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Lady Cilento Children s Hospital, located in Brisbane s Southbank precinct is a 12-level quaternary facility that accommodates specialist acute and sub-acute services together with research and teaching facilities.
A joint venture by Conrad Gargett and Lyons Architecture, the hospital is designed around the idea of a ‘living tree’ representing a network of trunks and branches , which punctuate the building and connect inside and outside.
The children’s hospital is located in a generous urban park, which serves as a gathering place for the local Southbank community. Using the versatility and wide colour range of Alpolic aluminium composite panels, the architects were able to take an environmental design approach that engaged with, and absorbed the surrounding elements of the building.
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With the appointment of a head contractor, work is expected to begin soon on the Bendigo GovHub project in Lyttleton Terrace, Bendigo.
Designed by Lyons Architecture, the $90-million development will consolidate the current office of the City of Bendigo and other regional state government agencies. The building will accommodate up to 1,000 Victorian Government and City of Greater Bendigo workers.
Minister for Regional Development Mary-Anne Thomas said, “The GovHub is a really exciting project that will transform and revitalise Bendigo and is just one of a range of projects we’re building to make regional cities an even better place to live and work.”
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Graham Barron is an architect at Lyons Architecture living with his family in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2019, we moved our family of four from Vancouver to the city of Melbourne – and just a year later, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. To tackle the first wave, the Australian government closed its borders to all but returning citizens and permanent residents, and put them through a 14-day hotel quarantine. State premiers, guided by public health officials, imposed lockdowns. And by the time the second wave struck, we in Victoria were confined to our house in a country we barely knew, during one of the world’s longest and strictest coronavirus restrictions.