165 Years of Enduring Architecture Founded in 1853 by Joseph Reed, Bates Smart is one of Australia’s oldest Redefining Density architectural firms. Over the decades, the practice has been responsible Creative solutions empower our cities and facilitate environmentally and socially sustainable growth. for some of Australia’s most well-known and loved buildings. This timeline captures some of the more significant projects from past decades, connects Craft and Materials with key moments in history and represents the evolution of the company An integrated approach to architecture and interior design name. Bates Smart has continued to thrive under strong and innovative creates holistic and considered outcomes, with emphasis designers, an overarching belief in design excellence and an ability to create on materiality and craftsmanship. enduring architecture. Citymaking The timeline examines the work of the practice through the lens of five Design shapes our cities and encompasses the finer grain key themes, which can be consistently applied to all of Bates Smart’s work. of our streetscapes and our ever-changing skylines. The As we move further into the twenty-first century and under the leadership capacity to positively impact the public realm and create a sense of place is at the forefront of design. of new architectural innovators, Bates Smart continues to intelligently explore the issues and influences that impact modern life. Transformational Design Curiosity and innovation has the ability to create design that is truly transformational. By intelligently exploring the issues which impact modern life, good design can improve the way in which we live.

Environmental Sustainable design needs to consider both environmental performance, but also longevity and the enduring impact on the public realm. 1853 1862 Joseph Reed Reed & Barnes

1869 Rippon Lea, Elsternwick The well-known Rippon 1864 Lea, was completed Melbourne Public Library, Melbourne in 1869 for Frederick Sargood. The house’s The Melbourne Public Library, now known as the polychromatic brickwork, State Library of Victoria, was Joseph Reed’s first echoes the earlier major competition win in 1854, and remains a Lombardic Romanesque building of significance for the city. 1867 style of the Independent Interestingly, some of the early illustrations Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Church, and became a of the competition design differ from the building common characteristic that was constructed. One sketch depicted the The design of the Melbourne Town Hall signified of Melbourne residences building as a smaller structure and with an Ionic 1866 another major commission for Reed & Barnes during this period. temple portico, however the building we have today Independent Church, and is considered one of the most important is more monumental, with Corinthian columns public buildings to be constructed at the time. distinguishing the Swanston Street entrance. Melbourne Classical in inspiration, the design is distinguished Part of a greater masterplan, only the library by impressive Corinthian columns, a substantial Situated on the corner of 1873 was completed at this time and this itself was bluestone base and French-inspired, curved Collins and Russell Streets, Scots Church, constructed in stages. The most outstanding mansard roofs. the Independent Church, room internally was Queen’s Hall, situated on The corner foundation stone was laid by HRH Melbourne now known as St Michael’s, the first floor. Although modified over the years Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh on the 29th of is distinguished by its and currently closed for renovation, the hall is November 1867. The clock tower, which defines Situated opposite the polychromatic brickwork, distinguished by impressive Ionic columns and the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets, was earlier Independent dual street entries and the clever integration of natural light. completed in 1869. Church also completed Lombardic Romanesque The building was Australia’s first, purpose- The monumental portico which to this day by Reed & Barnes, Scots style. The church’s interior is built free library and one of the first in the world. characterises the Swanston Street entry, was Church demonstrates circular in form, resembling a much later addition and was completed in the diversity of styles Related a theatre more than a 1887. The design of the portico is attributed employed by the practice. Project traditional church, and was to Francis Smart, who had joined the practice In comparison to the (1913) designed to improve the which by then had changed its name to Reed, Lombardic Romanesque internal acoustics. Henderson & Smart. Unfortunately, the original church, Scots Church The church’s distinctive interior of the auditorium was destroyed by fire is considered to be an tower was an early landmark in 1925. example of the Gothic on Melbourne’s skyline. Revival style.

1853 1883 1890 1906 1907 1922 1926 Reed, Henderson Reed, Smart Smart, Tappin Bates, Peebles Bates Bates, Smart & Smart & Tappin & Peebles & Smart & Smart & McCutcheon

1901 The first Commonwealth Parliament is opened by the Duke of Cornwall and York, later King George V, in the 1914–1918 Melbourne Exhibition Building World War I

1880 1932 Melbourne International AMP Building, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Carlton In 1927, the Australian Mutual Provident The Royal Exhibition Building is one Society (AMP) decided to replace its of Melbourne’s most loved buildings Melbourne headquarters and held a small architectural competition which was and the first Australian site to be 1933 placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage awarded to Bates, Smart & McCutcheon. List. The building was constructed to The commercial palazzo-inspired Buckley & Nunn host the 1880 Melbourne International design is minimal in its decoration. The Men’s Store, Exhibition, but was also the setting for masonry is distinguished by banded rustication, both at the base of the Melbourne the first Parliament of Australia in 1901. 1882 1913 Reed & Barnes was declared the building and along the central windows on all façades. The department store winner of the architectural competition Wilson Hall, Reading Room, Buckley & Nunn provided in May 1878, but interestingly had Significantly, the building incorporated University of Melbourne Melbourne Public Library a concealed panel heating system, which a number of commissions entered the competition under the for the practice during the pseudonym ‘Advance’. The original Wilson Hall at the University The design for the great domed was considered innovative for the time. The project is noteworthy as it was late 1920s to early 1930s. The building which remains of Melbourne was completed in 1882 Reading Room at the Melbourne Public After working on the largely intact today, has a cruciform and was viewed as one of the finest Library aligned with the debate over one of Sir Osborn McCutcheon’s first major commissions and helped to sustain larger department store plan and an impressive great central examples of Gothic Revival architecture whether to introduce the Dewey Decimal on Bourke Street, Bates, dome. It is regarded as one of the in Melbourne. Classification System to the library. the firm through the Great Depression. The project received an Australian Smart & McCutcheon was greatest buildings to be completed As the ceremonial heart of the It was believed that a circular space appointed to transform by Reed & Barnes. university, Wilson Hall was a highly could accommodate the system more Institute of Architects Award for New Buildings in 1932. 294 Bourke Street into revered building. It was considered an successfully and this helped the plan an exclusive men’s store. absolute tragedy when it was destroyed receive approval. Completed in 1933 and by fire in 1952. Innovative for the time, the dome was distinguished by its Jazz designed in reinforced concrete and for Related Moderne style, the building a short time was the largest reinforced Project features a striking black concrete dome in the world. The project (1956) façade, chevron detailing was officially opened on the 14th of and three figurative relief October 1913. panels at the top of the Unfortunately, leakage problems in building. the late 1950s resulted in the addition The building received of a roof lining that blocked the skylights. an Australian Institute of In 2003, the original skylights were Architects Award for New restored, thereby returning the space Buildings in 1934. Today to its former splendour. the building forms part The Reading Room marked the of the department store, last major building for Bates, Peebles David Jones. & Smart before the beginning of World War I in 1914. Related Project (1864) 1880 1951 Walter Gropius, Founder 1939–1945 of the Bauhaus School World War II visits Osborn McCutcheon

1938 1957 MLC Building, MLC Building, North Sydney Sydney In the post-war period, the Mutual Life In 1937, Bates, Smart and Citizens Assurance Company (MLC) & McCutcheon won emerged with a series of office building the open competition commissions across Australia for Bates, to design the Mutual Smart & McCutcheon. Life and Citizens These buildings were distinguished Assurance Company by their innovative construction methods (MLC) building, and the significant developments made situated on the corner in prefabrication. of Martin Place and The most notable of these commissions Castlereagh Streets was the North Sydney building completed in Sydney. The in 1957. The building features an H-shaped 1958 1958 building incorporates floor plan and a nearly 100 metre-long ICI House, Melbourne 366 St Kilda façade. It was considered an exemplar for a prominent corner Road, Melbourne tower, complete with both modular construction and the use ICI House, currently known as Orica House, of the aluminium curtain wall. At the time the MLC emblem, and is considered Australia’s first skyscraper. In 1958 Bates, Smart of completion it was the largest office a relief sculpture of The building was the first to break & McCutcheon moved building in Australia. a man breaking sticks Melbourne’s height restrictions, thereby to a new, purpose-built on his knee. The setting a precedent for taller buildings office at 366 St Kilda within the city. tower was reportedly 1956 Road. disliked by Sir Osborn The freestanding, fully glazed curtain The new studio McCutcheon, but Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne wall skyscraper, with its clearly demarcated exemplified the insisted upon by the lifts and services, is considered Bates, practice’s design In 1952, a fire destroyed the much loved Wilson Hall client. Smart & McCutcheon’s most refined methodology and which was designed and completed by Reed & Barnes building of the post-war period. The tower featured an open plan, in 1882. Bates, Smart & McCutcheon was engaged also symbolises Australia’s contribution garden courtyards and to investigate the options for rebuilding. to the Modernism movement, exemplified an abundance of Initially the university planned to rebuild the hall by overseas architects such as Skidmore, natural light. in the same Gothic Revival style, however after it was Owings & Merrill (SOM), Mies van der Rohe During this time revealed that the restoration would drastically exceed and Le Corbusier. the practice became the budget, it was decided that a new hall should be The 19-storey tower, not formally part a truly multidisciplinary built. The decision was met with much controversy of the CBD’s Hoddle Grid, was allowed studio, incorporating and many vocal opponents. Nevertheless, the plans to break the 40 metre height restrictions. structural and services for the new hall proceeded and in March 1956 the The design cleverly determined the engineering. The St building was complete. maximum yield of a 40 metre tower over Kilda Road studio Despite the initial debate the new building was the whole site, and then with council’s was Bates, Smart & well received. Considered a prime example of the permission, redistributed this same yield McCutcheon’s home post-war International style, the rectangular box-like into a tower form of 80 metres, thereby until its relocation structure is distinguished by a glass façade on its freeing up the ground plane for gardens. in 1972. eastern wall and a textured brick wall to the north. This approach signalled the start of plot A bronze relief sculpture by Tom Bass, depicts the ratio determinations for city sites and Trial of Socrates and is mounted above the main changed Melbourne’s planning regulations entry on the northern wall. and skyline forever. Internally, the Scandinavian inspired design is ICI House also signified a number of much more decorative. Birch plywood panelling covers innovative advancements in construction the ceiling and distinctively wraps down the western techniques, including the use of concrete wall as one continuous surface. Douglas Annand’s and pre-cast units in structural members commanding wall mural, The Search for Truth provides and flooring. The original entry to the a dramatic focal point for the hall. building was via the landscaped garden Related on Nicholson Street, which today still Project features the prominent fountain sculpture (1882) by Gerald Lewers. Bates Smart’s Melbourne studio relocated to the building in 2001. The building received an Australian Institute of Architects Award for Enduring Architecture in 2013. 1950 1980 1983 1966 Introduction of Bates Smart relocates Sir Osborn McCutcheon computer-aided into St Hilda’s, East is knighted design (CAD) Melbourne

1992 Melbourne Central Building, Melbourne Bates Smart worked in association with Japanese architect 1969 Kisho Kurokawa, on Australian Embassy, the Melbourne Central 1980 Washington D.C. USA tower, designing and Collins Place, Melbourne documenting all the Bates, Smart & McCutcheon was appointed to design interiors and the lift core. the new Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. in 1964. The consolidation of multiple development sites The 55-storey tower A significant and prestigious international commission, into one large precinct signified a shift in the located on Lonsdale the chancery is located on Scott Circle on direct axis development of Melbourne’s CBD. Street is significant to the White House. Collins Place, designed in association with the because it signalled Governed by height restrictions and security American architecture firm I.M. Pei, covers three the integration and of requirements, the chancery was designed as a modern 1969 and a half acres of the CBD, between Collins computer aided design palazzo-style building. The perfectly symmetrical façade AMP Square and Street, Exhibition Street and Flinders Lane, and (CAD) into the Bates is clad in off-white Tennessee Marble and complemented incorporates two towers, a hotel, cinemas, and Smart studio. by bronze-anodised, framed windows. St James Building, numerous retail stores. The original interior was furnished with Australian Melbourne 1978 The design acknowledges the city’s network Collaboration with Kisho Kurokawa timbers and also included an extensive collection of Metropolitan of lanes and streets, but internalises them within contemporary Australian art. AMP Square was a joint the development, in a USA style model of city- Tom Bass, who had worked with Sir Osborn venture with the American Fire Brigade making. A sunken public retail plaza links the two McCutcheon on Wilson Hall, was commissioned to architecture firm Skidmore, Headquarters, towers and is known as the ‘Great Space’. This create a free-standing bronze sculpture depicting Owings & Merrill (SOM). extensive area covers one acre and incorporates the Australian Coat of Arms. While the design for the Melbourne a six-storey volume, enclosed by an intricate project took place in San glazed space frame ceiling. The brutalist-inspired Related Francisco, all documentation The development took a decade to complete design for the Metropolitan Project after design development, and was the single largest building project in Fire Brigade in East (2022) including supervision of Australia. The construction period of Collins Place Melbourne, is characterised construction was the also signalled a period of growth for Bates Smart by board form concrete and responsibility of Bates, and during this time the practice grew to become recessive glass elements. Smart & McCutcheon. one of the largest architectural firms in Australia. The expressed concrete The square’s design Collins Place received the BOMA (VIC) Award floor joints reference timber incorporates an L-shaped for New Buildings and Special Merit in 1981. stick-frame construction plaza, a 26-storey tower and and the building utilises the smaller six-storey building. Collaboration with I.M. Pei a strict grid to allow for Panels of reconstructed future flexibility. granite were used for both The building responds buildings. A large and to its context as the floors commanding sculpture by of the new building align Clement Meadmore called with the adjacent 19th Awakening creates a focal century heritage fire station. point within the plaza. The project received The building is an example an Australian Institute of of the monumental corporate Architects Award for New office. The approach to the Buildings in 1981. tower, façade and podium is illustrative of the Modernist ideals in reshaping the 19th century city.

Collaboration with SOM 1970 1995 Bates Smart

1995 1997 1998 2001 2002 2004 Bates Smart opens an Bates Smart Sydney ICI House Bates Smart Bates Smart Sydney The Royal Exhibition office in Sydney at 243 relocates to 263 changes name Melbourne relocates relocates to 243 Building is granted listing George Street Liverpool Street to Orica House to ICI House Liverpool Street as a World Heritage Site

2001 The Melburnian, Melbourne The Melburnian was a catalyst project for the reintroduction of residential 1997 living in and near the CBD. 2002 Crown Entertainment The project is considered Federation Square, Melbourne a benchmark for large Complex, Melbourne residential developments In 1997, London-based LAB Architecture Completed in 1997, the Crown and was awarded the Studio was successfully shortlisted in the Entertainment Complex was Property Council of Australia first stage of the design competition for a significant project for the (VIC) Overall Winner Award the new civic precinct. LAB invited Bates practice. As with Collins Place in 2003 and an Australian Smart to enter a joint venture partnership almost two decades earlier, 2000 Institute of Architects (VIC) for the final stage of the competition and the development was at one Pier 8/9, Walsh Bay Award for Residential together they were announced the winner. time the single largest building Multiple in 2002. Considered one of the most Walsh Bay is a heritage precinct adjacent challenging complexes ever built in project in Australia. Collaboration with HPA to The Rocks in Sydney Harbour. Pier Australia, Bates Smart provided valuable Bates Smart won the design Architects competition, but due to the 8/9 involved a sensitive adaptive reuse design development, documentation and immense size of the project, approach that transformed the historic quality control services in order to ensure a consortium was embarked 1912 timber wool store into a premium robust design outcomes were achieved. upon and both Perrott Lyon commercial precinct. The controversial, yet widely acclaimed Mathieson (PLM) and Daryl The significant architectural group of buildings, are now an iconic part 2006 of Melbourne. Jackson were invited to join interventions included two new steel 55 Miller Street, Pyrmont the partnership. and timber mezzanine floors, new louvre The project received multiple awards including the Australian Institute The project is significant window openings and the introduction of The commercial building at 55 Miller of Architects (National), Walter Burley not only due to its large skylights to admit more light into the upper Street in Sydney reinterprets the Griffin Award for Urban Design 2003, and scale, but also the extensive interior spaces. masonry of nearby historic warehouses the Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) integration of interior design. This project received a number of in a contemporary manner. Extruded Architecture Medal; Melbourne Prize; The project received the awards including the Australian Institute terracotta battens create a screen Urban Design Award; and Institutional Property Council of Australia of Architects (National), Walter Burley around the building, disguising the – New Architecture Award in 2003. (VIC) Overall Winner Award Griffin Award for Urban Design in 2005. internal subdivision and presenting in 1999. Collaboration with Lab Architecture Studio a cohesive and singular expression. The project is significant in that Collaboration with Perrott it overcame a number of statutory Lyon Mathieson & Daryl challenges, including its highly irregular Jackson Pty Ltd form and the requirement of at least of 50 per cent of the façade to be masonry.

2000 2011 2013 Her Majesty The Queen Bates Smart Sydney officially opens the new relocates to 43 Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane Street

2011 The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville The Royal Children’s Hospital is one of the largest and most significant projects in Bates Smart’s recent history. The $1 billion development was ground-breaking and combined innovative new health care models including evidence-based design principles and an emphasis on family-centered care. The Royal Children’s Hospital exemplifies the nurture through nature philosophy and aims to create an environment that lowers stress for both children and their families. The hospital’s location which is adjacent to Royal Park directly informed the design. One of the many examples includes the coloured leaf-like blades along the Flemington Road façade, which provides protection from the sun, whilst also creating a new identity for the hospital. 2010 The design focuses on the importance of views to the natural 2013 world and how this can positively impact wellbeing. Internally, a 420 George Street, central ‘street’ allows for intuitive wayfinding and creates a social 171 Collins Street, Melbourne heart for the hospital. The project is a benchmark for hospital Sydney The development at 171 Collins Street was Melbourne’s design both within Australia and internationally and was a catalyst first premium-grade office building in more than 20 years. A significant mixed-use for Bates Smart’s interest in the power of nature in architecture and The project incorporates a new commercial tower set development, the project its subsequent impact on wellbeing. behind the heritage Mayfair building, and a pedestrian incorporates a 36-storey The Royal Children’s Hospital received multiple awards including link between Collins Street and Flinders Lane. tower and a five-storey the World’s Best Health Building at the 2012 World Architecture A key planning decision involved how the tower retail podium, both of which Awards and the Australian Institute of Architects (National) Award would interact with St Paul’s Cathedral, which sits respect the neighbouring for Public Architecture in 2012. context. The tower is directly in front of the building when viewed from the expressed as two volumes; Collaboration with Billard Leece Partnership, south. Previously, the cathedral spires were visually lost a silvery polished concrete with HKS as International Advisor among the mixed assembly of buildings, however with volume to the north housing 2010 the addition of the fritted glass tower and the provision the core and breakout Crown Metropol, Melbourne of a more consistent backdrop, the cathedral’s fine areas, and a transparent architecture is more visible. green glass volume to the Following on from the earlier work at The tower’s elegant façade is distinguished by south housing a 19 metre the Crown Entertainment Complex, undulating ribbons which help to break down the mass clear span office space. Bates Smart was again engaged by of the building, while the white fritted glass reflect lights The materiality and Crown Resorts to design the five-star and giving the building a beautiful translucent quality. design of the podium hotel known as Crown Metropol. A spectacular nine-storey atrium, with a shimmering façade responds directly The distinct and sinuous shape woven glazed screen, separates the new tower and the to the sandstone and minimises the building’s external visual heritage Mayfair building, while the lobby is defined by vertical proportioning of the bulk, whilst internally creating a more the extensive use of travertine. adjoining heritage buildings. intimate atmosphere. The building’s The project’s impressive environmental credentials The project received a façade is distinguished by vertical include a 6-star Green Star and 5-star NABERS number of awards including fins that give the building a dynamic energy rating. The project received multiple awards the Australian Institute of appearance. including the Property Council of Australia, Innovation & Architects (NSW), Sir Arthur Instead of typical penthouses, a Excellence Awards, Sustainable Development – Existing G. Stephenson Award for dramatic double-height space with a Building (VIC). Commercial Architecture full length infinity pool, creates a true in 2011. destination on the top floor of the hotel. The project received numerous awards including an Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) Award for Commercial Architecture in 2011. 2010 2013 2014 Dandenong Mental Health The Kensington Colleges, Facility, Dandenong University of New South Wales The evidence-based design approach The redevelopment of the Kensington Colleges for the developed for the Royal Children’s Hospital University of New South Wales, creates a vibrant student was also utilised at the Dandenong Mental community incorporating three traditional colleges, two Health Facility. new colleges and a university teaching space. The design seeks to deinstitutionalise The individual colleges are designed to have their own mental health hospitals by creating a warm identity, yet collectively have a coherent language. The and light-filled approach, more akin to a building’s façades maintain consistency with regards residential project. Timber was chosen to materials, yet differ with subtle modulations in colour. as the dominant material as it provides The project received multiple awards including the texture, tactility and a non-institutional feel. Australian Institute of Architects (National) Award for The design features 38 pavilions arranged Residential Multiple in 2014. around 16 courtyards, which crucially 2015 allow nature and daylight to filter into the School of Mechanical building, whilst also providing landscaped views from within. & Manufacturing The project received a number of Engineering, University awards including the Australian Institute of Architects (National) Award for Public of New South Wales Architecture in 2014. The University of New South Collaboration with Irwin Alsop Wales, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering had been spread across two neighbouring, but disjointed 1960s buildings. Bates Smart’s 2014 vision respects the legacy of 180 Thomas Street, Sydney the original buildings, but unites the school in a contemporary Located on a prominent corner in the heart of Sydney’s manner. bustling Haymarket, Bates Smart designed a building The project received an that enlivens the adjacent pedestrian network by Australian Institute of Architects creating a plaza that extends the public domain. (NSW) Award for Educational The design challenge was to build a new building Architecture in 2016. on top of an existing building, which has columns and a central lift core integrated into its original design. This restricted floor plate flexibility and reduced connectivity. Bates Smart resolved this by placing a series of steel transfer trusses on top of the existing structure. This allowed the floor plate to cantilever beyond the existing building.

2015 2018 25 King, Brisbane Currently under construction in Brisbane’s reinvigorated RNA showgrounds, 25 King will be a ten-storey tower that combines the innovations of cross laminated timber (CLT) 2017 with the ‘Queenslander’ vernacular, creating a truly contemporary and sustainable 35 Spring Street, workplace. Melbourne The building is designed as a contemporary studio environment that balances wellbeing with A highly-detailed, patterned creative collaboration spaces. Glazing on the façade distinguishes 35 Spring south will maximise daylight, while sunshades Street as a new signature on the alternative façades will reduce energy landmark on Melbourne’s 2018 consumption, and in turn, the building’s carbon skyline. Incorporating 241 footprint. luxury apartments over The Club Stand, Victoria Racing Club, At street level, a generous two-storey 44-storeys, the tower helps Flemington timber veranda, lined with cafés and restaurants to define the eastern edge will provide a welcoming entry. Open frame of Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid. Due for completion in late 2018, the new Club Stand brise soleil on the east and west façades will Located directly opposite at Flemington Racecourse will celebrate the history and passively protect the building from solar impact, the Treasury Gardens, at the character of the Victoria Racing Club. The Club Stand which is extremely important in Brisbane’s intersection Spring Street aims to set a new benchmark for race day hospitality. harsh tropical climate. and Flinders Lane, the tower’s Home to the Melbourne Cup, the race that stops the When complete in late 2018, 25 King will be unique design is inspired by its nation, the design of the new Club Stand captures the the tallest wooden office building in the world. iconic location. flamboyance and effervescence of horse racing, with The vertical and horizontal a building that elicits movement and excitement. pattern of the façade creates a In contrast to traditional sports stadia, the curvilinear 2015 woven veil which is expressed Club Stand will provide an ‘in-the-round’ experience for Canberra Airport Hotel, Canberra on the surface of the building. Members with impressive views towards the racetrack, The design helps to conceal the Mounting Yard, Members’ Lawn, Parade Ring, day Situated at the entry to the new Canberra Airport, the the building’s irregular stalls, Betting Ring and Winning Post. Canberra Hotel is centred on a dramatic circular atrium apartment configurations and The heritage of Flemington is interwoven within that draws inspiration from Walter Burley Griffin’s plan creates protected balconies the interior design in sophisticated and subtle ways, for Canberra and reinvents the atrium hotel concept and terraces, that softens the reminding Members of the rich tradition and legacy made popular in the US in the 1970s and 1980s by threshold between inside and of the Club, while at the same time championing its John Portman. outside and establishes an evolution and future. The six-storey hotel includes 191 rooms, suites and increased sense of privacy apartments, conferencing facilities, and a restaurant for residents. with bar and lounges. Bates Smart designed both the Internally, the generously architecture and interiors which resulted in a hotel sized and often customised with a consistent overall aesthetic. The interiors echo apartments feature timeless the circular theme with the atrium creating a striking contemporary design, with rich centrepiece. White balustrades contrast with darkened layered and textural finishes circulation spaces, intensified by a constellation of and a high level of crafted and circular skylights, creating a dramatic interior space. bespoke detailing. The project received a range of awards including most The project received an notably the Australian Institute of Architects (National), Australian Institute of Architects Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture in 2016. Award (VIC) for Residential Multiple in 2018. 2018 2020 Constitution Place, Canberra Bates Smart has crafted a new mixed-use development incorporating a network of fine grain public spaces and two commercial buildings of different scales. The project will see the creation of streets, laneways and public squares which will revitalise this key precinct in Canberra. The new open spaces will be connected by a covered pedestrian laneway which is designed to become a food and beverage hub, and will connect with the existing urban structure. The ACT Government Office is expressed as three volumes with a façade strategy that responds to the respective solar orientation and context, while the smaller 2019 commercial building is articulated as two stacked volumes and is intended for either commercial or hotel use. Collins House, Melbourne In a feat of architectural 2022 and engineering innovation, Australian Embassy, Collins House will soar 195 Washington D.C. USA metres, yet measure just 11 metres wide, making In 2016, Bates Smart won the design competition for the new it Australia’s slimmest Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. The new building is set skyscraper and the fourth to replace the existing embassy that was designed by Bates, slimmest in the world. Smart & McCutcheon in 1969, but no longer accommodates the Located at 466 Collins contemporary security requirements or current workplace needs. Street, the project’s 2019 The project is significant in that it connects with the lineage of challenging site has 11.5 One30 Hyde Park, Sydney the practice, while also allowing for the next generation of Bates metre frontage and 480 Smart design. square-metre footprint, and Currently under construction, the residential Creating a secure, contemporary and environmentally efficient resulted in the development tower One30 Hyde Park is situated opposite building that is uniquely Australian, while respectful of the historic of a unique prefabrication its namesake Hyde Park and will create a and urban context, was of paramount importance. The design process for the delivery of dynamic expression for an important corner takes inspiration from Australia’s extraordinary landscape, from the tower’s floor and façade in Sydney. the desert earth to the large expansive sky and embodies these components. Rather than a singular tower form, ideas in both its materiality and form. An important element the design gives the impression of stacked The unique and distinctive folded façade is a combination of in achieving planning volumes. The podium responds to the treated copper and glass, which varies in appearance depending approval was Bates Smart’s surrounding buildings in the precinct and will on the line of approach to the building. The colouration of the approach to the existing feature a textured masonry base. A canopy metal, with its reddish tonality creates beauty and warmth, heritage building. The will run the length of Elizabeth Street, serving is evocative of the Australian landscapes within a Washington project incorporates the as a literal extension of the façade. context. The glass also emphasises the importance of light and restoration of the 1908 The apartments are designed to maximise adds a connection to nature generating a sense of openness. Makers Mark building, amenity, functionality and aesthetic. External Internally, an impressive glass veiled atrium distributes natural transforming the foyer with sunshade elements have been carefully light to both the workplaces and public exhibition spaces on the original details and the considered so that views are not obstructed. ground floor. The light-filled openness of the interior provides character of a luxury club. The internal material palette is refined a positive environment to foster staff wellbeing, as well as The 57-level building will and rich in texture and variation, sitting in exemplifying the importance of light within the Australian psyche. feature 263 refined luxury harmony with the external façade and the The new Australian Embassy will be complete in 2022. apartments, a range of stunning park-side setting. Related residential amenities and Project a roof terrace with views (1969) up and down Collins Street. 2020+ Melbourne 1 Nicholson Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia Telephone +61 3 8664 6200

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