BVN Architecture
BVN is an architecture firm based in Australia. BVN has won more Sulman medals than any other practice.
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| Partners | James Grose, Bill Dowzer, Abbie Galvin, Ian Kirkland, Julian Ashton, Phillip Rossington, Matthew Blair, Ninotschka Titchovsky, Jane Williams, Phil Tait, Mark Grimmer, David Kelly, Brian Donovan, Neil Logan |
| Location | Australia |
| Founded | 1997 |
Bligh Voller Nield was established during 1997 to 1999 with the merger of Bligh Voller Architects, Lawrence Nield and Partners Australia, Grose Bradley and Pels Innes Neilson and Kosloff. In 2009, Bligh Voller Nield became BVN Architecture.[1] in 2013 BVN merged with Donovan Hill to form BVN Donovan Hill. In 2014 the practice became BVN.
BVN is one of the largest architectural practices in Australia with studios located in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and New York, with project offices in Canberra and Bangkok. BVN's portfolio includes airports, commercial, defence, education, health, science, hospitality, interiors, masterplanning, public buildings, residential, retail, sport, transport, urban design and workplace projects.[2]
The firm has been extremely successful since the early 2000s designing many landmark buildings in Australia and sport facilities for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2012 London Olympic Games.[3]
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Notable projects
Australian PlantBank
The Australian PlantBank, located at the Australian Botanic Garden in Mount Annan, is a science and research facility of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust. It houses the Trust’s seedbank and research laboratories that specialise in native plant conservation. The facility is positioned globally as a symbol of preservation of the natural cycle from the germination of seed to the propagation of forests.
The building showcases the research carried out in the gardens, particularly the conservation of NSW plant species and regeneration of eco-systems, such as the adjoining threatened Cumberland Plain Woodland. The seedbank includes long term cold room facilities for storage of seeds, a drying room, incubators and seed processing and testing laboratory facilities.
The interpretive function of PlantBank has indirectly influenced internal planning. The plan form allows views into the working sections of the building; from the entry through to the lobby, visitors can see researchers working within the laboratories. Beyond this they can view the incubators, cold storage facilities and the vault. The vault is the conceptual focus of the research, being the repository of seeds. The visitor heart of the building is the narrow lobby form at the junction of the research, workplace and information zones of the building.
The facility has a strong educational interest and includes conference facilities for use of staff, visiting academics and public.
Taronga Zoo
Creating a clear entrance and enjoyable arrival experience into Taronga Zoo with an emphasis on the natural beauty of the site.
Taronga Zoo is an iconic zoological garden in Sydney’s northern city suburb of Mosman. The Upper Entry Precinct project delivers a major entrance and car park for the zoo, which serve to restore the emphasis on the natural beauty of Taronga Zoo’s setting and resolve issues with traffic flow and people movement. The Upper Entry Precinct is the first stage of the journey through the zoo for most visitors. Previously, visitors had to navigate the vast parking area and ticket queues before being funnelled through a ‘key-hole’ entry gate. The Upper Entry Precinct diffuses these functions into a smoothly orchestrated sequence. The design reinforces the nature of the zoo as a walled garden and allows visitors to experience their entry to the zoo as a promenade through the landscape.
It achieves this via the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic; creation of a new public space for ticketing and orientation, and the relocation of daily parking to the rear of the site, creating a landscape buffer to be used for overflow parking only on very busy days.
In addition to increased parking and new retail and ticketing areas, project elements include the refurbishment of the heritage Upper Entrance Building and Tram Shed, and the creation of new public spaces, pathways, bridges and canopies. These include the inner plaza, which is an ‘un-ticketed’ space that allows free access into the formerly exclusive zoo domain, and the outer plaza which is a civic lawn that can be shared by the local community.
Ravenswood School for Girls
A state-of-the-art library and new school hub that facilitates an individualised approach to learning.
Initiated through a master planning process, the Mabel Fidler Building is the new main entrance to Ravenswood School for Girls and functions as the school’s central hub. The primary facility of the building is a state-of-the-art learning centre, the 21st century library, designed to empower students and facilitate self-directed learning. The project provides spaces for formal and informal learning, staff and student lounges, a café, specialist performing arts spaces and school reception, and administration.
The building is in scale with existing school buildings, and represents a modern insertion into a campus of varied buildings. The design addresses several issues including site accessibility, connectivity between adjacent buildings and usability of external areas. The Henry Street entrance aids site security, while the entry courtyard, at the heart of the project, provides an external space for the school community. Dramatic cantilevers, created by raising the library onto the upper level, provide a number of covered spaces where informal learning can take place. At the centre of the school is an oval, which the building addresses. At this end of the building a large canopy roof floats over a new verandah to the major public space of the school, and allows the building to be read from the Pacific Highway.
The building integrates passive and active sustainable design solutions, which form part of the education program for students.
ASB New Zealand
The design of ASB North Wharf has been undertaken as a fundamental building block of the new Wynyard Quarter, in Auckland, New Zealand. The design team has set Sustainability, Contribution to the public realm and Architectural expression as the design principles that determine a rigorous, collaborative and innovative problem solving context.
ASB North Wharf occupies sites 22 and 23 in Wynyard Quarter and creates a contiguous volume between two sites. A prescribed public lane runs from Jellicoe Street to Madden Street. The lane is the central component of the public realm within the site. It creates the pedestrian connectivity, it creates a new urban space and it creates unique opportunity to dissolve the normally glazed and sealed private environment of workplace from the vital, energetic and diverse public realm. Bridges span the lane in the volume of the glass enclosed lane between the two sites, providing an urban experience whilst satisfying a functional commercial outcome.
The imperative to naturally ventilate the building has determined the design direction, language and composition of the architecture. To enable ventilation for the contiguous volume of the building, a “stack effect” or “thermal chimney” effect has to be created to force clean fresh air through the façade by manually operable windows. The “dirty” air produced by human occupation is then drawn into a central atria into the funnel and expelled by the natural function of pressure differential caused by the prevailing wind across the roof. The design principles of sustainability and architectural expression coalesce to produce a unique design emanating from sustainable function resulting in an emblematic roof form. The roof is further articulated by the capture and reflection of daylight into the body of the site 23 floor plates. The design of the reflector has been computationally derived to maximise the effect of daylight harvesting. Of equal importance to the funnel and reflector on the roof is the sun control regime to the north facades of the building. The sun control devices are the primary architectural expressive elements (after the form of the building) and bring visual diversity, tactility and function to the large glazed and ventilated facades. Retail component: This development includes 11 retail units all on ground level including the new ASB innovation centre (technologically advanced branch). All units other than branch are food and beverage. BVN Donovan Hill also produced base build tenancy plans for the client as well as providing design guidance to major retail fit-outs for the client.
Translational Research Institute (In Association with Wilson Architects)
Aligning four key medical research facilities to quickly translate research findings from bench to bedside.
The Translational Research Institute (TRI), located in the Princess Alexandra Hospital campus in Brisbane’s south, brings together four of Australia’s key research facilities with the aim of improving patient outcomes for a range of diseases. The TRI is the first of its kind in the country, with the ability to discover, produce, clinically test and manufacture new biopharmaceuticals and treatments in the one facility. The building hosts over 650 researchers and clinicians to enable quick translation of research findings to the clinic – a community of research. TRI is conceived as a series of interconnected ‘places and spaces’ located around the significant gathering space of the facility: an urban scaled outdoor room. The seven storey building provides a range of spaces to encourage interaction between clinicians and researchers, including four levels of laboratory, administration and teaching facilities plus a range of indoor and outdoor gathering, collaborative and event spaces. The ‘outdoor room’ is the centerpiece of the project, and acts as a town square which addresses large and intimate outdoor spaces , meeting rooms, cafes and the main auditorium. This space incorporates existing trees and offers north facing comfort. A bespoke environmental benchmark has been developed to respond to the facility’s unique specifications.
Awards
Australia
- Ravenswood School for Girls 2015
- AIDA Winner - Interior Design Impact [4]
- BVN Brisbane Studio 2015
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- RAIA Brisbane Regional Commendation - Interior Architecture [5]
- AIDA Best of State QLD- Commercial Design
- Australian Plantbank 2014
- RAIA NSW Sustainable Architecture Award
- WAF High Commendation Research Buildings
- RAIA NSW Public Architecture Award
- RAIA National Award for Sustainable Architecture
- RAIA National Award for Public Architecture [6]
- Herbert Smith Freehills 2014
- RAIA NSW Interior Architecture Award[7]
- 55 Elizabeth Street 2014
- RAIA Brisbane Regional Commendation - Commercial Architecture
- RAIA QLD Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture[8]
- Ergon Energy 2014
- RAIA Brisbane Regional Commendation - Interior Architecture[9]
- PARC Pavilion 2014
- RAIA Brisbane Regional Commendation - Small Project Architecture[10]
- The Braggs, University of Adelaide 2014
- Property Council Australia - SA Development of the Year[11]
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre
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- Chicago Antheneum International Architecture Award
- WAF High Commendation - Health [12]
- Ravenswood School for Girls 2013
- Chicago Antheneum International Architecture Award [13]
- Canberra College Performing Arts Centre 2013
- RAIA ACT Public Architecture Award[14]
- RAIA ACT Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
- Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub 2013
- RAIA NSW Blacket Prize for Regional Architecture[15]
- Energex Headquarters 2013
- RAIA Brisbane Commercial Architecture Commendation
- Energex Newstead Riverpark Workplace 2013
- RAIA Brisbane Interior Architecture Commendation
- RAIA QLD Interior Architecture Award [16]
- Lavarack Barracks 3RAR
- RAIA North QLD Public Architecture Commendation[17]
- The Braggs, University of Adelaide 2013
- RAIA SA Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture [18]
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre 2013
- RAIA NSW John Verge Award for Interior Architecture[19]
- Translational Research Institute 2013
- RAIA National Award for Interior Architecture [20]
- RAIA National Award for Public Architecture
- RAIA QLD Sustainable Architecture Commendation
- RAIA QLD GHM Addison Award for Interior Architecture
- RAIA QLD FDG Stanley Award for Best Public Building
- RAIA Brisbane Sustainable Architecture Commendation
- RAIA Brisbane Public Architecture Commendation
- RAIA Brisbane John Dalton Award for Building of the Year
- RAIA Brisbane Interior Architecture Commendation
- IDA Public Design High Commendation
- IDA Best of State Commercial Award
- TDA Best Northern Region Award for Excellence
- Lighting Design Award of Excellence (IES Lighting Design Awards Qld Chapter)
- Luminaire Design: Commendation (IES Lighting Design Awards Qld Chapter)
- AECOM Sydney Workplace 2012
- RAIA NSW Interior Architecture Commendation[21]
- Belconnen Police Station 2012
- RAIA ACT Interior Architecture Award[22]
- Brain and Mind Research Institute, Youth Mental Health Building 2012
- Chicago Antheneum International Architecture Award[23]
- Cannon Hill - National School Pride 2012
- RAIA QLD Hayes Scott Award for Small Project Architecture[24]
- RAIA Brisbane Small Project Architecture Commendation
- Charles Sturt University National Life Sciences Hub 2012
- MBA NSW Tertiary Buildings Award[25]
- Hayley Sainsbury 2012
- NAWIC QLD Hutchinson Builders Achievement in Design Award [26]
- HMAS Creswell, Geelong and Cerberus Houses 2012
- RAIA ACT Heritage Commendation[27]
- HMAS Creswell, Gymnasium 2012
- RAIA ACT Public Architecture Award[28]
- HMAS Creswell, The Waterfront 2012
- RAIA ACT Small Project Architecture Award[29]
- Monash University Student Housing
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- TDA Multi Residential New Buildings Runner Up
- RIBA International Award
- RAIA VIC Multiple Residential Architecture Award [30]
- RAIA Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture
- IDEA Multi Residential Award
- My Own Private Neon Oasis 2012
- RAIA Brisbane Art & Architecture Commendation
- Narbethong Community Hall 2012
- Puckapunyal Military Area Memorial Chapel 2012
- Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award[33]
- Ravenswood School for Girls 2012
- Think Brick Landscape Award
- RAIA Public Building Awards [34]
- RAIA NSW Sir John Sulman Award for Public Architecture
- MBA NSW Private School Construction Award
- ATFA Factory Finished Floor of the Year Award for Excellence
- ASI Large Projects Highly Commended
- Robina Hospital Expansion 2012
- WAN Healthcare Award
- RAIA QLD Public Architecture Award
- RAIA Gold Coast & Northern Rivers Health Commendation
- RAIA Gold Coast & Northern Rivers Building of the Year
- Design & Health Sustainable Design High Commendation
- Design & Health Interior Design High Commendation[35]
- Taronga Zoo 2012
- RAIA Urban Design Award [36]
- RAIA NSW Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design
- PIA Australia Award for Urban Design Small Scale Commendation
- 20 Alfred Street Apartments, Milsons Point NSW, 2010
- 2010 RAIA Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing [37]
- Attorney General's Department Workplace, Canberra ACT
- Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney, Sydney NSW
- 2011 RAIA NSW Sulman Award [39]
- 2011 RIBA International Award for Architectural Excellence[40]
- 2011 International Health Design Award High Commendation[41]
- 2010 World Architecture Festival - World Health Building [42]
- Bendigo Bank Headquarters, Bendigo VIC
- BVN Sydney Studio, Sydney NSW
- Goods Shed North VicUrban and Building Industry and Plumbing Industry Commission Workplaces, Melbourne VIC
- Lavarack Barracks Redevelopment Stage 4, Townsville QLD
- Puckapunyal Military Area Memorial Chapel, Puckapunyal VIC
- 2011 IDA Best of State Commercial Design Victoria Award
- RAAF Richmond 36/37 Squadron Headquarters, Richmond NSW
- Ravenswood School for Girls, Gordon NSW
- Robina Hospital Extension
- Stockland Head Office, Sydney NSW
- 2008 RAIA NSW Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture for Stockland Head Office, Sydney NSW[54]
- Monash University Housing
- 2012 Australian Institute of Architects RAIA Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing for Monash University Housing
New Zealand
- Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport 2014
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- NZIA Canterbury Architecture Award - Commercial Architecture
- NZIA Canterbury Architecture Award - Interior Architecture
- NZIA Architecture Award - Commercial Architecture
- NZIA Architecture Award - Interior Architecture
- Shortlisted International Aviation Award
- IDEA International Award [55]
- ASB North Wharf 2014
- NZIA Auckland Architecture Award - Sustainable Architecture
- NZIA Architecture Award - Sustainable Architecture
- NZIA Architecture Award - Commercial Architecture
- NZIA Architecture Award - Interior Architecture[56]
- NZIA Architecture Medal
- New Zealand Commercial Project Awards - Gold Award
- Property Council New Zealand - merit in Resene Green Building Property Award
- Property Council New Zealand - Hays Commercial Office Property Award
- Supreme Award - Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards
- RAIA Interior Architecture Award in the International category
- WAF High Commendation Office Buildings
- IDEA High Commendation International category
- Christchurch Airport Air NZ and Regional Lounge 2012
- TDA NZ Interior Innovation High Commendation[57]
- ASB Constellation Drive 2012
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- Interior Awards Corporate Finalist
- BEST Design Award – Bronze – Offices and Workplace Environments[58]
International
- Olympic Athletes Village, London UK 2012
Former staff
- Australian Institute of Architects award-winning architect Andrew Burges
References
- ↑ BVN: Practice
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