Oran Park Library & Community Centre

Brewster Hjorth Architects, Sydney

Oran Park is a newly created suburb West of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. A private developer worked in conjunction with the council and several architecture practices to conceive plans for the new town centre, complete with central park, shopping mall, super markets, schools, a Leisure Centre, Library and Community Centre. Oran Park Library and Community Centre was to become the focal point of the new city centre, located adjacent the newly landscaped central park. 

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Glen Street Library 

Brewster Hjorth Architects, Sydney

Glen Street Library was a small project with a small budget, based in New South Wales, Australia. The Library was situated next to the Glen Street Theatre building and was designed to compliment the existing and create a community hub of activity, arts and exchange. The building itself nestles into a wedge on the site, addressing the road to the front and theatre complex behind. Set across a large level difference, the library project also afforded exciting landscaping opportunities, in the form of an amphitheatre  carved into the hill behind to create an outdoor seating, activity and performance area that elegantly unites library and theatre.

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Armagh Gaol

Hamilton Architects, Belfast
Armagh Gaol was designed in the 18th Century by architects Francis Cooley and William Murray and today stands as one of Northern Ireland’s most important historic buildings. The complex extends to approximately 2.55 acres and includes a three storey front block, hinge block, a three storey cell block, a two storey cell block and a two storey infirmary block all enclosed within a 7m boundary wall. This project intends to conserve yet redevelop the Gaol to provide a new purpose to the buildings which have lain vacant since decommission in 1988.
 

 

Crumlin Road Gaol

Hamilton Architects, Belfast
The County Gaol for Antrim, as it was originally known, was built in Belfast between 1843 and 1845 on a design by the renowned architect and engineer Charles Lanyon. This Grade-A listed building, acknowledged as an outstanding example of Victorian penal architecture and planning, was transferred to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in August 2003 for redevelopment under the Government's Reinvestment and Reform Initiative. This project involves the design and refurbishment works to the Administration Building and the listed Gate House of the Historic Crumlin Road Gaol. The 3300sq.m refurbishment will provide new tourist and conference facilities for the client; the North Belfast Community Action Unit.

 

 

Riddel Hall, Queen's University Complex

Hamilton Architects, Belfast
Riddel Hall was built in 1913 as a hall of residence for the first female students to be educated at Queen’s University and now stands as a landmark B1 listed building on a unique eleven acre parkland site at Stranmillis in Belfast. This project involves the refurbishment of the existing listed Riddel Hall building together with the design and construction of a new extension to provide an Executive Education Centre for Queen's University's Business School

 

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Ravenhill Rugby Stadium

Hamilton Architects, Belfast
This project consists of the development of three new viewing stands at Ravenhill Rugby Ground in Belfast which is proud home of the Ulster Rugby Team. The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) Ulster Branch proposes to increase the capacity of the ground from its current capacity of 11,700 to a venue capable of holding approximately 18,000 spectators by 2015.

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Nelson Local Care Centre

Murphy Philipps Architects, London

This healthcare project involves the redevelopment of a former hospital site in the London borough of Merton. This new 5,600m² building will enable the transfer of certain services from hospital settings to be provided closer to people in the community. The building will provide excellent new accommodation for 2 large GP practices, as well as a range of other primary and community services, a pharmacy, outpatients services for older people and diagnostics. There will be a focus on supporting people with long term conditions – asthma, diabetes, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

 

 

Croydon University Hospital: Emergency Department

Murphy Philipps Architects, London

The New Emergency Department is due to be re-planned, refurbished and extended to meet current standards and improve conditions for both staff and patients attending the hospital. The new facility will provide healthcare in a new, flexible, clinical setting with significant benefits in staff efficiency and environmental standards. The scheme would deliver the following services: Urgent Care Centre for low risk injuries, Resuscitation Unit, Majors Department, Paediatric Department and new staff facilities.

 

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Rainbow Children's Centre

Murphy Philipps Architects, London

This began as a feasibility scheme to produce a budget costed set of options and possibilities for the refurbishment of existing paediatric facilities in a west London hospital. The aim of the feasibility was to provide a number of options of varying scale and budget, with one option to include a major extension into the surrounding site. Excitingly, the full option with involving a full upgrade and extension was selected and the children's department was devised using clear and colourful way-finding strategies to define and contain clinical, public and staff areas. 

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New Victoria Hospital: Outpatient's Department

Murphy Philipps Architects, London

This is a new-build project to replace the Outpatient’s Department at New Victoria Hospital in Kingston-Upon-Thames, London. The scheme involves the demolition of an existing Tudor Manor House currently serving as the Outpatient’s Department as well as the adjoining of the newly completed Phase 2 building and an existing (fully operational) Imaging Department. This project forms Phase 4 of a greater hospital development plan, of which Phase 2 is in the process of being handed over. Murphy Philipps inherited phases 3 & 4 of the project from another architectural practice, who previously brought Phases 1 & 2 through to construction and Phases 3 & 4 to technical design.

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