A business park centred around a light-filled town centre, the adaptive reuse of former industrial warehouses and a home built for sustainability are among the winners of the 2023 ACT Architecture Awards.
Hassell’s refurbishment of the Birch Building at the Australian National University has seen the practice take out the Canberra Medallion for 2022 at the ACT Architecture Awards.
The designer who never retired
5 July 2021
Amy Jarvis pays tribute to Derek Wrigley - a designer who left his touch on almost every part of the ANU campus.
Derek Wrigley believed that design had the power to change the world for the better. Taking a look at his 70 year career, it seems he was right. A pioneering powerhouse of design, Derek s fingerprints are all over the ANU campus, often hidden in plain sight.
Born in Oldham, Lancashire on 16 February 1924, Derek Wrigley was the elder of two children for Harold and Rose Wrigley (nee Bradley). Derek s sister and lifelong friend Shirley (Kral) joined the family in 1931. After failing his high school certificate, and leaving an electrical engineering apprenticeship, Derek was deemed medically unfit for active service. Based on his enthusiasm and aptitude for measured drawing, he was accepted into the architecture course at the Manchester College of Art (University of Manchester) and received outstanding results upon completion in
OBITUARY / Derek Fuller Wrigley, OAM, February 16, 1924, Oldham, Lancashire – June 22, 2021, Canberra.
MASTER designer Derek Wrigley, who
died on June 22 in Canberra left an extraordinary legacy in Canberra, Australia and arguably the world.
Derek came to Australia in 1947. He worked for a short time with a firm of architects in Sydney and then became a lecturer in architecture at Sydney Technical College & University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales).
In 1956 he was the co-founder, with Fred Ward, of the Industrial Design Council of Australia, (IDCA) and was the first honorary secretary. He was also the chair of the IDCA Education Committee for the first three years. Derek was passionate about the importance of design and art in education and right until the end was writing about this importance.
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