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Craigieburn Library / Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Craigieburn Library is located in Hume City is a fast-growing municipality north of Melbourne. This rapidly expanding community required a library, learning centre and gathering space to serve as a public community focus. The selected site was open in character and surrounded by an expanding series of new housing projects and retail development. We conceived the project to become a built focus of public life for the Hume community, but also sought to connect the architecture with the natural landscape that is being rapidly transformed by residential expansion.

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery / Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery is the second oldest museum in Australia and its collection mandate is the most diverse of any in the country. Its campus at Constitution Dock on Hobart’s waterfront includes a rich collection of heritage buildings including the Commissariat Store (1808-10), the Private Secretary’s Cottage (1815) and Custom House (1902).

Newcastle Museum / Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Newcastle Museum consists of a series of revitalised “turn of the Century” industrial brick railway workshop buildings - Blacksmith’s and Wheel Shop (1880), Locomotive Boiler Shop (1887), and New Erecting Shop (1920) located within the urban waterfront regeneration precinct of Honeysuckle. The challenge was to provide a linkage element to not only create a new sense of identity for the heritage structures and to provide an visually and physically accessible entrance to the three buildings, but to also upgrade them to accommodate a national standard museum and associated support requirements, without diminishing the integrity of the existing fabric.