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Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School
The PEGS Junior building offers a whimsical take on a federation house, among other inspiring ideas.
Completed January 2011, VIC
Mt Franklin Visitors Shelter
The Mt Franklin Visitors Shelter, with its environment-engaging exploded form, is anything but a typical bush hut.
Completed November 2007, VIC
Calder Woodburn Rest Area
BKK Architects has paid joyous homage to the great Australian corrugated dunny with this transformation of a drab, roadside amenities block.
VIC
AAMI Park
With its emblematic diagrid steel and glass panels which operate simultaneously as shell, arch and cantilever, Cox Architecture’s AAMI Park is a stellar addition to Melbourne’s world-class sporting precinct.
Completed May 2010, VIC
Dalyellup College
Wound around existing trees and sporting an overarching steel roof befitting of its semi-rural location, Dalyellup College reflects the essence of its environment. It’s an achievement of which David Gulland, principal of Hassell, is most proud.
WA
Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Using weathering steel to reference the site’s former role as a dumping ground, Richard Kirk Architects’ sculptural response for a new community space asserts the importance of place and poetry of raw materials.
QLD
NSW Government Service Centre
The strikingly contemporary Government Service Centre in Queanbeyan celebrates the past while looking boldly towards the future.
NSW
Transend Primary Store
Heffernan Button Voss Architects’ brief was driven by functional requirements but the Transend Primary Store at Bridgewater near Hobart, is anything but mundane.
TAS
Sunbury Aquatic Centre
A textural application of cladding staggered along horizontal wall girts has seen Suters Architects transform a suburban gym into a flamboyant design statement.
VIC
Charles Sturt University's School of Dentistry
Brewster Hjorth Architects’ design for Charles Sturt University’s School of Dentistry at Wagga Wagga admirably embodies the building’s purpose and location.
NSW
Carey Grammar School, Phil De Young Centre for Performing Arts
Gregory Burgess Architects has designed a vibrant building with twisting planes and the power to simultaneously shock and enchant its audience.
VIC
Milson Island Sports & Recreation Centre
An upturned ‘boat’ on a carefree island is the perfect escape for kids on holidays.
NSW
Australia's longest bridge - built on steel
The Ted Smout Memorial Bridge, Australia's longest bridge at 2.7 kilometres, opened in July 2010 and supports the rapidly growing transport needs of south east Queensland.
QLD
Complex engineering geometry for simpler transport
The XLERPLATE® steel girders used in the West Gate Freeway off-ramps, Melbourne, successfully met the project’s unique range of engineering, logistical and aesthetic challenges.
VIC
Iconic steel with architectural bite
South Australia's Snake Wall, which stretches 500 metres along Adelaide's Northern Expressway, is an excellent example where steel can be used in diverse situations, where aesthetics are a priority.
SA
Vivid steel colors Melbournes newest bypass
More than 65,000 lineal metres of deeply ribbed steel noise wall panels are providing a colourful visual identity for Melbourne’s newest major road corridor.
VIC
Using steel for critical petroleum storage
The supply of XLERPLATE® steel for the construction of nine fuel storage tanks at Port Botany in Sydney, "was a critical element of the project" according to Rob Patterson, Operations Manager, Saunders International Limited.
NSW
Australian steel reinforcing Australia's defence capability
Leading Australian steel fabricator, RPG Australia, completed the fabrication, construction and installation of a shiplift at Techport Australia using 2,800 tonnes of XLERPLATE® steel.
WA
WE Smith supplies pressure vessels for Woodside's Pluto LNG Project
Nearly 400 tonnes of Grade 7-490AL50 modified XLERPLATE® steel has gone into construction of propane vessels, which were designed by WE Smith.
WA
Gridiron Comes To Sydney
Macquarie Bank's headquarters at King Street Wharf in Sydney's CBD is a striking showcase for the design capabilities of XLERPLATE® steel. The lattice like structure on the Macquarie Bank headquarters in Sydney was made from XLERPLATE® steel which was galvanised to prevent corrosion.
NSW
Mining Work Strong for JFK Engineering
West Australian company JFK Engineering is fabricating mining equipment for BHP Billiton's Rapid Growth Project 4 in the Pilbara region. The company is fabricating three car dumper hoppers made from 260 tonnes of XLERPLATE® steel.
WA
Golden Opportunity For Western Australian Mining Equipment Fabricator
Riding the wave of the mining and resources boom, Western Australia's JV Engineering has landed a major contract for the A$1.8 billion Boddington Gold Mine (BGM) Expansion Project.
WA
Dunc Grey Velodrome, Sydney
The track cycling venue for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games won a national award for Sustainable Architecture in 2001 for its environmental efficiency.
NSW
MacKillop Catholic College
With large, cantilevered roofs sitting lantern-like atop the weightiness of a concrete block work-base, HASSELL has made a new Northern Territory school a beacon in the landscape that offers as warm welcome to its community.
Completed July 2012, NT