a grass covered plaza planted with large trees around the perimeter for shade.
The design of the university is at the forefront of Indonesian ESD (environmentally sustainable design). Buildings are oriented with major facades facing north and south to minimise heat gain, rain and surface water is harvested and stored for recycling, grey water is recycled for irrigation and water-cooled air conditioning and energy is conserved through the use of energy efficient lighting and cooling. The double skin facade and large mature trees reduce ambient temperature. The carbon footprint is minimised with the use of local materials and manufacture and students are encouraged to bicycle around the campus, with the provision of bicycle parking and showers.
The new campus is both green and sustainable, creating a quality environment for students and future leaders.
Denton Corker Marshall collaborated with the artist Robert Owen on this pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Yarra River, as a public art project in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct.
The brief called for the re-use of the remaining sections of a decommissioned railway bridge. The design comprises two distinct sections: the 145 metre long existing structure and a new curved 80 metre ramped link. The ramp takes up level changes and creates a point of arrival at the south bank. They are joined seamlessly, with an emphasis on volume and containment, within the curved and sinuous form.
The two parts become a unified sculptural form, suggesting a new connection, or a knot, between the old and new, past and future. As an object, it appears as a delineated structure, sensuous in volume, light and linear. Space seems atmospheric, dynamic and transitional.
The bridge has not only become a symbol of the Docklands precinct, but of Melbourne itself.
Selected in a limited design competition, the Australian Embassy complex houses the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and 13 other government departments and agencies.
The complex comprises Chancery, Executive Residence, 32 staff accommodation units, clinic and recreational facilities, compliant with mandated security. It provides sufficient space, functionality and amenity for all occupants.
The visual imagery of the Chancery, as a reflection of an expression of Australia, works at a number of levels. The form is uncomplicated, direct but at the same time powerful and memorable. It is unequivocal and confident. It does not look superficially ‘Australia’, but relies on a more subtle reading of the Australian character. The materials reflect not only characteristic colours of the Australian landscape but also convey something of the natural resources and mineral wealth.
The Embassy is a low rise building in a garden setting. It is a composition of four elements: two juxtaposed burnished metal blocks, one canted against the other, a stone block and a plane of greenery forming the entrance canopy.
The contrast between these simple abstract forms and the generosity of the enveloping landscape, give the building a welcome but powerful presence.
Designed to project an image of modern Britain, the Embassy building combines innovative architecture and environmentally sensitive design with the modern-day needs of security.
Denton Corker Marshall was engaged to design a new building for the Consulate of the People’s Republic of China, in Melbourne.
Built on a site adjacent to the existing Consulate, the building comprises basement parking, ground and first floor visa offices, and four staff apartments on the second floor.
The three-storey building comprises approximately 2,500m² GFA
Located in a prestigious district of central Tokyo, the Embassy complex comprises Chancery, Head of Mission Residence, 42 apartments for Embassy staff and recreation facilities with basement carpark.
The design integrates each of the complex’s elements to create a unified composition in an elegant, established garden setting.
The Chancery building is at the core of the complex and encloses a central courtyard. It is flanked on either side by L-shaped blocks of apartments.
The use of apartments to reinforce the scale of the Chancery creates an overall image of Australia that is bold and confident and in scale with the other adjacent buildings. The Head of Mission Residence is located at one end, while staff recreation facilities including pool, tennis court, bar and library are found at the other.
The use of component fabricated claddings of stainless steel, aluminium and bolted steel sitting on a granite and black concrete base, results in an assertively contemporary image for Australia’s diplomatic mission in Tokyo.
Denton Corker Marshall’s shortlisted competition entry for the Law, Business and Economics Complex at Monash University’s Caulfield campus accommodates the two faculties in highly flexible and collaborative environments.
It supports the broader campus academic program through a new 500 seat teaching space and contemporary technology-rich learning spaces.
The new development serves the campus community and adds vitality to the western end of the campus. Importantly, the design creates a space of civic scale that invites and encourages external communities on to the campus.
The complex also accommodates a retail component consisting of a range of convenience and essential retail outlets, as well as food and beverage outlets focused on a campus room hub.
The distinctive cantilevered forms exploit the site’s high profile location, on the corner of Derby and Princes Highway and opposite the Caulfield Train Station, to declare the University’s presence.
A state-of-the art 40,000m² office tower providing 23,000m² net lettable office space, located on the south east corner of the Civic Place development in Parramatta New South Wales.
The design comprises two major components: a simple and clearly articulated tower set on piloti (columns), housing Sydney Water’s office accommodation; and a four level base, contained within the curtilage of the tower, providing special purpose areas including café and reception lobby, designed for interface with the public.
The 17-storey tower consists of two glazed slabs separated by a glazed interlayer. The slabs, one taller than the other, sit on piloti and are seemingly composed of stacks of two-storey high glazed cubes. A further thin slab is laid against the major tower stacks, completing the tower ensemble. The tower itself is a beacon for sustainable design. It features a façade of high performance glass with supplementary sun shading.
Winner of a National Design Competition, the 28,900m² library is designed as a series of abstracted stone tablets – ‘prasasti’ – rising from a circular grass-covered earth mound.
Maintaining a stable ambient temperature, the lower levels housed in the mound provide storage for manuscripts, books and research / reference materials. Above, book stacks are arranged on the outer perimeter of the circular base. Closer to the centre are the reading rooms, where the composition opens up to dramatic views of the lake.
Narrow bands of glass openings are carved into the granite towers. These are of varying heights rising from the mound.
Housing up to five million items and visited by up to 20,000 people a day, the library is one of the largest in Asia.
This was an invited ideas competition for the creation of a knowledge hub located within the University’s existing Buildings 10 to 14 in central Melbourne.
The proposal sought to re-image and identify the campus core on Swanston Street, while also creating a campus gateway marker from the northern approach.
Internally, permeability is improved at lower levels leading into a dramatic atrium volume. The atrium connects existing and new teaching, library and resource centre facilities, creating a new knowledge hub for the city campus.
The new Binus Kindergarten + Primary School occupies a 2.8 hectare site with facilities for 2,000 students, 150 – 200 teachers and 25 administration staff.
An addition to the Binus Secondary School, the project represents phase two of a three phase project. The facilities are designed to encourage children to be creative from an early age. The architecture draws on playground themes using colours and shapes reminiscent of Lego-like games and snaking elements that twist and turn to form a variety of interesting spaces.
Classes are organised around a series of open air courtyards, each connected through covered walkways. Spaces for extracurricular activities are strategically positioned and colour coded for easy identification.
A centralised administration building provides formal entry to the complex and a large open sports playground separates the two schools containing an open stage and two basketball courts.
Denton Corker Marshall’s proposal was one of five in an international design competition for a new university of 8,000 students and 213,600m² of academic and support space.
Bold interlocking forms powerfully express the spirit of collaboration fostered by interdisciplinary programs that will bring students together to share ideas, work in teams and experience hands-on learning.
Within the forms, flexible warehouse-like spaces turn conventional classrooms into hybrid buildings which can be modified for a variety of pedagogical uses. Informal learning lounges are scattered around key circulation nodes.
The symbolic and functional hub, the Campus Centre, is composed of pure cubes. It comprises the library, auditorium, International Design Centre and the Forum. The Forum is a large covered outdoor room with skylight roof creating a generous light-filled, green space.
In association with CPG Consultants, Singapore.
Feasibility Study for Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) Cancer Research Centre, situated next to the Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle.
The design proposed to bring various partners together in a new model of integration.
Innovative shared work environments and technology would facilitate and encourage collaboration and foster a research and education culture that responds directly to the community health needs of Cancer and Mental Health Research Programs.
The building is sited on an artificial hill, well above the Calvary Mater Hospital, giving it considerable visual prominence. At a likely five levels, it will be highly visible, and from some distance, even from Newcastle city centre.
The proposed design projects a sense of clarity of purpose and confidence of form befitting the building’s position and location.
The building is designed to be measured and rational, with a clearly expressed architectural form, and to display its environmentally sustainable features.
A design competition for the new Griffith Health Centre and Common Use Teaching Facility at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus.
The 25,000m2 facility houses a range of medical teaching facilities, laboratories and clinics focused on dental medicine and technology along with, physiotherapy, psychology and health administration.
An economical design achieved a floor area efficiency of 70% for the Health Centre in an 11-storey wing, wrapped in a high performance ESD skin.
Low rise lecture halls are located adjacent to the tall facility on a linear plaza connected to the campus pedestrian network.
A shortlisted international competition to design a new building for the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Design for the University of Melbourne.
The proposed building is a neutral and flexible work in progress that is more about an idea than a finished product. To accommodate pedagogical changes over time and variations in studio-based education and teaching programs, a highly flexible warehouse for learning was proposed. It comprises simple rectilinear, undifferentiated space shaped by functional demands, site conditions and sustainability imperatives.
With regard to form and expression, as a place of teaching architecture, the building must express an essential defining characteristic that is about idea and content rather than style. We proposed clothing the building with an environmental skin or veil. Its effect is to give visual expression to the simplest of architectural forms – the box – with an imagery that is simultaneously neutral, powerful and expressive. The skin embodies the essence of architecture: form, articulation, volume, containment, solidity, transparency, structure and surface.
Concept design of an internationally competitive research centre comprising two facilities on two different sites.
The proposal for the Parkville facility has a simplicity, clarity and presence of form that sets it apart from all other buildings in the precinct. It is treated as an abstract sculptural object – a pure rectilinear block hovering above the tree canopy of Royal Parade. It is clad in a perforated metal outer skin that creates a transparent environmental veil.
The concept for the Austin facility seeks to make a strong link with the Parkville facility. The visual expression of the simple form with an abstract sculptural quality, is the same but with a subtle variation.
Internally, the design of both centres seeks to create a laboratory and clinical environment for collaborative scientific research. The laboratory configuration maximises physical and visual interaction within the scientific areas, while maintaining required regulatory and operational control.
Redevelopment of two existing university buildings to house further teaching and faculty space.
A limited design competition for the University of Auckland’s new Business School, the proposed complex is conceived as a community, a multi-rise ‘village’ straddling the edge of the campus and the surrounding city space.
The scale of the school is broken down into a number of slender blocks intersected by a lateral atrium. The effect is of a hierarchy of different functions united by the common gesture of the dramatic vertical ‘street’. This simple unifying device allows the component structure of the school to be connected to the activating link, or street.
In association with Warren and Mahoney.
A limited design competition for the Queensland University of Technology, the proposed new 45,000m² building is sited on the south eastern edge of the campus.
It provides accommodation for the Engineering and Information Technology Departments along with new community facilities such as Student Union and Student Refectory.
Planed around the ‘University Court’, the new central heart of the campus, the design also focuses on Old Gas House, a heritage building sited on the cultural corridor linking the new pedestrian cycle bridge across the Brisbane River which joins South Bank to the city via the campus.
In association with PDT Architects.
A general purpose and teaching building of five storeys for the Department of Optometry and for Unisearch (a research arm of the University).
The Westin Singapore is a luxury, 5 Star business hotel located in Singapore’s central business district.
With panoramic views over Marina Bay, Sentosa Island and the Straits of Singapore, the Hotel sits on top of 32 levels of prime commercial space in Asia Square Tower Two. The 16-storey Hotel accommodates 305 guest rooms with a standard deluxe room of 48m². The Hotel also features extensive conference facilities, three restaurants, a Fitness Studio and Heavenly Spa by Westin, and an infinity edge pool with dramatic views from a height of 36-storeys.
The Hotel offers convenient access to The Cube city room food and beverage precinct below, transport facilities, and the Stock Exchange and business district.
The Asia Square project is one of the region’s most environmentally efficient developments, having been awarded Singapore’s platinum Green Mark certification.
In association with Architects 61 and FBEYE International.
Hihou is located opposite Treasury Gardens in Melbourne’s central business district but the bar’s design transports patrons to the city of Tokyo in Japan.
The anonymous entry on Flinders Lane, with no signage and just an intercom at the door, further enhances patrons’ sense of being transported to another city.
Inside the venue, sliding screens are used to create flexible planning. A minimalistic corridor guides patrons to the bar on the first floor. The bar space is designed with a timber chandelier which doubles as a wine rack and a screen.
A feature wall is created with timber battens arranged into a three-dimensional piece of artwork with bottles and glasses displayed in between the battens, adding another dimension.
Nama Nama was designed with light coloured materials: lime washed timber boards, white joinery and white powdercoated aluminium, in order to make the architecture a blank canvas through which to celebrate the colour of the food.
A feature element of the space that is not white, is the bar / counter. The restaurant’s existing timber counter was sanded back to its natural form and stained in bright yellow.
All the other timber elements used in the space were also stained or oiled to retain the texture and pattern of the natural material. The neutral tones and colours draw the customer’s attention to the food on display in the counter.
Located on a cliff edge 20 minutes from Denpasar International Airport, the 1.7 hectare site is on prime coastal land with sweeping sea views of the Indian Ocean.
Staggered rows of luxury villas and apartments appear to grow out of the dramatic limestone incline, while the indoor spaces blend with the lush, tropical garden and seaside setting. The stepped arrangement ensures each unit’s privacy.
The scheme comprises eight ocean front villas, six garden villas, 20 ocean front units, 40 ocean view units and two duplex penthouses. Sizes range from 83m² (one bedroom units) to 250m² (two – three bedroom villas with private pools).
Facilities include an infinity edge swimming pool, day spa, fitness centre, restaurants, roof top terrace bar, library, kids’ club and day care, meeting rooms and a mini theatre.
The resort is operated by Anantara Hotels, Resorts and Spas.
Hidden in a Melbourne city basement is this bold interpretation of a traditional Japanese izakaya – a place for meeting, drinking and sampling great food.
Channelling the character of Tokyo’s fashionable izakayas, Izakaya Den adds to the cultural restaurant scene thriving in Melbourne’s laneways, basements and rooftops.
Elevated tables offer a view of the busy preparation/cooking area behind the full-length bar. At the far end is a communal stone table; a large mirror behind it extends the space further and conceals the back-of-house.
The palette of materials is simple, with the main bar running the full length of the space being the principle organising element. Its blackened finish was burned using traditional Japanese methods.
At the entrance is a large graphic mural designed by Garry Emery. It features a reproduction wood block by celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai overlaid with a manga comic character in colourful dots.
Sensa Hotel Ciwalk is a 128 room hotel, on a four hectare site, located on Cihampelas Street, a vibrant retail destination in central Bandung.
The Hotel has been designed according to sustainable building criteria. All public areas and corridors are naturally ventilated, and 80 percent of the guest rooms open onto balconies.
Courtyards are designed around the Hotel to protect the existing 100 year old pine trees and allow the building to engage with the existing vegetation.
The Hotel is connected to the Ciwalk Shopping Mall via two open bridges.
Verdura Resort + Spa occupies nearly two kilometres of private Mediterranean coastline. The facility comprises a beachside resort hotel located adjacent an international standard gold courses, a world class spa, four restaurants and five bars.
Hotel accommodation is located in a strip behind the beach and set deep within the natural landscape. Other rooms are located inland, in individual low-rise blocks of 12 rooms, each with their own terrace or balcony.
Covered and sheltered walkways provide external circulation and enhance the experience of being immersed in the Sicilian landscape.
A contemporary landmark residential development on the Cairns waterfront including 200 apartments, hotel, swimming pool, restaurant, retail and cafe facilities.
A low-rise building reflecting a far north Queensland imagery, without resorting to cliched stereotypes. The building consists of a 3 level podium with up to 9 levels setback above it, arranged in a triangular configuration with open corners surrounding a large central open-air atrium.
98 serviced apartments and one serviced penthouse comprise the hotel element. These were designed and built to Mirvac requirements, and are operated by Mirvac.
The Manhattan Hotel is a 5 Star, 33-storey business hotel with a gross floor area of 20,000m². Accommodation consists of 260 guest rooms in the Hotel. This includes a presidential suite, two deluxe suites, 102 junior suites and 134 superior guest rooms.
Facilities comprise five restaurants, banquet hall, a spa and fitness club, swimming pool, ballroom and carpark.
The simple, clean, elegant square tower form sets the Hotel apart from typical hotel double loaded corridor solutions.
The Alila Jakarta Hotel + Spa has 246 guest rooms, suites and apartments with sweeping views over Jakarta, taking in sights such as the Presidential Palace, National Museum and other historical landmarks.
The Hotel is designed as a staggered twin tower with modern interiors organised around a minimalist courtyard, allowing sunlight to penetrate deep into the large podium spaces.
An exclusive executive lounge is located adjacent to the swimming pool deck, a Mandara Spa and a new gymnasium.
The Maya Ubud Resort + Spa comprises 60 luxury villas with private pools and 48 suites.
Located high between two river valleys, the resort sits on a long sloping peninsula of land, dropping off dramatically at its southern tip to the Petanu River. Down at the riverside, the Maya Spa sits next to a small waterfall.
Maya Ubud’s design juggles with new and traditional concepts: there are no intricate Balinese paintings, masks or statues; instead, a deeper, ancient Balinese concept is celebrated through its landscape and architecture.
Siting is inspired by the prehistoric Balinese tradition with villages located along the Kaja-Kelod sacred axis, linking the mountains in the centre of the island – the realm of Gods (Kaja) – to the surrounding seas where the demons are (Kelod).
Conversion of a former rag trade building to a 34 room boutique hotel with bar / bistro, restaurant and health club facilities.
The existing structure, form and overall character of the building has been retained, with the new works being treated as inserted elements within this fabric. The new elements – stainless steel, aluminium, translucent glass, timber veneered panels and coloured planar surfaces – reinforce and clarify the new versus the old.
On the exterior, colour is a feature element of the building. Panels, planes, sticks and constructions in vibrant blues, greens, yellows, oranges and reds are overlaid on the natural cement grey render tones.
A unique feature is the 25 metre long glass enclosed swimming pool which extends out over the street frontage at roof-top level.
Designed and built in the 1980s, the Embassy comprises a three level Chancery building, a separate Head of Mission Residence on two levels, with formal reception rooms and 35 apartments for Embassy staff.
The demands of identity and context are well served by the typical Beijing courtyard house which was adopted as the model for the Embassy.
Without resorting to pastiche, the Embassy incorporates many characteristics of the Beijing courtyard house: the axial planning and hierarchical disposition of elements, and local construction techniques and materials.
The walled compound gathers together the different programmatic elements of the modern diplomatic enclave into a single complex, and answers climatic imperatives as well as knitting into the existing city.
The courtyard type is also subjected to reinterpretation, with the large openings in the perimeter wall that enable views into the compound, literally an expression of Australian openness.
Following on from our successful collaboration with Ian Schrager and the Sanderson Hotel we were invited to take a local Architect role at the Edition Hotel. It is located in the refurbished Grade II listed Berners Street Hotel in London’s West End and incorporates 173 unique guest rooms and suites. Each room features oak floors and wood panelled walls, in either dark walnut or light oak, creating a cabin-like feel.
The Berners Tavern on the hotel’s ground floor is dominated by two giant bronze chandeliers. The walls are covered, floor to ceiling, with photographic portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The exclusive Punch Room Cocktail Bar is located off the main lobby and an intimate nightclub has been installed in the basement.
Interior design was carried out by internationally renowned Yabu Pushelberg. Denton Corker Marshall was the co-ordinating architects and client/designer representative for Ian Schrager Company/Marriott International Hotels.
Upgrade and refurbishment of a luxury central London five star hotel.
The project includes fit-out and refurbishment of the existing 1970’s purpose-built Selfridge Hotel building. The new scheme accommodates 236 guestrooms, fitness and spa facilities, a bar, restaurant, function rooms and meeting spaces. The project also includes the upgrade and refurbishment of the existing Selfridge Foodhall to provide a unique, branded food shopping experience including an associated restaurant, grocery, and food retail outlets.
The interior design is by the firm ‘Concrete’ from Amsterdam.
The complete Interior Design involving the conversion of two Georgian terraced houses in Central London into a Town House Hotel where personal service and a stylish but welcoming interior are key to its success.
Space planning, image, current trends in the hospitality market and customer expectations were essential considerations.
The colour scheme and furniture were developed to allow for maximum flexibility in the space.
Every room would have its own identity, but the furniture could be used successfully in different areas as demand dictated.
Located north of Beijing near the Great Wall of China, this exclusive vineyard resort development is high-end in all respects.
The 100 hectare site sits in rural land sheltered by a mountain range. A gradual approach along an 800 metre avenue heightens the sense of arrival.
The expressive gesture is of long walls with sticks on top, and a skewed metal tube resting jauntily on the sticks. The buildings are configured to follow the land contours. Submerged into the landscape, they come into view as a succession of stack stone walls.
The resort comprises a state-of-the-art winery, cellars, wine tasting facilities and related tourism facilities: art gallery, premium quality restaurants, day spa and conference venue.
Stage one includes 33 luxury clubhouse villas, each with a generous floor plan of some 1,500m², and a 6 Star, 60 suite boutique hotel.
The project has been designed and is awaiting the next stage of development.
Denton Corker Marshall’s design for the redevelopment of a heritage-listed hotel combines the existing historic fabric with a fresh contemporary expansion.
The tripartite composition is designed to return The Hotel Windsor to its rightful place of pre-eminence as Australia’s only Grand Hotel. The Hotel is restored faithfully to its original exterior appearance – in particular the re-opening of the colonnaded ground level frontage.
A new corner building is to be a simple perforated cube with seemingly random perforations, creating modulation and visual texture that invokes a 21st century reflection of the adjoining 19th century frontage.
An ultra slim tower forms a backdrop – literally a curtain – that allows a clear reading of the profile of the Windsor’s historic towers. It is set far back enough to be read as a building unconnected with The Hotel Windsor itself, an arrangement which compares very favourably to other heritage / new built forms in the surrounding streetscapes.