Located on the edge of the Dee Why town centre, the new PCYC Community Centre provides an entertainment hub for the peninsula’s youngest residents. It is conceived as a cloud like form settling on a pedestal that emerges from the ground. The counterpoint achieved by these two form types express in built form the dual program of community centre over the car park.
Bunjil Place is an example of a new form of community and civic building.
The combination of design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and disassembly and design for locale has produced a warm welcoming and cost-effective and quick-to-construct library embraced by the whole community. This is an innovative delivery methodology for social infrastructure much needed in remote regional areas.
The redevelopment of the Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare site has upgraded and expanded the existing disparate facilities, originally built as a factory, into an elegant and environmentally sustainable mixed us healthcare facility.
The Frank Bartlett Library and Moe Service Centre, designed by fjmt: Two timber portals over a landscaped platform embodying community and civic pride
The conceptual design for Korumburra Community Hub is based on establishing a new community heart for the fast-growing regional township and surrounds. The core idea to create a welcoming and accessible multiple-purpose facility for the changing demographic of the region. Many new young families moving into the Historic Township on the outskirts of Melbourne as well as ensuring the project catered for the older residents from the surrounding traditional farming communities.
Wellington Shire council engaged fjmt to revitalise the historic precinct known as the Port of Sale into a multi-use cultural and civic hub. Originally designed by Stephenson & Turner as an office building in the late-modern brutalist style, the brief for its alteration encompassed redeveloping the precinct of shared multifunctional spaces and revitalised links to the local port, providing the coastal town with a new cultural and community heart.
Wellington Shire council engaged fjmt to revitalise the historic precinct known as the Port of Sale into a multi-use cultural and civic hub. Originally designed by Stephenson & Turner as an office building in the late-modern brutalist style, the brief for its alteration encompassed redeveloping the precinct of shared multifunctional spaces and revitalised links to the local port, providing the coastal town with a new cultural and community heart.
With this transformation and extension of two heritage buildings we have developed a concept of suspension, contrast and complement that challenges the established heritage adaptation paradigm; a light ‘anti-extension’ that floats respectfully above the articulated weight of heritage. Workplace, retail and cultural/events uses are woven within new and old fabric. Health and sustainability are central and integral to the design: 100% fresh air 100% green power, 90% recycling rate and a 24% reduction in embodied carbon.
200 George Street, designed by fjmt: A tower of wood
200 George Street, designed by fjmt: A tower of wood
Located in the heart of Sydney, the ANZ tower successfully balances urbanism and sustainability considerations with commercial requirements to create a rich and considered architectural expression.
Darling Quarter is a true integration of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture
toward the creation of a public place within the city. We have sought to enhance the joy and beauty of Darling Harbour, one of the most popular public
places in Australia, and to do so in a way that imbues it with a sense of quality and permanence. Darling Quarter is where the western edge of the city and the park meet and is celebrated in a series of defined public spaces, including a pedestrian boulevard, parklands, gateway, children’s playground, and activated edges lined with cafés and restaurants. It is a place for everyone, for city workers at lunchtime and in the evenings, families, children, the young and old, visitors and locals.
The Ben Chifley Building in the Australian Capital Territory is a contemporary workplace facility for the nation's leading security organisation on a significant and highly visible site in the National Triangle.
The Salamanca building is the first stage of Hobart’s Parliament Square redevelopment for the Tasmanian Government. It provides a new workplace for government agencies, Department of Premier & Cabinet, public parliamentary committee rooms and a new connection to the historic Parliament House, respecting and reinforcing its importance.
Axle is an integration of urban design, architecture, contemporary workplace, public artwork and place making.
The fluid form and glazed ribbons of this new workplace building are folded and shaped in response to the city form of East Melbourne.
A vibrant new riverfront with a global-standard business and leisure precinct, increased public space and a transformed riverwalk reinforces Brisbane’s position as a New World City. The development of Waterfront Brisbane with its two elevated workplace towers poised above a layered podium - housing bustling retail, waterfront dining, cafes and bars has reimagined Brisbane’s connection to the river.
The Foundry is located along the northern edge of the South Eveleigh precinct, directly opposite the heritage Locomotive Workshop. The design has been inspired by these railway workshops with their long and narrow bays, evocative of the industrial production areas within to form advanced sustainable, collaborative, workplace environment conceived like a miniature city, offering variation, vitality and choice in a refined and human experience.