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Berry to Bomaderry Princes Highway Upgrade
The Berry to Bomaderry Highway upgrade is a newly upgraded, four-lane section of road, that includes two composite bridges constructed using BlueScope’s REDCOR Weathering Steel.
NSW
Cool Rooms: Award winning student accommodation
The REDCOR® weathering steel cladding of this COLORBOND® Award
for Steel Architecture-winning “hotel for students” works on many levels
to make it unique and of its place.
NSW
REDCOR® weathering steel the ideal finish for budding business incubator
BlueScope REDCOR® weathering steel has contributed a dramatic, transformative
facade to University of Wollongong’s iAccelerate business incubation facility,
celebrating the community’s historic identity while inspiring future innovation.
Completed February 2019, NSW
Going public: a building very much of its time and place
The bold roof planes and filigreed sunscreens of Queanbeyan’s new Government
Services Centre make this a building very much of its time and place.
An uncompromisingly contemporary building, it celebrates the town’s history
and reasserts its civic pride.
Completed June 2008, NSW
Study Predicts Cool Roof Energy Savings Underestimated
To explore just how much the inclusion of micro-climate effects in energy modelling can impact predicted cool roof energy savings, BlueScope and Stockland initiated a modelling study to account for above roof micro heating using a Stockland shopping centre's 15,000 square-metre roof as a reference case.
QLD
School sports facility transcends the ordinary
Used to excelling at sports and games, the students of Mazenod College have a new sports facility that surpasses its utilitarian brief to become a triumphant centrepiece for the entire school, by harnessing wall cladding made from BlueScope's COLORBOND® Metallic steel.
VIC
COLORBOND® Metallic steel plays starring role
The COLORBOND® Metallic steel colour Aries® - a rich, deep red with a touch of theatrical brilliance- plays a starring role in this new performing arts venue.
WA
Queensland school goes from old to bold
BlueScope's new COLORBOND® Metallic steel has played a pivotal role as cladding for a new triple-storey school building that makes a grand statement amongst predominantly older single-storey classrooms.
QLD
Margaret Court Arena
A high-speed 'sun-roof' swathed in COLORBOND® steel in the luxurious custom colour Copper Penny™ is a textbook example of how to become a sports facilities world-beater
VIC
Cut Paw-Paw House
A series of varyingly clad exposed steel portal frames by Andrew Maynard Architects create a quirky ‘inside-out’ addition to an original timber cottage.
VIC
West Keira (building 1) Wollongong Central
HDR Rice Daubney conceptualised the facade of this Wollongong shopping centre as a series of craggy, jagged forms evoking the iconic escarpment that runs above the city.
Completed October 2014, NSW
AGL Lakeside Pavilion
Made famous by 18th century English landscape designer Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, follies enhance one’s enjoyment of the garden by improving vistas thanks to their careful placement among sculpted rolling hills and serpentine lakes.
St Peters Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre
While the patterning of the decorative façade has no pragmatic role, it adds interest and a unique identity
QLD
Cloud Canopy
“A lot of people don’t realise that there are no big steel beams, it’s completely self-supporting using just BlueScope XLERPLATE® steel welded together.”
VIC
Outpost 7427139
The big cantilevers of the deck and the roof give the building a sense of aggression, but the spans and the overhangs are lightweight. The structure is simple and there is a sense of elegance in its simplicity.
Completed January 2014, NSW
Translational Research Institute
Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill has staged some nicely tuned interactions for the ground-breaking Translational Research Institute, which uses large expanses of steel structure to enable precision at every point
Completed December 2012, QLD
Hunter Valley House
Like the sweep of a conductor's baton to a languid piece of music, the curvaceous steel roofline of this James Stockwell-designed home dips and soars.
NSW
Florida Beach House
Iredale Pedersen Hook conjures up images of rolling swell with the radically pitched and folding roof of this house, perched on a sand dune overlooking the Indian Ocean
WA
Drew's House at Sunrise
Drawing on artist Marian Drew’s childhood memories of steel sugar mills, this house designed by Simon Laws sports an extruded cylindrical living space and gently twisting, curved roofs.
QLD
ABC Brisbane Accommodation Project
With distinctive steel cladding that dances its way along the building’s northern and western facades, it appears that ‘Aunty’ is young once again.
QLD
White Bay Cruise Terminal
An historic part of Sydney’s working port has been reinvented as a new cruise terminal, giving visitors an unexpected perspective on the city.
NSW
The Hangar - Cessnock
This uniquely curvaceous building looks immensely at home in its airport setting, because its form is entirely derived from its function.
NSW
Trades North - WA
Trades North in Western Australia is a building that explores the potential of the steel to build character and express purpose.
WA
North Melbourne Station
Cox Architects’ Melbourne Railway Station – an embodiment of transportation modernity – revealing a lucid interplay of forms to create a memorable new face for Victorian public transport.
VIC