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Public buildings play a very important role in our community and reflect our society. Facilities in the public domain such as libraries, museums, sporting facilities and civic buildings provide spaces for people to engage in specific activities, relax, learn, gather and engage with, and feel a part of, our diverse community. The planning and design of such spaces is therefore fundamental to the well-being and development of our society.
The architecture of public buildings must at the same time reflect our values and aspirations as well as providing for the discovery and growth of those values and beliefs. It must be not only enduring but provide the focal point and impetus for making a positive contribution to our culture, society, and identity.
Haskell Architects has been involved in both the planning and design of numerous public buildings that have required finding original and creative solutions to technical and practical issues. The process of design development in such projects must also include extensive and real community consultation involving all stakeholders in the project. Haskell Architects has extensive experience in such broad-based consultation and the resolution and drawing together of at times conflicting priorities and views to ensure community ownership.
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Altona Meadows Library and Community Centre
Client: Hobson Bay City Council
Project Budget: $4,500,000
Status: Completed February 2006
The library is sited in a shopping centre car park. Along with the provision of normal library facilities, a community centre is integrated within the building to maximise flexibility and minimise duplication. The project involves a complex integration of a steel structural system with a requirement to meet a tight institutional budget.
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B-Central Youth & Community Centre
Client: City of Greater Bendigo
Budget: $2,400,000
Status: Completed September 2005
The new B-Central Youth Centre integrates a Community Health facility, Centrelink, Youth Services, Internet Cafe and the YMCA. The key requirement of the brief was to combine the facilities into an integrated whole. The Centre will create a range of opportunities for community groups to interact and provide strong connections between functions.
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Werribee Open Range Zoo Hippopotamus Exhibit
Client: Zoos Victoria
Budget: $6,400,000
Status: Completed April 2006
Haskell Architects are the principal consultants involved in the development of the new Hippopotamus Exhibit at Werribee Open Plains Zoo. The Exhibit includes approximately one hectare of wetlands development including an African village, Hippo lagoons, African huts, presentation areas, interpretation displays and smaller aquatic animal displays.
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The Pines Multipurpose Community Facility
Client: Manningham City Council
Project Budget: $7,600,000 Stage 1
Status: Current
Manningham City Council commissioned Haskell Architects to design a new Multipurpose Community Facility at the Pines Reserve in Doncaster East. Stage 1 includes facilities to accommodate the Donvale Living and Learning Centre and the University of the Third Age, an occasional Child Care Creche and a large Multipurpose Hall. Stage 2 involves a new Library and Arts Centre that has been designed at concept phase. There is a significant landscaping component to the project including car parking and landscape design that links the adjacent Pines Shopping Centre with the new community building.
As part of the project brief, the new facility will demonstrate Manningham commitment to environmentally sustainable design, and as such Haskell Architects in association with AHW Consulting Engineer environmentally sustainable design consultant, are implementing innovative ESD initiatives to achieve this aim.
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Lake Mountain Visitor Information Community Centre
Client: Lake Mountain Resort Management Board
Budget: $3,800,000
Status: Completed July 2004
The building design required being very sensitive to environmental and social issues given its alpine bushland location and the important social function it fulfils.
The building includes ski hire and shop, conference rooms, theatre, cafe and kitchen, administration, public shelter and amenities. The building was designed to maximise environmental performance and incorporates initiatives such as heat recovery from the streams of the generators used for building heating, high thermal mass retention and double-glazing.
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