Geoffrey London Government Architect, Victoria, Australia
OVGA Office of the Victorian Government Architect
Champions quality of design in the built environment. The OVGA provides leadership and strategic advice to government about architecture and urban design and promotes an awareness about how good design can make great living places and urban environments.
OVGA
Office of the Victorian Government Architect Improving the quality of public buildings and spaces and enhancing the quality of the built environment. What is Good Design? Good design refers to how things work, not just how they look. Within the built environment, good design is about functionality, performance, build-quality, as much as about innovation and creativity. Good design is sustainable and resource efficient. It embraces its context and makes a positive contribution to its environment. Good design delivers value-for-money as well as better buildings, particularly when attention is paid to the full costs of a building over its whole lifetime.
Advice Project inception The OVGA offers expert and independent advice assisting clients to: • Scope a project and ensure design ambitions are clear • Define a procurement route that meets the design ambitions of the project • Develop a project brief and an appropriate selection process • Select a design team which matches the aspiration for design quality Design development The OVGA offers consistent design review of significant projects through: • Victorian Design Review Panel (VDRP) • Design Quality Teams, or • OVGA desk-top peer review
Advice VDRP Victorian Design Review Panel Free high level expertise through formal peer review Aim: To support Government clients in raising the design quality of proposals, achieve best value and ensure that all opportunities are realised for all Victorians in public projects • • • •
Election commitment 3 year pilot project Year 1 – Government projects Year 2/3 – Government + private sector
Advocacy Victorian Government Policy on Architecture and the Built Environment Leader
Leading the Design Agenda
Enabler
Enabling Design Excellence
Procurer
Procuring Good Design
Advocacy Good design series • What is Good Design? • Good Design and Transport • Good Design and Ecological Sustainability • Good Design and The Coast • Good Design in Local Government
Advocacy Issues
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Senior support Appropriate budgets Design workshops Procurement strategies Early demand for design quality RFP evidence of design quality Link practices Architect selection Architect fees Design review Emerging architects Research Life-time costing Design champions Policy instruments Public forum
Advocacy Procurement
GOVERNMENT AS ‘SMART CLIENT’
Best practice in Government procurement • of Design Services • of Buildings and Infrastructure
Guidelines for building procurement processes, the implications for design quality arising from these processes, and the recommendation of strategies to enable good design.
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Alliance
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GOVERNMENT AS ‘SMART CLIENT’ Guidelines for building procurement processes, the implications for design quality arising from these processes, and the recommendation of strategies to enable good design.
Advocacy Celebration of Victorian Architecture 2001-2010
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> Delivering Better Design SEPP 65 Design Quality Principles: Principle 1: Context Principle 2: Scale Principle 3: Built Form Principle 4: Density Principle 5: Resource, energy & water efficiency Principle 6: Landscape Principle 7: Amenity
Medium Density Housing – A Case Study In March 2000, Bob Carr, Premier of NSW, convened a forum that brought together 233 developers, architects, planners and local council and government representatives. The aim of the forum was to determine ways of improving the design quality of residential flat development and SEPP 65 and the Residential Design Code is the result.
Principle 8: Safety & Security Principle 9: Social dimensions Principle 10: Aesthetics
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> Delivering Better Design SEPP 65 does this by: >A consistent policy across the state. >Guiding developers, architects, authorities, planners and residents with the Residential Flat Code. >Mandating the use of architects. >Providing a basis to evaluate the merit of proposed design solutions. >Establishing Design Review Panels to advise consent authorities on development applications, policies and initiatives.
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Victoria's biggest event • Over 1.7 million people at Mcketed venues • Plus 380,000 at free road events • Over 2.1 million spectators for sports and ceremonies • 90,000 tourists from around the world • 2 million a<ended the Largest cultural fesMval ever staged. • 1.5 billion viewers worldwide
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FESTIVAL MELBOURNE 2006 • 2 million people a+ended across Victoria • 100,000 a day through Alexandra Gardens, Federa=on Square and the Arts Centre • 80,000 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl over 9 concerts • Fes=val embraced by Melbournians & at live sites in Ballarat, Bendigo, Traralgon & Moe
MELBOURNE ON THE MOVE • Free public transport • Increased services every day of the Games • 1.8 million extra people travelled by public transport to venues and events • Ave. of 150,000 people travelled to and from events each day • V/Line carried 75% more passengers than last year • 90% of people surveyed rated public service as ‘good’ or excellent’
TOURISM • Busiest fortnight in the history of Melbourne’s hotel industry – 94% occupancy • 250,000 room nights sold for the Games • EsMmated 90,000 internaMonal and interstate visitors • Over 25% of Mckets sold to interstate & overseas visitors • Pre & post touring around Australia • Global exposure money can’t buy
THE MEDIA COVERAGE • 2,950 journalists/ photographers based at the Main Press Centre and InternaMonal Broadcast Centre • Extensive coverage worldwide • Australian media Coverage from January to March 2006; 68,583 electronic stories 38,232 print stories • Website hits during Games Mme: 86 million pages viewed during 13.1 million visits
TRADE & INVESTMENT PROMOTION • Business Club Australia: M2006 • Joint iniMaMve of the Australian and Victorian Governments • 7,823 Australian and internaMonal members • 25 Events in 11 Countries leading up to the Games • 32 Business networking events over 11 days with over 5,000 a<endees • PromoMng trade and investment between Commonwealth countries • 6 internaMonal business deals already confirmed with another 4 under negoMaMon
AUSTRALIAN BRAND LEVERAGE
THE GAMES LEGACIES • PromoMng relaMonships with Commonwealth countries • Encouraging tourism to Victoria and Australia • PromoMng trade & investment • Leveraging business opportuniMes • Maximising employment and training • Establishing an environmental framework • A dedicated educaMon program. • Increasing sports parMcipaMon • Involving indigenous communiMes • PromoMng equal access • Involving local communiMes • PromoMng opportuniMes for regional and rural Victoria
GAMES INFRASTRUCTURE LEGACIES:
Parkville urban development
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne AquaMc Centre State Mountain Bike Track State Lawn Bowls Centre