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Architects: Buchan, CallisonRTKL
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Seele
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Manufacturers: Aglo Systems, Seele, Corporate Initiatives, De Fazio Tiles and Stone, Falcon Lifts, Jura Limestone, Porcelanosa Grupo, SA Precast, Schollglas, Something Beginning With
Text description provided by the architects. The expansion of Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia, is a seamless celebration of engineering and architecture. The project's centerpiece is a dramatic gridshell glass roof, which soars above what has become the largest and most popular enclosed shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere. The expansion accommodates upwards of 100 new retailers and a roster of leisure and food operators. The 31-meter high, 7,000-square meter roof was a multi-disciplinary collaboration of designers, architects and engineers working with research departments from the University of Stuttgart and the University of Bath. The design team relied on 3D parametric modelling, refining the massing through a combination of video animation and computer rendering. The roof is the first of its kind on the continent.
